The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-07-27
Local Suffrage Workers Are Needing
Call Which Was Sent Out
From Headquarters to
Help, Recently.
TO CONVERT INTO FUNDS
Money Will Aid Sweatshop and Stun
Girls In Their Fight for
Life and
Honor.

Some of the old silver cups and
gold bracelets and rings which the
suffrage workers of Keokuk were
keeping for prospective grandchildren
are going to be put into the melting
pot. A call has been sent out from
the national headquarters for this
to have a melting pot and the suf-
ifragists of the state will send or take
their trinkets to it,.
| The plan is to convert these silver
cups and gold and silver jewelry into
bullion, and to expend this in the
seven states voting on suffrage this
fall. The thought is. also that it may
help girls in industry from the greed
o. employers, exp1oiters and the like
breed of vermin which they have to
fight in the sweatshcps and slums.
The official call which has been
sent out follows:
Women Of America, generations
ago a country stood in need. Her
treasure chests were empty. 1t was
time of stress and peril. In her hour
o. extremity the women of the land
were called upon to give their orna-
ments of gold.
"And as the women have always re-
Isronded to an appeal for help, so
they responded then, and the tokens
that were given in exchange by
grateful government are today pat
ents of honor and patriotism to the
women of the race.
Call in Hour Of Need.
I'VE call upon you today in an hour
TO- need.
I'VE call upon you to give from your
treasure store of precious metal, from
your keepsakes of gold and silver,
that in the suffrage campaign states
where women are making a stand for
political equality they shall not fall
because the treasury is empty.
Among your personal possessions
there is something you can give. some
thing you can consecrate, perhaps
little silver cup kept for love of some
child. Every three minutes a baby
dies in this land of ours from some
ipreventable disease or from improper
food Give the little cup, that the
mother wisdom Of the country may ex-
press itself directly through wise,
sane laws for the good OF children.
Aid Sweatshop Girls.
IF the thimble of your girlhood is
among your keepsakes send 1t with
thought for the thousands Of young
girls exploited by greed, unprotected
Iby law, in the hot sweatshops Of the
city slums.
Don't be lulled into false sense Of
security by the prevailing notion that
suffrage is sure to come Suffrage
s sure to come, but it cannot come
rayed against 1t, unless the women OF
this country show by their response
that they are determined to have It.
| Put Il In the Pot!
"a little Of what you treasure, an
Tournament OF beauty, tribute OF
friendship, something priced because
OF it's place in household life, or as
evidence Of your thrift-put it in the
melting pot.
Send it to the suffrage campaign
IconmltteS III tne lily 7dA oQuaio
building at Chicago for in the two
Dakotas, in Montana and Nevada, in
Nebraska and Missouri and Ohio.
women from the homes, the schools,
the factories, and places of commerce
are fighting for their civic rights
against organized greed, organized
vice, and those forces which stand in
the path OF prOgress.'