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Show GOV. JOHNSON EXALTSJOMEN Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 30. "Women "Wom-en are responsible for the new philosophy philos-ophy of government the philosophy which set human above material things," Governor Hiram W. Johnson said yesterday In an address here before be-fore the Womans' Council. Governor Johnson pointed out the many laws In which women of California Cali-fornia had the fight; the eight-hour law, the Immigration bill, tho red light abatement bill, teachers and mothers pensions and workmen's compensation. For all these Governor Gover-nor Johnson gave tho women much credit. "But do not think," he said, "that I have come here to compliment you alone. You have brought to politics pol-itics a new area, but you have many of the faults under which men suffer. suf-fer. "You like the limelight. You are almost as vain as men. "Some of you are prejudiced and harsh. "In short, you aro exactly the same as your brethren except for one thing. They bring a. fetich of tradition to politics you think 'only of the concrete con-crete present. And in that fact lies much of your power. "I can remember when government was an inLingible thing when one thought of it as some power. Women have done more than change laws; they have made of government a common com-mon ordinary useful thing. "With women has arisen a new philosophy of government; a worldwide world-wide philosophy which belongs to no party, no sect, nor no sex. This new phllosophv believes that the government's govern-ment's purpose is to make people happier; to make them better; that the only successful government is one which docs this." |
