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“IT’S A SAD STORY, MATES!
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Copyright. iei2 1 r‘friitmi Sartre
What Will the Much Praised,
New Fancied Tariff Do?
"Watch It and See—Especially You Who Are Workingmen
(Oeprlfbt. 1911.)
Shall We Obliterate
Panama?
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An intelligent man. creator and manager ol several big busi
ness talked about the tariff. HE KNOWS about the tariff, for
be Is a big importer, a man who deals annually in millions of dol
lar*’ worth of goods that pay tariff
What he had to say interest* many Americans
The new tariff,” said he. "is advertised ae a great boon
for the common people.
”It depends upon what you call the common people
*"It will not prove to be a great boon for those that work lor
a living—and they will And it out.
"The new tariff means that manufacturers in this country
must compete more closely with the manufacturers in Europe.
And that means, of course, that WORKINGMEN in this coun
fry must compete more directly with workingmen in Europe.
“I know something about the making and selling of cloth,
from (he mill and as a finished product.
•“And here are three faots:
The new tariff will save some money for those that are
prosperous—that buy their things in Europe—or buy exclusive
ly imported European products.
The new tariff will not save a dollar in the cost of living
or dressing for the masses of workingmen and the little people
of modest incomes
"And the tariff will deprive of work many thousands of
those that work for a living in THIS country.
" Thousands of men whose work has bean done in America
and sold in America will lose their present employment, for the
reason that the work that they have been doing will be DONE
IN EUROPE and sold in America.
"Just watch the importations of woolen goods, for instance,
into this country.
"The new tariff means that one-third of
all the looms in the United States will be
shut down.
'That means that one-third oi all the human beings earn
ing a living at the looms will have to find some other way of
earning a living.
“It is not gay for them and cheerful for those who realize
that the welfare of a country depends absolutely upon the wel-
fare of the mass of the population.
“You know that when workers in this country are brought
into direct competition with workers in another country they
must accept the pay of the foreign workers or give up the work.
"You know, also, that an einpl<>3 r er can not successfully
REDUCE WAGES Yon can not maintain your business in this
country and carry on yonr enterprise with a lot of dissatisfied
men whose pay has been reduced.
' Therefore, the only thing that a manufacturer can do when
he finds it necessary to cut down wages in order to meet foreign
competition IS TO CLOSE HIS MILL OR HIS FACTORY AB
SOLUTELY.
Then, after a while, he can reopen with a lot of new men
on a new basis.
And that is what a good many will have to do.
This country is a big enterprise, a BUSINESS enterprise,
a MANUFACTURING enterprise built up slowly on a certain
basis.
Many of those who work for a living and many manufac
lurer? who have tried to build up industries in this country are
going to realize that experimenting with settled conditions is
dangerous
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Marriage Brings Out Strongest Qualities
By DOROTHY DIX
% CARRIAGE g ■*©» aus«
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out whatever 1a th*
strongest quality in them, wheth
er that quality ia good or had.
It intensifies virtue* and mag
nifies faults.
Of course. marriage 1* realty
the big gamble All do not
know what they are getting in a
husband or a wife until they have
taken the package they drew In
the lottery home and examined
it, but observation hands us a
good many tips on a man's or
woman's character that enable
us to give some pretty shrewd
gueanej
A girl, for instance, has beer
tipped off that if she marries the
man who never takes heT any
where. or gives her any pleasure,
she will get a husband who will
be miserly, selfish and a stick-in-
the-mud
I n© girl who marries a man
w 10 comes to .-ee her smelling of
liquor and maudlin with drink
has been warned in time that if
she marries him she will have a
drunken husband. for whom
nhw’U have to get up and open
the door in the middle of the
night.
The girl who marries a young
man who has never been able to
keep a situation, or to make a
living for himself, has been given
a tip. big enough to knock a house
down with, that she will acquire
a loafing, no account husband
that she will have to support.
When a man In his courting
days Is grouchy and surly, and
ill-tempered, and a girl has to be
always jollying him into a good
humor, she has received her tip
that if she marries him she will
spend a miserable life walking on
eggs for fear that she will say or
do something that will explode
his infernal machine of a dispo
sition.
If a couple quarrel before mar
riage they will quarrel ten times
worse after marriage, and they
should have enough sense to
break away before they have to
call in the divorce court to help
them.
If a girl observes that a man
is fussy about his eating, and
likes to make his own salad
dressing at the table, she has
been tipped off that his wife will
need to be a. good cook. If she
notices that he’s always the hero
of his own stories, and that he
likes to talk about himself she’s
got a tip that any wife who holds
him will have to be an A No. 1
flatterer.
