Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-04-12

Mrs. Juila GOluZier or B1yonne, y.
j., says that about 500 persons have
signed her petition for the appointment
of women police in that city. Most of
the signerS are women. Many sent let
tiers indorsing the proposition. Mrs.
Goldzier launched her scheme several
months ago, appealing then to Mayor
Pierre Garven and TO the town council
to appoint women police The mayor
and council tabled the petition, and
some jokes were cracked over it.
Mrs. GoldZier proposes to keep up
the agitation until she succeeds. If
success is possible. says the New York
Sun. She thinks it is. She has gone
SO far as TO select a uniform for the
policewomen. Dark blue blouses AMI
boomers with or without skirts, mill
tary caps with gold braid and patent
leather boots are to be filed by the
police fems. Double rows of gold but
tons adorn the blouSes. Instead Of
clubs the policewomen will carry
switches.
In order to arouse interest in hec
project Mrs. Goldzier has issued
pamphlet which has been largely cir
culated.
when l sent letter to Mayor Gar
ven asking him to appoint policewomen
to patrol the streets for the protection,
assistance and entertainment O: our
children while they are out of their
parents sight" says Mrs. GoldZier in
the pamphlet, Il had no idea but that
the mayor would say something in IA
vor of the movement and that the press
would note his statements on account
of their novelty and there the matter
would drop, except that il some remote
place progressive village whose in
habitants were intelligent enough to
know good thing when they heard of
1t and were not tied down by custom
ard the traditions OF their elders. would
institute police force OF women whose
sole duty was the care Of children.
ITO my surprise and Joy 7 found that
the citizens of BayOnnc wee quite
ready to maintain Il force Of female
guardians if they could I've convinced
that these would fill an evident want.
In the minds Of some. one doubt is that
policewomen would necessarily DRAG
women into politics. This argument is
in favor and not against the project.
Women purify the home. business,
streets and camps. and women in poll
tics would purify politics. Those who
cannot realize this are in the lunatic
asylum. Another argument which IS
only senseless twaddIe is that n wo-
mans place IS at home. Why Is home
a Woman'S place more than mans
No because he has business elsewhere.
for so has she
"The home is getting smaller every
day. and woman's capacities are
growing larger every day. If you con-
tract her sphere as her home contracts,
you viii be kept busy building prisons,
madhouses and poOrhouSes to harbor
all the wrecked minds. morals and
constitutions. Woman'S growing en-
ergies cannOt he safely confined in too
small n place. The heGlthful outdoor
exercise as a policewOman. with its
limited hours and easy work, VIII soon
make our women strong and free as
men. Men with great care and sub
tlety have reduced women to depend
ency and fear for their miserable. de-
ltIultil. lDltSlGtu 'Ih lllLii ttCii IL NDALcl
should be free and healthy. Many q
woman disguised as n man has lived
In close association with men and
proved that mans life. with its health
full variegGted distractions. has ena-
bled her to reduce her curse beyond
its power to trouble her. The Mortified
public shouts that DolicewOmen would
encOura Cp race suicide
Cain yourselves, dear people, and
listen to common sense. Is not one
child saved equal to one born? Then
suppose in her wandprings through
the streets the unwedded policewoman
saves n child from a runaway horse,
from the throwing of missiles by a
bully or blood poisoning by removing
the fra gments of a broken bottle would
she not have done as much for human
fly as if she herself had produced that
child? My policewoman would daily
and hourly be performing such deeds,
so they would do more than one moth
er toward preventing race suicide.
Would not only immoral women