The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1916-04-21

Miss Margaret Foley OF Boston,
who is making a tour of the south
under the auspices of The Woman's
Journal of Boston, arrived in the city
yesterday afternoon, and spoke last
night at Milton. Miss Foley will
speak this evening at Ferry Pass,
and in Pensacola on Saturday after
noon and evening-in the afternoon
at the city plaza, and in the evening
at the city hall.
Miss Foley is young woman of
remarkable personality and COM
handing presence, and is one of the
few suffragists in the United States
who has ever spoken particularly to
the baseball fans of the country. Last
summer during the campaign in the
east Miss Foley spoke to hundreds Of
baseball enthusiasts, and invariably
met with a courteous reception and
held their attention and interest, even
in cases where they did not agree
with her.
Miss Foley, in speaking of the suf-
frage situation in the United States
yesterday, said:
American men are the best men in
world and if it were possible for any
men to represent women through
kindness and goodwill toward them
AmerieGn men would do it. But a
man is by nature too different from
woman to be able to represent her.
Whatever his good will, he cannot
fully put himself in a woman's place
and look at things exactly from her
point of view. To say this is no more
of reflection upon his mental OF
moral ability than it would be re
Election upon his musical ability to
say that he could not sing both so
prano and bass. Unless men and
women should ever become just alike
which would be regrettable, and, ]
fear, monotonors, women must either
go unrepresented or represent them
selves.
"It is not the men alone who have
built up this great republic. All wo-
men pay taxes directly or indirectly
Eight million women are engaged il
the industry of our nation. Laws arr
made regulating and controlling theil
lives and yet their point Of view is
not considered.
"Does the laboring man need the
ballot? There can hardly be two an
swers to this question. But what rea
son can be given for the ballot in tn,
hands of the laboring woman? Tn,
underpaid woman is a menace to th'
ranks of labor as a whole. Whereve,
a woman can be found who will un
dertake piece of work for less thar
living wage, not she alone suffers
but the whole industrial army witt
her. But why should woman b,
willing to undertake piece of worl
for scanty wages Because the mar
ket is flooded with women and girl
who ought to be living in the com
fort of their own homes; who ough
to be doing Homework, mending, car
ing for the children and cooking thei
family's food, but who are neverthe
less forced out to compete with som
/
Where unframed labor can be mad
to serve an end, unframed labor wi
be employed.
Zone by one woman's duties hav
: been taken away from her and place
in the charge of city or state officials
appointed by the mayor or governor
who are elected by the votes of mel
Eve department of a wol m
household is regulated or controlle
by officials more or less involved j
politics. To procure pure milk fo
3 babies, pure drinking water, mes
! from pon-tuberculous cattle, nor
poisonous canned goods, the house
! keeper must depend upon the eficier
cy and incorruptibility of the variou
commissioners. She also depend
upon the fire, police and street clear
ing departments to protect her hom
"The old-fashioned housewife
d tasks are no longer pursued in tt
r home, even the clothing is purchase
e ready-made. Country doctors testi1
: to the outbreak of scarlet fever in n
: mote neighborhoods each autumn af
n er the children have begun to wes
e the coats and cloaks which have bee
j; sent from infected city sweatshop
It The sanitary regulation of sweatshol
g by city officials is all that can be d
: pended upon to prevent such needles
s destruction. And are not women col
S cerned in the enactment and enforc
d ment of such regulations if the
: would preserve their homes?
n Whereas, formerly, women's int
ests centered in her home, they mu
now embrace the public schools, Il
public hospitals, the public parks al