The Farmington times. (Farmington, St. Francois County, Mo.) 1905-1926, 1913-03-27
Treatment of Women
Marchers a Disgrace
to the Nation
hY CLYnE II. rNNENER

the afternoon OF March 3, than will
perhaps ever be made again in the
same length of time 80 long as the
government stands.
Reports Of the treatment accorded
respectable wO III en- - respectable
mothers, respectable wives, respect
able danghters-while they were
conducting themselves in an unOf.
fensive and dignifled and entirely
respectable manner, have not been
exaggerated.
The scenes were "A positive dis.
grace to that beautiful avenue in
which they occurred-PennsylvAnia
avenue made historic by Abraham
Lincoln and Il host OF other great
Americans; Ia disgrace to Washing
ton and To the Nation.
What Americans is not made
ashamed 10y the thought that In the
very heart OF the capitol Of our
country, hUastcd OF AS our "modcl
American city" aged women, as old
as - years, in whose gray hair and
wrtnkled faces there was certainly
nothing 10 jecr nt-that these old la
dies should be deserted by the police
In the midst Of II crowd of cheering
huOdlums.
This is no eXaggeration. Such
scenes, more's the pity, actually
took place. 1t was IA thing to make
the blood boil in every man that has
respect for his mother, his wife and
ms sister. 1t is not IA matter Of
whether woman suffrage is right or
wrong; it is matter Of whether re.
spectacle women shall have the
same kind Of protection as men in
til" public thOroughfarc, and wheth.
er all respect for womanhDod has
been abandoned
The writer, with his wife, occu
pied two seats In the market grand |
stand on Pennsylvania avenue. AL |
though there were tens Of thousands |
IN the street, we never saw more |
than six policemen at one time dur /
ing the period that the parade was
passing. There were periods of ten |
and fifteen minutes when not "A sin.
II" policeman was in sight, in which
Intervals the crowd c0mplrtcly
blocked the women marchcrs, taunt.
ing and jrcring them, crowding
against them, catching the brides
Of the horses, and making mntions
as II to grab the marchers by their
arms. There were no police to pro.
t"rt tn" women, nat when it was de.
sired To run IA street ear through
the throng, II Gordon of no less than
10 policemen appeared 10 escor, IT
And it went through!
The Cotton Tariff Robbery.
The American people are paying
about $50 900 900 more for
heir cotton goods than they ought
o pay, because of the iniuuitous
'aync- Aldrich tariff law. The SD
congress is preparing TO interfere
With this robbery. There will he
'ig downward revision on all kinds
f cotton goods.
The cotton schedule OF the PAYNE. |
.idrich law carries an average duty !
I about 30 per cent This means !
hat every article OF cotton cloth, !
very piece OF cotton yarn that I,
ONES through the custom house.
as 81 per cent added to its foreign
rice. And on cotton goods that do
ot come through the custom house,
nj are manufactured in this coun-
v, the % per cent is added Just the
anne by the home manufacturers. -
When the tariff on cotton goods ~
'dGced one-third or One-half Of the
resent rates, this article So much
1ed 10y women and children, may 81
= had at IA price more nearly repre-
'nting the actual value of the a
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