Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 231, 6 August 1913 — Page 4
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, WEDNESDAY, AUG. 6, 1913
The Richmond Palladium
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Another Watson Denial "There are always hangers-on around legislative halls looking for jobs and pretending to have vast influence with members of the body, and they goldbrick outsiders with their tales, but they see no representatives, exert no Influences, only write flaming reports to their employers. Mulhall was one of these. Three-fourths of the letters that he wrote were pure fiction, and they were written to deceive his employers."
The foregoing is culled from Jim Watson's latest denial of the Mulhall charges. As usual the charge is made that Mulhall is an unscrupulous man, ready to stoop to any trick known to the old-fashioned game of politics. On the other hand a perusal of Mulhall's testimony does not indicate that at any time he has attempted to dispel this generally accepted estimate of his character. Neither has any positive proof been offered in denial of the general charges of this disgusting creature of a crooked political system which dominated two great political parties. It would be interesting if the Rushville statesman in his next denial, shed some light on the following items appearing in Mulhall's expense account, for which he was reimbursed by the National Association of Manufacturers: "Round trip ticket for James E. Watson, $10." "Seat in car for Mr. Watson, $1.25." "Extra drawing room for James E. Watson, at his request, from Baltimore to New York, $6." "Dinner enroute from Washington .to New York for Speaker Cannon, Mr. Busbey, Mr. Watson and a guest of the speaker, Mr. Everett, and
a guest of Mr. Watson, Mr. Soloirs, and self, $12. (I gave the conductor of the dining car carte blanche for the dinner.)" "Refreshments on train in line of cigars and liquors, $3." "JTip to conductor of dining car and waiter, $3." v A Party's Birthday One year ago yesterday the Progressive party was born at Chicago. Three months later this remarkable organization, the outgrowth of a popular revolt against bipartisan machine government and a demand for both political and social reform, cast four and one-half million votes at the national elections. '"' Today the American people realize more keenly than ever that this clean, powerful and vigorous political party is their most useful weapon to obtain popular government and justice for the many as well as for the few. This fact has been emphasized of late by the Mulhall charges, which have exposed to the view of the astonished voters serving in the ranks of the Republican and Democratic parties the corrupt and vicious methods employed by the political leaders and Big Business interests which dominate them. What use this new party of the people will be put to at the next congressional elections will astonish the powers-that-be at the national canital.
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I THIS WORLD OF SHAMS I PREJUDICE AND BAD MANNERS. (By EDGAR ILIFF.) THE American Indian, like nearly all savages, makes his squaw a beast of burden and exalts muscle and physical endurance to the highest virtue. He looks with scorn upon the weak. If he
should treat his squaw with tenderness and compassion, and try to make her position easier than her sisters, he would get the unmitigated sneers of his tribe and she would be excluded from "good society." No doubt she would lose respect for him and leave him. Students of anthropology know that woman has arisen very slowly from this degraded position and that we see survivals of the cult all around us. There are
Ftill thousands of men who think that kindness spoils women and that to boss, beat and belabor them is to make good wives of them. This is nothing more than the old savage instinct. In Russia a woman cannot sing in church, for "she is not worthy to sing the praises of God in the presence of men." She is her husband's property, having sworn to "obey." She surrenders herself into matrimonial bondage, giving her body to be beaten, abused, kicked and cuffed by legal sanction. She has not entered into a civil contract of equal partners. Her husband cannot only whip her but even tie her to a post in a public place and require every passerby to strike her. In many villages any step toward a correction of this barbarity would be improper, Immoral, unconventional and sneered at by all good citizens. It is "woman's proper sphere," and the man's "ancient right." Ignorance in woman was at one time a badge of good breeding. When she so far forgot herself as to pronounce a common word correctly her sister ignoramuses blushed for her and then pooh-hooed! No woman today can conceive of the odium that was cast upon Mary Wollstonecraft when she urged that women should be educated to become the intellectual companions of men. The opposition to this idea survives in the lurking suspicion in modern society that educated and cultured women can't be good- for anything practical and that every "woman's sphere" is bounded by the ancient savage cult. All of the influence of missionaries and all of the immense pressure of modern liberalizing thought have not vet broken up the horrid practice of binding and deform
ing women's feet in China. The Chinese lady who walks naturally Is vulgar. One has but to read a few books !
