Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-29

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q she will support
the party which offers something
bigger than individual and class
interests, something wider than sex
Interests, which aims at nothing less
than the betterment of humanity.
The woman who chooses her party
IN accordance with the interest OF
her class has a simple problem. 1t
should not be difficult for the daugh-
ter of a Lawrence mill-ownef to
support the Republican party. 1t is
not accident that the women of our
middle class New Jersey suburbs are
organizing leagues to support the
Progressive party. 1t is not chance
that most Of the women in Socialist
audiences belong to the working
class. The woman, as we'll as the
man, who looks only TO her material
we'll being will do well to go with
her class.
But the woman to whom the free
dom and development Of all
Ii of more Importance than her
self interest or the dominance of her
class may well ask which party rep
resents the modern woman movement
In all it's depth and breadth. For
thirty years the Republican party
has declined to have anything to do
with the movement which Is the log
zeal successor to the abolition move.
mont. The Democratic party has
been too remote from it even to re-
feet 1t. II was an inevitable step in
political evolution that a new re-
8~4... ,.t. aIA,.lA nrfon and that II
should adopt some part of the
women's demands.
Progressives Offer Some Reforms.
The Progressive party takes over
the two phases OF the uni move
ment which have travelled farthest
on the road to popularity, woman
suffrage and the protection OF women
in Industry. The Progressive party
Ia today in exactly the same position
with regard to women that the LIB
eral parties of England and America
were in regard to men In the nine
teenth century. when workingmen
were enfranchised and remedial fae-
tory laws were passed.
Women who are conscious of no
sex inferiority except disfranehise-
ment will naturally turn TO the Pro-
gressive party. Women who see no
wrong to the woman worker except
In the worst brutalities of modern
Industry will naturally he content
with the reforms of the Progressive
party.
But the aim OF the move
ment Is not to give political power
to the women whom society already
protects, or TO give legal succor 10
the women whom society will con-
tinue to exploit. The woman move
ment is a part of the stream of so
ciai evolution which is bearing man
kind on to fuller opportunity n
more effective cooperation in living.
The woman question is a sex ques-
ton only because woman's sex func-
tions make her economic subsection
easier. It is q political question only
because political power is necessary
In order to secure economic oppor-
tunity. The woman movement, like
the labor movement, is n struggle
for economic freedom.
1t is because the m movement
IL essentially economic that 1t finds
It's counterpart and ally in the only
other great movement OF modern
times, the labor movement. To
gether, whether they will 1t or not,
the dependant woman in revolt and
the dependant man In revolt are
pressing ON to one goal, Industrial
democracy.
inst as inevitably must the party
which is the political expression OF
tho labor movement be the party
which expresses in all it's fitness the
woman movement. The union of the
Socialist party and the woman move
ment is not dependent on leaders or
platforms; II is a relationship which
lie due to similarity OF origin and iden-
tity OF goal.
Socialists Were Never Coaxed.
The Socialist party never had to
be eoaxed into tavorlng a suffrage
plank. II was a suffrage party be-
fore more thar a million women
voters promised success to the party
which should first bid for their favor.
1t cannot desert or betray the cause
of woman, for the very goal in it's
own course, an industrial democracy,
cannot be reached while women are
a subject class.
It promises women nothing, for
women themselves within 1t are
working to create the new order.
That is why every woman who VIII
be content with nothing less than
the complete emancipation OF women
should Join the Socialist party.
BIT no woman who has seen the
woman movement in all its world
wide meaning ever rested content in
that vision. The woman who loves
har sex loves humanity. She il
the mother of o n as well as of
daughters. AS woman, as well as
human being. she must seek for the
party which proposes nothing less
then the betterment OF humanity,
The woman who has felt the thrill Of
working for all women will no longer
be content to work for a party which
represents only the interests OF hcI
own class, or wen the interests oil
her own nation.
she Will support no party Which
prorl.ses the prosperity of largo
profits and increasing dividends fcI