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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1913.
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TOPICS
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THE
RIGHT OB EXPEDIENCY OP
WOMAN SUFFRAGE.
I am so often requested to give the
readers of The Semi-Weekly Journal my
views on this question that I cannot
longer refuse to give to them what
much abler writers have said in favor
of this subject.
One of the finest writers and speakers
that we ever had in the United States
was Hon. Geo. F. Hoar, of Massachusetts,
a worthy successor of Daniel Webster,
and in some particulars a greater man
than the noted Webster.
This article was addressed to the
Century Magazine, perhaps twenty years
ago, as my copy is dated, as a re
print, in the year 1894. I can only give
the salient points In this masterly ar
ticle and it would require a full read
ing to give all the force of the writer.
His first statement is this: “Ameri
can women are a part of this American
people. Certainly they are not govern
ed by laws, made by themselves, und.er
whatever form it may be of govern
ment. Liberty is worse than useless,
except as it be as an opportunity for
self-government. Many persons now liv
ing can remember when it was not con
sidered safe or decent that a married
woman should control her own property,
or that any woman should speak in pub
lic or attend a public banquet, or prac
tice medicine, or engage in many other
worthy and honest occupations. The
changes of the last fifty years have de
molished these prejudices,” etc.
2. The chief single argument against
woman suffrage is that women do not
want it—that whenever they resire it
they ought to have it, and will have it.
It would seem that it would be difficult
to make - an admission more destruc
tive to their own contention than this,
for nobody that I know of proposes to
compel reluctant women to vote, etc.
3. All the evils of misgovemment
affect women, and in many cases af
fect women far more than they affect
men, while women are ordinarily free
from * the temptations that would lead
to their continuance. Her rightful
share in the government is well estab
lished unless you bring women into an
excepted or disqualified class, all of
which arises from personal unfitness,
such as idiots, lunatics, criminals, chil
dren and foreigners.
“Women have a stake in this county.
“Attachment to their country-
“Capacity to judge of the character
of candidates.
“Capacity to judge of the public in
terest.
“They contribute to the cost of gov
ernment.
“They have capacity to serve in pub
lic affairs.
“They have intelligent interest in
public affairs.
“They have sufficient education.”
He might have said they bear the
children who must bear arms in mili
tary defense of their country.
“Does any man, land owner, director
in great business, or who bears a great
family name or who has inherited a
great title for services of a gerat an
cestor possess any stake in this coun
try like that a mother has in her chil
dren ?”
Fourth. “I maintain that women are
as competent and as well qualified as
men in the management of schools, of
colleges, of hospitals, of poor houses,
of asylums in the collection and the
management of libraries of the fac
tory system, of the employment of chil
dren, and the government of parishes
and churches and a great many other
hundred matters.”
Fifth. “If women attend to these
things well and thus help largely in the
work of the state, I do not see how it
could degrade them to have their votes
counted or why their votes when
council, are any more likely to work
an injury to the state than the vote
of a man who knows nothing except
the management of a ship or an en
gine.
“The vote of the fathers has not yet
accomplished the rescue of their own
children from great public evils.”
Sixth. “If the purity of delicate and
refined ladies is soiled by going to the
polls it will soil the purity of refined
gentlemen, if it degrades tvomen it will
degrade clergymen. Meanness, coarse
ness, selfishness, violence and fraud are
not the essence of government.”
Seventh. “Some point to indiscreet
women who are violent at suffrage
meetings. That is an old story. Many
a man remained a Tory in the revo
lutionary war because he did not like
to rub up against Tom Prince or some
wild talkers for freedom.”
He quotes Lincoln, Chief Justice
Chase, Whittier and RFalph Waldo Em
erson as believers in woman suffrage
also.
In all Gordon street there was only
one house which was not lived in by
its owner, and that was the poorest
house of all. It was little and low and
old; it was painted a dirty brown; it
had colored glass in the front door
and no yard to speak of. In conse
quence whereof it was right under
the noses of the pretentious dwellings
on either side. But now, at last, after
standing empty for years, somebody
had come to occupy it—a family by
Played In the sand pile with the chil
dren.
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THE DEATH OF CONGRESSMAN
RODDENBERY.
In the passing of Representative Rod-
denbery the state has lost a most val
uable public servant, a brave and con
scientious national legislator.
Georgia is going to miss him be
cause he was never* afraid to support
his convictions and also vote what he
believed to be just and right in con
gress.