upon Chinese life and manners to see what hideous practices are kept up in the guise of morals and religion. Once it was very unlady-like for a woman to write a book. The housekeeping god still sneers at the woman who has literary aspirations. But the goddess of wisdom can still be invoked and the home preserved. No doubt Minerva could make an omelet to perfection and turn a
pancake with deft fingers. Hundreds of women like Harriet Beecher Stowe and Lydia Maria Child demonstrated it. Mrs. Stowe wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin" on her lap while she watched the dinner cooking on the stove. The English church proclaimed slavery to be a divine institution. It is still upholding some forms of social slavery. A wife cannot get a divorce though her husband keeps a dozen mistresses, while he can divorce her upon very email delinquencies. To break with theBe cast-iron customs is to bring down upon brave men and women the opposition of organized business, organized religion and the sneers of the smug and self-satisfied citizens who think that "whatever is, is right." Much of the history of scholarship is a record of cowardice. It is seldom that men of learning are as fearless as Charles Sumner, Theodore Parker or Wendell Phillips. Too often fat and lazy scholarship has lent its splendid weapons and brilliant gifts to existing social wrongs. It has been like Ben Johnson's lawyer, "whose soul was in his fee," and who would "plead against his maker for a price." For more than fifty years American scholarship knelt to the religious and social sneer levelled at the
anti-slavery cause, and was dumb. The best scholar New England ever sent to Congress stood up and defended slavery by quoting from the original Greek of the New Testament and offered to shoulder musket in its defense. Scholarship loves the chimney-corner, the gown and slippers, the sheltered cloister. The great books have been written by unscholarly men "Aesop's Fables," "Robinson Crusoe," "Pilgrim's Progress," "Hamlet," Etc. These writers went to nature's school. The sky, the fields, the woods, the nodding flowers, the singing birds, were their teachers and upon their work professorships have been founded. Social ostracism is only a copmosite sneer, often arising from business interests, the dollar above the man. Socrates was not put to death for his Irreligious teaching but because his doctrines interfered with the meat markets connected with the sacrifice of animals upon the Athenian sacerdotal altars. He is a brave soul who unfurls his banner against organized Belf-interest and cries "Come on!" The time-serving pulpit will fling Bibles at him. The law will snatch him. Society will spew him out. It will be considered improper to mention his name in polite society. He will for a time live as lonely as Prometheus on the Tarpian rocks. Vultures, whose ill-gotten gains are endangered will try to tear out his vitals. The gods' of earth and sky will seem to mock and taunt him, and
the chorus of the universe will appear to sing nothing but funeral dirges. But the brave In heart should take courage from the fact that the grqat and loved In history passed through such fiery furnaces and came out un
scathed by the deadly shams of life. Woolman, Garrison, Phillips, Parker, Lincoln! They now sleep safe and se
cure. The time-servers, the sneerers, the slanderers, the
grafters, the plunderers of their time are all forgotten.
