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The Iola register., 1890-08-08
FALSE STATEMENTS.
An Attempt to Discredit Mr.. wsnamaksr
with the Soldiers.


with the Soldiers.
Maliciously-false statements have
been published broadcast to the effect
that Postmaster-General Wanamaker
is opposed to the appointment OF vet
erans, and antagonizes them at all times
and places. Also. that the G. A. r Is
strongly resenting this policy.
Nothing can be farther from the
truth. Mr.. Wanamaker was an ardent
Unionist during the war, and has =
strong affection for the men who went
to the front to fight the battles of the
country. He has always shown them
the preference when possible.
In the Post-office Department proper
there were 10 ex-soldiers in position
outside of the civil service when he en-
tered Office. and now there are 50 In
the mailbag repair shop there are "a
soldiers. sons Of veterans, soldiers
wives, 16 war widows ald IS soldiers
daughters, making 81 in all. or 81 per
cent. of the appointees to places in the
gift of the Postmaster-GeneraL This
Is, of course, .utside OF the regular
classified service of clerks, ETC., a very
large proportion of whom are eS SOL
iiers u soldiers widows In the de-
partmpat 10 soldier has been displaced
The Iola register., 1890-08-08

scarce. because the war needed 30 many
of them. women were tried as teachers.
Now it is decreed that whenever fe-
male teachers place becomes vacant it
can not be filed by man, as was pro-
posed by a provincial government, but
must be filed by woman. This is an
entering wedge in the matter Of higher
education. and every one is watching
eagerly for the outcome.
The whole position is better under
stood when one realizes that the girls Of
Germany enter school at seven or eight
years of age and are graduated at fifteen
or sixteen. 'The last years are devoted
to furious examining process, and at
nineteen their education Is merely a
reminiscence." The ambitious and tai
ented young women are obliged to go
abroad to study, because they have no
opportunity at home.
After all the longing eyes that able
and appreciative women have cast at the
opportunities for learning in Germany,
is it any wonder that movements like
that of the Weimar Association are
awaited with breathless interest? Ger
many does things so well ard thorough
ly that the imagination o'erleaps itself
in picturing the final results of Ger
many's awakening to her obligations to
women and to the State in this matter.
Emma Atkinson Almy, in Woman's
Journal
The Iola register., 1890-08-08
PRuRIENT ENTERPRISE.
Mrs. Harrison's just Complaint OF Os
fensive Newspaper scribbIerS

MRS. Harrtson's just Complaint OF OF
fsnsive Newspaper ScribbierA
Mrs. Harrison justly complains Of tho
frequent impertinent and offensive
newspaper publications concerning the
private affairs of her family. The face
that she is the wife Of the President and
that her family live in the White
House should not expose her to fippans
and oftentimes insulting publications
The household of the humblest citizen
in the land should be guarded against
the intrusion Of the reporter and pro-
tected from the offensive notoriety Of q
publication concerning family affairs
which do not or should not concern the
public. There is no reason WY sn8
private family affairs of President
should be held less sacred than those of
the peasant 1t is true there must
necessarily be more Of the glare of pub
licity upon the life and surroundings Of
high public official, but there is line
beyond which prurient journalistic en-
terprise should not go. Mrs Harrison
is right in protesting againss the con-
slant prying into the private affairs Of
her family by reporters and the many
misleading statements made in the
press, statements which are of no value
to the public, and in their hippant ex.
aggeration and Misrepresentation can
only mortify family which certainly
should be treated with respect and con.
sidera (Tenn.) Banner.
The Iola register., 1890-08-08
POINTS OF PROGRESS.

