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The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26
POINTS OF PROGRESS.

WOMEN are gradually being intro
duced into the savings bank department
of the London post-office, and their work
gives great satisfaction TO the author
tiles 1t is said that Algernon Turn
our, the financial secretary, desires to
have only female clerks in that depart
ment and to GUST the men.
CONSIDERING that S225, 600, 900 of prop
erty in the United States is possessed
and controlled by twenty-seven women,
one might argue that parents should
give their daughters as thorough bus
mess education as they accord their
sons. No one with girls to raise can
tell in this democratic country, where
fortunes shift like quicksilver, whether
at some future time they may not have
vast sums of money to control
THE roads in certain town of Maine
had recently fallen into very bad con-
dition, and the men Of a particular dis
trict refused to repair them-said they
were too busy, and it was thankless
task, anyway. The women of the town
thereupon urged and procured the ap-
pointment of a woman superintendent,
and with the aid of road machine and
some men whom she employed, the
roads were soon in excellent condition.
Mrs. FENwICK MILLER, a well-known
London journalist and lecturer, was
late asked by a correspondent whether
she really thought that women could, if
they liked, do all that men can do. She
replied as follows: Speaking for my
self, there is at least one thing that
many men have done and now do which
know l should never have the courage
to do. / have studied medicine, con-
tested elections, written political lead
never yet in my life worn on my head a
tress of hair which had not grown there,
am sure 1 never, never should have
the courage to go about with bald
head
Mr. JOHN L. WHITE, bead-master Of
the Berkely School, New York, is
authority for the statement that, in our
cities at least, almost every American
girl of good parentage of the age of six
teen or seventeen is taller than her
mother, with larger waist, better physi-
cal development, and more staying
power" This gain he thinks largely
due to the present-day love Of open-air
games and exercise. Indeed, so hearth
" does he believe in the efficacy Of ply
steal training, that he would put an ex-
ercise-room in every school-house, sure
that forty minutes daily drill and in.
struction in hygenic laws would in the
following generation reduce the number
of the criminal population one-halt
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26
OBSTRUCTIVE MEASURES.
Determination of the Democrats &
blockade Congress.

DETERMINATION OF the democrats TO
Blockade Congress.
The result of the late elections has
so inspired the Democrats in Congress
that the fact is evident they are de-
termined to prevent any legislation by
the present Congress, which expires at
noon on March next, except the passage
of the regular appropriation bills.
Especially are they determined to pre-
vent the passage of a reapportionment
bill until the Democratic House comes
into power a year hence.
This is all very nice in theory, but
we fear it can't be put into practice. Il
certainly can not be successfully done
in the House. Obstructive party tactics
can not be used there, under the new
rules There will be no flibustering
there. If the policy of delay is to be
successful, it will be practised in the
Senate.
We doubt If the Republican majority
In the Senate will submit to the dicta-
ton of an insolent minority. There is
no reason for any hesitation in the
matter. 1t is perfectly certain that the
nc4L COnSreSS Will w dOoOAGIeAJ HULL
ing in business way; and the legisla.
ton of the coming session is thus
doubly important, and it must provide,
as far as can be done in advance, for the
needs of the country during the tempo
rary Democratic ascendency. The re-
apportionment bill, the shipping bills
and other important measures should
be put through promptly. - Toleds
D1oda
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26
STILL FOR PROTECTION.
Efforts of the Democrats to Down tn,
Mckinley Bill.