Mournful writers are filling the magazines with their lamentations over what they call the ill-manners of American youth. On the other hand that pleasant book, called "How to Be Happy Though Civil," sums up the complaint by saying that the social behavior of the poor and middleclass has improved In an astonishing way during the last fifty years, while the "upper class" has entirely lost its manners. Be that as it may it is plain to be seen that the detestable sham gospel of success Is the fruitful source of course and brutal manners among the get-rich-quick people. The theory of success is that every boy and girl should fight and push to the limelight, get lots of money, eat, drink and be merry, for "when you are dead you are a long time dead." It don't matter if you crush and utterly annihilate the feeble and unfortunate. You must "get there" or you are nobody. This is the hell-born gospel that meets us everywhere. It is the brutal side of our civilization. But uncivllity on the part of others is like trouble we can find plenty of it if we are looking for it, and it is often our own self-importance that imagines and exaggerates an insult that has no existence. Some persons draw down the corners of their mouths and whine, "They don't raise boys and girls like they did when I was young." Let us be thankful that they don't. It is a sign of approaching senility when we continually harp upon the degeneracy of modern boys and girls and impute all virtue to ourselves. Chewing the cud of other days and failing to assimilate the good of the present, is a kind of mental and moral gastritis and we should see a doctor. There never was a time when moralists did not complain of bad boys and discourse upon "the good old times" of their youth. The trouble with the moralists
is that they make their oomplaints after they have left their youth and counting days far behind, and have arrived where life has "fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf." Plutarch in his "Morals" tells a refreshing story. The Seven Wise Men of Thebes meet for the usual feast of reason and flow of soul. One of them heard of a horse race in town and went to see it and gave up the banquet, whereby Plutarch calls hhn the wisest of them all, for sometimes pleasure Is the highest wisdom. Seneca, the stoic fake of his age, advised people to pretend to believe in the current even if they totally disbelieved it. Writing upon a gold table and enjoyfng a large income from usury he praised the blessings of poverty and condemned the bad snanners of the youth of his day. "His "morals" were but a veil to his avarice. He said that women carrying dogs was a sign of the gradual downfall of the Roman Republic. Nothing new under the sun. The ill-mannered boys of the Old Testament laughed at the bald-heads. Then the bears came running right out and ate up the boys. What had the dome-heads been saying to those boys? Knocking on them no doubt. The bears should have eaten the dome-heads. Anyhow It is an exparte story. If Pestalozzi was right in saying that children naturally love the lovable then we can understand why some of them don't adore their incorrigible parents. Imagine a father mounting the family altar, donning a thirty cent halo, monopolizing the whole stock of wisdom and virtue in the world, imputing all unrighteousness to the children of his own creation, looking like a cross between an idol of Buddah and a Sioux Indian, and bellowing out like a side show barker, "Children, Love Me!" The natural child would call back, "Come off your perch, pa." And a child that could just simply adore such a spectacle of family deity could fearlessly look into the mouth of the seventongued dragon. Samuel Butler in his fine novel. "The Way of All Flesh," shows us the home of an English clergyman who raised his family on husks. One evening in the presence of a guest he tried to make his little boy say "come" instead of "turn," when he sang a gospel hymn. The child being physical unable to sound a hard "c" or "k," his father took him to the next room and whipped him until his screams were heard all over the house. Returning, the clergyman said to his wife: "My dear, I have sent Earnest to bed, and now we will have the servants in for prayers." And, red-handed as he was, he selected from the Bible that section of the fifteenth chapter of Numbers which
NATURAL GAS SERVICE AJBIG SAVING Report of L., H. & P. Shows Failure to Get Franchise Meant Ruin.