By listening to the things that
a. man laughs at you can get a
good working model of the kind
of a husband he will make. If he
laughs at cruel speeches that
stab like a knife, he will make
A Child of the Nations
By REV. C. F. AKED. D.D.. LL. D
The man quoted above is typical of the energetic, success
lul. aggressive business man and constructive citizen.
What he has to say should have the attention of statesmen
who are so enthusiastically experimenting with things in general.
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Colombia, stall aggrieved by
the part played by the United
States in the revolution which
created the republic of Pan
ama, makes the cool proposi
tion that the United States should force the Panamanians to re
turn to their old position as a Colombian province.
There is an old saying that revolutions never go backward.
The Panama affair was not much of a revolution, but it solved a
problem which had disquieted the Isthmus for half a century and
bade fair to block the construction of a Panama Canal for years
to come
That the United States was a party to the revolution can not
oe denied, in the face of the historic facts and of Roosevelt's
ast. I took Panama and let Congress debate about it after
ard
That the United States owes Colombia some reparation is
possible—a matter of proper diplomatic discussion.
But that such reparation should take the form of forcing
the Panamanians back into a subjection which forty-seven times
:n fifty years they had endeavored to throw off by armed revo.
lution is unbelievable.
Even so -hrfty a public man as the uresent Secretary of
State can hardly take into serious consideration so flat a con
traveutioii of hi- favorite dogma. All governments derive their
ju:t pi.u. r: from the consent of t.hf imotiri
A GREAT man is in our
midst. Driven out of Al
bania by the Servians, re
called to duty by the provisional
government, and then asked by
the President of Albania to rep
resent this new nation to the
people of the United States,
Charles Telford Erickson has a
story to tell which the world
ought to hear. He knows
storm-tossed Albania ns few men
do. In prison and in exile and
amid the blood-red horrors of vs ar
Erickson ha? drawn near to the
heart of the Albanian people. He
has been present at meetings of
the Cabinet. He knows the
mind
land.
It may oe that the Albanians
represent the oldest stock in Eu
rope. from whose loins sprang
both Greece and Rome When
The Turk broke into Europe and
conquered the Balkan peninsula
the Albanian held out against
him. For more than half a cen
tury. behind his mountain ram
parts. he defied the Mohammedan
conqueror He crossed the Adri
atic and pleaded with the princes
of the church for aid. It vus in
vain. Albania was doomed.
Four centuries of Turkish mis
rule have done their work. The
land has fallen back Into desert
Their spirit is a* untamable as
ever. In the war. husband, wife
and little child fought side by
aide. The father took the rifle.
The mother armed herself with
the sword. Children died point
ing the bayonet at their murder
ers. Men. women and children
alike had their reward Thou
sands of men were tied back ••
back and mowed down by in a
chine guiiA t cordon of tfbop©
w Auid be drawn round a ' l'iagp
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As women and children rushed
from beneath the blazing roof
they were received on the points
of bayonets and flung back to die
in the flames
Tire Turk has been driven out
of Albania. The Powers have
guaranteed its independence. A
Prince has been found for the
throne, a German Prince seated
there by the nations of Europe.
Nominally a Mohammedan peo
ple. the Albanians petitioned the
Pow ers for a Protestant Prince to
rule over them. Toleration of re
ligions has been guaranteed by
the new Government. Herein lies
the significance to the Tvord of
the re-birth of Albania. With
three-fifths of the population
supposed to be Moslem. Albania,
by the voice of its accredited
Government, pleads with the
Christian nations for their
Christianitj.
Flight of the Huguenots
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
T WO HUXDRE D AND ]
TWENTY-EIGHT year*
ago the royal order revok
ing the Edict of Name® went into
force, and the beginning of the
end of the prosperity of France
was at hand.
The order threw France into a
whirlpool qf clashing hates. The
‘ Reign of Terror,” a hundred
years in the future, was to be no
worse. The “September Massa
cres” of the revolution of 1789
were but to k repeat the work of
the dragonades turned loose by
Louis the Fourteenth upon the
Huguenots.
The result of the King’s mad
ness was just such as might have
been expected, just such as he
might easily have foreseen had
his judgment been equal to his
fanaticism Harried to death by
the royal edict, the Huguenots
began the emigration which, be
fore it was finished, deprived
A SHADOWY something drifting son
Gemmed thick with paling stars
The softened blur of apple tress.
That, nwaying, whisper in the breeze
\ud scatter storms of rose and while
In blinding ©weeuiee® through the nigh;
\nd then—a thickening of the mi*'
The silver blurred to amethyM
And on me creep* the fog
And through fhe deptns o? front) w n «
ome memories of another night,
j he »oent of apple bloaaom* blown
The mist-—your mouth upon my own
4nd you. afraid 10 give se much,
erre to trembling at tone*
u>en—miet again and memories
phantom*—sheR I never knew
France of more than a million of
her faire&t people. The perse
cuted Huguenots, seeking tiie lib
erty that was ®o dear to them,
fled to Holland, Germany. Eng
land, Switzerland and the Ameri
can Colonies, giving to those
countries the benefit of their
superior skill, intelligence and
moral worth.
