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The Strel cannot live on its ongs in the ski.
It has to come to earth for food.
THANK GOD FOR PEACE
r rpHtJ first impression produced by reading
JL the President's Thanksgiving proclama
tion la that Woodrow Wilson did not write
I ft. There are reasons enough for thankful-
1 n to have inspired the master of so good
M English style as he possesses to write a
('- document that might have become classic.
The proclamation most appropriately be
gins with a reminder that in a world rent
by wars we have been at peace. This out-
tending- fact Is enough to make the most
irreligious and irreverent bow their heads
In devout gratitude. If we never knew be-
V fore, we know now what peace means. We
l' ca go to bed at night and wake in the
I morning without dread that tho mail will
King us news that our sons have been
slaughtered in battle. Our homes are not
exposed to destruction by bombs, and when
we go on a Journey we have a reasonable
assurance that we will reach its end in
safety. Tcs, we realize now what peace
means.
The rest of the document Is given up to
elaboration of this thought. Because we are
at peace and have been blessed with good
crops and abundant financial resources we
ljav6 been, able to "exercise the privileges of
b, suoeor and helpfulness." And with rever
ent faith the President announces his be
lief that we have been blessed with such
prosperity as has come to us in order that
we might better perform the functions which
the great world crisis has laid upon us.
No man who believes that the course of
Metory is ordered by a Divine Hand will be
bwllacd to dUagree with this view.
A LEGAL ATROCITY
PUXiL reports have at last reached this
country concerning the case of Edith
Cavell, an English nurse, executed after
military trial by the Germans in Belgium,
The reports are still vague on one point, the
eeeentlal. They do not make clear whether
Miss Cavell confessed to being a spy. Every -
I thlntr else Is terrlblv clear.
v .
As a nurse, with a duty to the wounded
ot ail nations, Mies Cavell refused to leave
Belgium. She confessed that she helped
AMied soldiers to escape to the Netherlands,
and that, It seems, was her chiefest crime.
Arrested, she refused to appeal to the Kaiser,
and was condemned to death. At that point
the American, Spanish and Papal repre
sentatives In Brussels intervened. There was
sua amounc of red tape, and Miss Cavell was
. ehot, facing the rifles with unbandaged eyes.
76 what end does this bring Germany? Is
her dominion over Belgium so weak that de
liberate murder, however justifiable, must be
Invoked to give it prestige and authority?
Or la this simply another of the atrocities of
war for which men in their Baner moments
eon And neither Justification nor excuse?
DONT FORGET THE CHILD
IN THE prevailing discussion of the im
portance of using the public school build-
' litea eight or ten hours a day as if they
were cotton factories, there Is some danger
ot forgetting that the primary purpose of
tie. pttbMe schools Is to give the children an
education.
The school buildings are Idle a great many
hears every day. If they were open 34 hours
tMjtead. ot six or eight and were used dur
ing all this time, much fewer buildings would
eeemmodate all the children, just as a
cotton mill running day and night can turn
out more cotton cloth than when run eight
heurs. In each case when the buildings
suit closed there is some economic waste,
he capacity of a child to absorb knowl
(4ft, however, is limited. Tests have dis
closed that ho learns most quickly between
the hours of 10 and 11 In the morning. In
eosne New England communities there are
osly half-day sessions, and the pupils ad
vance as rapidly with the shorter day as
they used to advance when they were In the
claesrooena, both morning and afternoon.
The chief occupation of a child Is to grow.
