The bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1921-05-12

! For ever and ever and ever!
And he looked so wise that the Labor
| ties said ...."
He must really be picked as their Peace
| Leagues head;
And he was; and he quietly choked it
| '@ dead; -
| And that's what / call quite clever.
Don't call him Tory. His great
; mind towers t
Sc loftily over this world of ours
That you never could limit its liberal
! powers,
Or fetter his thoughts to that form;
And nobody knows how the thing was
| done, 2k.s.. -
But the anarchists, after their fight was
I won, .g,#f = &&'
Blinked their eyes like owls in the sun.
| He was there!
| In the chair! ..
| On the platform!
And the parliaments come and the
parliaments go;
And the empires perish like last year s
| snow;<
But it makes no difference to him, you
| know;
| For he sits on sure foundation;
And the whole of the world may be
fashioned anew, ...
But since he has never expressed a
He will sit on the top Of the new world
And smile, at his own creation.
Inscriptions men and Office seekers
without, principle will vote very care
full in the future about their methods OF
securing votes since they find they
must confront the ever-watchful eyes
of woman. Perhaps the reason why they
are so watchful is because of their asso-
Citations with their husbands, fathers,
brothers and sons They mean well.
! God bless them. every one; but some
times they slip cog, when they think
that women have no business knowing
about the affairs Of the nation. They
used to really believes that she did not
! have sense enough to comprehend these
weighter matters, but they have long
ago abandoned that idea.
| Some men will almost say to you to-
day that women are like that beautiful
old Negro melody which reads: He
sees all you do, and he hears all you
say; my Lord is writing all the time. =
You ask any small boy when he is
/ trying to steal his mot her Is sugar if this
4 is not trueq Or ask some husband who
is trying to explain a difficult situation
in which he is involved to his wife, and
cannot quite clear his transactions in
the affair, he gets in deeper all the
time, the more he tries to explain.
Ladies, politician with doubtful
principles or ideals will stand very
poor show with woman's suffrage.
| FIFTH: It will bring about the in
stallation Of more police women.
| No man has or ever could know how
to deal with wayward girls or women
like another woman would. Then, too,
woman knows better just what kind
of advice to give to girls who are COM
mitting their first offenses, or the kind
Of punishment to infict on those who
are chronic offenders Of the law. Some
Of these have become hardened No
doubt because when they would try to
| get up there is always some man to
stallation of more police women White
Slavery will be diminished to great
extent and our own colored girls will
bo taught that they can and must be
just as virtuous as others, and that the
old condition of slavery with Negro
women as the white man s chattel has
| no place in these modern times.
The police women will also see to it
that innocent young girls who have been
enticed away. from their homes and
the places where they have been reared
are sent back to their homes before
they fall into the great immoral slough
which every city has For the guileless
country maiden. If they cannot send
them to their homes then they will send
them to some institution presided over
by Christians, sympathetic people where
they will be given good instruction and
j have a chance for their lives, instead
Of being placed with old, confirmed
Icriminals?
SIXTH: It can bring new depart
ment to the government; affecting the
wages paid to girls and women as clerk.
and factory hands.
. Many girl in the city owes hel
questionable life to the fact that sht
has been employed by men who very
often are not willing to pay her living
wage, yet at the same, time require he1
to dress in style she cannot afford tt
make their business look prosperous
Some times she is even encouraged By
her employer to increase her wages IL
uncertain ways, if he is an unprineiplet
man The women who would no donb
4, make these new laws governing sucl
flabor would be women who had investi
gated this condition OF had worked il
such places themselves; therefore woul'
know how to sympathize,
SEVENTH: They will help to enac
q laws which will be more favorable &
America with regard to the product
4 raised here and the prices charged 70
I, the same to citizens Of this country.
b There, would have been no sshig
4 ccst-of living cry in this country i
the. American house wife had been al
E lowed to make the laws governing sur
lply and demand When the; Chicago VIC
men few years ago decided they. woul
not buy any more eggs until they be
came cheaper and the store-keepers re
Tented in their exorbitant prices, TIL
latter very soon changed and there wa
/ marked shrinkage in the prices o
eggs, within a short time.
t Do you suppose that women woul
II ever allow several million dozen of egg
$ !! to stay in cold storage until they wer
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