Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 124, 4 April 1914 — Page 8
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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1914
Married Life the Third Year
"I've been trying all day to get him on the 'phone," frowned Warren. "Was up to hi8 office twice. The door was locked, but I'm not so blamed cure he wasn't there." "Why would he lock the door?" asked Helen. "Wouldn't his stenographer be there?" "Oh, he hasn't kept a stenographer for months. I've known he's been down and out, but I didn't know he was getting ready to leave town. I've always thought Winthrop was straight but I guess he's hoodwinked me and a good many others. If he doesn't pay that three hundred before he gets out well, I'll make it pretty warm for him." "But dear, if he hasn't got it?" "He's got that much. Now I tell you what we'll do get on your things and we'll go up to his home tonight." "Oh, you don't want ME to go, do you?" "Yes, I do. Of course, he may not be trying to get away, and I want a chance to see him without letting him know I'm suspicious. You can talk to his wife and I can get him alone." "But won't it look strange for me to go when I don't even know her?" "Oh, that's all right. We'll say we were up in that neighborhood and I wanted to Bee Winthrop. And we'd better start soon," glancing at his watch, "they live way up around Washington Heights." AN AWKWARD SITUATION. Warren still lingered at the dinner table frowning thoughtfully over his coffee and cigar, while Helen went In to get ready. She would much rather not have gone. Since she did not know Mrs. Winthrop she felt the situation would be a most awkward one. "It's So. West One Hundred and Fifty-sixth street," said Warren, glancing at the memorandum on the back of an envelope, when a few moments later Helen came out ready for the street. "Subway'll be the quickest." It Rpemed a Ions trip. Warren was
questioning eyes, then walked straight to Helen and put the kitten in her lap. "Oh, how DEAR oi you!" as Helen stooped over to put them both. "I have a little girl and she has a kitten, too. She calls it Pussy Purrmew Pussy PURR-ME! Isn't that a pretty name?" The child nodded and made a motion as if to climb into Helen's lap. "No, no. Alice!" protested her mother. "Mrs. Curtis can't hold you and the kitten both." "Yes, I can hold Alice and Alice cand hold the kitten," laughed Helen, lifting the child up on her lap. For the next few minutes Helen forgot the purpose of their visit, as she talked to Alice abont Winifred and Pussy Purrmew. And it was a disagreeable reminder when Warren asked,-glancing at his watch. "What time did you expect your husband, Mrs. Winthrop?" "Why, he should be here now; hit business takes him out so many evenings but h said tonight he'd be gone only a little while." They waited until almoBt 10, but still Mr. Winthrop did not come. "Oh, I feel so sorry for her!" exclaimed Helen, when at length they came out on the street again. "She's really very nice and think of her living in that place with that hideous furniture for over a year!" "Yes, she's a fine little woman," agreed Warren, "and I don't understand it. Winthrop hasn't made much, but he's made enough for them to live better than that. There's a screw loose somewhere." As they approached the subway a couple were standing just beside the entrance. "By jove, .that's Winthrop now," whispered Warren, as he drew Helen back into the shadow. They stood there only 'an instant, but it was long enough to hear the man say: "I hate to see you go home alone, but I've been' out so many nights, that she's began to complain." "Oh, I'm not afraid," laughed the girl, who was young and rather pretty in a cheap obvious way. "But don't forget you're to take me to dinner tomorrow night. And see if you can't." But Warren had led Helen out and down the subway stairs. "Oh. that couldn't that couldn't
frnwnlnelv silent and Helen was won-
w""w M",j ZZ'Y' :h9v. hn him!" stammered Helen
andhowtne uintnrops wou.u I '"That's Winthrop all right. If you mem. .... I 1 it I 1 rr TA Mir a A Viavo
There was a three block wane arter , UwC:;
they left the subway, then warren puutueu " - 3re arsCanniDg nUm- "SS? taT S "weToiSr sTreet lamp was not CAN'T you make him realize" bright enough to lige up the dark, j "What's the use talking to a man narrow vestibule, and Warren struck like that? He ought to a match to read the names under the j whipped. Next thing we hear he 11 be row of letter boxes on each side. ! running off with that girl and leaving ..,r i- .r,f firmr " i his wife and children to shift for
