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What Women
Have Done
in Politi
—» < By oMrs. John <A. Logan tf—l
Their Crusade Against Unjust
Laws Womsn Prime Movers
in a!' Great Reforms They
Cannot Cope With Men in the i
Manipulation of Politics— j
Strength Lies In Tact and
Intention.
(Copyright, 1906, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
(Mrs. John A. Logan is known and es
teemed by all Americans. Accompanying
her distinguished husband, the most prom
inent of all the volunteer soldiers, through
the civil war, to her belongs the honor of
establishing the first hospital for sick sol
diers. From the close of the war till her
husband's death she was his closest ad
viser in political matters. Since his death
she has retained her prominence before
the public and her influence in national
affairs.)
That women have wielded a power
ful influence in the political world can
not be denied when we contrast the
position she occupied in this country
as late as 1850 with her present stat
us. There was not a state In the
union which did not bear upon its
statute books most unjust and un
righteous laws under which a woman
could be deprived of her property and
subjected to the most outrageous
treatment and literally robbed of her
inheritance through the profligacy and
recklessness of an unworthy husband.
She had no protection against the
cruelty of parent or husband or the !
disposition of anything without her
consent. If she rebelled against their
authority they had the power to de
stroy her reputation and could take
her children away from her, if she
had any, and they were so disposed.
If the laws did not give them this
power the practice sanctioned and
sustained men In their unjust domina
tion over women.
The unjust rulings of a school board
precipitated Mis Anthony's rebellion
against the unfair treatment of wo
men and caused the first movement
for woman suffrage. For a half-cen
tury Miss Anthony, Mrs. Stanton and
others of their heroic colleagues kept
up the warfare until the obnoxious
laws were expunged and much more
just and righteous ones enacted.
In some of the states the right of
female suffrage has been extended
and women have been chosen to offi
cial positions, including that of rep
resentatives in the state legislatures,
and I am proud to say that they have
made good records. It has been grat
ifying to know that the presence of
women at the polls has had a salutary
effect on the elections. The riotous
disposition which characterized the
balloting on election days, and not in
frequently ended in bloodshed, has
been changed to a holiday occasion
and general good-natured festivities.
I hope to see the- great improvement
In political methods anticipated and
claimed by the advocates of female
suffrage.
Through the coalition of the various
-elements of discord some of these
•states had passed into the hands of
irresponsible men without records
-which entitled them to fill these posi
tions. They have been a hindrance
<to all legislation for the welfare of
state or nation. But in the recogni
tion of the betterment of social and
political conditions it is to be hoped
that the üblest and best of all com
munities may be brought to the front
and that speedily the highest class of
representatives may come from tlio
CAMERON COUNTY PRESS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1907.
states that have inaugurated woman
suffrage.
The most ungenerous must confess
that behind all great reform move
ments in this country women have
been the Inspiration and most potent
force. In religion, temperance, social
and municipal reforms women have
been the primary and untiring work
ers; to them much is due for the high
moral and religious standard of our
progression and Christian civilization.
In the education of the masses women
have been most conspicuous; a ma
jority of the teachers in the public
schools are and always have been wo
men. This daily contact with the
youth of the country has given them
the largest opportunities for the
guidance of their pupils into channels
of the highest moral rectitude and
patriotism. Next to the mothers the
public school teachers are the most
potent influences in the land.
If they go farther and accomplish
the readjustment of the scale of labor
and compensation so that men and
women would receive a like remuner
ation for like service it would be an
achievement that would bring a prop
er reward for her labor. It would be
found that in the same line of work
In many instances women would re
ceive more and men less than they
do now—with the fixed standard that
men are always paid more than wo
men for equal work. This unequal
pay has led governments, state and
national, and private business enter
prises into the employment of many
women, who as a rule accomplish
more and demand less than men.
They are prompt and absolutely relia
ble in the discharge of duties assigned
them, without questioning the impor
tance or necessity of them. In conse
quence men are constantly threaten
ing rebellion against the employment
of women on the ground that women
can do nothing for the perpetuation of
individual or party supremacy, be
cause they cannot vote or participate
in political log-rolling.
1 do not believe that the organiza
tion of women's political clubs ever
materially aided any party. They are
not by nature fitted for the work ex
pected of political clubs. No self-re
specting woman could or would en
gage in canvassing city wards in the
interests of any party candidate, local
or otherwise. Their power lies in a
different direction.
I Women, like men, are always am
bitious to fill the petty offices of any
organization to which they belong and
are too jealous of each other to fol
low the lead of any one woman. They
are not logical and are rarely well in
formed on the questions which enter
into all political campaigns. They
cannot discuss anything without al
lowing personal preferences and pre
judices to enter the discussion. In the
rivalry for election to the offices of
societies of women everyone has wit
nessed with much regret unseemly
scrambles and ignoble schemes that
would disgrace even a political dema
gogue. Frequently these contests, as
in men's societies, have resulted in
the elevation of tlio least eligible, be
cause women of true ability will not
lend themselves to intrigue and dis
honorable means for advancement.
It should be the ambition of every
woman to be well informed an all sub
jects, especially those bearing upon
domestic and political economy. She
Should bo able to give legitimate rea
sons for her opinions and to defend
them with dignity and intelligence.
Pretensions, unsupported by actual
knowledge, will affect little in the
matter of conversion to one's views or
inducing a following. Brainy women
are apt to be too assertive to accom
plish their desires or create an en
thusiasm for any cause they espouse.
Women are too honest and ti>o frank
to cope with men in the science and
manipulation of politics.
Be willing to work and then to play
for ail you aia worth.
MENACETO ALL
Giant Mail Order Concerns
Are Sapping Country of
Its Wealth.
