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More Than a Trifle Late.
If the Hon. William Church Osbnm
had be??n ono-half as independent in 1014
when the Democrats were in power at
Albany a* be is now when they are out
Martin H. Glynn night have escaped dis?
aster.
It is an intere-ting and stimulating
spectacle for Mr. Osborn to journey to
Brooklyn to teil the Kings County Demo?
crats to wake up and escape Tammany,
bondage, bat there must be Fome thou?
sands of Democrats in this Ftato who
know that it was. Mr. Osborn'a advice
that restrained Governor Glynn from
breaking with Charles P. Murphy.
Governor Glynn's declaration of inde?
pendence was buI mitted to Mr. >
and on his advice suppressed. Mr.
Osborn is not the ?irst reformer in ?state
politics who felt it necessary to bo practi-,
cal at the real crisis of his public career,!
but he h the most recent illustration of |
tho fatuity of such a policy.
Neither Mr. Murphy ncr tho Repub-i
lican party has any need to worry over?
any projet : "rest '.or," of the.
Democratic party which derives its inspi?
ration from William Church Osborn.!
In Democratic politics Mr. Osborn will be
best remembered by Murphy's indorse-!
ment of his "uplift" programme, "if," as
the Tammany leader remarked, "uplift is
the word."
Good Advice.
From the editorial columns of "The
Syracuse Post-Stantiard," a stanch Re?
publican journal, we extract the following
bit of common sense:
The Governor has before him legislative
appropriations In volume so preat that a di?
rect tax of $1.70 a thousand will be required,
in addition to indirect taxes, to meet
He has also a !.. : solution imposing
a direct tax of >1.70. He may pare the tp
propriatlona item by Item. He cannot pare
the direct tax at all. He must tifjn It or
veto lt
The Governor may cut a million out of the
appropriation bills, but he can't cut out of the
direct tax the 10 cents put in to pay that
million. Foolish, Isnt it?
The Governor will certainly disapprove of
many items in the appropriation bills. The
appropriations are too !:irt*e. The; ?
Judicious but drastic ?urgery.
If the appropriation? ?w to be reduced in
large volume, what of the direct tax? It *??...
remain. Is the general tit.a7.cial situation so;
good that we want more money paid ir.to the
atate treasury than is needed? Hardly that.
An extra session of the Legislature to re?
adjust the direct tax to the appropriation
appears to be inevitable.
From "The Newbuurh Journal," gener?
ally recognized as representing the views
of ex-Governor Odc-11, wo take the follow?
ing:
The extravagance of the Legislature In
scattering public moneys has 1
that body to th? D has it
in his power to correct the slovenly work of
the Senate and Assembly. If he Hands (.'it
against waste and reckless expenditure he
will find the people solidly behind I
The Governor has a great opportunity, by
doing what he ought to do, to put himself
emphatically in right with the people of the
Sute of New York.
These appeals from the Legislature
drunk to the Governor Bober come from
upstate districts. Heading them, can Gov?
ernor Whitman hesitate to veto a direct
tax bill which spell.-? dial ter for New York
City and political ruin for himself?
The Successors of Garibaldi
Measured by the 1 ?lines and methods
of the Italian Government, it is manifest
that the spirit of Garibaldi has gi\.
to that of favour. Were the great parti
aan leader still on earth, who can doubt
that he would have been in the Trentit.o
many months ago, that Trieste would
have heard, have responded to tl
that roused Sicily two generations ago
and supplied one of the most remarkable
pages in all history?
It was the Italy of Garibaldi and Ma;-.
zin.i which all the liberal world loved,
cheered, championed in tho last century.
Yet it was Cavour who made good by
statecraft what Garibaldi won by the
sword, who utilized for tho making of
Italy?the rr. .ition of the modern king?
dom of Italy- the spirit stirred by the
greatest of Italian rep?blica'
To-day Italian policy rouses a little of
the scorn of the world. It 1... after all, a
far cry from the heroism, the dauntless
and reckless spirit of "The Thousand,"
to the cool calculation of Sonnino, the
bargain and counter-proposition which
fill the press of Kurope and tax the pa?
tience of Berlin and Vienna only a little
more than that of ! in.
