The San Francisco call., 1898-03-27

oonan+ mart A SneeZe in the Post ,,,aaps that the Southern Pacific has lifted the lid of it's snuffbox. The Thur | s+on sneech illuminated some points lal- ready clear. It lent emphasis to the demand of conscience that the war Tn Cuba be stopped at once, and that tnis must be dcne by the United states. lh the grasp of President Mckinley rests the fate of thousands of innocent peo- pIe without his aid doomed to be mur- dered by slow torture. Why should ne withhold his hand? l can see no req son. I think that any course but an announcement to Spain that she must retire from the island by her laid deso- late and bathed in blood would be crowning disgrace to the great natlon which has called Mckinley to the exec utive chair Let the threatening nothla be turned back or sent to the bottom. Let ships laden with food be sent 10 cheer the place of famine, and if neces- sary gun go with every loaf war promptly made would be short. War made after Spain had been allowed to complete her preparations would be ten-fold worse. And I firmly believe there is no way now for peace with honor."
 There has been some discussion as to the character of the late Frances Willard, and admirers have termed her an ideal woman. With all respect for her and the work to which she devoted much of her life, I think it entirely fair to say that she was nothing of the kind. There Is a wide difference be- tween a type and an ideal Miss Will lard doubtless accomplished much good, but she was never magnetic nor Iowa. ble. On the contrary, she was what has been mildly called self f-centered." If she accepted certain principles as correct for herself there must always remain a question whether her belief that humanity should be governed by the same principles was founded on a nice sense of justice, or a due consid- eration of popular rights. That sha was wholly conscientious need not be doubted. Far from my purpose is it to say aught of her in malice or dis arrangement. Probably she did not look upon herself as an ideal. In the minds of men the ideal woman must ever be one bringing up the picture of the devoted wife and mother. A wo- man may be all things else that is good and pure; she may be a great re- former, an organizer without peer, a fountain of eloquence, a warrior as Joan of Arc, but in the common heart the ideal woman already has a place and it is not to be taken by anybody who, outside the domestic circle, courts the attention of the world. It is in the home that woman exercises the tender and unselfish offices which make her life and memory blessed.
 "The Vice of Gambling constituted the theme of a recent pulpit discourse. Without doubt many excellent things were said, for the subject is one con- ducive to such flow of denunciatory elo- quenee as a speaker may possess. Yet there seems to me difficulty in the way of defining the bound between gam bling which is wicked, and speculation, which is legitimate, and upon which Rockefeller feels at liberty to call down the favor of providence. Almost any thing in which an investment is made is a gamble. A man buys real estate on the chance that it may rise in value He gets his life insured, the company betting he will live for years, and he basing the prospect of beating the com- pany on the circumstance that life is uncertain. The illustration could be continued indefinitely. In gambling as practiced in the poolrooms, in slot ma chimes and lotteries there is an evil so distinct that it cannot be disguised, but if the high-toned gambling of an Ar mour or a, Letter is not morally on the same plane, I would like to know the reason why.