The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1903-09-23
WOMAN'S PROTEST
Against the REELECTION of Theodore Roose.
velt.
Published by request. ]

Mira. Lula NJ. Clarke enters an en-
phatic protest against giving Presi.
dent Roosevelt second tern. Writ
ing to the St. Paul Globe she says.
AS woman and an American, citi-
zen, / protest against the nomination
of Theodore Roosevelt as our next
president. l consider him unfit for
the Office on the grounds Of working
against the interests of thirds of
the American people. The women
and children constitute about that
proportion. and I consider him foe
to both, we expect in our highest
official certain qualities, among them
humanity, broad and de-
sire that the future shall be blessed
by what transpires in the present,
and in this question of race suicide
Roosevelt shows himself lacking in all
three. Had he been close student
Of our social, financial and industrial
system, he could scarcely have failed
to realize that the great need Of our
country is not more children, more
and yet more, but that each family
should have fewer and those better
born and better reared. All the pov-
erty and crime of the world can be
traced directly to the fact that human
beings, as children, are born lacking
in physical OF mental vigor. with
perverted moral traits, and that their
early years lacked in wise guidance
and suitable environment. Will Roose.
velt lt'ssadvioe, "more children . remedy
this state Of ehings?
Is it great inducement for Ameri-
can women to spend their lives rear-
ing sons simply because Roosevelt
faDcies he'd need some more in the
army and navy? Has he ever visited
che factories wheTe small ohildren are
employed2 From East to West there
ere few States exempt from shie evil.
Has he visited the breaker boys Of
Pennsylvania, the glass blowers Of
Illinois and the girls and boys in our
great textile mills. There are not
only children Of IL and II years, but
little tots Of 5 and g.. Our little ones
Of that age we regard os mere babies.
These less fortunate ones are frequent
ly employed on the night shift and
come home wet with sweat, thinly
Glad in the wintry morning air. AS
Roosevelt looks upon their haggard
faces and pitifully thin little bodies
how can he advocate more children as
boon to the raoe2
He may say that large families are
all right-that it is our industrial
system that is wrong. Cut down the
size Of the family and the social and
industrial system will rapidly improve.
for the simple reason that fewer chill :
dren mean better health and more cul-
ture, and such @ child growing up will
not tolerate the evils that the tenth
child OF o tenth child views with in
difference or. is powerless to remedy.
Social reforms require not only time:
but corporation. zis quick and Q
long step forward when parents. as in.
dividusls, realize that their first duty
is to themselves, to develop to the
utmost their physical, mental and
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that their children are as we'll, :if MO
better, endowed.
a cbiid's natural right is to be we'll
born - strong-bodied, q .ar- Drained,
loving, joyous and eager. Can
mother give birth to such one when
toll and dFeary surroundings have
broken her health and dulled her SEN
sibilities, when she cannot properly
care for the ones che already has;
when che looks forward to the future
with direful forebodinge; when she
has no thought but Of hste and anger
for this unWeleome intruder forced
) on her against herwill2 Every fam
lily is not situated financially as we'll
s.as the Rogsevelt's. ISL: is,$f
rs From the slums OF the great CITY,
from the small towns where parents
bravely struggle 60 keep The wolf from
the door, from the oysrworked far-
mer's wife, comes the same ory: ssWe
cannot rightfnlly provide for the ones
we already hssye ysss Yets Roosevalt