New Iberia enterprise and independent observer. (New Iberia, La.) 1902-1944, 1914-05-02

ground Of the danger to the oys
ter and fish industry. She alst
illustrated most pathetically the
fact that the child of seven an
eight years Of age is pulled Out
of bed or out of its hole as shS
facetiously termed it, to pull tn.
protected oyster and shrimp ou'
Of their hole all day long in the
oyster factory. She was met by
the argument that with cheat
labor and little supervision the
OYSTER and fish industry OF the
State could be made one OF the
most important industries and
one Of the greatest wealth pro
ducers of our commonwealth. The
horror of the idea of the ruthless
sacrifice Of the lives and careers
of these juvenile boys and girls
made her determination stronger
10 obtain a satisfactory child
labor law from the Legislature.
When man versus money, when
life versus luchre are thrown into
the scale, no man can hesitate to
find out what his duty is towards
his brother and sister. Miss
Gordon is powerful speaker
and at times very eloquent. She
is never prosaic and always in
teresting. The fire of earnest
hess in her cause is sincerity and
conscience in her preachment, the
personel magnetism Of her APP
pearance at impressiveness and
almost solemnity to the cause
which has become her daily pray
err. Industrious arh willing to
offer any sacrifice to create con-
viction, support and endorse
ment for the movement she rep
resents, she gains not only the
respect amid dignity due the wo~
manhood, but the admiration and
good will of her audiences.
Equal suffrage as a moral
force is right. Intelligence and
experience knows no sex and no
country and no race. The Amer
lean woman today has Swallowed
many a theory, especially the
cherished one that she is infe'
rior to man and that in statesman
ship and commerce she lack thu
foresight and genius Of the gen.
us-homo, but experience and rec
ords have proved the utter fall
lacy of the assertion. With Ella
Flagg Young of Chicago at the
head of the public school system
that metropolis selected through
great prejudices and protected
in her place by the intelligent
devotees to our general public
school system; with Jane Adams
Greater of the Hull House move
ment which has for its object,
the -rasena---.- and -redemntianl
from the misseries and horrors
of the slum life those that can be
brought within its benign infu-
ence, with Mrs. Davis having
been appointed lately by Mayor
Mitchell of the City Of New York
ON account Of exceptional quail
fications, both executive and adj
ministrative, to the post of prime
ipal of the Prison Reform instr
tutions of the great City; and
scores of other women through
out the land occupying command
ing public positions where con-
spicuous service, devotion to duty
are being. credited to merit and
ability and not to sex. how, can
any fairminded mani loying JUS
tice and righteousness deny at
least equal treatment to women
before the law and the chance
to protect their status by ballot.
Miss Gordon cleverly presented
the difference of woman''s inf1u-
ence in the sense of ple,dings
with or conversion Of man and
the power to enforce her opinions
and views through the ballo box |
on the life and legislation Of the |
community. The greatest oppo-
sition to the grant of the ballot |
to woman comes from mediocre
and ignorant man as geneal |
rule. Egotism is more developed
and the bump of authority moe |
jealousy guarded by men Il
that class than by those who an |
better equipped to study thai |
social problem and the men whal