Pine Bluff daily graphic. (Pine Bluff, Ark.) 1893-1942, 1919-09-14
|OMEN, As VOTERS,
LRE ALL DRESSED up
|N|TH NO PLACE TO GO
Ia If Woman's Party is En-
uhasized by Harriet
Upton.

lRv Harriet Taylor UptOn)
ho wonoen of the United States
y, IN the eve of political enfran-
o M The national amendment
nndoubtedly be ratified by &c
es before the election Of 1920.
NV that women are ready the
s Wv is. where will they go?
y war; are not partisan. They have no
Heal inheritance. They have con-
red themselves republicans or
pocrats because their fathers or
bands are, but distinctly not from
love of the party itself. Where
they go?
he new women voters are shocked
he high cost of living; they know
L the trouble is. They know that
men at the head Of the great
It's are grinding the people. Every
knows that, even the children
it. The Sherman antitrust
was enacted to prevent combina-
but it was only enforced on
milk dealers and other helpless
bps Why is this? Because men
are ordinarily brave are not po-
Eally brave. The powerful cor
btions contribute vast sums to the
suries of the political parties. No
tician has the courage to jeopar-
his political party and so he
Is to Investigate" and "investi-
/" and that is the end of it.
New Party Need.
omen care for their families.
N know that it is not right for
father to toll INCREASINGLY while
family barely subsists. Women
saying: eff the political parties
how constituted can not be divorc-
from beef and steel without dying,
! let them die" Let US get a new
~, one that is not afraid.
Phen men open their state cam
kns they have bands and fire
KS and sometimes little lady
ing from a balloon with a para
ke-to enthuse the voters. The
voters demand, not bands and
works but lower prices, and the
teal party which realizes this will
the successful party of the near
|hre.
galn, women are unalterably OPP
I'd to war. They said little about
1917 because they were power
and because, in this great land
pberty, not only was the press CEN
% and the lips Of men sealed, but
pie were chloroformed lest they
uld think. Women were silent OBJ
E0rs' They could not help them
les; they sent their sons and
|yed and hoped. They were prom
a league of nations, no more
F. no more massacre and slaugh-
They were promised a world
Tor democracy, safe for the peo-
Tor poor people, for women, for
! No Tears Wanted.
(nen the proposed covenant for the
que OF nations appeared without
rmament-just the same old al
ICES which have been coming up
Ey lew hundred years. But per
! there is something there. YOU
Esest' which the women can't see.
IL u great statesman will surely
IT, IT, IL out, you argue; it must be
~. No, it is not there, for the
Fe1ary OF war recommends. uni
Ell military training, a large
rum" my army. continued conscrip-
h, ana all the other things which
| Eae N, women had no power thew
= ae ualy weep. but this is now a day
/ a1I s not for tears. The poll
n ieaaers say that no political
y :. can !, live which does not accent
h Su-called league of nations along
I .s universal training and a stand,
ai army and side treaties. Well. let
an and new 9s woman voter is all dressed
44 ~. no where to go. The question
. - anyone wise enough to pre-
4 d place for her?"