The Taney County republican. (Forsyth, Mo.) 1895-1992, 1909-04-29

| appear little above the ordinar,
but are not extraordinary them
selves, so they have to heark bacl
to their ancestors of previous gen
erations to find some excuse TO
their snobbishness. This is es
| pecially true of women. Conse
quently we have the Daughters o
the Revolution and the Daughter:
of 1872 They are shallow but
imagine themselves learned. They
dream of the greatness, of the hon.
or, of the grandness of their an.
cestors, the old puritan and cava.
alier. The glasses of their OBJ.
servation become obscured with
this nonsense and when they see
people who do not live exactly as
themselves they take them for the
subjects of their dreams.
Such person is "Virginia Law
renee. " Knowing little of the
world save that lying between
Skinker road and the river, Caron-
dolet and the water tower, and
only small portion of that, she
imagines that the people in the
White River country don't. know
anything about what is outside
their domain We will bet she
doesn't know much about St. Louis.
We will guarantee that to save her
life she can't tell what streets the
Bellefontaine street car line runs
over or name all the different
schools that go to make up Wash
ington University. Yet she pre-
sumes to know all about schools
and what the School of the Ozarks
is doing to build up this country.
She is specifically educated. She
has gathered smattering of knowl-
edge here and there. This is best
illustrated when she speaks of be-
ing qualified for one of "Ban'
Jonson's plays. She has heard of
that early English writer "Ben'
Ionson, but she doesn't know him
from the President of the American
Baseball League.
She presumes to have knowl-
edge of political affairs of the state
and nation and says that the peo-
pie here don't vote. Yet we dare
say she doesn't know the require
ments of voting. She probably
doesn't know that the voters of
St. Louis have to register and tha t
good many of them do not and
still vote cast of SO per cent of
the registered voters in ST. Louis
is about as good as they can get
while if we don't get out o5 per
cent of the voters in fancy county
the party workers think they
haven't done their duty. She
Decent know that the president Of
the Young Republicans Associa-
tion of Missouri lives in Taney.
She doesn't know that besides our
representative there are several
fancy county boys holding good
jobs at Jefferson City at present.
She doesn't know that under the
last administration one of the lead
ing bank examiners Of the state
was a fancy county banker. In
short she doesn't know solitary
thing about politics in Taney
county, ST. Louis or Missouri, yet
IN the confidence of her noble an
cestry, which she can trace clear
back to 1872, she calmly passes
judgment on our participation in
state affairs.
We agree with the learned at
torney in the Kentucky night-rider
case VITO said that a woman can
not lie, she simply misstates the
facts. Virginia Lawrence" is no
liar, but when it comes to mis-
stating the facts she would cop
the pennant in any league that
could be organized. We will
make her this proposition. We
will give years scholarship at the
School of the Ozark to any one She