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IDEAL MARRYING
AGES 23 TO 28,
®EXPERT
“Persons Who Wed After They
Are Thirty Are Most Suscept
ible to Affinities.
LONDON. Aug. 15.—What is the best
age at which to marry, and why?
These questions were answered by Dr.
Frederick L. Hoffman, LL.D., F. S. S.,
one of the delegates to the International
Fugenics -congress.
Incidentally Dr. Hoffman, who occupied
the position of statistician to the Pruden
tial Insurance Company of Newark, N. J.,
exploded what he described as one of
the most popular fallacies that has ever
prevailed regarding successful marriages.
“My experience and observation.” said
Dr. Hoffman, “have convinced me that
the best ages for marrying are between
23 and 26 for men and women alike. I
have no faith ill the theory that there
should be a wide disparity between the
age of the man and the woman.
“My reason for fixing on between 23
and 26 as the ideal marrying age for both
sexes are. roughly, these:
Physically Best Then.
“The man and the woman are then, so
far as marriage is concerned, at their best
physical, mental and moral development.
, Their hereditary traits now are dominant.
On the one hand the twig has been bent
or the temperament has been moulded in
the form it will probably retain, with a
little modification, for life.
“On the other hand they are both suf
ficiently plastic and malleable to readjust
themselves an<T become mutually com
plimentary to one another. In other
words, the man is willing to sacrifice
himself to the happiness of the woman,
and the woman to the happiness of the
man. This is one of the essential condi
tions of real marriage. Perfect coordina
tion is another.
“A boy or a girl of, say, 18, quite apart
from other considerations, can not be ex
pected to know his or her mind. This
point, I think, requires no elaboration. At
the same time I should like to state with
all possible emphasis that every man of
25 or thereabouts who is earning his liv
ing and wishes to marry should be per
mitted to do so, provided only that he and
his prospective partner are healthy.
His Salary No Object.
“The woman of a man's choice has no
right whatever to demand that he shall
be earning a certain number of dollars
a week before he enters into wedlock with
h< r. I strongly deprecate these so-called
‘marriages of convenience.’ Moreover,
no restriction should be placed—within
reason, of course—on the number of chil
dren. No marriage is perfect or satisfy
ing if there are no children as its out
come.
“Men particularly who are over the age
of 30 and wish to marry do so at their
peril. At this age or over a man is gen
erally so strongly individualized, so set
in his judgments, that to often in court
ing a wife he is only courting disaster.
“Again a marriage celebrated after 30
tends to become an affair of friendship
than anything else, and this in my opin
ion, at least, is by no means all, or any
thing approaching all, that marriage
should signify. Although I confess I have
no facts to bear out my contention on
this polfit, observation leads me to think
that the sudden appearance on the scene
of ‘affinities’ of both sexes frequently
follows these ‘over-30’ marriages.
“And now let me just touch on the
question of successful marriages. There
was never a greater fallacy than the
popular belief that a reaaljy successful
marriage is necessarily a happy one. In
deed, 1 consider that that marriage is
still incomplete which does not know sor
row, loss, disappointment, aye, and even
death!’’
HUNDREDS CHEER WOMAN
RESCUING THREE IN RIVER
NEW YORK, Aug. 15. —Mamie Ram
sperger. 25 years old, swimming In
structor in the women’s section of a
public bath on the East river front,
saved a man and two little hoys from
drowning while hundreds cheered her.
•A young man in trying to rescue the
two lads who had fallen from a float
which had drifted out into the river
was himself overcome and sank. Miss
Ramsperger jumped into the tide
swept river and, reaching the place
where the man disappeared, dived and
finally reached him. She swam to the
float with him and, having got him on
it turned to the boys, one of w horn
had gone down.
LEITERS IN A PALACE
GO "BACK TO NATURE”
WASHINGTON, Aug. 15.—Mrs. Jo
seph Leiter, wife of the millionaire ami
former wheat king, has eschewed the
pleasures of Bar Harbor and' Newport
for the delights of her mlllion-dollar
glass palace in the woods on the Vir
ginia hills.
