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Wants Men to Stand.The Woman’s Municipal Ownership League, of Chicago, under the direction of Mrs. Minano Stearns Fitts, has started a crusade against men who monopolize car seats when women are standing, says Leslie’s Weekly. Cards are distributed to men who are seated in street cars while women are tand-ing. The cards bear the following legend: “Gentlemen, stand up and give the women seats. You can vote for municipal ownership and stop this thing—they can not.” Mrs. Fitts is credited with being the originator of this original scheme, which created quite a sensatiop. The idea was to call the attention of the inen to the fact that voters were responsible for existing conditions, and to show both menA-O ‘ ; ; 'and women that if men claim that women are a protected class, women, some of them at least, have sufficient v courage to demand that protection, t Many men confessed that the card b was the tirst reminder they had ever * uid that men are, indeed, responsible fl for evil civic conditions, and that worn- I on are not responsible, yet suffer equal-y with them the injury done. Mr . °itts belongs to a family of reformers, all of whom possess “the disposition to break up the old and adopt the new,” as she expresses it. One of Mrs. *itts* sisters is head of the Wisconsin Librarian'Commission, and has a national reputation. Another sister is u mayor of Florence, Ore.
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Indianapolis Patriot Phalanx
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Thu, Nov 09, 1899
Page 8
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