The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1892-09-22
TIE WOMEN KNOW.
Pr3tcs tive Tariff Blessings Are Fuliy
Understood in Minnesota
E.Omc9.
Our Women Know t.,e Meaning Of Free
Trade or Tari II for Revenue
Only.

An interesting, if not entirely novel,
feature of the present campaign is the
large attendance of women at the polit-
ical gatherings which thus far have
been held throughout the state. Outside
of the large cities Mr.. Nielsen and the
opposing candidates for the governorship
as we'll, have generally had the pleasure
of addressing audiences containing q
large representation of women, who evil
IDENTIFY were not attracted by mere curl
osity, but by sincere desire to inform
themselves about the questions at issue
between the contending parties. Old
campaigners have been forcibly, as we'll
as agreeably, impressed by this evidence
of spontaneous awakening Of All active
interest in politics among the women Of
the state.
There are good and substantial reasons
for this political uprising among the
gentler sex, The great contro-
versy of the campaign, the tariff
issue, is pre-eminently question of
the home and the kitchen. It is
question that concerns the women of
the land even more than the men, be-
cause the sufferings entailed by a bad
tariff system as we'll as the blessin
conferred by good tariff law are fe
most keenly by them. They are, more
over, better equipped mentally than are
the men for passing judgment on a
practical question like that of the tariff
as submitted in the present campaign
for the decision of the people. A glib
orator may mislead even a sensible man
by plausible theories, ins.nuatipy logic
ami bold assertions. He c,lluot foo! il
woman. Any good. sensible ho"S. We
in Minnesota knows ten ;inIes more
about the McKiu]ey law than all the
Democratic orators doing" the state
put together. She may not be able to
discuss its underlying principles with as
much fluency as they, but her knowledge
of it's practical results is more thorough
and reliable. She is the treasurer of
home She-nI,at is to say, most of the
house wives o. the state-held this posi-
ton before the Mckinley law was
enacted, and she has held it ever since.
She knows with absolute certainty
whether prices have risen or decreased.
No Democratic speaker, be he ever so
convincing, can persuade her that the
Mckinley law has aided to the burdens
of the people, because she knows that it
has made living cheaper. 1t did not
take her long to find out that putting
sugar on the free list had the effect of
lessening her household expenses by at
least five dollars a year, and her infor-
nation is just as accurate and specific
in regard to scores of other articles COM
monty used in every American home.
Nor can she be deceived as to the true
meaning of free trade or a
tariff for revenue only. Experience
has taught her, especially her
recent experience with the price of
sugar, that revenue tariff inevitably
increases tbs cost of living, while pro-
tective tariff makes living cheaper. Tho
assertion that the duty is added to the
cost of the article she knows to be true
ola revenue tariff, but not of a tariff
Tor protection.
The political interest manifested by
She women of the state is most en-
couraging sign of the times It shows
that the strong, if generally silent, forces
of the home have been aroused to activ-
ity by the reckless assault on the happi-
ness of our homes. The Republican
cause is in safe keeping in the hands of
the mothers, wives and sisters of the
commonwealth.