Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1910 — PAPERS BY THE PEOPLE [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PAPERS BY THE PEOPLE

THE APPEAL OF POLITICS TO WOMAN.

By Rosamond Lee Sutherland.

It is just possible that if political equality had been ours from the beginning of this country, without the long and bitter struggle for it. we might have prized it less keenly. So all the more for the effort, when it comes —and it is so right that it must come—suffrage will be held a dearer privilege and more 'sacred possession by the women of America than it ever has been, or ever can be by the

men, uorn to the purple. It is because the women of America are loyal and patriotic citizens; because they know the necessity of having good men in office; because they want good schools and the children protected from every evil that they may become good citizens in the future; because they believe that they can do infinitely more toward attaining these things if they stand on the same plane with their husbands and brothers, with reasonable human beings and given the ballot. No one claims that all women are thoroughly conscientious or that their judgment would never be at fault. Neither do I think that all women would be benefited by the privilege of the ballot. I do not think that all men vote honestly or that all men should have a vote. Yet they do have it, to the exclusion of women; a great majority of whom are thoroughly W’orthy and capable.—North American Revicpv.

HUNTING IN ITS VARIOUS PHASES.

By Hugo Krause.

One of the greatest fallacies of the day is that we must hunt for larg| opportunities alone while countless smaller chances for doing good are constantly passed by'unnoticed. A large city like Chicago offers an unsurpassed hunting ground for philanthropic people, both rich and poor. If the man of means Who annually betakes himself to hunting game in neighboring states could but realize the ruth-

less suffering he inflicts in order to satisfy a savage instinct inherited frcm past ages, and if he could further realize how. this same, hunting instinct with its expenditure of time and money could be directed into channels of comfort and pleasure to his less fortunate associates and with a thousandfold greatfer satisfaction to himself, how glad he would Be to make the change and how much better off the world would bei Come with us almost any day and join the hunt for wretched, worn out, limping, sore and suffering horses that majr be seen on the city streets, especially in the poorer quarters; do something to alleviate the overworked, overdriven, and cruelly treated beasts of burden, and you will have the satisfaction of having done one of the most unselfish pieces of benevolence for which you will not receive any thanks, but which will make you feel far better than it you had hunted wild animals

for sport. Get the habit of opening your eyes and ears to the many irregularities and wrongdoings of those who bunt for riches alone, and learn to report violations of the law made in defense of the helpless. Do not be a case of arrested development, but help establish the fashion of hunting for truth, righteousness and justice.

REINCARNATION AND ITS NECESSITY.

By Annie Besant.

There are but three explanations of human inequalities, whether of faculties, of opportunities, of circumstances: I. Special creation by God, implying that man is helpless, his destiny being controlled by an arbitrary and incalculable will. 11. Heredity, as suggested by science, implying an equal helplessness on man's part, he being the result of a past over whch he had no control. 111. Rein-

carnation, Implying that man can become master of his destiny, he being the result of his own individual past, being what he has made himself. The savage of to-day is the saint of the future; all tread a similar road; all are destined to ultimate human perfection. Pain follows on mistakes and is ever remedial; strength is developed by struggle; we reap after every sowing the inevitable result; happiness growing out of the right, sorrow out of the wrong. The babe dying shortly after birth pays in the death a debt owing from the past, and returns swiftly to earth, delayed but for brief space and free of his debt to gather the experience necessary for his growth. Social virtues, though placing a man at a disadvantage in the struggle for existence, perhaps even leading to the sacrifice of his physical life, build a noble character for his future lives and shapes him to become a servant of the nation. In every case the individual past explains the individual present, and when the laws of growth are known and obeyed a man can build with a sure hand his future destiny, shaping his growth on lines of ever increasing beauty Until he reaches the stature or the perfect man.

IS WOMAN FITTED TO RULE?

By Charlotte Perkins Gilman.

Some of us talk and think a lot of the sufferings of the woman through the historic period. Suppose we have suffered some; we came through, didn’t we? We aren’t exterminated yet,. If it hadn't been for the good of the race t hat we should have adopted a subordinate place in the civilized world, it wkiuld never have happened. We are behind man-in civilization. We are

dependent creatures, because we have to depend on others. If society will profit by our effort to attain man’s level in these matters, it is our duty to strive towards that end. If the time is not yet here, we serve the race best by staying where we are. ■