The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-02-24
By ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE

Why did they applaud!
When the House passed the nine
hour law for women in this state?
Making fifty-four hours each week.
A great triumph.
In fact the defeat of the eight hour
law for which this was substituted was
a disgrace to the state.
A commonwealth which thinks more
dition of its male population than it's
feminine, is lacking in the most ordi-
nary acumeL.
The scheme of nature puts the
heaviest physical burden on the wom-
an.
Hence she should be protected by
the state.
And far more carefully than the
man.
In Indiana this is reversed.
Protect the men-but let the women
go to hades.
Squeeze every bit Of life out of them,
throw 'em on the industrial scrap-heap
and garner in a fresh lot.
But even this nine hour law was
not a sincere manifestation.
Merely a sop to Keegan, the author
of the eight hour law and a represen-
tative of the labor interests.
The resignation of Keegan looked
bad.
1t put the dominant party in an I'M
enviable position with a certain heavy
voting section of the population in this
state.
Especially when Keegan publicly an
nounced he would as lief sit in an
assembly of lepers as remain in the
legislature.
So this half measure was merely a
sop to Keegan and the labor interests.
1t was not sincere.
Not honest.
One legislator publicly declared he
voted against it because he thought it
was to the best interests of the COM
munity to keep Keegan out Of the
legislature.
What a noble and patriotic spectacle
was this, my countrymen!
You might think we were living in
the dark ages.
When people burned each other at
the stake because some doubted the
oracular statement of others that a
million angels could dance on the
point of a needle.
The whole trouble is that society
doesn't recognize the value of tolera-
ton. -
Of getting at the other fellows view
point
hot hot hn ut
Sunday question.
The element that wants everything
as tight as a drum on the Seventh
day of the week only sees its own
SNUG, complacent self.
1t looks into the mirror and sees
the reflection of its own righteousness
1t forgets the one hundred thousand
other persons who may be looking in
the mirror and seeing their differently
cast visages.
If you can't put yourself In his
place" you have missed the spirit OF
Christianity.
Let the Unfortunately righteous who
seek to make every other human be
| ing toe the chalk line of their man
made rules and regulations mount to
the pinnacle and take a birdseye OBJ
servation of the whole thing.
They will then see that the human
landscape dovetails like the parts oil
mechanical toy.
You can't isolate yourself.
And say that so and so is the order
of the universe.
| That such and such is the proper
human procedure.
| You simply can't do it.
! For when you do you assume the
attributes Of your own God.
You've got to get the other fellows
point of view.
You must give every human entity
chance.
The world has gone beyond the
place where a group of people can i'm
pose their man-made creeds and con
victions on a majority.
The human race is evoluting beyond
that.
Bigotry is no longer in the higl
seats.
You can become conscious of thi
by taking a few deep sea observation
of the social activities of the grea
middle class which makes up the back
bone of the nation.
Neither the plutocratically rich.
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