The Leiter dffuntry home overlooking
Washington has recently been com
pleted. There Mr. and Mrs. Leiter
are living a happy, back-to-nature ex
istence. While the mansion is in the
woods, it is luxurious and has been
named the glass palace because many
of the outside rooms are inefosed i»*
glass.
SEVEN-INCH BABY IS
GAINING WEIGHT FAST
PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 15. —Russell
Dailey, twelve-day-old son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Dailey, is making rapid
strides in size and appearance. His
present weight is one pound elever
ounces, and his length Is six and three
quarter inches.
The infant is kept wrapped in t.
lambs’ wool bag. in an incubator, at
the University hospital.
The mother of the baby is not yet
sixteen. She weighs less than • 10ft
pounds and is five feet two Inches tall.
The father is not yet seventeen and not
s'out.
Children of the Regiment Soldiers True
PETS AT FORT MILITARY, TOO
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Two beautiful children at Fort McPherson. Margaret Snyder, daughter of Lieutenant Sny
der, on left, and Katherine, daughter of Captain Bankhead. Then, the soldierly dog “.Jack,’’
mOGTORSIN
ENGLAND URGED
•
Advocates of Plan Would Have
Minister of Public Health
With Cabinet Rank.
LONDON, Aug. 15. —Free doctors Yor ’
men, women and children is the object i
of a new scheme which Professor Benja- |
min Moore, of the Liverpool university, j
suggests can be worked in conjunction I
with the insurance service, to be admin
istered by a board of health, under a min
ister of public service, with cabinet rank,
assisted by expert medical advisers. The
whole profession, he suggests, should be
organized on the lines of other state serv
ices.
An association has been formed with
the idea of promoting these objects, which
are supported by a large and influential
body of medical practitioners and many
public health officers.
"We are not a political association,”
Professor Moore emphasized to an inter
viewer.
"I am in favor of the insurance act.
Each doctor under our scheme would be
a minister of health just in tlje same way
as a clergyman is supposed to be a min
ister of grace. Private practice will exist
as hitherto and be paid for, not by the
individual, but by the state. You would
have to safeguard the specialist by at
taching him to a hospital, and it would
be necessary, in the interests of the mid
dle and upper classes, to allow special
ists attached to hospitals a certlin
amount of freedom for private work."
The objects of the association were
framed before the inception of the insur
ance act. It is further proposed that all
hospitals should be nationalized.
120 LIVES ARE LOST IN
TERRIBLE STORM ON
SPAIN’S NORTH COAST
MADRID, Aug. 15.—At least 120 and
possibly 200 lives were lost in a terri
ble storm which swept the northern
coast of Spain along the shores of the
bay of Biscay, according to dispatches
received here today from Bilboa.
The storm raged all day Tuesday and
Tuesday tyight. destroying fishing craft
in the bay, blowing down houses and
wrecking telegraph and telephone sys
tems. It was not until yesterday tha|
the firs’ meager word was received here
that twenty were dead. Further in
vestigation today increased the death
list to 120, while it is feared that it will
go much higher.
At Bermeo, a seaport sixteen miles
northeast of Bilboa, many fishing
schooners which were at sea when the
storm struck are missing with their
crews. The beaches are strewn with
wreckage and many dead bodies have
been picked up.
TO DELVE INTO MINDS OF
CONVICTS TO STOP CRIME
JEFFERSONVILLE, IND.. Aug. 15.
Psychological study of state convicts,
aimed to cure mental deficiencies that
led men and women into ways of crime,
will be attempted in the Indiana re
formatory, according to an announce
ment made KV"Superintendent David C.
Peyton. A laboratory will be estab
lished in the reformatory, where tests
of each prisoner’s mentality may be
made, after which cures will be at
tempted. according to the patient's
needs.
INHERITS SIOO,OOO ESTATE.
MACON. GA.. Aug. 15. —Dr. Henry
McHatton is the principal beneficiary
in the will of his late mother, Mrs.
Eliza Ripley, who died recently in
Brooklyn. N. Y.. leaving an estate worth
about SIOO,OOO. He will go to Brooklyn
soon to settle Up tfce estate.
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. THURSDAY, AUGUST 15, 191 z.
Play Dropped for “Attention”
When “Star Spangled Ban
ner” Floats in Air.
i
It was afternoon and dress parade
was on at Fort McPherson.
