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Love 1$ strong of death jtalouty
te cruel a the grave. Solomon,
Moro people nro w-nltlnrr upon Lloyd
Georfco's ivords In I'nrlliiinunt toilny than
Vor before honored a pubtla mnn by
their attention.
John n. K. Bcott Is threatening to
ratatrlp Senator Penrose ns tlio most
consplcuoua abaentco memhor of tho
Contrrao.i. It la n qualht fact that ha
la cettlnB tills reputation by dlroctlnu
tho fight against tho Bonator. Ono of
tho vrays to beat an abscntco In not to
hi one.
Ono can hardly Imagine what would
lo tho feelings and thoughts of nn Intelli
gent foreign visitor to Now York theso
6aya, If after a tour through tho high'
priced, ovorthronged restaurant nml cnb.
ret district, whoro money In (lowing llko
water, ho wcro Introduced to Governor
Whitman's commlttco that In Investigat
ing tho high cost of living.
A firo In Shomoldn, Pa., resulting
in a 'loss of property valued nt $400,000
gUld Imperiling tho lives of sovonil pco
pie, In said to have been caused by a
clerk throwing' a lighted match an tho
floor after lighting a cigarette. Thcro
Is possibly no other civilized country
Whoro smokers aro permitted tn throw
lighted matches , around Indiscriminately.
Dealing with tho "dopo nyndlcato"
did. not save a young woman from being
oxtortlonately chargod for drugs nor
from publicity sho had sought to avoid
by submitting to extortion. As nlno out
of ten "fiends" want to bo dollvered from
their habit, the now Stato and national
rentrlotlvo legislation Is Imperative for
economy as well as for health. It Is bad
enough to go to destruction, but why
pay 17 an ounco to get thoro when a
StatoBanatorlum could provldo both tho
drufr and tho remedy for It for nothing?
Tho mobbing of Sylvia Pankhurat
for talking pacifism chows there tli n
aurfaco opposition to taking Oormany's
proposals seriously, but It nhnws moro
clearly how difficult It will bo to get tho
tiverago Engllshmnn'n opinion. An In
telligent man might havo any ono of a
Jfjiijen shades of opinion, ranging be
'tweon Chauvinism and pacifism, but ho
Whl hesitate to say anything becnusn
tho mobbing public does not wait for
ubtlotles. It wants "yes" or "no"
peace or moro war, and nn shenanigan.
And it may bo right, at that.
Tho world was thrilled when It'
read of tho French oincer who aroused
his soldiers to repel a derman attack by
calling on tho dead about him to awake.
Tho suggestion of Jlaurjgo Barres that
tho soldier dead ba allowed to cast their
vote by proxyof the widows, mothers or
sisters makes a similar appeal to tho
emotions. Only a frenchman could havo
had tho conception that (loach In battle
should bo deprived of Its power to ills
franchise a Fronch citizen.' It may bo
that through tho exaltation of a patriotic
mood tho Fmnch women will got what
tholr sisters In other nations ha.vo been
Vainly nghtlnr for through many years.
Tho amount of revonuea collected
In tho Philadelphia customs district In.
'creased twenty-nvo per cent In tho fiscal
tear ending June SO. The Increase In
tho Now York customs district was a
little less than threo per cent Tho' Phila
delphia, gain was f3.ols3.000 and tho New
York gain was li.40o.000. Thero was a
decrease in overy other largo customs
district, varying- from about f 500,000 each
in Uoston, New Orleans and Baltimore to
81J3.000 in San Francisco. Almost as
much was collected hero as the total ro-
celpta of Boston, Ualthnoro and San
Francisco. And yet wo have old fogies
Who would havo us believe that Phila
delphia, has no future as a port of ontry,
"jt Ab matter of fact, w have only Just
X-ftrun to develop,
Boston Is voting today upon the
proposition to prohibit the sale of liquor
Within the city limits. IJnder tho Massa-
, . chusetts law tlo voters are called upon
ta dsclds each year whether they want
thir town, village or city to be dry or
Wot. This is the form which looal option
takos, Boston is surrounded by a ring
t dry suburbs. Tho thirsty from the
euurbs crowd the city Saturday after-
hwu and evenings. It has been the gen
mnU belicf'that if Boston should go dry
iMaa of the suburbs would go wet tho
jMMrt year. Put one man's opinion on this
miestton la as good mm another's. No one
kMswe what the suburbs would do under
mm eaian.c. Tie dM Jtfcwi
about 7J.O00. Billy" Bunday has bn
tiiklng temperance for several weeks. He
ban mada about 29,000 cohvert. only 6no
iWrd of whom live within the city. Of
this one-thlnl It Is not likely that more
than one-third nro voters. Tho drys are
hoping thai the influence of the Sunday
campaign has been v great ns to con
ert enough voters ti their way of think
in to carry tho day. Wo shall know
whon tho .returns aro n whether their
hop have any foundation. (
VICtOUYFOR CLEAN
METHODS
I I,.! ..
