Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1902-07-10
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WAHE strangest episode in the
rs United States in years, perhaps
hi ever, is that which began the
meat boycott in New York. In
this free country, the land of plenty, in
year of almost unparalleled prosper
ity, that there should be meat riots at
all is scarcely believable; that they
should be started by women, and by
Jewish women, the most conservative
of their sex, looks on the face of it i'm
possible; yet it is fact. What the
future Herbert Spencers will deduce
from it concerning a republic where
meat food is more abundant than in
any other country of civilization it
would be interesting to know. Jewish
mothers, Russians and Poles mostly, on
the famous east side of New York city,
saw the price of meat go beyond where
they could buy it for their children.
Enraged, a number of them, perhaps
hundred in all, determined that no
butcher in their neighborhood should
sell meat to anybody, and they exc
cuted their resolve. The rage in
creased, and they rioted. The police of
New York city were unable to stop the
movement, which carried all before it.
A woman'S antibeef association was
formed to boycott the dealers. The
women's husbands grumbled at first,
but yielded and at length were drawn
into the current too. The women called
great mass meetings, but as they were
unaccustomed to public speaking they
were shrewd enough to get eloquent
labor orators to do the talking for
them. Higher and higher the antibeef
current rose. 1t is a most curious fea-
ture of the affair that the rioting wo-
men were all orthodox Jews, and when
Saturday came, their Sabbath, all was
quiet, but at the going down of the sun
that day the fight was on again. 1t
was continued until the women had
closed every beef shop in their part of
New York. Sometimes they poured
kerosene over the stock of a dealer who
tried to oppose them. If this is not like
the French revolution, what is?
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You cannot pick up newspaper that
has not a scene-no matter what, If
there is a woman in it-in which the
gifted reporter does not ascribe "hys-
terra" or the Verge of hysteria" to the
woman. Man has reached that point
apparently where he can't tell hysteria
from just plain cry.
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1t has been frequently decided that a
drunken man is not responsible for his
actions, and therefore he is sometimes
let off where a woman under the like
circumstances would surely be put in
to a police cell. Perhaps a man may
not be responsible for his actions after
he is drunk, but he is certainly respon-
sible for getting drunk.
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None of the fashionable women's
clubs seem to have yet discovered that
working and striving and speaking up
for universal peace among the nations
is task peculiarly feminine and fitted
to the most conservative of the sex
1t has been left for the strongminded
woman suffrage societies to take the
initiative in this glorious work and as
piration.
Mrs. Ella Robarge has been elected
president of the Lacrosse (Wis.) Lum-
Der company.
The long, flowing ecclesiastical robes,
whether Mohammedan, Greek, Roman
Catholic or Protestant Episcopal, are
undoubtedly women'S garments, cap
tured and appropriated by men. There
is therefore an impudence that ap-
proaches the sublime in the recent dec
laration of certain bishop that the
women singers in the vested choirS of
his diocese shall not wear surplice and
cassock, because-of all reasons in the
world-those things belong to men!
What are we coming to? After ap-
propriating our time honored long
skirts to themselves are men, clerical
or otherwise. now to set up and tell
women they shan't wear their own
clothes in a church choir? The most
impressive choir ever beheld was that
of st. James. the church of the gifted.
eloquent and world famous Rev. H. r.
Haweis, in London, and it consisted of
surpliced and cassocked women, whose
sweet and thrilling voices sounded like
the music of angels. Rev. Mr.. Haweis
himself established this supplied choir
of women, and it was the pride and
joy of his life. And now comes an
American bishop. unknown to fame ex
cept as he will get it in a manner not
enviable through this medieval ruling.
and says women shan't wear the regu-
lation choir garments in his part of
the world, just because they are
women. Dear. dear! am interested
now to know how many women will
have sufficient spirit and respect for
the dignity of their womanhood to
leave his church altogether.
The Business Woman's club of Louis
vile is building a hotel for business
women. Good!
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Miss Alice Smith of Cheyenne is sec
rotary of the Wyoming Cattle Growers
association. She has been elected
twice to this office.
ELIZA ARCHARD CONNER.