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

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planks in both party platforms today
which are there because women have
instigated their husbands, fathers,
brothers and sons to propose them for
the benefit Of the people. .#
l. The Anti-saloon law, one Of the great
est measures for the safe guard of the
! American Home (for therein lies the
safety Of our great Republic) was first
agitated by Miss Francis Willard and
her noble band of followers In many
other ways they will broaden these plat
forms, but 1 will mention them later.
THIRD: It will bring more intelli-
gence to beat on the leading questions
of the day.
For good many years Woman g
Suffrage will attract only the more in
telligent women Of the Nation. These
are women who love research work and
who will enter politics only when they
have thoroughly mastered the great
principles involved in maintaining such
a government as ours.
The more ignorant women will not
want to give the time to study and the
society butterfly will not give the time
from mere frivolity or trivial things to
become posted in this very important
work. Again woman IS nature is natur-
ally curious and before she enters into
a political campaign of either party
she is going to see what either party
have to offer her. Many women also
have more time to become enlightened
on the various leading subjects of the
day because of the nature Of it on the
various leading subjects of the day
because the nature Of their work does
not demand as Of their time as some
men. They have, more time for read
! ing in the home, and can assimilate it
and apply it.
Is not every woman ruler In
small way in her own home7 With
1 whom does the child come in contact
the mosts Even after he is grown does
not the son consult mother on almost
every conceivable Subject? The father
is usually too busy to hear these things.
once heard Bishop Vincent say in a
| lecture on the American Home that the
child associated the idea Of father with
a being who wears trousers, but is sell
dom about the house. The concept of
Mother however is one who is always
near, knows all about, it, and shares its
griefs and joys.
| FOURTH: The selection Of the right
kind Of men and women for public
| office.
Women are not liable to place men in
office or vote for them if their moral
character will not bear close investiga-
tion. While men very often know a
man 8 character is just as crooked as a
stake and rider fence, and that his
business is not complying with the laws
of the state, yet because he has GER
tain pleasing way about him, or knows
how to make money, they will put him
in office. There was wonderful poem
in the Saturday Evening Post recently
and it so ftly describes the modern pol
itician of today that must give it to
you now for what it is worth. We can
thank God though they are not all like
, that. t
! POEM.
Portrait Of a Politician.
Isn't he beautiful, riding there
In his pearl-gray car, with his nose IN
the air;
| And hat such as only diplomatists
wsar ~
Tipped so at the well known angle!
Why think of the things that he never
has done;
i And his place in the world that his
grandame won -@.
1 A family place, as it We're, in the sun
| With never hint Of wrangle.
The passions of people that walk in
| the street, +.
| The folly Of folk that must labor to
4 eat,
Have, never touched him with indelicate
! heat, .. ... r e..
Or rendered his pulse unsteady;
He dwells in a loftier air, serene
AS our best and our greatest have al
! ways been,
And he never quite knew what Gam
@ bition'' could mean, "
+ For, you see, he was there, already!
i So Journalist. doctor, and scientist
pass, >
And he looks at 'em all through quiz
zical$ glass, &
| With the Goldfish eye of the "govern
ing class, - a.
| Or the glare of a hawk at a pigeon
z And the botes of those picturesque
workaday folk @a
Can be dropped in box, for they ''r'
rather a Joke, lz sIz y.
ISut W SoOGHCI. CAII va oAAS'-" + {
i q in poke @
! He would point to : established re
ligion,
) He IS never much worried by ontsid,
foes, Z
For his own diplomacy firts witt
s,, "a those;7S &;l #
4 So the army is not as you might sup
4 pose, s4f
To picket some perilous border.
But he privately hints, with a sphinx
g like stare @ fz4
!. Through the government windows owe
the square;
Il Just look at those bowler hats dow
there!
How else could we keep 'em il
II ordergo
Was he riah+9 Was he wrong9 ca,
J, only say
! He was taking a prominent part mex
! In league that proposed to put armie