He sent me a copy of a speech he
made in congress on December 11, 1912,
less than a year ago, an “appeal for
the protection of American woman
hood,” that I prize very highly.
One question is worthy of a place on
his proposed monument.
“Gentlemen, you may Africanize this
great country by continuing in northern
and western states to sacrifice white
women on the altar of the negroefc’
lustful fires, but thank God there are
yet thirteen states beneath the skies
that turn with yearning heart and
willing hands to help you strike it down
ere it curse you, and in cursing you,
curse us all forever, and in cursing
you lest it destroy you and destroy us
all together.
“No blacker incubus ever fixed its
sljiny claws upon the social body of
this republic than that embryonic can
cer of negro marriage to white women
in certain portions of our country.
“No more voracious parasite ever
sucked at the heart of pure society,
innocent girlhood, or Caucasian mother
hood than the one which welcomes or
recognizes the sacred ties of wedlock
between Africa and America.”
This speech grew out of the occur
rence in the ctiy of Chicago, where Jack
Johnson, the black pugilist, married
a white girl and her agonized mother’s
appeal was disregarded by th elegal au
thority which issued the license to the
black giant. \
Congressman Roddenbery was a won
derful temperance orator. I heard
him speak in Cartersville on this
subject some years ago. He was an
impassioned orator.
It is proposed by the W. C. T. U.
women of Georgia to erect a monu
ment to his memory because he was
such a valiant defender of their cause.
He deserves it.
THIS LADY
OBEYED HUSBAND
In Matter Where Her Happi
ness Was at Stake, and Is
Mighty Glad She Did
Sheldon, S. C.—In advices from this
town, Mrs. J. B. Marvin writes as fol
lows: “For more than three years, I
suffered with womanly troubles, and
none of the different treatments I un
derwent, seemed to do me any good.
I also had pains in my left side, so
bad, at times, I could hardly get up.
My husband told me to buy some
Cardui, the woman’s tonic, and I did. I
started taking it, and soon began to feel
better. I took only a few bottles, and
now I am perfectly well, and able to do
anything.
Cardui has done me a world of godd.
It certainly cured me of the trouble I
had and I am getting along nicely.
I have recommended the remedy to
other sufferers, and they have all been
benefited by it.
I will always keep Cardui in my
home for use in time of need.”
Cardui is a purely vegetable remedy,
containing no harmful mineral prod
ucts. Its ingredients act in a helping,
building way, on the womanly constitu
tion. It has been relieving womanly
troubles for over half a century, dur
ing which time it has proven of more
than ordinary value as a tonic for weak
women.
You can rely on Cardui. It will do
for you, what it has done for thou
sands of others. It will help you. Be
gin to take Cardui today.
N. B.—Writ© to; Ladies’ Advisory Dept..
Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chattanooga. Tenn.,
for Special Instructions, and 64-page book,
’‘Home Treatment for Women,” sent in plain
wrapper.—(Advt.)
THE POPULARITY OP GOURD SEED
AND GOURDS.
Since I published the interesting ar
ticle sent by Dr. T. J. Howard, Merri-
wether postofflce, j Baldwin county, Ga,,
I have been deluged with inquiries as
to his address and the chances for get
ting gourds and gourd seeds.
I cannot answer one-tenth of these
letters, and I expect the gourd supply
Y’iH *> e far too limited to supply the
demand.
I hope the inquirers will send a self-
addressed envelope, and they will soon
find out If there are any gourds or
gourd seed to spare.
COUNTY FAIRS ALSO VERY POP
ULAR.
I have never seen a time when coun-
i ty fairs were more poplar in Georgia,
j And our own Bartow county fair will
be held next week. Th e prospects are
good for a large attendance. The rail
roads will give reduced rates, and the
Georgia folks from Rabun Gap to Ty-
bee light will have a good chance to
see the Bartow exhibit, which I under
stand is also going to the state fair in
Macon.
Come up and see us—and tell us
what you think about this Cherokee
section of the state.
COTTON PRICES.
Because of the destruction of the
cotton crop in the west and in Texas
the price of cotton has been upward
for several weeks.
If congress does not spoil the price
by tinkering with the tariff on cotton,
we may be assured that the farmers
will get well repaid for this year’s
cotton crop.
LOUISIANA PARISH
SUBMERGED BY FLOOD
(By Associated Press.)
