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The wageworker., 1910-05-13

The Present Moment the Best,
Time is memorable. Do not wait I'M
I'll next week or until to morrow: do
1t now.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
A DISTINGUISHED VIRGINIAN
COMES HOME.

Sir Moses Ezekiel, virglnian who
has long been an exile. is back in
America and should soon be in Rich
mond. Rich in honors and notable in
artistic achievement, he comes back
to the State which gave him birth to
witness the unveiling Of three OF his
works OF art-the Jefferson statue at
the University of Virginia, the Jack
son statue at Charlestown, West vir-
ginia, and a. monument to the Con-
federate prisoners of war who died at
Johnson's Island. The first named
statue is a gift from the sculptor to
the University, the others are the lat
est of a long line OF notable works of
art.
Sir Moses should be welcomed home
as one who has gained an honorable
name for American art on the other
side of the Atlantic and as one of the
most illustrious sculptors America has
produced. He has not been much
in the public eye but his art has
been sincere, his aims have been high
and his finished work has been high
" appreciated by all those who have
studied It, His studio in Rome is one
of the most interesting spots in the
Eternal City and his guests have in
cluded from time to time the greatest
hgures of Europe.
1t is a pity that America-and espe.
oially virsinia-cannot keep this dis
tinguished artist at home. We need
him and we need others like him to
give us better art and to foster the
aesthetic sense of our people. If
Richmond could capture him and hold
him, he would do much for the city
and for the country.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
SHOULD KEEP TO THE nEAp.

The State Presidents OF tho National
Wholesale Liquor Dealers met in Gin
cinnati day before yesterday and de-
oided to wage active war against pro-
hibition. The time has come, they in
sisted, for the men who make the
liquor to defend its use and to make
a decisive fight against the dry"
wave.
The Liquor Dealers had perfect
right to take this position. They nave
millions invested in business that is
threatened with destruction. Their
property is being attacked. They have
a right to guard it. This, however,
does not make their action wise In
fact. this appears to be one OF the
times when the mon most interested IN
the fight should keep to the rear. The
liquor men are their own worst
enemies in a fight against prohibitihn
They are a fair mark-men who live
on profits OF their brothers shame"
and the lile--and their activity always
arouses the opposition of men who
would otherwise take merely a passing
interest In liquor legislation.
If the !iqdor men insist on doing
their lighting by attacking temperance
work and temperance workers. they
may expect the worst. The liquor
question will be made a moral ques-
ton, and morality, so called, Will win.
The honest efforts of all good men
who are lighting for solution OF the
liquor question has been to restore
the discussion of the question 70 a.
sane basis. Avoiding all moral phases
OF the subject, these men nave sought
to work tho problem out quietly,
reasonably and on Its merits. They
havo done much. and would have done
more but for those who Will not view
the matter otherwise than as q moral
issue; yet the prominence OF the liquor
mon will merely increase their diff
culties and postpone sane solution OF
the problem
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
FETCH rll.,, IN FREE.

The unhappy fate of Governor Rol-
Inns, of New Hampshire, leads the
Springfield Republican to suggest that
his punishment ought to have a damp
ening effect on that class of American
travel which figures out the saving on
clothes and other things which must
be had before concluding to make a
trip to Europe
We do not know what Loeb has
done about 1t or what he will do about
IT. but we would suggest as a friend
Of the family that some provision
should be made now by special. act of
Congress or otherwise for the free adj
mission of all things brought into this
country by any former President of the
United States who may have been
travelling on the other side, There may
be some sort of authority already
lodged with the customs officials in
such cases. but certainly there should
be no mistake about it.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
MELcoME no rHE NEGRO.

Delegates from Great Britain re-
ferred in some of their addresses at the
Sunday school convention in Washing
ton to the action of the local commit
ice in keeping the negroes out of the
Bible class parade. They said such
a thing would not have happened in
England, where the negro can occupy
positions oman equality with his white
brother" We are glad to hear it.
There has been objection to all the
schemes of colonizing the negro in
Africa, and now England is opened as
the place for the negroes to go. and
welcome. 1t Is really remarkable how
quickly these Britishers can settle such
questions as this out of hand After
a few days in this country they know
exactly what should be done and how
it should be done.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
BUILT UP BY A RAILROAD.

