Los Angeles herald., 1910-08-01
w. G.. 7. Z. Department
BY JULIA A. GARRISON

advance has been contested, but their
courage and determination have over
come apparently insurmo ountable OBJ
stacles until the vantage ground they
now occupy has been gained.
When woman comes into her own
the white dove of peace will perch
upon the banners of the world instead
of birds of prey. No longer will moth
ers go down to the gates of death to
bring forth sons to be slain in battle
to satisfy the lust of power of kings,
nor to give birth to daughters to suf-
fer the cruelest of all martyrdom to
satisfy the lusts of men who nave
covered with the mantle of law their
awful crime.
will not be taken from the cradle and
placed in factories where all day their
tiny fingers manipulate some delicate
portion of the complicated machinery
which grinds out still greater wealth
for the already many times millionaire
and at the same time grind out the
lives of three million child slaves in
this land of the free and the nome OF
the brave. Senator Beveridge In his
introduction to a book entitled 1.-THE
Cry of the Children" tells us that an
nually there are ushered into our citi-
Zenship, in consequence of child labor,
250,0 900 degenerates, and a great per-
centage thereof with the right to vote.
What is the result? Reformatorles
filled with juvenile offenders; prisons
filed with criminals; insane asylums
crowded; cities polluted with homes of
vice and politics gamble for the high
est bidder" When the women of the
nation have voive in making the laws
not only the saloon but it's twin sister,
the brotheI, will go. Do you mothers
know that 100 families must give up a
daughter apiece every day in the year,
making an awful total of nearly $4,000
girls q year to supply the demands or
mems lust, and that three-fourths or
these poor martyrs come from country
homes? One-half of them are from
Christian homes and had mothers who
endeavored to rear them in innocence
and purity that they might become
model wives and mothers. But their
very innocence and ignorance Of the
great, seething, swirling pits of de-
struction that the fathers of other girls
had opened for their youthful feet
made them the easy victims of the glib
tongued procurer, who, with alluring
promises, sometimes of honorable mar
riage, and sometimes of opportunities
for making an easy living, were read
lily believed and accepted. What fol-
lowed is well known. The fresh young
life blasted, the beautiful form pollut-
ed with lOdLDSOllle ulSSdSc oilu tAC
speedy death and potter's field burial
place for the average life of these un-
happy girls is but five years.
The women who are most ins1stent
for suffrage are not the women who
are sheltered and cared for in homes OF
comfort and luxury and do not realize
the great need of those less fortunate.
1t is the rich, and the working class
who have joined hands in the struggle
for political liberty. The rich who pay
taxes on vast wealth and are opposed
to taxation without representation, and
the women who are obliged to earn
their own living know that with equal
political power with men their chances
in the labor market would be much
better. Women are now obliged to do
the same work that men do and receive
less pay simply because they are
women. and not because their work is
inferior; on the contrary, they are con-
sidered more accurate, conscientious,
faithful and dependable than most men,
vet their salaries are less.
Women are criticised for their eX-
trayagances in dress and tendency to
follow extreme and absurd fashions
which render them more ornamental
than useful members of society. This
is only true of very few women, and
they are of the idle, class who have no
lofty aims or purposes in life; who
have never had occasion to use their
brains for anything. Their husbands