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Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
A RULINc AGAINST WOMEN.

The journal was surprised and panied
a few weeks ago by the decree OF rail-
road in the south that the employment
OF women in its service should cease.
We find fresh cause for regret in the
more recent determination of the Balti-
more g. Ohio Railroad company to en-
ploy no more women stenographers in its
operating department. This does not
sound like the twentieth century.
For a very long time women were en-
tirely excluded from occupations and
professions for which they were in every
way as well qualified by nature as men.
But fortunately the world has progress
ed far enough 20 recognize the right and
fitness of women to enter many Of these
%vocations. and they have proved their
capacity to succeed in them.
The tendency is now so decidedly in
the direction of larger liberty and more
opportunities for women that any reac-
ton comes Unexpectedly. The de-
cision Of two railroad companies to
withdraw from women opportunities
which II has been conceding is much more
than offset by the steady increase of the
number of women in various lines Of
business and professional work.
There is no danger that the movement
for the liberation Of women from unjust
discrimination, both in the matter Of en-
ployment and pay, win go backward. 1t
is sure to hold. generally speaking, all
the ground it has won after hard and
long-continued struggling, and enlarge the
territory Of its conquests.
When we glance at the past and then
contemplate the present W. cannot
doubt the truth of this assertion
There are many men and women now
living who can remember when it was
considered not only unnecessary, but act
ually injudicious to educate girls much be-
yond the rudiments. There was danger
that a woman who knew much would
be considered unwomanly. We have left
that sad stage of civilization out of sight,
and now the girls OF this country are, on
the average, better educated than the
boys. The reports OF the great majority
Of the schools and colleges where CO.
education obtains show that the aver
age scholarship of the girls, in both the
primary and the higher classes, is de-
cidediy superior to that Of the boys.
And the old notion that women are not
fitted for practical business has been
thrown into the trash-pile of demon
strated fallacies. Women are going every
day more and more into the business and
professional life of the world.
Our civilization is becoming constantly
better and stronger on this account.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
NEGRO DIsFRANcHIsEMENT

The attempt to induce the federal courts
70 declare invalid the sections of several
new state constitutions in the south which
disfranchise a large majority OF the negro
vote in those states has not succeeded yet
in single instance.
A test case brought in Mississippi was
thrown out OF court some months ago.
The constitutionality OF the suffrage
clause o. the new organic law OF Louis
lana was affirmed few avs ago for the
second time by a United States Judge. The
Louisiana case was one Of Keynes VS..
Registrar OF Voters OF Gleason. and on its
first hearing Judge ST. Paul refused the
writ asked for. The case was argued be-
fore him in an amended form very re-
Gently and he decided against the plaintiff
again.
In its comment upon this last decision
The New Orleans Tlmes-Democrat says:
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
MIsREPREsENTs HIS PEOPLE.

The Journal would not willingly inject
itself into or seek TO interfere with the
Affairs OF any educational institution, es-
peciaily one OF a UNCONVENTIONAL charac-
ter, for Il readily recognizes the right and
ability OF those In charge TO direct and
protect fits interests. but there are times
when the general public has interests that
may be involved TO an extent that makes
timely and appropriate a word from the
outside.
This seems to be true in the case OF
Professor Andrew Sledd, a member OF
the faculty OF Emory college, one Of
Georgia's noblest seats OF learning. and
one. too. which has through its faculty
and alumni. ever upheld the best tradi-
tions and fostered the best sentiments OF
its state and section. Unfortunately this
institution has been indirectly placed in
a false light before the public In having
among its corps of tutors a man who IS
apparently incapable OF properly compre-
bending the conditions with which his
own people are surrounded.
In an article in the July number OF the
Atlantic Monthly. Professor Sledd so mis-
represents the people Of Georgia and OF
the south In connection with their atti-
tude toward the negro race. as to seem
10 destroy his usefulness for the future
as member Of the faculty OF any insti-
tuition seeking to educate and train the
sons. OF southern white men.
The article in question is, to say the
least OF II. unfortunate. II is equally un-
true in practically all its premises and
conclusions. IT is a false and unwarranted
view OF the southern white mans real at
titude toward the negro. and its only eff
feet as he must surely have known. will
be to stir up unnecessary animosity be-
tween the races and to still further preju-
dice minds already too willing to accept
such vaporings as those which have en-
anated from Prof. Sledd. who. as a care
ful analysis of his article viii show, has
been careless OF both current facts and
history. But, as Cor that, there is no
need TO go into a detailed expose OF the
fallacies OF bis statements. Suffice II to
say that the southern people have. in the
face OF persistent and prejudiced inter
ference. succeeded so far in managing
this overshadowing race problem as no
people have ever before managed a SINH
lar problem-with justice and kindness, so
far as the circumstances would allow, but
without the semblance of social equality,
which an who properly understand the
subject in fits practical application know
would be disastrous TO both races.
The Journal would not condemn any
man for his opinions. whatever they may
be. but when one in position such as
Is occupied by Prof sledd. does such vio-
Ience 20 the best sentiments and tradi.
lions Of his own people he utterly destroys
his usefulness in the field in which he es-
says to work.
Emory college OF course, cannot be in
jured by the utterances OF one member OF
fits faculty, because It is in no sense re-
sponsible therefor. unless. as seems impos-
sible TO suppose. 1t voluntarily accepts
that responsibility.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
EMIGRATION TO CANADA.

