The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-04-01
The Confessions OF a Club Woman
By AGNES SURBRZDGE om. 100.
By AGNES .SURBRLDGE.
l., What's Terhune to youY" growled

Nothing, personally, more than q
good neighDor, worthy citizen and fit
candidate she answered. But l
stand for the principle of the thing. He
represents the best element of the city.
lie is a solid tinancier, a vestryman IN
st. Sebastian s, and hero OF two wars.
He. is ,patriot---Ed, patriot.
huh! was the only response.
R11esE i th be 4a 1Hs0tsse
pandering to the. lowest tastes Of the
multitude and running the reputation OF
one who proved himself hero at Bull
Run and at San Juan; one Of Chicago s
best Citizens
..,,Incidently, we are selling half a
million copies OF our paper and helping
t teey m paty srs see tb r
business is one thing and sentiment an
other; that religion is quite different
from politics.
"Quite, indeed,' said Mrs. Parsons,
with cutting sarcasm; then changing
her tone, "Ed, l appeal to you as an
earnest woman to good man. Do not
print this scurilous article.'
The man was like flint, and she argued
and entreated. In vain for some mo-
ments. Then he rose as the signal for
"oa9e moment said Mrs. Parsons
without, rising. est down. Then,
am to understand that you absolutely
refuse, to keep that article out OF your
paperP' 49,,
in the morning issue,' was the firm re-
decade, and I cannot understand how
you found it out. But it will have tc
60. Business is business, every time
and I am not running an eleemosynary
| institution. .vM."
"Then, Ed Perkins, listen to me-
and Mrs. Parsons tone was as cool ane
calculating as his. 'You are running
son :, for maXGs Of this sty
the man. H. "Xnd a good Chez
"He is a good fellow" said Mrs
Parsons, "and will overcome the faul
of being youthful in time; but he viii
Mr.. Perkins smiled incredulously. g.
believe we do not have female suffrag'
in Ghicsgo YET" he SAID, inGisiveiY bn
to the word woman We have femal
taxpayers, female millowners, and
: most Important of all, women who cal
influence the workingmen g vote:'
"What do you mean9' said Mr.. Per
kins, turning sharply to look her squar
in the face. >,
myself, own an ice plant which employ
over a thousand men. I am the sol
4 owner of the Shoshone Steel company
which keeps sixteen hundred men a
work. / am known among them all. loo
after their families. l know PERSONAL
many of their wives. [ am a sort Q
fairy godmother to hosts of thei
squalid little children. And / contre
every ON, one Of these twsnty-six hundre
"And you would cSndescend to d
IT,! ne %o afde eon SHaeefl 70 do it,
answered firmly. "Nb BIT only that, bu
in this Good Government club there al
four other women who are factory owl
ers, and whose influence can be turne
against you.'
s"Well, what do you propose9''
"Just this. You give me your wor
. of honor-no, your written word {
!, honor,'' she added, "that you will NJ
+ now or at any other time print or othe
wise circulate your story about lie
, hume, and your boy shall be our mel
t ma y a.. - h;ah .hanaoa nrocoodino
eyes, that is why the Good Cover
t ment club was organizedd,' answere
Mrs. Parsons good -naturedly. "Perha1
you will not deride us, after tn!
|, Gomez and now she rose to 60. IT
I understand, that you consent to n
g proposition7'
r. tBy heavens' he cried. 81 won
r be bulldozed by lot Of women. T.
o Thunderer will do what it pleases.'
- every well. Come, Mrs. Henning,
y and she moved majestically toward t
door. "But you understand the alte
r native. Twenty-six hundred votes W
count for something, and the electi
t. "Come back,' said the editor wea
~. 81 give you my. word. The artie
b. shall be suppressed.'
le "In writing, please,' commanded t
president Of the Good Government cl
d. and the Nota Bene. He wrote what s
!, asked Of him and handed it to her.
er "Thank you, Ed. and now good-by
I'd She smiled graciously again and beca1
q once more the society leader; and
handed her into her carriage as cou