The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-07-25

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| Inc best way to avoid disease IS
10 keep in good condition. take or
nnary precautions and think as lit
lie about it as possible.
Inc best way TO catch a disease Is
% rear 1T extravagantly.
me public excitement on the germ
| question makes me think of the
story of the devil and MS raid on
the human race.
i am coming with a pes.ilence ana
>ill 10000 men, he said
| When the Angel Gabriel took the
| death roll, he said to Satan: You
| SAID YOU were going to kill 10000. but
$4,000 have died"
L killed only 10000" said Satan.
The 5000 died of fear
Inc woman who secs a man cruelty
beating horse and does not stop
nam or summon d policeman to stop
, nm does not deserve the right to
vote
For no one who fails to exercise
! the powers ne has to their fun ex-
| tent deserves more.
WOmeE-eXcept in a few states
by voting, help make the laws in
this country
l believe with all my heart that
they ought to be. but facts are facts,
and they are not But every wo-
man in the United States as wen as
every man has the right to help adj
minister the laws.
And isn't it as desirable to gov
ern as to make the laws by which
governing is done?
The Jaws are merely. the machine
While the administrator is the "dea
eX machina" And wouldn't you
rather be a goddess than machine
maker any time?
And every woman in the land can
be that kind of a goddess and what's
more she ought to be-
There are probably five times as
many infractions of the average law
that go unpublished as those that are
punished.
But if every woman would make it
her business to bring all the infrac-
tions of the law that she sees to the
attention of the authorities, the pro-
portion might come much nearer
what it ought to be.
Did you ever sit opposite a man
on the street car and see him fur
lively spit upon the floor? Doubt
less you have and have shuddered
with disgust knowing that what you
saw meant absolute danger. But did
you ever report that man to the con-
ductor?
Probably not.
And yet in almost any. city in the
United States there is a law against
splitting in the street cars.
You believe in that law, don't YOU
Then why don't you help administer
| it?
About year ago a brutal MUIR
der was committed one night not far
from where | live The next morning
before the fact had been published
| in the newspapers. woman on a
| farm some miles away heard Swo
men among her farm hands talking
about the murder.
If that woman had been interested
| in administering the law she would
| have reported the fact and those men
might have been arrested then, in
stead of a year later as they actu-
ally were.
The responsibility of their being at
large all that time rested on her
shoulders
| OF course there are many laws
J that the average woman cannot help
administer, but there are plenty that
she can There's the law about cruel.
| ty to animals and the law about the
! cleansing of milk bottles and child
! abor laws and street cleaning reSu-
] lations and so many others that tn
bare mention of them would about fill
this paper.
| In Boston there is a Woman's club
whose express purpose is to study
| the laws and help administer them
| II every city in the land would have
! sucn a womans club it would be =
| Better land
And if all women Gid their duty
i and lived up to their privileges -
| his way, perhaps in the course o:
4 decade or so they might set Their
rights
| Who knows?
|