The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1911-10-16
GOTHAM GOSSIP
(Ry Francis Phillips. Copyright 1910. by the National News Service. N. Y.)

l New York Oct. IA. The statement of United States Dis
 trict Attorney Wise that all the clerks and officers of the defunct Bank of
 North America, who testified against Charles F. Morse, former "Ice King and principal owner of the institution. now in the Federal jail at Atlanta, have been blacklisted by the bankers of New York has caused big stir in financial circles here. Of the seven employees of the bank, who assisted the government in prosecuting Morse, according to Mir Wise-and the rec ords substantiate him-not one has since been able to secure employment in any bank in the city. One died from a broken heart, when he realized that he was being blacklisted and that his life's training as a banker, af- ter a quarter of a century of experi- ence was no longer of any avail to him. Most of the bankers of the city deny the existence of a blacklist or understanding to punish those who helped the government fix respOnsibil- ity on Morse for his manipulation of the funds of the bank of North Amer ica, but the men themselves say that they have walked their feet off visit ing the various institutions in search of work, without avail. What hurt the bankers more than the charge that there was a disposition among them to discourage bank, clerks and subor- dinates from telling the truth to the government in the prosecution of dere- lect officials was the blunt observa- tion of the District Attorney that the dishonesty and crOokednesS in banks was generally to be found at the top and not at the bottom. Following on the heels of the charge made earlier in 10 thot Wall the banks to sandbag and crush indus tries and enterprises in competition with the monopolieS and trusts in which High Finance is interested, by refusing to extend them credit on gilt edged collateral and by calling in loans at critical times, the intimation by MT. wise of a need of reform higher up'' has served to keep the financial district on the firing line pretty much all week.
 In connection with the activity of the banks in helping Wall street throt- tie railroads, independent telephone and telegraph companies, that it as- pires to acquire at a sacrifice or throttle, the story of Arthur E.. Still we'll, President of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient R. R. who when invited to drop that enterprise is re- ported to have told J. Pierpont Nor gan to go to Hades, was being told . houses of the city.
 Father Bernard Vaughn, the London Jesuit, who arrived in New York last week is stirring things up here, much after the fashion he did last year in the British capital by his denunc- iation of the sins of the idle rich" His strong opposition to women's suf- frage has injected a new and lively element of interest into the fight of that body for recognition. The more militant of the suffra gettes resent his suggestion that they give more time ito their babies and household duties than to the dirty work of politics.
 "The great need of the day is that man should be more manly and wom- an more womanly'' he says. Tt is great mistake to suppose that man and woman are in everything equal. They are in nothing equal except in origin and in destiny. God made them so that they should be comple- mentary to each other. Each gives to the other what the other has not, and it is the indissoluble union of the two that goes to make up the perfect being.
 ."To suppose that man and woman were in everything alike was to show pitiful lack of common wit. Not even physically are they alike. If woman had to strive for the prize of life on the same platform with man she would inevitably in the struggle go under. should indeed pity her when once her youth was gone and her beauty fled. AS the weaker ves- sel of the two she would have to go to the wall.''
 Harry Phillips of London, to whose remarks on the subject of women's suffrage the Jesuit took exception during a meeting of the passengers on ho Nor she making for this port, gave out an interview here the other day in which he ad- vised the women of New York to give their husbands, bfothers and sons nothing to eat. until they consented to give them the +rigHt to share in the ballot with them To this happy sug- gestion. the average New Yorker who foots the bills. plaintively inquires, what would happen if the shoe was put on the other foot and he laid down the law that until the he-s -skirted sex stopped meddling in politics, there would be no more hats, gowns. artifi- cial cultures, jeWelry. ct cetera on a sort of tit-for-tat basis. As most of the influential suffragettes of the city make a great show of these things, the idea of cutting them off, does not ap- peal Wherefore MT. Phillips advice will not command much serious at tentiOn.
 Supreme Court Justice Ford said some things the other day anent the subject of divorce that has set New York, which is the greatest matrimonial trouble center in the world, a think ing and a talking. The remarks of the court were provoked by an action for the dissolution of the marriage tie submitted to him for adjudication. In the course of the suit, counsel for the husband turned to Justice Ford and asked: Under the circumstances if Your Honor were in my clients place would you be willing to take this woman back and support her?"
 Justice Ford appeared taken by sur prise, but replied: ''To answer your question as a man and not as judge, I would say that if my wife brought an action for separation or divorce, no matter what the circum- stances were, I would not defend it. Even if, as it is claimed in this case, my wife had acted improperly, still would not hinder her suit in any way When it came to question of a financial settlement I would give her
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