Philadelphia has trade school for
young women.
LORD SALISBURY, the British Prem
ier, has declared himself in favor of
woman suffrage.
THE Columbus, O., Board of Educa-
tion has decided that there shall here
after be no distinction between the sal
aries of men and women teachers in the
public schools.
LONDON University has on its rolls
seven '1ady-masters" of art, 147 bache-
lors of art two doctors of science. 81
bachelors of science, and eight women
holding medical and surgical degrees.
THE Maine State Prohibition Conven-
ton was of the opinion that ''as the
liquor traffic deals its seSerest blows and
lays it's heaviest burdens upon women
and the homes, the right of suffrage on
moral and educational interests is but
simple Justice"
DURING the past year the Woman's
Club of Pittsburgh, Pa, has studied the
history of Spain from the earliest rec
ords to the present day. This, with dis
matters of interest, has constituted an
unusually good years work.
MRs. MARY MILLION, of Madison Coun-
ty, KY, was the first woman in that
State to be elected county superintend-
ent of public schools, and her admins
tration was so successful that at the re-
cent election there was TO candidate in
the field against her. Her example has
proved somewhat contagious, as there
were at that election women candidates
for that Office in eleven counties in the
State.
EVEN in Finland the educational au.
thorities move along abreast of the
times. The question whether ladies,
without special permission, might be
allowed to pass the student" examin-
tion has recently attracted much atten-
ton in Finland, and the university APP
pointed a committee to deal with the
matter. The decision has been pub
lished, to the following effect: Finish
ladies may be admitted to the universi-
ty as students on the same conditions,
and with the same privileges and obi
cations, as those in force for students
and the male sex, subject to the restric-
tion that any examination passed by a
lady can not entitle her to other ap-
pointments than such as are in accord
ance with existing laws and regulations.
Nor is any lady entitled to receive such
free scholarships as are distinctly in
tended for men,"
The Iola register., 1890-08-08

lied by the example of the Seven Wise
Women. May be you don't know who
the Seven Wise Women are. Well, be
patient and Twill tell you. But, first,
let us see what the Wimodaughsis is.
The origin of the word is profound
secret in the keeping of the seven-a
secret which nobody else, and especial
" no man. is ever to know. Therefore
i am enabled to impart to you the infor-
nation that il is a composite name
formed by combining parts of the four
beautiful words WIFE," mother, "
daughter" and sister" and YOU will
see at once that it is an evidence of
their wisdom that the seven have de-
cided to keep this fact forever a secret
For many years Miss Susan B. An
thony has cherished a dream of a GEN.
trail organization-a sort of National
club-in thich all the associations of
women might meet on common ground
and labor for those general interests
which are related 10 the especial works
of all. And as Miss Anthony has a way
ot making her dreams come true, the
WimodaughSis has become a tangible
reality-an organized and incorporated
stock company, competent to sue and be
sued this is mere legal phraseology in
nowise Intended to allude to the fact
that the incorporators are all maidens),
of S25, 900, divided into 5000 shares of
S. each. No share of this stock is ever
20 be sold 20 man, so of course no man
The Iola register., 1890-08-08
THE RATTLE OF THE DOLLAR.

The air Il tastes like nectar, oozed from Heav-
ems own laboratory,
And the sunshine falls like ointment on the
forehead Of king,
When a man feels in his pocket, flushed with
full financial glory,
And he hears the nickels rattle, and he hears
the quarters ring.
Though winter storms assault his path, and
drift his way and block it,
In his heart he feels the sunshine OF an end
less summer time,
For he listens to the music OF the money in his
pocket,
To the rattle Of the dollar and the jingle Of the
dime.
The famous violinists,
And the fiddlers and cornetists,
And the mighty organ players
OF every age and cline,
Make slow and dronic music,
Full OF discord and OF jangle,
When you match it with the rattle,
With the rattle Of the dollar and the jingle OF
the dime.
Then the star of hope arises. and in glittering
aseendance
II lights the rugged pathway and the laby-
rinth OF gloom:
For we feel the swelling majesty OF perfect in
dependence,
And, though the universe is large, we shout
More room! more ROOM
The pangs OF penury are hard howe'er the
sages talk it,
And poverty is perilous-the borderland Of
crime;
But there's courage in the clatter of the coin
within your pocket
In the rattle OF the dollar and thS jingle OF
the dimel
Like the music OF King David
On the dulcimer and tabret,
On the harp whose strings were many,
In that old melodious time,
In the music of the clinking
OF the Jolly halves and quarters,
And the ringingyresonant rattle,
The rattle of tho dollar and the Jingle Of the
dime!
And the time, we hope. is coming, when the
millions and the masses
May hear this merry music with no interval
between;
Life cease TO be an endless quest for meal and
for molssses,
And long unanswered problem OF coal and
n kerosene.
And we hear it in the distance-woe TO him who
tries to blocki it,
Tries to block the onward progress Of the
struggling march Of time,
When all shall hear the music OF the rattling
of the pocket
Hear the rattle Of the dollar and the Jingle Of
the dime.
And the patient wives and babies
Shall not starve for lack OF money,
Shall not dress in rags and tatters
In that happy coming time;
For the world shall ring with music
OF a billion bullying pockets
Each one ringing with the rattle
With the rattle of the dollar and the jingle Of
the dime.
s. W. Foss, in Yankee Blade.
The Iola register., 1890-08-08
CURRENT COMMENT.