LAKE CHARLES, La-, Oct. 6.—Cam
eron parish, now the center of the
flood in the Calcasieu river, is report
ed tonight to be entirely submerged ex
cept for a ridge which parallels the
gulf of Mexico. The damage, however,
it is believed, will be confined to loss
of crops inasmuch as the large ex
panse of territory over which the
waters spread is flat and allows the
the flood easy access to the gulf. The
inhabitants of the parish, now covered
to a comparatively shallow depth, fear
only a strong southeast wind, which
would bank the waters of the sea
against that of the flood.
The first drowning in the vicinity
of Lake Charles during the high water
was reported today. Elmer Rice, nine
teen years of age, was seized with
crafnps while swimming in the over
flow near Turner and sank to his death.
Calcasieu lake and river in the ter
ritory immediately tributary to Lake
Charles slowly receded today.
the name of Smith, whom the Gorden
Streeters -'know nothing about.
Gorden Streeters prided theselves on
their locality, and their individual im
portance. They were a community in
themselves—a very aristocratic, high
headed community, and, therefore, suf
ficient. They were clannish and they
knew it and gloried in it. When any
body apppeared who did not belong im
mediately in the same pursuit they felt
that she lowered their standard. It is
no wonder they all combined instantly
against this little Mrs. Smith, who had
thrust herdelf in upon them, as it were,
and who was a mere renter.
The fact that she was a renter told
several things; she could not afford to
own a home and was content to live in
a house like that she had taken. There
were plenty of houses to be rented in
the town where one got almost all the
conveniences of a permanent home. Ev
idently the Smiths could not afford so
much expense. The little brown house
they had for a song. It was an eye
sore—a blot on the street. Mrs. Arun
del wondered’why none of them thought
of buying it and pulling it down. The
truth was it had stood empty so long
they had ceased to consider it.
“They moved in two van loads,” Mrs.
Arundel confided to Mrs. Signor. “I
saw a sewing machine and a kitchen
cabinet and a crib—little else. There’s
children—three girls, little things, the
youngest a mere baby, and no nurse!
Indeed, there would’t be room for one in
tnat house. Five people tucked into as
many rooms! Fancy it! Why, I’ve
never been able to get along with less
than eight rooms even when I kept no
maid. They must be very poor.”
“They must be.” Mrs. Signor shift
ed a curtain and peeped out. “There
she is now, playing in the sand pile
with the children! About the first
thing they bought was a load of sand.
My, she’s very common looking.”
“Isn’t she? So little and sandy and
her arms are actually tanned. You can
se e she has never been used to wearing
decollete frocks. Living next door,
so I have to see things. And hea^ them,
too. I’m afraid those chilren sire go
ing to be noisy. I set the parrot out
this morning and they kept calling to
him until I had to bring him in. He’s
so sensitive to strange sounds.”
“How annoying!” Mrs. Signor sighed.
“She’s a direct intrusion, I feel. Well,
I shall let her alone. But you can’t,
poor dear. She’s too obvious—right un
der your eaves.”
“All the same I shall not call on her.”
Mrs. Arundel spok e convincingly. “I
can't find out a thing about them; but
then, there’s so many Smiths. You
may be anything or nothing with that
name. If I had it I should hyphenate
it with something else, really.”
“So should I,” replied Mrs. Signor,
who always agreed with Mrs. Arundel.
So it came that nobody went to call
on Mrs. Smith. Never did they give a
sign of accepting or observing her
presence. She, however, seemed not. in
the least to mind. She was apparently
a very happy little woman. She sang
at her work and always was busy. She
scrubbed the porches and swept the
hall, she made mud pies in the sand
with her babies and sewed for them
briskly on the machine at an open front
window, so absorbed in her seams as
scarcely to glance up when a gay motor
party whizzed by.
Mr. Smith was a stout, silent man who
wore a battered panama and went about
with his pockets full of papers. He
was at home over Sunday and two or
three times during the week, but his
business seemed to be in the city. When
he was at home he played with the
children, sprinkled the grass, and read
newspapers. He seemed tired and in
need of rest. On the evenings he was
home Mrs. Smith dressed the children
in clean rompers and herself put on a
fresh whit© dress. They were without
doubt a happy family, though a very
common one.
The summer sped, and, though lit
tle Mrs. Smith was ignored, she did
not appear to be lonely.
