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William. Oltwtom
KDlTOtUAL, BOARD:
Cit, it. K. Cot!, Chairman.
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JOHK C. MATtTIN. Otntral Bunlnm Manaftr
iuMIhed dally at rustic Lamia Bulldlnt.
-j Independence Square, Philadelphia.
?jtM Central. ..I...... .Broad and Chentnut streets
ATtAtinc CiTT...... ..i..t. rrett-VMon Building
Nkvr Xmx .1T0-A, Metropolitan Tower
Cniciao 817 Home Insurance nulltllrc
t-BNDOX 8 Waterloo Tlace, Pall Mall, B. W.
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LotiiMit Boikau 2,1'aII Mall East. R. W.
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sunscnitTioN terms
W carrier, BAitt ONtr, elx cent. By mall, ponlpald
utalda of Philadelphia, except where fnrelan pontage
l required, Daii.t Onlt, one month, twenty-five rents,
Diar OttT onx year, threa dollar. All mall tub
scrlptlons payable Inyadrnnre
tlfitX, 3000 WAWfUT KEYSTONE, MAIN 3000
Or AdJnss alt communication lo Evening
lit&otTt Independence Square, rhlladelphla.
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xKirnto at tub riiiLAPEt.nttA rosTorrice is becond
class MAIt. MATirtl.
PBILAPELnilA. MOMUV. APl'llL la. 1915.
lie who said that dogs icag their tails not at
their masters, but at their masters' meat,
never had the friendship of a dog.
Still Has Time to Save Its Fnco
OPPONENTS of tho 1913 housing law havo
never specified wherein It is too radical to
bo enforced. They have attacked tho bill ns
a whole, find havo nullified It ns a whole. Tho
Governor, It Is clear, would have agreed to
amendment of tho measure If In any particu
lar It seemed too advanced. Hut he was not
given that opportunity.
Tho Organization, In fact, felt so sure of
Its power and was so Hushed with Its victory
In Councils that It went abend without any
consideration of public sentiment or ordinary
decency. It did not llko tho measure, so It
would have nono of it. But the conopiracy
of substitution has been foiled.
Nevertheless, tho Organization can save its'
face and oven acquire some commendation
from the community, If even at this late dato
It, will meet the issue squarely and fairly,
confer with tho advocatos of good housing-,
nnd Join with them In an effort to assuro
proper sanitary surroundings in tho tene
ments. That Is what it will do if tho veto of
the Governor has had any sobering1 effect
whatever.
No Trouble in East or West
The liberal element of the Republican
party In tho West, which Is greatly In tho
majority, has been assured, and was assured
In this campaign (recent municipal cam
paigns), that tho Republican light In 1916
would bo upon broad and liberal lines with
a view of restoring prospeilty In business,
and alto with a put pose to go forward nnd
deal In practical fashion with tho social
problems which they belleo Imminent for
consideration. This affected favorably the
result, and if this promise is kept In the
platform of 1916 and in tho attitude of tho
party there will be no trouble about tho
West. Senator Bornh.
AND no troublo about tho East. The next
xi. presidential fight will bo won or lost In
the selection of delegates to the Republican
National Convention.
"If You Can Keep Your Head When All
About You "
. -QJAMUEL. J. TILDEN, who proved that ho
O had a level head when ho accepted tho
verdict of the Electoral Commission which
deprived him and tho Democracy of tho
Presidency in 1876, acquired a largo fortuno
by keeping his head when other men lost
theirs. The rulo which ho followed deserves
tho serious consideration of amateur specu
lators attracted to tho stock market by tho
great activity shown there, and by tho rapid
rise In price of somo of tho standard securi
ties. Tilden said that It was his practlco to
buy on a falling- market when every one was
trying to get rid of what ho owned before tho
price went any lower. And conversely It was
his practice to sell on a rising market when
people were rushing In and bidding against
one another to get something before the prlco
went any higher.
But Tilden was a man with a long head,
Who understood human nature and economic
principles, and had patience to wait for his
profit as he had patience to wait for tho vin
dication of his- high patriotism In the great
crisis of the winter of 1876 and 1877. Tho men
like him, who had tho foresight to buy heav
ily of all sorts of commodities needed In their
business during- tho past months of depres
sion, .are those who will reap a rich harvest.
