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

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ed wilson ON the forty-iifth ballot.
not that they loved Wilson more, but
Roosevelt less.
In the light of history this fact will
be plain to all the people as it Is
to the Ferraros, the Albert Bushnell
Harris and a host of others today. II
for no other reason than just this the
women voters of America should vote
for Roosevelt, to prove to all men
that their sense of right is at least
as fine as 1t ought to be. He fougfk
a hard fight for the people, against
the bosses, nourished by special priv
ilege; and now by all the rules Of the
game he should have our votes.
EVIL Doors Love Darkness.
Ever since Roosevelt came into pub
lie life he has been the great apostle
of sunlight. Men love darkness only
when their deeds are evil. Women,
| do you realize that this letting in OF
the x-ray of public opinion on every
thing, this call into the sunshine
known SO we'll to medical men IS the
hope for sick bodies. will help the
sin-sick body polite?
Roosevelt saw years ago that the
only help for the political corrup-
ton which had our government in its
grip was to turn on the sunlight
everywhere.
Women, what does IL mean, this
making of honesty fashionable in pol.
itics? 1t means that our sons and
our husbands can enter this hitherto
~dishonored field and be unashamed.
Thank Roosevelt for that.
But far be 1t from me to ask any
woman to support any leader without
first urging her to analyze the con.
tract he makes with the people, and
! those who are to help him carry out
| that contract. The backbone of the
army after all is not the general. but
the non-commissioned man, and this
| fight is not of one nan but of a
deeply aroused. hard -thinking Amer
lean people. alive to burning needs.
People have everywhere for years
been feeling the misfit of both old
parties. They have been changing
their vote in protest from n party
to another, then caring not at all to
vote, calling themselves independents
thus unconsciously they were erect
ing affairs to the then unknown Pro-
gressive party. Study its promises
and the men and women back of the
PROMISES; the Roosevelts, the john
o the Jane Addamses. the Colbys.
the Strausses-people Of heart and
brain and vision; but the greatest OF
these is heart.
Not All Ministers Are In Pulpit.
Do not miss the great national
movement for Righteousness. All the
| ministers are not in the pulpits. What
would be the use of a. religion that
| did not help the many? What is the
use of a political party that doesn't
help the home? You believe in the
brotherhood of the race; then how
| can you help acknowledging that thls
covenant of the Progressive party
comes nearest to this?
Let us have done with this ham.
mering against stone walls in our
charities, with pouring balm on
wounds and leaving their aus un-
touched We have now a political
party with the flower of American
civilization in its ranks, under the
leadership of Roosevelt; the nan who
during his administration had a rec-
ord of unbroken pledges; this honest-
hearted, righteous leader, vitality In
terested in humanity, in the cowboys.
in the railroad men. in mothers, in
miners, in lawyers and doctors, ever
in the midst of them, hearing them
and asking them questions
Leaving tariff and trusts to the men
who have studied these questions
unto the third and fourth gener-
| atoms, we will read in the Progress
| sive contract the message for us
women. A minimum wage, an eight
hour day, a ban on all night work
for women. effective legislation to
protect the home against the hazards
of sickness and irregular employment.
the prevention of occupational dis
eases.
Safety and health standards are
promised for the various occupations
There's a promise there for house.
keepers relative to the high cost Of
living. One days rest in seven is
pledged to all wage-workers. The
wife of the farmer has not been for
gotten; there's a message fer the Inn
migrant, and for all mothers the
promise of the abolition of child la
Dor. In short, this contract is .
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