Show member of minnesota speakers bureau points out bartys record APPEALS TO ALL SECTIONS republicans mainly instrumental in giving the ba lot to women hae had interests of women and children at heart miss abny blomstrom Lom strom of the hen bepin county minn speakers bv reau tells why sha s a republican 1 I choose thia piny because of it broad principles which enable it to embrace the interests of all the peo pie not only of a small section or class the republican party has been mainly instrumental in giving the bal lot to women while suffrage was secured to us not because of but in spite of the democratic patty the republican party has always stood in the front rank of w elfere leg Islat lon it has numerous laws in divor of labor to its credit it lias always had the interests of women and children at heart and it was a lie publican congress that passed the bill incorporating the ked cross in the matter of child labor the hand maiden of illiteracy I 1 find that there are 50 times as many young children employed in lodus try in the democratic states as are employed in the republican ones the percentage of illiteracy according to the united states census of 1910 ranged from 29 per cent in louisiana to 17 per cent in republican iowa with statistics denying the statement that the high per cent of illiteracy in the south Is brought about by the ignorant colored vote only f evan of the democratic bemo cratic states have a compulsory education law and in some of these the entire session Is so short and the exemptions absurd as to make the law a mere pretense only six democratic states have a mothers pension law only three democratic states in the nation grant to equal guardianship with fathers over their children the republican party ins the ablest leadership and the most con the program it has always been the parta of a strong vigorous union it has ever put the united states before the individual states other party can we women look to with as much confidence the past Is to be the judge of the future |