Some Of our good-natured Democratic
contemporaries appear to think that
they can work up disposition among
Republicans to disavow protection by
quoting the views and wishes of certain
Republican journals favoring a repeal
of the Mckinley bill But these hap
pen to be journals which were always
opposed to the new tariff. They are
undoubtedly important and influential.
The Mckinley bill was adopted, how
ever, in spite of their counsels, and the
fact that the Democrats have carried the
country since gives no special present
weight to their views because the Demo-
cratic victory has been won upon fewer
votes than were cast for the free-trade
policy when it was beaten in 1855
There has been no accession whatever
to the Democratic strength since it was
mustered for Cleveland and overcome
by Harrison. On the contrary, the fig
ures Of the late election show that it has
fallen off.
In every State in the Union where
the Democrats made gains on their
Congressional tickets local causes con-
tributed so greatly to that result that
no fair estimate can be derived from
the returns as the country's view of
the Mckinley bill. The saloon
triumphed in Massachusetts,. Mr.. Quay
was overthrown in Pennsylvania.
The Bennett law was in effect
repealed in Wisconsin. In New York
and New Hampshire party discussions
led, as they always must, to party re-
verses, while in the West, where the
Farmers Alliance made itself felt as a
controlling agency, the tariff, according
to the president Of the Alliance, ''cut
but a small figure" Dissatisfaction
with appointments, which every admin
istration at the beginning must expect
to encounter, and Indifference, which
every majority party has to contend
against, fully account for whatever re-
mains of the result after local issues
and the Alliance agitation are consid-
cred.
The true fact Is that the people have
not yet rendered their verdict on the
Mckinley bill. Nor can they do so sat-
lSldCtOrlly Until iS OPeEabloHS arc GA
amined. 1t had been a law less than
thirty days when they cast their votes.
To talk now of repeating it without a
trial is to talk nonsense, and none I'M
derstand that better than the clamorous
Democracy. The Mckinley bill will
stand until the people have had a
chance to test by experience the real
results of the policy embodied in it
The anxiety of the Democrats to bring
about surrender now by assuming that
every newly-elected Democratic Con-
gresham is visible protest of the peo-
pie against it Is an anxiety easy to I'M
derstand. They realize we'll enough
that only by demoralizing their adver-
saries now can they hope for success in
1892 IN. Y. Tribune.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26

instead of me and mine? In other words.
is my husband bound to support me and
our children, and to what extent may
purchase necessaries and luxuries on hi.
credit? Can go into business in my
own name and form legal partnership.
Can make a will. and il so, must he
consent to it? To what extent may
dispose by will of my property, aud
what portion, if any, may my husband
claim despite my will to the contrary:
II leave no will, how much of my
property may my husband take, and
how much will go to my children
or other kindred? On the Other
hand, If / should be widowed.
what share of my husbands prop
share outright, or only the income fol
my life? Does the law in this respect
discriminate in my favor when no child
survives my husband? If he leaves e
will, what claim have / on my husbands
estate Notwithstanding his will? Can
act as executor. administrator, or guar
dian while married, or after my hus,
than that of widowhood befalls me,
what claim have l for support for my.
self and children from husband who
deserts me, and how shall enforce iti
Can l keep my children, or can he take
them from me? Can l apply for di.
vorce, and if so, on what grounds and or
general mode OF procedure? Can l OBJ
tain alimony and custody of children?
All these and many more are ques-
tions which women are constantly ask.
ing Of lawyers, and many, alas! ask toe
late. The ''Ounce of prevention" is toe
seldom thought of. l have said that
every married woman should have as
much knowledge as possible on the sub
jects which have indicated by queries,
but if every woman would give them
some attention before marriage, many
misfortunes might be avoided by taking
suitable measures in advance. In States
where woman's property goes in part
or wholly to her husband at marriage, q
pre-nuptial contract should be made,
settling it on herself and empowering
her to dispose of it by will; and in many
other ways wise precautions may be
taken, il one is not too much in love to
think of any thing so commonplace as
property and property rights. But in
any case to know what she may do il
she chooses, will do no woman any
harm, for here as elsewhere, knowledge
is power. Leila Robinson Sawtelle, L.
L. B., in Chautauquan.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26
BUSINESS GIRLS GOWNS.
What Should and Should Not Be Worn
In the Office.

