The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1908-11-25

The picture on my slate today Is
Ma trying to be suf-fraget. She tried
pretty hard but she dident try as hard
as the poleece.
Ma was reading In the paper about
Miss Trixie Friganza witch was sui
fraget making a speech on
the steps In front OF the city
hall, and she sed TO Pa. If Missus Frig-
ANA can do that down at the city
hall. why not /? Why not, indeed? sed
Pa.
Ma was going to go down to the city
hall at first q but she finally sed
she mite as we'll speek on the steps
of the poleece stashun on Washing
ton Hites. So Ma went up thare with
two GU of her lady friends. & all
three CD of them started to speek.
Pa 4 me went along to heer Ma
speek Pa sed he herd Ma speek a
lot anyway. but he went with me.
Wen we got up to the steps of the
poleece stashun Ma got up on the
steps & she began to talk. Frens &
Sister Republicans. sed Ma. cum
beefoar you tonite beekaus | cannot
cum beehind you. am heer, Ma sed,
TO ex-pound to you an them immortal
truths wich is laid down In the works
OF Missus Bertha Clay. Ma sed, show
ing taht all winning is born free &
equal.
Ny friends, sed Ma, beefoar long
we will be having a eleckshun. At
that time, a. in that CRATE hour, how
shall we voat. II at all? How shall
We voat, my sisters. & for whom shall
We voat?
You shall voat for Sweeney. sed a
man in the crowd. Pipe the skirt, a
other man seq Heer the fee-male
frothing at the mouth, sed a other
man.
Ma a Modern Jone Of Ark.
You must heer me out, sed Ma. You
shall heer me out. | stand heer to-
mite. Ma sed. to raise my voice for lib
erty a. ee quality. Inf me & in my
braiv sisters heer wich cain out with
me, you beehold modern Jone OF
Ark, witch wishes to help to stamp opt
all them eevils in our land. a. maik
winning supreme in the councils of
the mitey.
Winning. sed Ma. has been instru-
mental In moast of the CRATE things
witch has been accomplished since the
beginning of the wurld. Who was IL
that droav Adam out OF Eden. when
he got too gay? sed Ma. 1t was Eve
sed the other suf-fragets.
Who was IL that put Mister Thaw
in Jail? sed Ma. II was Missus Thaw
sed the suf-fragets. Yes, my friends
sed Ma, you cannot naim me singeI
woman wich has been in publick life
wich ever did a wrong thing.
How about Missus Chadwick? sed
a man in the crowd. But she wasent
singel woman, sed Ma
Oh, my friends. sed Ma, II YOU cud
only know how much purer the bal
I lot wud be with winning as voters
you wud let us voat. II you cud only
I realize that the hand witch rocks the
cradel is the hand witch shudN elech
our president, then everything wnd be
as IL shud be. sed Ma.
/ But If the hand wich rocks the era
! del shud eeck a other president like
I the one we have now. sed man in
( the crowd. thare wud be lot of moaI
cradels TO rock.
do not wish to be interrupted. sed
Ma. | will now interduce q sister sui
fraget. Missus Emma Eidelweiss, a
nabor OF mine. witch will tell you. In
few well chosen words. why we shud
have as much rite TO voat as the men
Emma Eidelveiss Speaks, Yet.
cum beefoar you, sed Missus En-
ma Eidelweiss. as a good German Am.
erican lady. and | am proud that
am lady. Was your mother a lady?
sed a man In the crowd. Did she
know you was going to be a lady? sed
a other man.
am not heer to argue with loaf