It Is the most Important thing that he can
ao. Mis mind, of course, must grow with
bis body, but all broad-minded schemes of
luxation take Into account the necessity
physical development ana anow tor it. ii
euey can b found to accommodate all the
cMMren seeking education by increasing the
C haK-tfme classes here, It would
than Beenmag to decrease them 'by
hsiisjefJtliTii mt any sen erne to teach the chll-
sjpjfe to. shift wWeh would Involve their
LSmmm an day. The spools really exist
If, ehtWrw..
jseastsssstjESssasssss
aiOtVIA AND BULGARIA
FfnpnUB hi aomethlng BrXumtejly jut to
J, the prevent eienirate pWM of Servia. It
0 flisultr wfctote coots to a nation
MM, km a wem w Drotai jorees.
rCaet to aa Mal nr an Wueiea. That
' that cuBtrsettnsr pr severity of Jrl
, , pat ttulaail has bi no illusions, 8h
W that "G0 J on the side of the greater
in?,"
W possible that In the end. in victory
, t will be 8rvi that will b? tout
yoajtf is buffeted by oomiitm
armies; her capital shifts from place to place
as hei4 own armies becomo incapable of de
fending It. The help she so richly deserves
Is not yet effective. In her case the Illusion
of freedom is literally being bought in teats
and fire.
The illusion still remains I Today, as 14
months ago, Servia Is ready to fight for the
freedom of her national Institutions, and for
the Integrity of her national character. With
whatever personal motives she may have,
sho Is fighting for the democracy ot nations.
She may bo defeated and bo enslaved, but her
spirit has resisted much, and will not suffer
Itself to bo destroyed.
It will need only to look at Bulgaria for
Inspiration. Bulgaria played the game right.
Bulgaria Is prosperous. Bulgaria, the ally of
Germany, will be less free In spirit than
Servia aa Austria's province.
SMITH SAYS NO
THE voice Is the voice of Smith, but tho
hands are the hands of the Organization.
Consider, Mr. Taxpayer, tho absurd posi
tion In which this candidate for Mayor
places himself.
Ho Bays that he cannot tell how ho stands
on the universal five. cent faro because he
does not know whether tho lines would pay.
But the P. R. T., In a public agreement,
has said that they would pay. Is It Mr.
Smith's Idea to save the P. II. T. from itself?
Surely that great corporation knows how to
handle Its own business, and officially it Is
on record as a party to an agreement for
universal transfers In a forward direction
and the elimination of exchange tickets.
But "Dave" Lane's candldato Is In doubt.
He does not know. His mind Is not made up,
although this whole transit question has
been discussed for months In every phase.
He wants to be Mayor because, his support
ers say, he knows all about the needs of the
city; yet concerning the most exigent enter
prise, about which every citizen Is supposed
ly fully Informed, ho pleads Intense Igno
rance. He cannot tell tho peoplo before elec
tion whether or not he will hold tho P. II. T.
to Its agreement. He cannot tell whether
he will fight for universal transfers. He
does not know about the elimination of ex
change tickets.
Well, the people know. They know that
they can have one great transit system, oper
ated by one company, with a flve-cent fare
from any section to any other section of the
city. They know they can have this if the
Mayor, Councils and City Solicitor are In
favor of It.
If Smith does not know the same thing,
If he is not ready to pledge himself, then, as
between Smith and transit, the people will
tako transit.
Smith Id not avoiding the issue. He Is fol
lowing orders. He is doing as "Dave" Lane
and the others would have him do.
There will be no comprehensive transit sys
tem; there will be no universal five-cent
fares and no elimination of exchange tickets;
the agreement between the P. R. T. and the
city will never be carried out if Smith and
Connelly and an Organization Councils are
; elected.
They must, therefore, be defeated.
WHY MONEY MUST BE BORROWED
THE country must choose between two
evils this winter. It must postpone prep
aration for national defense for lack of
money, or It must borrow money to pay cur
rent expenses.