A busy girl. one who is out in the
work-a-dsy world, writing and writing
to keep the accounts of great firm
straight, wrote and asked me what /
should advise for business dress. First
Of all. should say let it be quiet, let il
be well-fitting, and let it be of the kind
that will attract attention only
by it's absolute neatness / know the
temptation is very great to put the
money in pretty plaid frock trimmed
with velvet, perhaps in silk, and to
wear it for little while for very best,
and then to take it for the Office. This
is the last thing in the world you ought
to do.
We can learn some lessons from men,
and did you ever hear of man taking a
shabby dress suit for Office wear? Put
your money in frock suitable for bust
ness, and keep it exclusively for that.
er hours, and make your own gown par
take of the exquisite simplicity of that
worn by Quakeress. and it will never
offend even when it grows little shah
by. Probably the most useful business
gown is dark-blue serge. 1t does not
show the stains or dust as quickly as black
the sleeves will not rub out as would
black cashmere, and the material itself,
being rather rough, doesn't grow glossy.
In buying your material get enough
for a new pair Of sleeves, for your
sleeves will certainly be shabby and
worn out before your gown begins to go.
Now, just remember this, well-dressed
girl, which means girl suitably dressed
for her position, is certain to have more
respect shown her than one who is I'M
tidy and overdressed. There always
comes time when the bright colors,
the gay ribbons and the pretty lace can
be worn, but it is certainly not in the
counting room, in the Office or where
ever your work may be.-Ladies' Home
Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26
In WOMAN'S BEHALF.
wOMAN'S ECONOMY.
How 1t Is Often Carried Too Far and
What 1t Results In.

How 1t Is Often Carried Too Far and
What 1t Results In.
Economy, like every other good thing
in this world, If carried too far, becomes,
IL not vice, folly and a wrong. 1t is
hard for young people especially to
know where to draw the line between
the necessary and the extravagant graft
fcation of wants-between indulgence
of the right sort and the wrong sort, be-
tween economy and parsimony. Women
Il must say it, sisters-are, as a gen.
eral thing, incapable of understanding,
or at least acting on the old, homely
maxim of throwing sprat to catch a
whale" That is not very elegantly put,
but contains my meaning so succintly
that you must pardon it. A physician,
standing at the head of one of the larg-
est female hospitals in the country, said
to me recently:
81 have women come to me to be
treated who, if they had exercised COM
mon prudence and care, would be per-
fectly sound. Look yonder! That lit
tie woman confessed to me that the
trouble that brought her here, and
which nearly cost her her life, was
brought on by walk she took from one
end of this city to the other-all to save
car fare. Her husband is a well-to-do
merchant, but she was trying to save up
enough to refurnish her parlors, and re-
minded me that every cent counted
So it does. but she saved ten cents that
day, and her bill here will be in the
neighborhood of S500p'
Another in the same institute was
dying of an injury to her spine, received
while she was carrying scuttle of coal
up the cellar stairs, all because her hired
man left the day before on her refusal
to let him have fire in his room. Oh,
that women would learn to have mercy
on themselves! Men may work quite as
hard, but once they are through with
the days duties, few of them go about
looking for more, while women lie
awake at night wondering if there
is not something else they can
take upon their already weary
shoulders whereby penny can
be saved. 1t will probably be saved.
but only to be used in keeping the lids
of her dead eyes closed; for that last
burden, however light. may be the straw
that will break the back. Every sensi-
BILE person has contempt for those sill
ly women whom a certain class of nov
elists delight in, and who work them
selves into their graves for some worth
less scamp of husband, and die to slow
music surrounded by the poor little
children whose after fate never seems
to enter their heads until it's too late,
and are ever afterward lamented by the
conscience stricken, wholly reformed
widower. Many a woman is to blame
for the neglect and want Of considera-
ton her husband treats her with, and
would find that to assert herself and de-
mand her rights before Heaven--kind-
ness and plenty of life-that she would
be valued far more highly than if she
suffers herself to be looked on as will
ing drudge, without an ambition beyond
the saving of what in all probability a
second wife will spend and never think
of.-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26
OPPOSITION OF DEMOCRATS.
Attitude OF the Democratic Party Toward
Reciprocity.

