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THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1913. € ^OUAITRY fjOME 7 he Evening Story Common Mrs. Smith (Copyright, 1913, by W. Werner. > TIMELY TOPICS <3v«0CrEI> BTJTR& \T. H.3TLLTO/I. 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. fitS! DRAW A MOIST CLOTH THROUGH HAIR Try this! 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If you care for pretty, soft hair, and lots of it, surely get a 25 cent bottle of Knowl- ton’s Danderine from any drug store or toilet counter and just try it.— (Advt.) 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 ■ 4 U*4 II V _ U . >i • • Write fat 1914 Catalog of GOLDEN EAGLE VEHICLES Ml of the Latest Styles and Designs Shensi The Picture 8hown herewith of our factory to an ——— exact photographic reproduction. It to the largest and most modern vehicle factory in the Southern States and the only ono selling direct to tba consumer at wholesale factory prices. 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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. 3 B B B B B B B B n •To Women- Seeking Health and Strength B B B B For those ills peculiar to women Dr. Pierce recommends his “Favorite Prescription” as “THE ONE REMEDY” ■ A medicine prepared by regular graduated physician of unus ual experience in treating woman’s diseases—carefully adapted to work in harmony with the most delicate feminine constitution. All medicine dealers have sold it with satisfaction to cus tomers for the past 40 years. It is now obtainable in liquid or sugar-coated tablet form at the drug store—or send BOone-cent stamps for a trial box, to Buffalo. 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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. CALLAWAY RUN DOWN BY PASSENGER TRAIN WASHINGTON, Ga., Oot $.—Martin A. Callaway, brother of R. D. Callaway, was seriously injured by a passenger train on the Georgia main lino, while returning from Augusta Friday even ing. 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