The Washington dlapatches are reporting
that the Administration leaders are consid
ering a bond issue to raise money for na
tional defense. Special emphasis is placed
on "national defense" by the people who
talk. But this should deceive no one, al
though It Is a trick of the Democratic flnan
clers. They resorted to It years ago when
the reserve fund in the Treasury was ex
hausted by the presentation of greenbacks
for redemption. They talked then about the
Importance of a bond Issue to replenish the
reserve, whereas if tho revenues had been
sufficient to meet the expenses there would
have been no run on the Treasury by the
holders of greenbacks. It was the deficit,
constantly Increasing, that caused the banks
holding greenbacks to demand gold while
there was a chance to get It. Bonds to the
amount of about two hundred and fifty mil
lion dollars had to be issued before the run
stopped.
If the Democratic revenue laws now In
force produced revenue there would be no
need for a bond issue. Current expenses
could be paid out of current receipts anJ
money could be found for the necessary in
crease in expense attendant on the enlarge-
ment of the'navy and the army.
Because the country believes In national
defense It will stand for the bond Issue as
one of the penalties It must suffer for per
mitting the Incompetent minority party to
get into pqwer. But at the first opportunity
it will turn out the amateurs and put men
who know their business In charge In Wash
ington. Going to see than Suffrage parade tonight?
They cannot bluff the Mayor off the plat
form. Mr. Smith must be one of those men too
proud to think.
The Organization has absorbed the Key
stone party and lost the key.
The suffrage bell Is sympathetic It skidded
when It heard of the N. J. elections.
Villa went up like a rocket and 1b coming
down In. the usual way of such things.
There Is a growing demand In England
that the "slackers" be given the slack of
the rope. .
The "close-shave" Joke will reappear In
all ts glory now thit the barbers have gone
on strike.
' ' '
Senator Clapp's friends think he Ik the
Moms to lead the Republican party out of
the WilkreM,
a i wa--
The trouble with the striking barbers b
that when they stop work at midnight (hey
have nothing to sV until they start work
again mt 9 o'clock the next morning.
ain PSH-.-H mil' i
The woman who u4 for fsoeo for the loss
Of her httitoand'a affections and got a vr
Jet of I1M ouht not to forget that it was a
ut Ptmm yhten wmnlm tew.
NEW ATHLETICS
"ALL-FOR-GLORY"
SIIS I, , I
Tho Growth of tho Amateur Spirit
in American Sports is a Greek ,
Revival No Hindrance to
Record-Breaking
By MARTIN J. B. McDONAGH
THERE Is nn age-old maxim about "noth
ing now under the sun," and some philos
ophers have contonded that history Is a suc
cession of cycles and that tho same old
things Inevitably turn up again at' more or
less regular Intervals. Now wo have tho re
currence of tho "all-for-glory" Idea in ath
letics. History repeating Itself.
"All-for-glory" sport, Just now booming In
Philadelphia, Is by no means a modern In
stitution, though there nro many officials
and athletes who think so. Centuries upon
centuries have elapsed since this Ideal of
athletics was inaugurated and found popu
lar. To bo exact, tho first successful "all-for-glory"
meet was In 776 B. C, In Greece.'
In colleges something like this spirit Is
found, though these institutions aro not en
tirely frco from taint; buj It Is elsewhere
that the "amateur spirit" finds Us most sig
nificant manifestation at present.
Tonight in Philadelphia
Tonight, when the young athlotes of the
city - of Philadelphia straighten out the
wrinkles in their muscles at West Branch
Y. M. C. A., B2d and Sansom streets, In the
first run of tho season, they need not think
they aro fostering an original athletlo
scheme. Due praise and credit will certainly
be their due, for It takes a good sportsman
to show his mettlo without a chanco of re
muncratlon. During the past twenty-five
years experts have made an effort to revive
the old form of athletics, but the time was
not ripe. Today Is tho acceptable time, It
seems. From present Indications a wave of
"all-for-glory" Idealism Is almost certain to
break. Then "all-for-glory" competition will
become the rule rather than the exception.
Philadelphia Is doing all It can to foster
the growing Idea and to apply again the
rules of the ancients.
