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Was YOUR MOTHER Unfit to
Vote? If She Was. We Are
Sorry for You.
But 1 hat Is No Reason for Your Frying to Keep the Vote
Away from Women Better I han Your Own Mother Hap
pened to Have Been. Pity the Man Who Despises Women.
Copyright, li«i:i
It is an outrageous thing, a disgrace to men and a cruel in
justice to women, that the mothers of this country should be
forbidden to share in the making of the laws.
Look at the picture on this page. It represents the average
good woman taking care of a family.
What man will dare say that this woman is not fit to vote
or that she has not THE RIGHT to vote?
She brings the children into the world. She cares for them.
She endures the drudgery, hardship and monotony of the home,
while the man is away, engaged in work infinitely less trying.
The mother suffers the dreadful agony of childbirth, in
finitely worse than any suffering on the battlefield, about which
men talk so much.
And she suffers the pangs of anxiety and sorrow when her
children are ill; she goes through an ordeal which to men is in
conceivable when one of her children dies.
The whole load of the world is upon woman’s back. She
creates the entire race, the men and the women.
Unjust laws weigh heavily upon her.
Bad laws and failure to execute the laws destroy the char
acter of her sons, and she suffers.
Inconceivably stupid and brutal are those who would for
bid women the vote.
Nothing more admirable could be conceived than tne won
derful courage shown by those women in England, protesting
in starvation and to the point of death against man's injustice.
Did you read the description of that noble old woman,
Mrs. Fankhurst, tried by a judge and a lot of other MEN, and
sent to jail for three years?
You talk about the courage of men. Where has a man
shown the courage of that old woman, refusing to eat, defiantly
telling her judges that she would come out of prison soon—
DEAD OR ALIVE- and proving the courage to live up to her
declaration?
Don't you know that that woman was only asking for HER
RIGHT? And they have released her from prison because she
would not eat jail food.
Suppose she had been an old MAN. brought before twelve
WOMEN and one female judge.
What would you think if you saw an old man, judged by
women exclusively, pitifully asking for the right to share in the
making of the laws that sent him to jail?
Have not the women of the country a right to defy laws
WHEN THEY AKE NOT PERMITTED TO SHARE IN THE
MAKING OF THE LAWS?
Have not men from the beginning done infinitely worse
things than the suffragettes of England ever did, in the effort
to get the vote and freedom?
Did not the so called noble patriots of this country in the
early days resort to excesses that cannot even be described,
when they were protesting against England's refusal to give
them a share in representation, since they paid taxation?
We all talk with admiration about our Revolution, and
about the fights THAT MEN MADE AGAINST MEN TO GET
THE RIGHT TO VOTE AND CONTROL THEMSELVES. AND
WE FORGIVE THE FACT EVEN THAT IN BOSTON “THE
PATRIOTS DROVE NAKED WOMEN THROUGH THE
PUBLIC STREETS
Why do we not show some of that admiration and sympathy
and forgiveness for the women of England and for the women
of other countries in their desperate effort to obtain for them
selves justice and fair treatment?
To the man who opposes suffrage, or who sneers at the ef
forts of noble women to gain their right, we ask these questions:
Why do you despise women and think them unfit to vote?
WAS YOUR OWN MOTHER UNFIT TO VOTE? Have
you so poor an opinion of your mother, of your sister, of your
daughter, that you think her less worthy to exercise her judg
ment and share in government than some miserable • creature
soaking himself with whisky in a corner saloon?
Every bit of gentleness instilled into you as a child you got
from your mother. Every man is born a savage, and it is the
mother who patiently and gently diminishes cruelty and vio
lence and instills kindness and gentleness into him.
What an infamy for a man to say that the woman who is
fit to direct him in his childhood, to govern him in his boyhood,
and to inspire him in his manhood IS UNFIT TO CAST A
VOTE
Women to day are the heavily taxed class. The taxes used
to be laid by government ON MEN. Men paid the road tax. and
they paid stamp taxes and other taxes.
■To day the chief taxes are laid BY TRUSTS ON WOMEN
The Oil Trust, the Coal Trust, the Beef Trust, the Sugar
Trust, the Flour Trust, the Ice Trust—these are forces of gov
ernment that tax without representation, AND THEY TAX
WOMEN WHO PAY THE HOUSEHOLD EXPENSES
Don't you think that the woman who pays the taxes of the
trusts would have intelligence enough to vote to stop this tax
ation?