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Bavis Writes on Home Rule Bill tiiTL " ---- ,t A f a m t 4 JTi iTHF (JTi Member of Royal Commission to 44. 44. 44. Study Irish Troubles in 1886
Alfred Bavis, president of the board of works, was appointed on the Lord Wolverton commission to visit Ireland and to investigate the agrarian difficulties, and as a result is now intensely interested in the development of the Home Rule bill, which has caused a furore in England. As the conditions today are practically identical with those of Gladstone in 1886, the following article by Mr. Bavis will be of interest: The present state of unrest in Ireland, while seemingly recent, is merely increased tensity of a situation that has existed there since the passing of the act of union in 1800, that united Ireland with England, legislatively speaking, and abrogated or destroyed, Grattan's parliament, under which, as history records, Ireland became the most prosperous people Inhabiting the British Isles. Two questions have been asked me regarding home rule that suggested my giving this brief explanation of Ireland and her demands: FirstWould the granting of a local legislature to Ireland sanction secession from the British empire? Second What reasons have Ulster for protesting against home rule? That a clear understanding might be had, the fact should be borne in mind that the act of union, obtained
as it was by force and fraud, is a leg
in Ireland for the tenacity with which they hold to the church. The Catholic church in Ireland,, through the parish priest, has succored - and nurtured the peasantry of Ireland and taken them to its breast in time of pestilence and famine and fed them during such times when the agents of the absentee landlord were busy exporting produce that would have saved the lives of many hundreds, that died of starvationIreland Ill-Treated. It can truly be said that Ireland has been guilty of many transgressions, for which no one can apologize; it can also be said with equal truth that no people have been subjected to such trying conditions; when bread
has been asked for a stone has been J
given; wnen legislative reforms have been sought, in the nature of land laws that would relieve the conditions, coercion has been the alternative, so much so that eighty-seven coercion laws were passed in less than one hundred years. To those, if any, who are not advised as to the nature of a coercion law, permit me to say that it consists of a legislative whip used to scourge the people into submission, compelling acceptance of conditions so barbarous as to bt beyond human endurance.
Historical retrospect reveals that
tices compelled protestation against existing conditions. Rents were considered sacred, and as Lord ' Salisbury said In the house of lords: "That to touch these rents would be laying your axe at the root of the fabric of civilised society." No one will deny that a debt' honestly contracted should be honestly met. but, John Bright declared: "If a map were made of Ireland, stripped of everything the tenant had done, and marking only what bad been done by the landlord, it would be like an American prairie, bare of house and barn, fence and civilization." Landlord Gets All.
I give you this excerpt from the
memoirs of John Bright, who was opposed to home rule, to Bhow that every vestige of Improvement rendered by the tenant was rendered at the tenant's expense, and very improvement that added to the production of the soil was the sacred property of the landlord, and rents were based and fixed according to the productive capacity of the land. These rents were based upon the productive volume of the soil and the market value of the products, and fixed for a given number of years, and notwithstanding a fall in the market value of the product, the rents remained the same. In the fixing of these rents no thought was given to possible falling in prices of agricultural products, which, when the fall took place, it left the tenant with an inadequate provision for bis family's needs, to say nothing of the arrearage of rentals that accrued with subsequent eviction and confiscation of all the improvements rendered without compensation. The land act of 1870 gave no compensation for improvements rendered, and the loss of tenant right, through
eviction, carried with it complete loss
I the policy of coercion will never ap- of every shilling spent for improve-
islative union and never sanctioned pease the demands of the Irish peo- ments.
or accepted by the -Irish nation, and ; pie.
