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- !t"V' 8UBSCRirTI0N TERMS
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!-is"A'.ln: Philadelphia, and aurroundlnc towns at the
atU ot twolva (J2) cents per wwV, payable
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f H7 man
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Br malt to notnta outeld of Philadelphia.
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old aa well an now address.
,7 BELL, SOt WALNUT KEYSTONE. MAW JOOO
JqJ WFAdirttt all cammunlratttiws to Ifienlnff
Nfi,. wwrr ,iarpcnaece ouuurc, miMriyrH.
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PICKETING SHOULD STOP
4-
afTectton for that brave younc French'
man, for It tv at the Urttndywlne, In
an '.attempt to defend till city from the
Invader, that he felt wounded. We ee
him attain uliarlng- the sufferings at Val
ley Korge. ljiler he Is for a time nt the
head of the Revolution In France, cour
ageously standing- for a constitutional
monarchy agaliiBt the wild extremists
who all but got IiIh head.
In celebrating his birthday today, at
a time when the whole world strive to
make one despot a constitutional mon
arch, It Is well to remember that this hero
of democracy was not afraid of the mere
name of king. He never struck at the
symbol of the throne. It was real lepre
ecntatlve iroveriimant that he wanted,
and Louis XVI could live as long as he
liked so long as he remained a powerless
figurehead. So, perhaps, can William II.
Our mission and our sacrifice are too
real to waste effort In cleat lug silly
etmtue and bauble scepter out of palaces.
THE FACTS AND THE
EVIDENCE
J In
TTTB IIAVK great sympathy with the
women who have been picketing the
White House, but none with their
method. The President Is not a law
making body. The pressure brought to
fcear, therefore, Is not In the nature ot
.mandamus to compel a public offlclal to
perform an obvious duty. It Is proposed
to goad him Into exercise ot his enormous
influence to compel another and distinct
governmental body to pursue a course ot
action. This proceduro Is the moro In
excusable because the President's per-
onal policy was made a distinct lssuo
in the laat campaign, and women In over-
KJ whelmlns numbers supported that policy
In Commonwealths where they had the
vote.
lji ordinary times the heckling of the
President would be inexcusable. It Is the
Kore unpardonable now because he bears
on hla shoulders not only the tremendous
burden ot directing this nation's partici
pation in the great war, but also the
uprems task ot guiding other nations
nd peop.es into full espousal of the
religion of democracy. No other man In
the period ot our calendar has been ol
corresponding Importance to the destiny
of human kind. People who love democ
racy and free Institutions, even ' If they
re deprived temporarily of liberty's full
blessings, are In duty bound, we believe,
to put their enthusiasm behind the Pres
ident, not against him. and they err
grievously, whatever the justice of their
cause, who assume an opposite attitude.
American and other women have won
their right to suffrage. Touch the heart
of any nation In the pending mighty
truggle, be It Serbia or Belgium, France
or England, and the sacrifice and heroism
of women bubble up. They havo done
men's tasks and they havo done their
own, too. In Itussla they have manned
trendies and put whole armies of men
to shame. In Serbia, with bleeding feet
and' hands, they have served guns, suc
cored, the wounded and trodden the path
of defeat and humiliation along with their
men. In France they have proved their
citizenship. Who can point to any glori
ous achievement ot a man that there Is
not the heroism of a woman to match It?
They have inspired morale when inspira
tion was most needed. The right to sacri
fice one'a self In the nation's interest
'confers the right to vote. So rapid has
tiran the evolution ot public thought on
5i 'V .'. .. .. . .. .. ... ....
fX thla question irjai me iriumpn ui me
yHj -aiiai nt the aDDioaching election In New
RriF ' Tork la generally assumed. Pennsylvania
iVK? U but a step benmu, in spice ot me ue-
Jtu. nlorable conjunction ot circumstances
andelements which led to a temporary
??.' defeat In the last Legislature.
fe.3 rw.T TCATvannnprV ntlil!Hlnni fnr
woman sun-rage is wcu Known, n is,
tvi we believe, an absolute requisite to the
iwiH '"YHnl winning of good government in this
IvJB .. ... ,. . . ... ... ..
Commonweaun. ji is numiuaung m
good citizens to see such a woman as
rJ&i alary' wlnsor sentenced to a term in jail.
i?1 ... ...
