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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, August 17, 1916, LAST EDITION, Image 24

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with what things nature plainly
shows. Ashem Vohu.
THE FORUM. The Day Book
Forum is for people to pass their
opinions on various subjects.- They
should pass them in a manner not
offensive, if they can, which some
times is difficult to do.
Some of us Forum writers are not
professionals and often make mis
takes. We find brilliant professional writ
ers in all papers and periodicals mak
ing mistakes. I mean that they write
on one side of a subject and consider
themselves right; others think not
One side or the other must be right.
If we all agreed or found out what
was right and lived it, there would be
no cause for dispute.
Justice is to give all a chance to
live. No man has a right to make
too much profit from another's work
and no map has a right to expect
more than he really earns. That
means that while one man must hire
another to do is work he must make
profit enough to run his business on
a fair basis. Frank Smith.
CASE OF CASEMENT. The press
generally seems to feel that England
ought not to have hanged Sir Roger
Casement, but, for one, I think they
ought to have hanged him twice, as
a matter of pure democracy, if they
hanged anybody.
They executed 16 of Casement's
Dublin followers, cabmen, clerks,
teachers, etc., in short order. These
were honest rebels. Casement con
spired with Germany and took Ger
many's money. That, because of Case
ment's "Sir" they gave him a long
and deliberate trial and are finally
in doubt as to whether they should
not have shown him mercy.
Had the rebellion succeeded, who
would have gotten the credit for
freeing Ireland? Who would have
been exalted as the great patriot and
hero? Any one of those cab drivers,
clerks or teachers?, Not on your
life. Sir Roger Casement would have
had all the honor and glory. His re
bellion failed, and the idea is that
the hanging should be exclusively
confined to those who were caught
with arms, but without titles. Ye
gods! when will this world see a
democracy in which justice does not
grovel to title or dollars? R. F.
Paine.
OBSERVATIONS. Contributor
Kendrick recently invited me to "ob
serve" upon the correspondence that
appeared in The Forum concerning
women.
I read each letter carefully and
the results of my cogitations there
upon follow:
Arguing that woman should be
subject to man reveals an anti-social
spirit.
Man has no more right to direct
woman than woman has to direct
man; Jet each work out his or her
own salvation.
He is a tyrant in embryo who ex
pects a woman to surrender her in
dividuality after marriage.
Men are not entitled to more
rights than women, for men are not
more important than women; both
are serviceable in their respective
spheres.
Indorsing .the indissolubility of
marriage is not meritorious, for nov
worth is attached to the union that
arrests the progress of individuality
in male or female.
The humiliation of woman, though
sanctified by tradition, is a calamity,
and those are poor specimens of
manhood who disfavor her exemp
tion from subjection.
Wives have no more right to sac
rifice themselves to false husbands
than husbands have to sacrifice
themselves to false wives.
Enter not the married state before
weighing the responsibilities at
tached thereto. Truthseekers are
more qualified to perform' the mar
riage ceremony than clergymen. Vol-
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