We have never taken any stock I'm the
theory that the annexation of Canada to
the United States will probably be accom-
plished in the not distant future.
There is no evidence Of any general de-
sire on the part Of the people of that
country to be taken into the United
States and nothing to indicate that our
people are troubling themselves at all
about the matter.
1t seems certain that an overwhelming
majority of Canada's population desire TO
remain a part of the British Empire.
Any one who viii travel through Can.
ada will soon be convinced of that fact If
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07

he will endeavor to acquire information on
the subject.
But, while It is undoubtedly true that
the Canadians generally are perfectly
satisfied with their country and it's gov
eminent, it is surprising that persistent
claims are made to a decided increase of
emigration from the United States to Can
ada.
Last week in the house of lords
Lord Onslow, under secretary for the CO.
lonial office. was Intercepted about
the statements that Canadian land was
being bought up by Americans. of whom
200, 900 were said to have emigrated to
Canada this year.
Lord Onslow replied that in 1901 1887
Americans emigrated to Canada, while to
the most recent date this year the num-
Der was "a 100. He further stated that in
western Canada 'land was being taken
up with unexampled rapidity not only by
Americans but by Englishmen and other
Europeans
AS this statement was made at a time
when the expression "the most recent
date" must have indicated about the
middle of the present year the inference is
IndI people are now leaving the OAlASSh
States for Canada at the rate Of about
co. 900 a year.
This would be an immense increase over
the movement of the same character last
year
The members OF the House of Lords who
boosted of the large influx Of population
into Canada from the United States were
found to be strangely ignorant about the
movement from Canada into this country.
When Lord Roseberry asked Lord On
slow a direct question as to the extent
of Canadian emigration to the United
States the latter had nothing to say.
Several years ago this emigration was
put at about 100000 by our government.
The Canadian authorities protested that
this count was grossly unfair and claimed
that 1t included all Europeans who came
into the United. States through Canada.
No definite information about Canadian
emigration into the United States has
been given out by our government in the
last two or three years and we have no
way of finding out just now whether or
not we are receiving more population
from Canada than Canada is taking from
US.
Very conflicting claims are made on this
subject.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
DINKELsPIELERs.

New York American.
Money talks. bud only der rich can understood
yusc vot Id says.
Id dakes a man NIT leedle head to cali at
tentionment to hrs leedle feets.
Always look on der bright side, eggscept ven
you wish some information from der termom-
eter; den look on der dark side.
II money is der roots uf all ell den vanity is
der rain dot waters dem.
Der man dot means der mosd always says der
fewest.
a chicken samvich will make a bedder i'm
preston on a hunkry man den yard uf goot
atvice.
Nit some peoples chance to tolt der truth
is always a goot oxcoos to tolt annudder fabri-
cationnient.
Hot vedder is yust like adversely. because Id
brings to der surface all dot Is In US.
A man NIT efery virtue in dis world today
would eggspire NIT der lonesomeness uf his DO
sition.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07

