TO THE EDITOR OF THE NATION:
SIR: Your fine editorial, entitled Wanted: Leadership, provokes a reply. The Progressives have a leader ready to their hand, one whose devotion to lofty ideals, combined with practical efficiency, is common knowledge.
If the masters of Big Business can get together in a hotel room and decide that the country must have a ruthless imperialist as the leading Presidential candidate, may not Progressives, who do not want war abroad, or injustice at home, also get together and nominate this priceless women, Jane Addams, as a candidate for the highest office the nation can bestow?
Would not the affairs of the country be safer in her hands than in those of any of the men you have mentioned as the likeliest candidates in the coming contest? Jane Addams, if she were President, would really and truly keep us out of war, and she could be trusted to rectify every injustice that it was in her power to set right.
If the mere fact of her sex would prevent her election, shame on us as a nation! Men have governed the country a long time, and not with unqualified success. Now let this superb woman be invited to guide the car of state.
CAROLINE L. GOODENOUGH
Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, October 7
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