Investors now who let others buy stooka that
are booming, but put their own money Into
those securities which have not yet begun to
Show great activity, will make n certain profit
provided the securities represent a sound
business enterprise.
Grim Romance of the Sea
SOME day a sea writer with imagination
will write the talo of the Eltel Frledrlch
and the Kronprlnz Wilhelm, and he wjll
produce a book which for dramatic thrill
will equal any yarn of tho salt water yet
produced. Tho Kronprlnz Wilhelm has been
afloat for eight months' without touching- at
a Blngle port. She has secured food and coal
from the enemy ships that she sank, and
Jt was only when she failed to find any more
ships from which to tako supplies that she
warf forced to steal her way through the
watching English and French war ships off
tho mouth of the Chesapeako Bay Into neu
tral waters. She has lived through the grim
romance of' the sea, suffering: a metamor
phosis from a gay passenger ship carrying
light-hearted travelers on pleasure bent Into
a. monster of destruction, stealing- upon
unarmed vessels to slaughter them without
compunction. Yes, a yarn could be spun
about her which would thrill or shock the
rader, according to his mood.
General Gorges to the Rescue
QTHINQ better could happen for Servia
at thU time than to have General Gorgas
rtaka the direction of the work of
mlnff out typhus in that afflicted country.
Value of his services Is- suggested by the
'ty of the Rockefeller Foundation to se
Ihem, He is to be fully compensated
the sacrifice he has to make In resigning'
I
( d commission, and if he pays for It with
ls life his widow la to be generously pen
sioned. Considering the. difficulties and dan
gers be Mill be compelled to encounter, and
the heroic nature of the efforts he must make
to combating a deadly peril, the arrange
ment which have been concluded In hs be
half r no more than he deserves. If ho
sm't'cedo In his stupendous task the glory
wilt lw even greater than that which he won
ib Cuba, (a the Canal Zone and in South
Atrh-m,
F..f is prob Uly no or man living;
. h & MAI?! 'if' g " compare
EVEHItfa
with his, though medical officers of distinc
tion havo been many In both American and
foreign artnW. His extraordinary ability Is
enhanced by a measure of experience such
as nono other has enjoyed. What ho docs in
Bervla will not bo dono for Bervla alone. All
Europe, perhaps oven tho Now World, Is
threatened by tho cptdemlo which bas fol
lowed the murderous fighting. It Is a work
of truo humanity In tho broadest senso of tho
word to which General GorgnB has been
called.
The German Cry of Dlstrcsn
mtlE interest which Ambassador Bern
storfC'a memorandum arouses in duo to
its revelation of tho desperato mood of the
Germans. They nro hemmed In by land and
sea and shut off from tho American food
supplies and denied ncce3 to American am
munition factories, because the sea is com
manded by till Allies. Therofore, Germany
accuses the United SUttoi of maintaining an
unreal neutrality, because, forsooth, It does
not uso Its' powor to overcome, In tho Inter
ests of the Germans, tho advantages which
tho Allies havo won by their superior naval
strength.
Tho memorandum Is a cry of distress nnd
not a loglcnl document. It Is an attempt to
blamo a third party for tho griovotls stato
into which Germany has fallen. It Is In
tensely human, nnd should call out tho sym
pathy of nil neutral hearts, but It should
not movo tho Government In Washington to
relax its neutral attitude. Tho Administra
tion has put Itself on record In opposition
to interfcrenco with neutral commcrco with
noutrnl ports In tho wnr zono nnd tho Allies
havo refused to modify their policy. Fur
ther diplomatic protest would accomplish
nothing save to mako tho record moro com
plete. Forco alono could affect tho sltua
ton, and no ono but tho Germans would
havo us tako up arms against tho AIHcb to
compel them to let our ships through tho
wnr zono to tho Holland ports. And If we
should threaten forco tho Allies' would re
mind us that It was Germany which had
warned neutral ships away from tho war
zono and that it was Germany which Is
sinking neutral merchant ships in that
region. So, however wo may look at tho
case, Ambassador Bernstorff's nolo Is moro
remarknblo for Its revelation of tho German
stato of mind than for anything else.