'.jt-Whare Is there a oetter citizen than she
r is
fe it or one more Interested In good govern
fy ment and democracy? Jail is not the
11', iplace for her. But must it not be ap-
M.j-jparent to her, and to those who battle
SKVCby her aide, that, tne method nelng pur-
Btf'.nued Is at the best supererogatory? Why
ALT' -& A
$ 'alienate public opinion when It Is In the
Mf!hcWefy -process ot converaldn? Is It not
u' wetter to retrain irom assertion of prlvi-
t-jegea at una urao man y me extreme
. yaaeertlon ot them to give a handle to the
ixmri.a ot the opposition? Surely, in
;Tji'erasa. momentous as the present one.
epectrfor authority is a virtue and not
i; ., etne.
iftke policy of Jeopardizing the near
KH -pt, a causa, by organized ahd
Wag, expression 'of' that, rastlveuess.
('woaien engageh. In plcltetliigr can
f 1 a'
i,Mtnaer8 foV the cause by
aa1 ...
y ana TOuniaruy ,rrainlng
rtlfer Activity Jn that direction.
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tAFATTETTE DAY .
l:HtJNpRE0,,AD SIXTX' year
i.wwy tftieiywa poirnj a man-
mi (Htaa. mi,Kmwiaity unique
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MAttCH 9 Ford, Bacon t Davis,
in compliance with tho rciuest of
Director Twining, submitted a report on
"the engineering and financial features"
of the propoed Taylor lease.
Under tho caption "Recommendations"
that report concluded ai follows:
Wo believe that a businesslike method
of handling the problem now presented
to the City Is comprised In the following
plan:
1. Cut the program of Immediate
construction ot rapid transit lines as
nearly a practicable to th-s amount of
the appropriation.
21, Defer for a period of lower prlres
such portions of the construction an will
not Interfere with the vnlim of the rupld
transit system to the public
3. Devote to the payment of IWfd
charges on the City's Investment In rapid
transit such part as practicable of the
abnormal Increase of taxes on leal citato
caused by rapid transit development.
4. If thero should still remain a deficit
In tho payment of tho City's Interest and
sinking fund charges on cost of con
struction, Increase the fare in order to
make the undertaking self-supporting;
nrst, by a charge for transfers between
htgh-speeil and surface lines; or second, It
mis ne not sunicieni, ny cnnrKiua i
cents on high-speed lines with a flve-cent
faro on surface lines; or third, by charg
ing a uniform six-cent fare on both high
speed and surface lines.
r. Formulate a working contract
embodying the foregoing changes and
guarding tho City's Intereats In the par
ticulars discussed In our report.
F.lsuwlicro In the report the opinion Is
expressed that "unit prices will be 10 per
cent lower on the average for construc
tion to be undertaken after January 1,
1918, It being considered probablo that on
the average prices will no decline."
The important point for every citizen
to understand, however, Is litis: Ford,
Uacon 4 Davis recommended that there
should be no Increase in fares until after
the city had devoted to the payment of
ixcd charges on its Investment "such
part as practicable of the abnormal In
crease of taxes on real estate caused by
rapid transit development." The firm
reiterates that view In Its report pub
lished this morning.
The Smith-Mitten lease In its present
form Ignores utterly .that recommenda
tion, and tho very basis of the leaso Is
a refusal to apply any of the abnormal
Increase In tax receipts resulting solely
from rapid transit to the financing of
tho operation. Tho lease Is, therefore,
a repudiation not only of definite prom
ii.es mado to the people, but also of the
recummendatlons of the department's
own consulting engineers.
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W can understand restiveness
)a)ta'.ljusuce, but we cannot under-
KOKWARD OU DEATH
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T CANNOT but give high hopes to
every one that one great German news
paper, Vorwaerts (Forward), the Social
ist orgun, has had the courage to inter
pret the Presidents reply to the Pope ns
It was meant to be interpreted and to
insist that the democratization which lr.
Wilson stipulates as a guarantee of a
peace treaty Is what Germany ought to
have and will have, whether through out
side pressure or not, whether In war or
peace.
Tho fierce wrath ot tho whole I'an
German press has fallen upon Vorwnerla
and dther papers which have followed Its
lead. Suppose they have their way and
turn Forward Into Backward. In that
case American statesmanship, which, Is
Inclined to accept the theory that the
fault until now has Iain with the German
Government, will proceed with relentless
loglo to prove that the German people
uro Intent Upon Identifying themselves
with the fate of the autocracy. That
nation can commit suicide If It wants to.
It can go forward or accept death.
What Itussla leaves undone
s doing.
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THREE LEADERS IN PITTSBURGH'S
GREAT MAYORALTY CAMPAIGN
William A. Magee, "Big Ed" Babcock and Dr. J. P.
Kerr Their Characters, Strengths
and Weaknesses
x III
"MADE IN PHILADELPHIA" AND OTHERWISE -
U'hU U the third of a arrlc o five articles hy a ttaff representative of the
Vvenlna Ledger who has made a serious study of political conditions In rltts
burgh, ichtch are almost without precedent In the history of the Commonwealth.
