The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-11-22
A MILLION WOMEN
 POSSESS VOTES

eligible to vote for President of the United States in 1912 These women are to be found in the six western states which have already granted equal suffrage, thes number in each state who are eligible to vote being as follows: California, 800, GOO; Cobra do, 160.oo0; Idaho, 4S,O0o: Utah, 65,OOo; Washington, 12o0o0: and Wyoming, 35,o00, or total of 92S,000.
 Will some one kindly Inform the late lamented Rudyard Kipling that 'the female of the species is more deadly than the maie.''
 Think of it, almost a million women thousands upon thousands of honor ed wives and mothers-who will have something to say in 1912 in reference to tariff reyision-downwards
 Of course Rome wasn't built in q day, but if these women have it ex- plained clearly that the Republican party is the father and mother of the most damnable system of highway rob bery since Ali Babas time, it will be sweet repose for theirs And then 'requiescat in pace" and some more immortelles and gates ajar.
 Now, ladies, listen,
 Just get two or three little facts in your mind at a time
 A democratic congress passed a bill. which. had it become a law, would have been instrumental in reducing the tariff on woolens to a point where these products would have been so d for 4,,1-- l.,lf %,,1,i. present utterly fictitious price.
 It awaited only the signature of that smiling gentleman known in New Ha ven as Cur Bill;" further west as Injunction Bili"-because he was the first judge to indulge iG this gentle And it was a.Ways "open seasonY for William. What did William do? Did he remember the scores of thousands of pnen, women and little children who were forced to wear cheap cotton shoG0y. because they couldn't afford to buy woolen garments and pay the ban dit rates demanded by the tariff tiHk- erers, in order to foster the monopoly of the Wool Trust? Did he stop to consider that wool is practically the only feasible garment for out-of-dGor winter wear in this latitude. and that thousands might develop pulmonary trCubies-perhaps resulting in tuhercu-
 
 by stern economic necessity, the rig ht to purchase and wear these garments?
 NO, ladies, he did not.
 After the bil s had passed both leg islative branches, Mr. William Taft with hushwhacker facility gave the coup de grace, by vetoing them. That's the kind of 8 batter familias he is to the shivering poor.
 His good friends, the Wo2ien Inter ests, demanded. the assassina ton of these measures and he officiated cheer fully and willingly.
 Then he made a ten thousand mile trip, and wasted mi Hons of gallons of super-heated, carbon-diovide sat- urated atmosphere explaining that it was necessary to appoint a CommiS- sion and wait a year or so on their report before he would feel justified in affording this measure of relief to the public.
 Don't be mislead by the spacious prevarications of our high tariff friends. You know that mine has been described as d hole in the ground with a liar at the top. By the same in your pocket-hcok, with a gang of cheerful liars banded to keep it a va cuurn.
 Women, who are the natural protec- tors of the family excheouer who have l the interests of their children at heart twenty-four hours a day for three hun dred and sixty-fve days of the year, will be mighty 'unreliable'' factor for the old parties to continue to hood wink once they get their eyes open to the true inwardness of the old why fors and wherefors."
 All honest men will hail their ad- vent into politics with g'ad haIe!ujahs and hOsannas. Others will utter cur ses. not loud, hut deep-and many of them. The old day of T am Sir Ora cle, and when I ope' my lips let no dog bark''-wil1 have disappeared into the Dismal Swamp-of stupidity, cruel ty and greed. A newer and bright CT era is dawning for the children of men. Service, he pfulress, and altru- ism will replace graft. arrogance and sel6shness. Let's drink a toast stand ing; "To our Mothers. Sisters, Wives and Sweethearts. May they vote soon and prosper!"
 DIR. EDWIN F. BOWERS.