A long, unwavering line of rifles
caught the sun. A sharp staccato re
sounded across the parade ground. A
sonorous crash of melody came from
the post musicians and the glittering
hand wheeled from the line and started
I its march the length of the column.
Everything at the fort was rigid. The
I soldiers in line were at'"parade rest,",
) the domestics about the place were filled .
with sudden martial spirit. Even the |
convicts felt the melodic cadence.
The sounds of it brought the wives :
to the front windows in officers row,
and they threw their shoulders back a
triflle while their pulses kept time with
the martial beat.
Jack Breaks Discipline.
But to Katherine Bankhead and Mar
garet Snyder, daughters of Captain
Bankhead and Lieutenant Snyder, it
might have been "parade rest” or it
might have been "mess call” for all that
they heard. With a zeal more severe
than was in the manner of any of the
soldiers, they were laboring in an ef
fort to persuade "Jack" to sit on his
haunches. But Jack being a bulldog
of the most militant sort was diffident,
nay positively reluctant to perform
while “Semper Fidelis” was being
played.
"Come to attention there, Jack,” ad
monished Margaret severely, “or you’ll
be sent to the guard house."
Jack must have doubted her author
ity. for he continued to sniff about in
disobedience.
"Jack,” wheedled Katherine, “won’t
you sit up for us after all the beefsteak
and bread we gave you?”
Children at Salute.
Jack turned a whimsical glance upon
her which as much as said: “I’ve paid
you back many a time and oft for that
little bit of meat—besides, I want to
listen to the music."
“Jack." said Margaret, taking her
turn. “I don’t believe you know your
manual. I think you will have to be
placed in the green squad until you be
come a real soldier.”
This must have touched Jack's pride,
for he immediatley sprang up on his
hind feet and remained there until a
sharp word from the two children
brought him to ground again.
By this time the band had completed
its circuit. The sound of "Open ranks"
was heard, the cannon boomed and
then with slow majesty the first few
notes of tile "Star Spangled Banner"
fell upon the ears of the playing chil
dren. Whereas before they had been
playing with absolute disregard to
everything that was going on about
them, they flow sprang to their feet,
drew their heels together, held up their
chins, threw out their chests, braced
their shoulders and brought their right
hands to the salute.
Kiddies of the Post.
At first glance the platoon of chil
dren —sons and daughters of officers—
who play about the grounds of the fort
seem exactly like al! other children.
Military life seems to interest them but
little. In /act, the average boy outside
of the army is much more eager to don
the army blue than the average child
of the post.
One small lad at the post was asked:
“Are you going to be in the army
when you grow up?"
“Naw,” he responded; “the army'll be
over by then.”
This same boy, however, has an in
timate acquaintance with the inside of
a carbine, knows the military divi
sions from squad to brigade, knows the
meaning of every bugle call, knows the
uniform, knows everything, in fact,
that he well could know about army
life
DARES DAUGHTER
TOWEDJAKENUP
After Midnight Supper Girl and
Youth Hunt for a Preacher
and Join Newlyweds.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 15. —When Mrs.
Maj' Baiiej’ dared her daughter and the
I daughter’s sweetheart to get married,
|at an after-midnight supper, she was
1 astonished when the challenge was ac-
I cepted.
i The sweetheart, Willard E. Mills
paugh, 21 years old, proposed to the
girl on the spot, was accepted and the
mother, protesting yet unwilling to quit
when her "bluff had been called,” as
the youngsters express it, consented to
help them get a license.
As the girl, Miss Alice Bailey, was
only sixteen years old, the mother's
consent was necessary. The three mo
tored to East St. Louis and sat on the
steps of the marriage license office un
til morning, when the clerk came down
and issued the permit.
The marriage ceremony was said by
a justice of the peace.
They returned to St. Louis about 9
a. m. and Millspaugh notified his par
ents of the marriage by telephone. The
bridegroom, who is employed in the
ticket office of the Vandalia railroad,
went to work. That afternoon his
mother came downtown and met her
daughter-in-law for the first time.
As Millspaugh is a Catholic, a second
wedding was decided upon. It took
place at 10 p. m., the Rev. Father Pe
ter J. O’Rourke, of St. Mark church,
officiating.
