The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-06-06
SATURDAY, JUNE 6.
EDITORIAL.

commencement render the Commence
ment at Lombard University this week
a notable occasion. Every effort has
been put forth to rally the old students
and bring them to the Commencement.
The Mail devotes column to an outline
of the various exercises and doipgs OF
the week. Gov. Altgeld and some mem
bers of his staff are to be present and
distinguished speakers are to be heard
at the banquet. The Editor of The
UNIvERsAL1sT regrets that he cannot be
present owing to previous engagement
for the Ohio Convention. The paper
will be we'll represented, however, and
our readers next week will have salts.
factory account of the exercises from a
competent pen.
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In view of the fact
women III Ino that women now write
New Regime about three fourths of
the volumes of fiction and travel be-
sides their incursions in other fields
of letters. literarymen may we'll feel
that the worst has not even yet
fal.el up n them in view of Mrs.
Humphrey Wards declaration that
women have been hampered heretofore
as writer's of fiction owing to the fact
that they could not travel without es-
corts Under the new regime already
dawning, Mrs. Wards expects still
greater things for women, now that the
old prejudices are passing away. But
how if with the passing of the old pre-
JUDGES there also passes what Goethe
calls "the eternal feminine?' That
would be a misfortune to men and wo-
msn both for which no triumphs in
literature could atone.
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THE report of the May
Inc trustees meeting of the Trus-
Report. tees of the General
Convention, printed this week, reveals
critical condition in the finances of our
general body. The inability of the
Trustees to respond to the various calls
for help from certain embarrassed parish
es has already been painfully mani
fest; but now the church is notified that
unless the income is very soon increased
materially the scholarship appropria-
tions will have to stand reduction Of
twenty per cent. This will not be the
end of reductions and embarrassments
unless the delinquent churches and pas
tors do their duty by the Convention.
The situation, thus frankly disclosed, is
one that should appeal to all who have
it in their power to help in the emerg-
ency. Brother pastor! Have you taken
the annual offering for the General Con-
yention? If not. please do it at once
and help to avoid further reductions and
embarrassment in our general work.
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THE Seventh Nation
Inc frompltlon al Convention of the
Party. Prohibition Party met
in Pittsburg, May 27. The attendance
was large and significant of the growth
of the party since it's inception in 1869,
when it cast only 1000 votes. In the
last Presidential campaign the party
cast in round numbers 256,000 votes and
it at present claims to hold the balance
of power in dozen or more States. I'm
fortunately for those who have the issue
at heart for which the party has hereto
fore chiefly stood, what is called the
marrow" and the "broad gauge" fac
tions, failed to harmonic at Pittsburg
The marrow gauge" men were in favor
of making prohibition the dominant
ISSUE" and basing its appeals for votes
on that plank of its platform, while the
"broad gauge" faction favored a liberal
course on other questions. With these
differences it is not surprising the Con-
vention split, the free silver" question
being, perhaps, the chief difference be-
tween the respective wings. Senator
Blackburn and many others predict a
similar split at the Democratic Conven-
ton in Chicago. and the same trouble
some money question will doubtless
cause even the triumphant Mckinley
hosts no small trouble at st. Louis.
From present indications it seems to be
race as to which question, tariff or sill
yer, becomes the dominant issue in the
presidential campaign.
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