By SAMUEL McCOY
m
A war prophet's tax would prove
particularly severe In deluded Germany.
Register today, even If you're going
to vote wrong. Anything Is better than
Indifference.
Austria day of Judgment omi
nously coincides with her Inability to con
trol Saint Gabriel.
Quite the healthiest draft to which
democracy has ever been exposed Is the
present American variety.
The drafting of a composer of pop
ular music may be a trick of chance or
the" long-deferred vengeance of a kindly
fate.
Gorz may be a neat, short headline
word, but .It's far behind the times. Italy
calls the town Gorlzla, and the unbroken
chain of vlctoiles by General Cadorna's
men Inspires the solid hope that that
pretty pronunciation will be permanent.
The often-repeated axiom that mu
sical art knoWs no boundaries of race Is
demonstrated anew In the Philadelphia
Orchestra's rpster ot soloists for the
coming season. When the two great fac
tors In the war .of the world reach fiuch
equability of opinion as do violinists and
pianists and singers.' democracy will be a
pretty lasting and safe 'bet.
Under- the tarrns of the (Taylor) pro
posal, If the C'ty should find it necessary
to raise the fares for Ha own benefit,
the Company would secure 10 per cent
of such rise in the division of net income.
icvtn If legal. It Is unluit for tha Pom.
pny to, demand a ee ot 10 par cant for
collecting any tag on the, ridar which
frthe CKjrroay Impose for, the City V bene-,-
OT?T'.,,.2?V15
ZK.
THHEK men are fighting for the mayor
alty of Pittsburgh
I admire the human qualities of one. the
mental grasp on municipal undertakings
held by the second and tho moral Issue up
held by the third. None of the three pos
sesses the qualities which typify the other
The flrsf Is that strangely Inconsistent
rreatuie, "a successful American business
man." Inconsistent, because the success
ful American business man so often
strangely combines scrupulous personal
honesty with an astonishing blindness to
the methods adopted by his agents to ac
complish lesults,
It Is not the business of the people of
Pittsburgh as a whole to Inquire Into the
commercial methods which haa made lv.
V. llabrock a millionaire In the lumber
business, because, t.'nre mi man with whom
he has had dealing- has atlurked his In
tegrity In the courts, the pi .-sumption Is
that the lumber king Is as sound to the
core as one of his own pine timbers, free
from knots and well seasoned. Hut when
the business man undei takes to secure tho
support of all the people of a city with n
view to administering affairs which will
touch the pocketbooks and the comfort of
ech of them, then It Is emphatically the
business of tho whole city to Inquire Into
tho character of the men with whom he Is
nssoclatcd
The second candidate Is William A.
Magec, who has already scned once as
Mayor of Pittsburgh, giving a capable, pro
gressive administration, and who ns a Pub
lic Service Commissioner dlsplaed In some
respects a remarkable ginsp of the prob
lems Involved In the operation of great
public utilities. In hlti cae the Inquiry to
bo mado by tho voters of Pittsbuigh con
cerns the extent to which he Is afnllated
with tho ambitions of tho Vares, or Phila
delphia, for supicmacy in the political
affairs of tho State.
Tho third man Is Dr. James P. Kerr,
chili Plan ot the City Council of Pittsburgh,
who has made an honest attempt In the
Council to give the city a clean govern
ment, hut whosn chances for success In
the piexcnt primaries got a staggering
blow when Mr. Magee, who had given It
to he understood that he would stippoit
Doctor Kerr, decided to enter the iai-e him
self. Doctor Kerr's Cnmlidncy-
To begin with Doctor Kerr, my readiness
to consider him a man ot foice suffered
a considerable shock when, Instead of talk
ing for himself, he turned mo oer to his
one guide, counselor and friend, Alexander
P. Moore, and allowed another to bo his
spokesman. My conversation with Doctor
Kerr was scarcely more than a sulutation.
I should like to revise that tlrst Impression,
since first Impressions aie apt to be the
truest.
He struck mo in that fleeting: glimpse
as being a worried and harassed little man,
still dazed by being left In the lurch by
bis friend Mageo: fleeing to Alec Moore,
publisher ot ono of. Plttsbuigh'a newspa
pers, with a semlcomlcal, scmlpathetlc gulp
of relief at the friendly hand reached out
to him ; pouring out his troubles on Alec
Moore's broad shoulders' and being patted
reassuringly on the back by Aleo Mooie's
plump hand; and generally creating the
Impression of a good little boy who had
been chased to the refuge ot his mother's
arms by two hard-fisted little urchins with
dirty faces and armfuls of bricks supplied
by grown-up men.