It is easy to be unjust. If Italy can
free the Latins of the Trentmo and Aus?
trian Adriatic provinces without war, her
statesmen will de-.erve well of their coun?
try. War is U?o terrible, this war, of all
conflicts, too frightful to enter, if a single
pathway to ? '<*?? runs around it
Yet on the anniversary of (?aribuldi's
sailing, on the anniversary of the
for Marsala, no one can mistake tl
that Italiaa/rcputaUon in the world falls
far short Ol the glory that was Italy
flfty-flv? years ago. Liberation by bi
paining, redemption of "lout provino?
by purchase, this is very far from t
older, braver method of the great.- t l
of Nice, whose birthplace ?favour sold
?. to pay Napoleon III for Solfeii
and Magrnta.
Perhaps an approciati'm of this at
tude of a neutral and not unfrienr
world is beginning to drive Italians, C<
tainly signs multiply to prove Italfan <!
satisfaction with the present r?le. B ll
the anniversary of the sailing of "T
Thousand." even Italians must forgive
certain international contempt for t
auctioneer's flag flying from the Quirin
Jersey's Disgrace.
It would he difficult to find language
condemn too severely tho failure of t
New Jersey Legislature to provide fun
for tho annual encampment of tho N
.tonal Guard. Such folly, und in the pre
ent hour, passes all human understand..]
Precisely such parsimony as this c
plained the death lists nt Camp Alger ai
Chickamauga in tho Spanish War. Tl
greatest advantage of the encampme:
for the guardsman is the training he the
obtains in taking care of himself. It
an insurance against useless and unnece
H of life in time of war.
To the guardsman service in the milit
represents personal sacrifice. It is a gi
made by the youth of the country in tl
name of patriotism. There is no prosper
of proper reward. No hope of it.
But why this gift should be spume
even- opportunity should bo seize
to make militia service less attractive, ?
a less useful, can hardly be c:
plained. It is a folly beyond all pallii
tion and approximates actual betrayal <
the country's Inter? rt
It if; to be hoped that New Jersey wi
find nj> imitators in a policy which is
disgrace to its public life
Japan's Ultimatum to China.
Only one fact stands out clearly in th
diplomatic controversy between Japan an
China which the former power now seek
to terminate by threatening a resort t
force. That fact is that Japan is takin
advantage of the situation in Europe t
demands on China which would cet
tainly not be pressed if the hands o
Great Britain, France, Russia and Get
many were not tied by the preoccupation
of the Great War.
Japan aspires to be the dominant powe
in the Far East and to establish a com
mercial, if not a political, suzerainty o\e
peaceful, inert, undeveloped China. I
seeking special advantages and privilege
in Chinese territory the Japanese are onl
following the example of the Europea
nations. The powers of Europe were fore
handed in establishing themselves whil
China was still a political No Man's Lan
?an easy prey to foreign incursion!
Japan came into the competition late, l>u
has pursued the policy of absorptioi
keenly and resolutely. She has acquire?
Formosa, annexed Korea, expelled liussii
from the Liao-Ttmg peninsula, developei
a sphere of influence in Manchuria am
Eastern Mongolia and taken the !
tau concession away from Germany
There can be no question tiat she is ben'
on extending her influence and opportuni
tic-i In China, or that she will go as fai
in that direction as Chinese passivity an<
the non-interference of the United Stater
and the European powers will allow.
No effective resistance to Japanese
aggression la to be expected from the
Chinese Republic itself. The Chinese gov
ernment, although facing for two or three
rations the peril of foreign invasion
rover taught tho people the duty o;
self-defence. It has neglected to develor
either a feeling of patriotism or a sensc
of danger. The great mass of the Chi
will accept foreign rule submi
They have no national spirit and theii
ignorance of their own strength is sc
great that they cannot even grasp th(
irony of the spectacle of a little natior
like Japan, with 70,000,000 Inhabitants
domineering over a big nation like thcii
own, of 400,000,000 inhabitants. It i:
much as if the United States should lei
itself bo dragooned and dictated to b3
Mexico or Canada.
