The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1899-03-11

fighter than on an eloquent preacher.
Yes, this is mans government,
where onehalf the population rise
before daylight and work till after
dark for pittance, while the other
half are putting in time on base ball,
horse racing, foot ball and in sports
generally, except the army of idlers
in enforced idleness who, too miser-
able to enjoy sport of any kind, are
struggling simply for existence.
And this government, honey-comb
cd from the beginning to the end
with bribery and corruption, this gov
ernment, under the flag of which the
little band of multo-millionaires look
out upon a great sea of poverty
stricken toilers, this government sink
ing more rapidly to decay than ever
any republic went down to destruc-
ton in the olden time-yes, this gov
ernment is now so pure and immacu-
late that woman's assistance is not
wanted to preserve it!
Readers did you ever see a bache-
Ior's den where disorder reigned su-
preme and the word was given out
that a company of ladies was to visit
them in the near future? What a
tidying up, what putting Of things
in order, what an effort put forth to
make. the place look respectable and
all this because the ladies are coming.
A soldiers camp in the condition of
an ordinary camp composed of men.
Word comes that a party of ladies
will be there in a little while. All,
then, and there is hurrying to and fro,
a washing of faces, combing of hair,
a dressing and brushing. Unsightly
things are put out Of the way, and the
camp is in holiday attire, and all this
because of the refining influence of
women on men.
Give women the privileges of the
ballot and the voting place will be as
respectable in appearance as any we'll
furnished hall.
Give woman the ballot and she will
use with it her moral influence to save
sinking manhood. Give her chance
to use her powers Of persuasion and
moral strength in the enactment Of
law, and as she comes in at the front
door, drunkenness, vulgarity, obscen-
ity, profanity and corruption will
stink out at the back door. She will
see to it that law is made that brings
the boy home nights, that will pro-
tect woman and give her the compen-
sation which men get for the same
labor
How much longer shall highly edu-
Gated, intelligent women suffer the
humiliation of having laws made for
them by men who hold their positions
ny llIC luOSl
How much longer shall widows, hav-
ing children to educate, interested in
school buildings and educational af-
fairs, be denied the right to. a voice
in the means of providing for those
children while an ignorant body of
men may sweep in from the street and
vote her every right away.
How much longer shall enterpris-
ing women, with large properties, of
their own acquiring. be subjected to
taxation, assessments and laws, i'm
posed by men having not the slightest
interest in the welfare of the COM
munity, and these women have no
voice i'll preventing their property
from being confiscated.
How long? Reckon for yourself. If
it has taken fifty years of most vigor-
Gus agitation to get woman suffrage
for three states how long will it take
to get the suffrage for woman in
forty-five states.
According to progress in the past,
it will take fifty years more to give
women the ballot in three more states.
Six states won for woman suffrage
in one hundred years!
There are forty-two states yet in
which to get woman the right to vote.
Six states won to woman suffrage in
a century! Six i'll forty-two goes sew
en- times. According to this it will re-
quire seven centuries before women
can have full suffrage in all parts of
the United States.
Seven centuries before women can
be in it!
Seven centuries to wait for woman
suffrage! Seven centuries, and the
nation sinking morally and going to-
wards revolution as fast as ever a
herd of buffalo stampeded for a preci-
pice.
Seven centuries before the women
can help lis when in twenty years the
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