The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1921-12-23

The Miami Herald recently had
the following editorial showing that
women in politics sometimes make
good and that it is not altogether
matter of sex but somewhat a
matter of temperament whether a
woman can be a success in polit-
ical sense:
If Alice Robertson should be defeated
in Oklahoma as she runs again for con-
gress it will be simply because the politi-
clans do not like her. They do not want
representative who will not force pat
ronage their way She not only did not
seek it in Washington for the Oklahoma
politicians but refused even to help them
to get it. They have not liked her from
the first. She was no political favorite
when Roosevelt made her a third-class
postmaster and her popularity is with the
voters, and not with those who distribute
the spoils of election.
But as she made the republican nomin-
alton and was elected by a substantial
majority in a district which normally
gives a democratic majority of 5000 or
5000, her chances for re- election are good.
In fact Oklahoma cannot afford to let the
politicians defeat her. All women were
outraged when Miss Robertson exhibited
her well-known courage and voted against
the maternity bill. But she disapproved
of the principle of letting the govern
ment interfere too much in domestic af-
fairs, and she did not let any fears of re-
election swerve her.
Oklahoma is a cattle state and one of
Miss Robertson's colleagues in the house
introduced into the Fordney bill a provi-
sion for duty on hides, and she voted
against it, so that the people of her own
state, if they re-elect her, will have to
put up with her independence, for no
sectional interests will be able to control
her vote.
We need more and not fewer represen-
tatives like her. She is not the kind that
can be spared in the house. There was
time when the conversation of women
was regarded as so spontaneous and easy
flowing that it was favorite topic with
the vaudeville artists. But we have
come to associate garrulity with congress
lately and it was woman, Miss Robert
son. who told congress few months ago
that the country wanted more work from
congress and less oratory.
Well, election day is still long way
off, but it is as well for Miss Robertson
to begin her grooming early. When we
recall that she is chosen from the same
state as elected Mr.. Herrick, the love-
lorn, and when we read those amorous
lyrics of his, which rival in fervor the
verse of his Elizabethan namesake, we
feel reluctant to believe that Oklahoma
can endure Herrick and can get along
without Miss Robertson. But there is
no accounting for tastes as the old lady
said when she kissed the COW, and there
is no telling what will happen in coun-
try controlled by cattle ranchers and Wild
cat oil promoters.
." Unless you have money to
burn, there are thousands of safer
opportunities of investing money
than buying oil stocks admonish-
es the De Land Ella News. While
oil is fuel it's the dry wells that
burn a mans money.-Tampa
Times. And the Orlando Sentinel
adds: Right you are. Keep your
dollars in home investments. Oil
wells look good on paper" Right
again and little oil goes a long
ways on paper.
That st. Louis woman who pre-
tended that she had taken poison
and her husband had to pay a
seven-hundred- dollar doctors bill
as a result, would qualify as the
woman extant. You
couldn' It blame the man if he wish
ed it had been the real thing in
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