In the case of cx-Conimlssloiier Magee,
nn one with the possible exception of capi
talistic Interests, which might have a pur
pose to serve in thwartlne tho plans for
civic development which he has proposed,
would question his ability to gtve a pro
gressive administration to the city. Put
I found a ponderable element which sus
pected that such weighty Improvements
as Mr. Magee advocated might be accom
panied by a continuance of a protected
underworld. This suspicion is, therefore,
the weak spot In Mr. Magee's armor.
Mr. .Magee In his platform speeches up
to this point has avoided any reference
to the subject He refused to comment
on it publicly for me. I therefore went
to a man who Is tn a position to speak
for Mr. Magee. I put it flatly up to him.
"I think you are overestimating the Im
portance ot tha vice problem. Don't let
these persons with whom you hae been
talking give you nn exaggeiated opinion
as to the existence of such evils. It Is
not an important issue," ho t-ald.
"But." I persisted, "unimportant as it
may be, would It not bo the wiser thing
for Mr. Magee to give assurance of his
freedom from afty entanglements with the
underworld?
"Mr. Magee will discuss fiankly all the
issues of the campaign bcfoie the pri
maries are leached," was tho reply, though
It came slowly.
"And that 'goes' for the vice insue as
will'."'
"1 said that everything would be dis
rupted." was the answer. "I2erj thing!"
"Bit; Ed" a Self-Made Man
With K V. Habcock, the third candidate
and the one who will unquestionably win
tl o mayoralty lace unless Smlthflcld street
bumps itself Into a mountain and the Mo
nongahela Wver flows backward, I had a
delightfully long talk. Mr. Pabcock Is a
giant phjslcally and a pretty hefty mn
financially. He stands above six feet in lTls
(deckings, which have not always been of
silk, and he has shoulders like an ox.
Ills face Is as square-chinned as If It had
been carved with a lumberman's ax out
of one of Mr. P.abcock'8 own pieces of
hardwood timber. 1 suppose he must be
called "Big Kd." He came to Pittsburgh
.thirty years ago without a thin dime In his
pockets, getting his muscular growth In a
Michigan lumber camp.
A new light on a bit of history two or
tluee years old came out ot that Interview,
It will be recalled that when Joseph G.
Armstrong was running for Mayor and was
opposed by Stephen C. Porter, now Con
gressman Porter, who Is supporting Magee
In the present .campaign, the fight seemed
going against Armstrong, but that a sudden
turn in the tide was contrived by Mr, Bab
cocV, who appeared as the head of a "Com
mittee of One Hundred," which Issued a
pte-electlon pledge that these 100 responsi
ble business men would guarantee cleanli
ness In the Armstrong administration. In
March a group, of prominent women of
Pittsburgh, disgusted over the vice which
flourished under the Armstrong regime, res
urrected the Babcock pledge and demanded
if it had had any meaning. They uuoted
the nubile statement made by tht members
of the Committee of One Hundred before
the election, which asserted solemnly that
Armstrong had pledged himself to make no
appointment of heads of departments with
out consulting the committee, and that alb
appointments, high and low, would be made
on fitness and merit. To this pledge, they
said, tbe committee had utterly failed to
bold Armstrong.
The Kltnn-Moore newspaper, the Leader,
took up the women's fight by publishing
the statements ot twenty ot tbe one hun
dred men on the committee, some ot whom
declared that their names had been signed
to the committee's statement without their
permission. Others ware quoted aa saying
that so' far as they--knew; no, meeting, of,
tiu mitte',4v. ibeea; tMtiMtM
was Importuned by the Leader to com
ment on the charges and refused abso
lutely to make any reply. In the talk I
had with him Inst Tuesday he opened his
lips on the subject for the first time, de
fending the committee.
"Kvery one of those Interviews In the
Leader was 'faked.' " he said, pounding on
the table with a fist like a ham. "They'd
call up one man aftrr anothor. get him on
tho phone and that would be all there wai
to It. Tes, I served on that committee
and I'm proud to be a member of It,' the
man would say ; and then the Leader
would hang up and concoct an Interview
which made the committeeman say the ex
act opposite. Oh, every one of those men
who were 'Interviewed' was wild I"
"But they made no denials In news
papers friendly to you?"
"No; certainly not I Why should they?
Nobody paid any attention to those fakes.
They weren't worth answe'lng. But I'll
tell you this:
"There wasn't a man appointed tq Mayor
Armstrong's Cabinet who didn't have the
previous indorsement of the Coinmlttco of
One Hundred. Why, we worked night nnd
day for two weeks and went to tho mat
with the Mayor right through! We put
up man after man, all of 'em good, clean
fellows, and Fome of 'em didn't suit the j
Maj or for ono reason or another ; but wo j
silicic to it and got come one mac suiteu
our committee for each post. I delegated
a subcommittee to do that Job and they did
It right, you can bet!''
