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


Tor pure food with the weapons In
her power--ln her organizations, In
the press, in personally insisting
upon clean foods, sold In clean shops
by clean clerks This has taken
her many fong years. during which
she has been the unwavering, deter
mined force which has helped 10
put her city, s'/te and national pure
food laws upon the statutes. Given
the vote she will not have to plead
and TO waste so much or her
strength in helping secure legisla
ion which will keep down the cost
uf household necessities nor in
seeing that good laws are enacted
and enforced an that officials VINO
do not carry out the will OF the peo-
ole be removed from office. She
viii be able TO demand this legisia-
sion. She will become a power tot
good outside the home As well as
within H. Women suffiagists de
feated recently in four eastern
states. Will work for the passage OF
a Suffrage Amendment TO the federal
law. II n interesting 10 know Just
how some OF the suffrage leaders
stand on the question OF pure food
legislation give here series OF
personal interviews ! had with
few Of these leaders:
Mice Due Miller.
Nowadays food has got into poll
tics has got into food and so women,
Tics has got into food and SO women,
il they are TO do their old job under
these new conditions. must follow
suit. To hold an opposite view has
lei. serious statesmen into ridicu'
lous positions. For instance, some
Years aso. John Burns was a mem
Der Of the British cabinet He was
an antisuGiagist and his reason TOT
denying :he vote 10 women was that
political questions. in his opinion.
we're no tfair OF women. few
months after this, parliament tound
itself discussing the proper feeding
oil babies and Mr. Burns poured out
acods Of cioquence In comparing the
relative value OF humanized ana
.;crilized milk His line OF reason
.cemed 10 be that as political ques-
lions we're no affair OF women and
As the feeding OF babies had become
Lolitical question, the feeding oil
babies was no affair OF women. II
will be hard to persuade women or
the soundncss OF this logic, The
connection between legislation and
pure food and between pure food
and healthy children is too clear.
Women need the vote, not TO take
M 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 II 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.
or course, women can expostulate
through their clubs or Individually
against violations OF the pure food
law. But II they have no power 10
remove public officials who % not
see that the food Is properly In
spected, how feeble they are to rem
edy matters. When women are on
franchised I expect to see them help
very materially the men who are
fighting for better food and stricter
inspection of food supplies"
Harriet B. 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 bringing
them UP to strong manhood and
womanhood. when you consider
that the whole future OF any race
or any country. all its institutions
and it's business interests depend
upon the next generation. 1t 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 It's 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 the whole
physical welfare of her family. The
modern mother must live under an
involved system Of laws that control
The food supply. its price, it's quail
ity and It's transportation Pure food
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 IL obvious that the