The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-10-02

admit sE 10 IsnelnSelVeS !t w oiie'' 80
10 be trained from her earliest days IN
the sphere God Intended her to remain,
and instead of going 50 deep INTO SO
#ciologlcal Il problems, the college offEto-
day ought Ito sstudylthe simple cnnons
of good breeding and teach every "on,a'.
womanliness, which will bring her' ma.
Sfullncss Of life which she VII get only
by being moro. not less, of woman!
Thls will only be done by training her 10
be home maker.
The People and the Constitution
Editor 3 srhe Times Dispatch:
sir,-rhc people Of the United states rs
the Gons.tne,Gn a. con- on
$stitutionai way~or in successful revolu.
ton II ur#Virgina primary ELECTION iaw
ereamy Gonsttuion III t
pnhovld not re ss the support Of VII
ein The people Of virginia are not
greater than the Federal Constitution, .a as
erence to the ntin1ation from some quar-, rt
tiers that the selection by popular bal l.
of United states senators RODS me s, ,won-
sitution Of ITS aneenaea poIeetton NIGHT
be : understood to imply. Constantly we
need to get back to the fundamsnsaa..
principles \ Am,sEfan soyet ehnnEe
although the forms ofIgovernrment which
they control may vary as circumstances
determine # Is to fundamentnr,ls ina. t,s
OF the sconstitutionality Of any law Is not
here raised the deslrability Of s lnn 3
change as the bpffsmdaTh hc
people Of a State to the Federal Constitu-
tron,8I IS the theme to which I would re.
spect fully direct the closer ttentlon OF OF
az not believe the people e. any south tn
leved that the laws OF some our south n
Of escape from the blight Of the Fifteenth
amendment, fordnstance. were eva s1ons, !"
u would be the last to support them ~ !, rms NJ
tho evil Of evasion and notification m,
finitely greater than the evils imposed
upon the helpless South by the infamous oi
less evil resulting from the legislative
I election of the Federal Senate: So in
formed and honest man, will deny the
Of H'' Which '1us speak, and no good student q
American government will question the
fact that the more direct the people ,as can sar
our Legislative bodies the safer. My per-
sonal opinion is that the suffrage laws
Of the South are not evasions or nuim w
which the reconstruction amendments dld
not foresee. and for which they do not
provide. base this opinion ma..niy upon eoll
the deesoas Of the United Staifu
atty Of these franchise laws. But the
point to which wish emphatically and
kindly to call attention y one or EI brss
spontaneous from very little seed: in
fiuentlal. papers and public men. and often
nnntentiomally SOW error which May mny
instances might be cited In Just alton
for Insisting on keeping ste ei1 !, before
the mind Of the people the a rnndamenta,s
American government Is distinctive, Orlsl-3
nal nal ! and peculiar. We Americans come
so closely an contact with II that We are
course We see and feel It's greatness,
hut forget In the heat OF party struggle
TO look for the channel through whlGh.it
CONSTITUTION t'nsi w Witch H defines specifically
the various functions Of the government
mashne WE ha Ss IN mast aot
a ment any pl PROVISION e that Constitution
is dsregarded or nullIned. or changed n
hss "e Dangerous a S decay Is imminent. Our
Federal Constitution makes no provision
TOR BY the people 81 any 9he
FEDERAL Fersi1 constIt nt they 10 prove
BY successful revolution. But there is no
revolution by any part OF our people. Of
equally as great Importance Is the truth
that no legislative body under the Amerl-
tho Constitution. Congress, or threo-
fourths OF tho states may call tor or pro-
pose changes, but the people Of the sey.
e es4l s tcmsel F Herein lies one Of
tho prime distinctive features OF our GOV
crnment. This feature has done more TOR
Single provision. This feature has saved
enc Of III. STATE; il has preserved local
Tho southern States 10 create conditions
unreached by the amendments opnoxiqus
to progress !n The South nnd f helpful di1
our Il iesisiative bodies amendable. This
was the feature of The American govern
nent entirely without preeedent, and the
isnssllsh h'g goyernmen mt When Madison and
| his copafrlots ovorcame the monarchial
plans Of Hamilton and a ssta h 6sh neg re re
| legislature should be supreme, they threw
across the world q light that has startled
no few monarchs from their roya! thr9 q .,
stood RESOLUTIONS Of 1908. turned the clear
thrt s sh fa u h sses and Of
Federal party, tho former hnrrledly re-
traced her stops and the latter faded Into
mere history, From that Gay 70 t q r,6 eno
fbeSStsyS has dtuwn N is IL ' Very lifs breath
before us Tor their LESSONS, The causes
and FOR that reason the historian in sym,
pathy With tho North has been too wont
10 substitute hls version for. the nnyar.
people people OF The South forget that The Glyil
War was fought for tho Ennsiltu'ltNhm ~
| Without the American conNtitution Inc
| Tho North professed to 'loya the unlon,
/ While she spurncd tho CONSTITUTION ,Whlsn
| alone made tho Union possible; itlstoriy
OF tho fact that tho evasion Of the. Con-
stl.ution on The part OF the frss s.atos
| OF the North, produced such conallions r.
bern staissnen Of ls0l thonSns , tIlat