Tho Minor Appointments
"And thero has been no Just complaint
against any of the men whoso appoint
ment you indorsed?"
"Not against anv ot tho department
heads, not a one." said Mr. Babcock bellig
erently. "But how about minor appointments?"
"Well, you couldn't expect our committee
to go Into tho lltnevs of every man ap
pointed on tho city payroll, could you?"
"But you promised that in so many
words In your commltteo's pledge, didn't
vjiu promised to see to It 'that all appoint
ments, high and low, will bo mado on fitness
and merit'?"
"Old we sa that"" Mr. Babcock smiled
ever no slightly. "If you bay so 1 suppose
we did. 1 don't remember the c-.vact words
nf tho statement, of course. Hut I'll say
this to you: The on man that those
women raised a howl about, dematidln' his
removal a police inaglsttate, chargln' hl'.n
with malfeasance, In office and God knows
what, was tiled by a boaid of five lawyers
that our committee Indorsed five of the
stralghtcst, cleanest lawyers In town. That's
tho sort of men wo picked. And what dl
they do? Why, they threw out every last
one of the charges againBt him ; that's what
they did!"
According to ('ongiessman Totter,
charges were made against at least tvventy
Hoven employes of the Armstiong adminis
tration. Numberless arrests of membeis of
the underworld were promptly dismissed
"for lack of evidence" by Police Magistrate
Sweeney, who was "whitewashed" by the
Babcock trial boaid.
Mr. Babcock waxed eloquent to me on
the subject of Mr. Magee's support.
"Why," ho said, with a large and confi
dential gesture, "that fellow's strength
mostly lies with the riff-raff, the worst
element in town!"
I expressed surprise.
"Oh. of course," Mr. Babcock conceded,
"ho has some llttlo following among busi
ness men with an ax to grind, but. as I
say, his chief supporters are tho lowest
sort of people, the lowest Kort!" lie em
phasized with another thump on the table
and a compression of the lips.
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Concerning Vice
I Introduced tho vice question timidly,
but 1 need not have been timid, for Mr.
Babcock left no doubt as to where he stood
on the subject.
"The reformers have got all the women
chased out of downtown," he said, "and
now they're scattered all over the resi
dential districts. Wherever a girl Is foxy
enough to get three or four others together
with her she rents a house In the respectable
quarters of the city, and Is getting away
with it, too. Wh there was a time back In
the good old days when you'd see 'em along
Smlthfleld street thlcker'n hair on a poll
pup. Now they ply their trade in automo
biles." One of Mr. Babcock's advisers had called
my attention in glowing teims to his plat
form statement that city employes were
deserving of higher wages In vlow of the
Inci eased cost of living as being ono of
the strongest planks In the Babcock plat
form, I asked Mr. Babcock If ha Intended
to raise the wages ot all city employes If he
were elected.
"Now don't you go get the Idea that I
meant I was going to raise all of 'em," he
expostulated, "I meant especially those fel
lows that are getting J1C00 a year or less;
no sense In raising the pay ot a $5000 man
so long aa ho can live comfortably on that."
Mr. Babcock's Ideas on Pittsburgh's tax
iat -vv'ere expressed for ma by the candi
date himself most pithily
'I don't pretend to be ail expert on taxes
right now," said lie. "but the propeity
owners the man who has to count In bin
taxes when he's renting out a house tell
me they figure it at $2. Now, here's the
whole proposition as I see It: A man doesn't
caro so much what his taxes are so long
as he gets what he's paying for. It's Just
as you feel when you go to a show j you go
to a cheap show and pay Jl for a seat and
you come away feeling stung; and you go
to a good show, where you have to loosen
up with $2, but jou have a good time and
j ou don't give a hoot!"
Mr. Babcock gave mo the Imprestdou that
he contemplates spending very little money
on municipal Improvements, as distinct from
departmental work. Taking his feet oft the
table nnd getting down to brass tacks, with
one huge fist thumping the other palm,
the Big Fellow ejaculated;
"So long as folks have to bear the bur
den ot this war I'm not going to add to
tholr burdens. It'll be enough to work out
some cracking good plans for city Im
provements and then put 'em Into effect
when things lighten up a bit. But there's
two things that nobody's going to wait for;
If they need 'em they must have 'em light
oft the bat and t'hell with the expense!
And that's police and fire!"
I ventured a reference to Max Lealle,
repifted tha Penrose "power behind the
thione" In '"delivering" the underworld
' ote.
"Babcock Means Babcock"
'"Mr. Bnbcock," I said, "I have been told
by business men In Pittsburghpersonal
friends of yours, not political enemies
that If you are elected, no matter how good
your Intention! you'll be twisted around
Max Leslie's little finger. They say that
he will get away with 'his like a man
taklne candy from a kid."