If Louis had deliberately willed
to ruin his country, ho could not
have gone about it in a better
way. His foolish decree drove
away from his kingdom its finest
brain, its most robust energy, it®
most valuable handicraft, its no
blest men and women: and what
France lost the other countries
gained.
We hear much these days about
the “Decline of France,” but we
do not always stop to think that
the decline began with the infer
nal foolishness that led Louis the
Fourteenth to revoke the Edict of
Xante®, thus completely undoing
all the good work that had been
so wisely begun by Henry the
Fourth. If Louis had had sense
enough to have given the Hugue
nots the liberties that belonged
to them, the history of France
would have been altogether dif
ferent. The Huguenots would
probably have rendered the bloody
revolution of ’89 quite urmecessa-
ry, and it is more than likely that
they would have made impossible
the deep humiliation of 1870.
In-Shoots
Those who live in glass houses
had better bathe afier dark.
* * *
A lot of u& find that virtue is
. erv modest in rewarding her
self.
The men real!} fit to tiolto of
fice are generally holding r
*M*rri©
his wife the butt of his sarcasm.
If he laugh® at coarse, vulgar !
stories, he will make the kind of
a hueband who has no delicate
appreciation of a woman's na
ture.
If the sight of other people’s
misfortunes fill him with mirth, j
there'® nothing on earth that he
will sympathize with except him
self: but if he has the kindly hu
mor that can gild every misfor
tune in life, and if his smile at
others' weaknesses is full of ten
derness and understanding, then
he's a man to tie up with, no
matter whether he's rich or poor,
or of high or low estate. He'll
make the kind of a husband
that’ll keep a woman on her
knees thanking God she’s got
him.
Oh, men furnish plenty of tips
about the kind of husbands they
will make if only girls had the
sense and the courage to refuse
to play the bad ones.
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
Highways in the Air
Entliusiahtic aviators are talking of the
establishment of great world roads through
the air: it is the boldest experiment in
aerial navigation that has yet been faced, a
really grand enterprise that must com
mand the admiration of the whole world,
he savs.
By GARRETT P. SERVISS
rpilE first great world roads
I were on the land, and they
made rich and powerful
such cities as Palmyra, Damas
cus, Cairo. Bagdad, Samarcand,
situated at the beginning or the
end, or at important intersections,
of long and difficult routes oveT
vast deserts and tangled moun
tains.
Then came the great sea routes,
first on the Mediterranean, and
then round the Cape of Good
Hope and Cape Horn, and even
tually across the oceans, which
made, in succession, the fortunes
of Alexandria Tyre, Carthage,
Venice, Antwerp, London, New
York, San Francisco.
Now enthusiastic aviators are
talking of the establishment of
great world roads in the air, and
it remains for the future to de-i
cide whether they, in their turn,
will lay the foundations of com
mercial capitals as yet undreamed
of. The atmosphere, too. has Its
natural routes, determined part
ly by the lay of the land, partly
by the existence of great centers
of population, partly by the inac
cessibility of points otherwise de
sirable for the development of hu
man Industry, and partly by the
peculiarities of winds and air cur
rents.
Three such route® ihrougn the
air are being considered for ex
ploration by French aviators.
One of them lies across the des
ert of Sahara, from Algeria,
southward, to Timbuctoo and the
River Niger. Three years ago
French military authorities sent
squadrons of aeroplanes to Biskra
and Dakar with orders to attack
the great desert. Explorations
were made, but nothing of seri
ous importance wa® accomplished,
because, as is now alleged, there
was not sufficient initiative
shown hv those in charge of th©
work. Take the airships to Co-
lomb-Bechar, says an experienced
aviator, and the problem will b*
solved, and the transit of the dw
elt, which now requires fw
month® by caravan, will be mad*
easily in two days. Next year !t
is expected this will be done under
the lead of M. Etienne.
Within a few months past r.w»>
other great air routes have been
proposed., and preparation* ar*
now under way to attempt their
opening. One of these goes from
Paris to Cairo, and. the other
from Paris to Bagdad.
The first, as laid out, passe*
across Europe to Constantinople,
thence to Konia in Asia Minor
then to Aleppo, Jerusalem, Gaza.
