The patriot. [volume] (Indiana, Pa.) 1914-1955, 1915-09-17

Twas y'rsilf that looked gran in
tn Labor Day parade last Monday,
Mrs Dooley," declared Mrs. Hen
messy, stopping in to talk things over
with her neighbOr
AN twas proud l fit, Mrs. Hin
Missy, to be marchin' wit all thin
thousan's an thousan's iv ither work
in Wimmin," answered the widow
"Shure, what wit all tn wimmin that
do be workin' to kape a roof over
their heads nowadays they make near
as gran shown as tn workin' min
do.
81 was radin' a bit in wan iv thin
United States Cinsus books tn ither
day, an shure it says there that 605,-
436 Pennsylvania wimmin are out
WoTkin' fir wages iyry day
whats more, it says 412,583 iv
thin are over twinty-wan an, whin
tn woman suffrage amindmint is car
ried this Novimber they'll be among
the 2,114,008 Pennsylvania wimmin
that'll be able to vote.
aye can't show me my rayson in
Justice an common sinse why vim
min shouldn't vote. They didn't made
a vote much in tn past so they didn't
ask fir it, But now it's different in
toirely things are.
'In tn old Gays ivry dacint woman
did all tn knittin' an weavin', the
bakin' an cannin' in her own home.
Womans place was in tn home in
thin days! Shure there was nothin'
to take her outside iv it.
But it's a big difirince yell find
now It's factories an mills that do
all that sort iv work. TIL wimmin
can't do their work in their own
homes at all, at all. They hev to go
to tn factories to work or ilse buy
their stuff after tn girls in tn fac
tories has made it fir thin. Thin
workin' wimmin has hard time an
they ought to have tn vote to hip
thin out.
"Thim sUffragists up in New York
give an illigint proof a couple iv
weeks ago that plinty iv wimmin's
places is outside iv tn home. An
tn funniest part iv it was, they
proved it out iv tn mouths iv tn
very people that was sayin' tn loud
list Woman's place is in tn home
an she doesn't made a vote
"Thim suffragists announced that
fir jist wan day ivry wage-earnin'
woman would strike. TIL workers
wouldn't go to work-they'd jist stay
at home, where they'd bin told they
belonged.
9TH minute tn word wint round
there was a great ki-yiing frim thin
that didn't want wimmin to vote
because they said their place was in
tn home. TIL factory owners, tn
business men, tn store owners, an
all thin that hired wimmin jined in.
Only tn byes in tn schools didn't
care if tn taychers did strike
"Oh, there was a gorgeous hulaba-
loo an tn rumpus thin people kicked
up was pitiable. They came bleatin'
an cryin' that it would cripple busi-
ness; that wit'out stenographers, till
phone girls, clerks, salesgirls, wait
resses, millhands, factory operatives,
nurses, taychers, an all tn ither
wimmin workers tn city would be
like a lad wit a foine case iv tn
jim-jams-runnin' round in circles
an steppin' an itsilf instid iv goin'
ahead dacintly about its business.
"Whin tn suffragists had thin goin'
goodwin they'd made ivry wan
rayalize that tn world couldn't sit
along at all wit'out wimmin outside
iv tn home as we'll as in it-shure.
they announced that jist to show
what good sports they were they'd
call tn strike arff an let it go at
that
at was a gran bluff. They had no
more intintion iv calm tn strike
than l hev this minute iv jumpin' in
tn stove There was no made fir
thin to go through wit it. Just wan
hint iv it was enough an to spare.
TIL mere talk iv it made tn public
see a great, bright light-peOple
couldn't hip but see that woman's
place was no longer in tn home only