Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1912-10-31
JANE ADDAMS SPOKE
FOR PROGRESSIvES
EQUAL SUFFRAGE, INDUSTRIAL
AND SOCIAL JUSTICE PLANKs
APPEAL TO WOMEN.
Noted settlement worker Of Chi
cago Heard by Large Audience
81 at Opera House.

81 at Opera House.
Jane Adams ssof the United
States, = was heard at jamestown to-
day by a large audience at the opera
house, in a political address, the
noted founder of the Hull House,
settlement. Chicago, speaking to an
audience Of men, women and chill
dren in support of the Progressive
party. The famous philanthropist
stated she had espoused the new
Darty, led by Theodore Roosevelt,
because its platform was openly
pledged to reform social, industrial,
and political conditions, for many of
which she and her co-workers had
been laboring the past 20 years. Her
address was followed with keen in
terest by all present.
Because of taking the wrong train
at Minneapolis Sunday evening, Miss
Adams did not reach jamestown
49, p al Z
..until 11:15 a. M, but the audience
remained good natured!y from the
! time the address was scheduled, at
1880, until the appearance of the
speaker. who hurried directly from
the train to the opera house. Dur
ing the interim there were short
talks by North Dakota women IN
!. terested in equal suffrage, while sew
eral Progressive party battle songs,
including the Battle Hymn Of the
Republic Dixie Land" and 9TH
ers, were sung, while there was mar
tiaI music by the g. A. r. fife and
drum corps. The audience was COM
posed largely OF women and chill
dren, although there EAfa dldl men
present interested ID the Progressive
cause and the work Of the noted
speaker, while there were several
>rows of Jamestown citizens, men
and women, occupying the platform
with Miss Adams. u
The meeting was presided over by
Mrs. L. B. Nolan, chairman of the
Woman's Committee of the Pro-
gressive party in stutsman county,
who introduced the first speaker,
Mrs. Kate Libby Wilder Of. Fargo,
chairman of the Woman's Committee
OF the Progressive party of North
Dakota. Mrs. Wilder told of the
work already accomplished by the
women in their initial efforts for
practical politics, and particularly
raising campaign funds. The wo-
men are vitality interested in the new
party because Of its equal suffrage
plank.
Upon her arrival at the opera
.,house Jane Adams was introduced
by Mrs. Kate Glaspell of this city as
the one woman, pre-eminent in this
country for her grand efforts and
success in the betterment Of the
downtrodden and for her remarkable
settlement work in Chicago. Miss
adams was greeted with hearty
applause.
!, The speaker plunged at once into
the reasons for her espousal of the.
Progressive party, namely, its
planks for social and industrial JUS
tice and its declaration for the dram
chise for women. The Progressive
party openly stood for reforms for
which she had been laboring for 40
yesrs, among which are the follow
ing: .s- sls...7. .Ss.s 81,
The adoption Of q number Of meas
ures to secure social and indus
trial justice to wage earners. " In
Guided In the list are the establish
ment OF q law Immediately OF 9
minimum wage scale for women; 2
minimum wage commission to AZ
the standards Of wages for all work
ers;s old age pension. and living
waRe, which Roosevelt defines as an
amount suhicient to provide educa-
ton, recreation, care for immature
Of family, maintenance q
family during sickness. and accumn!- Y;
lation of q reasonable saving for old % I
- 40; prohibition of night labor for I
women and children; an eight hour
sahift TOR workmens n industries IA
which men are employed twenty
four hours ! day; national and state,
iWsorkmen's compensation laws y
guarantee 3allsI by law ofs one days rest t1
every seven days: old age insurance g
ana insurance against sickness ir-# s.
diyidualism I and inyol l tary unem-s
spIoyment. the cost sof 4 such e; insnr-s B
ancs s Is , be distri ted among the,