New-York tribune., 1912-12-01
LITTLE MISS KATE"
MAKES WOMEN WEEP
Vividly Pictures Factory Con-
ditionS at Hudson
Theatre.
CHILDREN'S CRIES UNHEARD
Members of League for Political
Education Hang on Words
of Social Worker from
Oklahoma.

Little Miss Kate" gave them a talk
ing to such as New Workers. seldom get
these days. The rich and sophisticated
who assembled at the Hudson Theatre
yesterday morning to hear Miss Kate Bar
nard talk sociologically about "Society's s
Responsibility for Crime" found themselves
weeping or wriggling uneasily. as II IN
an old-fashioned revival meeting. for Miss
Kate talked religiously. Miss Kate Is not
an ordinary social worker. She seems TO
feel herself Jeanne dare sent to save
her people from their foes--the foes Of
greed and cruelty, which destroy from
within.
Miss Kate feels personal responsible
ity, and she made her hearers yesterday
shiver with that same feeling. She de-
scribed an accident In a factory when
little child had her hand caught In the
machinery. II was o'clock and the little
thing was too tired to be careful. The
hand was crushed and chewed up by the
clutching. greedy wheels and the child
died.
When I meet the Great Judge in
heaven" said Miss Kate, II wonder will
that gnawed up helpless baby hand
stretch itself out before me, and shall /
hear a baby voice saying: You were there.
Why did you not help me?'
That is the trouble with you rich
women. You do not hear the little chill
dren crying You do not see them In the
glass factories, sitting before awful fire
and breathing in the glass dust hour by
hour which cuts their lung tissues and
causes their death in a year or two. IL
you did see these things you would have
them stopped, ! know. II Is matter of
the head. not the heart, with you. II you
women viii only come with me you will
sec. and then you will tell your husbands.
Whenever the women want these things
the men give them you know. All you
have 10 do is TO ask in the right way.
Just get them something they like very
much Cook Il yourself. even II it Is lot
! OF bother.
"I'Il tell you how We got three planks III
one hour out Of the. men In Oklahoma.
Some other women had been up there be-
fore 10 demand what they wanted They
were unsuccessful. but ! said. Walt till I
pick out my delegation | got one beau
tful, silvery haired. motherly woman.
who would remind every man there of the
way his mother used to look as he sat at
her knees and dreamed his boylsh dreams
Of how nue.. good he was going to do In
the world when he grew up. Then | had
three of our willowy Gibson girls, you
know. and a woman who was the best
talker in the state. We got our three
plspks Now, | don't need TO tell you
New York women what strategy you
could use 10 influence men-youre all
women and past masters in strategy.
IL never could have obtained entrance
TO d certain Georgia cotton mill II |
hadn't made use Of the owners egotistical
pride In his new machinery. / pretended
10 be tremendously interested In his
wheels and things. but all the time | was
seeing the little children and weary. sad
eyed women.
Il often used to wonder why nature
made so little of me. but guess it was
20 would not be- suspected"
Miss Kate was without doubt the small
est person who ever addressed the Leagu"
for Political Education. Her head came
about up 10 the top of the reading desk.
and her SLIM little person. cased in dark
brown cloth. fitted about the great empty
stage like a lovely moth in an attic. She
is "A case OF great oaks from tiny acorns
grow" for people twice-even three times
her size could not have done such great
works as hers She made oklahoma a
model state so far as labor laws and
social reforms are concerned. Six years
ago she was elected TO the position ~
Commissioner OF Charities and Correction
for the state Of oklahoma, receiving 5000
more votes than the Governor did. Part
OF her object In coming to New York now
Is to study criminology with the great
PSYCHOLOGISTS and doctors She has al
ready begun an investigation at the
Neurological Institute.