The Washington herald., 1917-12-07
Ladies Need Not worry.


omission Of a woman suffrage indorse
ment from the Presidential messag,
need not worry. The subject MAY
have belonged in the message-and q
may not. Friends of suffrage are
divided over this phase of the propo.
sition.
As a matter of fact. IL the ladie.
will note carefully, there was nothing
in the message which could cause q
great division among people Of thi.
country.
Had suffrage been injected. II
would have brought a thought into
the message at variance with the OBJ
ject sought-it would have developed
differences which are real. and moi
fancied. in this country. and which
SAVIOR. after all. Of politics.
II the ladies will have patience they
will see the discretion used by the
President. They know he is with
them, and so does the country al
large. Why don't they let II go al
that-Congress was asking itself yes
terday-and forget about this doubt
full dereliction OF duty to which they
refer?
The impression Is at the Capito,
that in good time and ample, the
right to vote will be given women
of the entire nation. on every office
from dog-catcher to President. But
the women can make a serious defec-
ton in the country now over their
indiscreet treatment of the President
who is their friend-and they can
stave the day of the ultimate tri-
umph off to some time more distant
in the future. 1t is up to them to use
the best of Judgment in everything.
Members in Congress who are with
them body and soul can very easily
be led to frown upon their actions,
and. at least, to defer the day Of vic
tory.
IL the number OF women who COM
plain Is small and their activities con-
fined to narrow zones there may be
no harm done. But the time is ripe
for the discreet ladies to speak out.
and to endeavor to restrain their more
loCslacious and more obdurate asso-
ciates in the cause.
In Room 1se.
Little sunlight drifts into Room l3s
at the Senate Office building these dull
December days. And less Of 1t will
drift in as the month wears on.
But the man who inhabits that room
has "a soul full Of sunlight. He is
happy and gay in spirit. though he is
lot at all carefree. The man is Sem
ator Borah of Idaho. and he is so radi-
int with joy because the very fight
which he made to incorporate certain
In the food control bill (no
,un. there. gentle reader) several
months ago is now recognized by the
White House as the necessary fight
or the great agricultural districts of
'ur country.
Senator Borah insisted that timber
md its products and cotton and its
and wool and its products and
copper and steel and their products
hould be subject to governmental reg
llation. subject to Presidential dicta-
Ion, Of course. His measure lost out
although given a committee prefer
nent at the time-for two curious rea-
ons.
One reason was that men who should
ave voted for It were anxious to get
My food and fuel situations taken
are Of, and were not alert to what
Possibilities lay in this direction. TheI
ther was that other men who were |
Killing to vote for It suspicioned that |
1t became loaded down with addi- |
Ional products enough opposition from
he steel and cotton interests could be |
mustered to actually defeat the bill.
hey, therefore. also opposed It.
Now the President has made Il very. |
cry plain In his message that farmers |
the country must not be expected to
ear great deal Of the burdens Of the
ar and at the same time be the
My class whose products are sub
,cted to price-fixing. II the farmers
the country have to sell their /
heat on a restricted market. they
Mould be entitled to buy farm i'm
lements on a market subjected to
he same processes of pride-ixing.
hat was exactly what Senator Bo-
III argued all along, and this po-
ton found favor, naturally, at the
ands Of other Western members Of
n Senate who saw through the
tion.
Nhsfor 1orah Nm not n corn-