The only serious obstacle to Jnpanesr
penetration in China is the possible non
complaisance of other interested powers
Japan pledged herself in the treaty oi
alliance with Great Britain "to recognize
the independence and territorial integrity
?f China." She also accepted tho Open
Door programme formulated by Secretary
Hay. The question now at issue is whether
the demands made on the Chinese govern*
?nerit violate those diplomatic engage?
ments. Japan and China have given out
different versions of the demands, and
- comment on the extent of Japanese
aggression has been based on a draft is?
sued in Peking which Tokio declares to
be Inaccurate.
Japanese diplomacy is astute, and even
if the Chinese version of the demands is
t there might still be room for a
o*,tent ion on Japan's part that they do
not affect the it dependence and terri
integrity of China and do not slam
the Open Door in the faces of the I
nations. So far as concerns the articles
which refer to Manchuria, sh.-mgtur.g
and Tsingtau?all now within Japan's rec?
ognized "sphere of influence"--other na?
tions can find little ground of offence. And
it is, perhaps, the spirit rather than the
letter of the hrotnler demands, affecting
tho whole of China, which outside powers
will consider repugnant to the common
understanding that China is to have a
fair opportunity to develop into an inde?
pendent modern state.
The other world powers may not be
y concerned if China and Japan can
reach an agreement which, while satisfy?
Japan, will not impair Chinese sov?
ereignty. But any attempt on J..;
part to imnoes terms by war and to make
nsion for further spoliation
if i luna would undoubtedly be r?
.by the United States, Great Britain, Ku_
*in und France, whoso aim it has been t
create a tttatua quo in the Far East unde
which china might enjoy peeee and self
nment and all for? lgn interests ii
republic should be impartially stolidi
fled and protected. ?lajjar. will risk univer
*>al condemnation if she seeks to imposi
her will on China simply because most o:
the treaty powers have their hands full.
A Square Deal for Suffrage.
Wl ? ITraglstS appealed to thi
titutional Convention fer is wha
every fair-minded citizen, whether "pro'
? T ";.r ti." must desire. They nsk simpl]
that the suffrage amendment adopted bj
two I ? and now to be submittc*
to the voters in f^pvember shall havo t
s'liiare deal. The question of enfranchis
ing women Is ton big and too vital for anj
other treatment.
?Under the provisions of the constitu
tion, any nmendment made by tho con
vent ion to Section 1, Article 2, which con
tains the qualifications of voters, wouk
supersede the equal suffrage nmendmenl
adopted by the Legislature. Since thai
must be submitted to the voters, it wouk
profit the suffragists nothing if the con.
vention adopted the same amendment?il
would only divido the suffrage vote be?
tween the proposed new constitution anc
the separate suffrage amendment.
Tho Republican platform of 1914 rec?
ommended that "the Constitutional Con?
vention deal with the subject in such a
way as to insure, in any event, the sub?
mission of this question to the electors ol
the state in 1915 as n separate proposi?
tion without recommendation by the party
for or against it." That recommendation
is tho only fair and honorable way tc
treat the matter, and there should bo nc
question of the convention's following the
pnrty platform's suggestion. Like the
Republican party, the Democratic party
is pledged to a submission of the suffrage
question to the voters this fall. Neither
party could afford, and surely they can?
not desire, to have this issue voted on
under any but tho fairest possible con?
ditions.
Mayor Mitchel After Grizzlies.
If. as some one has said, a man s char?
acter shines more clearly in his play than
in his work, wo have lately been finding
out all sorts of things about our Mayor.
Not so long ago it was discovered that
Mr. Mitchel was a devoted dancer, fond
of the one-step, tho hesitation, the lame
duck, the fox trot, light on his patent
leathered toes in time to syncopated tunes.
Ii seemed to reveal the man as in a flash,
after years of ponderous public appear?
ance and political outpourings had hidden
his humanity in a fog.
But now there comes n revelation all
the more startling for our former glimpse.
