The farmer and mechanic., 1915-03-09

Il
!ne parks are not excelled anywhere |
IN the world
Washington Press Comes Ont Frank.
Iy For Suffrage.
Nothing shows the trend of the
tlrnes and the change in the status of
the woman movement more clearly
tnan the amount Of space given by
the press Of the capital to the Dues
uon OF the enfranc hise1nent OF wo-
ment. Every paper in Washington
GevoteS space almost daily to the
ever increasing activities o. the suf-
fragists. ''Since women have been
forced by the blunders OF our civili-
Zatlon into the open warfare Of the
world, is 1t right to refuse them the
protection of the ballot?' asks a
leading Washington editor pertinent
ly. The time for mid-Victorian
whining that 'Woman's place is the
home is past although there is still
a remarkable type of man and even
more remarkable type of woman who
| is willing to abandon the home and
go around the country making
speeches to prove it, he adds, with
biting satire. Later on the fact is
emphasized that the thousands and
| thousands of girls and women work
ing eight and ten hours a day in
every one of our great cities have not
| OF choice left their homes to rush
with cheers of triumph into sweat
shops to make $3.50 a week Do YOU
| think that your Stenographer or the
girl who sells you your necktieS is
lying awake nights to thwart the ef-
fort of persons who are trying to
make her the head of a horne?" No
words We're ever truer or more to
the point, and the fact that these NO-
men would gladly stay at home il
they were able to do so can not be
controverted, and it is also eyiden,
that these women need the ballot
even ii the well-dressed, ~ell-fed
ladies of leisure say otherwise. Theil
contention is on a par with the as
sertion recently published that shOI
girls can live on six dollars week
No doubt they can live, ii such an ex
istence can be called living, but the
advocates of the joyous existence OF
six dollars week are fortunately
for themselves not obliged to restric
, their own expenses to any sucl
. meager stipend.
Mayor Carter III. Harrison Taught :
81 Lesson.
: Early in the career of Mayor Har
riSOn, at a time when there was no
= sufficient money to pay the bills 0
the city OF Chicago, says Mrs. An
! toinette Funk, one Of the four wO
: men who conducted the successful
s lobby in the Illinois Legislature 70
s woman suffrage. the pay of police
4 men, firemen and school teacher
= was withheld. The teachers, heade
e by Margaret Haley, had an investi
;. CATION made and finally secured
: mandate from the United States Su
: preme Court assessing certain cor
:. poratiOnS a million dollars in unpai
n back taxes. Mrs. FunkN explains tha
e Mayor Harrison congratulated tn
if policemen and firemen to whom
j. at once sent vouchers for tLeir pa,
q but deliDately left out the women b
q whose efforts the money due the cit
% had been secured. He even went |
j. the length of ordering that the ba
IF ance of the money be paid into ''tt
IF building department of his persona
n ly appointed board Of education
70 Then it was that Margaret Hale
J. again started legal proceedings
"A right the abominable wrong done tt
j. teachers, and finally succeeded in el
,e joining Mr.. Harrison from using tn
ol money for any purpose until Il
u teachers had been paid. "From th
st hour, Carter Harrison was Inark'
Nv by the women OF Chicago for defeat
;s declares Mrs. Funk. The mills of Il
in gods grind slowly, but they grind e
IN tceeding small" The women OF II
nj nois have exemplified two things
ar their recent vote The first is, tn
he they do vote if they can; and t
e. second is, that they can not be C
nm joled into forgetting the unjust aC
of those who by a notrriouus polite
n. combination conspired TO depri
: worthy women Of the fruits of th'
a labOrS.
JAT. FOR SPANKING RIG GIRJ