Attitude of the Democratic Party Toward
Reciprocity.
It is evident that the Democrats pro-
pose to antagonize the idea of reciproc-
ity as stubbornly and bitterly as they
do that Of protection. They ignore the
fact that it implies an extension of our
foreign trade, one of the things that
they have long been clamoring for; and
they are equally disregardful of the
fact that it also contemplates gradual
reduction of tariff duties, another thing
for which they profess to be very solic-
itous. They are perfectly willing, as
usual, to be inconsistent and insincere
for the purpose of being opposed to
policy which the Republicans seek to
establish. 1t is free-trade policy, they
say, but they contradict themselves by
refusing to favor it They declare that
they desire nothing so much as lower
duties and enlarged commerce with
other nations, and yet they hasten to
condemn and deride proposition to
bring these very results to pass The
sagacity of Mr.. Blaine has placed them
in position where they must either in
dorse Republican measure or repudi-
ate Democratic sentiment; and they
have chosen the latter alternative,
quite as a matter of course.
Mr.. Cleveland is doubtless very sroud
of the suggestion that RECIPROCITY with
nations on this side of the Atlantic is to
be regarded as good thing, then reci-
procity with nations on the other side OF
the Atlantic should also be considered a
good thing. But such a view is only o
cheap bit of sophistry. The conditions
in the two cases are not at ali alike. We
can extend our trade in Central and
South America without materially sac
rificing the benefits of protection. where
as the same policy applied to Europe
would mean the practical destruction of
our protected industries and the reduc-
ton of domestic wages to a starvation
standard. The matter is one of bust
ness, and not of sentiment We are not
obliged to be strictly logical in our deal
ings with all the nations of the earth.
| 1t is not necessary for us to offer the
same terms to every country for an ex-
change of commodities. We have a
right to discriminate in our own favor
according to the different circumstances
that prevail in different cases. That is
what the Republican party proposes to
do; that is what reciprocity means as
now presented to the American people.
Mr. Cleveland understands this very
we'll; and he seeks to obscure the real
question by pettifogery and misrepre-
| sentation. He and his party do moi
want an increase of foreign trade except
through the utter destruction Of the
protective tariff system. They are
against reciprocrity according to the
Republican plan because that plan in
wolves the maintenance of said system
with supplementary advantages Of in
creased foreign trade whenever such
trade can be proftably secured. On thi:
issue the next Presidential contest will
be mainly fought; and there is every
reason to believe that the result will be
a victory for the doctrine which Mr.
Blaine so we'll represents.-St. Louis
| Globe DemOcrat
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26

of thousands of men who would not vote
for him on a strict tariff for revenue
only platform. His message therefore
had many such phrases as those quoted
above, intended to be used as texts by
Democratic stump speakers and news
paper organs in the then approaching
campaign.
But very different is the situation
now. In the late campaign Roger o
Mills, as the Democratic leader, went
through the Northwest boldly pro-
claiming that the object Of the Demo-
cratic party is free trade-that is, tar
iff for revenue only. Frank Hurd
and scores of other Democratic leaders
did the same. Instead of revenue re-
formers" they threw off disguise and
announced themselves free traders.
That is really the thing which Senator
German has in mind when he warns his
party that it is time to be ''conserva.
tive
But it is interesting to revert to Mr..
Clevelsnd's message at this time for
the reason that itemphasizes the neces-
sity that the country should have be-
fore it now or soon a draft of the tariff
measure which the Democratic party
proposes, as the result of the next Ma
tional election If it shall get full con-
troll of the Government.
Let the country have a glimpse at the
Democratic tariff and it can judge for
itself whether "the question of free
trade is absolutely irrelevant"
1t seems that the Democrats will not
stand to and abide by the Mills bill;
and as they absolutely refused to bring
in bill at the late session Of Congress
they have nothing before the country
except the general and indefinite idea
embodied in the phrases Stree trade"
and ''tariff for revenue only"
Mr.. Cleveland is especially the man
to clear up this unsatisfactory situation,
since he spoke with such apparent con-
fidence in his message. Even il he
should not go to Congress and introduce
and champion the Democratic tariff
measure there is nothing to prevent
him drawing up and publishing his
proposition in detail.-Sioux City jour
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26
BOAST OF THE DEMOCRATS
Domineerins Tactics of the Democratic
Schemers.

