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SOCIALISM FOR ALL1 | It Does Not Concern Only One-half of I the Human Family. |' j Th*1 [irt'Miiliug ciipltullst code of , •■rtumanjj” behavior to;- women It vlo-| JnIt'll ty iijs* wuiuita tvliv ueiuumls itie j j li.il'u1 ami who sUnIii- uud talks on i | imhtK.i! ami Industrie! questions, bat s | In-. has eo orguuized| our “wial ami industrial Institutions I tint i1. v.i.*vUi r.:e la Its pu.'Crtj, Iw 4 tilde a *5e in footed ten omenta, It* facto-riod timl awl*.i(shops, its brothels and ^ jails. its arinv of unoniployed, its dla-( fruin hi-eii, di'diilR'dtcd, exploited wurk-I I’m. iliry a:I- demanding the right to wide: the:; lives uud relieve tbetu-3 solves a ad tlieir children or sUUb Ueed-1 less ujip'ie-stullAnything that concerns the welfare - j of our gieut human family coueeruB ■ Its women most of ull We are half* the raioj we are in others of the race.The diviee of mteliigence chat enables li$ to spin and weave, bake and f j sew, design mid create myriad terms of use and beauty, 1# too great foi us to continue long us Inferior, contented i li aye s!u\i's The mote intelligent tile, 6iu\e the more discontented Is he with1 slu very.liverj problem that confront# her brother worker confronts woman as well; every evil of capitalism from | which ho suffers sho suffers, and oth-*' ers besides.Every class has Its own ethics, and J thus capitalist ethics condemn every effort of man or woman that tends to overthrow eupUnIl#iu.3 There are 5,000.000 women tollingIn our industries in this country, 4.000,-s 000 more than own homes of their own, Do you wonder some of us be-r gin to notice?3 This, to say nothing of the millionsr - of patient victims who are working as housewives at what would he about fifteen separate, specialized oecupa-t tlons, with crude tools and methods* of four generations ago Instead of hav-* lng at command ail the wonderful forces of steam, electricity and ma- ]“ | chanlcal device to make productive ]J j and ltllccti'.’g their labors. e These are harder to educate to political (collective) action. Their efforts are expended Indlrtdually; they work alone in Isolated kitchens; they do not come In direct contact with the wag* System; then, too, they are affected by the many agencies capitalism employs to control their brains and keep them from acting In their own behalf, as 1srhoolbook trust book#, edltori, lecturers aud preacher* wrongly educated In privately endowed institutions of “learnlog,” where tbs student's truat la betrayed and ha la kept Ignorant of or is misinformed about the methods of the capitalistic confiscation of wealth through the ewnershlp of the tools of production.Women are learning rapidly now that the ethical force# are conditioned In their actual sphere of operation by i the economic relations; that thoy cannot by Individual effort protect and rear their children well—it requires collective effort to gst proper hygienic conditions, education, wholesome food, pure water aud many other things. 1 These matters of life and death are decided at the ballot box. As hood as women learn the truth you will nut find them supporting a legal institution that force# them to sell $2,500 ishop newer for *447 We have b*#n hunting bargains too long for that.A few sanction giving ths ballot to ! women with property—sacred propftr- 1 tr—more sacred now thau lift. If a woman with property needs tb* ballot, how much more does it mean to the cue with absolutely nothing but her labor power to depend upon, and how easy to move on from euch precedent to disfranchising men without property!Socialism offer# to women every opportunity, political and industrial. tVe must learn how to act collective-j ly to Temove wrong, outgrown Institutions and establish right ones 11 et -;« use and develop every power 1and faculty In defense of ourselves and the race we bring Into the world,j —Gertrude Breslau Hunt In Boelalj Democratic Herald.Union Death Benefit#.
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Racine Index
Racine, Wisconsin, US
Fri, Nov 01, 1907
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