WEALTHY VIRGINIA HERMIT
MAY HAVE BEEN POISONED
HARRISONBURG. VA., Aug. 15.
Rockingham county authorities investi
gating the unexplained death of George
M. Nicholas, the wealthy hermit far
mer of Port Republic, have discovered
most extraordinary affairs in the old
man’s life. He died last week after
drinking coffee.
Worth a quarter of a million, which
he is said to have scattered in at least
fifteen banks through Virginia and
Maryland, the old man lived with an
aged housekeeper in squalor in a fif
teen-room mansion bare of all furni
ture. and slept upon a bed on the floor
He always wrote his checks on scraps
of paper. Nicholas left no will and
died unmarried, leaving four brothers.
YOUNG “BOB” TAFT’S CUB
IS RESCUED BY OLD BEAR
BENTON, MONT., Aug. 15.—What to
do with the cub bear presented to Rob
ert Taft, son of the president, by a
Blackfoot chief on his arrival in Glacier
National park, has been solved.
An old bear, hearing the wails of the
cub, made her way last night into the
Taft camp on Red Eagle mountain and
gnawed through the rope that tethered
the cub to a tree. Then she retreated
up the mountainside. Guides started
in pursuit, but young Taft shouted:
"It’s probably her cub, and there is
no room in the white house anyway.
Let her go.”
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CRISP SPEAKS AT ASHBURN.
ASHBURN, GA., Aug. 15.—Judge
Charles R. Crisp, of Americus, candi
date for congress from the Third con
gressional district, spoke for more than
an hour to a large gathering of Tur
ner county voters at the court house.
The Ashburn band furnished music.
STANLEY ASSAILS 1
T.R.ANDPERKINS
Chairman of Steel Probers Tells
How Aid Was Given This I
Trust.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 15. —Theodore
Roosevelt, George W. Perkins of Har
vester trust fame and the Federal bu
reau of corporations were jointly as
sailed by Chai: man Stanley, of the
.steel investigating committee, in
the house for aiding in the protection
of the United States Steel Corporation
and accepting any means to prevent
the power of this monopoly from being
lessened.
’’The government by commissions as
conducted by the bureau of corpora
tions,” said Mr. Stanley, “Is more than
pleasing to the interests and they are
today more enthusiastic than ever in
their advocacy of an extension of the
■ante. For several years the chief in
ermediary between big business and
• ho: • intrusted by the government with
the duty of investigating has been a
gentleman by the name of George W.
Perkins. To pry Into the secrets of the
bureau and to keep the interests most
concerned advised as to the progress of
the assumably secret inspection, was
the task for which Mr. Perkins showed
his peculiar fitness.”
Describing the manner in which a
$50,000 donation was given Mr. Roose
velt by George W. Perkins, Mr. Stanley
said:
"Pocketed Insurance Money.”
"Mr. Perkins gave his peisonal check
to Mr. Bliss and was reimbursed by a
check of the New York Life Insurance
Company, payable to J. P. Morgan &
Co. The proceeds of this check were
traced to the pocketbook of Mr. Per
kins and for this eminent service he
was arrested under a warrant charg
ing him with grand larceny. As Chief
Justice Cullen, who tried the case,
says, Perkins knew that this money
was drawn from a life insurance policy
without the policy holder's consent.
"This man (Perkins) escaped the
prison ceil by the skin of his teeth for
having picked the pocket of a shroud
for the use and benefit of the Republi
can party.”
Referring to the assimilation of the
Tennessee Coal and Iron Company dur
ing Roosevelt's administration, the
speaker continued:
"The of Roosevelt can
scarcely conceive that he would in
twenty minutes have commissioned the
Steel Corporation to squash its last
competitor. Had he possessed one
tenth of the information which the
commissioner of co: porations after
ward admitted having, he probably
never would been guilty of this act."
Up and Down
Peachtree
Prunes Join in
Living Cost Flight.
Where are the prunes of yesteryear?
Gone up—like beefsteak, flour, pota
toes and everything else that man here
below cares to eat.
There was a time when prunes were
served breakfast, dinner and supper.
