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“ITS A SAD STORY, MATES!”
desired.
What Will the Much Praised,
New Fancied Tariff Do?
Watch It and See—Especially You Who Are Workingmen
(Copyright, 1813 )
An Intelligent man, creator and manager of several big busi
nesses, talked abont the tariff. HE KNOWS about the tariff, for
he is a big importer, a man who deals annually in millions of dol
lars ’ worth of goods that pay tariff.
What he had to say interests many Americans.
"The new tariff,’’ said he, “is advertised as a gTeat 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 for
a living—and they will find it out.
"The new tariff means that manufacturers in this country
must oompete more closely with the manufacturers in Europe.
And that means, of course, that WORKINGMEN in this coun
try must compete more direotly with workingmen in Europe.
“I know something about the making and selling of cloth,
from the mill and as a finished product.
"And here are three facts:
"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 been 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 of 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 realise
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 arc 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 employer can not successfully
REDUCE WAGES. You 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 cnt 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
turers who have tried to build up industries in this country are
going to realize that experimenting with settled conditions is
dangerous.’’
Marriage Brings Out Strongest Qualities
By DOROTHY DIX
M
Shall We Obliterate
Panama?
The man quoted above is typical of the energetic, success
ful, 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.
It t tt
Colombia, still 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
be denied, in the face of the historic facts and of Roosevelt's
boast, "I took Panama and let Congress debate about it after
ward.’’
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
in fifty years they had endeavored to throw off by armed revo
lution is unbelievable.
Even so shifty a public man as the present Secretary of
State can hardly take into serious consideration so flat a con
travention of his favorite dogma, '' All governments derive their
just powers from the consent of the governed."
ARRIAGE d. een’t change
people. It simply brings
out whatever Is the
strongest quality In them, wheth
er that quality Is good or had.
It Intensifies virtues and mag
nifies faults.
Of course, marriage la really
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
guesses.
A girl, for Instance, has been
tipped off that 1f ahe marries the
man who never takes her any
where, or gives her any pleasure,
she will get a husband who will
be miserly, selfish and a stick-in-
the-mud.
The girl who marries a man
who comes to see 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
she’ll 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
his wife the butt of his sarcasm.
If he laughs at coarse, vulgar
stories, he will make the kind of
a husband who has no delicate
appreciation of a woman’s na
ture.
If the sight of other people’s
misfortunes fill him with mirth,
there’s 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.
A Child of the Nations
By REV. 0. F. AKED, D.D., LL. D.
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 his
storm-tossed Albania as few men
do In prison and in exile and
amid the blood-red horrors of war
Erickson has drawn near to the
heart of the Albanian people. He
has been present at meetings of
the Cabinet, He knows the
minds of the new rulers of the
land.
It may be 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 was 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 as untamable as
ever. In the war, husband, wife
and little child fought side by
side. 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 to
back and mowed down by ma
chine guns A cordon of troops
would be drawn round a village
©r town. The houses were fired.
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.
The 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
Powers 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 word 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
Christianity.
Flight of the Huguenots
By REV. THOMAS B. GREGORY.
T WO HUNDRED AND
TWENTY- EIGHT years
ago the royal order revok
ing the Edict of Nantes went into
force, and the beginning of the
end of the prosperity of France
was at hand.
The order threw France into a
whirlpool of 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 repeat the wmrk 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
dt FOG ^
By CONSTANCE CLARKE.
A SHADOWY something drifting soft
Gemmed thick with paling Btars aioft;
The softened blur of apple tress,
That, swaying, whisper in the breeze.
And scatter storms of rose and white
In blinding sweetness through the night
And then—a thickening of the mist,
The silver blurred to amethyst
And on me creep* the fog.
And through the depths of frosty white
Come memories of another night
The scent of apple blossoms blown,
The mist—your mouth upon my own,
And you, afraid to give so much.
Came to me, trembling at my touch.
Then—mist again, and memories go
Like phantoms—shall I never know
ikhat Um tajaad Ui* tost
France of more than a million of
her fairest people. The perse
cuted Huguenots, seeking the lib
erty that w r as so 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, its
most valuable handicraft, its no
blest men and women; and w'-hat
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
Nantes, 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 unnecessa
ry, and it is more than likely that
they would hav£ made impossible
the deep humiliation of 1870.
Those who live in glass houses
had better bathe after dark.