The Charlotte Evening Chronicle
complains that the new Southern Rail
way Textile Directory, showing the
number OF cotton mills IN the terri,ory
tributary TO 1t. is not as accurate as 1t
should be. 1T can ind only fifteen tex
tile plants in Charlotte. 1t gives spray
seven mills. when it has nine Lenoir,
which is tributary to the Southern
territory, is left out altogether" The
Chronicle says that there are probably
other shortages; but IT admits that
the directory comes nearer being ac-
curate than most publications OF the
kind"
i, would appear from the directory
that the Southern Railway has not
neglected the Industrial opportunities
of Charlotte. Indeed. IL has made them
and nurtured them, and keeps on
taking care Of them, greatly TO the ad-
,yantage,ot all the people living in that
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
RAYyER,s CALL TO ARMs.

Senator lsador Rayner is one OF the
he never appeared to better advantage
than in the letter he addressed on
Tuesday to the Chairman of the Mary
land Central Democratic Committee.
In this letter Mr.. Rayner besought the
Maryland Democrats to adopt plat
form for the coming Congressional
campaign which should have one plank
and one only--the honest downward
revision OF the tariff to revenue
basis In draft of such q platform
which he sent Chairman yandtver, Mr..
Rayner would pledge the Maryland
Democrats to the nomination of Con-
gressmen who, 'if elected to Congress,
will vote for repeal of this obnoxious
legislation" (thc Aldrich tariff and
Will put in its place a tariff for revc-
nue. only.
This is the first definite call to the
party on the first definite issue that
has been presented by the Democrats
since 1892. and 1t spells victory. 1t is
the one thing the country most needs
the one thing upon which the Demo-
Gratis have an unimpeachable record,
and the one thing upon which. in for
mer times, they have swept to victory.
The Maryland Committee meets this
morning, and will probably accept
Senator Rayners platform almost
without amendment. If the committee
do so, its action should be seconded
by every Democratic convention and
committee In the country, and a cam
paign should be at once begun which
cannot but end In victory. 1t is no
foolish prediction boasting which
sees in the present situation the best
opportunity the Party of the Constttu
ton has had in more than two de-
cades. and it is no vain prediction that
an honest tariff may be forthcoming
with q year If the party Will but
seize the opportunity.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
UWOtIES.o

Some Of our friends among the fair
sex. we are told, object to being
spoken of in the public prints as 'wo-
men" They prefer to be called Ia
dies" and ladies' they really are, for
the which reason wo do them the
honor of Identifying them by the
name God gave them, women one
of the noblest words in all the Ian
guaee. They have been called women
ever since they started. When the
first one was made out of bony part
of man she was SO denominated. way
back in the Sixth Century, old Merlin
wrote
Whan the queene vndirstode tho
a-vow that Gawein hadde made, she
was the gladdest woman In the
worlde."
We have searched the Holy Scrip
lures and find only three or four ref
erences to lady" and ladies" The
Book is filed. however. with ''wo-
men, the most of whom We're doing
something worth while. and are spok-
en- of with great respect All this was
written, it is true, before the days OF
Bridge parties and hot suppers and
equal suffrage leagues and sodalities
of one sort and another There is tho
exquisite story of Jonathan and David,
in which David, lamenting the death
Of Saul and Jonathan, cried out in
his agony of spirit: II am distressed
for thee, my brother Jonathan; /.
thy love to me was wonderful, pass
ing the love of women" Now, how
would that sound If David had said,
passing the love of ladies'? We
are told that 'in all the land were no
women found so fair as the daughters,
of lob" Not ladies'" mind you; but
women" Nobody ever thought OF
calling them ladies, although that is
| what they were--Jemima. Kezia and
also Keren- happuch, three of the
| loveliest girls in the land of uz. 1t
was predicted by Isaiah that the day
would come when seven women not
ladies' would take hold of one man.
Nobody ever thinks of speaking OF
gentlemen's meetings, 1t is the Young
Mems Christian Association, not
the Young Gentlemen's Christian
/ Association, 1t is the Wo-
mans Suffrage Association. not
the Ladies Suffrage Association. 1t is
the Womans Missionary Board. no,
the Ladies' Missionary Board, How
1 would Mrs, Ellots THE Women OF
1.-THE American Revolution" look If i,
We're called The Ladies of the Amer
lean Revolution? 1t is the woman's
] Exchange, not the Lady's Exchange
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26

