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iwwiwbwwivun first put under ether or chloroform, no more than are human beings. We sincerely hope that when Mr. Hunt is compelled to have an qpera tion on his cranium, in order to fill up the "vacancy" which is apparent to all, it will not be necessary for the contributor who signed his convitfc g tag article in The Forum last Friday, w using the words "A Physician," to ease his- cries of pam by administer ing an anesthetic. It most assuredly, wuTnot be necessary, as Mr. Hunt does not believe in such. -Bess, H. THE LAST STAND OF DESPOT ISM. Now that war has been -declared, Jet all Americans aid in every way they -can to crush special privi lege, despotism and divine rights of kings, emperors and supreme in dividual authority. Everybody can hejp. Uncje Sam needs men, money and brains. Right here I, contribute some of 'the latter. When the working man goes to war for his country he not only stakes his own life, but everything that he possesses. 'He leaves behind him all that is precious and dear. He leaves destitute his broken-hearted mother, weeping wife and crying babes, sweetheart and sister to mourn. Can we ask anybody to do more? .No! Then let'the capitalist loan money without interest and the manufacturer and merchant furnish supplies without profit, and last-, but not least, are the churches which our government has been more -than good to. Yes, has even granted them special privileges, v They pay no "income" taxes. Church, property alone, exclusive of parsonages, amount to ?1,257,575, 867 in America; most of which is ex empt from all taxes. Let them pay the same rate of taxes that we pay on our homes and. it will swell our treasury by $22,500,000. Then let the government cut off all public mo-' neys for religious purposes which will J be another saving of millions an nually. As hospitals, charity and ed- J uoation all belong to the state, let it take them over; the Y. M. C. A. prop erty, along with the eight or ten bil lion dollars' worth of private and pa rochial schools, convents, hospitals and like institutions. In doing so the government will no doubt get from them a supply of arms and munitions sufficient to equip p. fair-sized army.' With this eight or ten billion dollars' worth of property in the hands of Uncle Sam he could then issue greenbacks -direct, without bonds and without in terest. By this method we could carry on war indefinitely. Churches, capitalists and philosophers have been so patriotic in times of peace, now let them, like the worklngmen, remain loyal in time of war. Lee Green, 1416 Masonic Temple. A YOUNG MOTHER I don't be lieve that any man has a right to condemn a girl for having had a mis fortune when she was young. In most cases girls come out of homes tfnprepyed for a battle with the evil things m the world. I think a girl's parents and the community are more to blame for the girls' fall than the girls. If girls were taught a few lessons about real life before they leave their homes they wouldn't be such easy victims" to white slavery agents as they gen erally are. If a girl is not too far gone, so ev erybody knows" her. business, she might have a good chance to make herself respectarble, if she really tries. It seems rather curious to me that the church people, Instead of helping a girl to begin a new life and forget her misstep, in most cases are the first ones to turn her down and do everything to get her "marked." Yes, I have heard of cases where young men have overlooked certain girls' pasts; helped them along on the straight road, and after a while got married and lived in happiness. I dpn't think any man has any right to despise oV remind a girl of ha? 'I KiifiuiMtfAMMittMtiiiiifeMititfflliiitiMiii