THE case was a test one brought by the
negroes in the hope that the suffrage laws
Of Louisiana under which most of their
race are disfranchised would be declared
unconstitutional. The funds for the suit
were raised by popular subscription; and
1t was announced that it would be carried
up to the supreme court of the United
States IL necessary.
Like most similar litigation. however
the suit failed from the very start
Keynes, over whom the test is being made
IS a negro who can neither read nor
write and who does not possess sufficient
property to make a voter. He could nc
more register in Massachusetts,, Connecti-
cut or Rhode Island than he can here
and II the Louisiana law be attacked and
declared unconstitutional because OF
Gleason's refusal to register Keynes, then
these New England states are open to
similar attack. The Times-Democrat is
not an ardent admirer of the grandfather
clause, and considers It a subterfuge I'M
worthy Of the constitutional convention
in addition to being wholly unnecessary
The cause Of white supremacy is neither
strengthened nor improved by admitting TO
the suffrage those whites who are both
fiterate and without property. But this
has nothing whatever to do with the hmi-
tation Of the suffrage to those who can
read or who own property. If the grand
father clause were declared unconstitu-
tional null and void. II would not affect
the negroes in the least, It would not
grant the ballot to a eingle additional ne
gro. The plaintiff in the suit before Judge
st. Paul would no more be entitled to reg
lister In Louisiana than he is now"
II is clear that the suffrage provisions
in the new constitutions Of Mississippi,
Louisiana, South Carolina. North Carroll
ma and Alabama, which affect negroes
mainly, are in no danger of being inter-
fered with by the federal courts.
The grandfather section, which makes a
discrimination in favor Of class of white
voters, has not yet been submitted to the
test Of a United States court, but II 1t
should be declared invalid the negroes
who cannot meet the requirements OF
these constitutions would still be quite as
largely disfranchised as they would be If
the courts sustained the provision that
the right of no lineal descendant of one
who could vote in 1863. or who was in the
service of the southern Confederacy
should, under no conditions, be denied.
The object of this movement in the south
was to disfranchise ignorant negroes and
that object has been accomplished.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
PERSONAL.

Premier Balfour has held his first cabinet
meeting That was easy. The question is,
How long can he hold his job?
Tim" Woodruff is both sad and mad be-
cause Mr.. Plat told him he couldn't hold
the lieutenant governorship of New York for
life.
President Roosevelt has fixed it that a
man cannot quit the navy when he is tired of
mis- job The man who doesn't want to work
must do
Convict Tracy may be a bad man, hut he
IS not a liar. He says he will kill any man
who tries to take him, and up to date he has
kept HIS word.
Lillian Russelrs automobile THE Red An
GEL" was burned up a day or two ago. Her
neghbors called II THE Red Dragon" and
aver that II caught fire Of itself.
Venezuela has been arresting some Ameri-
can naval officers. Our people should learn
to drink In the language Of every port at
which they stop and thus avoid trouble.
That Capt. Wester of the Swedish army who
challenged an American to duel and then
failed to appear at the meeting place I'M
doubleday remembered on second thought
that Americans are good shots.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
BY F. P. dunno.