Mrs. Arundel still found in the oc
cupants of the little low house proper
food for polite curiosity. “I wonder
if they mean to stay all winter,” she
said to Mrs. Signor.
“The house has no furnace, and I
should fancy it would be insufferable.
But I dare say they have not been
used to anything better. They are
peculiar people, my dear. Let me tell
you that they have adopted at least
three stray kittens. And the only cat
we’ve ever had in this neighborhood
is Miss Van Camp’s Omar. That re
minds me. Miss Van Camp and I
motored out to Pondhurst this after
noon. You know Mr. Arundel has in
terests there, and it really is the pret
tiest place I ever saw—in the town,
as you might say, but not of it.
They’re putting up some elegant
houses. One of them I quite fell in
love with. It's all of tapestry brick
and charmingly proportioned. It’s in
the hands of a big architect. We left j
the car and went inside. I was in j
raptures. They were just beginning
on the frescoes, but such exquisite
tintings I never saw. We didn’t learn
who was building it, but whoever they
are they must have money. Only a
great deal of money could achieve
such an architectural triumph as
that.”
A month later Miss Van Camp ran
in rather excitedly, interrupting a
tete-a-tete between Mrs. Arundel and
Mrs. Signor. “They’re moving out!"
she exclaimed.
"Who? Oh, I know! Are they?”
Mrs. Arundel peered out through her
glasses. “So they are! Well, this
neighborhood will lose nothing. Be
fore another family like that moves
into that house, Helena, I shall see that
Herbert buys it. It is too near our
premises to be pleasant.”
“But I understand it is already
sold,” said Miss Van Camp. “And at
a good price, too. I don’t know to
whom.”
“Is that so? Well, I shall be very
anxious to know who has bought it.”
The Smiths moved out cheerfully, as
they had come, with the three cats ad
ditional. A cab came and took Mrs.
Smith and the three babies, and the old
house blinked upon their going as if it
were trying not to cry. The old house,
however, was the only bit of Gorden
street which retained any memory of
the Smiths after they had gone. They
could not 1 ave been forgottten faster
if they had stepped off the earth.
It was at the edge of winter that
Carrie Wentworth invited all' Gorden
street to her house warming. There
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Adoring the Ballot and
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BY BISHOP
W. A. CANDLER
had been a forced sale of one of the
best of the new houses in Pondhurst,
and she had bought it and gone there
to live. Carrie Wentworth was worth
anybody's knowing; she was indeed a
greater dame than even Mrs. Arundel,
to whom she was distantly related. So
everybody accepted her invitation, and
on the gala night drove out to Pond
hurst three deep in limousines.
Mrs. Wentworth’s house was lovely,
ablaze with lights and flowers and
tinkling with ttye music of a string
quartet, hired at a fabulous price from
the city. Everybody was there—at
least everybody that was of account in
the Gorden Streeters’ world. But
there was one woman who seemed oddly
out of place.
“Isnt that Mrs. Smith?” whispered
Miss Van Camp to her hostess, looking
across at a little sandy woman in a
plain black gown. “And Mr. Smith,
too!”
“Oh, yes, they’re both here,” replied
Carrie briskly. “They are new friends
of mine, but I value their acquain
tance. They live in the handsomest
house out here—the tapestry brick one
that Architect McCoy planned. They
moved out of the city last spring
and took a small house somewhere
until this was finished. Mr. Smith is
a member of the publishing firm of j
Starrett & Smith. I daresay you’ve j
seen the name on some book you’ve \
read. They’re highly cultured and i
very amiable people. With money, of
course. They live much better than
I can afford. And yet they’re so sim- ;
pie! I want you to come over and
meet them. You’ll like her so much.
But perhaps you know her already!
Poor ladies! They could not say
they knew her. They could only
mumble and go, led like lambs to the
slaughter. She could have snubbed
them and she could have frozen them,
but she did neither. She was very
gracious.
“Yes, I lived in your neighborhood
last summer,” she said. “We grew so j
fond of that old house. I made my
husband buy it for the sake of the
pleasant memories it held. We were
very, very happy there. Of course,
we are happy here, too, but a large
house with servants doesn’t leaye you
free. I liked the litttle house better,
really.”
She smiled gently. Her eyes were
full of pleasant thoughts. They be- j
held held, vanquished. For they knew \
she knew. And being’ a woman she j
could not forget.