There was prune cake, prune pudding,
prune pie. prune syrup and the good
old Sunday supplement prune joke,
which ran like this:
Landlady (passing the dish of
prunes)—What are you bowing and
scraping about, Mr. Starhoarder?
Mr. Starboarder —I always salute old
acquaintances.
All of these have disappeared, how
ever, because prunes have, within the
last year, taken such an ascension that
they can now be well classed as luxu
ries.
A well known produce merchant of
Atlanta stated today that prunes had
advanced 100 per cent in price within
the last twelve months. This puts
them quite out of the reach of the
"common rabble.”
Little Danger of Kiss
Germs at Terminal Depot.
If mother or father or brother or
sister or aunt or uncle or weir dressed
young man and his fiancee say a fond
farewell in Atlanta’s Terminal station
just before making a summer trip, all
the well wishes, cautions or perhaps
last remembrances are given with the
eyes—not the lips.
According to the station attaches,
there is little kissing done in the great
building which shelters the entrance to
trains. It Is so much in the minority
that train callers, matrons and regular
visitors there look on with mild sur
prise when the parting ones forget those
around them and kiss each other. When
kissing just must be done. It is usually
indulged in at the home, down at the
husband's office —or maybe in a car
riage.
Even Fritz or Louie or Michael, fresh
into this country’, rarely’ ever greet rel
atives or friends who came before them
with the universally known smack.
They sometimes fall Into one another’s
arms or express their feeling with vig
orous pats on the back, but not a
kiss!
TO FILE LIGHTING BIDS.
MACON, GA., Aug 15.—Bids from
the Macon Railway and Light Company
and W. J. Massee's new company’ for
the new five-year lighting contract will
be filed next Tuesday night in open
council meeting and opened Immediate
ly. Thus no mistakes can possibly oc
cur.
i PUBLIC CAN ADVANCE
I ONLY WITH ROOSEVELT,
SAYS ALFRED H, LEWIS
By ALFRED HENRY LEWIS.,
I ATEW YORK, Aug. 15.—1 n a recent
I I editorial, one of our dailies,
speaking for the trusts and for
criminal privilege—those thumbs and
Angers of Satan!—taunts the public
with its political idleness, and in pass
ing calls it a "a Pharisee.” The public
—says the condemnatory daily—com
plains of criminal privilege and accuses
it of coercion, corruption and bribery.
The daily points how the trusts are
frequently the victims, not the crimi
nals. and—threatened by the public’s
own elected officers—pay not bribes,
but blackmail. The public, crying for
protection, should—by word of the dai
ly—in its turn protect. It should save
the trusts from extortioners in office
before assailing them as extortioners,
bleeding the public.
This charge is not new. It was made
four years ago by Mr. Archbold. You
know Mr. Archbold. He sits all day at
No. 26 Broadway, inclosing certificates
i of deposit for SI,OOO and $2,000 and
so,ooo and $50,000 to "My Dear Gen
eral Grosvenor" and “Dear Sibley" and
’’My Dear Senator Foraker" and “Dear
, Mr. Penrose," meanwhile urging per
( incident that this measure be killed or
that measure pressed, or this man be
, made a judge or that man prevented
t from becoming an attorney’ general;
f and all and singular with a view to ex
, tending a corruption which in the be-
I ginning produced him (Mr. Archbold)
and has ever since continued to pleas
( antly foster and fatten him.
Public Should Reform Itself.
Mr. Archbold and tl\e metropolitan
daily have some reasonable right on
their side. Good can come out of Naz
’ areth, truth proceed from a metropoli
’ tan dally’ or an Archbold. It may even
’ be echoed by a Chancellor Day./ Ami
: because of a woolsack aphorism which
? insists that 'he who comes into equity
- must come with clean hands, a convict-
- ed public, complaining of trust extor-
■ tions and the encroachments of criml
f nal privilege, should turn honestly ac
• tive In an effort to reform itself.
As declared by Mr. Archbold and re
' declared by that metropolitan daily
defending criminal privilege with red
' faced zeal—the public too often and
’’ too carelessly has maintained a band of
1 wolves at Its capitols as part and parcel
’ of what It calls congresses and legis
latures.
’ Falling of its plain duty, the public,
in the business of its office-filling, has
’ allowed Itself to be ruled by bosses
ruled by money. These bosses were
1 mere wolf-masters. They picked out
1 and controlled the public wolf-packs.
