The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-03-29
SUBJECT.


one great cheat; and delight in taking 1t IN I'M
expectedly. 1t has ruined me; why may not get
little out of it in return?
told you, though, that the truth would come
to light, and my innocence came to light i'll time,
though didn't care straw about IL then.
I" a year after l was released from Dartmoor
(prison) was traced out with some difficulty by
the manager of the bsnk-his son had just died
and had confessed TO the forgery.
THE manager tried to express his great shame
and sorrow; hoped he could make some repara-
ton for the injury; offered me money-think OF
thati Money to make up for the ruin of whole
life told him there could be no reparatlon, that
If he would bring back my mother from the grave,
if he would reclaim my father, if he would restore
me my bethrothed. if he would give me back those
wasted seven years lin PRISON. and give me again
the faith in God and man, which had been beaten
out of me by the maddening injustice then and
then only could he repair the iujury.-NoiF EreUan
an "DonoUdn"
NoIR FREwIN's PHILOSOPHY.
By Georgia Martin.
People may say what they like" Edna Lysll
causes Noir Frewin to exclaim, but the worlds
great cheat. and delight in taking it in unex-
pecedly. 1t has ruined me; why may L not get
little out of il in relprn?"
Noir Frewin has been unfortunate; he has tried
withal TO be honest; but THAT divinity which
shapes our ends" or that deviItry which some
times msshapes them, had followed him up and
choked and oppressed him. and harassed him, I'M
til he had submitted TO temptation from sheer in
ability to combat it,
The world is a cheat" Noir Frewins are saying
every day, and then our rich good Performers" APP
a.
cudgel in the other to persuade him that the world
Is not cheat, and IL is only himself who has gone
wrong. We need less socalied law and more
justice.
We notice daily how broad the latitude between
human law and divine justice. From the abun-
dance of another a poor man takes bread for his
hungry children and is given many years to
work for the State and to mediate upon his crime
What becomes of the hungry children in the mean
time is of little moment to the State. A rich man
steals millions, aud our papers divert their readers
by stating that he has hard time getting himself
arrested.
One who is friendless kills another in selfdefense
and is hanged-a very just way to right wrong
two lives gone instead of one! Another wlro is
rich and influential sisughters his family in cold
blood and goes scot free. or else mock trial takes
place, plea of insanity ID brought in, and he is
committed to an asylum. whence he is released in
a month or two, having fully recovered.
As matters stand now Office of public trust Is
unbrded license to commit, unpublished,
depredations OF the meanest and most cowardly
nature.
g 1t has ruined me. Why should not get some
thing out of 1t I'm return?"
This is the spirit. and who shall say 1t is without
some faint. halfhdden justification; that which
has melted MODS to riot private individuals to
the conoclastic bombs. This is the spirit whose
result is the attempted assassination of Russell
Sage, the instruction of Carnegies mill force.
the seditious treachery of Partisan subjects.
Where lies the fault? Mainly in ignorance. It
is the great social peril Education enables men
10 cope with apparently stronger forces to make
deductions to protect their interests. and 10
act if they would. with equal justice in all things.
his passport TO bouadess Utopas. Yet many who
have sworn allegiance to our free Nation, with
school sysiem!" Which means literally to take
from poor the little that remains to them. and
condemn them 10 the other alternative of ignor-
ance. misery, and crime.
1T is the slightest way of killing to stop n mans
breath" says Rusl1D "at the worst you do but
shorten his life you do not corrupt his life But IL
you put him to base labor If you bind his thoughts
if you blind his eyes, if you blunt his hope, if you
steal his joys, If you stunt his body and blast his
soul, and at last leave him not so much to reap
the poor fruit of his degradation but gather that
for yourself and dismiss him to the grave when
you have done with him. having so far as in you
lay made the walls of that grave everlasting this,
you think, Is no waste, no SIM f"
Our people need education, that they can do
ereditabe work. and when this is DONE 1.-The
laborer is worthy Of his hire" To what man has
justly earned, he is justly entitled.
EQUAL PAY FOB EQUAL WORK.
If woman can do mans work she is entitled
to a mans wages. Yet every day We see them
standing side by side doing the work for the
same number of hours equally capable equally
diioent with bul this difference-bia ,nan,Lty,
pay-check is $780, hers s2j.
From desk down to needle the inequality of
compensation ~ the same. Ia the humber capa-
city of needle work after days and nights of cease
less toll there remain but few pitiful cents be-
tween our women and starvation, worse. Thos
Hood drew from LIE when lie wrote The Song Of
the Shirt"
We believe the home TO be woman's true sphere
and special defense But what of the women w no
have no homes? Are they never to know the
sweet satisfaction Of just reeompense-never to
realize the fruit of honest labor faithfully applied
Personally we do not want to be President, nor
even Mayor; we have no desire to vote nor have we
any private political aspirations whatever; we
value our HON center above the rerest promises
OF future glory; but because recognize some
solid truths III them, claim the privilege of APP
preeating these words recently written by clever
woman;
then jeered at us because we had no knowledge
He narrowed our outlook on life. that view
r a. all rt.I a
that mistaken impressions of IL proved us TO
he senseess creatures. He cramped our minds so
that there was no room for reason In them, and
then made merry at our want OF logic. Our divine
intuition was not 60 be controlled by him. but he
did his best TO damage IL by sneering at il as an
inferior feminine method Of arriving at ooncu-
sions''
Now that her possibilities are being demonstrated,
1t is proven that womans incapacty is an old
world superstition. not modern fact, and re-
peat that the world Is cheat in that IL has denied
TO woman her justy-earned dues.
EDUCATE THE CHILDREN.
And what of the chdren7 The strength and
promise and the potency of the future Nation Is at
their tender discretion. What they shall do with it
is for the men and the women of to-day TO say.
Educate them. Draw out the idealism that is in
them. Make them think and work. Teach them
TO fulfill the rich possibilities created in the human
and divine organism of every little child 10 cuti-
vate all gifts but especially the greatest gift they
have. Dom depreciate them. Many headstone
marks the grave of some undeveioped George
Newton Thomas Edison, some mute, inglori-
Gus Milton crushed by "a sneer.
Teach them the blessing and the reward Of
honor OF progress, and of patriotisn TO be chaste
knghty, holy III thought, lovely In word and
deed"
1t is for the children Of Our poor especially
that this plea is made IL the children OF q great
Nation had been put into schools instead Of into
dark mines aud sie<ening factories there had been
no need for Mrs browning to melt the hearts Of
her readers with The Cry OF the Children"
We need fewer Russell Sages and more men like
ID. l.. Moody and George w. Childs, having not
only the power but the will to do good. The
world is full of charitable theories, and "heIl Is
paved with good Intentions What want is
more practical demonstrations. MY friends, re-
| mem Der this, there bad herbs and no bad
men, there are only bad cuItvators."
Let us, then. consider the Just dues of our poor
for Cain is his brothers keeper. Let eniighten
them, and enlarge their horizon increase their
wages, and diminish their suffering; let us as
Victor Hugo says, evolve from tie social struc-
ture for the benefit of those who suffer and those
| who are ignorant, more light and more comfort;
that 49, let sympathetic souls forget not the first
of fraternal obligations; this is, let selfish hearts
know II, the first of political necessities Equality
Is. cvily. all apttudes having equal opportunity
politically, all votes having equal weight; reliei-
ously, all consciences having equal rights"