Killed in Auto Race ’
THOMASVILLE, N. C., Oct. 4.—A. W.
Hughe®, well known lumberman of
this place, was killed here today when
his automobile turned turtle, during an
amateur race.
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T HE American people have the habit !
of looking upon monarchical
governments as obsolete and ;
semi-superstitious types of civil organi-;
zatlon. We are accustomed to refer |
to them 1 as “the effete monarchies of
the old world”. And there may be an
element of truth in our conception of
them. The sycophantio reverence paid
to kings, some of whom at least are
unquestionably men of small ability and
low character, is justly considered by
us a sort of amusing superstition. Per
haps no monarch on the planet today |
haps as much wihdom as many of his
subjects possess. The premiers of Eu
rope are far superior to their sover
eigns.
But while all this is true, the people
of this great republio are falling under
another superstition of an opposite
oharaoter. We are disposed to adore
what we call “the rule of the majority”, i
We laugh at the legal fiction of mon-,
archies which says “the king can do no
wrong”, but at the same moment we
regard ourselves as very enlightened in
that we believe “the majority can do no
wrong”.
The fathers and founders of the re
public did not indulge the foolish notion
that the majority can never be mis
taken and never commit a sin. They
did not profess to believe “in the rule
of the majority”. Neither the federal
nor the state governments, which they
set up, rested on any such false princi
ple. These governments were founded
on the rule of the majority under con
stitutional limitations which embodied
prinoiples of right and Justice that no
popular clamor should be allowed to
over-ride. The great men who fash
ioned our system of government were as
oareful to protect the citiaen from the
tyranny of the majority as they were
oourageous in throwing off the oppres
sion of kings. But many men among
us now, including some who aspire to
national leadership, sure not so wise,
but are going about and crying always,
“Let the majority rule. Refer every
thing to the people”! And the thought
less multitude, flattered by such non
sense. fall in with the folly, forgetting
jthat any of them may be oppressed and
wronged, by the fickle majority any
day.
Growing out of this superstitious es
teem of “majority rule” are several oth-
ier rank superstitions.
We have exalted the ballot box to the
place of the ark of the covenant with
the divine laws of eternal righteousness.
We vainly imagine that a new law or a
change of the officers of the old law
will remedy all evils and promote every
form of good. *By consequence we have
ail over-supply of legislation and far too
jmany elections. We. neglect to make
(the efforts of a moral and religious,
jsort which would really cure many
(evils, and exhaust our energies on mak
ing laws to cure these evils which laws
ireally can not reach the source of the
{trouble. Then when our laws fall, we
proceed to hold eleotions with reference
to repealing or amending the laws
jwhloh have failed, or for turning out of
office the men to whom we attach the
plume for the failure of our tneffeotlva
Statutes. Thus our statutes are kept
'Perpetually in a flux state, and our
(country is filled with office-seekers
!who are ready to promise anything to
jget the official positions occupied by
the men against whom we complain.
!By such conditions of changeful legis
lation, multiplied candidacies for office,
jand manifold elections, respeot for all
law is impaired and reverence for all
authority is destroyed. If the process is
followed to its end, it will lead us to
anarchy and revolution.
It is time we had learned that every
evil can not be cured by law and that
elections can not bring us all the good
We desire. Some things are accom
plished best by other methods.
Here, for example, is the evil of un
wise marriages. No one can. deny that
the inter-marriage of diseased or unbal
anced people is followed by conse
quences which are hurtful to society,
but certain statutes designed to avert
such consequences draw after them re
sults worse than the evils which they
were framed to cure. A case in point
is the “eugenics marriage law” of Penn
sylvania. After a month’s experience
the clerk who issues the licenses for
Allegheny county in that state says the
law is a failure. Marriages have de
creased to an alarming extent. In Au
gust 1913 only 104 licenses for mar
riage were issued as against 1035 in
August 1913. Perhaps the young people
of Pittsburg and Allegheny County are
going elsewhere to be married; but it
is to be feared that marriage itself is
being discouraged by the law or that
even worse evils are engendered by the
“eugenics statute.” Certainly the conse
quences of ill-assorted marriages can
not be most successfully averted by
law. Education and religion can dc
more than clumsy and Inquisitorial leg*
islation.
In certain of the northwestern states
there has been a mania for curing all
evils by laws and elections; and with
the characteristic impatience of typical
reformers (so called), the people of
those commonwealths have adopted the
“recall and referendum” in order to do
things quick. What is the result?
