The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1901-11-21

lighted by the spark of anarchistic
teaching to the point of flaming out in
open rebellion to what he had been
taught, was an evil to the whole peo-
pie; and neither are those guiltless of
his training and its consequences, who
helped by their disloyal teaching that
the President of the United States was
vile In his motives and evil in his
policy and hfe-as some of the news
papers did for the sake of lining the
pockets of their owners with gold
and those others in high places whose
narroWness, bigotry and coneeit made
them teach treachery to the prevailing
government to be a fine sentiment
which only required the word indie
pendence" to be proclaimed in connec-
ton with it often enough to sugar
coat the evil pill, till poor Czolgosz
swallowed 1t to his hurt. have yet to
hear of one of these fine gentlemen
dying for their beliefs as Czolgosz died
for his; and how true to their own
nature have they been in turning to
rend their victim, and again gloss over
their own treachery, by crying the
loudest, Cruelty him! Cruelty him!"
which has been done, f1guratively
speaking, and Czolgosz and William
Mckinley are before Juster Tribunal;
as we might almost wish Schley and
tilo cCCu0GIS WGIG MIlCn VIC ICeio Vi dAl
the petty gossip men have been guilty
of-the jealousy, the suppression of
facts, the conceit and desire for all the
credit, first in one quarter and then
in another; and we gladly turn to the
sight of the religious societies in con-
vention assembled-the Episcopalians
with their futile attempt to retrograde
in regard to their church divorce laws
for which let us be thankful for 1t not
only shows that it is becoming harder
for any set of people to get a majority
vote on a retrograde movement, but,
on the merits of the case itself, 1 am,
for one, glad that another stumbling
block is not put in the way of some
poor soul who may want to be freed
from calling chains that does herself
and no one else good, and an infinite
amount of harm.
Now. ladies, have never happened
to want a divorce; but were in the
case Of some poor souls, l imagine 1t
would take more than the law of one
denomination to hold me to what
should deem but legalized prostitution
let alone the thought of the criminals
likely to be brought into the world
! through the revolt in the poor mother
mind. Let us note the fact that even
the Episcopal clergy dare not rivet
| their chains tighter. The point of view
most often commented upon seems to
be from the society standpoint as
though the marital disagreements Of
the leisure class were Of larger mo-
ment and were to have a more import
ant bearing upon the problem than all
other classes together, when, in fact,
the number of divorces among the 400
are very small proportion to the
whole. Without a shadow of doubt to
the thinker, it is our marriage customs
that need revision more than our di-
vorce laws
Then the Baptists have been in
convention recently, and to one who
has not been keeping up with the
| broadening and growth of that denomi-
nation, it is surprise to hear some
of the remarks from their leading men,
which we would hardly dare say were
Unitarian ideas, but we might term
them doctrines Of the universe.
And now we come to that other
! problem which is puzzling three ma
| tions-America, Turkey and Bulgaria
the capture of Miss Stone, the mis-
sionary by brigands, which seems to
| be a 'multum in parvo" problem, so
many causes and effects does it en-
brace.
Have Americans a right to send
women into such known peril, at great
expense, to proselyte a few heather
| (as they term them) and a few Catho-
lies who have been proselyted already
from heathendom by the missionaries
| of that denomination? l take Miss
Stones own words in one of her last
letters as authority for this state
ment-only to receive the boomerang
again In full force in the shape of an
enormous ransom to be drawn from all
classes Of sympathetic people who can
| i'll afford to waste what they can spare
for charity. in putting a premium upon
| villainy. Have people a right to jeop-
ardize and lose so much for so small
result, when half the amount expend-
ed wisely among our own benighted
more benighted because half-ciVilized
heather at home would bring in so
much larger harvest of souls Gf it is
souls they are after)? But sometimes
in thinking of the conversion of souls,
am reminded Of girl / knew in my
young days who was not overnight,
but had been worked upon alta revival
until she tried to urge us all to come
TO her way of thinking. and she earn
estly assured us that all that we need
ed was a change of intellect" And
so I sometimes think it vast price to
pay for so impossible an object as a
changed intellect for the heather.
Then for the more strictly political
changes of note: Probably those en-
tailed in the East by the death of Ii
Hung Chang will be looked upon with
the greatest interest for awhile as
opening up chances for political
changes in Manchuria, but on this side
of the sea our great victory in New
York for right and purity with the bal
lot box as a weapon must teach
more lasting lesson than anything that
has happened politically for number
Of years. Where are the pessimists
now who are forever crying that politi-
clans are so enslaved to the money
power that nothing can be done to help
the people politically? Where are those
who maintain that politics are too vile
for women to have anything to do with
them? Have there been no women at
the back of this victory? Are there no
Adams to say the woman did give me
of her influence and / did vote as she
not-because woman's
most effective work is performed in
such diplomatic ways that when her
indirect vote is cast, the hand that
manipulates the paper is unaware of
the source of power.
Now we have arrived at the saddest
and most shameful state of affairs in
this, our boosted free land--the bar
barrie lynchings of the South and West.
1t would almost seem as we read Of
them as though It were the story of
some other nation or people, rather
than our own American citlzens-wom-
en- as well as men; and it is becoming
so frequent a custom with them that
the horror and debasing effect upon
themselves is not realized. 1 became
acquainted a short time ago with a
pretty and perfect-mannered little lady
from the West, visiting in Worcester,
and in the quietest and most-refned
tones she described the killing of a
negro she had attended in the West,
where the victim was burned at the
stake and the pyre lit by the hand Of
a woman-the mother of the girl he