rntlH granting of n receivership for th
" Pension Mutual XMo InsurAnco Com
pany by Jho Dauphin County courts is
the first victory In the fight that has
ben waged by the Rvkjano LBDaen for
nlan mclhodi In conducting llfo Insur
fince, for belter Insurance laws nnd for
n State Insurance Department that will
mean protection to policyholders, with
short shrift to unscrupulous promoters.
We nro certain that ex'cry decent life
lnsuranco company nnd every conscien
tious Insurance ngent In tho State and
thcro nro many of both will Join with
Us In congratulations to J. Denny O'Nell,
tho recently appolntod lnsuranco Com
missioner, for tho vigorous way In which
ho took hold of this matter and pushed
It nucccssfully to Km present stngo.
' Thoro remains n great deal to bo ac
complished. Tho program Includes the
pasvigo by tho legislature of tho best
codo of Insurance laws that can bo
framed and the driving out of the Stato
of overy shyster company now doing
business. Thcro must bo no let-up till
tho seal of the lnsuranco Department
means abxoluto protection to every bono
flclary of a llfo Innurnnco policy In overy
company that la permitted to do business
under that seal.
Tho kind of obstacles which will bo put
In tho way of tho needed reforms waH In
dicated yesterday. While tho Stato court
wuh appointing a receiver In liarrlsburg
a lawyer representing tho Pension Mutuul
Company wns In Pittsburgh cccurlng tho
appointment of a receiver in u Fodoral
court. A power auporior to courts or
techntcnUtlOii In at worlc, howovor. No
Improperly conducted lnsuranco company
can withstnmt tho pltlloss glaro of pub
licity. JUSTICE
WHILE Judgo Brown mandamuses
salaries Into tho pockety of a hordo
of morn or less useful ofllccholrtom. tho
fliemon of Philadelphia continue to labor
long houru for wages considerably lower
than they ought to get. Wo havo no
sympathy with tho contontlon that tho
city c.iniuit afford to pay theso nion. Wo
do know that It cannot nfford not to pay
them what they aro worth.
Tho lire rocord In Philadelphia Is tho
most rcmarknblo In America. High cm
cloncy has kept lossei down nnd pre
vented great conflagrations. Wo havo
heard no complaint unywhero of tho
service rendcrod. Wo havo heard plenty
f pralso. Hut Dromon nnd tholr fam
ilies cannot llvo on encomiums. Thoy
need bread and butter nnd clothes. The
Dromon need, too, some tlmo at homo
with their families. Their long assign
ments to duty under present conditions
nro In striking contrast to tho clght-hours-a-day
Hystem In voguo ' In other
employments.
At this Christmas season, when fair
ness 13 oh Important an cheerfulness, It
hehoovei citizens to dovoto some thought
to tho llrcmcn nnd resolve that theso
protectors of their lives nnd properties
shall In tho Immediate future recolvo that
recognition which they descrvo nnd of
which thoy havo been so long nnd so
unfairly deprived.
ALADDIN STILL RUBS HIS LAMP
Q1XTEEN years ngo Thomas Cochran
O went to New York with no capital
but education nnd ambition. On the
first of January ho will become a partner
In tho banking house of J, Plorpont Mor
gan A Co., nnd, according to common
report, will draw as his sharo of the
profits an income of a million dollars a
ear.
