October 5: ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
ON THIS DAY IN 1919, Brooklyn Daily Eagle columnist Frederick Boyd Stevenson said, “It is obvious, without discussion, that when President Wilson called the conference between Labor and Capital, which will convene tomorrow, he had in mind the one great idea to bring about such unity among the now many contending factions as to make strikes of the future mere possibilities instead of probabilities. Will this object be attained? It depends upon how near Labor and Capital can come together. It depends upon the desires of all the factions to get together; upon the willingness of all to make concessions; upon the willingness of all to admit that the other side has rights. Success lies at a halfway point. It will never come if all factions are intent only in gaining special points of advantage for themselves. It can only come if the idea of union is universal, and this union must embrace, not alone industrialism, but, first and last, Americanism.”
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ON THIS DAY IN 1922, an Eagle editorial said, “Four women are in the open this year as candidates for the United States Senate. Mrs. Ella A. Boole of New York and Miss Rachel C. Robinson of Pennsylvania, both Prohibitionists, lead forlorn hopes. There isn’t much chance for Mrs. Ben Hooper, regular Democratic candidate in Wisconsin, against [Robert M.] La Follette. Mrs. Peter Oleson of Minnesota, likewise a regular Democrat, may possibly beat Senator [Frank B.] Kellogg, and be the first woman to wear a toga, though Mrs. [Rebecca Latimer] Felton of Georgia is already a Senator by appointment. Ten other women are making contests in the different States for membership in the Lower House. Mrs. Alice Robertson, anti-bonus Republican in Oklahoma, has the best chance. She is a sitting member. Four other female aspirants are Republicans, three are Democrats, one is a Socialist. In our opinion the showing indicated above does not mean anything revolutionary or perilous. Women are going slowly in entering public life. The leaders of thought among them are not anxious to have them rush into competition at the polls in large numbers. Many of them need to study the practical phases of political government. That a gradual infiltration of law-making bodies, national and State, with feminine idealism may be helpful is a pretty common belief, even among practical men. Gradual infiltration is all that need be anticipated.”
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