not give the world some new con-
str'iction of the law. They are grind
Ing day and night they are passing
on every law from the pentateuch to
the last ordinance OF the City Council:
they are stretching old laws to meet
new conditions and are shaping new
laws to At old problems. Some OF the
decisions OF these courts are good:
some are bad. and some draw forth
the anathenlns of the app ellate Judges.
but all that the New York courts do
has at least the virtue Of novelty-if|
that be a virtue in courts.
The latest ruling of the New York
judges comes from no higher author
ity than Police Court Justice, but
it is important ii legal. A few days
ago, it appears. would-be passenger
on the elevated stopped at the ticket
rendered twenty-dollar note in pay
ment of five-cent fare. The vendor
refused to make the change. and. of
course, the passenger wanted to know
the reason why. Like a loyal Knick-
erbooker, he jawed for fifteen min
utes until the ticket-man had him ar
rested and hailed to court. The man
argued that his note was legal ten
der" and had to be accepted by the
agent, but his reasoning was knocked
into cocked-hat by the Police Court
Solomon, who said that the man had
to offer legal tender for his fare, but
that what was legal tender for a
large debt was not legal tender for a
five-cent debt. He fined the man and
told him to have some common sense
in the future.
The latter advice was probably
wasted, since no New Yorker can be
expected to exercise such quality
when he Is standing on his rights"
but the decision itself should be re-
lief to public service corporations and
to every dealer who suffers from the
change nuisance 1t takes time to
make change, even when 1t is at hand.
and time is the all-important consid-
Grafton where there are hundreds OF
people to be waited on. The company
which does not make change" loses
patronage. but 1T may lose more trade
by being obliging in this respect than
it will make friends by accommodate
ing all corners.
Our local police justice has made a.
decision recently which is dlametri-
cally opposed to that OF the New York
justice. holding that a street-car con-
ductor must make change or haul the
passenger free; but we trust that our
Judge may be wrong Tor once. ana
that his New York colleague may be
sustained.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
r,rr GETTING REELECTION.

In the Northern Presbyterian Cen
eral Assembly in Atlantic City on Mon
day the Rev. Warren II. Wilson said:
I'VE have hopes that in time President
Taft will get religion" That is what
we have been trying to persuade him
to do all these years. That is what
we tried to do when we invited him
TO seat in Pew Number in the dear
old Scotch Church; but he always side
stepped the main question, and now
that the Northern Presbyterians have
centred upon him as one of the brands
that is worth plucking from the burn
ing, we shall, of course. do our part.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
CELEBRATING 4 LITERARY CRIME.


The centenary of Harriet Beecher
stowe will not occur until June Ia,
1911, but her admirers are already
preparing to celebrate that event. a
negro woman signing herself Presi-
dent of the National Association OF
Colored Women" writing in one
of the Washington papers, calls
on all American negroes to
formulate plans for the celebration
Of the day, and urges all negro organ
izations to participate in honoring the
memory of one whose name will ever
be spoken with grateful affectionate
reverence"-one whose memory will
always be cherished"
With all proper respect for the
memory of Mrs. stowe who was a
very good woman according to her
lights, we would suggest that the cele-
bration be left entirely to the ne
groes. hundred years is a long
time in the resentment of people,
and it's passage has probably removed
the bitterness which the South felt for
two generations towards Mrs. stowe.
If we read Southern sentiment Alright,
our people no longer hate the mem
Dry of Mrs. Stowe and can speak of
Uncle Toms Cabin" without anger;
but neither the South nor the nation
can afford to approve of Mrs. Stoves
methods. She committed the unpar-
donable literary sin of taking a case
as type, and she offended against
every Just law of literature by typi-
flying the blacklist phase of slavery as
slavery itself. If her centenary serves
to impress this fact upon the North,
it may we'll be celebrated; otherwise,
we believe the negroes whom size can
onized will be the best votaries to
worship at her shrine.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
ATTACKING THE GOLDEN n,,,.r

