Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-12
EDWIN MARKHAM HERE
TALKS ENTERTAINMENT OF So
CIAL CONSCIENCE.
Reference to Man With the Hoe-Be-
lieves in Woman's Rights and
Universal Suffrage.

"That Man With the Hoe is standing at
my shoulder all of the time. / never seem
able to get rid of him. He's like another
Frankenstein," declared Edward Markham,
laughingly, to a reporter for The Star this
afternoon. Il have written other things,
other poems that people have been kind
enough to tell me are better than The Man
With the Hoe and 1t is rather hard some
times to be continually referred to as the
author Of that one thing. 1 really believe
some people do not know ever wrote any
thing else
Mr.. Markham talks as he writes-easily
and smoothly. He seems to have an mex
haustible vocabulary at his command, and
he uses 1t with the care and nicely of the
man who has attained high position in
the world through the efforts of his brain
He Is large and strongly built, with we'll
shaped head, covered with silvery white
hair, heavy fringe of gray beard about
his smiling mouth. and eyes which seem
soft, and yet glisten. Such is the man
Markham. His manner Is gracious and
kindly at all times, and his ability to ma
neuver conversation into clear channels
seems away above the average.
Mr.. Markham is in Washington today in
order that he may deliver an address on
the Social Conscience" before the National
Council of Women at the Pythian Temple
tonight. The Social Conscience is one of
the things to which Mr.. Markham has
given much thought and attention.
THE thing I call the social conscience Is
the power that lies within all whole souIed,
warm-blooded people to be social, and it is
the thing that has helped make all noble
minds, from the time of Jesus Christ to the
present day, more beautiful and noble. My
idea is to secure working application of
the golden rule to practical life. All relig-
ion Is founded on the social idea and what
i nd hrno dar
opment of that scheme. The women have
an important mission in this work of fos-
tertng and developing the social purity of
the world.
Believes in Women's Rights.
Gas to the position of women, 1 believe
In woman's rights and equal suffrage and
all that sort of thing. 1 believe the time
Is coming when women will enjoy equal
rights with men. 1t must necessarily be So
AT the time Of the organization of society
1t was necessary that the strong arm of
man should take the leadership and pull
himself and his kind up from the mud of
sayagery but that time has gone. The world
has reached that stage of civilization that
admits Of the development of man and
woman side by side. do not mean that
there shall be any difference as to the
natural sphere Of either man woman,
but that woman shall come into the en-
joyment of equal rights in the administra-
ton of The fruits Of her labor.
sit is nice to get to Washington again.
was here last spring for a short time.
spend five months of the year on a little
country place have in New York and the
rest of my time is passed in New York
city. 1 am working man. I write for a
living and am at 1t all the time. Occa-
sionally deliver a lecture, like the address
made last night, but 1t is not often. as 1
do not care much for the business l have
many calls for such work that am COM
PEELED to decline.
; "My only collected works are two vol
umes of poetry. which were published some
time ago, but l have written and am writ
ing great quantity of prose
81 expect to leave Washington tonight.
love the country and am anxious to get
my things cleared up so that can go to
my home place as soon as possible"