Way Stations to tho White Houso
IF POLITICAL precedents had any moro
binding forco than precedents In Interna
tional law It might ho said thnt tho Sonnto
Is not a station on tho way to tho White
House. Benjamin Harrison is the only Sena
tor who has been elected to tho Presidency
within tho memory of men now living, nnd
he had not taken his seat. He was nominated
and elected in tho Interval between his elec
tion as Senator and tho assembling of Con
gress. Candidates for tho Presidency havo not
boon chosen from among tho Senators be
cause other men havo seemed morn nvnllnblo.
William MrKlnley was nominated after ho
had been defeated for ro-electlon to the Houso
and had won the Governorship of Ohio.
Cleveland was selected tho llrst time because
ho had carried New York Stato In 18S2, and
it was thought that ho could carry it in 1S84
also. Roosevelt was named in violation of nil
precedents becau.se, unllko other Vice Presi
dents who had come Into the Presidency, ho
wns able to command tho nomination. And
Taft was named by Roosevelt, nlthough he
might ns easily have selected Root. Wilson
was promoted from tho Governorship of New
Jersey.
Tho road to the Whito House runs through
tho Governorship of a Stato more often than
by any other route.
Joy Rides in Jitneys
JITNEY Joy-rltllng, such ns filled Broad
street on Saturday night with cro ds of
delighted families, ought not to ho sup
pressed by tho police. Tho sensation of rid
ing up and down Brond street In an automo
bile Is now mado posslblo to thousands who
had never before dreamed of experiencing It.
It Is a harmless amusement, even if It is not
really elevating. It is likely, however, that
philosophers could bo found who would arguo
that It Is elevating, and that those who par
ticipate In it will bo better citizens for tho
rest of their natural lives.
Tho Jitney, with Its low fare, removes ono
souroe of social discontent, becau&o It raises
large masses of tho people from tho stago
whero a rido in an electric car Is a luxury to
tho status where they can enjoy an nutomo
blle ride at no greater expense. Tho million
aire may now loll at his caso In his luxurious
motorcar without exciting tho envy of the
poor man, who at the small cost of a quarter
can take his own family out for an airing in
a motorcar also. When the Jitney proprie
tors realize tho possibilities of this branch of
their business wo aro likely to seo Jitney Joy
riders In Falrmount Park and on tho country
roads as well as in Broad street, and It will
no longer coat $25 to bo driven about the
country for a few hours.
Strange as It may seem, both Villa and
Carranza want to keep Huerta as far from
Mexico as possible.
Mr. Knox doubtlesss thinks that if ho alms
at the Presidency the Benatorehlp may hit
him.
The Cuban Senate passed a bill prohibiting
prize-fights Just five days after the event,
thereby proving itself to be very much like
Senates In the United States.
Another fashion Sunday wilt have to bo
designated before all the new gowns can be
displayed, so Inhospitable Is the weather
toward the gprlng styles.
Do the employes in that big- New Jersey
canning factory close their work every day
by singing Lewis Carroll's charming lyric be
ginning "Soup in the evening, beautiful
soup"?
"Why does the City Club put Its member
ship limit at 1600? The Boston City Club, by
making Itself useful to the city, has secured
EOOO members and a waiting list of several
hundred more without any campaign to In
crease the number,
Congressman Gardner entertained at dinner
in Washington a little less than three-fifths
of the reserve army of the United States, but
It did not tax the capacity of even a small
dining room, for only nine men were present.
But the things which Gardner said at the
dinner about the submarines and the attitude
of the President towurd military prepared
ness taxed (be credulity of reasonable men.
LEDGER PHILADELPHIA', HOKDAY, APTSIE 12, 1916?,
"THE ARMED MAN
WITH EMPTY PURSE"
The Natural History of Bulgaria's
Policy of Kdeping tho Powers
Guessing Divisions of Public
Opinion Tho Coburg Czar.
By VANCE THOMPSON
T710H tho Inst seven months Bulgaria her
X hand on her heart has been protesting
tho sincerity of her lovo for tho Allies. Tho
Bulgarians aro n queer race. They aro a
mixture of Finnish, Turkish nnd Slav blood
a fact which makes for thought. Tho na
tion Id largely ono of peasants, but tho city
dwellers, tho over-pollsbcd citizens of Sofia,
for example, aro curiously civilized. Ghon
nndleft may servo as an example Ho Is tho
ox-Mlnlstor of Foreign Affairs, who In tho
last fow months lias boon serving ad a "go
between" in tho Italo-Bulgnrlan negotia
tions! n suave, udrolt man. That Is tho type.
