New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-08
LET 7. R. SLIP UP
Elect Him and Be Rid of Him in
Four Years, Mrs. Allen Urges.
HOMES is HER PLATFORM
We Haven't Any Nowadays,
Declares Socialist Nominee
for Secretary of State.

AN elderly gentleman, rather stout.
with a mouthful OF teethr'
Colonel Roosevelt has received many
an unkind cut of late. but surely this Is
the most unkindest Of them all. yet the
heartless woman who gave II laughed as
she delivered the knockout blow. 1t was
Mrs. Carrie W. Allen, who Is young and
thin and has bright blue eyes and doesn't
care a fig whether the colonel likes her
description Of him or not Mrs. Allen
is the Socialist candidate for Secretary
Of State, and she blew into town yester-
day from Lake Placid to address a noon
time street meeting at the Battery for
two hours. In the evening she had two
meetings, one on the lower East Side and
the other up In The Bronx, where her
nomination was ratified.
Mrs. Allen doesn't mind a few little
things like that in the course OF a days
work. Dear me, no! She could talk for
ever about the Inconsistencies" Of the
big Bull Moose and the foolishness Of the
little ones. especially OF the little female
ones.
"Oh, aren't the women foolish to fall for
him?" she cried. Can you understand
why they don't see through him? Was he
ever IL favor Of woman suffrage until
now?
However. l hope he Is elected. Yes, I
do I'd love to go on the stump for HIM
can't imagine anything better for the
women, and, In fact. for the whole coun-
try, than to elect Teddy Then he'd
have a chance to show what he really
was, and we'd be rid Of him after four
years"
When Mrs Allen was coming through
Albany she meant to stop off and ask
what her duties would be as Secretary OF
State, but she carelessly forgot, And as
for the salary attached. she hasn't the re-
hottest idea what that will be.
To End Child Labor.
The first thing she would like TO do
when (or rather 'ffD she is elected Is
to take the little children out OF the
factories.
81 saw little boys in short trousers run
ming about in the glass factories" she
said, land ! asked the superintendent
How old is that boy?' Oh said he, twelve
or thirteen. ! guess. II WAS immaterial
TO him whether the child was of working
age or not! Suppose ne was all OF four
teen! What age IS that for a child TO be
put to work? What Is sixteen, or eighteenr
Children ought 10 be in school all the time
they are growing. They could, too, II In
dustry was arranged so that men could
do the work.
Everywhere / hear the story. Plenty
of work for the women and children-none
for the men That is because the capital
lists don't want to pay mems wages.
mo, indeed The women don't want TO
60 out to work. They'd much rather stay
and take care OF their homes. Every
woman loves a home Look at the little
shop g1rls. gathering their pitiful orna-
ments and their cheap little chahng
dishes in some hall bedroom. because they
want some place they can call their own
little home! Look, too. at the thousands
Of girls who sell themselves TO men they
don't love. all for the sake of home!
No, the home-mAking instinct lie stronger
in women than the feminist movement,
and it's only because OF economic neces-
sity that most girls leave their homes.
Crying Need Of Homes.
Socialism doesn't aim TO destroy the
home. No, indeed: It's because We love
homes and want TO build them up that
we are yelling ourselves hoarse on the
street corners and tearing up the whole
country. Millions OF people have no
homes to-day The women say TO me,
My husband works so hard; he Is cross
all the time. and the children are AFRAID
of him That isn't home-it is hell Ana
the men say, We haven't any home any
more. The wife has TO work in the mill
and the kiddies are in the day nursery. l
never see EN- And the children them
selves don't know the meaning OF home.
All they know Of mothers is a nurse with
a milk bottle.
To-day a young man Is AFRAID 10
marry. He's afraid TO have children. be-
cause he can't support them. Where are
the homes that Socialism would destroy!
II would give women the chance TO stay
In their homes, and men the chance TO
earn money to support them.
Yes, / believe in woman suffrage, out
I don't think IT is sex freedom we need
II ia class freedom. Women are persecut-
ed I'm business. not because they are wom-
Ell. but because they are workers.