? Tlte big parties were both to blame.
1 There was the Republican part of the
" pack, which corresponded with the
e black timber wolves of our Northwest
“ ern woods. There was the Democrat
' fragment of the pack which —dingy and
brindled as to inoral hue —found their
prototypes in the big gray wolves of
the plains. \
1 Being gathered together, gaunt,
hungry-eyed, famished of flank, the
wolf-pack, letting its glance rove about
the plains of business, describes a fat
trust —felonious, but fat. It is now the
chase begins. ’J’lie fat company Is be
set by some bill or some Resolution, cal
culated for its injury or destruction.
Price Must Be Forthcoming.
At this crisis, enter the ill-odored
, folk of the lobby, whose province is the
unclean province of the go-between.
’ The threatened trust is told lite price of
peace and safety. Unless the price be
forthcoming the Injurious bill or de
structive resolution will be voted
through.
’ The harassed company pays the
1 price. With that the wolf-pack fall
’ upon that blackmail—afte: the bosses
and minor wolf-masters have torn off
f their shares—and rend It to pieces.
1 Who is responsible for this special
and particular corruption? Is it the
I trusts, hunted by the wolf-pack? Or is
it the public, lazily Indifferent both to
’ Its ballot duty and its political respon
! slbility?
t The above, however, doesn't mark in
full the boundaries of a public culpa
bility, and Mr. Archbold and the metro
s politan daily’ stopped talking too soon
' In Its laxities of polities the public is
1 not only to blame for wolves of black
’ mail in legislatures arid congresses, but
5 also for the leg freedom wrongfully
enjoyed by a multitude of trust organs
and felons of criminal privilege. Os
these Mr. Archbold and the excited daily
say suspiciously nothing
r Consider those beef acquittals in
I Chicago and those sugar dismissals —
I through the interposition of a conven
! lent statute of limitations —in New
I York. Consider the score or more of
y similar waterhauls in anti-trust litiga
tions —those farcical dissolutions by the
supreme court of Tobacco and Stand
ard Oil. Forget not, too, those one
t ' hundred and one •investigations" of
■ steel and sugar and railroads and in
r surance.
Those trials and investigations in
their results gave the world a long and
ebon roll call of self-confessed male
factors. These letters yvere self-ad
mitted criminals, by both letter and
spirit of the law. They had committed
crimes of rebate and perjury and lar
ceny and forgery. Than they no Paul
Kelly, by’ their own admissions, was
more the proper candidate for stripes.
But the law was not enforced.
There came no convictions, no sen
tences, no stone walls. As to these rich
and trust-bulyvarked rogues, the pub
lic’s attorneys heard as little, saw as
little, forgot as much of yvhat should
militate against them, or go to prove
their mean iniquities, as they might.
Trust Rogues Rich.
The reason?
Those trust rogues yvere rich and
therefore "respectable,” and "respecta
bility," as a phrase, had been tyvisted
and turned and improved upon until It
operated as an indulgence. It so oper
ates today. He who is “respectable"
may commit bribery and perjury and
larceny and embezzlement and pecula
tion—by means of robber commissions
and salaries never earned—and still live
safe from the law lash.
"Respectability!”
It is the modern benefit of clergy.
Today’ the thief has but to plead his
"respectability" and courts, juries, the
very law itself, grovel before him. No .
officer lays hand upon his shoulder. No
prosecutor presents, no grand jury in
dicts, no court convicts, no chains clank,
no bolts shoot home. For, io, he is
"respectable!"
\\ hile the public is correcting those
blackmail evils of legislatures and con
gresses. against which Mr. Archbold
and the metropolitan daily have so
ytailingly—and honestly—protested, it.
should also demand the RECALL,
" herewith to twist the recusan tails of
trust-owned judges and money-ruled
district attorneys.
In his "Confession ,of Faith” Mr.
Roosevelt sets forth "The right of the
people to rule.” No one will challenge
this claim. And yet, co-related to that
right to rule” is the responsibility of
not only ruling, but tailing tightly. As
a picture of popular power and the pub
lic’s ability to command its own offi
cers, Mr. Roosevelt also uses these
words:
M hatever I did as president I
was able to do only because I had
the backing of the people. When
on any point I did not have that
backing, when on any point I dif
fered from the people, it mattered
not whether I was t ight or whether
I was wrong, my power vanished.”
