The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1912-06-14
IF DR.. anna SHAW
WERE PRESIDENT
Woman Suffrage Leader Tells
What She Would Do.
MAKEUP OF HER CABINET.
She Advocates Immediate Reduction Of
tho Tariff, Establishment Of Parcels
Post and Extension of Health Laws.
Other Pianks In Her Platform.

Post and Extension Of Health Laws.
Other Pianks In Her Platform.
DIR. Anna Howard Shaw, president
of the National American Woman Suf-
frage association. tells what she would
10 If she were president of the United
States. About the first thing would be
to make Jane Addams the secretary Of
state and Hetty Green secretary of the
treasury. The war portfolio she would
offer to Andrew Carnegie.
| Mrs. Shaw's other cabinet appoint
ments would he: Louis u. Brandeis for
attorney general. Senator Jonathan
Bourne for postmaster general, Mrs.
Ella Flagg Young of Chicago for sec
retary of the interior, Professor
Charles Bailey of Cornell for secretary
of agriculture and John Mitchell for
secretary Of commerce and labor. She
would name Miss Jean Gordon OF New
| Orleans for chairman of the child vel
fare commission. John d. Rockefeller,
Jr., for chairman Of the white slave
commission and DR.. Harvey w. Wiley
for chairman of the pure food commits
sion. These selections were made by
Dr. Shaw in McCalrs Magazine.
| Declaring that the federal constitu-
ton is now being deliberately vio-
lated and advocating as a woman the
| immediate reduction of the tariff, DR..
Shaw urges that ''the guarantee Of the
constitution to protect the states in
republican form of government pre-
supposes that no state would have the
power to disfranchise any class or sex
of Its citizens without due cause or to
establish as qualification for citi-
zenship the inslperable barrier of sex
which disqualifies one-half of its citi-
zens from voting.
| Would Extend Health Laws.
Taking up the matter of education,
Or. Shaw advocates 'the appointment
of commission with power to investi-
gate various educational systems and
| to elaborate from them a system Of
education which would develop the
whole nature of the child and make
it into a useful and intelligent cit-
zen, with a reasonable knowledge of
the duties and obligations of citizen
ship. This can never be done so long
as vast numbers of children are not
provided with educational advantages
in our great cities because of the lack
| OF schoolhouse facilities. 1t should be
impossible to point to a single child in
this nation denied educational advan-
house or for the lack of an adequate
number of teachers.
81 would urge that the present laws
in regard to public health should be
applied to the supervision Of food and
supplies in general and to the manu-
featuring Of garments under healthful
conditions, and would urge that there
should extend to the authorities the
power, when in their judgment the
public health demands 1t, to direct the
purchase and distribution OF food to
the public at cost, on the ground that
1t is better to preserve the health Of
the community than TO restore 1t after
hardship and famine have under
mined 1t.
yet some new legislation is neceS-
sary, and would urge the passage Of
law establishing a parcels post.
Loans to Producers.
II would recommend that the gov
ernment, either by direct loan or by
making 1t possible for national bank
ers to lend money for agricultural de-
velopment, should encourage the pro.
ducer. This is only an expansion of
what the government is doing at pres
ent In new lands, when 1t develops
large irrigation plants and then sells
land TO reimburse itself, and in the
same way counties, towns and villages
| might borrow money and lend II to
farmers for agricultural development.
II is useless to cry back to the farm
unless farming is looked upon as are
other important industries and Is ade-
quately protected and aided in its de-
velopment We can readily see what
1t would mean to New York or any
other city If the farmer stopped ship
ping to It, A day would cut off its
milk, five days would cut Off all pro-
visions, and a week would mean fam
ine."
Among other pianks in her platform
would be, writes DR.. Shaw, federal
control of railways, telegraphs, tele-
phones and other public utilities, such
as water power and water supplies.
Then the pure food laws would come
in for drastic Strengthening as we'll as
the child labor laws, the laws Of quar-
antine and a uniform marriage and di-
vorce law.
DIR. Shaw takes a fling at the tariff
and concludes by declaring that "the
public has been too long compelled to
pay for the protection of few eter-
nally infantile industries, while the
cost Of living for the poor is contin-
ually increasing.
II would advocate the prohibition OF
the ownership Of large tracts OF un-
cultivated land by aliens, and / would
urge the compulsory sale of such
lands as are already owned h. ~" gov
ernment at a valuation similar to that