Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-10-29

not tell his age.
! 1t is said that we never appreciate our
country until we have left it for another
Women certainly do not realize how
blessed they are until they see or read of
the manner i'll which women are treated
in countries on the other side of the
water. The condition of women in the
old countries makes us shiver when we
see how degraded their condition of life
is i'll some of them and the terrible labors
they have to perform. Right now in
Vienna, the capital of Austria, women
alone are building palace for the impe-
rial family of Hapsburg. They mix NOR
tar carrying it in immense tubs on their
heads, shoulder hods filled with brick
and do work that even men here might
not do. Machinery should be forced into
service to save human muscle and bone.
Not so in this medieval land of Austria
women are the drudges and take the
places of pack horses, while soldiers and
officers in liveried uniforms pass haught-
lily by, either carelessly promenading or
riding in carriages. What a parody on
civilization What a burlesque on the
high-toned, chivalrous education Of So
called aristocratic men, who breathe the
air of conrts surrounded by every luxury
and who yet are willing to see the women
of their land down in the substratum of
slavery and degradation. In England
women work side by side with their hus-
bands and fathers in the mines-down in
the bowels of the earth where the glorious
light of day never penetrates. In other
European countries they pillow and
labor in the fields, while with us the lat
ter work for women is very exceptional.
Nowhere in the world are women more
respected or better loved than in our own
country, so that America is pre-eminent-
ly our own dear land.
Right now in India, owing to the
unreasonable and cruel taxes imposed on
the people by the English Government,
over 20 per cent. of the population have
taken to highway robbery for a living. A
glaring sample of England's fairness and
desire to see a weak nation prospect
Ground into the earth by excessive tithes
and the exorbitant interest demanded for
the use of money, desolated by famine
and pestilence, subjected by their English
rulers to all sorts of hardships, what won
der that these poor people should take to
cfaaltnrr f,,ctaa1 ,f t,,n, 90 t1,a
tice of numbering and Staying their enc.
mics rather than to the arts of peace3
"Man's inhumanity to man has made
countless thousands mourn"
Eugland's mourners are numbered by
the millions. And yet this all-devouring,
body and soul destroying monstrosity
seeks to swallow all the lands of the !
earth, not even excepting our own. Is it
not wonderful that any number of men
could become so blinded to their own and
their nations interests as to be deceived
by any seeming friendliness on the part
of such brutalizing government as Eng
land2 Or wish to engraft her customs
onto ours, or endeavor to secure her false |
friendship for our straighsout manly and |
honorable methods? And yet there are
cads and hypocrites, and many right here
i'll Louisville, who are seeking today to |
ally themselves and all of us with this
immense reptile that would like to cover
us first with the slime of its friendship
before destroying us. But the odor of
the slime is apparent to the nostrils of
right-thinking men, and they avoid its
touch as they would a miasma.
After many years Edgar Allen Poe is to
be honored by the University of Virginia,
where he once studied. The Poe Memo
rial Association of the University has
commissioned the New York sculptor,