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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
THE IRISH sUFFRAGIsTs

The Irish sufragsts of all persons ought not to be surprised at English severity in the punishment of pot crimes The United States the only that has set example of moderation in the treatment of of lenses of this character Aaron Burr could not be victed Lincoln's moderation brought amnesty without reprsa to rebels who had cost the nation much blood and treasure.
 England's severity toward the Irish sufragists is reflex of severity toward the advocates Irish liberty England does and always has done to political offenders what it has been the practice of other European ments to do.
 Every cause with justice and freedom for it's aim has been accompanied by the martrdom of it's advocates
 The world is surprised not that the Irish sufra gsts received severe punishment but that they did receive severer punishment.
 A great movement cannot-in the present sem-sav- age state of society forward without losses to it's members and pain to the individuals who make up it's leadership
 There is a stupidity perhaps an inertia-in the social mind which makes it dim to hopes and better ways until it is jared into activity by the barbarss of special torture directed at those who march side by side with progress.
 To women who desire vote males of the government have said You cannot vote because you cannot carry arms. " Government, these say, ITS FOUNDED UPON THE sWoRDo
 If some women, with this maxim in mind, resort to species of force to evangehze for their cause it not strange.
 When women demand right and force denies the right some women with large inheritance from the fathers sde will force with force opposing to the lnreason of government the of hatchet and torch.
 Let hope for day when in the domain of reason right may be winnowed from wrong. Until then truth will oppose the violence of injustice with counter violence There will be martyrs to the truth and in their ferng blood in the rank soil of their pershed liberty truth will flourish nightly
 The moral is that the English government cannot much longer withhold justice from the of the United Kingdom.
 Women daughters of men. The blood of their fathers their veins Even their fathers wrested justice from battle field prison and stake, will they do it. fsaa r
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
MORE OIL NEEDED

The use of oil, instead of water to lay dust on the streets, has been a decided success. But on some streets one application of oil has not been enough These streets need another application. The dust is already be- ginning to fly on them. A remedy should be furnished before many citi- gems acquire prejudice against the use of oil. It will be cheaper in the long run to spend little more money for complete dust protection, than to create feeling in favor of a. return to water. which never adequately laid the dust
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
KEIR HARDIE, ENGLISH
 SOCIALIST, 56 TO-DAY

Keir Hardie. the grizzled Scotsman who is chairman of the Independent Labor Party of Great Britain and So- cialist leader in the British Parlia- ment, will celebrate his fifty-sixth birthday today, according to report, by preparing for a. campaign tour through America. MT. Hardie, who visited America some time ago and iectured before the Socialists of a number of cities, is said to contem- plate stump speaking tour across the United States, from New York to San Francisco, in behalf of Debs and Seidel, the candidates for President and Vice President on the Socialist ticket
 Socialism has few more forceful propagandists than the examiner who is now the head of the parliamentary Marxians of Great Britain. He is typically Scotch in appearance, with a heavy beard that frames his face deep set and piercing eyes and a forehead creased with the lines that come from a deep and sober thinking. He smokes almost continually, pipe by prefer ence, and his photographs usually de- pict him with the inevitable briar in his mouth.
 James Keir Hardie-although the James has been all but lost in the shuffle-was born in Scotland, Aug. 15, 1856, of working class parents, both Scotch His youth was given to hard and unceasing toll, and he had prac- ticaly no schooling, as his scanty wage was necessary to keep the wolf from the door, He was only seven years old when he began toiling in the mines, and the following seventeen years were mainly spent underground. Then he was elected secretary of the Miners Union, and began the career as a labor organizer that has spread his fame over the world. For four years he was editor of the Cu1Enock News, and his bold and fearless edi- torial expressions, couched in the best of English despite his lack. of early
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
CATHOLICS OF WORLD TO
 SCELEBRATE ASSUMPTION