* * *
A lot of us find that virtue Is
very modest in rewarding her
self.
• • •
The men really fit to hold of
fice are generally holding down
eume other good joh.
Garrett P. Serviss
Writes on
Highways in the Air
“Enthusiastic 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
T HE first great world roads
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 over
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
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 routes through 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 was accomplished,
because, as Is now alleged, there
was not sufficient initiative
shown by those in charge of the
work. Take the airships to Co-
lomb-Bechar, says an experienced
aviator, and the problem will b*
solved, and the transit of the des
ert, which now requires four
months by caravan, will be made
easily in two days. Next year it
is expected this will be clone under
the lead of M. Etienne.
Within a few months past twe
other gTeat air routes have been
proposed, and preparation* are
now under way to attempt their
opening. One of these goes from
Paris to Cairo, and the other
from Paris to Bagdad.
The first, ns laid out, paeses
across Europe to Constantinople,
thence to Konia in Asia Minor,
then to Aleppo, Jerusalem, Gaza,
Port Said and Cairo. The stop
ping points and places for revlo-
tualment have all been marked
out. M. Daucourt, accompanied
by M. Roux as passenger, are to
attempt this passage as soon &i
their preparations can be com
pleted. Part of their supplies
have already gone forward to
Smyrna and Beirut
The stages of the seoond route,
also starting from Paris, are Con
stantinople, Aleppo, Meskine-Ed,
east of Palestine, Deir, Aneh, Hit,
Felloudja, Bagdad-Bassora.
The difficulties of both thepo
routes are foreseen. As one writer
puts it, "The way from Belgrade
to Constantinople is a hard one.”
But there is worse ahead. Ar
rived in Asia Minor, the aviators
will have to conduct their ma
chines over the Taurus Moun
tains, which attain an elevation
of 13,000 feet.
In this region no aid can ba
expected. The explorers will have
to depend upon their own re
sources and the excellence of
their apparatus. It is the bold
est experiment in aerial naviga
tion that has yet been faeed, s
•really grand enterprise which
must command the admiration
and best wishes of the whol®
world!
Elsie C. Parsons on Woman’s Rights]
Selected by EDWIN MARKHAM.
V HE OLD-FASHIONED
WOMAN,” issued by
G. P. Putnam's Sons,
and written by Elsie Clews Par
sons, 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,
eltheT 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
his 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.
“In our common law & moth
er is not entitled, like a father,
to the services and earnings of |!
minors, and in some States a
father can still will away ths
guardianship of his child from its
mother. In all States the fa
ther has the paramount right of
custody.
“We allow women to serve as
witnesses, or to stand for trial
like a man, although the courts
still disincline to permit a per
sonal Judgment against a mar
ried woman.
“As late as 1884 it was agreed
that ‘to attend medical clinics in
company with men, women must
lay aside their modesty.’ About
this time the president of ths
British Medical Association, in
referring to medicirte 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 that modesty, once Inherent
in the fairest of God’s creation,
is fast fading away.’
“Of this same period must hav*
been the lady who had learned
to swim—to the horror of her
clergyman. ‘But,* she said, ‘sup
pose I was drowmingT ‘In that
case,’ he replied, ‘you ought to
wait until a man comes along
and saves you.’ ”
Questions Answered
ANCIENT EGYPTIANS.
F* C. T.—Tha/t 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: “I am not
aw’are that there are any living
people who resemble them, ex
cept the Oravidian tribes of Cen
tral India, and the Australians;
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 great antiquity, distinct
alike from Aryan and Turanian
on the one side, and from negro
and negrite on the other.” In a
W'*rd, nobody can say. with any
degree of assurance, w’hat breed
of men Uu» Uuiaiexs of the Pyra
mid* were.
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 virile
and most powerful of all the Ian-
gauges now to be found among
men. The men who conceived
and made good thiH nation were
Englishmen, and, of course, they
spoke the only language they
knew anything aJaout, the lan
guage of their ancestors, the
English language. The gTeat Dr.
Dollinger said of this language,
that “to it is assigned in the
coming age the intellectual su
premacy that In ancient times be
longed to the Greeks and after
ward to the Romans.” In 1700
English was the language of
9,000,000 people. To-4ay it is the
language of 175,000,000; and h>'
the end of the century it wifi be
|iie language ©X iQU*Cuu # M0 1