Is not the woman good enough to educate the boys and
girls, good enough to advise her husband, patient and kind
enough to endure the hard lot of women, good and intelligent
enoueh to share in the government of a country?
Woman is braver than man; she has proved it a thousand
million times in childbirth. Woman is more devoted than man;
the woman who will not sacrifice her life for her child is an ex
ception
And even in those fields of courage of which the men boast,
the women prove themselves more courageous than the men
Women ought to vote, and they will vote The man who op
poses woman suffrage disgraces himself, and he indirectly casts
reproach upon his own mother and upon the other wemen that
he has known
If you have been unfortunate enough to have a mother unfit
to vote KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT and let others more fortu
uale than yourself give votes to the good mothers of this country.
The Atlanta Georgian
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How can any but a brute and an ignoramus
deny that this woman, the mother of children, has
a right to share in the making of laws?
It is not a favor that woman asks when she
demands the vote.
Indoor Safest Place—Shun Trees, Umbrellas and Wire Fences.
By GARRETT P SERVISS,
ALA DY writes me that Mie
narrow’.* vsvaprd Im ing
struck hy lightning some
y <ars ago. and now she Is ill mor
nl tenor cveiy time the Season
for thunderstorms approa< hes.
anil she wishes to know hat pre
cautions one ought to take in or
der to avoid danger from this
source.
At the same time a man writes
that he and his family llk« to
spend the hot months in the coun
try mar a small boiiy of water,
but, having heard piat water at
tracts-lightning, they are nervous
alwHit it. and much of their sum
mer pleasure is destroyed by fear
o* t b unders I«a m«
The Idols in Our Midst
By JACOB J. LEIBSON.
II.!Z\TIOX i> prowl She
boasts among In r ebnouests
x ihe overthrow of >upf rMition
il’i passing of darkness from
the mind ami idolatry fr«»m the
hca r \V. vain vre.’t in the
kn<»w!r<ia* that v-r no longer se<K
favor from fetiches «r grace fr mi
gargoyles. Th idols arc. indre d.
• broke in the Temples of Baal.”
Astarte and Moloch arc de
stroyed. t’hemosh is no more.
And »'<w. do oe not worship a
living God The very thought of
idols repels us. and the horror of
idol-worship. with its unspeakable
outrages, aroit>i‘s abhoirw nw and
pity.
When the last of their temples
w.r* destroyed ami their priests
put to tile -word there was m i« h
rej*d« ing -imoiit the righte<»u>.
\ • iM-li*-ved tin* saw tile drab
of heal Hut ;da-‘ Baal
though ut’ : ' »tis»d. lived. on. and
x ’ '
lived lid Mohs h R- well—in the
hea*ts •»? men It was t in-re they
had their origin. Fiom Gruelty
t.ev sprang and Vhr nurtured
v.t m tnd there thex < «>ntin io
wa>k bcddlx abroad ,m "he and
tm w■’ ,<r* they tii.it
aievu. V\ Im id oil H« ua» ntia
f
Precaution Against Lightning
Everybody knows phoplv who
are almost paralvznl by terror
whenever a thundei-torm is rag
ing about them, ami since the sea
son of such storms is not far off.
ami there is no way known to
science nf preventing their •nciir
rence. it i> worth while to recall
some of the facts that have been
learned about ii* iu.
Clouds Act as Conductor.
A flash, a bolt, of lightning is
simply a discharge of electricity,
resembling that which may be
produced, on a >n»all scale, by ac
f iimulating a charge on the con
ductor of an »deetric machine,
and then bringing ><»m« abject
near, io which the electricity will
leap like a tiackling thread of
flame
In He* case of lightning the
wanted for devotees Greater
than ill the i; i- h* now. more
powerful, more exacting. Hi
tempi, -• are many, of wood and
stone. »»f metal- fine ami marble,
many • übits Irgh. His priests
are in the high pla* »s. surfeited
with luxury and garbed like
piinves. His aulytcs swing their
relist;s of di.»<- and raise their
voices in his praise. Ami most
propitiously he |«ours into their
la I s G< »LI)
Cru-I as of oid. he still demands
on hre altars the immolation of
human beings, the lives of chil
dren And what is -o cheap as
the life of a child? \sk tins
grinning idol .MoLih'H \\» «al!