Our slender young executive, so ascetic a
figure on the political platform, so debo?
nair on the dance floor, is yet a big game
hunter, truly Rooseveltian in his greed
for the chase. A dispatch from Cody,
Wyo., heralds his arrival there in
search of grizzlies, the most ferocious and
deadly of all big game, as any hunter of
experience will testify. "He comes with
tho reputation of being an excellent rifle
*hot," we learn with pardonable amaze?
ment, and is so intent upon his sport that
not even tho "broad expanse of the prai?
rie country and the magnitude of the
Rockies" have turned his thoughts from
the trail on this, his first, trip west of
the Mississippi.
Let us hope he bags his bear. One
could hardly wish for more conspicuous
proof that a man may dance and dance
and be a regular feller.
Did the Hon. William Parn?s ever hear of
the m .in who went cut In his night shirt to
the dog.
The Parliamentary Canteen.
ifrnm Th? Mnnehr; trr Cwirrlinn 1
As time goes in the history of Parliaments
the scientific provision of what Colonel Lork
wood during Tuesday's debate called, rather
bluntly, "drink," and then, more diplomati?
cally, "something to drink" is comparatively
recent. Prohably all the cellarage available
round the old House would not have been
er.ouf-h to hold the Hurfrundy required by one
?onerntion of eighteenth century Pnrliamen
*;;ry topers, or the port of their successors,
or the Rpirit of that nee when one well known
member fixed his residence among the Kssex
? for r?asons connected with brandy.
Tho old House of Commons man went home
to dinner, and came down to the Hou?e for a
aft) rward, if so inclined. However, in
the new House tilings changed, and it is a
good many years now since members began
to approve the "brands" provided by the
House.
Thut some members showed their appreci?
ation in practical wa\ s may be gathered from
the story of the noble "courtesy lord" who
was drinking at one of the bars in the old
lobby w h? ri a newspaper man passed. "Then?
you are," he cried. "Put that down in your
notebook; I have just drunk a glass of wine."
"1 certainly should," was the quiet answer,
"had it teen a glass of water." In point of
*he excellence of the House of Com?
mons wines and their compararive cheapness
have been very grateful to many members
with ?onstituents to entertain, which recalls
the story of a certain wicked old member who
? diiight in parading round the room
where these meals were going on and exam?
ining the labels on the bottles, crying to con?
tinents, "Pon't let your member put you off
this stuff. We've some really fine wine
in the cellars; make him order it."
The r.mbusques.
? From The Uanrhrtter Uuardtaa )
The French papers have been busy of late
with the ense of the "embusqu?," which is the
name given to the man who cho? ses a safe
job in the army. An incident seen last night
on the fringe of Soho suggests that it is also
applied to those who do not choose the army
at all. A couple of French soldiers over here
on leave (they were in joyous mooit) coming
down a side street, passed the kitchens of a
w.'l knows Preach restaurant. They were
attracted by the sight of the cooks In the
kitchens and studi.d them attentively through
the grating. Then they began to taunt them
with shouts of "Kmbusqu?!" The harmless
?try French cooks below, startled in this
rough way in iheir "ambush," wen? furious.
was an angry cluttering of pots and
pans, and an elaborate slanging match fol?
lowed between the cooks and the soldiers.
Ihe language was rich and varied, and in the
storm the sharp word "erobuaquu" aounufd
,1-ks a bitter reXi _._
"WHILE THE HONORABLE EUROPE IS BUSY"
THE SUNDAY LIQUOR LAW
Some Remarks on Its Non-F.nforce
ment in This City.
To the Editor of The Trihune.
Sir: The first pape of The Trihune this
morning rejoices my heart. I like a paper
that does not hide the liquor question in
?omt comer of an inside page. If The Trib?
une could be distributed in the homes of the
tenements there would be an uplift that
I might close the back doors of the saloon? on
| Sunday, even in the face of our good .Mayor's
nermission to keep them open.
How any sane man can give any more lib?
erty to the liquor traffic to do Its deadly
\-vork than tho law allows passes my com?
prehension.
Why do the Mayor and the Police Commis?
sioner desecrate the Lord's Day by allowing
the liquor saloon to sell liquor in the back
room contrary to law? 1 asked three police?
men on Sunday if it was possible to get a
ylass of beer, and they JuHt grinned at me.