Port i^aid and Cairo. The stop
ping points and places for revlc
tualment have all been marked
out. M. Daucourt, accompanied
by M. Roux as passenger, are to
attempt this passage as soon a*
their preparations can be com
pleted. Part of their supplies
have alreauy gone forward to
Smyrna and Beirut.
The stages of the second route,
also starting from Paris, are Con
stantinople, Aleppo, Meskine-Ec
east of Palestine. Deir. Aneh, Hit,
Felloud ja, Bagdad - Bassora
The difficulties of both these
routes are foreseen. As one winter
puts it, “The way from Belgrade
to Constantinople is a hard one “
But there is—worse ahead. A'
rived in Asia Minor, the aviators
will have to conduct their ma
chines over the Taurus Mouc
tains, which attain an elevation
of 13,000 feet.
Tn this region no aid can be
expected. The explorers will have
to depend upon their own re
sources and the excellence of
their apparatus. It is the bolci
est experiment in aerial navigs -
tion that ha$ vet been faced, e
really grand enterprise which
must command the admiration
and best wishes of the whole
world!
Elsie C. Parsons on Woman’s Rights
Selected by EDV.’IN MARKHAM.
^ j/-p H E OLD-FASHIONED
I WOMAN,” issued by
ri Dnino 'c fl/vnQ
OLD-FASHIONED
by
G. P. Putnam'® Sons,
and written by Elsie Clews Par-
Nons. Ph. D.. is a mine of curious
lore about the status of woman,
past and present. Here are a
few scattered statements from
the book.
“Women's rights to property,
either in tribal groups or in early
civilizations, are rarely equal
with men’s. Until 1882 an Eng
lishman controlled his wife’s
earnings. In most of the United
States a married woman Is not
permitted to enter into a busi
ness partnership exclusive of her
husband’s interests, and in gen
eral the courts do not favor a
woman’s acquiring earnings for
her separate use without the
husband's consent. In Sweden
a husband still owns whatever
hi® wife buys with her earnings.
“Since children, like women,
are usually considered a form
of property, a mother has sel
dom the same rights as a father.
Both the Babylonian and the Ro
man fathers could sell their chil
dren with maternal consent.
(The Babylonian could sell the
mother of his children, too.)
A French mother has no legal
authority at all over her chil
dren during their father’s life
time. and after his death she has
to share her control with his
kindred.
“Iri our common law a moth
er is not entitled, like a father,
to the services and earnings of
minors,. and in some States a
father can stili will away the
'guardianship of his child from its
mother. In all State.® the fa
ther has the paramount right of
custody.
“We allow r women to serve as
witnesses, or to stand for trial
like a man, although the courts
still disincline to permit a per
sonal judgment againet a mar
ried woman.
“Ae late as 1884 it was agreed
that ‘to attend medical clinic® in
company with men, women must
lay aside their modesty/ About
this time the president of the
British Medical Association, in
referring to medicine as a pro
fession for women, said publicly
that he shuddered to hear of
what the ladies were attempting
to do. ‘One can but blush and
feel mat modesty, once inherent
in the fairest of God’s creation,
is fast fading away/
“Of this name period must have
been the lady who had learned
to swim—to the horror of her
clergyman. ‘But/ she said ‘sup
pose I "rfas drowningr Tn that
case,’ he replied, *vou ought to
wait until a man comes along
and saves you.’ ”
Questions Answered
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
F C. T.—Thait the ancient
Egyptians were not negroes is
certain, and it is equally certain
that they did not belong to the
Semite, or Jewish race. Said the
late Professor Huxley: “1 am not
aware that there are any living
people who resemble them, ex
cept the Oravidian tribes of Cen
tal India, and the AuMralians;
And I have long been inclined to
think that the latter are the low
est, and the Egyptians the high
est, members of a race of man
kind of gTeat antiquity, distinct
alike from Aryan and Turanian
on the one side and from negro
and negrite on the other." In a
word, nobody can Bay. with any
degree of assurance, what breed
of men th* builders of ? he Pvra-
jrjide v?rq.
THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE
D. R. C.—There is no “Amer
ican” language. The language
spoken by the people of the
United States is the English lan
guage, the richest, most'“viril*
and most powerful of all the lan
gauges now to be found among
men. The men who conceived
and made good this nation w r er«
Englishmen, and, of course, the'
spoke the only language they
knew anything about, the lan
guage of iheir ancestors. th*
English language. The groat D>
Doilinger said of this language
that “to it is assigned in th*
oming age the intellectual su
premacy that in ancient time.s be
longed to the Greeks and after
ward to the Romans.” In 17b'
English w T a» the language
9.000.000 i»eoplf To-day ir it th*
anguage of 175.000 000, and b'
1 h*- end of the century it, wilt h«
*h* 'sriff .ag«a &00.000 *0*^ psop £