SchemerS.
It Is a well-founded boast of Senator
Eustis that his political colleagues in
the chamber made the Republican Sem
ators to do just what they wanted them
to do. The Democratic policy in both
houses was to make the minority the
ruling power. In the House of Repre-
sentatives that policy was defeated
But in the Senate chamber it was vic
torious, and so completely as to make
the success of the majority in the House
of Representatives unavailing. The
purpose of the Democratic leaders was
not to prevent the passage of a tariff
bill, but to force its passage a few
weeks before election, giving ample
time for Misrepresentation of its scope
and insufficient time for its vindication.
In this, owing to the timidity Of the
Senate, it was entirely successful.
Senator Eustis is as hopeful of the
future as he is boastful Of the past. He
thinks that the result Of the elections
will be to make Republican Senators
more timid than ever. He predicts that
some Republican Senators will be ready
to vote with the Democratic minority
for repeal of the new tariff bill, and he
is quite certain that the Republican
majority will not be bold enough to
pass National election law. o for a
Senator or two with the stuff that bold
and blunt Ben Wade had in him! We
trust that Senator Eustis is to be
proven false prophet, though If it be
truly reported that our Senator Cullom
is encouraging the enemy by confess
sions of his partial disapproval Of the
Mckinley bill, we fear that the gentle
man from Louisiana may know whereof
he speaks. If the Senator from Illinois
weakens the Senator from Louisiana
will grow holder than ever.-Chicago
L..
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1890-12-26
cLEvELANDS PHYSIOLOGY.
The Tariff Measure which Mr.. Cleveland
Sought to Enforce.

In his noted message to Congress, in
which he undertook to put himself for
ward as the champion of multiplication
sentiment, and yet to play fast and
loose with vast classes of voters who
were protectionists, Mr.. Cleveland,
among other things, said:
Our progress toward wise conclusion will
not be imp roved by dwelling upon the theories
Of protection and free trade. This savors too
much Of bandyins cpithets. 1t Is condition
which confronts us-not a theory. The ques-
tion Of free trade is absolutely irrelevant; and
the persistent claim made in certain quarters
that all efforts to relieve the people from IN
Just and unnecessary taxation are schemes Of
so-called free traders, is mischievous and far
removed from any consideration for the public
good.
At that time Samuel j. Randall was
on earth, and Mr.. Cleveland was get
ting ready for Presidential contest in
which he would need the votes Of tens
The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1890-04-11

showed up their party's shame, while
they gave at length absolutely an
truthful reports Of the testimony of
the boarding house women, who were
brought up to discredit the anthem
ITCHY of entries OH the poll book, but
who entirely failed to do so.
The whole enquiry is dishonest,
and the public are daily seeing more
and more clearly it's true character.
All the virtuous varnish has been
rubbed off this good while, and all
that remains is the mean, sordid, base
attempt to create scandal. All that
the Republican party gained at the
outset of the enquiry has been lost
and the public are daily becoming
more and more Disguised with the
continuance of the proceedings.
Are we then to have another such
wretched business thrust upon us,
wasting the public money and the
time of the judges, and filling people
with an injurious detestation of poll
tics in general. Let US hope that we
will be spared this infection. If the
Republican party does not like the
situation, let it go to work and see if
it can do better next time.