The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1910-10-16
The New Politics.


The new issues all have this much
IN common: They are all at bottom
economic, and economic in a very
| strict derivative sense Of the word
all questions of national housekeeping,
OF the safeguarding, the development,
and the distribution of our immense
national Inheritance. John Sherman
said long ago that nine-tenths of the
legislation Of peace is the legislation
! OF finance, and if finance be taken in
| It's fullest meaning that is truer today
than when he said it. I am not sure
that 1t has not also always been true;
| but the rapid and revolutionary de-
velopment OF the means, and the swift
widening Of the scale, of production
and transportation-the marvellous
extension of the principle Of combi-
/ nation into every branch of industry
and business-this change has trans
formed bewilderingly the entire field
with which economic legislation must
deal. It is not merely that we are ap-
preaching 'the problems of old socie
ties and crowded countries" Those
problems have taken on for us new
| aspects, aspects hardly known else
, where, and truly American vastness
Of rance We can and should profit
by close study of European and ASH
attic experience. The way we are at
last coming to study that experience
Is perhaps the most convincing, as it
is the most natural, manifestation of
our changing temper. But the guild
ance we can get from the older coun-
tries, however valuable, is limited
There are things we must work out
| for Ourselves-in which We must our.
selves be guides and pioneers; for the
new industry, the new ways in busi-
ness and finance, are much farther ad-
vanced with us, and much more firm
ly established, than with the older peo-
| ples.-William CARROT Brown in The
North American Review for October
What Mary Thought About Marriage.
Mary had a very strong opinion to
the effect that in SO far as the quality
| Of her children could be affected by
| their home training, she was glad she
had spent at least few years earning
her living.
Every woman said Mary, Ought
to have some little time for developing
into an individual. Home won't do it
altogether. Not nowadays. The CO.
lonial home did, being part of the
working world. But what is the mod
ern home? 1t is a nest, an eddy, a
shelf, a nook. It's something apart
from the world. II woman>is going
to prepare her son for knowledge of
the real world, If she's going to be
able to give him training which
has in it an understanding and an
appreciation of the real world, if she's
going to be able to edcuate him into
real living, she must nowadays and in.
creasingly in the future have some ex-
perience Of her own on her own &C.
count in the real world before she
becomes mother. A reasonable post.
ponement of motherhood till the fu-
ture mother becomes competent in
dividual Is a good thing
"The trouble about that" said John,
els that it makes you too independent
of me. Your proposition is to start in
and earn you living till you're pretty
good at it. That is, you wouldn't
marry me till you were sure you could
chuck me-
well, it has that side. But it has
its other side, too"
Isn't there, after all, something
rather pleasant for John in knowing
knowing, that Mary isn't cleaving un
to him simply because she can't shut
for herself? Something exquisitely
gratifying in being certain, certain
that it isn't Just necessity that keeps
her home woman?
'If were a man living in wedlock, >
| said Mary, Il should want the door OF
the cage always wide open, with my
mate f1uttering straight by it every
minute to still nestle by me. And
should want her wings to be strong
and / should want her to know that il
she went out she could fly.
For keeping her. said Mary, %
should want to t rust to my own wings
/. and not to ars"-William Hard il
the October Evsrybody's.
The Boy at thu End Of the Straw.
AS a boy near Cape Cod, / lived neal
an old cider mil4 The hard old Yam
kee who owned this mill told the boy
that if we would pick three barrels o