Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-10-13

trust managers furnished the parade
money and the workingmen furnished
the votes-now tell me who is getting
the worst of it? Show me your share
of the protection you talked about"
"Why, mother" exclaimed Work
EN-. "You wouldn't have me voting
against these sweat-shop slaves? The
grand old party that freed the slaves
and
"Freed the black slaves, yes" in
terrupted Mrs. Workem. "But how
about some white ones? The girls in
Gouge & Grind's overall factory could
not parade to-day because Gouge &
Grind wouldn't allow them a holiday
and the girls couldn't afford to lose
the time. What have you done to
emancipate?
"Now look ma, ma; there amt
no use O. your"
"Last campaign you hollered your
self hoarse for Senator Smooth. He
went down to Washington and hasn't
been heard of since. Last week he
took his family to a seashore resort,
riding in special Car furnished by the
railroads. You and me and the baby
have been to the park one Sunday
afternoon so far this summer. Amt
l right"
"Yes, ma. But l had to support
Senator Smooth because he was my
party's candidate, and"
"And who made him your party's
candidate? Why the men who are
putting up the price of everything we
have to buy and keeping down the
price of your labor by importing white
men through New York city while
you arc hollering about keeping the
Cinnamon from coming in through
Seattle or San Francisco"
But / amt goin' back on my
party, you bet. I'm goin' to stick to
it, cause it is the greatest"
"Of course you'll stick to your
party, husband. l don't expect you
to quit it. It's been so long since you
done anything for yourself that you
couldn't do it. done bit OF figur-
ing while you were parading. Every
time you stepped while keeping time
to the bass-drum Mr.. Rockefeller
made as much as you make by half a
days work. And he makes it because
you and your fellow unionists have
been voting for the policies that Mr..
Rockefeller advocates-policies that
make him the richest man in the
world and you workingman earning
50 day. Every time your right foot
struck the ground Mr.. Carnegie was
making more than you make in day,
and making it because your 'protec.
ton vote let him fix the price on his
product as we'll as the price OF your
toll. While you were taking one step
Mr.. Baer issued an order and raised
the price of coal 25 cents a ton. 1t
made his company $2O,OOO,OOO in less
time than it took you to march half .
block. And you vote, together with
the vote of others like you. made it
possible for Baer and his crowd to
make that money by compelling you
to pay it,"
"Why, ma you're talkin' kind OF
crazy, ain't your What's got into
your head, anyhow"
Something that don't seem to
have got in yours, husband-sense.
What's the good Of psrading on Labor
Day and letting the oppressors oI
labor run things every other day? II
the two million union men OF the
country can march together on Labor
Day. why can't they vote together on
election day? You've been doing the
marching and the voting all these
years, husband. Now we are going
to divide up. You are going to do the
marching just as you please. but I'll
attend to the voting. You'll have to
cast the ballot, but it must be as !
say. And I'm going to vote thoughts
instead of prejudices."
"But women don't know nothing
about politics, ma"
Nothing about your kind of poll.
tics, thank goodness" calculated Mrs
} Workem. "We women cant see
where we get any protection under 9
system that increases the expense oi
housekeeping without adding some
thing to the pay envelope. We can,
see the difference between having oul
husbands thrown out OF work by Q
Chinaman and having them thrown
out Of work by contract criminal
from Hungary. We can't see the
; sense in getting together to assert the
} dignity of labor ON the first Monday
} in September, and then getting apar,
on the Tuesday after the first Monday
in November simply because political
bosses have their orders from the trust
magnates. We can't see the sense o.
hollering for protection and ther
submitting to being robbed ON every
thing from the cradle to the coffin"
II don't know what's got into you
ma" said Workem sorrowfully. "I'm
: sure I'm doin' the best l know how
"Of course you are, pa; but you
don't know how very much. That's
: what Pm complainin' about"
}, We'll, what can DO, mar"
"That's easy. Get your fellow un.
iOnists to vote as sOlidly for theiI