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“LET US HAVE PEACE.”
Today the great war comes to a definite and final
close, with Germany, who was responsible for its incep
tion and the author of all of its horrors, signing an ig
nominious peace that fetters her to the world’s chariot
for a generation.
But it is a just peace, in so far as it is possible to do
justice to Germany, for, as has been said before, it is
impossible for Germany to make adequate reparation '
her crimes against humanity—she cannot’ restore the
millions of lives she took, and cannot by any kind of
payment, make blossom the fields of France and Bel
gium she turned into desolation. But, so far as is hu
manly possible, it is a just peace, and one from which
Germany will emerge, after a period of penance if
she is diligent, with her assessed debt paid, and a new
understanding of the rights of humanity and of the
destiny of one nation to rule the world.
With the final writing of peace another era dawns
for the remainder of the world—an era as full of hope i
promise of better days as the German future is devoid
of brilliant prospects. With the biggest question before
it settled, the world can now get down to business ir
settling the smaller matters, ironing out the little kinks
and returning to normal pursuits—to constructive en
deavor instead of destructive.
The dam that has held back confidence—uncer
tainty—melts away today with the coming of definite
peace. Business now knows, without any doubts or fears,
what to expect, and can go ahead, full speed. No more
waiting to see what Germany will actually do. No
more fears that at the last minute she may refuse to
sign the terms and may accept Bolshevism.
And with the signing of the peace the world may
expect the sun of Radicalism to begin to set. Germany,
made up of people with a trained sense of industry,
thrift and order, may be expected, now that she has
accepted the Allies’ terms as the cheapest way out, to
put her house in order, clear out the radicals and loafers
and get down to business and industry so that she may
get out from under her load of debt as quickly as pos
sible.
And with the remainder of the world concentrating
against Bolshevism, Lenine and his disciples will find
their sphere growing narrower and narrower, and ere
long we shall see the world return to an era of sanity.
WOMEN VOTERS SUBJECT TO LAW
In those states where women vote they come un
der the same law as the men. That is to say, if there is
an educational qualification, as there is in many states,
a woman must be able to pass the test required in or
der to receive a ballot. If there is a property qualifica
tion, as there is in Rhode Island, she must be able to
show her tax receipt. Where registration is required of
men, women must register in like manner. In this re
spect each state is a law unto itself, many of them
having very lax systems of registration in the country
districts, with stringent provisions for voters living
in cities.
The only federal law which has affected the vote
of women is the act passed in, March, 1907, which dis
franchises American women married to foreigners since
that time. The American-born woman must wait until
her husband completes his citizenship, in the states
where full citizenship is required, before she can vote.
A very cursory study of the election laws of the
United States shows the widest possible differences be
tween them. In a few states all bars are down, and the
foreigner arriving at Ellis Island in May can vote the
following November. This is true in Alabama, but a
number of states where it has been the case have chang
ed their laws in this respect since the entry of the United
States into the great war.
When women are enfranchised they expect to
abide by existing laws regulating elections. Massachu
setts was one of the first states to adopt an educational
qualification, which really amounts to very ilttle. Flor
ida, when it adopted the pure Australian ballot system,
and Golorado which has a law that requires the voter.to
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TRANSIENT.
THE rosebush blooms a little while beside my
cottage door; a week or two it puts on style,
and then it blooms no more. With lovely things ’tis
always thus, they’re doomed to swift decay; a lit
tle while they stay with us, and then they fade
away. And while I toll the passing bell, a bird sings
in my ear, “You would not love them half so much
if they were fixtures here.” If ro&s spangled every
lawn, as dandelions do, we soon would wish the
blamed things gone, and countless rags we’d chew.
Today has been a perfect day, soft breezes zip
ping by, and not a sullen cloud or gray obscured the
azure sky. The birds put up a sweet refrain, their
voices sweetly blent; and everything was safe and
sane, so far as climate went. But if we knew that
every day would be the same as this, would such a
weather program pay, would it insure our bliss?
The order of the universe is change—let that suf
fice; we always know there’s something worse in
store for us, on ice. The rose that blushes by your
door must shortly meet its doom; but in a day or
week or more bull thistles there will bloom.
indicate his preference by setting a mark opposite the
name of each person voted for, has gone even further in
the same direction by prohibiting any aid to voters, save
for total physical disability, such as blindness or the
loss of a hand, which would make it impossible for the
voter to mark his ballot.
When the Nineteenth Amendment, enfranchising
women, becomes the law, women will still be liable to
the restrictions set by the states. This is the case in the
29 states where they have full or partial suffrage, and
it will be so with the others.
THE RED DANGER AND THE REMEDY
Attorney General Palmer, in a statement made last
week before the appropriations committee of the house
of representatives, in connection with his recent re
quest that the Department of Jutsice appropriation for
prosecution of crimes for the next fiscal year be in
creased from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000, said that in the i
near future, there is likely to be a wide-spread rcvulu- •
tionary attempt t< destroy the government of this coun- i
try. It has also been announced by other officer; of ■.he |
Department of Justice that, from information at hand;;
it is probable that there will soon—quite possibly on
July 4—be another lot of bomb outrages, and the police
of all cities are warned to be on their guard and to ar
rest prompt!} all suspicious characters.
This warning seems to be timely, and it is most de
sirable that it shall be carefully heeded by all peace offi
cers. Such measures alone, however, even though every
available detective and peace office in the country be
utilized to the best possible advantage, will neither rem
edy the existing dangerous anarchistic and Bolshevistic
conditions in this country nor accomplish more than a
very slight measure of merely temporary protection for
our law abiding people. The disease is far too deep
seated and wide-spread for such utterly superficial
measures. This has been clearly illustrated by the fact
that country-wide Secret Service and police efforts to
apprehend and punish the parties responsible for the
bomb outrages of May 1 and June 3 have thus far ut
terly failed. It will not do to leave the task of dealing
W’ith this grave situation entirely or even primarily to
the ancient and ineffective method of pursuit and pun
ishment. It is important, of course, to capture
and punish the criminals of the past but it is a thousand
times more important to ascertain who are likely to be
the law-breakers of the future and why. This is the one
really great need of the situation and this is precisely
what our federal and local authorities are NOT doing.
The attorney general should, of course, be provided with
whatever money he needs to take proper measures for
the arrest and conviction of law-breakers—that goes
without saying; but congress should not stop at that,
congress should immediately provide, by joint resolution,
for the institution of a country-wide inquiry as to the
nature, extent and causes of the wide-spread spirit of
unrest, dissatisfaction with our governmental institu
tions, and disposition to change the existng order by
“direct action” methods and revolutionary propaganda.
Such inquiry should be conducted not as an inquisition
to extort evidence for use in criminal prosecutions, bu
should be used as a means of getting full information
as to grievances, or alleged grievances, which are re
sponsible for this dangerous situation. The fact should
be widely announced that the inquiry is for remedial
and not punitive purposes, and every possible effort
should be made to cover the entire field exhaustively,
and fairly.
The mere fact that such plan was being undertaken
would have an immediate tendency to check, temporarily
at least, unlawful demonstrations. Moreover, from the
mass of facts collected, it would be possible to get r.
clear view of the exact nature and scope of the problem
involved and to formulate corrective or remedial meas
ures, whether they call for immigration restrictions,
naturalization, modifications, deportations, Americaniza
tion work, industrial legislation, or what not.
Whatever the cause of this situation and whatever
may be its extent the facts should be ascertained at
once; and when they are known it will be possible to
formulate and carry out measures which will provide
the remedy. Let us have the facts.
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