Catholics throughout the world will celebrate the feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. This festival, observed annually on the if teenth of August, is in honor Of the Virgin, said to have been taken up body and spirit, on this day, A. D. 45. in her seventy fifth year. Assufnp- ton Day was instituted in the sew entil century and was enjoined by the council of Mentz in S13
 One of the most remarkable observ- ances of the day in America win be that at Holy Hill, near Milwaukee, where the shrine of the Blessed Virgin Mary attracts thousands of pilgrims from all over the central West Vis- itors sometimes make the ascent of the hill on their knees, while others place pebbels in their shoes in enula- ton of the martyrs. Instances are related of the i'll and lame, unable to leave their beds, having been healed the moment prayers were offered for them at the shrine by those who had made the journey in their behalf. AL though the remarkable results of these pilgrimaSes are not vouched for by the Catholic Church, the site has been considered holy ground ever since Fa- ther Marouette selected it as a place for fasting and prayer, in 1673, and placed a rude wooden cross on the peak of the hiH and dedicated 1t to the Blessed Virgin Mary.
 Brittany, the western department Of France. is probably the country in which the feast of Assumption is most generally celebrated. The Breton peasant is much given to festal ob- servances. and the Pardon of the fif- teenth of August is not the least pie turesoue of his religious fetes. Iglm- boring carts bring the peasants into Ian m carriages and the tourists in big mo- tor cars that seem strangely out or nlaee. Some of the villages offer races and fairs as features of the ob- servance of the Pardon, but the cos tunes of the peasantry are the cnieI attractions for the non Breton visitor. In the morning the women and chil- dren 20 to church, while most of the men gather in the cabarets to drink and smoke and gossip. The big feature of the day Is the procession led by young women carrying an lm- age of the Virgin.
 Los Angeles, the beautiful Southern California metropolis, will to-day eel ebrate it's 131st birthday, since it was founded by Spanish padres on Aug. IS, 17S1. Of late years the anniver- ssry has been celebrated by the So- ciety La Reina de Los Angeles, which
 
 costumes, sports and pastimes of the days when the village of Our Lady, the Queen of the Angels was the far western outpost of Spain. In those days life centered about the Plaza, where an adobe church still stands as relic of the dim past, it's mason ry mellow with age and it's Spanish paintings telling of other days.
 To-day is the centennial of the bat tie of Wrasnei, in which the French under Napoleon defeated the Rus sians. It is also the centennial or the evacuation of Fort Dearborn, on the site of the present city of Chica go, and the massacre of it's garrison by the Indians. It is the birthday of Napoleon Bonaparte,- born in Corsica, Aug. Is, 1769.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
WHO OPENED SENATOR
 LA FOLLETTE'S MAIL

Congress should pause long enough from less pressing duties to establish a committee. with funds and power, to investigate the charges of mail rifling which have been made by Sem ator LaFollette of Wisconsin.
 This is not the first time that charges of a spy system in the post office have been made.
 During. the Worlds investigation of the Panama scandal its mail was opened, mutilated and offered, to use the. language of its editors.
 Such an infraction upon the Ameri- can system ought not to be permit ted.
 If mail can be opened twice by the postal authorities, without exciting public indignation and prompt action to punish the law violators guilty of 1t. it can be opened three and four and five times, and that which was but an occasional practice may be- come an entrenched custom
 The time to act is now. The time to give quietus to Russian bureau cratic methods is this very moment. A Congressional committee of investi- Fation should be raised at once. The country wants to know who opened senator LaFollette's mail, by whose orders and what for. The guilty ones discovered must receive punishment sufficient to prove warning to fu- lure custodians of U. s. mail.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
YUAN IN DILEMMA
 OVER HIS ENGLISH
 PERSONAL ADVISER

