The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-21
CzOLGOSz HELD
UP AS A MARTYR
Mrs. M. F. Cunning Takes An
Unpopular View of the Position
Into Which An Assassin's Act
May Place His Name
HE ACTED BRAVELY IN WHAT
HE BELIEVED WAS DUTY

HI Az | ED BKAVELI IN WHAT
HE BELIEVED WAS DUTY
These Views Stated at a MEETING
of Unitarian Women in a Paper
on Current EventS-Writer De-
cried the Use of Women As
Missionaries
The Worcester League of Unitarian
Women was thrown into a state Of I'M
usually animated discussion at its
meeting in the First Unitarian Church
yesterday, by paper on Current
! Events of 1907 which was read by
Mrs. M. F. Cunning at the morning
session. The paragraph that called
forth most argument was: William
| Mckinley will go down in history as
one of our loved American martyrs,
but to my view there is a sadder phase
to that tragedy than the death of our
President. A greater martyr-whose
name will only be heaped with revil-
ings and excavations for all time, but
whose undoubted bravery and I'M
finching martyrdom to what he be-
lieved was duty in the face of the
hatred of the entire world was more
than courage-it was sublime in its
simplicity and directness-and the evil
! - &c, mot ~ frOo hn
fact that martyrdom to a belief was
poor Czolgosz's portion fully as much
as ever martyr of old died for a mis-
taken cause"
This, and other points in the paper
were discussed pro and con and many
women congratulated Mrs. Cunning
afterward for having the courage Of
her convictions"
The business of the day consisted in
the election Of the following to fill va
| cancies: Mrs. c. H. Davis, secretary;
Mrs. L. E. Walker, cheerful letter COM
mittee; Miss Caroline s. Miller, history
committee. The afternoon collection
amounted to $3.50, Mrs. Arthur l..
! Weatherly, president Of the league,
suggested that hereafter each member
provide herself with paper and pencil
to take notes as papers are read, thus
helping to call to mind points for dis
| cussion.
At the morning session, besides the
paper on current events, paper on
THE Joys of Responsibility" written
by Mrs. c. B. Beatley of Roxbury, was
read by Mrs. G. r. B. Macgowan, in
| place of the paper scheduled for the
occasion. An interrf4ssion was taken
and luncheon was had at 1 o'clock. Tea
and coffee were provided by the So
ciety. The afternoon papers were: May
Happiness be Independent of Environ
ment?" by Miss A. L. Metcalf of West
Upton; Have We a Right to Pursue
Happiness as an End?" by Miss Flo
renee M. Mirick.
Mrs. Cummings paper was as fol-
lows:
I'm trying to select the most import
ant events of the year-or of the past
three months only-my difficulty is to
find time in a short paper to simply
mention the list of leading events, with
| little or no comment on each-so rapid
ly are great matters of history crowd
ing one upon another, and in picking
Iup the thread of events where we
dropped 1t at the end of our last league
year, we find a number of the subjects
that were of leading Importance then
to be of just as vital Importance today,
perhaps not taking up quite the active
attention Of the whole people now as
then, on account of the weary length
they have dragged themselves out to
| (notably the African and Philippine
wars), but the problems are still I'M
solved, and as problems in humanity
and for progress seem to be rather
deeper and less likely Of solution than
last year at this time. Then we had
hope that whether for right or wrong
1t would be settled shortly one way
or the other and the tenacity of a foe
G.xt.F g.. h., IL
loned with-strangely enough, too, when
we look back on our own wars for in
dependence and union; and whether
for good or evil, they are still both
factors very much in evidence, not
only in the localities where they are
causing suffering and death, but in the
hearts and pockets of a vast number
of the homekeepers. But war and
rumors of war" is only one, after ALL
of the interests of the world, and sin,
pleasure and commerce travel on I'M
ceasingly, and to each individual his
own private interests appeal with in
tensity, while larger history-forming
events are looked upon as history.
ITO the people of Buffalo this sum-
mer and the vast throngs travelling
thitherWard, the business and pleasure
of the Pan-American Exposition was
of paramount consequence, and from
the time of the national tragedy enact
ed there, Buffalo was the centre Of the
earth in the thoughts Of the people,
and for years to come will be as the
place of the cross to a great many who
loved the victim as few political men
have been loved.
william Mckinley win go down in
history as one of our loved American
martyrs; but, to my view, there Is
sadder phase to that tragedy than the
death of our President. A greater
martyr - whose name win only be
heaped with revilings and execrations
for all time, but whose undoubted
bravery and unfinching martyrdom to
what he believed was duty, in the face
Of the hatred of the entire world, was
more than courage: it was sublime in
it's simplicity and directness, and the
evil Of his action does not detract from
the fact that martyrdom to a belief
was poor Czolgosz's portion fully as
much as ever martyr of old died for a
mistaken cause.
"And only God can know how many
years of oppression of the Poles. how
many generations of suppression Of