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wmmmsmsm SK5jdB. (iwpii NEW YORK TOO QUIET, SAYS MOTHER JONES New York, Oct. 6. "New York's too DAMNED quiet. This traction strike is too much like,a picnic. I'm going to stir 'em- up and I'm going to do it through the women." Eighty - six - year - old "Mother" Jones, angel of the mine camps, who stirred women to the riot stage last night, commented thus today, prom ising at the same time that the me tropolis would see some "fireworks" before she was done.-With every sen tence she pounded her fist on a table to drive home her remarks. "This labor trouble in New York is just the s'tart of a social revolu tion all over the country' she said. "I had hoped that it wasn't, but it is. And it's really the women who count in any nation. They start re forms and revolutions. You know they made the men tear down the Bastile in the French revolution and you know there's never been a king in Prance since then. "Yes, they did stir things up a bit last night," she said, reverting to the riot incident. "You (know women are queer." Just then the telephone rang. A man at the other end informed "Mother" that two of the women rioters had been held for the grand jury. ''Oh, that's all right," she replied. "It'll all come out all right." "This city is money mad," she con tinued. "The pirates down in-Wall street are fanatical' with their mil lions. And the mayor apparently is corporation-controlled. But they can't scare us with grand juries. You know I've been in the bullpen my self." She hammered on the table again. rtNo, we're going to stir this old' town up. Women can't be depraved and starved, for if they are the na tion will be criminal and depraved. We've got to have the full pay en velope every week and the mothers must have a chance at happiness, , 'Tes, the old town's too damned quiet We've got to get the women together. The city is brutalized; the nation is brutalized, all because the pirates take all the money. That's why we build jails instead of homes." "Mother" will stay in town a while. She lias to see the "boys" and will take their orders, but she revealed that there's trouble ahead recalling the days of the 1900 coal strike, when she led a frenzied crowd of women over the hills and "beat the capitalist militia." WILSON WELL PLEASED WITH OMAHA RECEPTION President Wilson, stopping in Chi cago for a few hours today en route to his summer home at Long Branch, is a happy man. It cannot be denied that Nebraska's welcome to the ex ecutive yesterday has made a tre mendous impression on the Demo cratic leaders and has stirred the president himself to a new optimism as to the outcome of the election. The demonstration . accorded his ever appearance was unique in the history of the Nebraska metropolis, Nebraskans declared. It reached a climax last night wlien thousands lined the streets of Omaha until a late hour to cheer him. The great auditorium was jammed to the doors to hear him. But outside of the crowds, which might have flocked to pay tribute to any executive, the president's friends pointed to the outbursts of the audi orium throng. Question after ques tion sprang from that audience, each one hailed with an outburst of cheering. "Who kept us out of the war?" was one.' "Wilson," was the answering roar "Who saved the nation?" Again: "Wilson." "Who prevented the great strike?" "Who gave us the 8-hour day?" "Who gave us the rural credits7" were asked and always with applause the answer was "Wilson," MIUaiMggMltfttiMIMHiiiiMiilii