him I’HH.b I. \H« di
The shameful stcl.fi. ♦ go. s oil
Tbot-al.d’. O i s V.Carns suffer
littl. c.dhhen to «om>- unto him,
lull n a- in iio days t Semi
tic h» ath<-nism. For tun s.-nd
not their own chihlreh. but the
children of others, the children of
the ,m»oi BLESSED Alt:-: THE
pi »i»:::
So M.lih !1 -nmo m ours lame.
set am. adv er-:i '. .ten Josiah
I .J. r. ..1 T-phe.;, , t, f
• F Jos' th t»» ♦ efii« i’n.‘p , i
m
1 thiuugh I a u. . i<» M 1
SHE SIMPLY ASKS HER RIGHT. She
ought to have it and she WILL have it. Shame
on the man who thinks his own mother unfit to
vote.
(SEE EDITORIAL.)
place of the charged conductor
is taken by an electrified cloud,
and the earth beneath serves as
the object which "draws its fire.”
But the strength of the dis
charge depends upon the density
of the charge on the conductor.
The charge resides upon the sur
face, and if more and more elec
trification is given to the same’
conductor the density increases
until the strain upon the sur
rounding air becomes so great
that it can no longer he borne,
and then a discharge takes place
through the air, which instantly
relieves the strain by lowering
the pressure.
Now. on a thunder cloud, which
<s composed of billions upon bil
lion* of minute pat tides of vapor,
each of which has contributed its
■ electrical charge to the common
stock, the density, or potential
becomes enormous: and. when the
discharge takes place, the flash
may extend several miles through
the air.
From House to Earth.
The small • discharge from an
cb'ctrival machine will burn par
ticles of dust, or demolish minute
ohpl t It will also produce a
severe shock in the human body.
But the gigantic discha ge from a
thunder cloud will instantly kill
m» n and larger animals, tear off
the branches. «•: rend the trunks
of great trees, hurl down chim
neys and towers, destroy roofs,
melt iron rods and chains, and set
tire to buildings and haystacks.
It was not until Franklin in
vented the lightning r<»d that men
km w any way to ward off the
strokes* of lightning. The Hgh -
tiing r»»u c«»» s its work by provid
ing an easy j oad for the electric
discharge. When |opt«l.v con
st ucte.i t may t-ven prevent too
eat . n .*. « nnii ..(ion of pot**n
ti.»’ in the . h.<i. s above hv grau
u.-*‘iy drawing <»iT their electric
\ • ■ ding to Piofessnr G. F
Park? . an effective way to pro
•e. • an o'dinar> house from light
r:ng .s to run galvanized iron
Igr ..-i wire up .. *h - cor
r ers. ; ,onz a! ♦ r ges an<
\ ind over a.’ t.te ch nneys.
ng h» > in > don n t>> ea th
ir. e. v» iai ole es. and at »*o .1
1 aivund iht wirt m order io ca- 1
tabllsh an efficient connection
with the ground.’’
These wires should terminate
above in shat p points, elevated
several feet. The object of al’
this is to furnish ready way® for
the electricity to travel between
the clouds and the earth. Trave!
it will, somehow, if it takes a fan
cy to go'in* that direction, and if
the way is not open it will open
it by force. But it will usually
follow an iron wire, if it has no
sharp turns, as obediently as a
led child.
There is danger however, in
being near a lightning rod when
a discharge takes place through
it. because the, human body is .<
fairly good conductor, and an
overflow current from the wire
would be apt to leap to it.
As to personal protection. with
out regard to lightning rods, the
safest place in a thunderstorm is
n a house. Keep the doors and
windows closed. Avoid the neigh
borhood of stoves, chimneys and
fireplaces. especially if a fire is
burning in them. Remain in th*
center of the room. Do not car
ry large metallic objects in the
hand.**, ami keep away from such
objects in a room.