wO yes, Pattison and Black won in
Pennsylvania in 1882. But 1882 is not
1890 by large maiority.-N. Y. Trib-
une.
cBYoung Mr.. Pattison. of Pennsyl-
vania, is courageous Democrat. and is
willing to work and sweat for glory.
He has nothing else in sight.-Chicago
Inter Ocean.
10 The Federal election bill is not
intended for one party or for one sec
tion. 1t is not sectional, it is not par
tisan. but it is loaded for fraud and dis
honesty wherever they may be found
Des Moines Qa) Register.
YDemocrats who are screaming
themselves hoarse in the throat and red
in the face over the Federal election
bill haven't said word as yet regard
ing the Democratic vote in Congress for
the free and unlimited coinage Of
elghty-cent silver dollars.-Albany IN.
" Journal.
eB The largest colored district in
Georgia is the county in which Savan-
nah is located. 1t is forty miles long
and nearly as wide, and has popula-
ton of nearly 100000, but only one
voting place. And yet Mr.. Crisp aays
that elections in Georgia are as free and
as fair as in any State in the Union
Indianapolis Journal.
Is The Republicans have decided
several contests for seats in the House
of Representatives in favor Of the DEM
ocrsts. The Democracy will please OBJ
serve that the Republicans seorn to fol-
low the practices which the Democrats
established when they were in a majori-
ty in the House.-St. Louis Globe-Dem-
ocrat.
sBBy the death of General Fremont
We lose one Of the unique figures in
American history. man whose early
life was long romance, and whose en-
ergy, enthusiasm and buoyaney of tenn
per and whose loyalty, courage and
honor enabled him to do great things
for his country.-N. Y. Mail and Ex-
press.
gEvery civilized nation in Europe
has protective tariff. save England
alone; yet the free traders lend. to
believe that the passage of the McKin-
ley bill will cause ''retaliatory legisla-
tion" against us! England can not do
it without abandoning free trade, and
the event will show that not single
European tariff will be changed because
of it-Toledo (O.) Blade.
~ As the months roll by it becomes
evident that Cleveland is losing some-
thing of his strange hold, and that the
alert Hill is diverting many of the erst-
while worshipers of the ''stuffed prophet
of William street" If the choice is to
lie between Grover Cleveland and David
b. Hill the latter may well be regarded
as the more suitable man. Unless the
signs change, he will be a formidable
candidate in 1s92.-MiLneapolis Trib-
The Iola register., 1890-08-08
HOW WOMEN VOTE IN KANSAS

An Experiment Which Has Proved the
Feasibility of Grand and Ever-Growing
Movement.
In estimating the results OF woman
suffrage, an ounce of experiment is
worth a ton of theory. The Kansas City
Star gives the following account of the
manner in which the women Of Kansas
vote:
The experiment of equal suffrage in
Kansas has proved that while the women
of that State prize the ballot and have
shown capacity for the intelligent ex-
ercise of the elective franchise when the
occasion demands it. they are not eager
to participate in politics unless drawn
into it by sense of duty. When an is
sue comes up in municipal election
which concerns the homo and touches
the family, the women show an active
interest, and promptly avail themselves
Of the privileges which the law confers
upon them. They have been influential
in elevating the standard of municipal
government in Kansas, and are mainly
found on the right of public questions
The ringsters and machine politicians
and to the honor of the sex the women
have not permitted themselves to be
manipulated in the interest of corrupt
schemes and selfish plumber.
The right to vote has not tended to
unsex the women of Kansas. The
privilege has been more largely exer-
cised by women of culture and refine
ment than by the vicious classes, and
the mothers, wives and daughters who
grace the homes of Kansas, and
who make their moral impress upon
society though the family have suf-
fered no loss of those gentle qualities,
which are a true woman's power,
by contact with public affairs as voters.
Their presence at the polls commands
the respect which men in civilized COM
munities are always prompt to show to
women, and many of the evils which
formerly disgraced the voting places in
the towns and cities of Kansas have been
done away with.
There is not much danger that the
women of Kansas will neglect their
domestic duties or become Indifferent to
those higher obligations which they
sustain as wives and mothers, in the
pursuit of public honors. There are
cases of this kind in Kansas, but they
are not moro frequent there that else
where. The large body of women every
where have little instinct for politics,
and their preference by nature and edu-
cation is for the quieter spheres in which
they shine with the purest lustre. A
deviation from these lines is not the
choice of any considerable portion Of
them, and such departure may gener-
ally be accepted as proof that the male
voters have fallen short of their duty
and have failed to provide adequate
government for the peace and protection
of society. The interest which the wo-
men of Kansas show in local politics
will be exactly proportioned to the
willingness and the capability of the
men to furnish wholesome municiple
government, and when they fail to do
this the female vote may be relied upon
as a certain agency in correcting the re-
suits of such Indifference.
The Iola register., 1890-08-08
Always Equal to the Occasion.

