The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-11
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THE MARKET PLACE.


Of the suffrage movement in the
United states. offers interesting ar
gument on the situation in the Chi
cago Tribune. In the course OF a
general argument she hkens the
market basket to a football on the
kick-off line before a football game,
Then she follows
In all the history of a great
people in the time of peace. of a
sreat country with millions of fer
tile acres whose inhabitants are un-
molested by an enemy to the pub
ic welfare. where there has been
neither pestilence nor famine. was
t ever harder to fill the market bas-
bet?
There it stands in the center of
the field.
"On one side the money trust linn
ting the credits of small merchants
so that they have become merely
commission agents; the trusts de
stroyng competitive articles and
selling on their own terms. and all
those who handle merchandise in
transportation fixing prices. control
ling the supply, regulating the tar
ifs and charges. On the other side
the woman
The women who do the buying
with slender means; the women
who find beef has gone up since the
government lost its suit with the
packers; who buy oil to find it has
zone up since the government dis
'olyed the trust; who find potatoes,
corn, rice, flour have gone up, up.
lp-these women, with what pa
ience persistence and knowledge
hey deal with the vexatious uues-
ion of filling that market basket,
When night comes it is the woman
who tells the man how his wages
3rices -ails to fill the basket 't prevailing
THAT market basket, whether it
an be filed or whether it shall re.
main empty, is question which
Will underlie the November election.
'Will the trusts control the
basket and determine their exac-
ions or tributes or will the women
stimulate the men to action?
What has this to do with suf-
rage? AS long as the family en-
lures so long will the purchasing of
he household be done by the WON
IN There are few women who do
not have a long memory for prices.
so long as the household exists
woman viii possess the innate in
'tlnct to provide for the sustenance
of her young and dependents. I'M
she realizes the robbery
)f her purse by unwarrantable
lrices. She will fight for her mar.
tet Basket
She is now beginning to under
tand that to control the prices
hat fill or empty her market has
Fet she must have voice in those
'falrs which sustain, support and
make possible the exactions of the
lrodncIng trusts and combinations.
'ne cannot understand wnv cba,
'ahnot be admitted free while there
5 a strike or that she should nav
Ter portion of the damage done nv
meeting the increased price or that
potatoes pay Is cents per bnshel In
lutles when there are no domestic
potatoes to be had at any price. Ana
she won't understand the nonsense
nat IS given in explanation.
woman is and ever Fyill be in.
crested in the market basket
veil fed family is of first importance
0 the state, and all questions re.
atihg 70 keeping a family on the
income 1t has is of paramount i'm.
'ortdhce. Woman will make
tudy OF the market conditions In
Ier own environment ana she will
eek TO improve them to the end |
nat her cost of filing the market |
asket VIII be lowered She win |
tudy and understand terminal con.
ltions, and, having vote. she Viii |
nlorce an open market instead of
lalhtaining monopolies."