Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1890-08-16

''IDEAs," said Valtare are like boards Men
never have any until they grow up, and women
never have any at all" What revelation this
age would be to that greatest of infdels, could
his spirit be permitted to leave its present abiding
place and roam at large over earth's greatest Re-
public, where women with ideas are to be found at
every corner, and where such men as Bishop
Spaulding rise before vast audience and
make the statement 'that American women are
more intelligent than the American men, state
ment, too, that is being verified by many Of the
best institutions of learning in the land. Poor
Voltaire he would feel like gathering up his old
fashioned sayings, stufing them into his grand
mothers old-styled bonnet, and taking them, TO-
gether with his own Anticipated SELF back to the
cellar, where the bright sunshine Of enlightenment
would not glare in his eyes scorch the pride Of
his once considered all-powerfu intellect.
THE Chicago Womans Alliance is stirring things
up bit in that city. With the feminine thumb in
the municipal pie there is no telling what things
other then plunao may bv4sxtsacted The police
force has been called to account for some of its
doings, and there is to be change in the admins
traton of justice in the police courts. The ALI
ance has brought to light the methods Of the adj
mnstrators of the law, which goes to prove that
law is anything but liberty that policemen are
despots and the police justices deal out sentences
in way that all but eclipses Russia.
One case brought to light was that Of poor
woman who was arrested at night while on her way
to the druggist for medicine for her sick child.
The woman, in spite Of her protests, was hurried
into patrol wagon and driven off to JAIL where
she remained in the extremity of a mothers agony
all night, her little one in the meantime remaining
at home alone. 1t has brought to light the system
adopted by the police courts Of fning women for
"revenue only" and that for this purpose women
and girls are arrested in droves in order to give
the justices something to d. and to give every
one connected fee.
A Judge Of one of the higher courts said, rela-
tive to the report presented by the Woman's Al-
ance:
facts in this report are not new to me- In these police
courts there shadow Of trial we know it, but these
police justices much mgher men than we OF the Supe
rior and Circuit Courts They in onehour send fifty WON
en- to the Brdewel without hearing word OF defence Day
light is the thing right all these wrongs Let daylight into
these police courts the police department. and half
YOUR work will Let the public hear OF these things
You should not hesitate mention the Of those who
are to blame be they high low in out Of office Then
sign your name to the statement of what you know of the
actions Of who should be in the pententar in place OF
wearing uniform"
Justice will be much amazed one day to find the
bandage loosening from her eyes,
The knot Of centuries standing will be very
hard one to untie and when she once doth see she
will have her sisters to thank. A little more heart
(and few less legal technicaites,) will be
modest ally in dispensing justice