Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-09
Gathered On The Battlefield Of Thouah1
Woman
Suffrage IN
Great Britain.

Woman Thai von,e, y,,,t ,,o.,
Sunragu W at the next general
'rcnt britain. election In Great Brit
ain may now be accent
ed ns a virtual certainty. The leaders
OF the two great parties Sir Henry
Iainpbell- Zimmerman and Mr.. Arthur
hallour along with more than four
INJURED OF the six hundred and seyen
~ members OF parliament, have des.
nitely. pledged their support OF the En-
reimbursement Bill introduced nv NJ,
keir Hardie leader OF the Labor marry
which Is unit In its favor. or fro
Two hundred members who have no.
gwen positive pledges. II Is said wifi,
appd'eHl duthorlty that not more than
hity would vote against the bill II no.
tion could be had now. IJnfort,,rn,eI,,
the custom of British Governments for
DDS The consideration of franchisa
questions until final session on the
ground that, IL the electorate be en-
lersed. Parliament must dissolve forth
with In order to give the new constit
uency immediate voice. IT, as seems
likely, the present Parliament shall nm
It's full course, six years win elapse be-
FORE the bill can be passed: but the sem
tlment If now SO nearly unanimnus fhat
only an extraordinary change In public
opinion. as well as In the disposition or
the members, can prevent its ultimate
ehactmeht II is by no means clear
that the recent energetic action of the
agitators. followed by their arrest an,.
imprisonment, has resulted in the dam
age to the cause anticipated by many
VINO feared the possible effect OF ridi
Guile. The famous novelist, George. Mer
edltn' was convinced from the begin
nlng that demonstration 10 the verge
OF violence afforded the only way Ia
arouse the English mind, and he wrote
Dluntly: The mistake of the women
nus Deeh TO suppose that John Bull win
move sensibly for solitary kick. 1t
makes MIN more stubborn. and such n
FORM of remembrance alenates the de-
corous among the sisterhood. otherwise
not ADVERSE To the emancipation of the
seq, II cannot be repeated If the agi-
tatlng women are to have the backing
OF thelr sober sisters, yet II is only by
the repetition of this manner OF enliy-
enlng him that John Bull, a sim un-
buried old gentleman, though not much
auve-can be persuaded to move at an. :"
-George Harvey in the North Ameri-
can Review.
The Secret Theodore Roosevelt Is
or Rooscvcit's no drawer than many
rover another man, who has
fallen i'm struggle
against Mammon, but he has the moral
vision. IT is often more difficult 10
know the right than to do it. A broader
education than any man has brought
to the White House since 'Jefferso ~
day. a life unstained by vice of any
kind clean mind and a boyish heart
simple, coniiding, and Just, have com
bined to keep Theodore Roosevelts
faith in God and his belief in the COM
mon honesty of the common man un-
scared. And when man has these
two convictions welded into his soul,
ne plays no tricks, lays no ambushes,
relies on no strategy, but, seeing his
duty, goes to it joyouSly bravely. and
with wise direction and simplicity,
Roosevelt Is not leading a double life.
as his enemies secretly believe. He
will not be found out because there is
nothing to find out, He is merely prlm-
tive. He has the gaiety and optimism
that belong to youth, and youth is not
mere physical adolescence; II is that
state of soul which men keep so long
as they have not smudged their ideals
and trified with their consciences. one
may be hoy at eighty, or a man at
fifteen. But whoever has youth, has
faith and given wisdom with faith.
strength and courage are but the other
side of the shield. Perhaps that is the
meaning of the prophecy: and a little
child shall lead them."-From "Roose-
welt: a Force for Righteousness" by
William Allen White in McClure's.
Speaking of A certain class of news
me Happy paper men assert that q
Farmer farmer is the most in
dependent man on
earth. and that he has nothing to do
but enjoy life; that when winter comes
and the blizzard's on the wing. he
toasts his feet in the oven and reads