Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1909-12-03
FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS

FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS
The woman's Thanks.
There is 50 much strong men are thankful
nation progress, or a slow strife, 5
And though l join my praise with theirs
today
Grave things are these l scarce can com,
prehend
a SO vast are they:
AID so apart. dear God. | pray Thee take
Ny thanks tor these Thy little blessings
sake.
The little. common joys of every day.
Ny garden moving in an April wind
A linnets greeting and the morning fall
OF happy sunshine through the opened
blind
The popars tall
That guard my threshold and the peace
Like Sabbath stiffness from my humble
walls.
The little simple joys that we forget
Until we lose them: for the lamp that lights
The pages eff the books love the best.
The hearth's red welcoming on winter
nights.
The kindly jest
That moves within its circle. and the near
Companionship of those the heart holds
dear.
The dear, accustomed joys we lightly take
Too much for granted sometimes, as
His fathers gifts; and. so remembering.
For these my thanks, for these my treas
Each simple thing
Those wiser may forget dear Father. take
Ny thanks for these Thy little blessings
-Theodorla Garrison in Harper's Bazaar.
-o.:-o-
An Overloaded Life Raft.
For the last 100 years or more the
native representative American. proud
of the fact that his country is the only
refuge for all the oppressed peoples of
the world, has welcomed them as his
brothers, and allowed them to share his
heritage of freedom and opportunity. So
pure and generous have been his motives
that it does not seem to have occurred
to him that those prosecuted n their
native lands, and refused asy um by
other European countries, might accept
all he had to give, and repay his hos
pitality by p0lluting his civilization In
deed he has only just begun to perceive
with horror that by giving them the bal
lot. in his effort to make civilized men
of the low grade peasants who crowd his
Shores-most of them immigrants from
southern Europe, wholly ignorant of the
theory and practice of self-government,
and quite unified to take part in 1.-THE
has placed in their hands potent weap-
on for the undoing of his country.
At the present time the United States
not only stands aghast over a charge
that imputes to its chief city the in
famous distinction of being the head
quarters of a hideous traffic that is
branching out to its other large cities,
but it is indignant that this horrible de-
graduation has been brought upon it by
tho foraior pnOnlpS RI whom
enormous cost it has offered, in addition
to asylum, free schools, free colleges and
parks, opportunities for self support and
wealth requirements never before put in
their way. And it cannot refure the i'm
putation, for Investigations conducted
Icy the authorities have fully confirmed
those made within the last year by com
mittees interested in the welfare Of poor
girls, which resulted III unearthing among
the New York south European immi-
grant class vice, that in character and
extent far eclipses that of the most inn
moral revels among other poor
classes.
The time has surely come, not only
when the wide open immigration door
should be partially closed, but when some
restriction should be made in the grant
ing of the privilege to exercise the fran
chise. There are those-and conspicuous
among them the editors of some intuen-
Ilai ueWSpdpeFS-W0O mistakenly ildiu-
tain that all immigrants who desire to
come here unless hopelessly diseased or
Jail BIRDS should be allowed to do so,
and that as soon as practicable the men
should have the fright to vote. Indeed
it is represented that the ballot should
be given to any class that wants it,
whether or not the people who compose
that class have the falntest conception
of selfgovernment, or are possessed of
any qualities that make it possible for
them to grasp it. For example, the con-
tentiOn is that the race which we freed
in the Nineteenth century, and which
after fifty years of freedom has cOmpar-
atively few educated men among its
many millions, should be allowed to eX
ercise the franchise no matter how much
it may bring material ruin upon half the
country. Could amiabie theory be
pushed to wilder limit? In the latest mu-
niciral election, when it was thought in
some quarters that the voters of that
race might have the balance of power
in some districts, their Indifference to
men and measures, except as these
opened up prospects of office holding for
themselves, was common gossip, and
what advantage to the municipality was
it that these men are permitted the bal
lot?
BY giving the voting privilege indis-
crimnately to primitive peoples it has
posed among them to import their old
world vices, and to maintain them by
voting with those whom they can trust
to afford protection to their nefarlous
schemes The deserving husband; the
son educated in the free school and free
college usually at the expense of his
sisters, who turns anarchist when upon
graduation he finds the professions he
aspires to already overcrowded the ap-
palling increase of homicides; the pro-
fession of child kidnapping and, finally,
the horrible traffic in souls-we owe them
all to the immigrants from southern
Europe.
The United States is too rare an ark
Of refuge and safety for the worthy OPP
pressed and its opportunities for self
advancement are too great to be worse
than wasted upon swinish immigrants
who exploit benevolence for their own