Whatever objection may be made to
the legislation of the present House the
most extreme opponents of Speaker
Reed are compelled to acknowledge his
capacity to lead his party. But few pre-
siding officers have been called on to-
face critical positions in such numbers
as has Reed since his elevation to the
Speakership. and in every instance he
has proved himself equal to the ocea-
sion, and has carried his party over the
threatening breakers. On the organi-
zation of the House, on the tariff bill, on
the silver legislation and in the Federal
election contest he has gone to the front
when the chances of defeat seemed
more than equal. and each instance he
has witnessed Republican success ON
the floor of the Hoase--Washington
The Iola register., 1890-08-08
Rusthngiy whisper in vain to relate,-
A High Object Of Aspirasio..

If the American flag be restored 20
the seas, bet it be over Ameriean-buils
ships and let it represent the American
principle of economic Independence.
Trade will follow that fas. 1t follows
the flag that tells no lies, that does not
palm of a foreign-buils and foreign
manned ship as an American ship, bat
honestly emhodies the genuine spirit Of
American enterprise and commercial In
dependence. instead Of the free tr aier's
seryile dependence upon the industries
Of foreign countries. An American
merchant feet worthy Of the traditions
of the country is high obiecs OF Nation
al aspiration. 1t can be re stored By the
passage of the pending saippilg meas,
ures.-N. I Tribune.
The Iola register., 1890-08-08
GROWING soURBONS.
They Were just rs Unreasonsbly Nois.
in 1871 as They Are To-Day.

Tnoy were just As UnreasOn8Dly NOISY
in 1871 as They Are To-Day.
The frothing at the mouth by Demo-
cratic editors and speakers over the al
legged ''force bill" is quite familiar to
| all who remember the opposition in
1871 to the Federal Supervisors law.
That law was directed particularly to
the cure of the enormous frauds which
had been practiced in New York City
and which, as Senator Conkling said, had
resulted in the return of Democratic
majorities greater than the number of
men, women, children and cats and
dogs in the districts. Originally in
tended more for New York City than
the South, the Democrats nevertheless
regarded the bill as one calculated to
deprive them of few fraud-won seats
in Congress, and hence they opposed it
to the utmost They fought and fill
bustered against it and exhausted the
language of invective. The bill was
denounced in Congress as providing
"bayonet rule" and ''capping the eli
max of enormity," after accomplishing
the practical destruction of the States"
and ''outraging every sense of honor,
propriety and decency." Neverthe-
less the bill passed, and during the
years that the law has remained
on the statue book the only
fault found with it is that it is not
strong enough The Democrats them
selves have not passed bills to repeal it
when they were in control of Congress,
but now, when it is proposed to
strengthen and amend the act, they be-
gin to howl in much the same fashion
as they did when the original bill was
under consideration. They know the
absurdity of the outcries they make
against a law calculated to prevent bal
lot-box stuffing and false counting, but,
of course, they can not disclose the true
ground of their agitation and wrath.
1t wouldn't do at all to say that they
oppose the bill because it is calculated
to deprive them of some thirty seats
which they now hold in Congress by
reason of successful election villainy.
1t wouldn't sound we'll for them to say /
that all this excitement and turmoil
are caused by the fear that if elections
are made fair in the South they will
lOSc 50 many 'OteS tudI tney Will nave
small hope left of grabbing the spoils
in Presidential elections. Nevertheless
that is what hurts them. If the bill
would help them get the spoils and
plunder they would give it unanimous
support. Inasmuch, however, as it is
calculated to deprive them of fraudu-
lent representation and make the
spOils of office harder to get and more
uncertain it naturally provokes great
bowling and gnashing of teeth.-Chica-
go Tribune.
The Iola register., 1890-08-08
oarn euLoclzEs QUAY.
The Correspondents Has Something to Say
to His Fellow Democrats

