The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1894-09-14


a rom the unknown into the we'll known
o But the prowess Of such men can nevel
/ DO fully appreciated. The sea captain
a who puts out in this day of charts ant
5 navigating apparatus with ship of 10,
. 600 tons another hemisphere, darinl
/. typhoons md cyclones, strange currents
and hidden rocks, must be brave man
/ but who can measure the courage O.
Cabot or Marco Polo or Captain Cool
, sailing out into unknown seas, across
wildernesses of water that have never
, been mapped, in ships of 200 tons, dis
, covering rocks only by running upor
them and met on shore by savages ready
: to scalp or roast theml
r These challengers of tempest and can.
, pibalism and oceanic horror must have
had nerve and valor beyond that of any
, other heroes. Such men set New Yea.
land as a gem into the crown Of the
, worlds geography. To me and to most
people who come here New Zealand is a
} splendid surprise. We have all read SO
much about the superstitions and out
rageous cruelty Of this land in other
times that we are startled ON arriving
here to find more churches in New Zea-
land than in America In proportion to the
number of the population. In one village
that l visited since coming here find
eight churches to a population of 3, 900
people. There are too many churches in
many places in New Zealand, and they
jostle each other and contend for right
of possession, hindering each other and
half starving many of their ministers,
as is sure to be the case when there are
too many churches, and consequently
not enough support for every one of
Them
Another surprise to me is that female
suffrage is in full blast. I found elegant
ladies telling of their experience at the
ballot box, and l hereby report to the
American ladies now moving for the
right of female suffrage that New Zea-
land is clear ahead of them, and that
the experiment has been made here sue
cessfully. Instead of the ballot box de-
grading woman, woman is here elevat-
ing the ballot box, and why in New Zea-
land or America or anywhere else should
man be so afraid to let woman have a
vote, as though man himself had made
such a grand use Of it? Look at the il
hterates and the incompetents who have
been elected to office and see how poorly
] the masculines have exercised the right
OF suffrage. Look at the governments
of nine-tenths of the American cities
and see what work the ballot box has
done i'll the possession Of man. Man at
the ballot box is failure. Give woman
"a pbante. am not clear that govern.
mortal affairs will be made any better
by the change, but they cam ot be any
worse. New Zealand has tried it. Let
England and America try it.
| 1t Is often said III America that if
women had the right to vote they would
not exercise it. For the REPUTATION of
that thuly I put the fact that in the
last election in New Zealand, of 100, 900
women who registered 80, 900 have vot-
ed, while of the 1913, 900 men who reg
istered only 1870, 900 have voted. This
ratio shows that women are more anx-
ious to vote than men. Perhaps women
"AAA ySo saw pollUlCS. L huOW lu6
charge that she is responsible for the
ruin of her race, since she first ate the
forbidden fruit in paradise, but think
there is chapter in that matter of
Edenic fruit not written. I think that
Adam when he saw Eve eating that ap-
pie asked for bite, and getting it into
his possession ate the most of it, and he
i,,,r,, obi fol ,l, q.
pies and has been eating ever since. If
woman did first transgress, cannot
forget that she introduced into the
world the only being who has ever done
much toward saving 1t. Woman has
started for suffrage, and she is deter
mined and persevering creature, and /
she will keep on until she gets it. She |
may yet decide the elections in England
and elect presidents for the United
States, as already she is busy in the po-
litical affairs Of New Zealand. was
surprised also in these regions to find
how warmly loyal they are to old Eng
land. / had heard that they had become
somewhat impatient of their govern
mental mother. But this is not SO.
They practically have things their own
way, electing their own parliament, and
all governors sent out from the old
country are such men as are agreeable,
and the people are required to pay no
tax to the British crown, and they are
in good humor with the British flag.
addressed an audience last night on
my right hand the United States flag on
my left the English flag, and you ought
to have heard them shout when at the
beginning of my address said, "When
in my church at home I pray for the
president Of the United States, | am
very apt to add God save the queen'
Many of the streets of New Zealand
cities are called after the generals and
prime ministers of Great Britain, and
Wellington and Palmerston and Glad
stone are the names of great thorough
fares. New Zealand feels the financial
depression very much as the whole :
world at this time seems suffering an
epidemic. Indeed the world is now a
and interlocked affair. Out
Of the hold Of our ship arriving in New
Zealand were lifted rakes, fowls and :
various agricultural implements of .
American manufacture Today all New
is rejoicing that the American I
congress has put wool on the free list, {
and the value of the sheep on all these :
hillsides is augmented
Among our most interesting hours in
New Zealand were those spent at the
bishops house in Auckland Lord
Bishop Cowie is man of marvellous at {
'sactiveness, and his home is an en- .
,hantment. adorned with many curios I
which he brought from India when he
served as chaplain during that war 9
which interests and appalls the world i
with its tales Of mutiny. While chap 6
ain he rode with Sir Colin Campbell t
md his historical host for the capture t
II Lucknow, that city whose name will t
tand in the literature of all ages as the 8
ynonym for sepoy atrocities and WON +
MY fortitude and Christian heroics. Ee Q
old us most graphically how the wom- I
N waiting for death at Lucknow tore a
Up their underolothes to make bandages +