"Oh, I know who you've beeri talking
to," grinned the big man confidently, "You
don't want to listen to that bunch!"
"No, these are not your political enemies,"
I Insisted; "they are big business men.
Independent of preference in this election."
Graham, his .campaign manager, nodded
silent assent; so Mr. Babcock mad an
swer. ..
I'Nottilng, fo.M V' he declared, with the
grimmest f eanatU,-sTiMu He,!aufaej(
' m . .
t
'Well, let ino tell you that If ho does he's
got to go somo '"
Tho defiance reminded me of the sturdy
challengo he had mado In his public cam
paign speech of the day before. "They
toll you that 'Babcock' means 'Armstrong.'
They tell you that 'Babcock' means 'Leslie.'
But I tell you that 'Babcock' means "Bab
cock." "
And It reminded me ot an equally sturdy
defiance shouted by a candidate for the
governorship of Pennsylvania three years
ago. "Get this down," Martin G. Brum
baugh was In the habit of saying. "Get
this down; I will be responsible to no man
cm earth except Martin G. lliumbaugh, and
don't forget that'" That, as I remember
It, was In the autumn of 1914. ,
Having declared his Independence ot
Max Leslie, Mr. Babcock unbent a trlile.
"Say, have you ever met Max?" ho asked.
"If you haven't, go aiound and see him.
You'll find Max a darn nlco fellow. Go
on; drop In and see him."
As the big, hearty fellow walked with
ma to tho door, towering overjne, he bent
a confidential glance on mo from under
his heavy eyebrows.
"Say," he said, In what would have been
a whisper from any other man, "there's a
lot of money coraln' here from Philadelphia
for Magee, ain't there?"
He answered his own question.
"Sure, now; gettln' aid and.' succor from
the east, you bet !"
The fourth article on the Pittsburgh
political sltunfioH, 'I'lttsturgti't Evils
Political, Soys Mary Jlobcrts Hlnchart,"
tolll appear on this page tomoiTOU'.
THE VOICE OF
THE PEOPLE
Gallery of War Cartoons to Be
Founded in New Zealand War
and Citizenship
A WAK-CARTOON GALLERY
To the ISdltor of the Evening Ttedger:
Sir I have the honor to Inform you that
the Borough of Wanganul Is now erecting
at a cost ot some 18,000 an art gallery
with the funds provided by the gen
erosity of u deceased citizen, Mr. Henry
Surjeant. Those associated with me In the
management and control of the gallery are
dcslious of establishing In It a representa
tive collection of oiiglnal drawings of war
cartoons.
With that end hi view, wo piopose to ap
ply to leading periodical publications
thioughoilt the countries ot the Allies and
ail: them to contribute drawings from
among those appearing In their columns,
Such a collection we feel would be not
merely ot great artistic but also ot Igreatt
historical value, especially In New Zealand,
so far removed from the war.
I should mention that the borough pro
poses to center all local memorials of the
war In and about the gallery. I therefore
beg to enlist your sympathy and assistance.
If from among the large number of pen-and-ink
drawings In your paper's posses
sion you could forward us a selection of
those dealing with the political, military or
social history of the war, it would greatly
assist our object. I can undertake that
they will be permanently housed In a build
ing In every way worthy of them, and will
be exhibited with a suitable acknowledg
ment of the source from which they come.
C. E. MACKAY,
Mayor of Wanganul.
Wanganul, New Zealand, August 4.
IA number of Mr. Sykes's war cartoons
will be forwarded to Mayor Mackay for tho
gallery.
"SHALL NOT DIE IN VAIN"
To the Editor of the Evening Ledger:
Sir Whatever the terms of peace are,
they must Include the demonstration of a
great moral principle. We qwe that to the
dead and to those still to die.
We must choose between two viewpoints
of the war to be passed on to inirit..
Hither the loss of these hundreds of thou
sands of lives must be the world's greatest
horror or me -wuriua greatest glory, if
we mKe ii -. '"-. man even the
German dead will not have died In Vain.
We can only make the war glorious by
gaining from it an Imperishable principle.
Expediency now Is treason to the race. Mere
mediant pacification will make oiit.i.i.
ocean of suffering meaningless As the (war
goes, on its nwi muse grow graiUer,
its moiiTaa sew ". e;ar aaciwo-
w war ii
dead died to give us by adopting a higher
Mandaid of citizenship at once. We can
wage a war within a. war by being truo to
tho dead, by becoming as good citizens as
thoy wero soldiers. T. D. K.
Philadelphia, September 5.