The Correspondents Has Somethin to Say
to His Fellow Democrats.
The exposure, as 1t is called. Of Matt
Quay, of Pennsylvania, reminds me of
the fable of Esop, where the wolf met
the lamb drinking in the brook, and,
wishing to pick quarrel, exclaimed
that the lamb was muddying the water.
THAT can not be, dear friend" said the
lamb, 'since you are upstream from
me and the brook, flows down from
you" mo matter for that" said the
wolf, ''your father was scoundrel. any
way;" and he proceeded to eat the lamb;
from which the Greeks drew the moral
that where you want to quarrel you can
easily find motive. Qusy's offense, as
far as l can make 1t out, was taking
money, or losing money while State
Treasurer, or when somebody else was
State Treasurer. and having it made up
by his friends. If this were all true,
what an extraordinary instance it is Of
the honor of friends, for we have had
about eight State Treasurers in a few
years past robbing their States, and in
hardly any case have their bondsmen
offered to put up one penny. Some
thing realistic must exist among the
Pennsylvania politicians when they
thus lay down their lives for friend.
1t was once said: Greater love hath no
man than this, that he lay down his life
for his friend;" but in the modern age
the surrender of ones property for
friendship is cause of congratulation
and not of excuse.
The security of things is not assisted
by achieving the wholesale demoraliza-
tion of society. 1t is much better that
stability obtains than panic. These ac-
cusations are the staple of our politics,
and If everybody believed them there
would not be faith enough in the coun-
Try to go to church by. look to
few things in man to form an esti-
mate Of his character, and among these
is his addiction to his scholarship.
From all that / can hear, Quay is one of
the most thorough readers of general
literature in our public life. / observe
that his candidate for Governor, who is
only forty-one years old, is the son of a
State Senator, and his father was man
of influence. The son went to the COL
lege at Pittsburgh and to the Harvard
Law School, took three years to the
practice Of the law, then became busi-
ness man and banker and railroad presi-
dent, and generally effective in his To-
cality. He has been mayor Of his town
of Meadville, and an active campaigner
in years past, Presidential Elector
and State Senator. All this has been
accomplished in life of forty-one
years. The only point brought out
against the candidate is that another
politician, who wanted mis- place, ac-
cused him of spending money to be
elected to the State Senate.
1t seems to me to make this state
ment of the political rival and disap-
pointed creature, the arraignment of
two substantial lives in father and son,
is to love discord better than character,
and to set bad example as public
teacher.-Gath, in Cincinnati Enquirer.
The Iola register., 1890-08-08

ual stagnation required of society wom-
en-" After being admitted to the bar,
she established herself in Washington,
where she now controls a profitable
practice. She confines herself almost
entirely to the Office work of her pro-
fession. She was the first woman ever
appointed notary public by President
of tie United States, her commission
having been signed by President Gar
field. and she was the seventh woman
admitted to practice in the Supreme
Court of the United States Miss Gill
lett is a member and the legal adviser
of the Order of Chosen Friends, and has
for many years invested its funds and
transacted its business with marked
skill and considerable profit to the order.
In appearance, she is slender and deli
cate-timid, one might say, were it not
for her Keen, searching gray eyes and her
calm, confident voice. Surely Miss Gill
let is convincing example of womanly
modesty, combined with professional
and business success. She is, of course,
a suffragist, a temperance woman and
devoted partisan of her sex.
Miss Eliza Titus Wards peculiar fit
ness for the pioneer work OF the Vino
daughsis is her notable administrative
ability and financial sagacity. She is
one of the pillars of the District Suf-
fragist Association. a working member
of the Moral and Educational Society
and of the Association for Social Purity.
Miss Ward was born in Duchess County,
n. Y, and prizes as the most important
bit of her family history the fact that
her parents were schoolmates of the
good Lucretia Mott
These are the Seven Wise Women,
under whose management the Vino
daughis has been set up on its way.
WILLIS b. HAWKINS.