The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-09-05
F D. ANkhSHAW
WERE PRESIDENT
Woman Suffrage Leader Tells
What She Would Do.
MAKEUP OF HER CABINET.
ehe Advocates Immediate Reduction Of
tho Tariff, Establishment of Parcels
Post and Extension of Health Laws.
Other Planks In Her Platform.

Post and Extension of Health Laws.
Other Planks In Her Platform.
DR.. Anna Howard Shaw, president
of the National American Woman Suf-
frage association. tells what she would
do II she were president of the United
States. About the first thing would be
10 make Jane Adams the secretary of
state and Hetty Green secretary Of the
treasury. The war portfolio she would
offer to Andrew Carnegie.
Mrs. Shaw's other cabinet appoint
ments would be: Louis d. Brandels for
attorney general. Senator Jonathan
Bourne for postmaster general. Mrs.
Ella Flagg Young of Chicago for sec
rotary OF the interior. Professor
Charles Bailey Of Cornell for secretary
of agriculture and John Mitchell for
secretary of commerce and labor. She
would name Miss Jean Gordon OF New
Orleans for chairman OF the child well
fare commission. John d. Rockefeller.
Jr.. for chairman of the white slave
commission and DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
for chairman of the pure food commits
sion. These selections were made by
DIR. Shaw in McCalls Magazine.
Declaring that the federal constitu-
ton is now being deliberately vio-
lated and advocating as woman the
immediate reduction of the tariff. DR..
Shaw urges that 1.-The guarantee of the
constitution to protect the states in
republican form of government pre-
suppOses 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 citi-
zenship the fnsuperabe barrier of sex
which disqualifes one-half of its citi-
zens from voting.
Would Extend Health Laws.
Taking up the matter of education.
DR.. Shaw advocates 1.-THE appointment
of commission with power to investi-
gate various educational systems and
TO elaborate from them a system Of
education which would develop the
whole nature of the child and make
it into useful and intelligent clti-
zen. with u reasonable knowledge OF
the duties and obligations of citizen
ship. This can never be done so long
as vast numbers Of children are not
provided with educational advantages
in our great cities because of the lack
of schoolhouse facilities. 1t should be
impossible to point 10 single child In
this nation denied educational advan-
tages for the lack of q seat in school
house or for the lack of an adequate
number of teachers.
Il would urge that the present laws
in regard to public health should be
applied to the supervision of food and
supplies in general and TO the manu-
featuring of garments under heathfnl
conditions. and would urge that there
should extend 10 the authorities the
pOwer. 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 famine have under
mined it.
Yet some new legislation is neces-
sary. and | would urge the passage of
a law establishing parcels post ]
Loans to Producers.
II would recommend that the gov
eminent. either by direct loan or by
making it possible for national bank
ers TO lend money for agricultural de-
velopment. should encourage the pro.
Queer This is only an expansion OF
what the government is doing at pres
ent in new lands. when 1t develops |
large irrigation plants and then sells
land to reimt Irse itself. and in the |
same way counties. towns and villages
might borrow money and lend II 70 |
farmers for agricultural development. |
1t is useless 10 cry back to the farm |
unless farming is looked upon as are /
other important industries and Is ade- |
ouately protected and aided in its de- |
velopment. We can readily see what |
II would mean to New York or any |
other city if the farmer stopDed ship
ping TO ii. A day would cut of its
milk. five days would cut Off oil pro-
visions. and week would mean fam
Inc"
Among other planks in her platform
would be. writes DR. Shaw, federal
control of railways. telegraphs. tele-
pnones and other public utilities. such
ms water power and water supplies.
Then the pure food laws would come
in for drastic strengthening as well as
the child labor laws. the laws of quar-
antine and a uniform marriage and d.
vorce law
nr. Shaw takes fling ut the tariff
and concludes by declaring that the
public has been too long compelled TO
nav for the protection of "A few eter-
nally infantile Industries. while the
cost of living for the poor is contin-
ually increasing.
II would advocate the prohibition OF
the ownership of large tracts of IN
cultivated land by aliens. and would
urce the compulsory sale of such
lands ms are already owned by the gov
eminent nj n valuation similar TO that
which is placed upon them for pur-
po,S of taxation hy their owners and
tk<&ale Of the land by the government
ar cost to homesteaders. u