No matter how they differ In externals, tho
Bulgarian politicians aro always smooth,
shrowd, with underneath something danger
oils' a hint of tho barbaric. That is Grckoff,
tho King's factotum; and that Is Rados
lavoff, tho Prlmo Minister. Bndoslavoft has
vigor nnd astuteness tho astuteness of tho
Turk, which, bated upon craft and a talent
for Indirection, lef yet often mingled with a
largo measure of naivete.
Strango Reading
I got today n lot of Bulgarian newspapers
of recent dates. They mako strango reading.
They gloom and eparklo with hato for tho
Serb nnd the Greek; and yet thoy oxpress
pathetic terror of falling Into tho hands of
a victorious Germany and nn unbeaten Aus
tria. Thoy aro botween tho dovll and tho
deep sen. A couplo of years ago a bit over
in Sofia ono of thoir stntesmon told mo
that tho danger for Bulgarln, ns for nil tho
Balkan States, lay at Berlin "since Austria
Hungary hao becomo tho prey of Berlin,
which has arrogated tho monopoly of com
mand In tho Gorman empires." And today
that fear Is not dead. Only thero is tho
hated Sorb; and thero are tho German mil
lions. What is tho poor Bulgar to do?
Bolng poor ho takes tho money, nnd being
honest ho raids' Servia; but fcarlns tho Gor
man ho sends crnfty diplomatists to parley
with tho Allies. Ho Is In a bad way.
A writer In tho Echo, of Sofia, says
frankly; "When tho war broko out our first
thought was to tako ndvantago of tho con
dition in which tho Servians found them
selves1 and stnb them In tho back."
Thr- second thought wns better, it wns to
negotlalo a loan; nnd also, "following tho
example of Italy and Rumania, to wait and
seo what could bo gained by neutrality."
Only tho peoplo wero not noutral. They
had no concern in tho European war. Tho
educated Bulgarians', tho students of the uni
versity, tho "Intellectuals" had Ideals of
liberty nnd ti not unnntiirnl sympathy for
liberty-loving Franco nnd England; but tho
populaco know nothing cared for nothing
but its keen desire to stab tho Serb. So far
as tho popular mind was concernod thero
was only ono question Revengo and Mace
donia. Tho declaration of neutrality was purely
a diplomatic movo. It meant "Walt and seo
what there Is In It for us." Tho army wns
ready and If you havo not forgotten Klrk
Klleso (when Radko Dlmltnlcff swooped llko
a vulturo on tho Turk) you know that tho
Bulgarian Is a fighting mnn. A couplo of
years had repaired nil tho damago caused
by tho Rumanian invasion. Tho army was
all right. It -was woll equipped, well armed
and eager for vengeance on tho Serb. Tho
financial situation was not good. Tho pub
lic debt was heavy; and thero wero still un
paid tho 648 millions poured out In tho Bal
kan wars'. Tho annual budget for 1915 was
270 millions It had risen from ISO millions
Blnco 1913.
You may picture to yourself Bulgaria as
a hardy soldier man, with ready weapons
and an empty pocket. For seven months ho
stood In tho market place, waiting for tho
highest bidder. Germany gave tho millions
whereof you know; nnd tho bravo soldier
man took a whack nt Servia and bald. "Now
what moro do I get?" And still he waits.
By way of small return for tho Dlsconto
Gesellschaft loan ho has also oppned a way
Into Turkey (which Is of value to Sultan
and Kaiser).
The Allies have not been Idle. They, too,
have parleyed with tho armed man with tho
empty pockets. They havo offered a fair prlco
for neutrality; but thore Is only one thing
he wants Macedonia; and tho Allies can
hardly be expected to chase tholr little friend
Servia out of her dear-bought lands.
Tho Coburg Man Is Not Simple
The Bulgarian peasants (it is entirely an
agricultural country) are slmplo folk; even
the politicians of tho Sobrnnjo are, on the
whole, nalvo; but there 13 ono man in tho
land who is not simple. I havo seen him In
Sofia; I have seen him In the night restau
rants' and on tho racetracks of Paris; he
Is ft huge, fat, red-faced man tall and vast
and ho Is tho Czar of Bulgaria; and he
Is the man of Coburg. There Is another Co
burger, his brother. That one Is the "un
speakable Philip of Coburg," aa he Is called,
who boasted himself, on a notable occasion,
the wickedest man In Europe.
