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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVI, Issue 2373, 14 December 1908, Page 5

According to Eugene V. Debfi, the ■Socialist candidate for the United States women are to be the means of bringing about the ultimate success of this party. Mr Debs F.eft Kansas at nine o’clock one morning in the lied Special for St. Joseph, Missouri. When the tram pulled out the candidate was eating breakfast, in the dining-car. “It was a great meeting last night, he said, “and the women —the women are so responsible. They made up 40 per cent of the audience, and they were interested, too. That’s the element upon which our success depends. Do you know that women have been the •backbone of every. revolution ? Suppose Joan , d’Arc had. been a man—. Yes, sir, when a woman is stirred up, or riled up there is something infectious in her spirit!” Are you. married,, Mr. Debs?” a visitor asked. “Twenty-five years — and I know.”