l.
Like a bolt from the blue comex
the report that Fred kohler. cleve-
land Chief of Police, and author OF the
golden rule" method of handltn,
criminals. has been accused O, all,
manner of shortcomings, and is to he
cited before the Police Board OF the
Ohio town. Kohler is charged with
habitual drunkenness, Incompetence
and failure to obey the orders of his
superiors and must show cause why
he should not be removed from office
This is a hard blow for many people.
kohler has long been regarded as a
model police officer, and his system
has been praised from Maine to
Arizona. 1t is hard on him to receive
this setback at the height of his fame.
Then, too. 1t is hard on the Colonel.
for he once denominated Kolller as the
"country's best chief" and would have
invited him to lunch at the White House
had he visited Washington. Kohler
believed that the chief function OF
the police was not to make arrests but
to prevent trouble, and he insisted that
his men should never pull, an or
fender unless there was reason to be-
lieve that he was guilty OF crime
rather than of carelessness. Common
DRINKS We're not sent to the police
station. and simple fst-fghts In the
streets were amicably settled. The
number of arrests in Cleveland de-
clined greatly and the general condi-
ton Of the town was said to have
been much improved.
We sincerely trust that the attack
on kohler will fall to the ground, but
we suspect that the attack is more on
the system than on the man. Tho
Cleveland ring has not regarded the
Idea with favor, and has never cared
for the plan worked out by the man
whom Tom Johnson made chief of
police almost seven years ago.
Consistently, year in, year out,
the golden rule" has been at
tackled and the methods Of the police
who administered 1t have been critl-
cised. 1t looks at this distance as
though the town was getting tired OF
the golden way OF doing to others as
it would that others should do unto it.
and has decided to go back to It's ole
iron way.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26

II any OF the Texas watermelons
should by any mlschance get into the
Richmond market and the health oftl-
GERS of this city should exercise the
greatest activity in keeping them out,
we would advise that no one attempt
to eat them or any part Of them until
they have been thoroughly fumigated,
and, to be on the safe side, they should
he boiled after they have been fumi-
gated Boiled and eaten with cabbage
they might be classed as fairly hllins
roughness, Gone Johnson never eats
them. -, - ~ : 3s9
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
THE GRAND YOUNG MAN is SAFE

THE GRAND YOUNG Man Is SAFE.
The Grand Young Man of the Re-
publican household slept finely last
night. Things were breaking well
with him. so to say, and the news from
Indiana brought a smile TO his fair
young face. at the primary held in
indianapolis on Tuesday. his hench-
men were elected to the Assembly al
most without exception, and enough
delegates were nominated from Repup-
lican districts to make 1t practically
certain that when the time comes the
leather-lunged orator Of the Indiana
Legislature viii vociferously declare
for six more years Of Beveridgc Hence
the slumber and hence the smiles.
1t begins to look as though the In
diana Sun were coming from its LONG
eclipse, and were soon to move again
in its majestic course across the Re
publican firmament. 1t has not done
much shining OF late. Somehow, or
somehow else. the country has for
gotten Beveridges former glories and
has been looking on him as one OF
those who rose like rock and ftll
like a stone. After his coming to
the Senate, things went finely for a
number of years. He made speeches
which imprudent and foolish news
papers reprnted; he went abroad and
saw things that nobody else saw; nc
lectured to Chatauquas and was al
ways ready to tell how Bright Young
Man might rise TO fame. Then the
Colonel went away and the young mar
was forgotten until he bJobbed up
serenely at election time.
What is to be the end Of Beveridge,
anyway? He has been In public life
for long time considering his youth
but he seems no nearer the Cabinet
and no nearer the Presidency than he
was five years ago. Is he punctur-
ed balloon, or is he staying long thai
he may soar high. Maybe the Colone
knows?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26

the woman's Club--they'vc got 1t on
the doorplate where everybody can
see 1t in passlng-not the Ladies'
Club.
1t is related by George AIDE, the al
legged American humorist and play
wright, that once when he was trav-
cling somewhere or other, he was
asked by some Sultan or other, DE-
the women in your country smoke CT
garettes, Mr.. Ade?' NO, your ma
jesty, the women do not. but the la
dies do"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26