The big nnd bearded Czar of Bulgaria Is
not unlike his brother, save that he does not
beat his wife or get drunlt In public. He
Is a keen-minded man, for all his obesity,
and as shrewd and unprincipled a monaroh
LURE OF FAMOUS
MANY grim, historic tragedies are revived
by the announcement that the Bloody
Tower of tho Tower of London will be opened
to the public at ft small charge
Hitherto UBed for housing some of the ward
ers, the tower is small, of 16th century origin,
and Is situate opposite the Traitors' Gate and
adjoins the Wakefield Tower. Its archway
through which you pass to the inner ward and
the Jewel room is very gloomy, and Is guarded
by a portcullis, the chains and pulleys of which
are still in existence and well preserved. The
sinister title is derived from Its association
in popular legend with the murder of the young
princes, but unfortunately there is a diverg
ence among the authorities as to whether this
or some other part of the tower was the scene
of that atrocious act.
Its most Illustrious prisoner was Sir Walter
Raleigh, who was confined there for many
years In the reign of James I. From an upper
window Raleigh had access to the constable's
garden, where he was permitted to exercise,
and, indeed, at one time, before it acquired Its
evil reputation, it was known as the Garden
Tower. One of the ghosts which persons allege
they have seen flitting mistily about the tower,
by the way. U that of Raleigh.
Since walls though "having ear" cannot
peak, the full measure of human misery and
suffering and of human vtclousness which has
been recorded within the murky receuei of the
Bloody Tower will never be known, but at least
on particularly brutal murder Is establlsbtd aa
having occurred there that of Sir Thomsa Over
bury, in the reign st James X, Qvwburjr waa
aa any in Europe. lie It Is, and not tho
bravo and slmplo peoplo of his land, who
has mado of Bulgaria a hired bravo wait
ing In the market placo of tho world for tho
highest blddor.
Tho Bulgarian press la not free, of course.
You need not expect to find theio any criti
cism of tho double-minded nnd mercenary
ruler of tho land. Hut In newspaper nftcr
newspaper I havo seen tho angor and bit
terness of popular opinion and popular feel
ing. Ono of them writes, "We aro Slavs,
and slnco William Hohenzollorn has thrown
Into tho balance tho destinies of tho Slavic
raco, our duty Is clear." And another comes
back with tho cry of "Macedonia give us
Macedonia and wo will light to tho last
man." A semi-olllclal Journal says it doesn't
seo why Bulgaria should bo menaced and
reproached by all Its old friends In Eu
rope. "Why," ho nsks, "should wo bo ox
pected to bo subllmo? Why don't you re
proach tho Greeks and tho hypocritical
Rumanians, who am only waiting for Tran
sylvania conquered by Russian blood to
bo handed to them? Aro tho Italians doing
anything subllmo? Wo shall try and hold
In check our natural desire to bo subllmo
until wo seo what tho others arc going to
do."
Bulgaria's Life at Stake
Thero Is In Bulgaria a so-called group of
"Intellectuals" (I do not refer, I need hnrdly
say, to Socialists like Tsankoff or Democrats
llko Llaptcheff). Tho "Intellectuals" nro
mado up of tho students and revolutionary
youth of the country. They Btlrred up tho
first Insurrections In Maccdonln. They aro
a forco to be reckoned with and their state
ments aro Interesting. Thoy seo that It is
not a political matter so much as an eco
nomic ono that the life of Bulgaria is the
Issuo at stake. "Of tho Turko-Mngynr-Austro-German
combination, whoso most
visible result was tho ruin of Macedonia, an
other result not less evident was tho en
richment of Gormnn financiers and mer
chants nlono"; and a Berlin victory means'
tho Germanlzatlon of the Balkan States
and their ruin.
These opinions (and many others) aro
echoed in tho Bulgarian pi ess. You .co tho
nation fears and dreads a German victory;
nnd It hopes, with unquenchable hate, that
Servia, tho enemy, may bo utterly destroyed.
