The San Francisco call., 1904-07-03

whatever work she can do modest1y
to attempt.
As to Race Suicide.
AS for our mothers, 1t Is certainly
regrettabIe that American women OF a
certain prominent class are opposed to
large families. Formerly the best
women and men of the young republic
came from large families. 1t was the
association of large families Of chill
dren with each other, the doing for
each other and their mutual bits OF
self-denia1 that made the men OF
strong character and the women OF
noble domestic lives Of other genera
tions.
I am asked II the women OF this
country. in my opinion. have too much
independence. Our American women
have their autonomy more largely than
the women Of any other country in the
world. English women come next IN
point Of liberty-personal freedom In
France they have less independence.
and when one reaches Italy he finds
the freedom Of women there even more
curtailed.
Lie ItE1l OF OIfOrCcs
It Is at once needful and needless to
point out the danger Of the divorce
habit which is assailing us. As in the
disaffections between capital and labor.
the differences between husband and
wife can, in a great majority Of cases.
be settled outside the court Of last re-
sort. A little more patience and con-
sideration shown each other will large
ly eliminate this great and growing
danger to American progress and well
fare as a nation.
Taking up the relation Of the citizen
to the Industrial situation, this matter
Of arraying class against mass is Of
exceptional interest just now, not only
because such differences become acute
in the warmer rather than the colder
seasons, but because we are on the
eve Of a national election. This sullen
class hatred, which is quite as acute
here under our Democratic or Repub-
lican form OF government as in the
middle ages, constitutes a menace not
only to the relations which bind to-
gether certain industrial interests, but
our whole social fabric.
The Lust of Riches.
There is much to be said on both
sides. Christ did not denounce wealth
any more than he denounced pauper-
ism. He did not abhor money-he
used It He did not abhor the COM
pany Of rich men-he sought it. What
he denounced was the love OF wealth;
the lust OF riches; the vulgar snob-
bishness that chose exclusively the
fellowship or the ways OF rich men
greed and luxury and self-indulgence.
But 1t is quite another question when
we have to do with that class OF cap
italists whose manipulations OF val
ues have essentially no quality that is
different from the legerdemain Of the
card sharper. Their directorial Chi
canery in connection with great cor
porations is one Of the deepest stains
OH our commercial honor.
Those Whom the Honest viii Avoid.
These are the capitalists with whom
honest men can hold no intercourse:
(a) Managers and directors who. by
manipulation of the stock market in
collusion with others. artihcially de-
press values to the loss of fellow in
vestors. (b) Managers or directors of
vast corporations who withhold reg
ular reports for their own personal
advantage. (c) Managers or directors
who employ intricate and obscure sys-
TENS OF bookkeeping which mislead or
deceive.
BY such methods as these great for
tunes have been made which do not
honestly belong TO their pOssessOrs.
AS certainly as the tendency OF the
age is to combine or focus interests in
the field of capital there will and must
be a similar movement among the peO-
pie at large The trade union has
come to stay and it is a tremendous
force which must be reckOned with
in a sane. careful and respectful way.
The man who does not wish to join
a union must not be forced to. but
neither must the man who is a union
ist be compelled to foregO his union
while the employer is at liberty to
join a trust.
Copyright. 1904, by Central News and
Press Exchange)