The Washington herald., 1918-01-20
| MAKES PLEA FOR MOTHERS.
Mrs. G. J. Whitten Says Suffrage
Can Save Homes.

Editor Washington Herald: Il have
Just read your Hiding Behind the
War Tax and I would like to spiel
a little on that elusive phase OF man
made exploitation; notice what you
say, when the Investigations are
made the results will be published.
and I am asking you what good Will
that do the over-worked and unpaid
mothers? All the untaxed. and gov
ernment property, is maintained by
the taxes on the workers make-shift
homes, and the unpaid mothers, and
their half-fed children work hard.
long hours. and 20 without the neces-
stiles of life and progress to pay the
blackmailer's tribute. No man will go
without his jug of booze. or his plug
of tobacco to do it: and no promised
Federal investigation will ever change
It. The victims themselves will
change it by placing. with their bal
lots, all the power of service to the
people in the hands of those who
value human life more than they
do private property.
You can chase this wicked weasel of
economic unbalancement into every
nation on earth. and you will find in
lne last IL an anu ~
lies, writhes and wriggles, wrangles
and wrestles, RACES and rests on the
impair labor of women and children.
who pay all bills that are paid, and
support numberless hordes of pamper-
ed parasites and corrupt government
officials whose only effort is to draw
their exorbitant unearned salaries,
plan wholesale murder. prove vam-
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in labor's face. Mans inhumanity to
man, makes countless thousands
mourn but his inhumanity to moth
ers, and women who want to be
mothers, and women who will be
mothers, makes this whole earth one
damned. deceitful. seething. signing.
sobbing, sorrowing. shining, simmer
ing, shameless shamming. suffering.
shuddering, sulphuros, smothering
He'll.
And I rejoice. and be exceeding
glad to see all man-made govern
ment blown through the cannon's
mouth, and its main screed, militar-
ism. suiciding. by Sitting its own
veins: a few more turns of time S
whirling wheel, and the voting fail
ures will be ground fine enough for
powder for the fire-brand brigade.
Then you will see a chapter written
in the worlds history that will make
this old world carnage look like 5
cents in cat meat, and the white hot
fires of black chaos will have to
burn full blast many a long day and
night before the stony hard hearts
of the proud parasites will be fit to
pulverize and mix with the tears and
sweat and blood of the unpaid toiler,
poured out without stint to build the
temple not made with hands, which
shall be for the shelter and protec-
ton of all nations, prophesied from
the foundation of the world.
There is no faith nor freedom for
fools and friends and knaves who
hold all women subjects and all the
mothers slaves. If, in each genera
tion. the sexes could change at birth.
behold the reformation to make a
heaven of earth; If wisdom works
and love is god. why is mans work
all bathed in blood? He dominates
the mother mate, and she rebels and
breeds in hate, this product of de-
generate lust, is bred and born for
bayonet thrust. If seven-eights. as
doctors say. of every human born.
belong to their maternity then laugh