The Washington times., 1920-08-29
SEES CURE IN
RIGHT VOTING
Victory Futile, Says 90-Year-
Old Leader, If Ownership
k. of Bread" Is Lost.

mo nation can ever grow greater
OF more human than its womanhood
and am not expecting the millen-
rum as a result of woman's privilege
TO vote" said Mother Jones, noted
woman leader. here today.
81 am anxious to see women stand
side by side with men in developing
the human family. but all OF the bal
lots in the world will not change
conditions for the peoples welfare
unless attention is focused upon the
disease causing the trouble.
81 was ninety years Old on the LIST
Of May. Most of my years have been
spent trying to humanize the race. 1
admit that I have been punished for
my energy. for / spent seven months
in a military prison. But out OF my
efforts has grown the Bureau or
Child Labor. 1t is an accomplish
ment of which I am proud.
OWNERSHIP OF BREAD.
'T know Susan b. Anthony person
ally and, like her. was deeply In
terested in suffrage. but saw that
the remedy did not lie altogether in
the ballot IT lies in the field Of
economies, In the ownership of the
bread. So steered my craft over the
stormy course of labor. studied
the effect OF suffrage in Colorado.
where they have been privileged to
vote for twenty-eight years, and
saw no efforts made by them there to
improve conditions of men who pro-
duce bread and are not permitted to
eat 1t. i saw no united effort on
their part to protect the children. -.
wyoming and Utah were like Col
orado in their apathy toward cruelty
practiced by greedy corporations
against the miners. Women had the
ballot in those two States.
"The art of being kind is about all
this world needs. One woman has
more power than a hundred men, If
this energy is rightly directed but
she needs the humanizing impulse
more than the political one. I fear
greatly that the ambition for political
office the ballot suggests will turn
her away from the human urge.
'"To illustrate the poweT Of woman
hood in emergency: / had the good
fortune to take part in the anthracite
strike in 1900. About 5000 men
(scabs) had replaced striking miners.
These 'scabs' were protected by the
State militia, whose business it was
to see that strike sympathizers did
not persuade them to leave their work.
LEADS FEMALE ARMY.
"In two hours 1 persuaded the wives
and daughters Of the strikers to put
working clothes on, to wear caps de-
noting servitude, to carry brooms,
brushes, and feather busters across
their shoulders and to march with me
to the mines, fteen miles away.
Two thousand stron, we reached
the outpost Of militia at o'clock in
the morning. Our first line was turn
ed back by the colonel in command,
who threatened to charge us with
bayonets. made appeal to the SOL
diers on behalf of. the women whose
husbands were striking for decent
wage and bread for the children.
CONVERTS COLONEL.
''The colonel was first converted
and allowed 5000 miners to join u.s.
We organized them before the break
Of day. 1t was an appeal to human
sympathy that won.
TN 1908, 125,Ooo textile workers
were on strike in Philadelphia. Twen-
ty thousand were childhen under the
age limit for work. Many had lost
ngers, thumbs or hands. / gathered
5000 Of them in Independence Park
and placed the most seriously crippled
in the front ranks for the audience of
fifty thousand to see. 1t was neces-
sary to awake the sleepy public in
this way. We took these children on
q long hike to see President Roose-
velt at Oyster Bay and we were fetcdi
in every city along the line. The oeo-
pie made large collections 20 help
the strikers cause. 1t is the touch