The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1912-05-10
Suffragettes in the Parade, New
York, This Afternoon.
VOICE OF BOLD ANTS HEARD
Birthday OF General Benjamin r. Tracy
Recalls Days Quite Long Ago;
News Gossip.
Especial to The Free press.1


suffragettes willingly went to Jail
and voluntarily starved in behalf Of
their principles, there still remained
some mere men who considered
them insincere. All such accusations
are set at rest, so far as the would
be fair voters of New York are
concerned, for the ten or fifteen
thousand of whom will take part in
today's great suffrage demonstration
and parade will wear hats that cost
exactly thirty-eight cents per each.
The most cynical scoffer could not
doubt the sincerity of woman who,
to advance her cause, would appear
in public in thirty-eight cent hid.
Martyrdom could go no farther than
that. Now let the doubters forever
close their mouths. The official hat
worn today is a creation of coarse
white straw, with slant to starb'd.
Every woman in the parade, except
distinguished few who will be
permitted to wear mortar board
and other college regalia, will have
to prove her devotion by showing
herself in the thirtyeight, cent,
marked down from forty, headpiece.
Certainly no better system could
have been thought of for separating
the sheep from the goats the sim
cere from the mere faddist seeking
notOriety.
Anti-suffragists argue that If wom-
en- are to vote they should be able
to fight In these piping days of
peace, when the spirit OF universal
brotherhood broods over the world,
except in a few isolated spots, that
argument does not seem to be a
strong one, but the suffragist ladies
are prepared to meet it. They will
prove their ability to make a cav
kalry eharge-in- time of. warfare by
riding spirited horses in todays suf-
frage parade. The cavalrywomen
will don riding boots and breaches
for the occasion, and will mount
their horses in the manner described
by small boys as "a-straddle. Be-
sides the ladies, it is expected that
part in the "votes-for women" dem
onstration Each and every one Of
them should have Carnegie hero
medal, for the taunts and jeers that
will greet them will be such that
only a hero could continue on his
way rejoicing.
Not so many years ago young
Jew came to New York from some
where down in Tennessee and took
charge of a metropolitan newspaper
that was in the very throes OF dis
solution. Proprietors of big and pros
porous newspapers laughed at the
idea of a southern "rube" competing
with them, but now they are laugh
ing from the other corner OF their
mouths. When Mr.. Peary discover
ed the north pole it was the news
paper owned by the Hebrew invader
which secured the authorized and
complete account from Admiral
Peary, thus scoring boat" OF in
ternational Importance. Later, When
the south pole was reached by
Amundsen, this same Jew bobbed
up serenely with the exclusive con-
tracts for the story. Lately, when
the Titanic went down, the Hebrew
"rube" got control of the stories or
the wireless operators on the II
tanic and Carpathia and thus gave
the world the first complete story
of the terrible marine disaster Now
the other newspapers are calling the
publisher a "heartless mercenary"
and similar harsh names. The
charge that the news was held
hack" from the heartbroken rela-
.tives of the victims seems DIT
absurd-for what newspapers ever
held back" so big a story?
Because a wife nags her husband
is no excuse for him leaving her.
That is the decision recently made
by a modern Solomon, Supreme
Court Justice Marean. The wise
Judge said: "A man has to STAND
such treatment from his wife. he
can't abandon her simply because
she nays ullll. uC tioocASS - >-'
and Mrs. William Kahler were re-
sponsible for the decision. Judge
Marean gave Mrs. Kahler separa'
ton decree, and assessed $l0,
week as the price of peace for kahier.
So long as he pays promptly MS
wife is under orders not to molest
him on pain OF losing her alimony.
Friends of the late Isidor Straus.
the Jewish merchant millionaire VINO
with his devoted wife, went down
on the Titanic, are commenting on
peculiar coincidence in the death
of his favorite horse at about the
same time as the ship went down.
Bess, the mare, was almost one OF
the Straus family, and the pet OF
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