SMALLER TOWNS CRUSHED
By Assisting In the Centralization
of Wealth, Patrons of These In
stitutions Contribute to Their
Own Injury.
(Copyright, 190G, by Alfred C. Clark.)
Every year millions upon millions of
dollars find their way from the towns,
villages and rural districts of the coun
try to the coffers of the mail order
houses in the cities, and goto the up
building of enormous institutions in
the centers of population. Naturally,
the sources from which the contribu
tions are made suffer accordingly.
Figures ever tell a better story than
words. Here are figures which tell
a story so stupendous that its full sig
nificance cannot be grasped in a mo
ment, but the mere sight of which are
awe inspiring:
In the year 1905 two mail order
houses, located in Chicago, did a busi
ness amounting in round numbers to
$80,000,000. In the year 1904 these
same concerns did a business of about
$02,000,000, a gain of $18,000,000 or
nearly 30 per cent, in a single year be
ing thu3 exhibited.
These figures represent the sale last
year of one dollar's worth of merchan
dise for every man, woman and child
in the country by two catalogue houses
alone, and those operating from the
same central point. Dozens more of
varying size and importance are oper
ating all over the country from coast
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The"Man Behind the Piow" last year contributed a large portion of the vast
number of millions which found their way into the coffers of the mail
order houses. The smaller comm unities to which it belonged, and which
were thus deprived of it, suffered accordingly.
to coast and from border to border.
A fact not generally known is that
hundreds of concerns throughout the
country which now are doing business
through the regular trade channels are
awaiting only a parcels post law to
unloose literature, already prepared
in many instances, which would pro
ject them into the rc<til order field, and |
this does not take into account the j
hundreds and perhaps thousands of
entirely new mail order concerns
which inevitably would spring into ex
istence under such friendly auspices.
The two Chicago institutions re
ferred to, already occupying immense
buildings, found themselves cramped
for room. One of them expended not
less than $1,000,000, and probably more,
for a new home. The other lately has (
secured a new location and also will
expend at least $1,000,000 for an im
mense new building.
Anyone who will reflect even casual
ly on the subject must become im
pressed that the influence of the mail
order business is toward the central
ization of wealth, and how enormous
a part it is playing in this direction
will be understood from a second
glance at the figures which have been
given above.
It is due to himself that every patron
of the mail order house should inquire
honestly of himself what the final out
come is to be if the mail order busi
ness shall continue to make the great
strides which have marked its prog
ress during the last half decade.
It is useless to repeat the well worn
argument of the mail order concerns
that they are selling goods enough
more cheaply than the merchants in
the regular channels of trade to leave
their customers more money than
ever to devote to home enterprises
and institutions. The fallacy of this
statement has been proved over and
over again by actual and minute com
parisons of goods, as to their quality
and prices. To refute it finally and
indisputably by a simpler and more
direct method it is necessary only to
ask the reliable business men of any
of the smaller communities to show
the evidence from their books and ac
counts of the harm the mail order
habit is doinc their communities
It is a truth as old as the hills and
as certain as the rising and setting of
the sun that no country or section of
I a country can prosper unless the peo
pie as a whole shall bo prosperous.
Such general prosperity as may exist
cannot be retained if the institutions
of the already larger and wealthier
communities are to continue to be
built up by contribution 3 that should
be spent at home from the thousands
of smaller communities.
The need of the country, a desper
ate need upon which the welfare of
the individual depends, is for the
upbuilding and continued progress of
the smaller communities, so that the
wj'alth of the country may be distrib
uted over the entire country, and not
congested and controlled in large
amounts in a comparative few centers
of population.
Therefore, the man who sends away
from his own community money which
he might-have spent at home and per
mitted a fair profit to the home mer
chant to be retained there for the
benefit of the community, Is injuring
his community, and thereby the pros
pects for his own future prosperity.
In a large number of Instances he is
doing more than this. Unwittingly, or
unthinkingly, perhaps, he is violating
his own principles of right and justice,
for, at the expense of his own com
munity, he is needlessly contributing
profits to the capitalistic combinations
which he continuously cries out are
menacing the country.
The mail order giants direct their
energies particularly toward the peo
ple of the smaller towns and the agri
cultural districts. In hundreds of
thousands of the homes of these the
catalogue of the mail order house is as
regularly received as the home paper.
The man on the farm last year sent a
very large portion of eighty millions
of dollars to two of these institutions,
in one community, alone.
In all sincerity we ask: Admitting,
purely for the sake of the argument,
that the farmer or the resident of the
small community can save a few dol
lars on some of his purchases, or even
that he could do so on all of them, can
he afford to continue to impoverish
his own community, upon which his
own prosperity, the very value of his
lane' depends?
If he will ask himself this question
and consider it soberly and fairly in
all of its phases, including the many
which cannot be touched upon within
the limits of a single article, we think
his answer must be that he cannot.
The wonderful productivity of this
country has been sufficient to over
come the various adverse economic in
fluences which have existed during the
period of years in which the mail or
der business has accomplished its
greatest growth. Everyone has been
"getting along pretty well." While the
increasing flow of golden millions from
their source in the land of the coun
try to the already great centers of
money and population has held back
the growth of the smaller communi
ties, it has not yet occasioned a great
disaster. The test will come with the
first pinch of "hard times," a condi
tion which no country ever has been
able to escape at recurring intervals.
When this time arrives those com
munities will best stand the test which
have best conserved and husbanded
their resources.
JOHN S. POTTS.
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Some time ago a merchant in Mar
blehead, Mass., was discovered in his
store at a very late hour, and in reply
ing to inquiries, he said:
"My confidential clery is missing."
"And what of it?"
"Why, I'm looking over the book 3,
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"Have you counted your cash?"
"Yes; and it is correct to a dollar."
"Looked over your bank book?"
"I have, and it 13 satisfactory.
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