The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1915-11-16
Suffragists Will
Work for Pure Food

lion alone. woman has been one OF
the strongest allies. She has fought
Tor pure food with the weapons IN
her power--in her organizations, In
the press. in personally insisting
upon clean foods, sold in clean shops
by clean clerks This has taken
her many long years. during which
she has been the unwavering. deter
mined force which has helped TO
put her city o and national pure
food laws upon The statutes. Given
the vote she will not have 10 plead
and TO waste so much OF her
strength in helping secure legisla
lion which will keep down the cost
seeing that good laws are enacted
and enforced an hat officials VINO
do not carry out the will OF the PEG
pie be removed from Office. She
will be able TO demand this legisla-
tion. She will become a power for
good outside tie home as well as
Within II Women stiff asists -ae-
feated recently IA four eastern
states viii work for the passage Of
a suffrage Amendment 10 the federal
law II e. interesting to know Just
how some Of the suffrage leaders
stand on the question Of pure tood
legislation give here a series OF
personal interviews | had with a
few of these leaders
Nice Duel Miller:
Nowadays food has got into poll
ties has rot into food and 80 women,
tics has got into food and SO women,
IL they are 10 do their old job under
these new conditions. must follow
suit. To hold an opposite view has
lei serious statesmen into ridicl-
lous positions For instance, some
ycars ago. John Burns was nom
Der OF the British cabinet He was
an antisuhiagist and his reason Tor
denying ne vote 20 women was that
political questions In his opinion.
we're no sfair of women a Few
months after this. parliament found
itself discussing the proper feeding
of babies gud Mr. Burns poured ont
NCuds of ciUquence In comparing the
relative value Of humanized and
fortified milk His line of reason
oemed 20 be that as political ques.
tons were no affair of women ana
as the feeding of babies had become
lolitical question. the feeding OF
babies was no affair of women. II
viii be hard 10 persuade women OF
The soundness Of this logic The
connection between legislation and
pure food and between pure 1000
and healthy children is too clear.
Women need the vote. not to take
up new responsibilities. but TO pro
tect their old ones
Mary Garrett Hay, chairman OF the
Woman Suffrage Party OF Greater
New York
There Is a very close connection
between woman suffrage and pure
food Women constitute the home
keeping and cooking sex, and 1t is
their duty to provide wholesome. pal
atable and bodybuilding food for
the members OF their family II the
ingredients they buy In stores and
markets are impure and adulterated
they cannot do this duty properly.
OF course, women can expostulate
81 he ms
against violations OF the pure food
law. But II they have no power TO
remove public officials who do not
see that the food Is properly in
spected. how feeble they are to rem
cdy matters, when women are en-
franchised expect to see them help
very materially the men who are
fighting for better food and stricter
inspection OF food supplies
Harriet 3. Laidlaw. chairman Man
haitian Borough Women Suffrage
party:
The mother and the home.keeper
has In her hands the sacred respon-
sibility OF nuturing the children. pre-
serving their lives and bringine
them mp TO strong manhood and
womanhood When you consider
that the whole future Of any race
or any country. all its institutions
and its business interests depend
upon the next generation. II would
seem that this Is the real big bust
ness OF any country. The welfare
of the child, physically. mentally
and morally. depends upon the nour-
ishment of its young growing body.
The pioneer mother could pick her
food. she could milk her COW. she
could brew and stew and preserve
She had In her hands tho whole
physical welfare of her family. Tue
modern mother must live under an
involved system OF laws that control
he food supply. its price, it's quail
ity and its transportation. Pure foou
laws. food inspection are all vital
matters TO the mother In her big
business. Moreover. they are mat
ters OF law and ordinance. This
alone makes II obvious that the