The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-05
THE DAILY GATE CITY

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evils; garbage dumps shalt thor
abolish.
Thou shalt not have an ONCE con
Injected with a saloon.
Thou shalt help to keep amusement
safe for the city's children.
Thou shalt not hearken to com
jmercialized vice.
Miss Hawkes' Verse.
Miss Jennie Hawkes. read the FOL
lowing very telliro Jingle:
One little SURFACE state lonely to the
view.
Didn't go and bust the home; then
there were two.
Two little suffrage states where the
sex was free,
Didn't take mems jobs away; then
there were three.
Three little suffrage states hollering
for more,
Didn't seem to blight the crops; then
there were four.
Four little suffrage state helping men
to strive
Didn't go and put on pants; then
there were I'VE.
Five little suffrage states deep in
politics,
Didn't scorn the frying pan; then
there were six.
Six little suffrage states voting Just
like men.
Didn't lack for chivalry; then there
were ten
Ten little suffrage states where the
right is great,
Heaven speed the happy day when
there's forty-eight.
Home and Politics.
Mrs. Winona E. Reeves of Keokuk
closed the program, speaking on THE
Home in Politics and Politics in the
Home." She said In part: Your
grandmother and mine used to say
with some pride that her whole In
terest conferred in her home. A wom-
an today would be ashamed to make
such a statement, because it would
mark her as selfish. narrow won-
an, one who by ner self centered in
terest defeated the end she sought,
namely the welfare of her family.
Politics means the science of govern
ment or the conduct of public affairs.
The moral and physical safety of the
family is directly dependent upon the
conduct Of public affairs. Therefore
a woman should have an interest in
many things outside her home, for
it's safety. For example, public health
conditions, as we'll as the moral tone
of the city. I am SO glad too, that the
heart of the average woman of today
is big enough to take into it, along
with her own children, those less for
tunate. The child in the cotton mills
of the south, the cash girl in the
poorly ventilated department store,
the children si1ucking oysters in open
sheds on bleak winter days, the sweat
shop children, all appeal to the heart
of the modern woman, their cry Is
ever in her ears and will not be sill
enced until such conditions are quite
as impossible as is the auction block.
Miss Addans' Story.
II should like to tell you an incident
which Jane Adams told recently
when she was speaking of what lad
been accomplished in the state of
Illinois, after six months Of the ball
lot in the hands of the women. She
said:
That in a certain section of the
stock yards district in Chicago, the
death rate of children is enormously
greater than in an equal area in any
other part of the city. For the past
five years a committee Of women
have gone annually before the public
health officers, have shown the sta
tistics and asked that certain causes
for this alarming death rate be re-
moved. They were always treated
with the greatest courtesy and fair
promises were made, but nothing done.
On the first visit of the committee af-
ter the ballot had been given the
they stated the same facts as
On their five former annual visits and
made identically the same requests
for the change in conditions. I'M
the health officers set about
20 change the conditions and this
summer there will be no causes there
20 bring about the death Of little
children by the hundreds. That COM
nittee of women did not. do one
single thing more than they had done
or five previous years-but my
trends, every woman represented a
,ote and that made all the difference
n the world.
Will Smile Some Day.
Some day we are going to smile at
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