One year ago today the athletes of the city
were Introduced to tho Idea of "all-for-glory"
athletics1, and since that time there has been
unusual Interest. West Branch Y. M. C. A.
was the pioneer organization here. In tho
first runs of the West Philadelphia associa
tion, champion athletes competed, and they
gave no thought to prizes. They worked
Just as hard In the race as though a big cup
had been placed at tho finish line, the very
same spirit that compelled the athletes of
776 B. C. to show their skill and prowess on
the athletic field.
Only the Beginning
Following the West Branch successes other
organizations asked how it could be done. A
representative of West Branch lectured on
the subject, and before many months the
seeds well sowed netted a great harvest.
The Gcrmantown Boys' Club and the Starr
Garden Recreation Centra followed suit and
promoted similar events. Germantown offi
cials promoted several sets of "all-for-glory"
games, and recently a big crowd of local
athletes entered the lists for competition In
a track and field meet. Tomorrow after
noon another cross-country race without
prizes Is to be run, and a big entry has been
nnnounced by Secretary Batnbrldge. In a
number of Instances the star athletes who
will attend will be able to tfo so only at a
sacrifice to themselves.
In the olden days athletes who entered the
games swore to uphold the decision of the
officials, and to be sportsmanlike, while the
officials were bound by oath to render un
biased Judgment. Harmony was the keynote
and gentlemanly all-around sport the result.
Today the same rules aro being observed,
and the Improvement has been marked.
In the games of 776 B. C. the prize of the
victor consisted of a crown of wild olive, a
palm branch and the right to erect a statue
In the Altls, or central lnclosure, of the sa
cred precinct. Zeus was the chief deity to
whom the festival was devoted. Now the
athlete has the satisfaction of knowing that
he is doing his level best for the sport. He
doesn't receive even a wreath or palm, and
In this he goes the ancients one better.
Teaching the Young Idea
Young America is being taught In the
playgrounds of a number of cities the Ideal
In sports I. e., to compete without the
thought of prizes. Courtesy and manliness
are the chief things demanded and received.
Gentlemanly conduct and "all-for-glory"
Ideals complement each other admirably. In
deed, they are much the same. So the prin
ciple of "sport for sport's sake" Is tailing a
strong hold on the young generation, ap
pealing to the best that there Is In charac
ter and helping to develop It. It establishes
a kind of competition which leaves no
room for petty Jealousies or derision to
ward the vanquished. It Is the very op
posite of materialism In athletics. It Is
play in the real sense of the word; it
Is organized play In athletic pursuits which
at one time seemed likely to fall Into
a degenerate state from too much profes
sionalism and too much commercialism. The
results, wherever the ancient rules have
found favor, are such as to rouse optimistic
confidence In the future. The causes of
these results, moroover, are rapidly spread
ing 'throughout the country.
In December of 1900 the first "Just-for-fun"
contest ever held In America took place
under the auspices of the Civic Games Com
mittee of Baltimore, an organization formed
for Just such a purpose. In all the events
held since that time wonderful records hvo
been established.
The Public Athletlo League of Baltimore
became Interested In the sport In 1010, and
assumed the responsibility of promoting sport
without prizes. This great athletlo body was
fully equipped to popularize the games, and
it did, even beyond the dreams of the pro
moters. Dr. William Burdlck, secretary of
the "P. A. L.," a former Phlladelphlan who
was connected with the Central Y. M. C. A.,
was Instrumental In obtaining the desired
results. Hundreds of "all-for-glory" contests
have since been held, and as a developer of
clean-minded athletes they have no equal,
i ' " " I."
