Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-08-27

iC pOSltiOn in thiCAiN With 'Bath
House John" one Of the most motor.
iouS ward hrelers ii the west, spoke
al the rOurt house square IN this city
last Friday evening
Miss Drake had a very attentive au.
dienrc throughout, She was intro.
duced by Judge |. II, Myers, Of the
local municipal court, who briefly re-
ferrrd to the suffrage contest and to
the progress thereof within recent
years.
Superiority Divided.
The speaker cVmCcd n thorough
knowledge of her subject, and sue
entity summarized the advance in the
suffrage movement for many years
past. She admitted mans superiority
along certain lines, but contended
that in other respects women are SUI,
perior. For instance, the speaker al
legged that with respect to regulations
governing children and women, such
as the child labor statutes, education-
al facilities for the Younger classes
the restrictions concerning factory
workers. and so forth, the ONE
have an advantage over the men. for
they have come into closer relation
ship with the children and have a
| better comprehension of the Condi-
| tons surrounding the factories where
girls are largely employed.
Eight Million Workers.
Miss Drake called attention to the
more than eight million women who
are earning their own livelihood and
assisting in the support OF families
in employment outside of their homes
That is to say, there are more than
eight million girls and women who
are w~age-earners outside of their
home life.
These workers, the speaker con-
tended, have at present no ~represen-
tation in legislative matters outside
of those states which have eliminated
the word male" from the qualifica-
ton for voting.
An Extensive Traveller.
The speaker said she had visited
every country under the sun which
lays n claim whatever to civiliZa-
ton and many which are recognized
as still outside the pale of recent pro-
gress, and that the whole trend of
human advancement may be traced
in and through the laws or Tegula-
tions pertaining to women. Where
human rights are the more highly ap-
preciated, there will be found the
widest liberties accorded to the wo-
men, placing them more nearly upon
an equality with men in regard to
citizenship.
The Scandinavian peoples, she said,
were among the first to recognize
that to bestow upon women the right
of suffrage would have a tendency to
elevate the standard of citizenship
rather than to lower it, as some peo-
pie still affect to think, and through
out that hardy Norske country wo-
men have been welcomed into full
citizenship, and they are manifesting
to the world that they have exalted
conceptions of the responsibilities
thus resting upon them.
Fight in Chicago.
After referring briefly to various
features of the movement and point
ing out the benefits to be derived
from it's success, and appealing to the
male population of South Dakota to
place the seal of it's approval upon
the effort to put women upon an
equality with men, Miss Drake spoke
of the fight against Bath House
john in Chicago, when she had con
scented to become a candidate for an
aldermanic position.
Bath House john SO called be-
cause when first made an alderman
he was a towel wielder in a Turkish
bath house, had been ruling matters
political with a high hand in his
ward. According to common report,
and general belief, the alderman has
feathered his nest through an init
mate association with vice in its most
hideous form. Never before had he
found it necessary to do any cam
paignfng, but when the women OF
Chicago got after him, and after the
vice upon which men OF unsayory
reputation feed, metaphorically II not
literally speaking. Bath House
John" was forced to get a hustle on
himself to save his political neck.
While he was again elected, the
speaker expressed the belief that
eventually they viii get him. for
the campaign carried on against him
served to enlighten the whole city,
and practically the whole of the
newspaper reading public, with re
spect TO the means oy when ne mas
kept himself in office.
Miss Drake a Lawyer.
BY profession, Miss Drake is a law
yer, having practiced in Chicago for
some years.
She has a fine command Of English,
expresses herself clearly but pleasing
III, and In poise and In voice and In
getnre evinces an ~earnestness that
riyets attention to her general theme.
REMEMBER 10 cALLlT
MOBILIZATION OF TROOPS
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We notice some people speak Of IT
al mobilization: others call IT with
The long sound OF mo-bilization. But
Noah Observation-Disclosures that m-o-o-b-