Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-12-10

thl lnouBnt ABOUT " ~ nus h''H my
good fortune to be associated almost
constantly with strong intellectual
women of high ideals and strong
spiritual natures, women who have
had way OF looking into futurity,
even into eternity, with their earnest
gaze. Women who read and study
and take an active interest In every
moral and uplifting movement that
has been started In any community
in which ! have ever lived. | have
seen women, mothers OF children,
bearing with their frail strength half
and sometimes more, Of the burden OF
maintaining the home. so anxious
that theirs should be a happy home
for every member OF that home. Work
ing early and late To make II clean and
wholesome, yet taking time to teach
and pray and hoping always for the
best things In life for their children.
have seen these women powerless,
in great measure, handicapped by
an ignorant, contrary, careless and
sometimes brutal husband and father,
who very often did not take enough
interest In the affairs Of his country
or his home TO go TO the polls and
cast his vote, no matter how I'M
portant the issue might be.
And II he did wake up enough to
find out what was going on he would
20 and vote against II. ! don't say
that all men are like this, but too
many heads of families that l have
known have been just this way. But
the ballot for women is gaining
ground and we are very thankful to
our splendid big brothers who say we
ought TO have It and are helping us
to get It, Thirty thousand shirt waist
girls on strike, through the sympathy
given them by Mrs. O. II Il. Belmont,
New York leader OF the suffrage,
gave the equal suffrage movement n
great impetus, because II Is stated that
these girls are very intelligent class
of operators and many Of them have
been brought to see. When they be-
themselves that they would have had
more consideration from employers
and magistrates If they had votes.
They were given brutal handling by
the police. Many of them were IL
legally arrested and fined and SEN
fenced after being tried in the night
court, herded with street walkers
pickpockets and petty criminals OF
every description. Their friends not
being able to furnish the large amount
of real estate bonds required for bail
they were tried and sentenced to the
work house, the alternative being bal
ranging from $1,000 to $4,000 In eacf
case. This Is the way these emigran
girls who came to the longed for lane
of liberty were treated, in the shir
waist strike in New York city. ! read
and no doubt you did too, about th'
little girl who arose in the shop Il
announce the strike. The boss threw
pair OF scissors at her, inflicting
severe wound In her arm. She applied
at court for a warrant for his arrest
The magistrate said: You canno
have warrant You are O. crimina
and have got no more than your JUS
deserts. God says In the Bible tina
by the sweat Of his brow every maj
must earn his bread. You are keeping
the girls from earning their bread
Your strike Is a strike against God
Against God indeed"
Mrs Eva Mcdonald Valesh, talented
and noble woman. who is very mucf
Interested in Industrial conditions FOL
women says: THE god of mammor
and money" The god, whose follow
ers devoutly believe in the creed tina
a living wage is unrighteous, that II
ventilated, unsanitary work rooms arr
sacred, that the life that drives &
woman to the pavement is the fina
reward for spiritual perfection. W.
wonder II that magistrate had Q
daughter? Would he have spoken e
the young shirt waist striker like tina
II she or her mother. sisters and
scores OF women relatives and friends
had the power to vote against him II
city, county and state elections. Wo.
men OF wealth and brains and hearts
have taken up the cause OF theii
working sisters, and they see how pow
erless they are to help them to better
their condition without the freman''
weapon, the ballot. George William
Curtis has said and you all know
what good and able man he was
"The test of civilization Is the estimate
of women"
The christian women Of the United
States should not be classed with the
aliens. paupers and idiots. II womer
had votes do you think that the
White Slave traffic as It Is carried or
today in New York City under the
protection Of the political organiza.
tlon known as Tamany Hall, could
operate very long when the facti
have become known? This Is n famll
lar story TO all magazine readers hor
rible in it's detail and deyilish in III
conception. Those terrible creatures
not worthy to be called men, the cade
Turing and trapping the young emil
grant girl or the sweet inexperienced
country girls into those vile dens OF
the terrible city, where she may cal
in vain for help or rescue from the
terrible life OF the fallen woman
The arrest and punishment OF these
cadets utterly impossible because the
police department and the police
courts are absolutely in the hands OF
Tammany Hall. which in its turn Is
absolutely controlled by slum poll
ticians. The same conditions are true