The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-10-22

WANTS LEAGUE BURIED

An appeal to the voters to return
Senator Albert B. Cummins to the
senate, and to bury the Wilson league
of nations, was made last evening
by Mrs. Boucher who addressed a
mass meeting Of both republican men
and women at the Y. w. C.. A. The
appeal to bury the league was made
especially to the women, because
the democrats were saying that when
the nineteenth amendment was pass
ed the league was safe, for women
were sentimental
Mrs. Boucher in dignified terms
told why she was not favorable to
the league. corrected several demo
cratic misstatements regarding the
Esch- Cummins bill, and appealed to
the women and men as well to sup
port the republican ticket on Novem-
Der O.
Miss inertia Mitchell. who intro
duced Mrs. Boucher, said that many
non partisan meetings had been held,
but that this was the first one in
which the women would be told not
only why they should vote, but also
why they should vote the republican
ticket
Mrs. Boucher said that men looked
upon the entry OF women into the
political arena with honest doubt.
She said she had never looked on
suffrage as the panacea for all Ills,
and that she did not believe TIE
world could be changed IN the twink
ling OF an eye, because men and
women were too much alike. She al
ways thought of the banot as a right
of woman, and few years ago She
saw the necessity of it, when she
with others tried to clear up some
affairs in an Indiana town. A Judge
told them frankly, you have nothing
Ito offer, we have nothing to give
Since that time she said that the
mayor and a prosecuting attorney in
prison.
That she could not traduce other
parties because she was not a po:itl-
cal speaker, Mrs. Boucher declared,
but with the Few crisis, new diri-
sions of party she felt that she had
a perfect right to try to persuade The
woman who was undecided, to east
her ballot with the republican party.
Questions Need Answers.
Not since the civil war, she said,
had there been graver questions that
needed decisive answer Of yes or
no. The democratic party Is working
for the undoing of our youth, she
said, and urged that indifference be
put behind the voter. She urged the
women to vote, and warned them not
to be afraid of the bugaboo of dirty
politics. She spoke of the fact that
men frequently stayed away from the
ballot box, and that great disasters
had resulted. She felt that the United
States was over volcano, but she
was no pessimist and believed that
all the unrest could be checked with
out bloodshed.
Mrs. Boucher spoke of the fact that
the average man can tell much ABOUT
politics, due, she believed, to the TACT
that he had time to read the news
papers. The women have work 10
do, but even this is no excuse for
ignorance of politics, or no excuse
for their not having the ballot
She spoke of taxation and how the
women and children were helping 10
bear the burden Of taxation. We are
Taught that taxation is, right If 1t is
for the welfare Of the country. but
she depIored the fact that the U. >.
treasury is to be considered as an
artesIan well, and inexhaustible. she
urged that the men who handle the
funds be demanded to be honest and
efficient in their work. She urged
that the right sort of men be put In,
and that the women help with their
votes.
Should Return cummins.
Mrs boucher said she had been
+r.veIiinp in the wake of democratic
sneakers and that she found they mad
heen saving that the Eschtummins
hill .forbade strikes" This she said
was false. for the bill hopes only for
the aversion of strikes, through the
commission Of three men, three en-
Movers and three public men. Labor,
she pointed out, has always claimed
that if it could get its cause before
the public it had nothing to fear.
The commission she said, published
everything SO that the great middle
class would know. Another state
rnent was that the railroads were
Guaranteed five and a half percent,
hut this she declared was not so.
They were not to be permitted to
make more than FIVE and one-haH
percent.
Mrs. Boucher urged that we let
F,urope. Asia and Africa alone long
enough TO do a few things for our
own country.
"The United States she said,
"wiIl feel an frreparable calamity IL
Senator Albert B. Cummins is not
returned. We must have republi-
can house and senate as wen as
Harding and Coolidge to get us Out
of the acknowledgements into which tho
democratic party has gotten u.s.. she
spoke OF the straight ticket and de-
.clared that national patriotism was
more than loyalty to any one man.
A warning was sounded by Mrs.
holrhavicp1 She