i o The Women of Mississippi.
Some of you know already of the
-urpose to unite all organizations in the
•tate having women as members in an
|Fort to get some needed legislation
our children as the result of a
meeting of representatives from sev
»>al organizations held last March in
Greenwood, an invitation to all such
-tate organizations was sent out and at
lattiesburg a meeting was held to or
pnize a Central Committee for work
(long these lines, I was elected chair
nan and Mrs. P. M. Fulger, of Mc
^omb Citv, was elected secretary. It
vas decided to work for the following
cgislation:
^ 1st. Improved Child Labor Laws.
Experts in this work tell us that Mis
I’ssippi’s Child Labor Laws are the best
i|,-to be found in any State, but the laws
Jf^are not worth the paper they are writ
Ijften on, because we have none whose
* duty it is to see that they are enforced.
> 30 that they are just more material to
>stow away in Mississippi’s Charnal
House—her dead laws. We Greenwood
people think we have an unusually en
lightened class of citizens, and any one
would think that a man who is intelli
gent enough to be a depot agent,
would certainly appreciate the neces
sity of study and wholesome recreation
m 1.1 i _— » LI nn/) IT nt 10 O t
lur iii» uu,y ecu um, j -
winter right in the midst of the school
term such a boy with such a parent
came to collect one of the household
bills, and when I said, “You ought to
be in school today, why aren’t you?
the reply was, “Yes’m, I was in school,
but I got a job now.” Where this can
happen in a town where there isn’t a
factory where a child can work, what
do you suppose is happening in towns
where there are factories, canneries,
etc. I am not a suffragist, but who
can doubt that women should be allowed
to say what is best for children? That
js what we were made for. Oh! Wo
manhood of Mississippi, mothers of
our State’s future citizens! Won’t you
arouse yourselves to your duty to all
children? Not only your own—those
you have given birth to—but ail chil
. dren. Won’t you join with us in open
■ ing the eyes of the men of the State
< to their duty in the matter? Some of
t you will not agree with me on all sub
4 jects, but I can come to every woman
in our State with confidence that she
* does in her heart have the real welfare
of the children uppermost. That she
wants her own children and their gen
eration to have a fairer chance in life
than she has had. That she wants
where ignorance and poverty handi
caps the parents, for our State to
stretch her great urm over and around
them and say “i'ii give you the chance
to he the very best men women
you ate capable of bctogjnade, by see
ing that your mind and body shall have
an opportunity to develop as <tod
meant for them to develop.” Our
men are in the midst of toil, day in
and day out, the commercial spirit has
^ them in tlieir grasp, and they do not
see what our children need as we may
, if we will only open our eyes to things
, right around us. W’on’t you held us?
2d. A School for the Insttuction of
Juvenile Offenders of the Law. You
mothers, who spend your lives saying
* “don’t” to your little ones in order to
teach them that all through life that
word must confront them; can’t you
imagine what a poor chance to be hon
est and upright and law-abiding the
/.ViJlrtrpn have who have never had the
blessing of careful training? Children
are ever reaching out for anything
which they fancy; is it any wonder that
sometimes when they have never been
taught the enormity of theft—what it
really means to their own character
that they sometimes steal and in other
ways break the laws of our State?
And then they must be put in the pen
itentiary with all sorts of criminals to
learn every trick of their trade, or
what is almost as bad. they must go
unpunished by the mercy of the court.
iWhat can a man do when he comes
out of prison with the stain of the
prisos on his name? And think of a
boy or a girl who comes out of prison
with this terrible blot, this thing to sap
all pride, all hope from his or her soul!
When I see this terrible shape hover
Iing our children, who have never had
a fair chance to even be good children,
I’d life to take them all in my arms
and shelter them from it Don’t you
feel it, you mothers of Mississippi chil
dren? If a terrible scourge of disease
fcame and knocked at the doors of our
homes, which one of you would stand
back when you could get between that
gaunt figure and our children? This
which threatens our poor little folks
is worse than any disease which ever
destroyed the body, for it kills the
soul. Will you stand by and seet it
enter any home no matter how humble
or how ignorant or rough? Won’t you
help us to see that these poor little of
fenders have a fair chance? That our
State prepares a place where they can
be lifted from the depths of ignorance
and sin to the plain of upright man
hood and womanhood? And won’t you
ask your men to see that it isn’t called
a “Reformatory” but a “School?”
For how can we re-form something
which has never been formed? And
why start them out with the shadow
of a past over them? Won’t you help
us? 1
3d. Raising the Age of Consent
From 12 to 18 Years. Women of Mis
sissippi, we can’t do away with sin by
shutting our eyes to it. We women
have tried that for hundreds and hun
dreds of years; is there less or more
of sin now? We have left men to take
care of 3in exclusively, because under
some erroneous idea we believed that
we should not come in contact with it
even with our thoughts. Can't you
remember how terribly ignorant you
were as to your own purpose of being
until long years after you were an in
telligent woman on every subject with
which the every day woman has to
deal? Think of a little child, a girl
twelve years old, being by the law ad
judged capable of giving away that
which is more priceless than life itself!
Think of the fact that a “whited sep
ulchre,” or an attractive villian, may
come along, and because of this child’s
very ignorance pilch from her this
priceless gift, pnd then have tho law
hold him guiltless because she has
reacted the great age of 12 years!
