The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1913-02-26


votes for women affiliations
Nothing in her experience has point
ed to the ballot as a relief for condi-
tions in West Hammond Miss
Brooks has fought with and for men,
not women. Her battles have been
won by men and not women
What influence women have exert
ed in her behalf has been with their
husbands. And if more women used
their influence with their husbands
there would be less talk about wom-
ems suffrage.
The world would never have heard
|of Miss Brooks had it not been for
the newspapers. In her fights her
|chief weapon was publicity. She
knows that and has admitted it. She
sought publicity not for itself but to
aid her cause
Any woman with a righteous cause
can secure the support of the news
papers whether or not she is enfran-
chised. In fact the newspapers,
which are run by men, by the way,
have so far refused to take the suff-
ragette cause seriously.
| Miss Brooks experience has taught
her further that the cleansing of the
ballot in West Hammond would not
be accomplished by enfranehfsing the
wives and daughters of the foreign
| element there.
/ She knows that practically all oil
the saloon keepers in West Hammond
Iamong the foreign element, permit
their wives to tend bar. And won
an saloonkeeper would be no better
"a citizen than her husband.
Miss Brooks knows further tha'
mot self-respecting woman in Yves
Hammond would go to the polls t,
vote against a dive-keeping alderman
}. for illustration, to be insulted ant
Ijeered at by the habitues of the ret
flight district.
Miss Brooks knows further tina
lcrooked rings of politicians would ex
list just the same in West Harmon,
whether or not there was woman
suffrage. She knows that she did no
lrequire the ballot to break up on
lsuch ring.
We have always believed Mis-
Brooks sincere. We still think tina
she is honest and concientious bu
she lacks masculine judgment. Sh
was taken up by the suffragett
movement in Chicago by women VIII
found her valuable ally.
She would not be a suffragette
she would only review her own e,
Iperiences. She has merely fallen fc
lit. And fallen hard.
= And here is phase of Miss Brook
!. activity that has never been give
publicity but which never-the-le.
!, deserves to be mentioned in this col
. nection as showing to what publ
: women are subjected.
Miss Brooks has been insulted G
the street so many times that ST
lprobably could not now remember tt
: number of incidents. She has bee
J. cursed by saloon toughs from one Ell
# Iof West Hammond to another. tt
10 vilest of stories have been and no
ARE being circulated about here. MOI
lof them are true, of course
Do the women of this region wal
to become public characters at SUI
# "a cost. Do sweet young girls want
it go from the protection of the hon
10 into an atmosphere like this. ]
n prospective wives and mothers wa
To to know all there is to be know
- about the lowest strata of humanit
The world can't be reformed in d
Q. even if women do vote.
tsl Good women have always been
C. influence fol-. the uplifting of human
Il. ty. Their sphere of activity has !;
f. ways been ample. To expand it
the hell holes of the world would n
ks iibe justifiable.