The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1912-06-12
WHAT SHE'D DO
! AS, PRESIDENT
Views Of a Noted woman
Suffrage Leadet..1 =
f~ .jrlia
she GIVES bur HER PLATFORM.
Declares Constitution yioIats
ed and womea Deprived 8
4 ofTheir Rights. ':-=''
PRorEcyqy A BALD FALLAcyl

~. 7 III va .tIi rta4Hl
Dr. Ann Howard Shawg as head
of the, National American Woman
Suffrage Association, SHES her hat
into the ring by announcing in Nc
Calls Magazine for July some of
the things she would do If she we're
in the White House. AS Chief Ex-
ecutive DR.. Shaw would unhesitat-
ingly choose as her Cabinet officers
Miss Jane, Addams, of Chicago, for
Secretary of State; Mrs. Hetty
Green for Secretary of the Treas
yry; Andrew Carnegie for Secre-
kry of War; Louis d. Brandeis for
Attorney General; Senator Jona-
than Bourne for Postmaster Gen
eral; Mrs. Ella Flagg Young. of
Chicago, for Secretary of the Inte-
rior; Prof. Charles Bailey, OF Cor
nell, for Secretary of Agriculture
John Mitchell for Secretary OF Com
merce and Labor MISS Jean Cor
don. of New Orleans, for chairman
of the Child Welfare Commission;
John d. Rockefeller, Jr., for chair
man of the White Slave Commits.
sion, and DR.. Harvey w. Wiley for
chairman of the Pure Food Conn
:, mission.
: Declaring that the Federal Con-
stitution is now being deliberately
violated, and advocating as a wo-,
man the immediate reduction of
the tariff, DR.. Shaw urges that the
guarantee of the Constitution TO
protect the States in a republican
form of government presupposes
that no State would have the power
to disfranchise any class or sex of
its citizens without due cause, or to-
establish as a qualification for cit
izenship the insuperable barrier of
sex, which disqualifies Unelhalf of
Sts citizens from voting"
Taking up the, matter Iof- eduea-
tion, DR.. Shaw advocates 1.-The ap-
pointment of a q, commission %, with
power to Investigate various edu-
cational systems and to ;co1Iaborate
from them a system OF education
which would develop the whole mar,
ture of the child and make 10 into a.
useful and intelligent citizen with a
reasonable knowledge OF the duties
and obligations Of citizens. This
can never be done so. long as vast
Numbers of children are not provid-
ed with educational Advantages in
our great cities, because of. the lack
of 'schoolhouse facilities. 1t should
be impossible to point TO "a single
child in this nation denied educa-
tional advantages for the lack of a
seat in a schoolhouse, q. or for the
lack Of an adequate ,puymbe1 Of
teachers.
Il would urge. that the present
laws in regard to public health !
should be applied to the supervision
of food and supplies I'm general, and |
to the manufacturing of garments
under healthful conditions, and I |
would urge that there should ex-
tend to the authorities the power, 4
when in their judgment the public
health demands it, to direct the |
purchase and distribution of food |
TO the public at cost, on the ground
that it is better to preserve the
health of the community than to
restore 1t after hardship and fam
inc have undermined it.
"Yet, some new legislation is
necessary, and l would urge the
passage of law establishing par
GELS post. This system of distribu-
ton has already been organized in
other more progressive countries,
and is a reasonable and cheap
method of bringing various COM
modities. especially pf Ia perishable
nature, quickly FROM I prodheet 'to'
consumer. To delay this form of
legislation longer, In the fare ofj the
great need d6 the day, shows 81
weakness on the part of the Ma
tional Government in consideringA
the needs of the people. Wsbiid IT \
protects the interests of great cor
porattohs) which grow 'rdehsat the
expense of the public"
DR.. Shaw goes on to urge that
the railroads take over, the work
dong ipyr91e express ros1fanies ,spd
says that as President or the Unit