The labor world. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1896-current, 1911-09-30
Cl.A 4. ! MAKES i APPEAL |
FOR ! EQUAL SUFFRAGE 4
Minnesota Senator'S Rousing
Speech on Suffrage in Cali
fornia Makes Hit. :
Progressive Newspapers on Coast
Laud Senator High Praise
for Women. 2 3

Senator Moses e. clapp, while II
california recently, made severa
strong speeches. but only those which
were safe to print for Minnesota
readers were used by the Associated
Press: The newspapers on the Pa.
clnc coast are still writing of the
splendid impression the Minnesota
senator made in California. The
Black. Eagle let himself loose on
every progressive subject, but on
none was he more eloquent or more
emphatic than when pleading for DO.
lltlcal equality for women.
In commenting upon the speech the
San Francisco Star says:
influence of Women.
That American womanhood is the
greatest moral agency in, all the ages
and that the tendency in America i
political progress is to extend the
suffrage were two declarations made
by United States Senator Moses e.
Clapp In rousing speech before the
commonwealth Club, which will be
source of encouragement and satis-
faction to the advocates of votes for
women. who. if they could have been
present, would have augmented many
times the tumultuous applause which
his sentiments aroused.
THE consensus Of popular favor
among the audience was shown to be
In accord with these sentiments
through the spontaneous manner in
which these statements were received,
although 1t was not upon the SUBJ
jects of wome1'sz suffrage that Sem
ator Clapp was speaking, but upon
Tendencies of Political Thought
After Nkening the uprising and
abatement of popular enthusiasm in
reform and progress to the peaks Of
the mountains with their correspond
ing valleys of apathy and indiffer-
ence in the body polite, resulting in
growth of reform measures that
is necessarily intermittent, the dis
tinguished statesman went on to say:
Flags the Political Boss.
live by the side of g. great
river into whose current the silt and
the sand of the banks through which
1t flows constantly lis deposited and
which we constantly have to dredge
out. Among the sandbars and snaRs
which form in the stream Of political
progress Isl the boss: He is not an
outgrowth Of any higher altruistic
spirit but a result or distractions in
our political education: Another sand
bar of the political debris is the lob
byist. I am not 81 prophet nor the
son OF a prophet, Bit I am named
after one who made q rather good
job at the business, and it is nv be-
lief that the time IS ~coming when the
American people will no longer per-
NIT a man in the guise of a public
servant to seek his own interest while
pretending to be conducting the af-
fairs of the public, any more than It
would a. Judge to sit in the trial Of q
case in which he himself is an in
terested party. Neither will it per-
init senator's who may be presidents
OF express companies to engage in
the framing of tariff bills where they
can fix the rates. for the benefit OF
their own ends. These are some oil
the distractions in the political cur
rent that we are going to dredge out
Demands Peoples Rule.
I'VE are dealing at the present
time with certain things which are
! experiments in government. There
are some who say that the direct
election Of senators Is such an ex.
pertinent, and protest that we got
| along under the old system. The
senator's got along well under It, A:
there Is no such thing as property
without humanity and: law, SO are
the initiative, referendum and recall
not experiments, but a taking bacl
of a political privilege temperate,
delegated by the public to it's servants
The people should take back these
privileges. If only for the educativ,
effect upon the voter in this country
We are going to enlarge the SUI
frage In this country. Nothing Il
surer than that we are not going t,
be able to restrict 1t. On the con
trary, we are going to grant it I,
our women because the mighties
moral agency in all the ages Il
! American motherhood. The unintel
ligent vote of America is linked 70,
veal or woe with the destinies Of TIL.
country and, since we can not escap,
our responsibility to it. it is ou
bounden duty to bring this vote vi
to our plane Of effective CITIZENSHIP
and to improve its intelligence b.
! every means in our power
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