Pekin, Aug. 15.-If he could do it without loosing too much ''face'' President Yuan Sni Kai would cancel the appointment of Dr. George Morri- son, the London Times correspondent, as his personal adviser, it is said in official circles. As his dignity would suffer greatly according to Chinese ideas should he yield under pressure and as Morrison shows no inclination to resign, the president is in a serious dilemma.
 Morrison will go to London shortly, nominally to seek English support of Yuan's policies, but really, it is said, to discuss with high government of- ficials the possibilities of the advan- tages Great Britain may gain through moving one of it's subjects in so influ- ential a position at Pekin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15

speak for himself. This is why at tacks upon the dead are cowardly. The slandering of a dead man is the mental analogy of the practice of savages. who wound and mutilate the physical bodies of their expired foes. That the election of the late Major Starr should have been dragged into contemporary politics was most unfor- tunate. There is nothing in the pres ent upon which that matter can have any conceivable bearing. To charge anonymously that his election was un- fairly accomplished was unnecessary. even infamoups, and the newspaper which lent it's columns to such a use owes an apology to it's readers and to those attributes of mans nature which separate him from the brutes, and makes him love honor and justice. Moreover it is clearly shown that there never was any basis for such an accusation. Major Starr was fairly and honorably elected city engineer. This was the opinion of the Supreme Court, rendered after scrutiny of
 much evidence, and after hearing the arguments of such eloquent counsel and States Attorney Stiles Judson, Jr
 Let us have no more of this journal istic ghoulishness. If it is desired to injure the living. that may be done directly with less offense.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
N. Y. Wholesale Market

Butter-Creamery extra, ID, 26 o 2S 1-2c; dairy tubs, finest 25 O 25 1-2c; good to prime, 23 1-2 O A 1-2c.
 Eggs-Fresh gathered, extras, dog en, 24 O 26c; hennery whites, fancy, large new laid 31 O 32c; selected, whites, good to prime 27 O soc; gath cred whites, A O 26c; hennery browns 25 O ZIG; gathered brown and mixed colors s21 O 25c.
 burg. bbl, s2.5o O ss.25; Astraehan and Sour Rough S2.25 O $275; Sweet Bough and other sorts 8 O $2. 50; Pears. Bartlett, bbl, $s.5O o $4.50; Nbas- ket s1.25 O SITS: Clapp's Favorite $4 O s5: Bell and Le Conte $3 O $4: Cher ries, sour, black, lb basket 75c @ $1; sour, red. 60 e 85c; Currants, quart. Raspberries, pint O He; Huckleber- ries, quart ' O 12c.
 Hay and Straw-Hay, Large bales, timothy, prime. 100 ID, $1.42 1-2; No. 3 to No. 1, 95c O $1.30; shipping 80 co soc; clover, mixed, light $1.05 O $115; heavy. soc O $1: Straw-Long rye, ca O $1; oat, S5 m i0c.
 Poultry-Fresh killed chickens, squab, broilers. pair, 50 O 55c; Tur- keys, old, mixed, Is O 17c; Fowls, 14 O 17c; Spring Ducks Is 1-2c; Squabs prime. large, white, dozen s1. O sS.5O: dark SIPS.
 egetables-Potatoes $2.25 O S2.S0; Onions. Connecticut, yellow. 100 lb bag SIPS; red $1 O $1.25; Cucumber pie kles, bbl, SIPS O s225; Cucumbers, basket 50 O 75c: Cabbages. 100, $1 50 O $S: Cauliflowers. bbl $S O $5; Corn 100, soc O g; Mushrooms lb basket, $1.25 o $1.5o; Peppers, bbl.. $1 O $1.50,
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15