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had given up Its franchise and placed itself in the hands of the commission. The one thing above everything else that placed the Light, Heat and Power Company in a trying situation during the negotiations was the fact that $200,000 of first mortgage-bonds come
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and Saturday. "Tigris" is an elabo-
State News in a Brief Form
Rochester Refusing to take a dare j him not to go to work the next momPaul, 12-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. J lag. A few hours later she was to!4 Frtel Miller, mounted a pair of high j that he was drowned, stilts and walked astride an Iron pick- j - et fence. One of the stilts slipped and
In notes come due March 1, 1914. If:"10 " niy the oomnanv ha t KPrr th, found by sounding the abysmal depths
the boy fell on the fence, a picket entering his leg between the knee and hip. His friends helped him off. and he hobbled home. Several stitches
were necessary a) c.ose me ouna. j NVork ln FeUow Craft dtgrt,e Peru Starting a fire with a bottle j of gasoline, thiuking that It was kero- - - - -
sene, Roy Lemmon, 16 years, suffered burns which caused his death a few ; hours later. He was living at the Dun- j kard Orphans' Home. Hartford City Bartley Williams; held in jail on the charge of arson. ' secured the sheriffs permission to sot a trap for rats which he said were en-;
natural gas franchise it would have j
been left out in the cold, with all of
of humanity, and has a fine side of
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out a franchise the obligations coul1i8p!?tg Tu S6t th ,aw f eSt0rday
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one thing for the company to do, and "Vv,7 T- . T , a that was to buy the franchise from the t This ,BU,ect ,f man 8 doub,e na" Logan company and make such conces- !ure nd hi "TO,t agai,nst conditions sions to the city as would insure it'ha8 bunted literature n a thousand further life 'forms since the days of Robinhood and City Attorney Bond, while not in-1 hla merry men" " POMibly exfnrmprt tn th nann,-i .tHr,o. 'presses man s natural longing for
MASONIC CALENDAR !
Wednesday, August ft Webb lodge.
! No. 24. F. and A. M. Called meed:;.
j POLITICAL i ANNOUNCEMENTS ! FRANK JONES is a candidate rr Councilman from the Sixth Ward, subject to the Republican nomination. Friday. Aunuit 8. Kin tlitnuMi'i
tering the cell and stealing his tobao- j chapter No 4 R A M SuteJ mr,.l. co during the night. The trap was bait- j jns ed with tobacco and the catch proved I '
j to be Jules Lamblotte, an insane pris- j -
f v j aside with open contempt, that those i . .. ... !
nuv ur-, icnuauira, evj tune aa um . , Anaerson William wavis will prou-1
ably die from burns received yesterday
when the gasoline tank of an auto in a-!
bile, which he was preparing to turn
over to a customer, exploded. Anderson A car load of watermel
ons were devoured by 500 Progressives who met In the Progressive club j room to observe the anniversary of j the founding of the party. I EVANSVILLE The Progressives of
this city observed the first annlversary of the party's birth, and made Carrsvlne, Ky. "My doctor." writes plans for the tuture campaigns last Mrs Hat1ie Cam ..wno tlivisci me to night. It was announced that Roose- take Cardui, for my troubles, is a mfghty velt, Beveridge. Pinchot and Garfield fine doctor and I say God bless Cardui
the company, knew the position the company was in and used this situation to bring the company to time. Profits of Company. The report to the commission shows that the local company during 1912 made a gross profit over operating ex-
complete freedom. Zioconi, Italian ac
tor, who starred ln the Palace of Flame, will be seen in this feature.
'Brewster's Millions.' "Them that has gets" was illustrated last night at the Murray theatre
MY DOCTOR MIGHTY FINE Mrs. flattie Cain or Carrsvi!!a Thinks ail the More or Her Doctor Since He Advised Her to Take Cardui
penses of $68,197.07, out of which ln the Presentation of "Brewster's Mil-
should come the fixed charges. Th
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total receipts were $170,955.24 and the i A Iew years Slnce tnis pame rroouc operatine exDenses S102.758.17. Theso : tion was Put 011 at tne Gennett thea
would speak during the city campaign ; which begins In about thirty days. Plkhart 4n Flkhart ontometrist
figures include both electricity and 1 ire ai Jusl nve tlmes tne admission hag deciared that flirting i8 injurious gas. j charged last night, and it is the writ-1 to the eyeg Another peculiar fact is that the er's recollection that the company j For Wayn0The tango, the slit company in Wayne county is assessed ( Producing it was good; ln fact. It , gklrt8 and 8imouette gowns will probfor only $90,360.00, while the company 1 the large audience rresent. j abJy receive Bevere condemnation at values the property to the commission I b,ut tn many respects the interpreta-, he handa Qf the Lutheran minister.
at $1,110,813.43. j uon elven y Tne oayies company was The report showH that. th frns ra better than than of the higher priced
the comnanv S 8897 nor 1 nnft r-iihl company
feet and the electricity $.0277 per K. W. H.