In this new nnd moro abiding enmity they
have even forgotten their nnclent hatred for
the Turk. And tho "Volla" can wrlto ap
provingly of the Bulgarians In Thrace who
gathered In ft Turkish mosquo nnd prayed
for tho Sultan A distracted nation armed,
but not knowing what head to hit- Only
nadoslavoff, voicing tho cynical thought of
his Coburg Czar, says: "Our Interest is to
keop the great Powors guessing. They win
only respect us so long as they do not know
on which sldo wo aro going to strike."
It Is not heroic, but It Is practical; and
tho Coburgs are practical men.
There's ft sword for salo in the Balkans.
Who'll buy? Germany has hid 1B0 millions
and paid It half down. Who'll offer Mace
donia? TO A FALLEN STEED
Whero red Is yon receiving clay
With life blood of n hundred more.
Take rest, old friend of yesterday,
Who faced with mo the battle's roar.
No meed appralped your noble share.
Save but a soldier's fond caress;
And now you He rejected there,
Who served me long In faithfulness.
Old friend, you bore ma out of death
In answer to a guiding hand;
I heard the God who gave me breath
And serve my ancient Motherland.
tondon Chronlda.
LONDON TOWER
a friend of the King's Scottish favorite, whose
marriage with the divorced Lady Essex he
opposed.
Highly enraged, this amiable lady caused
Overbury to be cast into the Bloody Tower, and
forthwith Instituted a series of atUmpts to
poison him. A servant of the Infamous poisoner,
Mrs. Turner, was Installed as porter of the
tower, and under his supervision and with the
connivance of the governor, Sir Gervalse Hel
wysa, poison was sent In to the prisoner
mixed with the most of his food, especially his
tarts and Jellies. Overbury seems to have pos
sensed an unusually strong constitution, for
he survived everything until Lady Essex en
gaged a French apothecary, whose poisons were
more potent and proved successful. There wa.
a great olamor when the murder leaked out
and Helwyss was hung in chains on Tower Hill
while Mra Turner was executed at Tyburn
The last prisoner to be Immured in the Bloody
Tower was Thlstlewood. a Cato street con
splrator. Among the inscriptions cut Into its
S.ali U. " Blau- of the Elizabethan
Bishop of Boss, who appended a Latin ouota
tlon. now half obliterated. He galn actoruS
by confessing th. Norfolk and Northumberland
plots, and declared that Mary was privy to
Darnley. death. From these fact.. SlthTugh
It U on. of the smallest of the tower" ft wm
optnlng by the Offle of work. i. ..- Aa'
Ynln. Z .;:: "1. ' PUDUC Th(
SanTlilii -!!.V5tu?,jr ,mal ? tani0"i
,,., w .on, ,
"H'EXPLANATIONS ARE IN H'OEDER"
BEST THOUGHT IN AMERICA
DIGEST OF THE MAGAZINES
(1) independent "Tho Justice and Desir
ability of Woman SulTrngc."
(2) Woman's Journal "Votes for Women
instead of Hello."
(3) Outlook "Womon nnd Wnr.
(4) Atlantic Monthly "A Man In tho
House."
WOMAN SUFFRAGE
OUR grandmothers were young women,
debutantes and brides, when they began
an agitation In two of our largest Eastern
States, which they passed on In turn to their
daughters and granddaughters, and which has
finally, after CO years of uninterrupted strug
gle, resulted In victory for tho women of
both States.
It is nn Interesting coincidence that during
nil these years, while tho men of 13 Western
States havo given the voto to their women,
all tho Eastern States havo stood out against
any compromise, oven to referring tho mat
ter to tho men for a referendum voto.
Finnlly, in 1315, not only Massachusetts nnd
New York nro tho scenes of tho 00 years'
struggle, but two other Eastern States as
v. ell have capitulated and will present the
question of enfranchising women to their
voters this fall. Tho States aro Massachu
setts, Now Jersey, New York and Pennsyl
vania. As tho voting time approaches, September
for New Jersey and November In tho other
threo States, tho women of these four Com
monwealths aro putting up a great fight for
tho "cause." In tho meantime, tho newspn
pcrs are nlready publishing special suffrage
numbers, given over entirely or in part to
women editors and suffrage news, and tho
magazines and weeklies aro dovotlng an In
creasing amount of spaco to articles on suf
frage and feminism.
Tho Independent (1) summarizes editor
ially five reasons for giving women tho
voto:
Women should voto for four good and suf
flcent reasons and for ono other leason
greater than nil four. And tho four reasons
nro theso:
It will bo good for tho women.
