Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-05-29
VOICES OF THE PRESS.

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VOICES OF THE PRESS.
Questions Left to Answer.
(BostOn JournalO
Now that the marriage of the Prin-
cess RospigliOsi, formerly Miss Marie
Reid, to Col. Parkhurst is declared null.
by Pope Plus it Is interesting to Won
der what status the church gives her
during the several years she lived with
her first husband, and in what light it
considers her two children.
New England Lepers.
(Boston Transcript.)
The state ment of the state board of
charity that cur New England manu-
featuring centres contain many leper
cases undetected has worked well. AL
ready tire authorities in Pawtucket. +.
l., Providence, r. l., Manchester, N. H..
Biddeford, and Lewiston, Me-, have
taken an interest in the matter, with
the indication that 4 sharp look out for
suspects will be continued. The state
BOARD spoke to the point. for most of
the lcpers in this state mad been work.
ing for months, one for years, in larg.'
industrial cities, and no suspicious had
been aroused. The rigiG inspection now
n force prevents that from happening
,gain. The New England cities would
be unwilling to advertise a leper-f1nd,
| let the action of this state has prompt
ID them to consider the hygienic end to
ne gained by admitting the existence of
The plague and by applying prompt
remedies that the whole public may not
De made to suffer.
TIE Kaiser Buffer.
New York Press.)
Emperor William is not looking for
war now and we doubt if he ever
wanted war, the mailed fist" swagger
the contrary and all his bellicose
speech notwithstanding. In the II
years since he climbed the throne OF
the German heroes rivers of blood have
1vcrrlln the face Of the globe but. save
hat of the Heraro tribe and of few
boxers, not n drop has dripped from
The sword of his andfather. Cuba
has fought her long fight for freedom,
1 dozen South American revolutions
| worth the name have occurred, the
United States and Spain have battled
IN sea and land. 'Great Britain has
beaten the Beers. Japan ia putting the
-jitsu on the ukaisers sprawling
1eighbor, but all the while his bart is
| that of audience. The war lord should
De so called only because he takes no
chances of getting into a war. He is
"a lath painted to :oOk like a sword"
| In the language of the national game
he is big bluff.
An Unfortunate Suggestion.
New York SUM-
An unfortunate suggestion is made
by the Republic, Roman Catholic pc
Der of Boston. 1t is that the Roman
Catholics Of Massachusetts are unduly
Disseminated agair ST. in the appoint
nents to state offices; COR example. that
If 235 judges appointed by governors
Turing the last 80 years only II are
Roman Catholics. and of 4S1 other Off
GERS now holding state commissions
,nly 81 are of that faith, though Mas
sachusetts is admittedly Catholic"
moreover. the fact is cited that for al
most a century Massa chusetts has not
elected a Catholic as the executive Of
the state. So, also, might the Repub-
ic aver. there has never been Roma 4
'athOlic president OF the United States;
vet under the constitution natural
,on citizen is eligible 10 election to the
presidency whatever his religious faith.
His belief or his unbelief does not en-
Ter into the question, and the separa-
ton of state and church is not less
complete in Massachusetts. Whether
c;t IN,
Catholic, a Protestant. a Jew or u man
without any dogmatic religious belief
IS not pertinent question. Is he fit
for his place and deserving of the COP
ldence of his fellow citizens? That is
the only question to ask. Counting up
office holders according to their reli-
,lous affiliations is un-American and of
1 pernicious tendency.
Change Of Feeling About Women.
philadelphia Inquirer.)
The death of Mrs. Mary Livermore
calls attention to the fact that there is
wonderful change i'm regard to the
women wfo work for various causes to
advance thei" sex as compar ID with
what it was forty and especially fifty
years ago. 1t is remarkable that so
many of the women who first entered
the battle for an extension of the polit-
zeal rights ard privileges survived so
'ons. Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
Lucy Stone and Anna Dickinson sur
viVed to green old age. Mrs. Liver
more was we'll past eighty. Susan B.
anthony still survives. and Julia Ward
Howe continues to write poetry. There
ire others who could be named, but
these are enough to shCw that intellec-
ual work for women is not injurious
TO the health. When these women be-
gan their campaign before the Civil
war they We're generally hooted at just
rs some of the leading abolitlonisis
were at about the same period. They
were called cranks. unfeminine ana
many harder phrases Still the move
ment grew. and. although woman's
SURFACE hos been confined to the far
west except in certain local matters,
'he laws nave been changed so that at
,he present woman is much better pre-
,ected IMAM man. The safeguards
thfown around the sex have come "a
ther srudgingly until Of late. and now
IL seems to be only n question of what
women Will ask for in order to get it.