THE "COUNTY FAIR" IN CHI1&A
Persons who find a delight in (he "county
fair" will appreciate a little story by Miss
Rose Alice Mace, in the Woman's Missionary
Friend, of "The MlnUta Fair," held in Mint
slnghiten, China, on February U. This fair
has the Aietlnctiefl et bet- (he only on of
Its ki hld hi ChlMu It ie held en the see
where a temple onoe le4. A wealthy oM
gentlemen who admire the spot aad coveted
It as a burial place for hte femtly by a clever
ruse got tbe temp meved ami tombs for hie
ancestors eafoly erected when the deception
he had employed was dicovere.d, and the pen
pin determined upon revenge. There l a su
perstition prevalent there that l the grave ot
a person be trodden ttpoe) that person will he
luUtctUMte, thrtttfh Ma. Awe it mm d
elded that on February 1 of each year the
people of the surrounding neighborhood should
meet and tramp on the graves of this man s
friend. Later they began taking a few article"
with them fo exchange or sell. This gradually
Increased, until now thousands of people meet
there and bring all kinds of things for sale.
The people aeem to have about forgotten the
original purpose of the gathering, and now
think of It only from a social and business
standpoint.
But the Interesting thing to us la that the
missionaries have takn advantage of the op
portunity of so large a gathering for spreading
the Gospel. Benches with awnings are erected
nearby, a large Chinese sign placed In a con
spicuous place extending a cordial invitation
to the people to come and llaten to preaching
nd singing. Larffe Sunday school lesson pic
tures are exhibited, and smaller, ones distributed
containing the Bcilpture texts In Chinese, and
so Interest Is maintained. "The people In ten
eral," says Miss Mace, "stemed pleased to
have an opportunity of learning something of
our belief and doctrine. Many seemed favor
ably Impressed, and several seemed really In
terested and anxious to learn more about the
great truth presented to thim." The Christian
Work.
DR. JEKYLL IN REAL LIFE
Nurse's Remarknblo Story About a Patient
Who Was Two Men
It was while I was nursing In a small hos
pital In Alaska a placo where one has many
experiences with "d. t" that late one night a
man. or the remnants of one, was brought In
suffering from the effects of a prolonged
debauch. I knew him as a habitue of the
dancehalls and a musician who, according to
gossip, had made his bow before all the
crowned heads of the world. In the maudlin,
flabby, blear-eyed, drooling wretch It was dif
ficult enough to recognize a human being, much
less a man who had ever achieved a place in
music.
The doctor told me to give him a dose of
veronal and repeat it In two hours If neces
sary. He did not deep at all, even with tho
second dose. Next morning the doctor said;
"Give him the veronal every two hours until
he does sleep. It won't hurt him, and I don't
like to give htm anything else." I obeyed
orders, though at bedtime that night I told tho
doctor he had had the veronal every twotiours
all day and still showed no Inclination to sleep.
He answered, "Keep on giving It." I did so.
At S a. m. he had a dose, and I paw no
change In his condition. A half-hour later, as
I was passing through the hall, he came to
his door and spoke to me.
I did not recognize him. He was fully
dressed and stood as straight as a soldier, with
shoulders back and head up, his lips firm and
his eyes clear. Most courteous was his man
ner as he said In a voice deep, rich and
musical, "If you will permit me to walk around
the block I think I can go to sleep when I
come back." He talked to mo for the next
IB or 20 minutes, cleverly, brilliantly. Never
before nor since have I listened to such a
symphony In English. The man was entirely
transformed.
I was mystified, puzzled and at loss just what
to do. But It seemed ridiculously absurd to
refuse such a personage anything so simple as
a walk around the block. He went and returned
In about 15 minutes but how different! A
heavy-eyed, slouching figure dazed, drowsy and
snoring loudly before I could get him in bed.
He continued to sleep like this, breathing
very heavily, all that night, the next day, the
second night and until noon the following day.
I cared for him Just as for a patient in a
comatose condition. His pulso was good, and
the doctor did not feel worried. The doctor
laughed at me when I told him of the wonder
ful transformation which had preceded the
sleep. But I was not dreaming or "seeing
things," and have often wished I might know
Just what had taken place to make him for
the moment the man I saw. Margaret Morris,
in The Nurse.