It will bo good for the men.
It will bo good for tho family.
It will bo good for tho State.
But to como to tho last nnd greatest icu
son of all. Partial suffrage tho suffrage of
men alone Is a denial of democracy. De
mocracy will nover bo full and complete until
every Individual In tho community has an
equal right to dotcrmlne how the affairs of
tho community shall be managed. Democracy
the rulo of tho peoplo Is no democraoy
whilo half of tho people are excluded from
tho ruling. Tho United States Is a nation
"conceived in liberty and dodlcnted to the
proposition thnt all men nro created equal."
Thero Is no liberty whilo women nro freo only
to bo governed and not to govern. Thero Is
no equality which does not Includo political
equality and political equality for all per
sons regardless of sex.
Woman's ingenuity is classic, Hor appli
cation of it to new and startling uses In the
next six months will form ono of tho pleas
ures of the campaign. Tho Woman'a Journal
(2) reports ono of the propaganda methods
already In uso:
Telephone publicity !b one of the methods
recently adopted by the New York women
In their active campaigning. Instead of say
ing "Hello" when they answer tho telephono
these days, every good suffragist when she
takes down the receiver, simply snya "Votes
for women." Tho psychological effect of repe
tition of the slogan Is valuable.
The Woman's Journal also comments on
the results of a suffrago census taken recently
by tho New York World.
The following results were obtained:
' GREATER NEW YORK.
Percentage
of Replies
Received.
For woman suffrage 77,04
Against 22.98
SEVEN UP-STATE CITIES.
For woman suffrage,, 70.37
Against , ,,,, 26.93
Reference to suffrage or anti-suffrage or
ganizations was carefully avoided In making
up tho lists of women who might be con
sidered fairly representative. The polls by
up-State newspapers were taken mainly
through the publication of coupons which
women readers were asked to sign. The
World avoided this method In New York elty,
and confined Its inquiry to representative
lists of women, to whom return postal cards
were addressed. These cards were sent out
by the thousands to women In every borough.
The list was made up by the oldest organi
zation In New York that specializes In mail
ing lists of all kinds. The manager of this
firm was instructed to compile a mailing list
that should represent In fair proportion all
classes of women, from domestic servants
and scrub women to the wives pf millionaires.
Madam Roslka Schwlmmer, of Budapest,
Hungary, the publicity secretary of the In
ternational Woman 8uftrage Alliance, has
been touring this country as the representa
tive of one million women of Europe, ap.
pealing to the women of America to lend,
their aid and influence (n helping to bring an
nd t0 l a' The Outlook (3) writes:
m qf Austm.Uunjrary mi
-1
Madamo Schwlmmer, nro not In syrapatlir
with tho wnr on Servia, and If they had their'"
-j .... muuiu puriiui ino secession Of MTriJ
biavs In tho empire who want to leavi. H
Madamo Schwlmmor cited fact nftcr fact to '
show what womon of tho belligerent natltu ""
are doing to stem tho tido of wnr. Tho womtn
of Germany in particular, said she, are tig. '
coming Increnslmrlv nbdtimtn. An .m.i. '
of this temper is tho following excerpt from
Woman SulTrago party in Germany:
Shall this war of extermination go on?
Women of Eurone. where 1h vnur vntnt
Aro you great only In patience and tut- f
lemiKf
The earth rocking In human blood, the ml.
lions of wrecked bodies and souls of your
--.--'".--'. u..uw....b.LD L...L. niinn. in nr t. ...
rages iniucteu on your sex. can these thlnsiwi
not lalso you to blazing protest? iv
In tho south nnd north of Europe men hava ?
...,.,. . ' -----.-
come together to exrhnnpfo words of peac,f$
v-uiuu njfcumer in ino norm or soutn or Jiu.
rope, protest with all your might against thli
wnr, which Is murderlmr tho nations, and
mako preparations for peace; return to you:
own country and perform your duty as wlvti "1
nnd mothers, ns protectors of civilization and. I
humanity.