They were ?Unding on corners and could
see men and boys going into the back doors
of liquor saloons; could see the covered beer
cans carried In and out
Do the young men in the present adminis?
tration read the newspapers? Do they note
what is going on in England, or are they too
j busy working up the efficiency of the de?
partments and building up the mornlc of the
police? Perhaps they have not heard that
I Lloyd George said that of England's three
foes, Germany, Austria and drink, tho latter
was the deadliest.
1 very much fear that if England hesitates
at drastic measures she will be lost. As we
say of a man who drinks too much that he
is his own worst enemy, so we can say it of
a nation. If the Englishman will not give
up his whiskey and gin and beer for the
sake of his country I am afraid his sea girt
walls will not avail to keep out the foe.
England need not blame the German if ?he
fails. Her deadliest enemy is alcohol, and
unless she grapples with and downs that foe
1 she will find It hard to keep her place as one
! of the great powers.
To come back home. I think some of our
young administrators will find it hard to
keep their places in public office if they
keep on thinking that the enforcement of
law is a cruel hardship to the "booze" sellers
and the "bum"; that it is shocking to keep
, the "highball" from the "society" man and
woman on the Lord's Day. Why is it that
no sooner docs a reform administration get
in than it begins to get "cold feet" on the
liquor question? One would think It would
be easy to say to any violators of the law:
"There's the law and you must obey it."
The pol'ce do say that to barbers and butch?
ers and delicatessen shop keepers; and we hear
of some of them being arrested and fined for
i not closing on time on Sundays, but to the
open, shameless breaking of the law by the
i liquor traffic on Sundays there is not a peep
? or mutter from the Mayor or police.
JAMES V. CHALMERS.
New York, May 3, 1915.
Tax Land Values.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Controller Prendergast has is-sued a
statement of where $100 in taxes goes. He
has, however, committed a serious error in
his explanation of the figures, particularly
in his statement o? what the city debt has
been spent for. He says of items for the
city debt, interest of city debt, redemption
?of city debt and ?inking fund instalment?,
( payable in 1911s "These items represent
money spent heretofore for the benefit of
every operating division of the city govern
! ment."
The Controller ought to know?and he
probably doe? know-that all municipal ex
I penditure? increase land values and benefit
land owners. He is completely in error,
'? therefore, in his statement that the city debt
was incurred "for the benefit of every oper
, ating division of the city government."
The tenants and ?mall home owners hate
more than paid for every bit of service they
have too* ivf,'. from the government. In fact.
they have paid twice; first, to the land owr,
' era, and second, to the city government. The
land owners have made billions of net profits
I out of tenants and ?mall home owners her?
, in the last two decades. Just as soon as
j the people of New York appreciate thi? fact
??i?**orot?gl*Jj w?> are aola* to ?ccur? oar rev?*
nue from the proper source?by the taxation
of land values.
In the meantime the city should not be
misled by such mN?tntoment of facts.
BENJAMIN* C. MARSH,
Executive Secretary of the Society to Lower
Rents and Reduce Taxes on Homes.
New York, Muy 4, 1915.
To Help Real Estate.
To the Editor of The Tribune.'
Sir: I wroto Governor Whitman to call an
extra session for the relief of real estate.
Hundreds of city freeholders have asked him
to veto the direct tax bill for $19,500,000. We
also need an extra session to pass the Lock
wood-Ellenbogen building inspection bill, with
the Tenement House Department om.tt? ?1,
?vhich would, I am confident, meet the ap?
proval of acting Mayor McAneny. We must
also pass the Smith Assembly bill to amend
the tax law for the equal taxation of the
CatskiU Aqueduct lands belonging to the city.
The Mayor--to the surprise of many law?
yers and real estate men- vetoed tho pur?
chasing agent bill. Such a bill should have
passed twenty years ago, and It can be
amended to meet tho Mayor's views.
There are other bills for tho relief of real
estate which should be passed, and the Gov?
ernor should give New York its day in court,
us it were, by calling an extra session, which
need not last more than one week.
We cannot live another year under the laws
which now practically kill the real estate
business.
I suggest that taxpayers' association:?
rhroughout greater New York meet at once
and petition the Governor to call an extra
session of the Legislature on the above men?
tioned grounds. ALFRED R. CONKLING.
