Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-08-17
Decade of Votes for Women
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OF 1t was more rapid spreading of
political information and of political in
terest among the women. The unin-
tended effect of it has been that man
political leaders, almost everywhere in
the country and at all levels of the COM
mittee hierarchy of each political party.
have been increasingly obliged to carry
along with them the judgments of wom-
en- as well as the judgments of men in
the choice of party policies.
Woman's Speech Wins Praise.
The men, it should be frankly re-
peated, do usually the first guessing at
policies. Ruth Pratt, Representative
from New York City, last year made
one of the best speeches ever made in
the Federal House of Representatives
against the sugar tariff. She made it.
though, in full harmony with prior
male sentiment in her locality. Urban
New York recently has seen no reason
at all why it should favor beet sugar
growers in Utah, where its interests are
small, at the expense of cane sugar
growers IN Cuba, where its invest
nents are stupendous. Women do not
live in a sex-they live in a locality.
and their votes on sectional issues are
seldom treason to their own sections.
Ruth Owen, Representative from
Florida, this year cast a Democratic
vote in the House of Representatives
for the Republican tariff bill. In do
ing so, however, she did nothing pecu-
liar or originative. Her three man COL
leagues in the House of Representatives
from Florida voted for the bill. too.
The men growers of Florida products
are protectionists. Ruth Owen is as
smart as any wearer Of the trousers
on Capitol Hill, and she is far too
smart 70 run up the flag of her sex
against her State.
Ruth Mccormick, Representative
from Illinois. was a valorous and CLAM
orous champion of the equalization
fee" in the hottest and highest days
of McNary- Haugenism. She is as canny
and cagy and as strong and as straight
in her wagings of the wars of politics
IS any man extant. just the same, she
never did, and Il venture to say never
could, herself think up an idea like the
equalization fee" For that explora-
ton of the Keeling realm of economic
higher mathematics there was needed
first the rowing runaway masculine
mind Of Mr.. George Peek.
Tinkering Male Inventiveness.
Consistently the idea which has sue
ceeded the equalization fee" as the
reigning ingenuity OF farm relief
namely, the export debenture" -- had
TO be adumbrated for its feminine fol-
lowers by the tinkering male inven-
tiveness of Mr.. Charles Leslie Stewart
OF all the new salvations or new
frenzies which have fitted across tho
political skies irl the last 10 years anc
which have been tanned into perma-
nent planets or lost into the vast vole
of transitory comets, it would be diff
cult TO attribute even one, of any mag
nitude, to woman suffrage. The fun
damental principles of all contempt
rary legislation were thoroughly known
and thoroughly developed before thu
nineteenth amendment was proclaimed
Federal prohibition, that alleges
GROWING glory of Federal woman sui
frage, cannot be permitted to glorif
or to disparage IT, Federal prohibition
preceded Federal woman suffrage. Tn
peak Of prohihitory enforcement en-
tllusiasn1--the Ave and ten" law
occurred during Federal woman SUI