THE CORRECT FEMININE
How far should we distinguish the sexes in
tho world of work and art? The "woman ac
tor" has Just been mentioned by an, eminent
critic Instead of "actress," which seems short
er. "Poetess" we regard as somehow deroga
tory, and recall the Latin tongue in which In
realms of poetry and prophecy the word was
common property. In that language of strict
genders there was a list of common genders,
which embraced the poet, priest, the artificer,
the wealth-brlnger no distinction of sex in the
generic name no long as the woman was do
ing that particular job.
We are continually puzzling for the correct
feminine of this or that, and find that this un
chlvalrous language has thrown us back on
nuch expedients as doctoress, and even lady
typewriter, to the confusion of sex and ma
chinery. But though the male has in most
cases collared the name which the female must
amenaV he has in one case been mtstressed.
In one profession he haB to call himself a "male
nurse." London Chronicle.
"LINCOLN REPUBLICANS"
To the Editor of Evening Ledger:
Sir When James G. Blaine, one of the ablest
statesmen ot his day, was defeated for the
Presidency of the United States on the Repub
lican ticket did that hurt the Republican party?
Is it not true that four years later the Repub
lican party came back stronger and firmer
than ewsr?
Tet here we have a "Peter Funk" Republican
party so called howling about what may hap
pen if our money-grabbing, boss-contracting
"confidence operators" lose their fight.
Well, with all due regard for those truly hon
est voters who have the wool pulled down over
their eyes let an old Lincoln Republican, one
who carried a torch light in the ranks of the
"Lincoln Wldo Awakes" of 1S60, say this, that
If our martyred President could look down upon
the Penrose. McNichol and Vare Gang, he
would call them his worst slanderers and de
famers. A PHILADELPHIA REPUBLICAN.
Philadelphia, October 19.
A MATTER OP CONSCIENCE
A man came by our house last week and gave
a dime to me,
If I would only let him skin our sllp'ry ellum
tree;
And so I did and he did, and he certainly
knowed how;
He skun the bark off of that tree up to the low
est bough.
And left it standln in the lot alt straight and
smooth and white;
I liked the way it looked, I thought it was a
pretty sight,
I wished I had a heap of trees like that one to
be done,
And that ho would give me a dime to let him
skin each one.
But now I do not wish it, sence my father found
that tree
I bet If he knowed what I did he'd take a trace
to met
I do not think I ever seen my father quite so
mad
If I had not of met that man I would be mighty
glad.
My mother says: "Son, did you peel that tree
of bark like that?"
But father butted In and said: "What are you
gettln' at?
It wa'nt no boy done that there Job, that was
a man; I bet
If I had ketehed him at that Job he would be
runnln' yetl"
My father says the tree was peeled a way 'no
kid would do,
A kid peels sllp'ry ellum oft a tree enough to
chew,
But no one peels a tree like that, or peels it
half so well,
Unlesaen he Is gettln' sllp'ry ellum bark to
sell,
If my dad would forget that tree I guess that
I'd be glad,
But every time ho looks at It he gets three timet
as mad;
And when my mother klsees me and takes away
the light
My conscience comes and bothers ri and sets
by me all night.
And so I took the dime I got, flret time X get
a chance.
And went behind the door and slipped It in Me
Sunday pants:
But that night when I thought I'd sieen and I
was teelln' glad
My conscience bothered me agan and I H
twice as bed;
If anybody ever wants to peal an ellum tree
Around our place he better not come rennd
here asktn me.
Sometime, I guess, when I'm growed up, and
I'm three times ee strong,
Vll maybe tell my father if I can hold out that
long.
