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Maryland State Archives Maryland Suffrage News Collection MSA SC 3286 msa_sc3286_scm7805-0021 Enlarge and print image (1M) |
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MARYLAND SUFFRAGE NEWS
[June 13, I'JM-
FILTERED FACTS
By L \V. Xmi.shn Pom
Filtered Facts will, (luring the next few mouths, be filtered through
mountain air, tin- air of the llhie Mountains. A week's observation of the
country from around lluena Vista to llagerstown shows a great need of
BtlfffOgt for women, The type of women one sees, for example, at the
many ' tollgates" where one is held up fflf money, shows girls aTid women
v. ho look as :f they had neither education nor interest in life.
* Mie young woman was asked if the road between Waynesboro ami
tiettysburg was the road that Lee's army used at the time of the battle
of tiettysburg. She answered that she didn't really know; that she had
only been there two years, ami that a few soldiers had been by at times,
but they usually used the mud road, not the pike. We talk of foreign
tnlsiiosul I low about beginning at home? Twelve years or so ago in
the Cumberland mountains the mountaineers did not know that the Civil
War was over, but those mountaineers are far frotn summer resorts and
ei\ ilization.
< >ne realizes that instead of the summer visitors, who come from
places where they ha\e eviry advantage, and who could benefit so much
the country people by showing a little interest in their lives, live among
the people with a sort of rndemoeratic "taboo" surrounding them. Ila-
girstowu seems to be progressive to a certain extent, as the town last Sat-
urday was full of posters of a Socialist meeting lo be held in the S<|itarc
that evening. I 'tit the country women want something tit arouse them
from their apathy; the French peasant women are not apathetic, nor the
(iermans or Aitstrians. Along the Danube, where the cultivated Vienese
ft riters, artists, actors and professional men ami women spend their sum-
mers, the spirit of demniicraey pervades far more than in our republic. A
wonderful little garden at Inirustein, where all the meals are served in
summer from the fashionable hotel, in the evenings is full of the peasants,
who come for their glass of beer and for companionship when their work
iv over for the day. They do not offend the taste of the summer people in
the lea»l. and both sets of people karu from each other, the same moon
shines over both, and the sparkling river gives pleasure lo all. A young
n:an selling vegetables today said that many summer people were not even
u illing to let him have a bucket of water for the tired horse, that goes all
nay long to allow them to have the good food for their table. We do not
know whether it is a lack of democracy in our American people or a lack
of human understanding of the wants of others.
world who ought to be emphasizing class distinctions in this country. His
own career is all the proof needed to show that America is still sufficiently
the land of opportunity to make class hatred unnecessary and undesirable
here."
Perhaps if Mr. David Lewis had not bad to work in a mine at nine
years old, as he narrates, and doubtless to undergo other privations which
are Cllistd by the conditions of this wonderful land of freedom, lie would
not be a Spokesman for union labor, which has arisen from the need of
the people with no capital, having to compete with capitalists.
CONGRESSIONAL WORK STILL GOES ON
Chairman Henry Aasurea West Virginia Delegation That Resolution Would ¦•
Reported.
Now that tin- trust legislation lias been sent to the Senate from the
I louse of Representatives, and the appropriation hills will soon lie ready
to follow, the Congressional Cnion is planning increased activity in its
work on the Rules Committee. Congress cannot adjourn until the
Senate endorses or rejects the President's program of leigslatiou. With
wliat, then, will the members of the House occupy themselves during the
months which will elapse before final action is taken in the Senate on
these measures ? The Cnion demands the passage of the Mondell
amendment as one of its most ini|wirtaut duties. Since the Rules Com-
mittee can make this (Hissible by reporting out the special rule now before
it for consideration, the energy of the entire Cnion is concentrated ujion
its members. Deputations continue to go daily to interview each mem-
ber of this committee. The thousands of letters sent out from head-
quarters to all parts of the Cuited Slates are beginning to show great
results. The mail of every member of the Rules Committee is choked
with demands for action on the special rule.
In the face of all this pressure it is maintained that the committee
must act or stand before the country ;-s blocking this eminently just piece
of legislation. The deputation of West Virginia women, which was
headed by Mrs. Milton McXeilan of I'arkerslmrg. was assured by Chair-
man Henry that the Rules Committee would re|Mirt the resolution. He
made no mention of being bound by the Democratic caucus. This depu-
tation included among its members two Congressmen from West Vir-
ginia, the lion. M. M. Xeely, a Democrat, ami the lion. Hunter II. Moss,
a Republican. Nearly every Stale deputation has been assisted by the
members of the House from their respective Slates. This is part of the
handwriting on the wall, and should spur every suffragist to renewed en-
deavor. The Congressional Cnion plans to continue this line of work
until ihe goal is won.
MISFORTUNES OF WAR
Anti-Suffrage Candidate to U. S. Senate Forced to Appeal to Women Voters,
(icorgc W. Turner |