Tho wondors of tho Arabian Nights
nro no moro incrodlble than this rapid
transformation from poverty to riches,
Mr. Cochran polished tho mnglo lamp
most Industriously nnd tho genii havo
dono his will. The lamp Is not yet worn
out, nnd can bo used by any youth who
has tho will to i each out his hand and
tako it. .
W1IO IS DOSS, ANYHOW?
REPItESENTATIVE ADAMSON'fl In
dignation at tho suggestion that the
railroad brotherhoods and the railroad
managers disregard the so-called eight
hour law nnd ngroo on a bill for Con
gross to pass Is most proper and com
mendable. The assumption of any body of men,
.whether they be capitalists or labor
unionists, or both, that an act of Con
gress may be Ignored and displaced by
an agreement of private citizens Is ar
rogant and un-American,
Tho Adamson law, passed last Septem
ber, may bo a good or a bad law. But
It Is the law until the courts upset It or
until Congress repeals It Tho threat of
one railroad president last fall to Ignore
It was a threat of anarchy. The con
aplrooy of two of the parties In Interest
tho public Is not Implicated now said to
be forming to supersede the statute by a
private agreement is a conspiracy of
anarchy.
This Is a government of laws. If Con
gress is convinced that the passing of the
Adamson law was n mistake, the Jw can
be repealed. If Congress exceeded its pow
era in passing the Jaw, the courts will
so declare. The law is now before the
courts. It la more important Just now
that tho .courts pass upon th powers of
Congress to Interfere In the details of
the ooodltlan of employment on the rail
roads than that the employes and em
ntoyen jgjrt together before January J.
fil jifljta J no mood to toiefcte men
Tom Daly's Column
7htpOvn
vP(T&wvA
fiAfik, ?t3i
VO THKItE, BOB
Annt Rllzn calls me Hobble
And musses up my hair
X don't stay In tlis llb'ry long
When Aunt Eliza's there.
Cousin deorgfl says, 'little fellow"
I don't suppose he knows
That I cart touch the mantel shelf y
lly standing on my toes. '
Urothsr'a best gfrl calls me Tootslo"
And tries to pinch my ear;
Do you wonder that I'm not around
When Bndlo Ilrooks la hero?
"'lio Uirr, Ilob," sv Undo Jimmy,
, And "What's the news, old ecoutr"
When Undo Jimmy's In the house
You bet I'm NKVHIl out!
JOHN LANE.
Nempaptr r a captain it Imluatry will
two million dollar 10 build u cnllirj nar
hi nld hfttn. TVttt hitill
l' nartr Known that particular captain of
Induttry to mli o poor n lneimnt. 1 It If
a U1 mtn, but roti couldn't porund him to
plant
bis nw nlft mill tn rcnnHTlvnnli
vliitr w no haVt, r. on iloicn tare mill
ot tlut kind. Illlt wr li.c In l'nnyivania forlr
two collt, all aolne concrn and ach wilt
a plant ot muoh value. Why erect anotntr ecl
i iars mini
IvanlA forlv.
all xolnc ennraro and ach with
lc plintf Olranl In 1. u
Why, Olrnrdl St. Fmncls'u College,
Loretto (tho Institution favored by Mr.
Schwab), is only n triflo newer than Alma
M. Lnfayotto. Lafayotto was Incorporntcd
In 1822; St. Francis In 18G3. Scoro: DS
to 32. Itnh! rah! rah! St. Francin!
Tho crackling, tinny sound of tho milk
wagon's wheels on tho snow suro ulgn
of dry, cold weather outnldo our window
before dawn yesterday set us to think
ing of this dainty lyric of Francis Thomp
son's: TO A RHOWrLAKn
What heart could havo thoupht yout
Pat our dcvlsal
(O fltlarce pclalt)
Fashlontxl xo purclv,
Fragtlclu, surclv,
From what ParaiUial
Imaotnclets metal.
Too coittly for coitT
Who hammered pou, lorouplit you,
From argentine vapnrt
"Clod tea my shaper.
