Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-12

CcHiiucHCe VI tue NlOT1llOu people III tuo
purpose Of President Roosevelt to give:
every one square deal. She referred espe-
cially to the remarks of Apostle Hyrum
Mack Smith in the Mormon conference yes
terday concerning the friendliness of the.
President. The meeting was the largest
held by the society in many years. Mrs.
Dubois took the rostrum at l o'clock and
spoke for a full hour.
Quotes From Mormon Address.
Mrs. Dubois said, among other things:
Il read this yesterday in press dispatch
from Utah: In President Roosevelt we
have a friend and he has friends among,
the Latter Day Saints said Apostle Hyrum
Mack Smith in address to the Mormon.
conference today We will be true to him
and true to Old Glory, because we are a true
people. President Roosevelt has the cour-,
age of his convictions, and will not be-
moved by prejudice. He will give us a
square deal We will do all we can to sus-'
tain President Roosevelt, for we are true,
to him, and We will demonstrate it in the
future as we have proved it in the past
Speech for Childhood.
March Is President Roosevelt. who is
chairman of the advisory board of the Ma
tfonal Congress of Mothers. made a telling
speech for childhood woraanhood and
motherhood that has echoed from shore to:
shore and reverberations of it have been
heard from one hemisphere TO another. In
1t he says: But the nation is in a bad
way if there is no real home, If the family
is not of the right kind, if the man is not
a good husband and father, If he is brutal
or cowardly or selfish
Notice my friends, both by example and
precept, he tells us the real family is what
we must have
Again he says: I believe in the woman
keeping her self-respect, just as l believe
in the man doing so. l believe in her
rights just as much as believe in the
mans
Il come to you today and ask: Has any
Mormon woman ever-kept her self-respect
after taking another woman and placing
her hand in that of the man who was her
husband who gave this second woman to
him as wife? l say, No, thousand times
No
Il quote again from our beloved Presi-
dents speech: No wrongdoing is SO abb
horrent as wrongdoing by a man toward
the wife ard the children, who should
arouse every tender feeling in his nature.
Selfishness toward them, lack of tenderness
toward them, lack of consideration for
them-above all, brutality in any form
toward them, should arouse the heartiest
scorn and Indignation in every upright
soul
This last quotatio Is so strong that conn
ment from rue should be unnecessary. l
shall not forget our Presidents look as he
turned to the officers of the congress seated
on the platform and, raising that finger
in the gesture we all know, said: want
every one in this house to know 1 mean
every word 1 say tonight He added: 1t
is sometimes said don't always mean what
say and then, laughingly, remarked: !
do tonight An organization of 100000
women, banded together to work for the
betterment of childhood, knew that he
meant it, So. l say to you that he will
never disappoint 100000 women by stand
two fN, "a
women in foreign lands, brings them to our
shores without funds, under false repre-
sentationS, and forces upon them system
of harem life worse than the life OF an
inmate of a Turkish harem. When men
who have broken every pledge that they
gave this government when they, through
love of selfish desires. greed-getting and
gain made vows to lead pure lives and hold
the honor of our flag above everything else
dear to them if given Statehood say when
these promises were given and broken, as
we who have watched the investigator
know they have been broken, then l, too.
will say with Hyrum Smith, They may ex-
pect a fair and a square deal from our
President.
Of the Other Variety.
"a square DEAL such as our President
brides himself upon knowing how to give,
is all the pure womanhood of the country
asks that is all that the pure motherhood
demands, and that Is all the righteous
childhood is piteousy crying fora square
deal--as it's inheritance. Can these babies
and I again draw your attention to Presi-
dent Smiths testimony-be anything but il
legitimate CHILDREN? It's a hard word but
we are dealing today with law-breaking
people.
"A white slave traffic Is going on in Utah
and the west-greater than any white slave
traffic in the world-more deadly in its out
come, for a semblance of family life is
given it, and the world has not learned to
shun it. SiXty-four thousand women and
girls, with some men, are annually brought
to our shores over the Canadian steamship
lines. They come under false impressions.
They come from the peasantry class-the
trusting class-those who want to make
better conditions for themselves. They