A hugo mass-mcctlng of protest ngaJmt'J
the contlnunnco of tho legalized slaughter of"
human beings will bo hold In Holland on i
April 28. 29 and 30. Theso women of aJli'
rnccs, when they meet In Holland, may makr'J
history. ,
Whilo neither to bo classified as pro nor
nnti-suffrage, there Is a charming contribu-
tion in tho Atlantic Monthly (4) this month,' i
which, In that It discusses tho status om
woman In tho homo and tho Instability per-ji
haps of man, scorns very pertinent in thlj,
connection: J
Thero persists much of the harem In every f
well-regulated homo. In every house arj
mnirorl in TTinlfA n rnnl mnn rtnllif nnnnv ihn i
mnn Mmnlno ntnin.m n ..tnl.n. itralnnmM
honored, but perpetually n cuest. He stepi.5
In from tho great outside for rest and re-'l'l
rreshmont. but ho never belongs, For nua
tho click nnd hum of tho harem machinery '
stops, giving way to lovo and laughter, bum
thero Is nlwnys femlnlno relief when tnt
master departs and tho household hum eoe'
on again. j
Keep a man at homo during the worklsi-l
hours of tho day, nnd thero is a blight en
that house, not obvious, but subtle, touching
tho mnnrl nnd tlio mniinnr nf mnld-servant J
nnd man-servant, cat. dog and mistress, and,
nrrectlng oven tho behavior or inanimate,:
r.Yi1nna an tnnt tl.A.n lu n fnnatrnlnt flhflllt 5.
the sewing machine, a palsy on the vacuunu'
olennor, and a gnucherio In the Btove-Uifj
over tho wholo household sprea03 a ie-
Ing of tho tinnaturalness and a resuUantir,
sense of ineffpotunlltv. '
Tho most dovotcd wives are often thost
frankest in their abhorronce of a man in ins
house. It is bccausQ thev do not like to,
lfeen thnlr lipnrta wnrVInf- nt hlirh nresSUUV
too long nt a time; they prefer tho health
roller or a glorious day or sorting or nuvr
ping between tho master's breakfast and anl
hlfl dinner. '
A woman whose males have their place w
business neither on tho great waters hpr W
the great streets, but In their own house, B
of all womon the most nemetuallv pitied tr
other women, and tho most pathetically VH
tient. Sho never looks quite like otnwj
womon this doctor's, minister's, professor,
ni.llnn ...IS.. TT.. ...... tin. .a a hnfflBVAA C&.1
iiiui o ttuu, tivi eyen II11VB ,i..v-- . ,
tlenco and hor lips a protesting sweetness
for sho does not belong tn her house, ana w.
sho does not belong to herself.
OR IS IT?
A smile for a friend nnd a sneer for thfj
world Is the way to govern mankind. Dlsraeuj
SURE, IT'S FUN!
TTTI.-. El.,.. 4A 1.. (7nMIf
I HUt t' H't IU MO U VV' ' . . W
Eytn- -J
Sure, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, It's fun. Mai
Upon an iron shoulder-blade to tote a feathsrj
gun; . a
To hike with other brave galoots In easy-join!
army-boots:
To pack along a one-ounce sack, the coron
To tramp, tramp, tramp, to a right-ana-reaow
camp I j
Fun7 Sure, It's fun, Just the finest ever, n
Yes, it's fun to be a soldier! Oh, It's fun. fwjl
To loaf 'along a level road beneath a cloo4la
Bun . vil
Or over fields of golden grain, kept cool y
jiuiia at winn nnu rami ...tcfil
.""j': .". v: - '
And sleep, sleep, sleep, while the stay-at-Dffl
weepi
FunT-tSure, It's fun, Just the finest ever, onj
Oh, it's fun to be a soldlerl Oh, It's fun, lj
To catch the silly enemy and Et 'em on j
run; , , '
To here and there blow off a bead with JW "
bit of chuckling lead; v ,1
To bayonet a foolish bloke at hlde-ana-M '3
To shoot, shont, shoot, till they've got no KHJ
to scoot I .-nfl
Fun? Sure, it's fun, Just the finest ever. m
God, it's fun to be a soldlerl Oh, It's fqa, ft
nM ii- .! .&111 . i ...... Atvm flDOITll
.tu atts uu uu ana cuoy wuvu yvut - -
aon; .
"With not a thing to worry tor, nor anyu
in Yiurrv tnr
Not hungry, thirsty, tired, but a btro mVf
aQmiren.
Just dead, dead, dead, like Jack and JU
Fredl
Fun? Sure, Ifs fun. Just the finest WJf
RtcUard BuiWr GUuxor la Iro,rt