while the granting of home rule would j The coercion act of 1887, introduced give Ireland their legislative indepen-1 by Mr. Arthur Balfour, who wag then
dence in matters pertaining to strictly chief secretary of Ireland, and a neph-
A momenta wait then tne cuck, click," which announced that the door was unlocked. Inside Warren led the way up the four flights of stairs. Helen could see the lights streaming out from an open door, and when they reached the landing she saw that a little girl was holding it open. Then a woman appeared, a slender frail looking woman of abont thirty
in a loose cheap house gown
themselves. I'll never see my three hundred that's dead sure; but I'm not thinking so much of that as of the little woman up there." An express train drew in now, and as they were whirled homeward, the roar of the cars made talking impossible. A torn newspaper lay on the floor just in front of Helen. Her glance fell on the headlines, "Deserted Wife Shoots Husband in Street."
With his cane Warren was absently
local affairs, it would in no way affect the connection of Ireland as an Inte
gral part of Great Britain, wrought by conquest in the reign of Henry the Second. Restores Parliament. The granting of home rule to Ireland is to all intents and purposes a restoration of Grattan's parliament, with the exception, that such restrictions are embodied in the bill as will
j safeguard religious liberty and the i proper conservation of the sovereign j power of the imperial parliament, j Second The attitude of the Ulster- ! men in resenting home rule to the extent of their threat, is indefensible i and is prompted solely by the narrow- : ness of their conception as to what
constitutes religious freedom. In other words, religious intolerance is behind their movement. I am not a Catholic, that is, in the sense of adopting the religious belief of the Roman Catholic church, but if the situation was thoroughly understood no one could lay blame to the people of that faith
ew of Lord Salisbury, an extreme sym
pathizer with the sacred claims of the landlord class, was one of the most stringent that had ever been enacted. It enabled the lord lieutenant of Ireland to declare an association unlawful if he thought it dangerous, and nothing was so dangerous as an organization that had for its purpose
Government Inactive. No allowance being made for hard times or falling prices, the government preferring to take shelter behind the plea, "to interfere with the right of eviction would make the payment of all rents arbitrary and capricious." It mattered little to Balfour that thousands of honest tenants and their
families were homeless and penniless, cast out to perish by the mountain side, that PROPERTY rights should
the contrary it was a general condition as the following statistics will show: "For five years, ending In 1877, there was a yearly average of five hundred families made homeless. In 1878 there were over seven hundred; in 1879 over one thousand, and for the first half of 1880 exceeded the whole year of 1879." Thus in seven and one-half years 5,200 tenant farmers lost their homes. ' Can it be wondered at that a condition of disaffection exists? Ireland for the last one hundred years has been asking for the right to legislate for Itself. Ulster protests against that right. As I said
'above, religious bigotry is behind the
movement. iney armea tnemseives for the conflict in 1888. The Carson of that day was Lord Randolph Churchill. Although home rule was defeated, they fought anyhow, as is attested by the Belfast riot immediately following the defeat of the bill. One-half Satisfied. The question as to whether Ulster is entitled to the recognition she demands is a debateable one. Out of thirty-three representatives from ulster sixteen are for home rule, which shows at least that nearly one-half of the population of the province of Ulster will not be found in the fighting ranks. Therefore, Ulster's right to recognition is based on the fact that seventeen out of 103 members of parliament are against home rule. What a splendid example of majority rule! April 8, 1886, Ireland found a friend in W. E. Gladstone, who, notwithstanding his seventy-sixyears, plead in the house of commons' for three and onehalf hours that a policy of humanity be exercised in dealing with Ireland. Here are some of the salient points of the bill: To set up an Irish legislature for dealing with Irish affairs. There was to be made under the bill an Irish executive as well as an Irish legislature, responsible to the lord lieutenant, who would hold his office Independent of English political parties. The legislature was to be divided into two houses, one to consist of Irish peers, who were almost all opposed to home rule, and members elected under a high pecuniary or property qualification. The other would be made up of the present quta of Irish representatives, 103 in num-
the amelioration of conditions of the i be maintained irrespective of HUMAN
Oh, it's Mr. Curtis," flushing with I turning the paper over as he frowned
rights to a living honestly earned.
