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PROTECTION OF MATERNITY. 
education and agriculture, having in interest in the human welfare in 
that respect, ought to be brought into the same correlated activities 
with the Children’s Bureau. 
STATEMENT OF MRS. HENRY W. KEYES. 
The Chairman. You will not be offended, I take it, Mrs. Keyes, 
if I will ask you if your husband is a member of the Senate ? 
Mrs. Keyes. Not at all; being only that by marriage to the Senator 
is perhaps why I am so interested in seeing that it does good work. 
When I first came before this committee, which was a year ago, 
I came as an antisuffragist, however, in favor of the bill, and I was 
not connected with any organization at all. I came simply as a 
farmer’s wife, who has done work in the rural districts, where there 
has been much suffering by the women, and I came as a mother, 
and, having three sons, I do not suppose that I will be accused of 
having very much interest in birth control. 
I will say, Mr. Chairman, that I have written the resolution adopted 
by the Daughters of the American Revolution, so though I am not 
an official representative of it, I have been connected with an organi 
zation of 200,000 women in that way, and also I have been asked to 
represent the National League of American Pen Women, of which I 
am vice president, and which for a long time has been doing every 
thing in its power to procure the passage of this bill. 
Let me say, Mr. Chairman, when a witness against this bill appears 
before this committee and says that it has not had much publicity, 
I could not help but wonder if she knows that two of the largest 
women’s magazines in the United States, Good Housekeeping, with 
a circulation of a million or more, and Pictorial Review, with a very 
large circulation, have constantly published articles in favor of this 
bill. Then, you must take into consideration that it represents 
about five times as much as the circulation, because one is read by 
five different people, and that a great many of the newspapers 
throughout the country, among them the Public Ledger and the 
Boston Transcript, have published articles in regard to this bill, 
which I think may safely be said to stand for all that is self-respecting, 
and even so conservative a magazine as the Atlantic Monthly has 
come out in favor of this help for mothers. 
Mr. Chairman, you have already been given the statistics by 
women more capable of giving them than I am, and you have had 
the women’s organizations represented before you by women much 
more capable than I am, and I am going to speak in a rather different 
vein. I will illustrate my remarks by telling a story which was told 
to me by the wife of one our southern Senators. She said that on 
her plantation was an old darky mammy, who came to her and 
informed her that she had been sent as a delegate to the convention 
of one of her societies. She wanted to know what she would talk 
about. The Senator’s wife told her to say whatever came into her 
mind. Being somewhat interested in the old mammy, the Senator’s 
wife went to hear what the old darky would say, and her time came 
to speak very late in the day, and she arose to her feet and she said, 
“Well, we have been here for some long time, and we have heard 
about how women is coming and coming and coming, and all I wish 
to say is that I think she is came.”