The Detroit times., 1911-01-13
A Plea For Justice.

To the Editor OF The Times: Your
impassloned appeal 20 men Tor more
generous attitude towards women In
the big struggle which they are max
ing for political enfranchisement
strikes the keynote OF the motive that
animates the great majority or wo-
men. A few, perhaps many, are moved
by the injustice OF taxation without
representation, but the injustices OF
our social system which permits and
legalizes the exploitation of childhood
and youth, or as you phrase IL, the
bodies ofschlldren OF men ground up
into dividends" and conscienceless
capital fattens on these sunless and
shortened lives?"
How long shall We mothers in pain
and travail bear our children for
such a fate?
The most striking feature of all the
recent inaugural addresses OF COVER
nors of all states was the recognition
of the claims of all citizens TO con-
sideration by law makers instead or
the claims Of the privileged few. All
that women are asking Is the oppor-
tunity OF helping the dependent and
the delinquent who are their care by
the same means that men use. the
right 10 enact just and partial
laws. Thank you for your chivalric
words. (MRS.) f. b. S.
detroit, Mich, Jan. IL, 1911.
Facts and Honest Opinions.
To the Editor of The Times: SUI
fragists generally have become SO &C
customed 10 the extravagant and false
reports published In the papers OF this
country, as to the doings OF their Eng
lish sisters, and have so often attempt
ed TO correct these reports only TO
have the papers which published them
under glazing headlines, either refuse
TO publish the corrections or else print
them In small type In some corner
where they are not apt to be noticed,
that Il comes as a distinct and pleas
urable surprise to find a paper whose
attitude Is not only fair In this mat
tor, but In the truest sense chivalrous.
Women who are working for the
political Acknowledgement OF their sex
are constantly told by certain type
of man that chivalry will die In the
bosoms Of men when men and women
are on equal footing politically. We
sometimes wonder just what the chiv-
airy referred to amounts to. AS far
as we are able to see 1t means mostly
that women who are attractive and
who have also social position and
wealth are to be treated with certain
amount OF Difference and politeness by
men, as long, at any rate. as they do
not att .mpt to NEEDLE with matters
which these men claim as their spe-
cial province.
For other women, without these
qualifications, dependent on their own
efforts to gain livelihood, there Is Of
ten neither chivalry nor justice. 1t
is In the interests Of these women as
we'll as in those OF the children OF
which your editorial of last night
speaks, that suffragists are working,
believing that economic conditions
will not be improved until mothers
as well as fathers, women as well as
men have something to say about the
laws under which all work and by
which all are governed. More and
moreAthese views are being shared by
workers in the philanthropic field, both
men and women. This IL one of the
most encouraging signs of the times
and particularly encouraging is 1t to
mad once in while an editor who Is
az the same time broad-minded and
generous, who looks for the facts and
does not hesitate to state his con-
illusions. Detroit is fortunate In hav-
ing such a one in the editorial chair
of The Times" May It not be long
before many more publicists in the
United States are actuated by the
same spirit OF fairness and high-mind-
edness. ALICE M. BOUTELL
Detroit, Mich, Jan. IL, 1911.