The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-08-17
PROGRESSWES STARTED SOMETHING
For This Time Last Year Who Would Have Thought
that in the Corresponding Time This, Women
Would Be Political Factor
BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE.


That the women, not alone in the
six states where they can vote, but
the country over, would be in the
summer of 1912, a determining factor,
or, at least, some sort of factor, in
political consideration would have
been laughed down this time last
year.
But the fact remains.
And who's responsible?
The Progressives.
There's no dispute about it-can be
none.
No matter what sops the other par
ties are now throwing out-they are
the forced and insincere result of the
propaganda of the party more recent
ly formed.
1t began with the pronOuncement of
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt for universal
suffrage prior to the convention in
Chicago.
What if his motives may or may not
have been one or the other thing?
What if he is said to be consum-
ate politician?
That he is really not at heart for
the enfranchisement of the alleged
weaker sex?
That he was playing politics.
For the support of the women in
the six states that have granted them
suffrage.
"Granted," by the way, is an anus
ing word. And least used in this
sense.
For one-half of the citizenship of
the land to be granting" the other
half its inherent civic rights IS some
thing of an anomaly.
But such is the mighty patronage
of our overlords.
And, after all, if the women want
to vote it's the only way they can
annex it.
AS stated here the other day-its
not the medium through which it is
secured-it's the thing you're getting
And it is percolating through the
Progressives.
So, after all. why not lend the lat
caciouS before full enfranchisement
is brought about since their platform
embodies nearly every phase of So
cial propag uganda in which women have
been interesting themselves the past
decade and much longer?
Hear this from their plank of So
cial and Industrial Justice:
The supreme duty of the nation is
the conservation of human resources
through an enlarged measure of social
and industrial justice. We pledge our
selves to work increasingly in state
and nation for
Prohibition of child labor
Minimum wage for working women.
Prohibition of night work for wo-
men.
An eight hour day for women and
One days rest in seven for all wage
earners.
An eight hour day in continuous
twenty-tour hour industries.
Abolition of convict contract labor,
except for governmental consumption,
and the application of prisoners earn
ings to the support of their dependent
families.
Publicity as to wages, hours and
conditions of labor.
Reports on industrial accidents and
diseases.
Public inspection of all tallies,
weights, measures, and all check sys-
TENS on labor products.
Standards of compensation for
death by industrial accident, injury
and trade diseases.
Pensions for sickness, irregular en-
ployment and old age.
Establishment of continuation
schools for industrial education under
public control.
Establishment of industrial research
laboratories.
Organization of the workers-men
and women-as a means of protecting
their interests and promoting their
progress.
The establishment of a department
of labor.
Prohibition of the issuance of in
functions when such injunctions would
not apply when no labor disputes ex-
ist.