The San Francisco call., 1905-04-20
VOTES AND CHILDREN.

THE Congress Women Washington criticized
President Roosevelt for his position suicide 1t
believed that the President had only called attention
that BY ocioogss here and Europe The
problem family up numbers i'll pres
high civilization and the pepetuaon of the Incompatible
significant thing thought to be worthy of extended
dispatch Hartman wife of the
president of the Pacific Railway had abandoned
epated trip to Europe order TO stay home and take care her
baby worthy example 1t teaches duty the mothers who
leave their infants the of while they either go abroad
parents in every station Of life and II that duty be hirked the
consequences finally fall upon the state itself
No petends the decline of the birth this country
The President did he recognized
the subject worthy the attention of and spoke the
voice Of warning He fairly subject the attacks made
Congress The criticism Miss
Shaw who said at said that should
children but must first make your country to rear cn
dren in We need make this world safe for children 10 do so
give them social heredy that they will be born in safe
conditions and protected until grown l cannot be done u
have rights in the them We must have city
mothers well city fathers We desire suffrage means to an
end"
In that Miss threaten. ballot
babies There situation country which conditions
be made safe that parents omit oversight their young
Temptation is in the world impnged life and ceases only
thereto nurtured in self
denial and seontro making them resistant temptation 1t IS
States Giving ballot Wyoming Utah Idaho and Colo
RADIO has not supplied safer conditions in those States than are
found where the ran does all the voting and baobox
sung and office holding As far observation can prove facts
suffrage has not made impression at all upon public
morals We do that has degraded either but
Miss Shws assumption is that men
responsibility erecting moral safeguards for the
of the We fear that the lady ogets that her father
II the OF families for fathers to feel
kenv their joint responsibility with mothers for the welfare of
children The whole be quite distinct from the right
suffrage If the joined the suffrage States would
be crowded with chdreang parents fleeing the sanctuary
enjoy safe of which Miss Shaw speaks But this
case The hand that nermis rocking the cradle
ballot in those States have done make the
country for children than the hand that rocks the cradle only and
leaves the ballot to the male partner.
Miss riding hobby, and it running away with her.
She the representative of the
motherhood Of the country We have mentioned the good example
by duty baby, and finds
foreign for gding President Roosevelt The
fathers American homes of them keeny alive to
their responsibility and the mothers 1t is impossible for
conditions unsafe for children morally physically to long prevail
anywhere because and duty and sociude
children To that this condition present and
waiting for suffrage deny that humanity has high
that manifested by the beasts that perish tgress will
young presume that Miss Shaw has
fight for the safety of the gosngs Fathers and
before and The home existed before
social organization and children there the pride OF the
troglodyte
We think would have been better for the country the
Womens Congress had treated the President knder spirit than
fling done. He has children
the White House and has made its domestic typical
His chldfen attend the public schools Wash
ngton because their father President
pleasant sights of Washington these children play
the back of the White House. where they make mud pies do
great jobs of teamng their toy express and dirty
hungry happy like children should The President did
speak for set omit He is at home ALL and
learns from all and teaches all the simple duties of life