Franklin, who kn* w as much
about lightning as any man that
over lived, advised sitting in a
chair, in the middle of the room,
and putting th** feet up in anoth
er chair. But the l>est protec
tion »f all, according to him. is
to have **a hammock. or swing
ing bed. suspended by silk cords,
equally distant from the walls on
♦ very ? ide. ami from the ceiling
and fl tor."
Some Things to Shun
If you are caught hi a thtind*-’
storm in the open. d«» ti«*i «-artv
an umbrella, ami do not takt -h* I
tei under a lon*-Iy ux or a
small group of lu es Ke, p ,v\av
fr«Mti w i’e fr-m .Many < atth.
have been killed i»\ lightning
striaing. •• following su« h l*-m e>.
There is mm danger near a
body ot vvate; ifcgp tn i.-ie midst
of dry land, but by keeping in
doors « ne may f,*l secure even
on -h*> snort of .1 bike «»r riv* .
Statistic* in all <nurv.i-s ov .
that the nuinlv **T m*n killed bv
hg un ng i« fa grea er than I s ’*-
tv. ib- • ’ won»e.i. uni the iva->n
undoubtedly i- *hat t‘ie !att. i a •
tw- am to >»*• »Alight out ot
1 duvtb by a dtvuu.
THE HOME PAPER
Elbert Hubbarci
Writes on ' Gw
“Tailor to the King”
The Retail Clothing Busi- O.
ness. He Says, Was the
first to Ailopt the One-Price
System. This Means Truth ■
in Business. Quality and Fit 4 ®
Were Guaranteed.
By ELBERT HUBBARD 1
Copyright, 1913, International News Service.
THE fallacies connected with
the business of merchant
tailoring are exactly on a
par with the fakes of alchemy,
astrology, theology and medicine.
All minister to the vanity of
the individual who thinks he is
different, peculiar, unique and re
quires a special ministration.
So with the theological and
medical faker went the sartorial
faker, and we spoke feelingly and
with pride of “my tailor." M e
made excuses for not attending
this or that meeting because «e
had an engagement with "my
tailor.”
1 can well remember how my
heart was tilled with pride when
I stood on a platform—a kind of
improvised throne —and a tailor
took off his coat and made ready
for a great and serious opera
tion.
With a tape measure around
his neek and an adviser standing
by. he went at me. Ami way
back in the dim recesses of the
stoic at a desk sat a man with
pencil in lin nd.
Taking His Measure.
The call was given. “All right.”
and then the tape measure was
•put over my manly anatomy. It
was pleasing to my sense of ap
probation to be thus ministered
to. The man measuring me and
the man looking on consulted
from tiim* to time.
They called off the measure
ments thus: “Thirty- two and a
half. twenty-one and three
quarters: sixteen and a half.”
Then the tape measure was again
applied the second time, and the
• ail uas given. ‘Make that six
teen and seven-eighths." ami the
man in the dark recesses of the
store echoed back the numbers.
These were repeated to see that
they were all down correctly.
I was told to call in a week,
and I did. and tried on the par
tially completed garments.
Grave Consultations.
There were c onsultations, th •
tape measure was applied again,
chalk was freely used, pins cam?
into service, diagrams were made
and further consultations held.
I was padded up litre, hol
lowed there, hunched, bunched,
smoothed out and sent away with
the request that I would call the
second day. it was like being
treated for this, that and the oth
er by a specialist with pointed
whiskers.
It took time to get a suit of
clothes. But was 1 not getting
Wilhelm Humboldt I
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY. 9
SEVENTY -EIGHT years ago
died Karl Wilhelm Von
Humboldt, a man who,
though eclipsed by his mor* cel
ebrated brother. Alexander Von
Humboldt, wrought mightily in
his tim- for the promotion of the
Great Human Advance.
Born at Pot dam. Prussia, in
17H7. Humboldt received as fine
an education as the world at that
time could give, and while his
academic honor- were sHII fresh
U(»on him the Government sent •
him as Minister Plenipotentiary
tn Rome.
For nearly twenty years Hum
bo!dt remained in the service of
his country, and would have re
mained much longer but for the
fact that he possessed a con
science and a -tnmg devotion to
principle.