New York. May 5, 1915.
Wages and Protection at Sea.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sin Owing to the demand for higher
wages by an association composed of masters
and mates, several companies are sending to
sea passenger-carrying vessels insufficiently
manned by competent officers. The places of
the regular officer? have been filled, as far as
possible, by superannuated or inactive make?
shifts. This is a condition inimical to the
safety of passengers and widely at variance
with Federal statutes.
In regard to tho strike and the causes
thereof, the case of a third o'lici-r will servi?
as an example. This man at some time ?lur?
ing the night stan.ls a four-hour watch, when
he is the only officer on deck. He holds in
his keeping the lives of the entire ship's
company. It would seem that this is an im
p??riant position, tilled with grav? responsi?
bilities. The companies recognize this by
paying a man $'_ a day.
In justice to the companies which have ad?
mitted the justice of the demand, it ehouid
be said that the Gulf Refining Company, the
Standard Oil Company and the Wurd Line
have already granted an increase in wages.
The others have avoided doing so only by
the dangerous practice above referred to,
hence a little publicity may be decidedly op?
portune. J. F. REIDY.
Brooklyn, May 6, 1916.
The University of Paris.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: In your issue of May 3, answering a
query about the relative population of the
universities of Columbia, Paris and Berlin,
you state for Paris that "the College of
France has 2,000 students." The College of
France is an institution sui generis, which has
no unmatriculated students, and is only an
infinitesimal part numerically of the Hal?
? of Paris. The figures of the latter
would under normal circumstances reach
about 15,000 students, if I am not m.sta'i??n
At ar.y rate, the visitors who attend the lect?
ures of the College de France would i.ot be
included. TESTIS.
New York, May 6, 1915.
A Quotation Misapplied.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: The comment on Miss Terry's "mis?
quotation" is puzzling. If you mean to say
tnat she misquotes Shakespeare you have
made a great blunder. "More honored in
the breach than the observance" is cer?
tainly the way Shakespeare phrased it,
Hamlet, I, ?t. r X.
New York, M.y 3, 1915.
[Miss Terry was pleading for observance
tit the custom. Hamlet's meaning was Ui-fJ
??ctlj/ contrary,?Ed.]
EAT POTATOES RAW
If You Do, You NVed Nothing El*:
and Feel Fine.
To the Editor of The Tribune.
S:r: An ncceunt of rich findings respect?
ing the food value of potatoes has been go?
ing th'j rounds of the newspapers. If the
diet experts of the home economics depart?
ment of Cornell University are correctly re?
ported, they present an admixture of truth
and error that should not be allowed to go
unchallenged. Amon?? the errors are the
claims that starch foods should accompany
meats in the dietary, that meats, eggs and
cereals produce an excess of acid, that vege?
tables, fruit and milk produce an excess of
hases and that meat should be accompanied
? ; otatoca rather than grain to neutralize
its acids.
There is not a word of truth in any of
these statements. Tho mistake made by the
experts is in considering all these forms of
food in their effects after having been ruined
by heat in cookery. Of the uninjured arti?
cles these same claims cannot be made; so
they are not worth making at all.
The one great truth put forward In this
account or report is that potatoes are a very
valuable article of food, but it is excruciat?
ingly laughable to note the childish inno?
cence of these would-be scientists. Yes, po
? are valuable. What is remarkable is
! that they are a thousand times more valuable
| than these or any other present day scien?
tists imagine. They do not need the aid of
meat to make them valuable. They are just
as nutritious taken alone as is meat. You
can nearly die in two weeks eating cooked
meat; more nearly die than if you were eat?
ing nothing. Hut you cannot begin to die
on an exclusive diet of properly prepared
potatoes uninjured by heat, if you keep on
same for a whole year. In fact, you will
not notice that your health has ?utfered at
all. I know what I am talking about, a? I
have "been there" on both.
Explanations are in order, but science will
7-tn over again. Possibly, when
we live a year on a diet of potatoes, we get
our nitrogen largely from the air, as do pea?
