The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1910-04-22
Kisses FOR
PRESIDENT TAFT
Woman's Suffrage League
Confirms His Position.
Not Yet Capable Of Self Govern
ment are Seekers for
Right to Vote.

washington, ~. u, April lb.-AI
episode of the week of no very great
importance, but withal having some
significance, was the address of the
President TO the leaders of the Ma
tbonal Woman's Suffrage Association
In this city. The President did not
squarely take issue with the propogan
da, but expressed some doubt as to
the ultimate results of the enfran-
chisement of the sex. These doubts
were perhaps justified from his long
study and observation of male suf-
frage and from his knowledge that tn
man best qualified to vote most fire.
quently had his vote cancelled by The
worst qualified voter. He knows, as
does every statesman, that suffrage
is at best a makeshift and that un-
til combined psychometer and phre-
nometer shall be invented which
will accurately take stock of the
mind and morals of the voter and a
law be passed that win enable every
mans vote to weigh according TO
his stock of sense and soul, popular
suffrage cannot be more than a
Numbering, clumsy instrument for
the attainment of wisdom and purity
in government 1t is the mistake of
a few hundred OF perhaps few thous
and good women to imagine that they
have In suffrage a panacea for the
cure of bad government, They have
not Thought enough or gone deep
enough historically or philosophically
into the subject Well, Mr.. Taft tried
10 tell them something of this kind,
although he would not have dared 10
have spoken out as plainly as your
humble correspondence and his gentle
advice was received with htsEes and
cat calls, almost under the caves of
the White House, from the ladies in
the audience, who showed that they
were no more polite than men and
even less reverential. Whatever may
be said against the PRESIDENT, he Is
a man a gentleman. If these ladies'
had called DR.. Samuel Johnson, they
would doubtless have been received
with the Fiddle de de, my dears" in
which he replied to a depu.ation of
ladies who congratulated him on
the publication of Rasselas. Today
IL is said the responsible members Of
the National Woman's Suffrage League
are trying to throw the responsibility
for the impodteness upon unattached
female hoodlums in the aundience.
The work for the establishment Of
a Washington memorial in the shape
OF a great forum or hall to be used
by visiting delegations and congresses
from all parts of the limited States
and the world Is proceeding success
fully. The structure ds ito be known
as the George Washington Memorial
Building. Tentative plans for the
building, which will contain an i'm
mense auditorium seating not less
than five scientific and Itinerary and
patriotic societies, have been sub
miuted- 1t rs also proposed that future
inaugural balls shall be held In this
memorial building.
Indications point to the adoption
by Congress of the two battleship
program. Senator Hale of Maine, a
strenuous opponent OF big ships. 1T Is
thought will not oppose them this
year, and tina sentiment for these
colossal ships is strong in the House
of Representatives. There was much
talk In the early part OF the session
about an empty treasury and that
1t was needful to be economical Their
has recently been little talk of tSis
kind. The revenues of the government
are rapidly increasing under the
present tariff.
There was much talk in the early
part OF the session about an extern
sive waterways program Senator Bur-
ton Of Ohio, than whom no one better
understands the inland navigation stu
alton, has filed, minority report on
the Rivers and Harbors BILL 1t will
be remembered that Senator Burton
was for many years head OF the
Rivers and Harbors Committee of the
lower House. He there acquired a
more through knowledge at first hand