A WOMAN SUFFRAGE 'PROTECTIONIST
Mosos E. Clapp, of Minnesota,
Boy to United
By ROBERT
PHILADELPHIA has several distinguished
visitors today, In town for tho Woman
suffrago parade and for tho great mass
meeting at tho Academy of Music In tho
evonlng. Among this group of well-known,
dovoted citizens of tho
republic is Miss Kath
erlno Bement Davis,
one of the many
American women who
afe" doing big work In
a big way. She Is
commonly referred to
as "doctor," a title
which erases a few
distinctions based on
tho old notion that
achievement in public
life is tho prerogative
of men. The Commis
sioner of Correction
of tho City of New
York has received a
goodly number of moses e. clapp
honorary degrees from colleges' and univer
sities. Sho Is between 40 and 60 years old,
and is one of the hardest workers In the
country. Karly and late sho Is busy with
the Important tasks which go With her office.
From tho West Senator Clapp Is expected to
come to speak at the meeting tonight. The
"Black Eagle of the Northwest" Is one of his
political appellations picturesque enough for
a man of his masculinity of appearance and
manner. Ho was born In the Stato from
which, according to an after-dinner story,
very many great men have como, and the
greater the faster. Moses Edwin Capp left
Indiana when he was a youngster, the fam
ily moving to Wieconsln. His father was
a logger. Young Moses attended the public
schools of Wisconsin, later entering the law
school of the Stato University, from which
ho was graduated in 1873. He began to prac
tice at Hudson, Wisconsin, and has been a
member of tho bar of St. Paul slnco 1891.
Three times ho was elected Attorney Gen
eral of Minnesota. From his youth he had
a considerable reputation as an orator, and
In all respect to the matter and manner of
his speeches the people likened him to tho
eagle when they came to find a nickname
(or sobriquet. If you wish) for the rising
young attorney and politician. For fourteen
years ho has served in tho United States
Senate. In politics ho has always been a
progressive and always under tho party des
ignation of Republican. At the time of the
break in 1912 he was quit as heartily in
sympainy wun political progrcssivism as
any of tho men who helped In tho formation
of tho new and short-lived party headed by
Colonel Roosevelt. Ask him lrf conversation
If he Is a Progressive and he will answer,
"Yes," for tho capital letter does not appear
in oral speech. But whon he writes down
his "political preference," It Is "Republican."
He Is 64 years old, is married and has two
children living, a son and a daughter.
Two Kinds of "Protectionism"
Senator Clapp is strong for protection. He
Is a protectionist on the issue of woman suf
frage. He himself states the matter thus:
"The time is Inevitable when tho American
peoplo will confer upon American woman
hood the only peaceable weapon known to
freo government for her own protection, for
tho protection of her property and the pro
tection of her children, and that Is the
ballot."
But there Is another theory of prdtection
on which he has some definite views. The
man, the husband, Is supposed to be the pro
tector of his household; of his wife, to make
the matter plainer. "Thero are thousands
of wives," he believes, "who would be better
off In every particular were they deprived
of the 'protection' given them by their hus
bands." That, however, he considers a very
painful subject. He prefers to leave It alone,
but cannot refrain from occasionally paying
his compliments to the assumption that the
husband Is Ideal In all ways and, therefore,
entitled to do all tho voting. In other words,
the family does not get the representation
It should have in the male voter. To this
extent the protection theory Is unsound.
To the assertion that women, as a rule,
would vote with their husbands and their
fathers, he replies: "Oh, that may be so, but
you aro again wasting your time along the
edges of a very grave question. No matter
how she uses It, the right to vote belongs
to woman. Property cannot be withheld
irom a legal neir Decause of a fear that It
would be employed imprudently." Senator
Clapp, therefore, does not bellove that the
way women have used the ballot or may use
It has anything to do with the matter. With
him woman suffrage Is simply a matter of
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PEOyjfa'NOLD lNTUCKY
square Ar v.".
'srWlBsa
tf BW'-4v;SSHIBne
Didn't Have to Be Converted to Hifl
States Senator
HILDRETH
right, And ho Is a thoroughgoing dv.J
for ho favors a woman suffrage amendm.M
to be added to tho natlnnni ..... ..
