The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-03-02
BY FRANCIS PHILLIPS.
coprlghl. lslO, b he MatIonaI Nsus ssn!os.

cause women, having no part in the
government. no voice In the laws, are
taxed without representation and the
men themselves have defined taxation
without representation to be tyranny.
They have also defined that the just
powers Of government are by the con-
sent of the governed, and the women
Of this country have never been allow
ed to express an opinion whether they
favor high tariff, low tariff, or no tar
if at all.
81 contend that women have a right
to smuggle; that the woman who
smuggles into this country violates
none of her country's laws. She is
not a law-breaker. but a patriot. She
is the leader Of a great cause.
''The women never have been the
great smugglers. A woman smuggles
few bits Of lace, or trinklets for her
relatives or friends. OF paltry value,
while men almost openly and defiant
~ smuggle sugar, treasures Of art,
priceless gems. ETC.. and the man
smuggies for sale OF gain, and the wo-
man srnuggles to give happiness to
her friends, but II was of a woman
the authorities made the first example,
The men are stupid. As a sop to US,
a college professor has advised women
to dance and forget their restlessness.
We have better plan; we will make
the men dance before we get through
with them"
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Of wtfe-beaters hailed to court for
raltresting their better halves, City
Magistrate Appleton this week public
iy advocated the restoration OF the
whipping post" as the most effective
means of stopping the abuse of wo-
men.
| brought before me for beating their
little. frafl. Woodworking wives were
given do~e Of their own medicine, .
ne said yesterday, 1T would do them
good. AS II IS now, in the majority of
cases when the Judge imposes sentence
upon wife-beatsr. he really Furnishes
the wife more than the guilty hus-
band.
tence upon man, sends him to the
workhouse for from one day TO six
months, or fines him, he usually takes
the bread out Of the mouth Of the
mans wife and family by deprivtng
them OF the profits of the husbands
and fathers labor. II the magistrate
suspends sentence. the man usually
walks straight out OF court and beats
his wife for having hiro hailed there.
OF course. sometimes this last scheme
works The man in fear of further
Ipunishments refrains from mistreatins
his wife.
but In my opinion the entire list OF
punishments the law may visit upon
wife-beaters is inadequate The good
old whipping I think. would dc
more good than anything else. al
though people viii probably call me 9
brute for saying So"
For the first time In many years
Wall street, usually indifferent to as
sauits upon its methods of doing bust
ness. which have furnished ''muckrak.
ers' with rich material for decade, Ii
squirming under fire. In its defiant
refusal to list on the Stock EXCHANGE
the s5o,ooo.Ooo worth of city bonds re-
Gently over subscribed Ave times, be-
i SS~NHS NNAS l4a44AO4Ph4Alys III OEQCI It
save 81, 900 in their engraving, plans
to give the Job to a bank-note com.
pany not approved by the Exchange
The street has stirred the fighting
spirit Of Mayor Gaynor. Branding the
action of the Exchange as an arbi.
trary, unprineipled attempt to gougs
the city out OF money and compel il
to humble itself to its exactions, the
city's chief executive has given notice
that he intends to take the matter t.
the courts II necessary BY its franz
admission that its only reason fol
withholding its consent to the listint
Of the city's securities on the Elk,
change is its animus to the favored
bank-note company, its officers hav,
inadvertently furnished to those VIII,
hold that the Exchange is NOTHING
more than a gambling institution
proof of their contention that the in.
trinsic value Of stock has nothing t
do with its admission or rejection anC
that its listing by the Exchange is n,
guarantee Of its merit. Coinciden
with the development of this muss
which it is expected will lead to legis
lattve action for the state regulation
! OF the Exchange, the premature ex
posture of the effort Of the fnancia
interests of The Street to get contro
Of the most widely circulated maya
zines OF the country, and the acquisi
ton Of the Paper Trust and the Iarges
periodical distributing agency of tn,
United States. through which it hope
to exercise censorship over some o
I the muckrakers. has added to its wor
ries. This exposure has served Z
turn the spotlight on the so-callet
financial departments" inaugurate,
OF late by a number Of the magazine
in which its influence is now domi
, hnant, In which investors are advised t
buy stocks that are well-known me
diums for Wall street exploitation anc
warned against others that do not lent
themselves to wildcat speculation. A
If this were not enough, The Stree
has been baked in its plans to merg,
the Independent telephone companie
: of the country with the Bell system
which it had looked to provide 1t witt
soft pickings for the next twelv
months. This altruistic plan, whiel
: would have brought under a singh
control all the lines Of land com