Law Never Suppresses Crime.
1 his last suggests a thought some
what aside from politics. The thought
is not novel, yet no less important. The
public has imposed upon it not only a
political duty, but a duty of sentiment.
’Time is never suppressed by'effort of
mere law. Men fear prisons less than
they fear infamy and loss of name and
friends. And it is these last great pen
alties. as mu< h as any failure of action
by judges and district attorneys which
are peculiarly wanting In the cases of
our rich and "respectable" scoundrels.
Take the men who at these trials and
"investigations” confessed— creatures of
mi re-born avkrice and a morality of
mud! There followed, as stated, no Jail
sentence. But what was their social or
commercial punishment? Did they lose
place, or fall behind? Wore they thrust
aside? Did they become outcasts as the
result of their discovered and admit
ted guilt? ’
Perish the thought! Nothing of dis
aster. whether of church, dub. draw
ing room or bourse, arose to overtake
' their evil heels. The same friends
, grasped their hands and dragged them
home to dinner. They dealt with the
t same banks, and their accounts were as
! welcome and their money-potent signa
. ttires as deeply rejoiced over as of yore
■ At n.ght they repaired to the same
' dHnk >'< P " co " ntPr as warm,
h a " S as con,f '’* t‘ng. and play
btidge for old-time thousands with the
same old “respectable” gamblers and
sots with whom they had guzzled and
finiiiblpfl fop years
“Respectable” Till-Tappers.
' Irtue is its own reward," says the
moralist, and Lord Byron adds in his
Journal: “And truly the poor jade
ought to be damned well paid for her
trouble. \ i rt ue is its own reward!
Unit may be as it may. The fact re
mains, however, that our “respectable”
ill-tappers of politics and money
know so little of virtue that they will
do naught, fail of naught, for its pale
and tasteless sake,
I he Eskimo, of dull, perverted palate
if offered his arctic choice between a
iluster oi grapes and a dripping morsel
of whale s blubber, will seize the blub
ber. And so with our “respectable”
• rime-saturated rogues of trade and
politics. As between virtue for virtue’s
dollarless sake and those rotund if rot
ten millions, they will never hesitate.
I’hey will take the rancid millions,
finding for them and for themselves
thereafter as wide and as ready an
acceptance as for uhiter characters
and money much more clean.
Recurring to the political angle, and
letting the moral-sentimental go adrift,
it is safe to say that publics are new r
saved from thp shore. They save or
sink themselves. Whether It, were a
blackmailer in a legislature, or a trust
tamed district attorney, not an evil has
been mentioned which the RECALL
wouldn’t cure.
Hope Lies in Roosevelt,
How are you to get it? Mr. Taft is
against the RECALL. Mr. Wilson and
Mr. Roosevelt profess to favor it. Who
is the surer man in that recall con
nection—Mr. Wilson or Mr. Roosevelt?
Mr. Taft, by his own word, is out of the
question. He is for the god of things
as they agree. To vote for him Is but
to confirm present conditions or retreat
to worse. Os the other two on whom
would you sooner rely to put through
a RECALL—the man of action or the
man of alcoves? Frederick the Great
once said: "If I wanted to punish a
province. I’d have it governed by a phi
losopher.” Mr. Wilson is a philoso
pher.
With a last word, It’s all In the lap
of the public. The public can advance
with Mr. Roosevelt; it can stand still
with Mr. Wilson; it can go backward
with Mr. Taft. The public is its ffwn
architect and builds for itself. For
whatever happens publicly the public
has no one save itself" to thank.
It can not be too often repeated that
government is ever the just expression
of its people like a flower of Its stalk.
For good or bad, or black or white, it
is unflaggingly a match for the popular
desert. In the eternal fitness of things,
men will get man-government, dogs
will get dog-government. And why
not? Why waste a man-government
on a dog-public? Would you pelt pigs
with pearls? A dog-public should have
dog-government—a kick, a kennel, a
collar, a bone to gnaw, ■ chain to '
dank.
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