1'a.ialno aurmlial,
lie hammered, llo wrought me.
From curled silver vapor,
To lust nf Ills mind;
Thou couhl.it not have thought met
Ro purelv, so palely,
Tlnllu, surely,
Mightily, frailly,
Insoulped and embossed, '
With Ills hammer of wind,
And Ills graver of roif."
Cause nnd Effect 7
LONDON", Dec 17 Lloyd George Is
making quick progress toward recovery nnd
Is preparing for tils appearance In tho House
of Commons on Tuesday for the exposition
of tho policy of the new Government.
S dlapalch.
LONDON, Dec. 17. A fog which Fettled
oer London yesterday Is described nt be.
Ing the most dense In flfty years. From
early morning until n lata hour London
was a city of perpetual night.
Niv dispatch,
Imp-I'rovcrbialfl
EARLY TO BED
"Early to bed and early to rlsa
Will make you healthy, wealthy an'tclse."
Beans to me 'at'a the worst o' lies,
I been watchln' some healthy guys.
An' 'em 'afs loaded with gold 'at buys
Dancln' slippers an' wine an' pies,
Don't seem- ever to close their eyes
Jfecpln' 'em open's w?at makes 'cm wise.
T01I31Y.
THE SIX MOST GIVAIILE BOOKS.
Threo readers demand a place for Mich
ael Monahan's "Palms of Papyrus." So
that goes down: and that makes four.
Dear Tom I have waited patiently for
Krab to coma through with the suggestion,
but as he has seemln'ly fell down of the
Job here goes: If one of the most glvable
hooks la to be nont to a Philadelphia poli
tician, why not 'The Hlse pr Roderick
Clowd," by Jostah Flint
M
i-HEIKIB.
Hans und Fritz Stuff
A conductor on the Colllngdale line out
of Sixty-ninth Street Terminal was In
Dutch with the school kids for his surly
and disgruntled manner, so they went after
his goat. They posted one of their number
at the cats und would not nllow any BChool
children by until they had changed tholr
nickels for pennies. 'When the kids paid
tho'conductor two or three at a tlmo would
count out their fares penny by penny. Ono
of the passengers, a portly man, who had
not paid his faro, wfts laughing nt tho
conductor's discomfiture, When the con
ductor asked for hlu fare, he handed him a
dollar bill. The conductor passed back to
him nincty-flve of tho pcnnleB, FATMAN.
There la a dealer In bottled goods on Six
teenth street named Stopper,
Is this worth .ulicorklng? MAC.
Bachelor Bereavements
AS TO TEBS
A. maiden choice and tasty,
'Twas Test that I was after:
And something told me that we'd
toon be mated.
Hut her testy sire was hasty;
On the sidewalk J heard laughter;
And something told me that 'twas
tet seta ted,
v t JUNO.
This Must De Looked Into
My attention was called to this sign at
Franklin and 1'arrlih streets:
M. LISS
.BAIIDER
Doss your paper encourage dual o(Mco
holdlniT Nl "
fONCl OF HOPPING
Come, my foul, we'll ting n $aga on tho
subject of the lifter,
Who 1 thopplng In tho ftuffy ftore, her
friend to fatlfys
tra,tchlng dollarl till I wlft her
Llttlo finger bear a bllften
How I wl$h I could alllit'or
Chrtftmaa lilt
t0,
buy'
And If I may add a pojtloript,
I'm
Yourf truly,
PI.
"
Although relief was promised, the
streets are full ot him whom the ohild
of tho future may come te define only
thus
gAjfTA aLAV-A uJltIJIJS M4
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What Do You Know?
Oufiie o pencral intcmt will hi annwerid
tn this column. 7ri qnt(IOM th an$wtr to
which rvrv witMiiormnl psrion Mhould knout,
arm atUal (iaifv.
QUIZ
1. tVlut I th Rons of Rons?
3. Whtrn are tlia teupe. the pampaa, the
prairie, and what are tliriT
S. Mhal I tho oldet Pfrmnnent eltlmfnt In
tiio radrrn part of the t'lillrd Hlnle?
