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Show KATE S. IILLID IS TO LEAVE OGDEN TOWW Kate S. HilHard, who, with Mr. Hil-llard. Hil-llard. Is leaving Ogden to make a home for, and enjoy the companionship companion-ship of, her daughter Dr. Ruth HilHard, Hil-Hard, physician In charge of the New Jersey State Home for Girls at Trenton, Tren-ton, N. J., began (or continued) her public work with her advent In Ogden thirty yearB ago. For eight years, Mrs. Hilliard was the only Gentile member of the We-beV We-beV County Suffrage association and was Mrs. Jennie NelBon'B able vice president in the association in the midst of the strenuous fight for suffrage suf-frage in Utah. She Joined the suffragists suf-fragists because of the injustice done In disfranchising the women of Utah and set aside all prejudice by honestly honest-ly and fearlessly striving to regain the franchise. While the suffragiBts were in Salt Lake City conferring with the lawmakers, law-makers, the anti-suffragists called a mass meeting in Ogden with the intention in-tention of deluging the conference with anti-suffrage resolutions. They reckoned without their host, for tho suffragiBts hurried back to Ogden and made a house to house canvass and scored an overwhelming victory for suffrage. Mrs. Hilliard regards suffrage suf-frage as merely a stepping stone for women to conquer In the line of their advancement. She says while there is economio slavery for women thoro can be no realization of the high Ideals of womanhood without which the emancipation of labor is impossible. impos-sible. In other words, society cannot thrive half Blave and half free. It is worthy of note in jmsslng that the first candidate for city office under the now suffrage was a Gentilo woman wom-an pnd It was not Mrs. Hilliard either. Mrs. HllHaxd -Whs a delegate to tho Populist National convention In St. Louis in 1896 and a Judgo of elac- tlon In the first presidential election in the state. She joined tho National Social Democratic party at the time Eugeue V. Debs was released from Woodstock jail and later helped organize or-ganize and was a charter member of, the local Socialist party. For Mrs Hilliard the Socialist party existed only as a means of propaganda for the cnuso she loves Socialism. When the poison of the fallacious economic and political doctrines exploited ex-ploited by the powers that be in the Socialist party headquarters bid fair to permeate Ogden local, Mrs. Hilliard Hil-liard resigned and later joined the Socialist Labor party, of which she is still a member. The Socialist party votes of labor here or abroad, unbacked by the economic or industrial indus-trial union of the workers, she main talus, are weaker than the proverbial "scrap of paper" and invite confusion and disaster. The following incident illuminates the saying, "Kate S. Hilliard is try ing to run things " Roosevelt was to visit Ogden and the police staged an anarchist scare by sleuthing and arresting ar-resting inoffensive Adolph Korn, a barber and a member of the Socialist party. They took a jacknifo from bis person and a pistol from his room and deprived him of his liberty for a day while Roosevelt was In the city. Indignant Socialists (?) solicited Mrs Hilliard to write a protest for publication publi-cation which was approved at a regular regu-lar meeting of the party, but no man had courage to sign It, let alone deliver deliv-er It to an Indulgent press. Mrs. Hilliard was deterred from going the rest of the way by her daughter, who aBked why the men could not do their share. There was no protest and by the same token many endeavors for the good of Ogden and humanity that brought results to be proud of would have died still born In this courageous woman nan Deen lnrm-enced lnrm-enced by falBo modesty and petty jealousies. For approximately five years Mrs. Hilliard was chairman of the editorial committee in charge of the Socialist department of the Ogden Standard, first for the Socialist party and after her resignation, for the Marxian club. Besides original articles, the Socialist Social-ist Labor party Daily and Weekly people were largely quoted and many lectures by Us former editor and the greatest Socialist, the late Daniel DeLeon, were given In full. Campaign stuff was run in season. When it Is remembered that the W. O. T. U. and the Ogden Trades assembly, Socialist party and Marxian " Socialists were given space aggregating aggregat-ing a page and. a half to two pages ' a week absolutely uncensored and free of charge besides honoring signed sign-ed communications on public questions, ques-tions, nays Mrs. Hilliard: "It Is evident evi-dent that Mr. Qlasmann's public spirit spir-it Is exceeded only by his generosity." Among the many addresses and papers pa-pers given by Mrs. Hilliard are"Wlll the Ballot Solve the Economic Question?" (delivered at tho convention of the Women's National Suffrage association, associa-tion, Portland, Oro.) 1905, "Why I Belong Be-long to no Church" at Congregational church, courtesy of Mr. Elderkln and "Preparedness for Peace" courtesy of Mr. Fleetwood, of the Sunday Night club. She was delegate to tho G. F. W C. convention held In Boston, in 1908. Mrs. Hilliard took leading partB in the State Industrial school Investigation, Investiga-tion, the retail clerks early closing movement and in tho opposition to the half-day school plan. She still maintains main-tains that the half-day plan had its inception in a desire to let down tho bars to the exploiters of child labor. Kate S. Hilliard. Is without equivocation. equivo-cation. People know, whore she Btands. To her friends an Inspiration and a bulwark to her enemies a power pow-er to he reckonod with. One of her political opponents said of her, "Mrs. Hilliard Is all right hut she has too many brains." A fellowr member of the Child Cul-j - ture club wrote these lines,: "She does some things with such surprise That we can scarce believe our eyes, Yet when its done and we awake We find she did ot for our Bake." Woll deserved appreciation may not be the spice of life but there Is no doubt but that It adds to the term and sphere of our helpfulness to one another. Unfortunately, appreciation Is like some kinds of life Insurance you have to die to win it. The mission of the Socialist Is to pave the way for the Industrial Republic Re-public by awakening the workers to their class interests thus automatically automatical-ly ending war and class rule that thrives on war. True appreciation of Kate S. Hilliard and her work consists" con-sists" In knowing her as Bhe Is an untllnching, revolutionary Socialist ' (Signed) EUGENE A. BATTELL |