educational advantages, were widely quoted and commented on. He was elected to Parliament twenty years ago, and created a sensation in the House of Commons by making his entry with a miners cap on his head
 The leader of the Independent Labor Party has gradually become more radical in his views, until he is now an outspoken advocate of the social revolution" that is to result in the CO., operative commonwealth A few years ago he made tour of India and his speeches caused so much sun- rest among the natives that 1t was with difficulty that the diplomats suc- ceeded in restoring a feeling of loyalty to the English crown.
 Tn an address before the last annual Party, Keir Hardie explalnad the So- cialist program in the following lam guage:
 The Independent Labor Party is not reform organization. It is rev. o1utionary in the fullest sense of the word. The party. does not exist to patch up the existing order of society and make it a little more tolerable but to overthrow the existing order and build up a Socialist Sta1e on a humanitarian basis in it's stead. We are not asking Parliament .o do things for us. We are going to Parliament ourselves to master Parliament, to control the State. to wipe out class, and to make the nation consist of citizens. When members of the Privy Council counsel revolution, nothing is heard of it, because they speak for the propertied classes, but when men and women speak for the downtrodden and become a power to rouse the downtrodden, their voices have to be silenced and their life stopped, if need be, before they rouse the oppressed to the pitch of revolution"
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15

Andrew Marven wrote a tract on ''The Benefit of the Ballot" In ITO the House of Commons passed bill authorizing vote by ballot, but it was rejected by the Lords. Ballot agita- ton was resumed in 1893, and again in 1851. when the House of Com mons rejected ballot bill. In 1870 MT. Gladstone came out in favor of the ballot, and in the following yesr this method of secret voting was rec commended by Queen Victoria. Alter much opposition in the House of Lords, the act was finally passed in 1872. Ballot reform has now becorne live issue both in England and America, since it has been found that the systems in vogue are capable of many abuses, which not even the Australian scheme has wholly eradi- cated
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
PROTECTIONISTs
 PLEASE ANSWER
fNew Haven Union.l


 The Republican platform reluctant ly admits that there has been an fn- crease in the cost of living in the United States, but seeks to exonerate our system of excessive protection with the statement that prices have increased all over the world. This is true, but it is also true that the in- crease in prices has been more than twice as great in this country, under Payne-Aldrichism, than in free-trade Great Britain.
 Here is a query that every protec- tionist in the land is invited to an- swer: The United States official re- ports show that the average whole sale price of sugar in London aver aged two cents per pound less dur ing the last two years than in New York. The Payne-Aldrich tax on sugar is approximately two cents a pound. Tn England, sugar goes un- taxed. If the difference in price in the two countries is not due to the tariff on sugar. to what cause is it due?
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
U. s. CONSUL KILLED IN COLOMBIA. MAYBE
 FOUL PLAY VICTIM

Washington, Aug 15.-William B. United States vice-coun- sel at Cartagena. Colombia, was kill ed while on a hunting trip, last week, according to state department des- patches. There is some suspicion that he was the victim of foul play. Mc- Master was shot at in the streets of Cartagena several years ago. Sew eral Coiombians accused of the shoot ing, were sent to prison.
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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
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THE ADVENT oF AUTUMN TAILORED WEAR.
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Perhaps the most significant notice. that summer is growing old is the appearance of new lines of Tailored Garments which intrude themselves attention while we gasping for breath in the sheerest of linens and lawns Back in July the katydids began their ominots rasping chirp, and here are con- fronted with Autumn clothes. True, on chilly even ings at the seashore the mountains needs for driving or motoring.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
PRINTS BOUT FORCES
 AGAINST ADMINISTRATION

Cleveland, Aug. 15-The anti-admin- istration forces having been routed, the international Typographical Union ''got down to cases yesterday, re- stricting amusement features to a moonlight ride, at night Addresses from representatives of affiliated or ganizations were made in addition to further consideration of the report by the laws committee
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
OBTAINING THE DEAD

There is an established rule that we are to speak only good of the dead
 Evhen the grave takes a man, it closes over his good and his bad ac- xions. In any event he can no longer
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
REVIEWS
 FROM Our Exchanges
BIRTH OF THE NEW PARTY.
(springfield Union.)

