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Women’s Clubs IWhy Woman Should Be Socialist*.I. Mass E. H. Thom**, State Secretary .Socialist Party of Wisconaln:Women as mothers of the race, aredealers in future*.’' The socialist republic is not a mushroom to spring up in a night; it is an oak of alow but sure growth. The woman who does not hope to see this growth matured in her own life time, should remember that hor children will reap the fruits of her labor for socialism. The mother who would save hor son from the life of a wage slave, and her daughter from the more dreadful fate tho slave of a slave, should throw herself with all the strength of maternal altruism into the only cause that can make equal opportunities for all tho childron of the human race.II. May Wood Simon, well known writer and lecturer on ecicntille socialism:Why should womon become socialists! Because they are a part of the great working class and have tke same low wuges, same bitter working conditions and the same miserable treatment from their employers to struggle with that tho working man has.Kverv working woman should be a socialist because it means her economic and political freedom. Sho can never better her condition until she has both the ballot and is free from wage bondage.Women should be socialists because it means the freedom of the children from tho terrible condition s under which the children of the present labor. It will give thorn an opportunity to live and a chance to be men and women.Socialism would lestore the home in which womon will ever be the center. Working women must be socialists.III. Gertrude Breslau Hunt, lecturer and national organizer for social iat party:Women suffer even more acutely thsn men from all the evils of tke present system. Women's interests aa mothers would alone be sufficient to bring them into the socialist movement. If woman expects to gain for herself she will be glad to help make this a fit plaoo for her child to live in. Children could not be exploited and their littlo lives ground into profit for some cotton mill king to throw to his dogs.Our robbed and burdened childhood should stir the most sluggish heart to action or there is no manhood or womanhood in us.Every interest of woman would lead her to the socialist movement, her interest as a citizen, as an individual, as a worker, as a mother, as one possessed of unquenchable enthusiasm or right.IV. Helen I'nterman, writer on sex problems:If I wore to ask any socialist man whether he had not bcnefitted physically, morally and mentally by the study of socialism, 1 am certain be would answer in the affirmative.If then, the study of socialism is Ix-neficial to men, it must be equally so to the women.It is the study of socialism that will inako you understand why there is poverty, why there is sickness, why there is ugliness, why there is crime, why there are so few happy homes, aye, so few homes at all. In this and so many other things socialism will enlighten you. But it will not only bring to you the understanding why these undesirable and unhealthy conditions exist, but also tells wbat to do In order to do away with them.And ns you learn to understand wbat roeialism means to you, you will also bring this understanding to your beloved ones. In time when you have learned to sympathize with tho m-soty of the whole world, you will no longer bo aaticficd by merely bringing this understanding to your loved ones: your heart will roach out to all who are in need of it, be they women, men or children.V. Iiuclla Krohbiel, State Organ liter Socialist Party of Knuaaa:Inm a socialist because I discovered years ago that it is ‘not Ood's decree' but the difference in economic supp rt that produces tho different i-Ianaes of eocioty.No juet person will deny that it is an unjuat condition of aneiety where some slave and produce all their lives yet live in poverty, while on the other band tboro are thoeo who “toil not neithor do they epln yet they control millions more than they need. Now I am a eoclulist because socialism would syetomatlzo tho great process of producing and distributing* life's necessities and thereby equalise its burdens sad opportunists# From Boat* list Woman.
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Helena, Montana, US
Thu, Jun 27, 1907
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