The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1924-10-24
URGES WOMEN TO
BACK TOILETTE
iona Gale, Distinguished
Authoress, Says He Has
Earned Their Support.
BY IONA GALE
Author Of "MIss Lulu Bett" and Win
ner Of Pulitzer Prize.


Author Of "MIss Lulu 5ett" and Win
ner Of Pulitzer Prize.
It was only after living for FIVE
years in New York, where I had an
association afar off with the great
humanitarians and social workers of
the country, that I awOke to the fact
that in my own state LaFOllette had
been fighting their fight almost single
handed. Plenty of remedial agencies
were at work, but these were not their
concern, nor his His magazine was
in my hOme-my mother and father
had understood and revered him; and
1 shall not forget my naive astonish-
ment when l opened that magazine
casually and saw there so paSsiOnately
advocated the labor legislation and the
social measures which I had been fee
bly, trying to follow If he had dealt
in remedies the powerful machine
would not have questioned him. 1t
is when the good Samaritan tries to
find out the identity of the thieves
among whom the traveller fell that the
/ trouble begins. Who cares how much
his wounds are bound up with oil and
wine, so long as the thieves make their
escape?
Senator LaFollette is first Of all
great humanitarian, a believer in the
! infinite worth of the human being, and
in the infinite improvability Of the
human race" That the greatest busi-
ness Of the human being, like that Of
all other life, is to grow, is a fact
which has been hidden from the ma
jOrity of politicians, but Robert La
Toilette miraculously knows It. And
all his political life, whenever he has
seen a man or group Of men seated
comfortably. on a stone beneath which
other human beings struggle to live,
he has tried to move either the man or
the stone, and sometimes both.
LaFoIIette, the Candidate.
This is why, If ever there was q can
didate who deserved the support Of the
women Of the United States, IL is Rob
ert LaFOllette. Not chiefly because he
has always stood for them and cham
pioned woman suffrage 20 years before
1t was respectable to DO so. Not chief
ly because he was one Of the first gov
ernOrs to appoint women to state
boards. Not because he has so con-
sistently fought for the cause Of the
woman in industry. But because, in
some clairvOyant fashion, he under
stands the value Of human life above
that Of every commodity understands,
too, the pathos and the passion Of its
}. heroic climb. 1t is women who have
always known its value best. But
5 they have been inarticulate. Not even
in terrible moments-Of disaster Il
! their husbands, the workers, or t.
themselves as workers, or cOnscriptiOT
j Of their sons, or In the waste Of wal
or the battles Of peace have they Otter
been able to say to their governments
'You talk always about property
What about the cost to us2 VIVA
about human life? What about Oul
aspiration for our children
He campaigned for suffrage. which
G was lost in Wisconsin in 1912, Rni
q years before that, as governor, he
J. with Mrs. LaFOllette opened the ex
s ecutve residence to the delegates to
T. state suffrage campaign, when all tina
d the public and press as q whole haC
le for them was ridicule. Which Is a re
hinder that If Mrs. LaFollette goes t,
& the White House she will be one Of tn,
IN first women there whose grasp Of eco
a. nOmic conditions is keen. Also, She 4
lg a member of the Wisconsin bar and
II brilliant orator.
II Foe of War and Monopoly
lie / believe that all women, and al
he other believers in internatiOnalisn
a would elect Robert LaFollette If onl
to they could be made to understand hov
10 Intimately allied are private nonopol
u and war. If only they would imagin
n the absurdity, the imposslbility 0
As Ramsay Macdonald. premier Of Eng
g. land, and Robert LaFollette, Presiden
I'd Of the United States, laundering int
90 a war with each others countries, q
to with anybody else's country. The plai
ID form says except in case Of actual II
q vasion." Can anybody imagine eithe
OF Of these men failing to use thei
rs brains to quiet the profteers who or
lie back Of a WARP
ep In the lives Of this generation theE
al has never been such chance to aeTY
II, democracy by living for it for thE
months