The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-17

tempt in labor disputes.
Minimum safety and health stand
ards in industry.
Prevention of industrial accidents,
of occupational diseases, overwork
and involuntary unemployment.
What's this but everything the wo-
men have been fighting for through
j club, philanthropic, religious and so
cial organizations for the past quar-
ter century?
The great thing in this world is to
| let the unessentials go and retain the
essential even if it's but half loaf.
| What women want is equal and uni.
versal suffrage.
| Here is a new political party-a sort
of Moses-in-the-B ull-rushes find.
| It's fresh and new and young and
healthy.
A very good chance to train it up
in the way it should go.
Or, anyway, chance at being re,
leased from social, industrial and
sex bondage.
| Seize the means at hand.
When you maroon the end and stick
it in your belt you can mold it into
any shape you please.
! The most short sighted policy is
| that which insists in hanging on to all
the tag ends of things rather than let
ting go and walking off with the body
under your arm.
| Here is the Progressive Plank on
Equal Suffrage
The Progressive Party, believing
that no people can justly claim to be
true democracy which denies po-
| litical rights on account of sex, pledg-
es itself to the task of securing equal
suffrage to men and women alike"
| Well, what more do you want?
This column readily understands
that there are women whose political
sympathies have been with the two
dominant parties-indeed with parties
not dominant, as the Prohibitionists
and Socialists.
Although the Socialists can hardly
be dominated a party"
| But, if these Sympathies were an
alyzed, of what would the component
parts be found to consist?
Largely family traditions and in
herited prejudices with little positive
comprehension of the reasons for their
affiliations.
Very much the same way with men.
Men are Republicans and Democrats
not so much for principle as for po-
litical anchorage.
There's an occasional man who may
| be Democrat because he believes in
the tariff for revenue only.
But, if pushed to the wall, could he
tell just what he means by revenue
only?"
Isn't it fact that the average vot-
err knows about as much about the
/ actual operations of the tariff as he
does about sailing an air-ship?
Isn't it fact that he pays as much
for things under one tariff bill as an
other?
Isn't the whole tariff thing a DOGGY
to scare little children with at night?
That's about as much as anybody
knows about it's vagaries.
The truth is that it's time to throw
all the old views of things into the
discard and begin with clean slate.
Operate on a basis of known needs
and conditions.
And the Progressive Party has a
nice, new, clean slate.
1t offers it to the women to write
on.
Here in Indiana they cannot do bet
ter than to sharpen their pencils and
begin, for here is how it's nominee for
| Governor, Mr.. Albert j. Beberidge
very pithily puts it:
| because women, as much as men
are a part of our economic and So
cial life, women, as much as men,
should have the voting power to solve
all economic and social problems
Votes for women are theirs as a mat
ter of natural right alone; votes for
women should be theirs as a matter
of political wisdom also. AS wage
| earners, they should help to solve the
| labor problem; as property owners
they should help to solve the tax prob
| lem; as wives and mothers they should
| help to solve all the problems tha1
concern the home. And that means
all national problems; for the Nation
abides at the fireSide."