New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-10-14
SOME VITAL ISSUES.
Women's Influence Needed in Politics, Says
Mr. Chandler

The phrase the vital issues of the campaign
has abstract ring" said Walter NJ Chand-
Ter yesterday IN addressing the large audience that
gathered some time before noon in the Worans
Municipal League Hall. No. IS Union Square West.
but perhaps the prices OF everyday necessaries
don't sound remote and in the air Private farli-
lies have to buy things; housewives have 70 manage
the weekly income TO cover the usually increasing
weekly needs That many household commodities
heretofore almost out OF the reach OF the provider
with slender purse, by reason Of graft and mOnOp
oily have been put within the reach OF the people
who need then-isn't this a vital issue for every
consumer
The speaker then ran through long list Of
commodities that had been so affected. giving the
contrasting prices That the death has in
twenty months been reduced from 1900 10 1900
2uad Fe T Ts Ya rec6Is qSks
as preIerrIng the death Of something ike five
ing in regime that allows Il tar lower than the
untutored cannibal Of the South Sea Islands? Isn't
Years Of rue only $5oo5 was aPpToPria3ed Tor
that Low has been in Office sls060606 has already
been put in use 70 this END, and an appropriation
o. 22S4o'j more is only waiting official approval?
Isn't vital issue that in four years Tam
many provided only .SJ2 adotional school sittings,
whereas twenty months Low has given 5000 new
stl2gS 70 the eH Da b 3E Sas CITY
rnerts however good and necessary sooner or later
decay and ere sUpplanted but the good citizenship
re-nanence Of course. there are part time classes
even Low can't restrict race PRODUCTION and the
years but these are confined to the lowest grades,
the little fellows for whom three and one-quarter
hours OF study probably better in the long run
than the regulation i've hours. II IS only a differ
ence OF hour and three-Quarters. YOU see, this
part time bUEbear Of which many people pirate
who know almost nothing about its working de
tails.
DO rot these facts bring the vital issues Of this
campaign very close homer Aren't they matter
OF concern 70 every woman in the city. and could
any woman 90 better thing than throw her efforts
heart and soul into such issues in such a cam
paicn2 After ALL il is from the hearthstOne that
all true patriotism proceeds. and women needed
in politics 20 make pure and keep pure the public
actions o. men. II I were teacher Of history in
the \eW-YOrk schools would illustrate the feudal
system by the structure and stratagem o. Tam
many Hall No better example could be produced
OF the methods and results OF organized oppression
I talking not long ago TO a prominent Italian
and the Malta was mentioned. They really
orEanized murderers2 I asked Oh. no. ne re-
Piled. They Kill but only incidentally They are
organized political gang; nothing unique. You
find them everywhere under different names
Naples. Paris. London. You have them in New
YORK and you call them Tammany Han and he
couldn't understand at all why ! laughed For him
as an observer OF public affairs IL plain state
ment Of tact that Tammany and Malta were inter-
Chaugeabie terms