The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-05-24

Another.A Whatever may be said Of IL us
an abstract question, all OF NV mea s,,res
could be carried sooner L Women ' could
vote: And another. 1T ia very cheap
should vote II the wants The
passions. the vices, are allowed full vote
at the hands OF half-brutal, intemperste
population, think it but fair that the vir-
tues, the aspirations, should be allowed
the people,"
woman from Colorado writes that in
describing their victories In this column
,ast week their defeats also should have
and the House slaughtered prohibited the
use OF carriages for registering or voting
In cities of over 1900, The women were
willing to walk, there would be a, saving
could be avoided. but the men would not
allow It,. The bin the women wanted most
provided for Primary Election law. 1t
was promised by both parties, but de-
feated in the House and not voted on in
the Senate. The women worked long and
hard for a Civil Service bill. 1t passed
the Senate, but. although a majority In
the House were pledged to it, they promptly
sacrificed II. Earnest efforts were made
by, the women to secure a bill abolishing
registration for school elections which are
held separately, and several others, but
they were unsuccessful.
1t will require not only a strong pull
but long pull for women. even with The
ballot, to effect the reforms so badly needed.
1t is to their credit, however. that ne YER in
any State have they supported bill which,
was not distinctly for the best interests OF
the community.
Raforo proo;dont Rooeayalt loft for bis
Western tour he promised the w. G. L. u,
through whose earnest efforts the women
inspect ors OF immigration were appointed,
that they should not be disturbed until
his return. Notwithstanding this assur-
ance Secretary Shaw has issued an order
to Commissioner William Williams of the
port Of New York ordering that they be
discontinued. 1t Is well known that Com
missioner Williams has been all the time
bitterly opposed to women inspect ors,
short time ago in New York and attended
by Miss Grace Dodge, Mrs. Ella A. Boole,
president OF the State w.. c.. T: u. and
other representative women he declared hat
here alone could be rendered by men,
that 1t was not the work Of the Govern
ment to look after young women arriving
here without friends, and that he should
advise the President to dsplace these in,
spectors. 1t ia reported on the best OF
authority that Commissioner Williams said
to one OF them, college graduate: go t"
hi YOU ses too much"
Now this is a subject in which tn, men
OF hs country 9ush to F. as mu sOn Is
whether ignorant, helpless young girls,
often not speaking the English language.
shall he landed on our shores only to be
swallowed up and lost in the ma 'lstrom
to demand that the report Of these women
inspectors shall be published. in order
that it may be seen what thy have dis
covered and what they have accomplished.
1t will show that again and again they
have rescued these girls from men en- who who
had arranged to take them to hotels and
other PLACES In tbs city-the man in one
case being the ships doctor, in 9th ,rs ths
stewards. let us know Hh' is ., h' in
s SD eTse What specific Objections are
made to III m and VIII th-r this Govern
ment is not humane enonoh to protect
friendless young girls VII, conn. here
seeking home, at least for few brlef hours
until they get foothold where they can
lead respectable life if they wish to do SO.
The diocesan convention of the Protestant
Episcopal Church of South Carolina has
church to decide for itself whether women
shall be allowed vote in the parish meet
ings. Episcopal women In that State
viii CONTINUES, to be kept in their proper
j
this insult they wouldn't give these preach
els another taste of chicken for whole
year and would let them have winters
experiences OF cold feet. They would even
to make up the annual deficit in salary
But, alasi they will 60 right on bending
their backs over the frying pan. putting
out their eyes on the clerical slippers and
funds, amply rewarded if peri itted to
kiss the sacred hand which snites them.
The programme is out for the convention
Of the National Educational Association,
and not one woman among the 800 speakers.
The immense majority Of teachers are
women, many of them the peer Of any
man with whom they are associated in
their work. and three-fourths Of the
attendants at this convention will be
women. The fact that President Eliot of
Harvard University made the programme
renders any further explanation unnec-
essary.
Reports from southern China. where a
famine is raging, say the men are selling
their wives and children in order to obtain
food. 1t would be fine thing II the hungry
women could sell their husbands, but per-
haps nobody would buy them
The great strike Of the walters in the res
taurants Of Chicago was precipitated by
the manag gers employing forty,,three women
to take the places of men who were dis
charged. The men were fully justified in
striking. What right have women to
crowd into the purely masculine employ
ment Of waiting on the table, This thing
Of women taking away mems occupations
has got to he stopped.
By the way, it is said that the guests OF
the Womans Hotel in New York are going
to protest because all the girl walters have
been superseded by men. Don't do it,
ladies'. Let the men wait on women. The
success which they seem to be making In
the domestic sphere compels the beref
IDA Hustled HARPER.