"WHY WE PICKET"
To the Editor of tits Evening Ledger:
Sir Aa members of the National Wom
an's party will unquestionably continue lo
mako their silent, though dramatic, appeal
for freedom h.v placing pickets in front of
tho White House, It may Interest your
readers to know tho loglo that is behind this
determination. The following statement
from the Washington headquarters, called
"Why we picket." seemS to many of us
entirely convincing:
"I-'or nearly seventy jears women have
worked for, enfranchisement. Thev have
held enormous mass-meetings In large
cities, and have addressed tiny groups in
the icmoter towns; they have held innumer
able stieet meetings and many groat pro
cessions; they havo rolled up huge petitions
to Congi ess, aggregating millions of names;
they have sent to tho President deputation
after deputation ot women representing
every walk of life. ,
"The question of woman suffrago is prob.
ably better known nnd moro widely ap
pioved than any political ouestlnn wiii.-i,
Congress has acted favorably upon for tho"
" " jeurs. Last January a deputation
of women waited upon President. Wilson,
urging him to stop the waste of energy and
Jifo that was being expended In the long
struggle to establish democracy for women
His reply was that women must 'concert
publlo opinion' In favor of their freedom.
"Since that dato women have leullzed
that they needed to make a more ronstant.
direct and publlo aimeal in h vfum.., .
head of tho Government, for Justice. Ev'erv
day since January 10, 101,7. through the cold
of winter and tho heat ot summer, women
have stood at the gates of the White House
holding In their hands their suffrage ban
ners of purple, white and gold.
"For five months they were allowed to
nH2?in. ,reu,n ,i.ence' But last mn' the
District police began to arrest them for
holding the same banners In the same place
rien.se unoerstanu that there Is no law
against holding a banner at the gate of in
White House. The charge brought hy te
District police against the suffragists Is t
technical charge of 'obstructing tiafruv
"Every ono who has rollowed the history
pf the suffrage activity at the capital
knows that this charge Is brought by the
police to compel women to withdraw f mm
the White House their demand for "
The fact Is. that the appeal of women for"
democracy at this time Is highly e, bar.
rasslng to the Government. Politicians Tar
asking the people to Harriot L..?..are
and everybody -for democracy," and man v
men and women are readv . . " "VL"?
--.r . cui;iiiiu
What Do You Know? Jt
QUIZ
I. lmt member ot the t'aldnet U UlreftU' Is At
authority over the L'nlted Mutts district jl
uttorneja."
1. The l'nlted Slntei (lovernment under the
('utiitiintlon wn nrannlxetl liy eleven of
the orlKirml thirteen Ktotei. Nume tha
tvin which ratllled after March. 1.89.
3. What nrivitntnpe to transportation Is tl
1.1.1 IIC. I I.UII7 J.llUKr. J'M
4. Ahmir 'inw inonv Indiana are there In thl-frl
uiiteu mair7 Bite
a. Abnnt when were Cambridge and Oxrorf'IS
Unlvfrxlties organized? P.fl
S. What interest Is allowed on postal MT-'&'fl
Inns'." M
7. About what are the salnriea of letter -l
larrlers? tf-l
8. Name the foar crrntest ports of Knclas-I 'ii'W
unit ret-nert to the amount or lmpeni
and export.
U, About how much inoner !m the Voltei .
Ktutes advanced to forrlsrn tiovernmenti
hliico we entered the war?
10. It Is said the Hermann will open the d'Vri
tn slop the ndi-unec of the ItrttUli In Bel
gium. (In what or fusion did the people
of the Lowland open their dikes fort
similar puroose?
Answers to Yesterday's Qui.?
1. There are about 1100 election districts is
Philadelphia.
-!. I'otn In the Aimtrlnn nnTal base nt the enl
of the Ittrlan peninsula, on which Trleite
i-i mcairfi.
3. Rica I about 320 raltes from retrotrad.
-1. llogota Is the capital or Colombia.
JS. Cheap claret Is the wine Jocularly known st
"ml ink,"
1. A mole Is n breakwater.
I. The Ylcllnnteft are n tuirit- nt ni-ller fnrme-1.
to combat disloyalty In the United Ntte,i7.i
Die name li pronounced " Vigilant-fee," -l
Mini ine accent on --ant, jno name ib. ,
lUKeii from earn- California liletnry. ueofl
politic-, wiih no corrupt In ban FranrleceL
In the flftlen that the reformers had I"
Jake the huv'lnto their on hands. Therij
hanged si-iiral murderer whom the su-i.
ttiorltlea refined to punish. K
The rniKrrlptlon of wealth" menna, en-' 'fj
lllcally In the congressional debates, the ,;!
caw lu&uir oi income anu war prooie.
tl. Joan ot Arc wua born at Doniremr.
10, ".Statu quo ante bellum" mean "the slate
in Ulltfti lif-fnr h uar't vliue I. "IBB
state In which the affair rested before the
-tur.