We wonder how many members or the Progressive party really believe the following declaration, which IS found in the preamble of their plat form "The conscience of the peo- ole in a time of grave national prob- iems has called into being new party born of the nations awakened sense of justice.
 .'The conscience of the people" had nothing whatever to do with the birth of the new party, although we would not deny for a moment that many conscientious men and women nave allied themselves with the movement. The party was born for no other rea- son than that MT. Roosevelt failed of nomination at the hands of the Re- publican party. Had that party ac- ceded to his wishes the Progressive party would never have seen the light of day.
 The Republican party, the party to which Mir. Roosevelt owes every polit- ical office he has ever filed, was plen- ty good enough for him up to the time he clearly saw that he had not enough votes to become again it's nominee for President.
 It was the regular Republican nom ination he coveted and went to infinite pains to capture. He perfected an organization in every state. He ap- pealed directly to the Republican electorate to vote for him in the prl- maries. He told Republicans that they could not win with Taft, but that they could win with him. When there was talk of compromise can- didate he said ungrammaticaliy but no less emphatically. T will name the compromise candidate. He will be me- He could not name himself and he would not name Gov Had ley, whom he would have consented to name had he not cared less for 6Dr0- gressiveness' than for the qualification of his own ends. It was not until the convention turned him down that Mr. Roosevelt left the Republican party and devoted all his great genius and tremendous energy toward the forma- tion of a new party which finally emerged with him as it's leader.
 If MT. Roosevelt is the people, If he is the sole custodian of their con- science, then and then only can it be true that the new party was born in the manner described in its platform.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
FIRST THINGS

The first election by ballot in Eng land. under a law which had received the royal assent a month before, was held forty years ago today in Ponte- fraet, when H. E. Childers was re- elected. Agitation for the ballot had commenced as early as 1893, when
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15

Most candidates for Congress really running the postoffice in their home town.
 A man is basso when ne to often is tenor when he converses with
 You can attract attention by being a champion speller the fellows who look it up in the of the good jobs corraleo
 It discovered that system of education children than their parents But it must als b that children wiser than their parents at the
 A man may take your wo it in other matters he personally investigate the fresh paint
 A good many of love in a. cottage turn out badly through lack of the cottage.
 Eph Wiley long distance record for sitting dead belongs the Prohibition party
 Art, construed by the magazines, appears to be wearing only two articles of clothing. sct by finishing the first division IL aust he mt
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
WALKING.

(Waterbury Republican,
 One of the facts that will be borne in upon the minds of the militiamen engaged in the WEE maneuyers is that
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
NO HOPE FROM TAFT.
Baltimore Sun

MT, Taft stands firm behind the high tariff wall. He will make his fight from the citadel of protection. We had hoped for his own sake, de we'll as that of the country, that he would sign the modified and moder- ate tariff bills which have been sent to him by Congress. They are not all the people have the right to de- mand, but, like the half loaf, they would have been better than nothing at all, and would have afforded a measure of relief to millions of peo- pie oppressed by the high cost of liv- ing.
 But MT. Taft refuses to help them. He bends all his energies and all his mind to finding an excuse for stand ing by the protected interests instead of the unprotected people.
 The Presidents present course gives final proof that nothing need ever be expected from him in aid of tariff revision, despite the protestations in sign the proper kind of wool bill. He would sign no bill presented to him that would give any real relief. He is now and forever allied with those who think they ought to have a per- petual license to pluck the Ameri- can consumer. Those who vote for him will do so with the full knowl- edge that MT. Taft will not lift his little finger to tighten popular bur dens, if Tightening those burdens means lessening even in the slightest degree the enormous profits of the New England mill owners and other favorite and favored sons of. the high tariff system.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-08-15
THE FRIENDLY UTILITY COAT.

There are new ones of double-faced cloth Stylish? Oh, yes, very. In dark or light gray, tan or navy, plaided the interior plain outside AS inches long and wide enough to enwrap the fimsiest summer frock without mussing. Wide roll collars that but ton high or low, big buttons, sensible every way. ~10 0n +o e1sno