The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1911-02-04

OF arriving anywhere. The farmers
Of. the country are disheartened by
the artificial market manipulations
which tempt them TO ship for high
prices which suddenly collapse AS
soon as the stock begins 20 raw -
wards the packing houses. SO the
raising OF food-animals Is discourag-
ed In America, and now the cry IL
that We must take the tariff on or
foreign cattle and hogs. that the In
satiable cold storage plant may have
Its NIL, In spite OF the American far
mer.
Now take the very important ques-
ton OF weights and measures. I keep
pair OF scales In my kitchen. IL |
complained every time receive short
weight packages, would be regarded
as even more OF a crank than some
persons profess TO regard me now.
Yet We women know that homes are
robbed, In the aggregate OF immense
sums. by failure 10 strictly regulate
weights and measures, and we think
that IL women had something to say
about II, the wrong would be speedily
righted.
Our social education about these
matters Is fundamentally wrong. Does
II never occur TO you that all this Is
because II Is mans world, and be-
cause our educational systems and
laws and courts and business are all
conceived from one point or view
not the point OF view OF humanity,
but OF only one-half OF humanity ?
And not only that, but women have
considered it prime virtue wholly
to subordinate themselves and their
point OF view to man; both because
they have been and are economically
dependent on men and because they
love them-most OF all, because, they
love them and wish to fulfill the ideals
OF man for woman. But We never
will have the truly womanly woman
until she Is made free to think her
own thoughts and look at the world
through her own eyes and add her
verdict to that Of man upon the things
of life which affect her and her chill.
dren often more poignantly even than
they affect him.
See how terribly deep some If
these commonplace problems cut
these problems that women cannot
help to solve, but from which they
suffer. This excessive cost of living,
for example-it often means not only
intense difficulty and sacrifice TO
make both ends meet-it means that
both ends cannot be made to meet
without fatal rent in the fabric. II
means the difference between the
child in school and the child In the
factory; between the care and nour-
ishing food that would have saved a
frail and beloved life and the hard
ships that lost #; II means the diff
ference between the young daughter
shielded and protected, or thrust out
to the competition and temptations of
commercial. and commercialized life.
What is conservation which does not
count these as the most priceless
things TO be conserved?
but what do women want? Do
they want all the Offices, or half OF
them? No, not a tenth of or hun
dredth part Of them. They want to
be taken seriously. They want q
means OF impressing their point OF
view concerning the things which
vitality and increasingly affect them
and their home. We are different
from men. of course. That is the rea-
son we need to be heard. The home
is our especial sphere That Is the
reason we plead that our sphere shall
be recognized and affairs OF the
world arranged more In its interests
not our interests as women, but the
interests OF the home, which is the
sacred trust that women hold, but
hold today In bound and crippled
hands. We think that IL the laws pro-
posed and the privileges and fran
chises granted I'm all these past years
had been reviewed, not only with the
eyes business but with the eyes
home as we'll, perhaps there would
not be today such need for 'conserva-
ton congresses And we think that
when women have due part in shap-
ing educational systems more atten-
ton will be paid in the schools to the
common, everyday things that make
for good living and health and thrift
and general happiness.
In commenting on the woman suf-
frage bill. defeated In the Michigan
legislature, this week. Mrs. Crane ad-
yised the women not to be discourag-
ed, saying the showing made on the
vote was really encouraging. She
TOLD the members OF Ule CluU 10 con-
tinue their fight. and that success
would yet come to them. She her
self would also do all In her power to
get the franchise for women In this
state, she declared.
Mrs. Clara B. Arthur. who presided
in the absence Of Mrs. Hinton Z.
Spaiding. who was i'll, told OF the
work done by women In behalf OF the
franchise bill in the Michigan legis-
lature. She said that the measure
was not yet killed: that II Is now in
the senate, and might be returned to
the house for another vote, should
the senate pass favorably on II. She
advised the club members to read the
speech OF Rep. Flowers, In behalf OF
the bill, saying a good report OF 1t
had appeared in The Detroit Times.
Vocal numbers were given by Miss
Louise Gillies, OF Flint, Miss Mabel
Greene was the accompanied.
In the evening Mrs. Crane spoke
before the Twentieth Century club.
her topic being, THE common prob
lem OF American cities" In forceful
manner she dealt with the question