The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1909-05-04
TUESDAY, MAY 4, 1909.
The Women in a Fighting Mood.

lew Orleans States:
There may be some hope for the
consumers of the land in the fact that
;he women have been aroused by the
Increase of the duties on hosiery and
gloves are now devoting themsel-
yes to a careful study of other sched-
nles of the new tariff. With the as
5~istance of their husbands and broth
ers they will not be long in finding
out the increase of the tax on wool
en-, cotton and other manufactured
ers. The investigation of the new
tariff is now well started and it is ure
o result in the exposure of all the rot
.enness of the protective system as de-
yised by Aldrich and other eminent
standpatters.
Evidence is not wanting that the
var on the tariff has already begun
in Kansas, and that the ome of that
state are going to take an active part
in it. A few days ago the Kansas City
Star received a letter from a pTomi-
nent lady of Topeka. who prOpounded
to the editor of that paper the ques-
ton: Why should l pay more for
gloves and stockings just to make
some manufacturer rich because he
helped Joe Cannon. We didn't want
Cannow, anyway" Then this Topeka
woman, with a view. no doubt. of out
lining the campaign that will be wag-
ed. if necessary, against the tariff in
iquity, says: eff the men sent to do
it cannot run this country for the
benefit of all the people, why, there
are other men and women If the wo-
me unite in demanding the ballot
they will get it. Then if they desire
free trade they will bring it about. We
are all getting mad. and there will
he something doing"
The angry protest of the women
was sufficient in the matter of the pro-
nosed increase of the duties on hosi-
cry and gloves to make the Republi-
ian leaders in Washington back water
and restore the old Dingley rates,
Which in themselves are outrageously
nigh. Now. when the women of Kan
Gas get spunky.' says the Kansas City
Star in its comments on the letter it
received, there will be something do
ing. The men have no monopoly on
craftsmanship in that state. When
he political storm of 1890 appeared
he Republicans ridiculed the idea that
there could be any danger in the Pop
rlist uprising, because it was led by
what the caustic Senator ingalls, term
ed. A lot of lo~ng-haired men and short
haired women But before the sum-
mel ended ingalls,, and Plumb. and
Hallowell were speaking to empty
Nenches, while Mrs. Lease and Mrs.
Oiggs were cheered by acres of voters.
You may bet your last dollar that if
he ONE are getting mao in Kansas
It Is high time for the politicians to
sit up and take notice. The lamp Of
experience Illuminating the political
history of Kansas ought to reveal even
to a blind man hat if the women start
something that there will be a plenty
doing in the next campaign"
The truth is. the women's organiza-
lions in the West are moving in al
D,Ost solid phalanx against the tariff
inequalities, that the men are ncour
asing them. This fact is causing the
leaders of the republican party to look
forward to the congressional elections
Iext year with much fear and trem-
bling. It is more than anything else
responsible for the demand of the Re-
publican press that President Taft
ave the party from the disruption
hat threatens it by insisting upon an
honest and downward revision of the
-ariff in compliance with the pledges
made to the people before the cleo
ton, and to which Mr.. Taft commit
ted himself in his public u%tterances.