Omaha daily bee., 1916-10-31

teri And as q rule they make such poor
wives. uaughter.) And are also frequently
In the divorce COURT guess not. Laugh
teri
Some time am going to 60 and make
an investigation of all the divorce cases
where the women use tea and coffee and
where they use beer and wine, and II will
make somebody think.
Did you ever hear of a woman being told
to quit using beer because II made her
Did you ever hear Of. lady being ad.
vised to cut out tea and coffee because II
made her nervous? have.
You good mothers who are here tonight
when the physician came to you. and you
and the little baby were not doing very
well. which did he recommend - Tea or
coffee, or Hostetter's, or malt MURINE?
Think It over. ! am Just trying to get
you to use horse sense; that is all,
That is enough on this question.
thing else to take home. talk over and
think about.
disturbance in rear part of the theater.)
Voices: Keep quiet; keep quiet; put him
out; keep quiet or get out.
The Speaker; Let him alone; he will go
tLaughter.) You will see him get a move
after while. will tell you, my friends,
here Is one thing about It: have attended
a great many ~of these meetings on both
sides OF this question. and heard some OF
the great speakers on both sides Of the
harder for the fellow on the other side
TO take hot shot from US than II Is for us
fellows to take II from them.
The difference is. II we disturb meeting
we are drunk. uaughter) And they
disturb meeting, II is for the fglory Of
God. tLaughter.)
disturbance continues.)
The Speaker: Let him alone. He's all
right.
Look here now. am not talking about the
women of Omaha. i want you TO under
stand that from the start. have got too
much good sense TO discuss ladies' In the
town where ] am talking. (Laughter.)
know the best way TO interest woman
10 TO talk TO her about her neighbors. So
am discussing the women Of Council
GUS city Of which Omaha Is about to be-
come competitor. tLaughter.) Where real
estate Ia lower and lower, and keeps get
ting lower every day.
=. You good ladies' who are here tonight
like many Of yer sex, who have permit
ted yourselves in these last few years 70
be worked up into rort Of by terra, who
have been hypnotized by lurid statements
that have been made to you from the
platform and that have come 10 you through
the press. have come to believe that the
greatest enemy OF your sons Ia the saloon
you belivee 1t. and you spend your days and
your nights In fear and In prayer trying
TO do something to eliminate that institu-
tion.
Now ! want you to keep in good humor
10 you right straight from the shoulder as
you have never been talked to before. We
can all have our good time here, but we
might as well begin to look the truth In
the face. We have been film famming our.
her life Is wrecked
IAYou Uood f1adias ..Lad n. IA -
stated In the letter that was referred to by
our chairman. do you want your son "a
grow up q drunkard, or your daughter "a
marry drunkard. or go into a place where
her life is wreikedf
The thing that ! am about to tell you
came to me few years ago out Of an
audience Just about like this. I was max.
Ing an address, and | referred to crime
against women. but ! did not have the
facts. And after II was over, a gentleman
a. the hotel said to me; Mr.. Mseker. do you
Know what the percentages Of criminal
women are. as related to their oesupa-
toni l said l did not. had never
thought OF It in thst way before.
] began an investigation and when I dis
covered what ] am going to- tell you, was
just as much shocked as you are going 10
be IN the next four minutes.
You have shed many tears over the girl
that goes on the stage to play. You have
shed many tears over the girl that Is forced
into the factory or the department store
or out into. the world to associate with us
men. tLnughter.)
Where are the criminal womenf
J. am not asking you. where Is your wan.
daughter. ~
In the year In which this census was
taken II was gathered from every criminal
who came to that bar for trial and re.
ceived sentence. And these women came
from the following places:
Musicians and music teachers furnished
two.tenths Of ] per cent
The school teachers one-tenth Of 1 Der
cent.
The .tenographers and the typewriters
one-tcnth OF ! per cent.
The bookkeepers and the copyists three.
tenths OF ! per cent
The hotel and boarding house keeperu one.
tenth Of per cent
The laundresses. $40 per cent.
The nurses ana midwives. six-tenths Of l
The artificial flower and paper box work.
ers.. one-tenth Of per cent.
The cigar worker and the tobacco girls
two-tenths Of per cent.
The mill and factory girls. ITO pc,
The millners, two-tenths Of / per cent
Inc telegraph and telephone girls, two.
tenths Of per cent.
Al other occupations. 0 per cent.
And servant girls, 76.6 per cent.
And you thought II was the saloon.
To put II In other words, out on every
100 women who went before the courts
IN this country to accept sentence for some
crime committed. T6.6 per cent Of them goi
breakfast In some woman's kitchen be.
fore they went to Jail.
Think II over. Think II over. And ask
yourselves, 4 you were kitchen girl, and
treated like the kitchen girls that you know
about. would you go 70 hell or not
Now let us just think for a moment. Lei
us be rational
am not going to say where Is your wan.
dering boy tonight.
Where Ia your hired girl right now.
You don't know and you don't care. nm.
less you want to get her to march IN The
dry parade.
Now think minute. The girls that have
been mentioned in these trades or profes.
sions can dress when their work Is done. &c
out on the street. turn In at the front gate
90 up to the front door and 20 In at the
front door; sit In the pArlor, play on the nj
ano. dine with the family and, II she Is pretty
enough, marry one Of the boys; except the
and turn into the front walk and 20 as ia,
as the front steps. the boss In the house
says. you come in through the kitchen door
with the ice man and the coal man, and you
go up the back stairs to the poorest room
In the house. and you will keep your place
Those girls are human.
How do they find their gentlemen com
panionsf Through the motherly interest Of
the woman that employs themi
p,d you ever hear Of servant girls
Did You ever hear Of Young Women,
Christian association reeeptiop to kitchen
That girl loves companionship Just as well
as YOU and she loves men Just as well as