The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-05-05

are thrown with daily are the ones we will see when we cast our votes. If we 1 live in A respectable neghborhood among | respectable people, this is the class or peopIe with whom we will come ln con | tact when we cast our vote. 1T we oo not live in a respectable locality, but among disorderly and disreputable people we will be accustomed to them any way W hen election day comes.
 Men Cannot Represent Women | Of another premise offered by the anti | siiffragist Miss Gordon said: 'lt Is Ire nuentlv offered as an excuse for woman lack of the franchise that men can rep 1 resent the womenr I resent that ldeh | bitterly No one person ever represented another for no two people ever thought alike. My brother, for instance, IS the | only man in a house with four women. He has but one vote and the opinions or the four women differ radically on most | ouestions. in fact they are rarely unanl- nous When the time comes to vote, ne
 votes as he thinks best, then usually teiis us about it afterward and we dscuss IL ! when if is too late to do anything. This
 idea of representation Is not followed m
 any other respect than in the ballot IT
 n woman commits crime she suffers for | if would fl be possible for man to go | into the courts and say This woman ! took a life. but I will suffer the pen l alty?' No, he would be promptly tod that the law must take its course ana the | criminal the consequences or her act we
 are told that men on a Jury are "iioer and more gentle and just than women
 would be How do we know? Have we | seen justice meted out by jury ol
 women? As for me, I would as soon trust myself to he tried by jury Of women
 as men. a jury of my peers
 About Child Labor Laws
 Miss Gordon spoke with much feeling of the child labor laws, and of other matters affecting women and children
 which are best adjusted by feminine inter- 1 yention. For" she says, what we do | most we do best Women are more in- | terested in affairs affecting the home and | the child and the health interests of the
 community than are men. If we want 10 | stir Inc women of Louisiana we need onIy mention the garbage collection and | children! While the legislators prated | cf the integrity of the home and the | mothers influence we stood in New or | lears and watched the little children l crossing Canal street at o'clock In the | morning going to the factories to earn money to bring to that home In many | homes there has been little time for the l Influence of the mother to be felt. The
 little boy has had to grow Independent
 very e2rly-taking up the serious business
 of life to become either that wonderful i ana unusual product of civilization. the | self made man, or. as so great a majority
 have done, falling by the wayside It | is in such things as these that the woman l is needed in Legislation. While the law ! maker is busy with extraneous things he sometimes doesn't realize that in four or | five years the hoy has become man..
 ard that it may be too late to bring good | in6uei.ces about him.
 Of these and many other points Miss 1 Gordon talked in the practical. straight | forward fashion that makes her one of
 the most forceful and convincing speak
 CTS of the day.