Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1899-01-07
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Again under the material" rule of
Britain comes the dreadful news that
starvation is stalking across the land of
India-2O, 0O0, 900 people suffering the
pangs of hunger, the high caste scram-
bling with the pariahs for bread set out
at railroad station by few kind-heart-
ed passengers These are items CLEANED
from cablegrams from Bombay to the
press. And yet sentimental preachers
and sham patriots call on the ''motherly
heart" forsooth, of Victoria to put an
end to the wholesale destruction of her
sons and of the honest farmers of South
Africa Instead of ending the horrors of
war, she is supplying millions of dollars
for the further purchase of ammunition
and calling on the people for new recruits
to take the places of their slaughtered
brethren. Instead of ameliorating the
condition of the people of India she has
taxed them so exorbitantly that India is
pointed out by economists as having the
worst system of government in the world.
Like in Ireland, drouth is dreaded as
much as pestilence. Its rich mines fill
the Golfers of England's royal beggars
with glittering gold and precious stones
either of which will reach quicker to
the ''motherly heart" of Victoria than
the cries of the helpless starving or the
walls of those dying on African soil for
patriotism or love of freedom. A more
vindictive creature posing under the SEMI
blance of mother and Queen isnot to be
found in any country in Europe. Prob
ably had the wicked Elizabeth been
mother she might have been less a mon
ster. But even Elizabeth was possessed
Of more feeling than the present Han
overian ruler of England. Posterity will
ridicule the alteration she has received
from her Parliamentary statesmen, and
nations whose ruin she has aided and
connived at will detest her memory.
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A contemporary states that wives in
Tanganyika are quite luxury, costing
as they do from $50 to $500. In Zululand
the price is the same, but on the plateau
of Tanganyika one can be had for FIVE or
six goats. One goat equals fifteen or
twenty cents; therefore one wife equals
Sl.5O.
Nv
IThe worship of the golden calf has
been the crying sin of the nineteenth
century. Will it continue to be the same
during the twentieth? The forming of
trusts would go to illustrate that only the
beginning of such an era has been be-
queathed us by the last century. Whether
this hybrid evil will continue to dazzle
the eyes of men until they become glutted
with injustice and blinded by greed, until
some Moses will arise to destroy the
accursed idol and lead men to enjoy
more of natural happiness while on earth
is problem for the future to solve.
Nv
A dry goods store on Market street
three weeks ago discharged from its em7
ploy worthy man who has a wife and
TWO children, taking in his place
4 young woman who was willing
bird what the man was receiving.
Furthermore it is we'll known that she
wished to use the salary for ''pin money"
The pittance was already niggardly
enough, but these money sharks saw a
chance of getting something still cheaper
and took advantage of it. What can be
thought of this cruel indifference to others
whether they live or starve, lead honest
lives or become thieves, forgers, crimi-
nails? That women fill the places of men
in business would be censured by none;
but when they accept these positions at
salaries far below those which men de-
mand and get, it amounts to nothing
less than a crime. Salaries have been cut
in two for men simply by this having to
compete with their sisters. Strangely Il
enough, like a boomerang, it reacts first
On woman herself, in that she has smaller
income for her household expenses and
Of the countless evils resulting from this
decrease in wages is the swelling of the
ranks of hoboes, Migrants and no-account
men of whom the country has more than
its share. Our sisters must consider their
work as good as that of her brothers, and
the text of Holy Scripture that
1.-THE laborer is worthy of his hire" do
good work and demand good pay.
Wv
The beautiful Countess Castiglione,
who died in Paris recently, forgotten by
the gay Partisan world whom once she
by her beauty, was sad ex-
ample of tickle fortune and worldly favor.
She was considered the loveliest woman
in France. The nobility not only of her
own land, for she was an Italian, but of
every country she visited, paid her hon.
age. Yet she died alone and in COM
parative poverty, because the world is