Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1919-10-31
VOCATIONAL AID SUFFRAGE WORKERS
WOMEN FROM THROUGHOUT THE
STATE HEAR MRS. GAIT
SPEAK.

Pioneer Press (30): With a message
OF nope to the new electors OF America
tile women-a frank analysis OIL the
grave prUDlemS awaiting Solution, Mrs.
GARY Chapman Calt, DvAv,eu OIL all SUI
fraye Workers, last night thrilled and
Inspired z,ouU ptlsuns ut the Mlnneapo-
lis auditorium.
Sne ucuvcred a constructive appeal
urging sane evolution as opposed to
obstructive revolution.
Inc address Came as a climax to the
meeting Vt Minnesota women which
has marked the dissolution OF the Min
nesota Women Suffrage Association i.nu
Tue birth VI the MAnnesOtu League OF
" omen voters.
rv14owlg Mrs. Cats address parti-
san pleas were made on benalI u the
LvI.v.1atlc and hepuDhcan parties.
MIS-. feler O1esen OF CIUquet delivered
the message Tor the democracy. Rev.
h. z. bloomquist was sent by the Re-
pubucan national committee, to repse-
sent tnat party.
Inc mass meeting was in the nature
Of a winu-up OF three days OF jolllhcu-
ton. Wn1le there was important w.
to be done-the preparation for active
pa CACA PoLAOA LII GAN eAAAe%AAo Va 6~'SAAA
ment on the part Of women IN Minnie
present tor the victory now IN slghI.
Mrs. Gait pictured the failure OF
American democracy up to the Present
time IN relentless manner. She eX-
posed the wrongs that had been done.
she excoriated the capitalists who OK
plotted labor, the laborer who sought
TO strange industry by strike and The
crooked politician who made farce Of
good government.
'-Amerlcan democracy has failed ut
terly,' Mrs. Gait said. cit required
a " orld war to prove that the United
States has not happy, contentcd pop
ulatlon. Alter the war we learned that
other countries were passing US in CIV
ing liberty and democracy to citizens.
''W hen the war came it found us
i'll prepared. revealing every defect in
civIlizaJlun. Americans were buastCr5.
We had heard that our educational sys-
tenn was the best, we heard our Constr
tuition was the most liberal and vil;4t
there were no autocrats.
Truth Now Realized.
"Now when we have come - real
izc the TRUTH" she continued, awe
don't know what to do. We did know
what to do during the war. We were
all united. Now we are not This IS
Il period of destruction, which drugs the
cost OF living with it through evolu-
ton $ next NAlm.
"How to adjust things again is tie
problem: Of all voters. II there arc any
strings to pull, to untsalgle, that is what
must be donc.'
Mrs. Gait explained that the present
day dcspots were capital 1873 who OK
plotted labor and luborers who sought
to strauglc industry by strike. Both
are dcspots, she pointed JEt.
Raps Citizenship Laws.
Mrs. Gait criticised the naturaliZa<
ton laws, declaring that Foreigners are
hurried into citizenship before they
know how to read ana write. 1t is
made easy, she said, that any one can
qualify for citizenship.
Suggesting a slogan for woman suf
fraglsts, Mrs. Gait directed them to
make our democracy Safe from ,lcspot-
ism by laborcrs, capitalists and politi-
clans.
America today, she declared, appears
to be wabbling through q drunken
spree. What the cause Of the unrest
is she could not say, but expressed an
opinion that something constructive is
happening.
"Thcre is something unknown Behind
all this unrest. It's political demon
stration Of the failure Of 100 years Of
American democracy