4. Whnt I the dirTrrenee belurrn fro and net
tonnaie. In tlx Innmincr nf uhlpplnc men?
. What I tho "Father of uter"T
0. Mho vm "Ichnbod Crnne"?
7. Uhat rountrr 1 railed the I'.ldrit Dauihter
of tho Church?
H Wn "U H. flrant" llw name by which that
President w nlwar known?
0. lHplaln Iho term "salt lick."
10. Uhut I Atlantlt?
Answers to Yestcrtlay'8 Quiz
Vlmlln dccllried In. Important. hecatiM"
uhtltnto for wlialebono letter than
llm orialnnl nero found, a well at now
Kourrei or on.
Tho Acudlin wer the early cttlcr ft
Noa Peolln. which was raMed Aeadta In
early iluy, from tho Indian "iiknde,"
, fro:
ibundai
roc uilnr u
3. Mammoth Cnre, the larreft known eavern
In the world. I In Kdnionon.rouiitr.
lienturky. near Orren lllter, 123 mile
outhwet or lilnatun.
4. Tho early Greek order of architecture were
tne Doric and Ionic l later cima Mm Corln-tlil-in.
Another l known as the Com
posite. 5. The Onth were n people of antiquity be-
lontli ir In the (Irrrannle rarr-i they nro
thought by lomo to hare hud a Mcandl
imliin orUln. Tho nttmaotli were the
t.oth of tho rati the MilRoth I time of
tho wct.
S.John lUrtram 11000-11711 . wa the. flrt
Amerlcnii botaiiltt of eminence, lie. wn
bom rear Uarby, Jinil In l7M. at ,lnt
epiilns, on the Kchuylklll (now In l'hlla
ilcluhl.1), he mtnhlliihcd the llrtt botanlcul
Kurueri in amrncu
, The apllt InflnllHo I the Imnroper dlil!pn
nr llw "to" or iiio innniiite . iroi
nf tlw "to"
nltlte frqui Uie
reullr knaw."
erh. l'or eiiimnlo. .."to reully know,
whtcli fthoultl be
"really to know" or "to
know reuuy.
(lenrr.il Waahlinrtoii. In hi l'urewell Ad-
(lenrr.il Waahlinrtpii. In .1
lrcn, i.ilO, "Curone h
nreki, biikji --x.uroiie nai i-n hi pri
mary Interest, which, to ua, have none
or n very reinuto ro'atlon
0. The Iteslrn (or HeJIra) was the flutht nf
Alohaminrd from Mecca , to Me-ulnu. and
the utartlnff point, of the Mohnmtned.iu
era. The era dttlnc from thl Wit A,
II. I I MQ rnueu uie iirsin,
ra. Adam Hmlth (17TS-0O) I retarded a the
fouixier or.pomicai economy oo
unite branch ot humau knowlcdie,
political rconomr no m int
Poland
It, w. Poland's history before 840, when
a kingdom was formod, was tribal. The
most Important pprlods were the relun of
the first Christian ruler, Metczyslaw I
(86J.3D:), followed by extension of king
dom and wars with the Danes, Itusslans,
Hungarians and Prussians, Monirol Inva
sion (1210): rehabilitation nf realm under
Lndlslas (Wlndlslnw) I (1306) and end of
Past dynasty (1370); benellclal rulo ot
Jagellon dynasty (1586. 1672). and exten
slon of Poland to Its createst limits; be
ginning of elective kings and decay (1671) ;
successful Cossack rebellion (1648) ; wars
with Hweilon. Ilussla and Hrundcnburu
and defeat at Warsaw (1666) ; &oblekl'a
defeat of Turks (1683) ; unfortunate alli
ance with Denmark and Ilussla aealnst
Sweden (1700). followed by Itusalan Inter
ference and War of Succession i Catherine
II of Ilussla's aim to seize Poland (1764)
frustrated by partial (first) partition of
kingdom by Prussia, Austria and Russia
(1773) : patrlotla uprising and dissensions,
followed by second partition (1793) ; tem
porary success under Kosclusiko against
Russians spoiled by dissension and utter
defeat (1794)! third and complete parti
tion (1796); relief from Napqleon lost
(1813) ; formation of subsidiary kingdom
of Poland In Russian "territory (1816) and
granting ot liberal laws; successful reolt
against Russia and proclamation of Inde
pendence (1830) ; defeat (1831); unsuc
cessful revolts (1816, 1861, 1863), followed
by repressive measures. Austrian and
Prussian Poland have been comparatively
quiet. s
Karma
W, U P. Karma is hard to define. It
Is a word applied to Buddhist philosophy
and outside 'of that has no meaning, it
signifies continuous soul activity, either of
bad or good nature.
