Great Falls daily tribune., 1920-06-07
Mrs. John S. Crosby, Del
egate to Democratic
Convention, Optimistic
Regarding the Future.
Politics and Religion On
ly Two Things Worth
While She Says; Sees
Woman as President.

New York, June 6.-The mil
lions of American women who
expect their political status to
be changed by federal amend
ment to citizenship next No
vember are going to become power
for good in the nation. according to
Mrs. John Sherwin Crosby. a delegate
to the Democratic national convention
in San Francisco. A woman president
of the United States, she says. is re
mote but not impossible, say, in 1914
The only two things worth while at
present. said Mrs. Crosby, "are politics
and religion. We all should study both:
how to improve our government and
make better men and women When l
speak of religion | don't mean any. par
ticuar creed but the religion of the
gospels, the Ten Commandments and
the Sermon on the Mount. The world
is money mad. Religion alone will free
it from it's selfishness and unrest.
Want a Strong Man.
Mrs Crosby, who has been called
''the mother of New York women
Democrats. white haired. dignified
matron of more than three score years
she is the widow of judge-declared
the 300 or more women delegates would
go to the convention with the determlna-
tion TO nominate strong man and put
through constructive program.
at will be the greatest convention
ever held she said. because women
for the first time will have a voice in it.
expect to see bitter fight, particularly
over the question of majority or unit
rule | can, of course, only speak for
myself and what the women may do
when they enter the convention Will
depend largely upon the action they take
in the preliminary caucuSes. l believe an
effort will be made to put plank IN
the platform calling for a modification
of the Volstead enforcement act and
permitting the manufacture and sale
of light wines and beer. | believe,
however. that everyone should be obedl-
ent to law. | oppose anarchy and
socialism.
Must Fight Profiteers.
"All American women, she continued,
ARE sufferers from the profiteers. We
must fight them and / am sure we have
ingenuity enough to devise way TO
defeat them and. in other ways, to bring
down the cost of living. lnequitable tax
alton undoubtedly will come in for its
share of attention at the San Francisco
caucuses and the idea of Henry George
of stopping speculation in land and re-
lieving both workers and industry from
some of their burdens undoubtedly will
be advocated By women. The worst
profiteer of all is the nrofiteer in houses
and land The 'unearned increment OF
land. the rental value, must be taken
for public revenue or the people VIII
stagger under their taxes till they drop
No Violent Change.
The woman leader declared that with
the change in the political status Of
women next fair there would come, how,
ever. no violent change in governmental
affairs. 1t would take women long time
to become practical politicians, she said
but they would become such eventually.
She said the time would come when
women would fill the most important
offices within the gift of the people:
even to a woman president OF the bniteo
states supreme court justices and mem
bers of congress.