Evening journal., 1915-03-06

would do the bidding of the interests.
So Hy Gill was reelected and immed-
lately appointed man as chief of
police as | have previously stated,
by the Ministerial Association and
has really reformed.
In his testimony before the Indus
trial Relations Commission recently
Hy Gill said that woman suffrage
had worked well in Washington and
that he owed his recall to the women.
have a letter signed by ]. B. Nelson,
who is head Of the Associated Press
in Seattle, in which he says: Seattle
was, in the summer of 1910. the wick
edest town in the United States The
women changed all that in a year.
Seattle is now one of the best-gov-
erned cities in the United States" A
man l talked with in Seattle told me
the only thing he had against women
voting was the fact that they recalled
mayor whom the men had elected
He thought it should have been left
to the men TO do that.
Another thing that these opponents
of suffrage keep saying is that Civ
ing the women the ballot has nothing
tc do with raising their wages. II
that is so, how is 1t that in Wash
ington It was a woman in the Legis-
lature who introduced the minimum
wage for women bill in the Legisla-
ture and worked for its passage. Wo-
men do not get starvation wages in
their stores and offices like they do
in many of our Eastern States. The
minimum for a waitress and a laun-
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that with their wages in our Eastern
States. II all depends upon whom
one Is speaking TO whether they think
suffrage has been a success. If you
talk to the people who profit by vice
they will say il has been a failure
If you talk to the man who employs
women, and he has had to raise their
wages on account of the Minimum
Wage Law, he, too. will say il has
been a failure. But ask the average
citizen and he has a different tale 10
tell.
When / was in Washington, / was
told the women who had been active
antis we're the ones who we're seek
ing office now. 1t is rather peculiar
that we cannot find any men who are
willHg to admit they voted against
the woman suffrage amendment there
They are ashamed TO admit they were
such back numbers. It will be the
same in the Eastern States. When
we get It the reactionaries who arc
opposing 1t in the East will immedi.
ately jump on the band wagon and
be shouting that they always believed
in II.
It reminds one Of Carter Harrison
Of Chicago. People are wondering
why the women defeated the reform
or, as he is known. He became Z
suffragist and a reformer when the
women got the vote. Before that h'
made no effort to solve either tn,
garbage disposal or the red light dis
, trict problems. He was not willing
TO appoint policewomen to look af
ter the morals of young girls in th'
, Chicago dance halls until the suffra
gists forced the issue upon him.
} has been a matter of political expedi
ency with him to espOuse suffrage
= The first chance the women got {,
J, register their protest against him
= they did il.
, Most of the laws for the bettermen
!, of women and children that we worl
for in the East are merely patterne
after the laws in suffrage States
= As a last word l must say tina
j the Western men are very courteou
8 and kind. raise their hats to women
y give up their seats in street cars I
S them. and there is likewise a bon
d of comradeship which exists betwee
o men and women. They have a com
mon interest. striving to make thei
- States better places in which to live
both for men and women.
My letter is rather long but coul
not let this unfair and entirely mis-
r leading article go without replying
; am speaking from actual invest
r cation not hearsay.
o. Very truly yours,
ANNA McCUE.