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 hope to the new electors OF America
the WOmen-a frank analysis OF the
grave prODlems aMaAC4Lg Solution, Mrs.
Gary Chapman Gait, DcAoveu OIL all SUI
Efrage Workers, last night thrilled and
Inspired z,oUU Persons at the Mlnneap0-
lis auditorium.
Sne uenVered a constructive appeal
urging sane evolution as opposed to
es.rucIlve revolution.
Inc address came aS a climax to- the
meeting of Minnesota women which
mas marked the dissolution OF the Min
nesota Women Suffrage assoclat4ou uuu
Tue U4rJn OF the M4nuesota League OF
women Voters.
rv4lowng Mrs. Catt's address parti-
san pleas were made on behan o. tue
UvA4v.ratic ana Republican parties.
MIS-. feler OIesen or CIOquet delivered
the message Tor the democracy. Kew.
Il. Y. Bloomquist was sent by the Re-
pubI1can nal4onal committee, to rep.e-
sent tnat party.
The mass meeting was in the nature
Of winuup or three days OF jOllltlca-
ton. Whlle there was important W.,
to be done-the preparation for active
pdA JAIL pdtAOA LII tAV aAoAAo VI 6VVVAA
ment on the part OF women IN MINNIE
so.a-lnere was a spirit Of joyousness
present tor the victory now IN slgnI.
MRS. Gait pictured the failure of
American democracy up to the present
time IN a relentless manner. she ex-
posed the wrongs that had been done.
she excoriated the capitalists who ex-
plotted labor, the laborer who sought
TO strange industry by strike and The
crooked politician who made farce of
good government:
American democracy has failed ut
terly,' Mrs. Gait said. ''lt required
a world war to prove that the United
States has not happy, contentcd pop
u1atlon Alter the war we learned that
other countries were passing us in Civ
ing liberty and democracy to citizens.
'When the war came it found us
i'll prepared. revealing every defect in
civllizaIlon. Americans were boastcrs.
we had heard that our educational sys-
TEN was the best, we heard our Constr
tuition was the most liberal and vhat
there were no autOcrats.
Truth Now Realized.
"Now when we have come - real
ize the TRUTH she continued, awe
dom It know what to do. We did know
what to do during the war. We were
all united. Now we are not. This IS
period Of destruction, which drags the
cost of living with it through evolu-
ton IS next Whim.
elbow to adjust things again is tie
problem of all voters. Ii there arc amy
strings to pull, to untfashs gle, that is what
must be done.' "F
Mis-. Gait explained that the present
day despots were capitalists who ex-
plotted labor and laborers who sought
to strangle industry by strike. Both
are despots, she pointed Jut.
Raps Citizenship Laws.
Mrs. Gait criticised the naturaliZaI
tion laws, declaring that foreigners are
hurried into citizenship before they
know how to read ano write. 1t is
made easy, she said, that any one can
qualify for citizenship.
Suggesting a slogan for woman suf-
fragists, Mrs. Gait directed them to
make our democracy safe from icspot-
ism by laborers, 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.
"There is something unknown behind
all this unrest. It's a political demon
stration Of the failure Of 100 years Of