ACCIDENTS COMMON
Mr. Sayles certainly has it coming to him on the manner in which the play is staged. The stage settings and the handling of the scenery had the larger company beat at least three
' jcity blocks. The yacht scene in the Local insurance men think that ac-1 third act is especially realistic and cidents are becoming more common I called forth vigorous applause at the and place the blame for this on the au- j rise of the curtain. Mr. Sayles and tomobile and motorcycle enthusiasts, j his company fully deserved the many Ten years ago, according to an insur-' curtain calls they received. The genance agent of this city, out of every jeral verdict is that "Brewster's Miltwelve persons taking out accident j Hons" is the best production put on Dolicies. about on was ininred anrt r. I by a stock company in this city. The
ceived a payment. At the present time out of every twelve policies payments are made on four. Another cause, the agent pointed out, is the fact that the present day policies embrace a wider field and pay a more liberal amount than they did in the past.
LOST JEWELED PHI DELTA KAPPA FRATERNITY PIN. RETURN TO PALLADIUM OFFICE AND GET REWARD.
play will be given the remainder of the week with a matinee tomorrow and also on Saturday.
Palace. One good long lingering laugh is the least that can be said of the Keystone comedy "Prof." Bean's Removal" being shown at the Palace today. Ford Sterling takes the part of VtoI. Bean and Mabel Normand is his daugh-
attending the triennial meeting of the I Central District Synod here. Petersburg Every restaurant keep- : er in town has been arrested and fined ; for selling "jingo." I Newcastle The three boys that j were arrested for stealing an automobile and driving it a long distance I have been dismissed. Rochester Warren Welsner, of In- ' dianapolis, has established a swimj ming record by swimming from the ! bathing beach to Fairview hotel In an ! hour and four minutes. I Gary Cleanliness and correst living (are the newest things to be taught in
the Gary schools. Instead of sending the pupils home to be washed and scrubbed the process will be gone through at the schools. Worthlngton Twice on the night before John Moreland was drowned his wife dreamed that she saw him struggling in the water. She begged
shown a Warren Kerrigan American "Mission Bells" a tale of love develot-
ter. Both enthusiastic cornetists much j ed under the mystic power of an old to the distress of their neighbors. Tho ' mission. Also the Reliance "Rosita's way their landlord rids the neighbor- j Cross of Gold," a drama of New York's hood of them and their music furnish- j Little Italy. Mutual observers free to es plenty of comedy. On with this is j ladies today. i
begins, "But the soul that doeth aught presumptiously," "and stoned him with stones and he died," and ends with "as the Lord commanded Moses." "And this is how it came to pass," says the novelist: "That their children were white and puny; they were suffering from homesickness. They were starving through being crammed with wrong things. Nature came down upon them but she did not come down on the parents. Why should she? They were not leading a starved ex istence. There are two classes of people in the world; those who sin and those who are sinned against; if a man must belong to either he had better belong to the first than the second." What a satire upon our dome-head sham education! But such cases are not exclusively in English clergy
man's families. Children die of homesickness where the father is a business maniac or the mother a society fool. A real home is the blessed abode of companionship. Its absence opens wide the door to the broad road where thousands perish. Without it homes are jails, asylums, institutions, from which the inmates long to escape. Thomas Moore, in his beautiful song, "Come All Ye Disconsolate," wrote, "Earth Hath No Sorrow That Heaven Cannot Heal." This may be said of home, for a home of good comradship is heaven. Blessed is that home where father and sons are comrades and mother Is a good friend. The memory of such a home, where childish troubles were wiped away like tears from the face, helps many c man or woman to bear the great enshrouding sorrows of later life.
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