That, of course, Is not a woman suffrari
Issue, but a matter of constitutional theory
The Story of a Speech
Clapp has bolleved In tho right of wonW
to vote over slnco he was a youth of iV
At that tlmo (after ho had been a cabin v-J
on a Mississippi grain bbat) ho was studying
law In tho office of John C. Spooner Jo
inter served through a long period in.
National Senate. Clapp accompanied hlr
iiicuiur iu uuiKiiuunnK town, wnere Spoon'.'
er gavo an address on democracy. It WJ'
from this address, which contained no inf
erence to woman suffrage, that Cinnn a .a
his Initial faith In tho causo of which toaai)3
Item t i ii1am nileiAAni M!
While we aro on the subject of ballot pro-I
tectlon wo might roako noto of the Senator"!!
views on tariff protection, for this, too, .1
question of timely concern. "The treati 1
onomy of protection," Clapp declares, "g t
uiuu wiio wuuiu huuso me policy because, nan
nan mo power u no so. ino rrlends ot pro-i
tectlon must agreo that tariff legislation h'
suffered not least from a group of the nwtP
actlvo proponents of tho Republican iiu i
It Is to get tho tariff out of the hands of'.
this group that a tariff board Is proposed. 1
But it is on "tho Joke of the ages" that the
ocnaior is expeciea 10 speaic in the Academy i
di iiiuoiu lonism it no readies tho city In
time. Ho tells the story of William V.Z
Bright, who secured tho incorporation of a'1
woman surtrngo resolution into the terrl-'J
toriai law ot Wyoming, ana who, when rnBj
laughed at him, laughed with them, remark-
ing; "Suro it's a Joke but help it alonr."
Wendell Phillips, too, was willing to be
laughed at for tho sako of hl3 convictions.
Tliero's a story or i860 that shows how Phil
lips felt. A clergyman, according to cm.
Iter's Weekly, had announced a suftragsMB
meeting Dy saying: "Tonight, at the Town!
Hall, a hen will attempt to crow." Whenk
pnuups met xneoaoro Parker after return-'
Ing from the Women's Rights convention,
the clergyman said to him: 'J
"Wendell, why do you mako a fool of your- "
self?" .
"Theodore," was tho reply, "this Is the ;
greatest question of tho ages; you ought to
understand it." 1
The laughing days have gone by, anal
serious thought, despite the obstacles of cus.'i
torn and prejudice, will win the victory for '
woman suffrage.
NATIONAL POINT OF VIEW
The women ot Chicago turned out 2iS,80j
strong to vote at last spring's election, and this
in spite of the fact that suffrage In Illinois ii
only partial and was established but a short;
time Derore. unicago journal.
Now that we have recognized Carranza per-
haps it would not be Impertinent to suggest that i
Mr. Carranza rjrevail unon his enthuslaslla fnl.ilas
lowers to recognize thb United States. We do4
not wish to exaggerate a mere play of the!
Latin-American temperament, but. after all,'.l
our stock or noncoms is limited. Chicago Tri
bune.
The Bpringfeld Republican, one of AmerIca'lLJ
most mnuenuai newspapers, tninKs that SpeaK- j
er Clark should have Included Massachusetts In:
the list of States that are likely to signify
their approval of woman suffrage. The Repub- j
llcan probably knows the temper of the people
of Massachusetts on this point better than any ,
other newspaper. Nashville Tennesscan.
Might It not be a trood idea for Christian lay
men, manv nf whom nra xealniifl aralnst thev
tendencies of the industrial system to payj
"starvation wages." to look from the factory J
to tho sanctuary? The situation which matte!
move many a minister to reflect that he ana,!
nis lumuy wouia do oeiier on. u ne were a sir .i
sweeper can hardly be termed ethically josun-
aoie. unicago ucraia.
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MADAME MELBAf.
BEATRICE HARRISON, 'Cellist
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