Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-31

i is there in time to get breakfast, and don't
steal the silverware. uaughter.j
Now. my~good lady friends. want to say
something to you. in all seriousness.
You good women, yes, you admit the
truth Of what l have just said. but you
didn't know II.
Did you ever see woman working her
fingernails off to train her daughter TO go
into some other woman's kitchen1 Laugh
teri never did.
know of plenty of mothers who are GO
ing without the clothes that they should
have to put their daughters through school,
to study bookkeeping or stenography. to
put her In some mans office at "a week,
when as a girl in a kitchen she could get
SIS and room and board.
And why 10 that?
Because you don't want your daughter
treated as you treat the other woman's-
daughter tApplause.D
And until, you, reduce that percentage.
until you bring that percentage down to at
around any more looking for the wandering
boy. daughter and applause.)
Just through the kitchen door; Just ex-
actly 81 inches. between the dining room
and the kitchen, Is the social line drawn be-
tween women.
They send rs per cent Of them into Jail
and into prison, and you think you would
save her by marching in dry parade.
Now. any time 1t gets too hot you are
at perfect liberty to go. tLaughter.)
teri
me. ! am concerned in telling you the plain.
blunt truth, and see II i can't get you to
recover from this fit you have been having.
You go home tonight
| However, ! am not talking to the women
Of Omaha. but Council Bluffs.
Let the American housewife go home to-
night and apologize to her hired girl be-
cause she has treated her like a dog. and
open to her the hand of womanly comrade..
ship and companionship. and the heart OF
that poor girl will burst with Joy that
she has found friend of her sex. under the
roof where she is.
SOUND GOVERNMENT AND SOUND
| BUSINESS, -
Ladies' and gentlemen, have been making
In your state and in the state Of Michigan
a study Of the popular mind. so far as gov
eminent is concerned.
A few years ago there came great cry
ing demand that we should have government
by the people.
Certain individuals. who are well known
In this state, were leaders in that movement.
What was called the initiative and referen-
the different states.
The people said to themselves that the
legislators were either too lazy or too ig-
norant, or too crooked, to pass laws that
were right: SO they said, we will take It
and do 1t ourselves.
They got the initiative and referendum
As have gone about this state and in
Michigan have carried with me this pro-
posed amendment and the amendment which
they had In Michigan. and have asked that
those present who have read 1t would hold
up their hands.
| I have not found an audience yet where
3 per cent had read 1t.
How many have read II here1
And yet you say you know something
about government.
want to say to you that. to my mind.
one Of the serious things in this so-called
popular government Is the indifference Of
people to their government tApplause.)
Why. you are tonight, some Of you. say
ing you would like to take hold Of that
speaker and choke him. because he Is talk
ing against your family. and you don't
know yourself what you are excited about.
Think Of II. Less than 8 per cent Of
the men and women Of this state have read
that amendment; and still they, some Of
them. have gone into hysterieal fit in
Now am for anything that is genuine. l
believe In honest money as against coun-
terfeit. believe In honest men as against
counterfeits. And ! believe in honest pro-
hibition instead of counterfeit.
II you are going to have prohibition. have
| prohibition.
How does an honest prohibitionist ex-
pect TO advance his cause by voting for
fraudi
That is the thing that sticks me and
absolutely makes me wonder when And
that the preachers are for this thing. tAp-
plause.)
Ana that Is ~ Just ss.stl, why sent The
platform and tell II to the people.
There 10 no reason why thinking men, who
are equally interested in the moral welfare Of
The, community and the state. should be
divided on that thing.
II you want real prohibition. why did
you adopt a fraud7
And II yoy-don't want prohibition. why
don't you keep resulationf Why do you
a word and talking about the semblance
rather than the substancel
You are getting ready to pass q law
which. when It goes into the courts OF
Nebraska. II i becomes a part Of the or
TIE the hands Of every honest prohibit
ZIONIST. who ever would hope to see day.
light In Nebraska. tApplauseD
Why should not man be honest enough.
Is q friend TO his own cause. to down
But instead Of that lot Of these gentle
men-and ! am not unwilling to suggest
that that language was written that way
got sense enough to read English would
know that that language would not pro-
hibit anybody from getting liquor
; But here you are. swept away with o
hysteria about word; two words; one is
prohibition and the other Is dry
4 i do not diferentiate between the men
who think In straight lines and those who
never think. You make your differentiation
MS to whether the fellow stood for that
language or not. and you have not read H.
defy any man in this audience or In this
state Of Nebraska to read that proposed
constitutional amendment as published and
say that he believes. as God Is his judge,
that there will be one pint less Of liquor
used in Nebraska when that becomes 4 law
than there Ia now.
demand that he shall state why he be.
lievcs Il.
This, thing of simply eavortins around
somewhere, in sequestered spot and throw
ing brickbats and mud at men who do not
agree with you. when you have no reason
to back It up, Is thing OF the past with
me. It don't matter II the man has REV.
In front Of hts name or two DIS back of II.
It does not make any difference when Il
comes to question of the sound sense of
the proposed law.
This Is not matter OF waving the Amer
lean eagle In your faces and working up
cry over something that you never saw
In your life. That is past
Never you let any other man, be you
m or woman; never let him put II across
on you again that the saloon Is to blame
for the the wreck Of most Of our girls.
Chat out
How does L come that W. c. T. U. folks
never quote Frances Willard any more7 She
was their president for forty years. Or
Ranized. started the movement. But you
never see Frances Willard In the literature,
you never see her picture in the prohibition
dry parade.
] will tell you why:
Because Francis Willard at the end Of
that forty years. stood up before the world,
and she said. l was mistaken. am now
an old woman. said she. but II had my
,fe to 1--we over. would not give II to fight
liquor, for | have discovered that men are
not poor because they drink, but THAT
THEY DRINK BECAUSE THEY ARE
POOR, (Applause.l
That declaration Of Frances L. Willard at
the close Of her great career shut her
out Of the dry literature.
But she stands in the Hall Of Fame at
Washington. the only American woman who
Is there.