The Houston Post prints whole
page largely devoted to the ADVERTISE
ment OF an ocean vessel that has
arrived at that port, 1t Is said to have
been loaded with fruit and hides and
to have sailed from Tamplco. Mexico.
1t looks a little strange to civilized
people that the Texans should prefer
to take, their fruit with hides; but that
is the habit OF that country. Judging
by tho photograph of this ocean yes
sell" 1t is about the size Of one of our
Main Street trolley cars. But 1T is a
beginning.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26

represented that the proposition had
prevailed by majority of five.
We do not believe in naning changes
just for the sake OF making them. The
old names and tho old ways are good
enough for us.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
NO CHANGE IN NAME OR CREED,
YET.

The Rev. DR.. w. Asbury Christian
informs us that The Times -DispatcF
was mistaken in saying that the Cen
eral Conference at Asheville changed
either the name or the creed of the
Methodist Church He says in note
we have received from him. and for
which we thank him:
The proposition was to submit to
the conferences the question whether
the name should be changed, This
cannot be decided for four years. The
question as to changing the words Of
the creed from Holy Catholic Church
TO The Church of God was defeated
This change referred to the Apostles
Creed"
We make the corrections as request
ed with a great deal of pleasure and
with much satisfaction, as under the
polity of the Church the great body
Of Methodist believers will now have
the opportunity of passing ION botn
questions with probably a clearer view
than the delegates 10 the Conference
at Asheville could Have done in the
multiplicity of matters requiring
their attention, The mistake as TO
the proposed change in the creed was
the result Of q telsggaphlc error. which
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26

region Doubtless 1T would do all the
other things the Charlotte newspapers
insist that 1t shall do II 1t could do
them without disadvantage to other
communities and sections in like situa-
ton.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
Tie Virginia Copvention.

Can any of your readers tell me
where the Virginia convention of 1851
vas passed? MRS. j. r. w.
The convention assembled in the hall
% the House OF Delegates February IL.
1851, but adjourned at once to the hal,
OF the Mechanics Institute. Ninth
street, near Bank, as the Assembly was
OF secession was passed the Assem-
bly, adjourned and the convention
moved back to the hall OF the House.
1t was here that the ordinance of So.
cesslon was passed at 3:i5 p. NJ. April
u. 1Shl
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
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you Will answer the following ques-
tons:
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2. In case ! send it to some short
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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26
IN A VERY BAD WAY.

Here at our elbows. murder, una
fraid and insolent. mocks our snug
claims. To civilization in other lands
we send the tacit admission that our
courts are paralyzed, the feet OF our
law shod with lead, justice manacled."
This is taken from the Atlanta Con-
stitution and is reproduced here as a
solemn warning to those who have any
idea of going to Georgia to live or to
do business. Manifestly, a. State in
which there are many potentially
cracked wheels" on the railroad en-
gines and in which the courts are par
alyzed and the feet OF the law shod
with lead. and justice is in handouts.
is not a State in which prudent men
would risk either their lives or their
fortunes
There are some parts of Georgia.
however, in which this desperate con-
d!tion of things does not obtain-in
and property are reasonably safe, and
it men must go to that State at all,
and we do not see why they should
when they can come to Virginia with
lInpunity, they will not take any con-
siderab!z risk in establishing them
selves in the communities we have
noted. No quiet and law abiding citi-
zen would care. of course, to start in
Atlanta where murder, unafraid and
insolent," is at our elbows" mocking
our Snug claims"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-05-26

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