she makes hersilf familyar with Brad
sthreets rayports an fn'ny she
watches tn place where life presar-
vars are hangin'.
Now, what kind iv a man ought a
woman to marry7 She Oughn't to mar
ry a young man because she'll grow
older quicker thin he will; she oughnt
to marry an old man because he'll be
much older befure he's younger; she
oughn't to marry a poor man because
he may become rich an lose her; she
oughn't to marry rich man because
If he becomes poor she can't lose him;
she oughn't to marry a man that
knows more thin she does. because
he'll niver fail to show it, an she
oughn't to marry a man that knows
less because he may niver catch up.
But above all things she mustn't mar
ry a JANUS. A flure walker, perhaps,
a JANUS niver.
''I tell We this because I've been re-
readin' a book Hogan give me, about
tn divvle's own time a JANUS had
with his family. A cap iv Industry
may have throuble in his family till
there isn't a whole piece iv chiny in
tn cupboard, an no wan'n be tn
wiser f'r it but tn" hired girl an tn
doctor that paints tn black eye. But
ivrybody knows what happens in
JANUS house. TIL JANUS always tells
tn BARTENDER. Besides he has other
janiuses calm on him an tits tn
business iv a JANUS to write about tn
domestic throubles iv other taniuses
so posterity'll know what a hard thing
it is to be JANUS an duck. I've been
readin' this book iv Hogan's an as I
tell We, it's about tn misery wretch
ed woman inflicted on a poets life.
sat this
peeryod contracted an unforchnit al
lance that was destined to cast deep
gloom over his career. At tn age iv
fifty, afther life devoted to tn pur-
SCOT iv such gayety as janiuses have
always found nicissry to solace their
avenins, he marrid young an beau
tiful girl some thirty-two years his
junior. This wretched crather had no
appreciation iv Iithrachoor or hthry
men. She was frivolyous an light
minded an ividintly considered that
nawthin' was rally lithrachoOr that
cudden't be thranslated into groceries.
Niver shall 1 frget tn expression iv
despair on tn face iv this godlike man
as he came into Casey's saloon wan
starry July avenin an staggered into
his familyar seat, holdin' in his hand
bit iv soiled paper which he tore into
fragmints an hurled into tn coal scut-
tie. On that crumpled parchmint ind
in a sombre grave among tn disin-
TERED relics iv an age long past, to-
wit, tn cariboniferious or coaol age,
was written tn iver-mim 'rable pome:
lode to Gin" Our frind had scrubbed
It hastily at tn dinner Nv tn Betther-
-Shakespere Club, an had at
timpted to read it to his wife through
tn keyhole iv her bedroom dure an
met no response firm tn fillystein but
a pitcher Nv wather through tn thran-
som. Forchnitely he had preserved
a copy on his cuff an tn gem was not
lost to posterity.
"But such was tn home life ~ wan
iv tn gr-reatest iv lithry masthers,
man indowed be nachure with all that
shud make a woman adore him as is
proved be his tindher varses: TO Car
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.
chicago Daily News.

chicago DAILY news.
Matrimony has spoiled many friendship
Any man can make his wife do anything she
wants to.
Much OF the charity that begins at home is
too weak to travel
The skillful hunter IS not a theorist but a
man OF practical aims.
Lots OF men suddenly become near-sighted
when they start out to look for work.
A homely girl always belives a man who
says that pretty girls make poor wives.
An appropriate present for girl is anything
she can wear; for hoy, anything he can eat.
When a woman admits thing she expects a
man to admit that her admission doesn't count
When a man proposes he doesn't seem to
realize that it may result in his losing control
OF himself.
Often a woman is so inconstant that after
making w her mind to her age she is I'M
able to stick to IL.
It is easy for a millionaire philosopher to
tell a young man how TO live on IS a week and
put money in the savings bank.
II you see a coupleswallSng along the street
and the man goes on while the woman pauses
to look in at the shop windows it's a sure sign
they are married.
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Copyright. 1902. by Robert Howard
RussellO

Russell)
<< A WOMAN ought to be care
- ~ full who she marries." said
Mr.. Dooley.
$50 ought a man." said
Mr.. Hennessy with feeling.
at don't make so much difference
about him." said Mr.. Dooley. ''Whin
a mans marrid, he's a marrid man.
That's all ye can say about him.
" coorse, he thinks marredge is goin'
to change tn whole current Nv his
bein', as Hogan saws. But 1t doesn't.
Afther he's been hooked up FIR a few
months, he finds he was marrid be-
fure, even II he wasn't, which is often
tn case dye mind. Tn first bride
Nv his bosom was tn Days Wurruk
an it can't be put off. They're no
groun's FIR dissolvin' that marredge,
Hinnissy. Ye can't say to tn Days
Wurruk: Here, take this bunch Nv
alimony an go on tn stage 1t
turns up at breakfast about tn fourth
month afther tn weddin' an creates
a scandal. TIL unforchnit man thries
to shoe it off but it fixes him with
its eye an hauls him away firm tn
bacon and eggs, while tn lady OPP
posite weeps an wonders what he
can see in anything so old an home
ly. 1t says, Come with me, aroon,'
an he goes. An afther that he
spinds most iv his time an often a
good deal Nv his money with tn en-
chantress. I tell We what, Hinnissy,
til Days Wurruk has broke up more
happy homes thin comic opry. If
tn coorts wud allow it, nanny a
woman cud get a divorce on tn grouns
that her husband cared more FIR his
Days Wurruk thin he did FIR her
'Hinnissy varsus Hinnissy; corryspon-
dint, tn Days Wurruk.' They'd be
ividince that tn deflndant was seen
ridin' in a cab with tn correspondent,
that he took IT to a picnic, that he
whit to tn theaytre with it, that he
talked about 1t in his sleep, an that,
lost to all sinse Nv shame, he even
escorted 1t home with him an in
thrajooced it to his varchous wife an
Innocent childher. So IL don't make
much diff renee who q man marries.
If he has a job, he's safe.
But with a woman tits diff'rent.
TIL man puts down on'y part iv tn
bet. Whin he's had enough iv tn con-
varsation that in Union Park undher
tn threes med him think he was
talkin' with an intellechool joyntess,
all he has to do is to put on his coat.
to tn shops. to be happy though mar
rid. But a woman. tell We, bets all
she has. A man don't have to may
~ but a woman does. OF maids an
clargymen do tn most good In tn
wurruld an we love thin FIR tn good
they do. But people, especially wom-
en-, don't want to be loved that way.
They want to be loved because people
can't help lovin' thin no matther how
bad they are. TIL story books that We
give ye'er daughter Honoria all tell
her it's just as good not to be mar
rid. She reads about how kind Doro-
thy was to Lulu's childher an she
knows Dorothy was tn betther wom-
an but she wants to be Lulu. Her
heart, an a cold look in tn eye iv tn
wurruld an her Ma tell her to hur-
ry up. Early in life she looks FIR tn
man iv her choice in tn tennis
records; later she reads tn news firm
tn militia encampmint; thin she stud
les tn social raygister; further on
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HearI HearI
washington Post

