The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1893-06-30

: ~ lint lAOSt III JHe cOQuucb
of a great business enterprise-the
! finances, wages, profits, partners, mar
kets and internal police. Foreign wars
are possible, but in the highest degree
| improbable. We ought to destroy En-
| glish commerce and burn London in re-
turn for the sack of Washington and
the piracies of the Alabama and Shen-
andoah. but Great Britain fights only
the feeble. With her equals she arbi-
trates. The Anglo-Saxon is courage
Gus, but he is prudent. Discretion is
the better part of our valor. We bully
Chilli, Italy, Mexico and China, but
with Great Britain, Russia and Ger
many we are punctilious Toward
those we practice the ethics of slug
| ger. to these we extend the golden rule
and the code of international law.
| New times demand new measures and
new men. it is said. Neither do men
put new wine into old bottles, else the
bottles break and the wine runneth
out and the bottles perish. but they
put new wine into new bottles and both
are preserved" The republican party
must readjust itself to present condi-
/
few Jonahs who should be east over
board. 1t must desist from the attempt
to fight battles with cartridge shells
that have been emptied and to grind its
grist with water that has run by the
mill. The veteran commanders should
go on the retired list and more atten-
tion be paid to recruiting stations and
less to drumhead courtS-martial. If
anybody wants to vote the republican
ticket it would be well to permit him
to do so without inquiring too infinitely
about his pedigree. his tailor, his re-
| ligious preferences or his habits at the
table. At the polls the result is de-
termined by numbers, and not by
wealth, education or responsibility
alone.
| The recent convention of republican
leagues at Louisville was neither Il con-
| sultatiOn of physicians over a mOriDund
| patient nor pOSt-mOrtem upon his re-
mains. Its deliberations were wisely
confined to serious and thoughtful con-
ference upon present conditions. Ev-
cry party has impulsive members whose
function is to prepare issues. In the
spring their fancy lightly turns to
| thoughts of campaign literature. They
care not who makes the laws of a cOun-
try so long as they can write its plat
| forms. Then there are the political
rain-makers, who lombard the sky
with decorating explosives which are
expected to produce fertilizing showers
and to arouse attention on neighboring
| spheres.
THE WOMAN SUFFRAGE QUESTION.
1t is related by some forgotten his
torian that once upon a time the
savants and philosophers decided that
| if all the inhabitants of the earth would
shout together at the top of their voices
at the same instant, as is done at polit-
| ical conventions generally. it would
make such Il tremendous noise that ii
would attract the attention of the
| jewellers in the moon. SO arrange
ments were made, circulars sent out,
the time fixed, clocks carefully com
| pared and proclamatiOns issued. Upon
| the appointed day business was sus-
pended. The people assembled in the
| fields and parks and open places with
expanded chests. eager for the expert
ment. When the clock struck every
one was so anxious to hear the noise
himself that instead of the unprece-
dented uprOar that was anticipated
there was dead silence on every island
and continent in the world. The only
person who shouted was an aged deaf
woman at Pekin.
II was very still at Louisville. The
"a Al. l.
to women's suffrage was impolitic. for
the reason that this question should be
decided by women and not by men. and
by the states and not by the nation.
The tendency from subor1inatiOn TO
equality has been rapid and may be
complete. The chief obstacle 30 equal
suffrageis not the hostility of men. but
the Indifference of women. The reason
why women do not vote is because they
do not wish to vote. Whenever a ma
jority of the intelligent and patriotic
women of the United States desire the
ballot, they will get it, as they have
obtained everything else they wanted
from the beginning.
The future of republicanism must be
largely tentative. Its policy will be
developed with the emergencies that
must inevitably occur. Its principles
| are fixed and unaltera bic. Their future
| application will depend upon the sue
| cess of Mr.. Cleveland's administration
| in meeting the crisis that now seems
imminent. The continued purchase of
depreciating silver, the expectation of
gold and the gradual exhaustion of the
reserve for redemption in the treasury,
| the enormous shrinkage in speculative
values, the unfavorable balance of for
eign trade, the failures of banks and
the multiplying business disasters. the
strikes and locb-outs and social discon-
tent, all portend the approach of COM
| mercial panic and CONFUSION. How
| the heterogeneous and undisciplined
| majority in congress, at war with them
selves and with the president, can
cope with these perils will be disclosed
at the September session. The differ
ences seem irreconcilable and the diff
culties insuperable.
History is series of repetitions- The
| incidents vary, but the forces continue.
| The alignment of parties in the United
| States cannot change except with the
destruction of our systems and institu-
tions- All questions now existing, and
| hereafter to arise. 70 agitate and dis
turb the public mind-temperance,
suffrage. wealth and poverty-will be
determined by the activity of the same
| energies that have thus far made and
preserved us nation. Party utilization
| will be largely 4 matter OF tempera-
ment and moods in men. The young,
active, alert, aspiring and ambitious
array themselves on the one side, the
old. dull, apathetic, lethargic, plodding
and cOntented on the other so long