:n a garden. When you try this regimen,
you, with your "scientific" preconception?,
will think you are dying from day to day;
but, keeping ri,*ht on, you realizo that you
never felt better in your life. Hut whatover
the explanation, facts are facts, and science
has not made a beginning as vet.
1 I). HKIXKERHOFF.
Fall River, Mass., May 1, L'li.
Bruns and the Ballot
To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: From some newspaper I copied the
statement of a man who say?: "The fact
that women have not come out squarely and
told what tfiey intend to do with the ballot
when tlu-y get it should be reason enough to
prevent any man with a modicum of brain?
from favoring female suffrage."
I should say that any man who would make
such a statement had not even "a modicum
of brains."
U hen a boy become? twenty-on? years of
age or an alien goes to take out his papers
or a man or woman goes to register are they
red "to con.? out squarely and tell what
they intend to do with the ballot when they
gat it"?
The same writer said in effect that women
should not be allowed to vote because they
are not subject to military duty. I defy this
man to point to a ?ingle state in this coun?
try or any other country winch ever re?
quired qualification for military duty a? a
to vote. About half of the people of
this state who do now vote are not subject
to military duty, and many of them never
have been.
When a boy becomes twenty-one year? of
age or an alien takes out his papers, if he is
nearsighted or hard of hearing or cross?
eyed or bow-legged, he Is not subject to mili?
tary duty, but he is not denied hi? citizen?
ship.
It would seem that women, who alone have
power to bring human lifo Into the world.
ihonld -,t ?<> a rolee in government
as well a? the men, who have a monopoly of
destroying human life.
MALE "SUFFRAGETTE."
| N?w York, May 6, Wit?. |
The Connmg To<wct
"BUT ?Fames .
. . . "Ed" Lafitte
"Red" Smith . . ,
"Ted" Cather . .
Williir?! . . .
. . . "Jobs" .
Herald.
Pert
? ? "?? ?????? Dst*
? ? ? "I^Cook."
"Bill" Donc-vu "'
("Ruhe" Oldrin,'/'
"Jim" f'offey ,,/o??
- ? "pet names.",?
tor" uran htm
"lot" to do at the "Herald" "office." *
If Wordsworth had Ix-e-n a .{?r_U
porter, the ropydesk might have ofll
him thus: '"*'
among the "untrodden" n_
' ' : \*
A "maid" whom there were "few" t/> ???_._
And extraordinary few to "loro."
A "violet" by a "mossy" "?tone"
?4 hidden from the "eye,"
"Fair" as a star, when "only" 1
Il ' i.ining" in the "sky."
She "lived" "incog," and few coal. "*nw
When Lucy ".eased" to "be";
he" is in her "grave," and, *-e_,"
The "difference" to "me"!
cocu) Bein ; one of the ar._a__
Sir: There, a Jltn-y In Winnipeg ?.hu mama\
? mam ?n?i ehiMrea
: this a 's'lffraJltn-VT
_1 mi
Overheard yesterday afternoon, at ?s
demonstration of the transcontinental tti?
phone extension. A young woman report?
was talking to Los Angeles.
"Can you understand a woman', vsta
as well as a man's?" she asked.
"What?" the L. A. operator said.
"Can you understand a woman's voks
as well as a man's?"
"What? I don't hear you."
"I say, i-i it just as easy to hear 1
woman as a man7"
"What?"
"Can you hear a woman's voice si dit.
tlnctly as a man's?"
"Oh, yes."
THE LETTERS OF DULCINEA.
Grayce dear: I've just been to see "He
' Yeomen of the Guard" and it's the derma
thing! Gilbert and Sullivan, you knew.
Don't you just love their things? I coiU
I see "The Mikado" every night in the voek.
De Wolf Hopper is in this opera, and, ti
course, he's always good, if you mow ?
I mean. He has such a sense of humor, ta
behind it all a pathetic note, if yog kaes
what I mean. Tears, they say, are prett?
close to smile*), and I think they're right I
wish we had a combination like Gilbert t?
Sullivan writing today. But their optrti
are just as good now as when *hey ven
wrifen, and time, after all, is the only tree
test.
Going to play golf tomorrow. Play "at"It,
I mean. I don't play very well, tut ?fi h
fascinating.