naym Salomon
I-!Iaym Salomon was the Philadelphia
jew who helped finance the American Revo
lution. He was born In LUsa, Prussian
Poland, about 1740, and emigrated to this
city- He was on of the chut financial
supports of the young- government. He
died here In 1785. The National Cyclo
pedia of American piography has a com
plete account of hi life.
Thomas A. Edison
8. Thomas A Edison's address Is West
Orange, N J
ULTA VIRES
The trouble with most ot th measures
introduced by various Congressmen with tb
laudable object of reducing the blgh cost of
llvtas Is that they aim to MH ths wall-
k awn aw of feupwy and demand, wfaiah U
r otttatu taa mtsuattg of Qm
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THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Mixing Munitions and Pas
sengers Did Women Elect
Wilson?
TM deportment It ree fo oil reader hn
icljh to trprei fhdr avtnloni o uWrcf a
current tnfrrelf. It U an open lorum.nnd tht
Evtnlno Ia&ot oMumot no rrsoMlllv or
fh t trie at it rorreiponitcnt. Letters mint
he Mount ulth the mini amt adilrtsi or tne
icrlier, not ticcorlfif or putillcotlon, but a a
evfranlte ot oood faith.
MUNITIONS AND PASSENGERS
To (ha Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir After carefully welching the logical
nnd fundamental fact that nations at war
hove a rlKht to destroy overy manner of
belligerent material In tho hands of the
enemlcH which nre arrayed against them,
it should not bo hard for nn Impartial
critic tn reallie that tho virtual -Instigation
of murder on the high seas Is not one whit
less deserving of bitter condemnation tnnn
Ih tho actual commission of such a crime.
Kor the criminally provocatlvo and cow
ardly practice of mixing munitions of war
together with passengers and tioncom
hatantn In general on tho high seas la so
overwhelmingly charged with tho deadly
poison of dollbcrate Incitement that It would
bo practically Impossible for any responsible
nation to make uso of such a practice un
less the men nt tho head of that nation
were being actuated by some sort of an
utterly unprincipled motive. The motive In
the prcnont case has been nnd still is a
twin effort on tho part of certain British
authorities, both to gain an extra but
desplcablo means of defense for llrltlsh
shipping and to underhandcdly work for
the Involvement nf America In tho conflict
on tho side of Orcnt nrltnln Ro by cal
culatingly and malignantly utilizing that
practlco the administrative olllci.ila of the
Government of Great Drltaln havo proved
themselves as darkly and viciously stained
with tho blood of defenseless humnnlty as
have tho advocates and perpetrators of
extremeness In the distinctly retaliatory
submarine policy of Germany, a policy
which, under the duress ot the most violent
stato of belligerency that mankind has yet
known, h.B naturally developed excesses
which havo caught In their vortex on In
finitesimal and Improvident portion of the
neutral elements, so lnflnltclmal and so
Improvident that It would be a colossal
and diabolical crlmo Incarnate to thereby
plunge a republic of n hundred million
bouIb Into so unhappily and bo perdltlonally
Inclined a maelstrom of human disagree
ments. CHARLES C. RHODnS, Jr.
Philadelphia, Utcember 18.
DID WOMEN EIECT WILSON?