Evictions were not an exception; on
ber. with an additional 101 chose by all the Irish constituencies. - . Judges Under Control The Irish judges were to be subject to the Irish legislature, and the Irish executive would control the constabulary or police forces. . The Irish legislature was forbidden under the law to deal with matters affecting the crown; with military or naval forces, with trade, navigation and coinage, and with projects for the establishment or endowment of any RELIGIOUS institution. Let me ask. what is there about such a legislature to cause such a state of panic among the Ulsterites? It is for this privilege that Ireland has so long fought; it is that their rights to a fair share of the fruits of their labor be recognized: that their representatives have suffered martyrdom in Kilmainham and other jails: and for the act in assembling in a peaceable political gathering, such an at Mitchelstown, to which I was an eye witness, men were shot down like dogs. Well might it be said that the blackest page of England's history is in her dealing with Ireland. Very truly. ALFRED BAVIS.
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'Mrs. Winthrop, this is Mrs. Curtis
unseeingly at It. But Helen read the lines on the other side: "Eloping cout)le found at Atlantic City. Man said
We were up in this neighborhood and i to be Mr. W. F. Lawrence, a wealthy I thought I'd stop in a few minutes i cotton broker with a wife and two to see your husband." j children, girl iB Miss Ethel" the rest "Oh. I'm so sorry, he isn't here." as I was torn off.
she opened the door and invited them Helen knew that sucn accounts
iiiiea lue papers uaujr. auu iuuikui she had seen one of these tragedies in the making. She had seen the wife and children at home and the man talking to the pretty insipid girl on the corner. The pity and horror of it all swept
in. "But if you don t mind waiting, he'll not be long." She led them into the front room with a murmured apology about her appearance. It was a small room with cheap vnhlen nalr furniture, stiff Nottineham
iace curtains, and a garish red and over ner. now many wives in mis green flowered rug. There was an up-! great city, she wondered, were at that right piano of unknown make and a i very moment waiting for husbands red velour covered couch, which at ! who were with other women? Wight evidently served as a bed. I As they left the car she clung close Helen, who knew that Winthrop to Warren with the feeling of secur-
had been at college with Warren and
that he had married a girl of a very pood Philadelphia family, could not help but wonder. It was not so much the rheanness of the furnishings as
the utter lack of taste. The place j precious.
j-nowpu uoi only uimieu means, uul ignorance. It was the home of people who had not "known," and surely the Winthrops should know. "You have a very good view here," remarked Warren, stepping to the window It was the only favorable com
ment he could have made
ity that she thought of unfaithfulness of other men always brought. However irritable and indifferent at least he was true to her! Never had the certainty of his loyalty seemed so
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and that's good for the children, j ootties. Then, as though divining Helen's j thoughts, she added hurriedly. "We i
sublet this flat furnished over a year ; ago expecting to stay only a few j months, but Mr. Winthrop's business i has been so unsettled that we've j stayed on. But I've missed our own ; things so," with an apologetic glance j about the room. "I've never felt quite ! at home here." i
Here the little girl who had opened the door came in shyly. THE WINTHROP CHILDREN.
"This is Florence," said her mother, ; proudly, drawing her forward and i pushing back a rebellious curly lock, j Florence pulled at a rubber band j which she had slipped around her ! wrist as a bracelet, and stared at them : wonderingly. I
"Haven't you another little girl, Mrs. Winthrop?" asked Helen. "Oh, yes, we have two others. Here's
Alice now. Come in dear." j A child of about four, with beau- j tiful reddish-gold h'alr stood hesitat- j
ingly at the door. In her arms was hugged close a tiny gray kitten. For a moment she looked about with big
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