Washington Post.
Having made formal application for his
consent to re-enter politics and secured
the same the Hon. Evan P. Howell has
decided to become a candidate for mayor
of Atlanta. This will surely have the eff
feet of prying thesHon. Hoke Smith loose
from his political retirement
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
Not Domestic,

Mrs. Greene-''How do you like your new
domestic. Mrs. Brown? She looks like nice
girl"
Mrs. Brown-'Domestic, did you say? You
never made a greater mistake Bridget is
imported. Boston Transcript.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
Matter of ReclnrocltY.

'Araminta, run over to the next door neigh
Dor and see If you can't borrow some dishes =
But nah, we don't need any dishes"
THAT doesn't made any difference. They We
been looking over our furniture, from the wash
ringer TO the sewing machine. It's about time
we took our turn at inspecting their goods and
chattels with a view to determining their So
cial status. Washing ton Star.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
DomestlcitY.

What do you consider domesticity In a
man?'
''It is the trait OF wanting TO stay home when
his wife wants him to go out with her,
And what is domesticity in a woman
That is the trait Of being willing to stay
home when her husband wants to go out With
out her."-Chicago Post.
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If the popular impression were consult
ed this list would be considerably extend
ed. 1t would include Lodge of Massachu-
setts Jones and Stewart Of Nevada Cbo-
nanza kings), Plat of New York, Fair
banks of Indiana, and number Of others
men not necessarily quite worth a mill
lion dollars or more, but an amount APP
preaching that sum. But this authority
rates Stewart and Jones not among those
who are comfortably situated or have con-
siderable incomes from accumulated prop
erty, but as among the poorest senators,
in the class which includes the senior SEN
ator from Massachusetts, Frye of Maine,
Vest and Cockren of Missouri and most of
the southern senators. They were at one
time rich, but have had their ups and
downs, and are now said to be down. Mr..
Lodge is said to possess a modest for
tune" which is doubtless true as fortunes
are spoken of today, but few years ago,
before the Carnegies, Rockefellers and
Morgans had set new standards of meas
urements, he would have been called a
rich man. Senator Spooner of Wisconsin
is said to have $250000 and to be satisfied
with it, but he is classed among those who
are not rich, but just comfortably well off.
OF the New England senators who have
not been named, Dillingham; Of Vermont,
and Burnham of New Hampshire are
classed as comfortable" and Hawley and
Plat of Connecticut and Gallinger of New
Hampshire along with Hoar of Massachu-
sets and Frye of Maine, are classed as
poor, or dependent upon their senatorial
salaries and what little they can pick up
in their professions as they go along. OF
the twenty-five senators sworn in March
last, only three are rated as million
aires and It is contended that this fact re-
veals no tendency to fill the senate with
rich men.