To the Editor of the Kvening ledger:
Sir Preparation for a comprehensive
analysis of the vote In the suffrage States
in the last election Is In the hands of Miss
Anne Martin, national chairman of the
Woman's party, and Miss Lucy Burns, vice
chairman of the Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage, and will, within the next
few days, be placed In the hands of every
member of Congress,
The following official statement sent out
by the Congressional Union Is Indicative
of tho thoroughness with which this na
tional organization works and of the po
litical acumen nnd persistence of Its lead
ers; "In order that every member of Con
gress may have before him all the facts
and figures as to the womane vote In tho
recent election, there will be placed In
his hands a statement analyzing the vote
In the suffrage States. This will prove
conclusively that President Wilson was not
roturned to the White House through
women's votes. It will show that In the
twelve suffrage States. n spite of the
enormous trend In the West toward Wilson
because of the Progressive, labor, mining
and farmer vote, he received twelve elec
toral votes less than he received In those
States four years ago, fifty-seven this time,
against sixty-nine In 1912
Th statement will show that In every
one of the suffrage States the men voters
far outnumber the women voters. In som
of the States by more than two to one.
In California, for Instance, according to
census figures, the voting men outnumber
the voting women by 249,011; In Wash-,
lng by 16J.5C7, and so on. This means
that If the numbor of voting women had
been a little larger in those States, Call,
fornla particularly, which were' cjose. (he
votes which the Woman's party turned
against President Wilson would have de
tested him. In those States he won through
men' votes.
'Statements have been made by many
Democratic leaders In the suffrage States
since election admitting that the women's
vota wa the one great influence which
kept President Wilson's majority from be
ing much larger than It was in the West
In California. In spite of 149 ooq ess women
than mn voters, the woman s vote almost
lest Mr. WUsea the election la Nevada
tha WMn vaMd at least three, to eae
u ., "
' .
W X r. i '
counted separately, the ono Stato where It
was possible, on account of the conditions
surrounding tho election, to obtain nn al
most exact estlmnto an to how tho men's
nnd women's votes wero cast. In Illinois
seventy-two per cent of tho women voted
against President Wilson. Ho received
70,000 less woman's votes than tho other
candidates,"
CAROLINE KATZENSTB1N.
Executive Secretary, Pennsylvania
Branch, Congressional Union for
Woman Suffrage.
Philadelphia, December 18,
B. F. Keith's Theatre
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Seats tiatt tor Xmaa and Nvr Yara Wk.
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WB CAI.LRD him the Qovernor f.
particular reason. wwlbfcSSeX'
h was a sort of r Rovernor oTv.i 5
jvheel In mattero of emStloa lie .
Interested In all our Christmas tt
tlono-all Iho Things we weT. t" in'I
for the poor and the helpless and thfhL'
lr-ond he save largely nd happlir'
One day he .aid to us, "it seem .v.
slrango to me that roti ore glrtT! l
attention to the dwwlS iw "ijM
We hod not thought of that t it.,
simply ihowed our selflshnessf ' " ihit
"Here Is what I wish to do." he u
"Here I some money. Take It t r
police cnptnln of your hend-juartm ,m
give It to him. When he turn, o" th.
poor, homeless, unhappy mortals n carii!
mns mornlnK. nk him to give each 0I thant
some part of this. They como In fee ikIS
night's lodging. H. turn. ThU ojj ft1?
cold vrorld In the morning IM him 2m
each one no mutter who he Is or what J!
wants a hit of thl fund to help him .
the one thing he needs most, if th.bo,;
wretch wants n hot meal, let him get lt
ho wanls n drink to dull th o,,, t.2
of the day, let him gel It. Dut don't u?
him he asked question. Just Rite htm ao.
money nnd tell him 'Merry Chrltoir
me." w
So we look tho money to the nolle ran.
tain nnd told him tho Btory, and the mil
morning, when the poor chap who hit
anllvht lnricrtna- fa. Hi nl.Li .. .
cement floor of the pollca station vms
turned out In tho streets, each wa eltea
enough to buy for him a bit of cheer m
a dav whon the whnU wn.M -I.... .
hnppy. "
We saw tho police captain afterward.
Who gnve tho tnoneyr h akd,
"A man." sold we. '
"If he knew the happiness h has gTts
hn would know that ho Is something Mm?
than a man," said the pollca captain. i
Bo that's all thero Is of tho story.
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