Arizona republican., 1916-10-26
ROSE W|NSLOWW JURISPRUDENCE
 |NPLEAFOR W0MAN'S SUFFRAGE

the women of the nation. q look ! back on that long line of women who went before us" she cried, the mar | tyrs of 6S years, women who asked in vain and were insulted and scorned, | who saw the black man freed and the white woman pushed aside, and 1 see the hope in this: we are asking the free women to free their sisters; We are no longer begging as those pa tient leaders were forced so humili- atingly to beg.
 "We have turned our backs at last on the east where we have so long battlcG against the vicious interests, Vuere we have gone down to defeat % times in the last 90 years; we have come to the great west which has em boiled in so much of it's legislation the great principles of freedom, and asking the cooperation of our sisters"
 This girl who grew up as a child . in the mills of the eastern industrial Centcrs, made a passionate appeal for .he women who mint their own lives into dollars they may never spend in the crushing factories of cities like | Philadelphia and Pittsburg. She told a touching story of the unjust dts crimiration suffered against the is- norant and foreign born women
 
 | a president. unable to escape from the gray prison of their lives.
 | With wages lowered because they were foreigners unable to bargain, 1 victims of cruel bonus system, she | described women victims. supporting l families on wages unheard of in the | west 'The thing that IS so hdeously unjust she said, fin country that claims it does not believe in class, is I just the fact that the employer can use his money and his influence to lobby against the women of labor. | and keep Us from even a hearing. 1 Often We Voteless women, making our fights for shorter hours or minimum wages are not even allowed a hear ing. When | appeared before the leg islature committee O. labor and in- dustry in my own state. the protest ' ing chairman who did not want my appeal tc be heard said: What righ. has this woman in this legislature?' ?' Yet I. yet all of Us had a right ac- cording to him. to working unbear able hours under unbearable condit- ions in the mills of that state
 If you men of the west could only realize that in the east no matter what happens to the oppressed men of labor there, there are things that can
 
 hungry and cold on the picket line they do not hear the whisper of the white shaver tempting them with meals and warmth and comfort. There T is always a price on a woman. The fact that we accept these hideous facts. that we let such conditions exist without raising our voices in rrotest in unbelievable. Yes. We freed the beck man in the soutf-but what are We doing to free these exploited wretched children? President Wilson just tells us to wait little while and talks about moons and tides. We have waited for more than fifty years"
 Earlv in the evening a ranid fire of questions was levelled at the young sneaker. She made dramatic pie ture standing alert on tho edge of the stage gesticulating vividly. acospt- ing the challenge of all corners and 1 arCusing many a laugh. Tfe unfor- tunate Senator Ashurst once more had his record in the senate barred. when his bringing suffrage to a premature vote thus breaking his promise ;r the suffragists. was told by tho speak. or. A local pewepaper which had lCOvertlv attacked Miss WinsloW taunt inc her with ''ingratitude' because. :: ftliG HiOfef IT lHe fnlliS ntFSell ''flff' she did not endorse the president ! tecause of his child labo~ bill. alsC came in for tarring 'It is mor' inDortant 10 conserve tho mothers oi the race to give them the power tf protect themselves and their children, she said. "than to pass a compromis' child labor bill" She went on ( show that womer had worked fo child labor lngielati0n for tweut' vears-to be handed measure af feCtinp but 150.000 children. Governe. Inv inter state commerce regulation which failed to touch the child slaver' ! of the Fulf states and manX section 1 cf tho cost. She po'ntnd ont thnt in
 r-nsidrnt had not excited himself o1'n tia vear-old child labor bill until in death of tho progressive party md9 | progressive" measures expedient fO car7paien purposes.
 Nrs Fredericly 4. Stafford in
 chairman read Mrs. Roissevain's fina
 dramatic appeal to the women Of th ] west 10 warm applause during tn early rart of the evening.
 On the stage at this remarkabi