Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1920-12-02
SAYS SHE WOULD FIGHT
Only Woman i'm Congress Says She
Will Go Into the Trenches
and Find Out.

The more that is published about
Miss Alice Robertson, OF Oklahoma,
her character and what she thinks,
the more evident ii is that she will
be an experiment in congress-for
the women congressman Is still an
experiment--well worth trying.
She is being asked about her pro-
gram and what she will work for.
She says she has very definite
platform. She puts it in three
planks. She's a Christian. She's
an American, and she's a standpat
republican. To some people there
may seem to be some inconsistency
between the first and the last part
of this program, but most people
will agree that she is at least two
thirds right, which is better show
ing than a great many men elected
to congress can make, and IL she
pushes the first two propositions
hard she may so denaturide the last
that it will not do much harm.
However, Miss Robertson's pro-
gram is not quite so general and
brief. There are few specific sub
jects in which she is intensely inter-
ested-the interests of women and
children, of the soldiers and Indians.
The gratitude of soldiers who had
been showered with her kindness
probably elected her, and she is an
authority on Indians, born in the
Indian country, and being the foster
mother of score of Indian girls.
Miss Robertson is called frank for
confessing that she doesn't know
much about international affairs.
For instance, what does she know
about recognizing Russia? Abso-
lutely nothing, she says. What man
elected to congress would say that?
What man but would want to give
the impression that he knew every
thing about every question before
the people or that was likely to come
up? But her ignorance by no means
dismays her. Her attitude toward
questions she does not know about
is indicated by her striking phrase:
when the time comes for that
will go into the trenches and find
out, and I devoutly hope I'll be pre-
pared"
Would she fight? Miss Robert
sons answer to this implied some
contempt for the conduct Of her only
predecessor in congress. Vote for
war? T'd vote for war, and l
wouldn't do any whimpering or
whispering about it either" She
thinks the vote to enter the late war
should have come much sooner than
it did
Miss Robertson has things to say
that are reassuring to mere man"
who needs some reassuring these
days. She says she has always got
along better with men than with
women, and she's going to have a
man secretary when she goes to
Washington, because, she says,
"Therell be a lot of questions about
my districts business that folks
would rather talk over with man,
so I'll have man representative
with me-" She thinks men are real
ly worth while. She did not want
woman suffrage, and she supposes it
Is because she had always done a
mans work. carried a mans burdens
and had to pay the bills, and she
makes light OF many of the argu-
ments that were advanced by the
suffragists. She likes the advice OF
men, and she says that in money
matters every woman gets some man
to advise her. She allows Hetty
Green as an exception, but says Het-
ty Green was not a woman, but
freak.
The house OF representatives is
not going to be the same when Miss
Alice" gets to Washington and goes
into the trenches" and there is
good chance that the country will
be glad of 1t.
FORMER ELK HORN LADY DEAD
Word reached Elk Horn from SUI
dan, Africa, of the death of Mrs.
Lena Ahrildsen. formerly a student
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