Goodness! here it is May already! Bott?e.
?y, I don't know where the time has geaet
this.year. I never knew a winter to A?_r
so fast. But it always goes fast when yon
having a good time and I believe in hsTfit
one now. We're only here once, you ltnoe.
Fondly
DULCINEA.
About one jolt a day is what one's v__
! ity ought to get. Yesterday's cime in 1
letter from the Chicago, Burlington A
Quincy Railroad. It was dated May 3 and
began: "I see by the paper that you Si
planning to visit the California Exposi?
tions."
TO A. P. W.
I sane; berause I could not choose but ?Ing.
The smitten chime hath no chol?*?. but to ring,
t did b it bring my wares through dust aal
h--.it.
Heart of my heart, to lay them at thy feet?
Von see I cannot shake this formal stuff
That gets your own Angora on the rough.
Ami so III put my vibrant lyre In ho?-k
And with my Muse dive neatly oit the dock.
O m r.'-s-is
"His pay check," declares Old Desf
I Grant Rice, "has been cut almost half __
two." What, then, according to the Law
of Diminishing Fractions, was left?
CONSTJLT PROF COSTELLO and MAOAsfS
COSTKI.U).
Am-rte_'s Foremost r_in.t_t ant Aftr_?f?o
Mediatore.
SeaaJtag Cha?eng? of I6.ooo.oe for neto fleet
Will l*>_ _t Bmlths' Qr.ater Show? a'! (Ml mat.
I'rnf Costello ?a111 call you by narnn in M
Con?ctnlng t'us'.ne?? affair? ?ho give? date?, fsiw
and figure? rellat-1? and Important a !>!? ? tM _**?
formation on all matter? of lnt?r_?t la ___?__?
transaction?, law suit?, contested will. Uf? !"__
anee, damag? ?ult?. dlvorcaa, d??ed?, morr<__?_.
collection?, claim?. ?[KK-ulatlonj, adv.ntu?? ?terti
and all financial dlfflcultl?*?. Truly pt??d!ct? 1st
M or failure of new lnvtntl??n? patent? oata
Inf, pension claim?, etc.; Ulis whether yo. _?
-?-??!?? fair d?alln( mr'.h partner?, If you rare?*
tsmvW what bulneee to follow to h? ?uiX*?_r-_
wher? to jo ani whom to avoid. If you In'.?-_? *
mal?-* any chana-?*? or to ?tart a Uu?ln?*<?~ b'_y **
??II pr??i-rty, or In fact tak? any I m port .in 1 OSS
L.n't fall to conault Madam? Coste?o. Her a-*-***?
iy ?ave you thouaanJ? of dollar? ani t gimt
Seal of trouii?
UMS, COlRTSHtP. MARMAUB
If the affairs of th? Ifrart or env*tlon? of 'ft
interest you she give? th? ?Jtact and ?r-thful ?*-**
a uf an I?".? affair?, ?<*il<m love ? giarrtia,
;..?! >a >?.u to win th? ?xtoem al.e?-il?>n f set *mt
>ou d?*?lr?; cauaei ?p-M-?Jy and happy wiarrlsS1"?
ella If th? on? you lov? 1? true. ?r?o d*y* ot ***"
1 lag?, r??lore? lo?t ?ffest l?>n?. pe-**? ?'?A e*t.t\?atm
10 lover? aril ?I*.?? <?Mant famlll?*. f N *?* s*vtt ti
full ?e? ret how to ?ontrol faarlnet? air ?-???"?? ?*"
?ne you lov?; ?U?> tho?? you meet and ?V* 1? ****'
a parson at a dlatan?? think of y?>u
Will bo at th? Carnival ground? dally fro?-? I ?"*
1 till 11 p m
Don't cheat. Go back and read it ??
It is from the Kei-Jsville, N. C, Review
Then tell us, if you can, why she married
the prof.
"Democrats to Discuss Vacancy," r--*
an Evening Post headline. What ep-is?
The esteemed Liberty Bell appears to be
c.ing under the s.
Victoriano Huerta, yesterday's prints
divulge, will take a Long Island villa.
Ile had no buccess with the Max. vstl-lfc
F. P. ** _
