The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-22
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

man stated that the women politicians of Denver came from the worst element in town; that they rode to the polls in car riages furnished by the campaign com mittees, and that they repeated" as many as twenty times without ever hay ing cause to ask if their hats were on straight. Now of course this Is a strong allegation to make, even against a female suffragist, and 1t is not at all surprising that the Rev Anna Shaw has called the clergyman liar. She did not say that he was misinformed; that he had prevari- cated, that he had made a misstatement of facts She simply called him liar, in addition to whitening him by blast of her sarcasm. Any man who has no better sense than to tackle a human buzz saw ought to be withered. He wbo has to choose between facing a Kansas cyclone and the Rev Anna Shaw in action had better trust to the cyclone.
 An Ohio judge has just reached the conclusion that 1t is no part of conduc- tors duty to help women on and off his
 
 ular with the fair sex there is no law against a conductor lending them the assistance they stand so much in need of, but he does not have to do it. This is a matter that a great many enterpris- ing conductors have already taken into their own hands. The conductor on a trolley car who make a parctice of as- Si iEt nac fa he ception rather than the rule, although railway conductors still keep up the GUS tom.
 Since 1t has been proved that Thomas Jefferson's hair was not exactly red but sandy, the republicans have made much capital out of the slogan that no red headed man has ever been President. This announcement Is expected to throw the democratic ranks into panic and convince Judge Parker that no red-headed man ever will be President. However, there is no cause to fear. If history speaks the truth there never was another President like Roosevelt, and 1t is to be hoped that there will never be another like him. Be- sides no vice president has ever succeeded in being elected to the office of Presi-
 dent, so it seems that the honors are about even.
 The labor famine in the south seems to | be unabated, especially in Louisiana and Mississippi. In the first named state ex- tensive levee work is being delayed by the inability of contractors to obtain laborers and efforts are being made to import Italians, while in Mississippi the planters
 are reported to be hiring Mexcans in
 large numbers. It seems strange to think
 of Italians and Mexicans laboring In the
 cotton fields of the south, where the plan tation darkey has reigned supreme so long. The fate of the negro 'roustabout"
 may be a precursor of still greater
 changes that are to take place in southern | labor conditions.
 l The efforts to attain a higher speed average on our railroads are being con- | tinued by the various companies, and some remarkable tests have been made, l but why the necessity for running sixty or seventy miles an hour on roads that were made and equipped for speed of 1 forty miles an hour? Of course it is only | a matter of time when high speed on I railroads will prevail, but before that time | arrives it will be necessary to make sub | stantiai changes in the present facilities. | As matters now stand the harvest of death is large enough every year. l PC