8.
i
everything for democracy, but they ar nt
willing to permit the Government f to ? spend
the life-blood of the nation for democracy
somewhero In Kurope while that same Gov.
ernment refuses to assist the peaceful and
orderly establishment of democracy in miV
own country. ul
"Women are not asklhg the Government
to do the impossible. Congress could easily
pass the suffrage amendment If the p"esu
dent gave his support. More than half the
bepators and nearly half the House are a .
ready pledged o our amendment Many
Senators and Itepresentatlves oppose suN
f rage only because the President opposes
. It the President should declare tor na
tlonal suffrago ho could undoubtedly nfln
ence enough votes to secure the passage of
the amendment through Congress; and this
victory for democracy could be accomplished
without s ruggle or grief, without "hi lo's
wealtb . ' r any Wa8" f M"to!
"But Instead of assisting women to win
freedom, the Government Is trylnir tr. i
i.....u-.. i-i ...... on. ,or ireeaom. Ann
the women are determined to go on an
for it. knowing well that the very ".Tore Jf
the Government to suppress them fa carrv
Ing their message all the more clearly tn TL
whole people." ' llle
.C'AItOLINB KATZEN'ST-EIV
Philadelphia, Septembers. "
WE HAVE TO PO IT
One reason why the Allies hardly .10W
how'to treat any kind of peace nroposTl
Is because of their costly experience with
German pledges. Suppose the Kaiser of
fered to agree to every fundamental thlne
Amerlca Is fighting for, would anybodv h.
llevo hlml Could he be trusted not e
break his word the mlnut. eh.-"0' . ,0
against his, armies Wai relaxed r hl. i.
DETAILS OF THE MISCHIANZA .
We were speaking yesterday of th
Tdlschlanza and Its origin. Howe, th-
commander In charge of the British forces 'f J
h"lt.1lr. tlilo .It.. limt l.nnn ui.ll. n n A hl--T
ofllcers and Tory society determined to of--
fend the London Government as much as, 8
wauiwib uj bl.l.lfe, lllllt 4 BCllU-Uli. 'jy VS
Anjre, later to be hanged as a spy, wJ V
the most popular officer of alt those who
danced with thoso Philadelphia ladles who.JJ
were so contemptuous toward the sufferings.7j
of Washington's troops at Valley Forge In yd
mat- winter of 1777-78. He has left us 3.
detailed account of the Mlschlanza. , fi
The special feature of the entertainment ,,;:
was a tilt, or tournament, such as the .
knights of old Indulned In. This event oci!l
curre,d on May 18, 1778, at "Duke" ThomasM
Blon- In Southwark, at whattjfl
WTVek -A n'a M Hnlrt-.
we now tall Fifth Btreet below Washington 'M
avenue. About fifty maidens and many rn'i'
irons or society were present. Seven wer ",
called tho 'JLadles of the Blended Rose" and.?
seven tbe 1'Ladles of the Burning Moun- ii
tain." 1'helr "suitors" were all brave and ,
handsome, and did indeeil lirraat their de- '
scent frotp ancleivt noble families. (It Is
mci, uuwevef, inai no one or ine unman .
marrlagcsv which Philadelphia matrons 1
dreamed of, between their daughters and
theSA TtrllnVtU :tlm ,r, nnam Ok, an nf tVlA
knlfrht wera eal1H "tvhlfn TnlrrViis" and V
were suitors of the Ladles of tho Blended
Hose, and thero.wero seven "Black Knights"
luyai 10 ine iurpmg .Mountain. Ml
The preparatory Dlace of meetlne was t "a
Knight's 'Wharf. 'now the terminus of Green-Si
street, on the Delaware. At 3 In the after; t
noon knights find ladies began to asem-;d
ble. All the British war boats and large .1
flatboats' were .gathered in a grand rar m
gatta, 300 vessels' In all.- Each of three rtf
divisions of thelregatta was led by a band-' 'H
They moved down the river, with their
silken banners!, and festooned canopies. a?
under which wej "beauteous ladles anou
Plumed knights, tthly disembarked al the
British fort belo ;01d Swedes' Church
and between guaWs and grenadiers, vtha -j
pride of the Urlttyi army, drawn up (n jj
double lines and i,t salute, the company. ?
moved tp Mr, Wharton's broad laWns, ltd
yards square. 1 f,
.i..un1 thU a-u itood the eoldlr;i
H.00O strong. Ther Were pavilions b4,s
rnwn nt rut rich ft !4.1 . vr..i-,S
m;.j S.M.V. i,j? Aue"a ana.r:$
..T.. .,., e-v.i.iwqDore ia royai
0ErvvTiie. ladles l6ft'Roai,ai"'il
iTV?K.'