Fold your little ones to you, and teach
them of these pitfalls, that they may
not stumble and God help you to do it!
But what of those little ones who
haven’t this help? How are they to be
protected? Shall they be abandoned
because they haven’t this care at home?
And how about the influence on your
boys’ minds when they see how low an
estimate is put upon virtue? Can they
have a horror of sin when their own
Stato sets so little value on virtue that
if the victim be only 12 years old and
has not fought against her ruin, the
man who has accomplished it may be
held sinless by a great State? Does
your blood keep its normal temperature
when you think of this? Men are not
made for solving these problems. As
proof of this, if a girl under 21 attempts
to give away any piece of property
save only her own body, she owned,
the law would step in and say “you
cannot do it.” And if any man or
woman tried to persuade her to do it in
an unlawful way he or she would be
accountable to the law for it. How
about this tor consistency? Won’t you
help us to right this wrong?
4th. Physical Examination of all
Public School Children. I wish I had
time to tell you how many children
have been maimed body and mind,
through life, because of the ignorance
on the part of their parents of some
physical defect, which if it had been
taken in time might have been cured.
How many epidemics of diphtheria and
other contagious diseases among the
children might have been prevented if
to begin with the school authorities
had known that one of the children had
the disease. You can see how easily
all this can be true. When Dr. Sims,
a fine eye specialist, took charge of the
Blind Institute in Jackson he found it
possible to cure, to restore the sight,
of a large per cent, of those who came
when they were still young. Won’t
you help us with this?
5th. Making Women Eligible as
State and County Superintendents of
Education, on the School Boards, and
on the Boards of Trustees of the Ele
mosynary Institutions of the State.
What is more in and of a woman’s
place than in looking after children in
every way? That is what we are made
for. I would not have the school board
entirely of women any more than I
would have it entirely of men. We
need both. We need the care of both
mothers and fathers to have the best
possible homes. And we need intelli
gent women on our school boards as
well as intelligent men.
And in the Elemosynary Institutions
there are women inmates, can men
know their needs as well as women
would? If we had women on those
boards, do you think that when a poor
ummiin loses hpr mind shp would hp
seut to the insane hospital solely in the
care of the sheriff or his deputy, and
not have some woman along to care
for her as she should be cared for?
Men don’t think of those things, they
can’t, they are absorbed in the big
thrigs.
Who can make $1.00 go as far as $2.00
best, a man or woman? Who has been
trained in economizing in little things
in order to do this, men or women? It
would save the State many a dollar if
there were a few women on the boards
of trustees. Won’t you help up with
this?
6th. Compulsory Education. To my
mind this is one of the mont important
objects, for several reasons: First, no
man or woman who hasn’t a common
school education, that is who has not
been through a high school course, has
a fair chance in life. After that if
they are capable of using more, or the
higher education, they will get it for
themselves. The average age of a
graduate in our high school is, I should
think, about 18 or 19. What child
under that age is wise enough to decide
for himself or herself the most import
ant thing in life? And how can par
ents who are in many instances too ig
noaant to know what a handicap ignor
ance is, be entrusted with the duty of
being the sole judge of whether their
children shall grow up in the same ig
r.orance, or shall take advantage of tl e
education the State offers them? Is it
not the duty of the State to step in and
say. “My destiny lies in the hands of
these my future citizens, and they shall
not grow up in ignorance, for ignorance
cannot do the best for any country!"
We are feeling safe under our present
Constitution, but I heard the sather of
that Constitution Bay that oears would
do away with the protection from
ignorance given us by the “understand
ing clause,” for the negro would learn
to read it. And the danger was that,
feeling safe under it, the white man
might overlook the fact that it is nec
essary for his childreu to advance in
knowledge of everything it takes for
the safety of a State, in order that
they might evolve other methods as
they are needed. Can ignorance evolve
any good thing? I khow it is so in
some counties, and I dare to say to
each of you ask the Supt. of Education
in your county which race has the lar
gest per cent, of it’s children failing to
take advantage of the schools furnished
by the State, the white or the black?
and the answer would be the white!
Nearly every negro child goes to school
nearest him all the time it is open.
And all of us know the numbers of
white children who go to school or not,
just as it suits them or the selfish con
venience of their families. The whole
world is taking ignorance by the throat
and throttling the life out of it; are
we going to ue wining novc
children more ignorant than the chil
dren of the rest of the world?
Some comparative statistics on the
percentage of Ignorance in the States
of this Union place Mississippi about
42 in the line. Are we proud of that
showing? Won’t you help us te have
the State see to it that every child
within her borders takes an education?
The men will do these things for our
children if we but awaken to our duty
and point it out to them.
The Central Committee Lelieving in
an all-wise, all-powerful, all-loving and
merciful God, who will do all that He
has promised to do, help His children
in their efforts for the furtherance of
His Hingdom, are asking the women
all over the State to meet in one place
in each town or neighborhood at four
o'clock on the afternoon of Sunday,
the elecenth of January, 1914, and pray
for the success of these objects. Will
you do this? And let us remember
that God does not promise us anything
but the land upon which the sole of our
foot presses. We are to do all we can
and then He’ll help us to accomplish.
MRS. T. R. HENDERSON,
(Lizzie George Henderson,)
Chairman Central Committee Woman’s
Organizations.
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