Mr. E. I. Lewis of the Indianapolis
News (a newspaper addicted to the ad
vocacy of “progressive” doctrines) was
sent to Oregon and Washington recent
ly to Investigate and report on the work
ing of “the recall and referendum.”
What he says may be accepted as fair
and reliable.
fie reports that the system Is break
ing down of its own weight. Elections
have been multiplied until they are like
the plagues of Egypt, and the people
are confused by the number of icsuea
upon which they are called to vote. For
example, he says that when the sys
tem was first adopted in Oregon in 1902
only one legislative proposal was sub
mitted to popular vote. In 1904 thers
were two. In 1908 there were eleven. In
1908 there were eighteen; in 1910 thirty-
two; and 1912 forty. Now it is proposed
to have an election to recall the system
of recall and referendum Itself. Besides
these state elections there have been
endless local applications of “the initia
tive and referendum” to matters in
towns and counties. Oregon grows no
crop as abundant as its crop of eleo
tions. It is no wonder the people out
there have grown tired of the evil of
endless voting.
Mr. Lewis reports the same state of
things in the state of Washington, tn
which the city of Seattle is located. He
says: %
“The use of th e reoall and the
reference of many questions to the
people are causing suoh a multi
plicity of eleotions that the people i
are already Inclined to be weary.
For example, in the last year and a
i half Seattle has had almost a con
stant series of elections. Last year
in February came the non-partisan
municipal primaries, then in March !
the municipal election, then between
March and September a 'school’ elec
tion and constant and vigorous agi
tation for the reoall of the newly-
elected mayor; in September came 1
the State-wide primary, In Novem
ber the State and national election,
in December a port of Seattle elec
tion, and in Jun e this year again
another port election.
“The question naturally arises:
How long can people stand this?
One of the most Important elections
In this list was the last eleotion,
In which the people were called to
give approval to or reject dif
ferent proposals on the $20,000,000
harbor work. 6nly 20 per oent of
the people went to the polls.”
Such a state of thingB makes a para
dise of grafting for ward-heelers and
all sorts of men who make money out
of elections; but it a staggering bur
den to the worthy people who live by
honest toil and have no time for daily
baliotings.
Mr. Lewis shows also that there are
other evils inherent in the system be
sides the frequent elections. He goes
j on to say:
“The truth of the assertion that
the people are wholly unable to
prepare themselves to vote intelli
gently on many of the long and
complex proposals submitted (some
of which are elaborate reconstruc
tion schemes for taxation and state
government) seems beyond dispute.
Even Jonathan Bourne, while still
a Senate from '‘Oregon, admitted
that he had voted on only three
the forty questions of legislation
which were on the Stats ballot be
cause he did not understand or
know about the others. He offered
the excuse that he had been out of
the State for a long time until he
returned for the closing of the cam
paign.”
Think of what all that means. It is
dreadful to contemplate! It means the
perdition of politics. It is time for the
; American people to abandon the super
stition of adoring the ballot and praying
to the ballot box.
‘ In the homes and churches of the
people there are more sacred responsi
bilities and far wider opportunities for
arresting evils and promoting good
things than can be found at the pe-
cincts and In the booths for ballots.
We have boo many elections, too
many laws, and far too many reform
ers. We need more personal religion
and individual conscience. Our reform
ers ought to quit reforming everybody
but themselves—FOR A FEW DAYS
AT LEAST. f
G. 0. P. HAS THREE
PLANS FOR CONVENTION
WASHINGTON, Oot. 6.—Detail* of
the tentative plans suggested by the
national Republican congressional com
mittee for changes In the apportionment
of delegates to the national convention
have been made public.
The first plan provides that each state
have four delegates at large, and for
congressional districts one - delegate for
each district where the vote for Repub
lican presidential electors In 1908 wa*
not more than 40 per cent of the total
vote for presidential electors; two dele
gates if the vote was from 40 to *0 per
ceijt ,and throe delegates where it was
more than 60 per cent. The second plan
would give each state four delegatee-
at-large and one delegate for each 10,000
votes or major fraction thereof cast
for the Republican candidates for presi
dential electors in 1908.
The third plan is just the same a* the
preceding, except that each congres
sional district shall have at least one
delegate and there shall be two tor each
congressman-at-large.
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