The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-07-21
AND WHAT NEXT. PLEASE?


For some time We have been thinking the
supply Of issues especially the absurd silly
mcrccnary KIND would become exhausted
NOW however, we nre prone TO believe the sup
ply is lncvhauslihlo that, Ike tho rnco between
offensive ana defensive warfare, no sooner viii
one grave Issue" be selocted as n vehicle for
someone to got into office on than another viii
be- ready Tor someone else to ride into office In
opposition 20 the fret
Mrs v p ponkhurst Is running for congress
on the democratic tckot IN Maryland Mrs v
=. has selected Tor her paramount a mothers
allowance law. Couched In everyday language
Mira V. T.. wants women paid by government
10 bear children. - believe" says tho reformer
that when women are compelled to give up
employment and 80 into socusion for tho pur-
pose Of attaining motherhood they should be
paid for IT,"
Now, isn't that perfectly loglcal7 1t H. 20
be sure But IL mamma is to be paid for re-
spending to the first urge Of nature who's going
to pay papa and when? II Is evidently up TO
somebody TO run for congress from somewhere
in order that dad may manage TO get his some
how. The constitution torblds clnss leglsla-
tion and this Pankhurst person Is trying to put
over tho classest kind OF class Legislation.
employment and go into secluslon tor the pur-
pose OF attaining motherhood" Nobody il COM
PEELED to become mother anywhere, any time
at all And dnrned few OF 'em nre doing Il. n
you take the word OF the census enumcrators
and the npartmcnt-house managers. The
eugcnlc individuals and the birth-control prop
ngandsts have already just about outlawed this
sacred office OF motherhood. in such respect
tbny no IN N 10 II hty mill
But what really intended asking was this:
IL the time coming when everybody must he
paid for everything? They've been telling us
that we must pay men to be patriotic. pay them
to keep them from turning traitors TO their
country, pay them to keep them from stealing
and pay them in order to get them to pray
for us. Now they want to pay women for be-
coming mothers thus fulfilling tho highest pur-
pose of casuistry and executing the most sacred
OF all offices. They want us to pay voters to
vote. We are paying a myriad number OF para
sites TO do the most foolish and unnecessary
things. We pay them to teach our children
how to play; we pay women who never had
baby to tell mothers OF large families how TO
take care OF their babies; we pay men who
never farmed to teach horny handed sons of
toll how to plow, harrow, seed and harvest; we
pay other people to do this that and the other,
1t In all grotesquely-amost ghastly, absurdl
| But II mothers to be paid for loving and
! giving the great sncrlflcia test Of genuine nr
fcction, then whore shall we stop in this head
! long plunge into paternalsm? Fathers, OF
! course must be paid. The single-sta ndard ad-
! vocates win see TO that And what of the
! progeny? Are they to 20 unpaid? Not on your
! life! Every child must needs bo paid Tor being
! born, And II the present tendency of our time
! keeps up, the day Is not far distant when It
! will be worth a darned big sum TO get oneself
born and live among the folk that rule this old
| world
Go to II pnnkhurst' But n YOU get more than
a single vote they ought TO arrest you for re-
| pentIngl