In opposition to the will and
purpose of th* men “up higher.*’
Humboldt. at that time filling the
imposin' post of Minister of the
im rior. *,+ ni-iti- »<1 a new con
stitution. which siooyd cotnbiio
local self-government of th.*
provinces with a parliament
• hos» n bv »lir»«i election. He
also attacked the <* M rlsbad de
crees. which aimed at a censor
ship of* the pre.-> and th. sup
pression of a liberal opinions
As might ha\. been expected,
this manly and ' ourugeouM siaml
for Democrat x nd the freedom
of .-peete and printing was im
' : ° s; ” '• ’’ ’* t“• Min
’s* r- C Mr s- d uom oth. . .
*r ,
ui? ivrv-u ritirtmem, ai>u I
a suit made to measure and
not this man “my taih.t? ,
Ah. yes! I didn't know it. hut®
was dating back t„ H „ ,_®
only royalty had its tatlr, 7,
to the King!" 1 was bring m i n H
istei ed to by a sj„.< , a
man who had studied m>
and understood it. J », ls ~,
in society.
It was long years before I
I was a part of unconsei nus fa
cry. Certainly, the tailor M ®
not a hypocrite. Perhaps h< wa ß
a little of a Jesuit and figuitd
out that the end justifies
means.
Observed of Observers 9
But I am quite sure ~f
that my tightly-rii tmg suit
er quite adapted itself t<.
anatomy. I was so well
that I was conspicuous
I.umps. hollows and impeii. -
were obvious, instead "f
me clothed so well that I
not attract attention I » as
observed of the übser\ei< I
the center of the stage.
We work from the , ..ntpiex
tliessimple, and the obvious is
last thing we know
It is only within recent
that the discovery was n,.|,
men. in their bodily
ne nts, fall into four or tn.’ ,
es; that clothes pmperh m
for one man w ill fit anj '
man in the same class iPuilH
smooth, well-fitting < I.,t'n- - ■
do not exaggerate an.', of
minor physical pe'-u'iai :i,. .
a man may possess.
Tlte old-time custom ladT
tlio country town was like ,i
learning to ride a !>!■ >< l> hr
into (lie very tiling that lie
io avoid, and the peculiar
that he tried to comeal
brought out.
First to Adopt System ■
At that time. an> man
whit hand-me-down <
was socially taboo Th* 1
made clothing business was
tin- hands of the
Haggle and barter w -i*
and the methods of l>.»oih and
zaar reigned. w|
Behold, however. \\ hen
gei bad enough the> ciu>
selves! raß
The retail clothing
the first to adopt the
system. This means truth
business. Quality and fi’
guaranteed. ffi|
And. behold, now. clothes
to wear represent, in a
way. the very acme of
directness, simplicity and
intent. ®|
light heart he titrn.d ’r." r r l '''™
ties to literature, in «hic:t
Rental avocation he wt.J
the r- mainiriK six yMf* 9 9|
his life. H
It was Hunihoidt wtw fir-’
eo.*i;it.-d the seietu . ■ " n, i
five philology with h ''-r> ’”*■
other collateral stu»i:» i’” l z? jH
it a universal signifi l an« p
Humboldt who fir-’t * Irir ’•
down the idea thai t’• nar, 2B|
ter and structure >' c 4
express the inner life
edge of its speaker- -t'
'anguages must no. *s- if
from one another in ’h*
and io the sam»- d*iire»-
those who use them.’
It is upon this gt
zation that all t! - 1 .<• n
in philological scien ‘
to have discovered it '*■
alone, glorv enough ,>r ,n '
. . ...... b-
It was said long a‘-<> o
phlloso[bher that "' t; 9B
there Is nothing ur* «•
and in Man thei>- is no:iia^- rr
bm Mind.” Now it JB|
>hr.»iigh l-anguagc • >
♦st thing in the w«-i <<l J raKr
powers known mu ’■ 4 !,r
tend- thos»- power- ad 1
ifold ways wins V- ur ” n ’
lories over the biill' fof'e lg|
material world
To have been a ;■ ‘
lore, in the Scien* c an
to have l»een am (, n»i .
not the very fir-- ‘
underx an<l th’ *
;m ter of tht- rnar\.
’-•merit » lug* M
iipoti lie l*-sp.*t -t ■ 188
of Mankind. Ml