The Evening post. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1888-1889, 1888-11-01
WHAT BELvA WOULD Do.
Public Measures She Would Favor IL
presihnnt.

Mrs. Belva Lockwood was asked by New
York Sun reporter
10, very favorably. l have spoken
every night since left here, have engage
ments for every night until election,
when l go to headquarters in Washing
ton TO receive the returns, after which /
have still further engagements for lee
lures. have made about forty speeches
in all"
Aren't you very tired ?"
" Not tired at all. Why should l be-
take things cody, and don't get all ex-
cited and wild like men"
What States do you expect to
carry ?"
40, none at all, but l expect many
more votes than l had in SS4, and en-
pcct the votes will be counted this time,
and not thrown out as they were before.
We are strongest in Iowa, New York,
California, Tennessee, Kentucky, Rhode
Island and Vermont, for these States are
all regularly organized, and much work
has been done. We are having many
calls for our ballots from different cities
where little electioneering has been done.
Five hundred ballots are sent from Utica
and as many from other towns. We in
tend TO put our electoral ticket in the
hnnds OF every county clerk"
Raising the Funds.
" How do you raise the money for all
this Pn
wen, women know how to make q
llttle money 60 long ways, and as our
speakers are all voluntary workers, our
expenses are mostly for printing and
postage. Mrs. HiclIs-Lord has given us
some money, also Mrs. DinsmOre, and
other women, and men, too, have given
us small nmOnntC htit ttynp pafsn thn
Tor the most part ourselves / do not
speak anywhere unless l am sent for,
and they pay me for coming, and every
where l receive courtesy and respect.
as far as the fun in the newspapers is
concerned, l like it because it makes
people read the articlesn
Has Mr.. Lowe helped you at all Pr
No, but he allowed us to use his
name. There is letter going the rounds
OF the papers purporting to be from him,
declining TO accept the nomination, but
as 1T is verbatim copy of the letter
he wrote last summer and since recalled,
am almost sure it is only fresh sensa-
ton over the old letter"
How many speakers have you 'on
the road p"
About fifty men and women, all
good workers, and Mr.. Covert of New
York bought tent, in which / have
spoken and in which work is done for
our cause"
WHY do you go to this trouble and
expense for nothing?"
Because we know the time is near
when brain not Drawn is to control the
world, when the Constitution will be
interpreted literally and justly, and the
rule of force will be abolished"
The Principle Represented.
What great principle do you repre-
sent, and what reforms would you in
stitute p
:" l represent the principle of equal
| rights 20 men and women-equal self
supporting education for boys and girls.
L would have woman earn her living
as well as man, and abolish the wicked
practice of marrying for support. Yes"
with II laugh, would have II girl have
the right to pay for her own ticket to
the theatcr, and not to make some poor
young man spend half his salary for
flowers, carriages and tickets, or be called
stingy and mean. As for reforms |
would first have money reform; call
in the United States bonds as fast as
possible with the surplus, wipe out the
national banks, and issue gold and silver
certificates directly from the Treasury.
| | don't want any better security than
the United States Treasury, and silver
= and gold certificates are good enough
money for me-"
| lncn WOulu IuNC IL luDDE
and provide legislation to punish people
who gamble in produce or money. Tho
time has come when there ought to be d
limit to the accumulation of vast sums
of money: and when a man becomes pos
sessed of means over and above certain
amount, which shall be fixed by law,
would tax them so heavily that the tax
would balance thei abundance with
others poverty. The supply and demand
| ~ NY nOmnnnlitipG ChOulI OIL IutC
their price, and no combination OF men
be allowed to buy them up and set a
price on them. Trusts are the crying
evil Of the times.
The Indian Question.
About the Indian question. / would
civiliZe, educate, and render sclf-Support
ing all Indians in the same way that thu
negroes have been made sclf-Supportng
| would pay them honestly the debt w
owe them. and give them their land il
seyeralty for Il term of years, say, twenty
five, until the present. generation o
children could be educated up to the de
mands of civilization. They are in th'
right; there Is no justice IN the United
States insisting on buying land of then
! for So an acre and selling it for 81 20
r - / think the Chinese have been mis-
used and ill-trcatcd in every way.
this country is receiving more emiGra
tion than it can assimilatc let all emigra
tion be stopped. l Know personally o
Chinaman who had been brought III
, in our country, was educated in our in
J stitutiOns, graduated from one of on
colleges, and was q member of Baptis
church, and when he attempted to max
his declaration of intention was refused
Yet, il is scarcely two decades since illu
, limitations blazed in our cities when til
Burlingham treaty was signed by tn
President and the Emperor which opene
Chinese ports 10 Unite States vessels
What about the pensions ?'
Abolish the Pension once.
"I would pension every honorabl
discharged soldier and abolish every pei
/ sion Office. We pay millions Of dollar
? to pension agents now. am one mysc
!, and know all about it. Every soldier
= record is in the War Department, an
I the clerks in that department could a
! tend to all the pension business II ever
soldier had his rights"
Would yOu enlarge the Erie Cana
s and do you favor the annexation {
= Canada ?"
. The Erie Canal has made New YoT
I the Empire State, and such improy
E mcnts ms il requires | should most ce
, tainly make. ] favor the annexation
Canada if il can be effected without WI
and they desire it. My policy is pr
, cminently peace policy, and ! wou
= abolish the standing army so soon MS
c had by arbitration secured treaties
[ peace with foreign, nations. / won
settle all difficulties, strikes and upIi
ingS by arbitratiOn-hrains not Draw
J must say thut the tariff ought to be =