The daily morning oasis., 1919-10-02
WOMEN VOTERS
ALL DRESSED UP.
AND NOPLACETOCO|

.ThewOmen of the United States are
on the eve of political enfranchise-
ment. The National Amendment will
undoubtedly be ratified by Sc states
before the election of 1920.
Now that women are ready the
question is, whe.e will they go?
They are not partisan. Ttey have
no political inheritance. They have
considered themselves Republican or
Democratcs because their fathers or
husbands are, but distinctly NOT
from any love of the party itself.
Where will :hey go?
Tie new women voters are shocked
at the High Cost of Living; they
know what the trouble is. They
know that the men at the head OF the
great trusts are grinding the people.
Everybody knows that, even the
children know it. Tie Sherman anti
rust law was enacted to prevent COM
birction, bl.t it was only enforced on
local milk dealers and other helpless
groups. Why is this? Because men
wko are ordi;arily brave ere not
politically brave. The powerful cor
porations contribute vast sums to the
treasures of the political parties.
No politician has the courage to
jeopardize his political party and so
he votes to Investigate" and "invest-
gate" and that is the end Of it.
Women care for their families.
They know that il is not right for
the father to toll increasingly while
the family barely subsists. Women
are sayin: eff the political parties as
now constituted can not be divorced
from beef and sell without dying,
then let them die" Let us get a new
party, one that is not afraid.
When mes open their state cam
paigns they have basds asd fireworks
and sometimes a little lady falling
from balloon with parachute to
entLuse the voters. The new voters
demand, not bands and fireworks but
lower prices, and the political party
which realizes this will be the sue
cessful party of the near future.
Again, women are unalterably op-
posed to war. They said little about
it in 1917 because they were powerless
and because, in this great land OF
liberty, not only was the press censor
ed and the lips of men sealed, but
people were chlorformed lest they
should think. Women were silent
observers. They could not help them
selves; they sent their sons and
prayed and hoped. They were prom
ised League of Nations, no more
wars, no more massacre and slaught-
err They were promised a world
safe for democracy, safe for the
people, for poor people, for women,
or children.
Then the proposed covenant or the
League of Nations appeared without
just the same old
alliances which have been coming up
every few hundred years. But per-
haps there is something there,you sug
gest, which the women can't see.
Some great stateman will surely
point it out, you argue; it must be
there. No, it isnot there, for the
Secretary of War recommends univer-
sal military training, a large stand
ing army, continued tonscription and
all the other things which make for
war.
When women had no power they
could only weep, but this is now day
for action, not for tears. The polite
al leaders say that no political party
can live which does not accept this
so-called League of Nations along
with universal training and stand
ing army and side treaties. Well let
it die.
Why is the present political party
in power? Because he kept us out
of war;
The new women voter is all dressed
up and no where to go. The quest
ion is: sIs anyone wise enough to pre-
pare a place for herr"