The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-01-31


women'-since such paragons of fash
ion as Mrs. Oliver Belmont, in in
stance, are now conspicuously enroll
ed among the adherents Of the cause"
it Is true that the rank and Ale are
the very ones who do not chew gum or
wear high heels.
AS to "novel-reading"-f this
alone one could build up a sermon
preached by the Rev. Gustav Hitler:
Infants are damned before they are
born. hell is real place where people
smoke and stew and boil, the world
was created in seven days, heaven Is a
region where all your relatives attired
in wings and white robes stand
around a gold throne and twang the
harp, everybody that belongs to your
church IL good. otherwise bad. the
whale really swallowed Jonah. fathers
should lick their children when they
contradict them even If the children
are right and the fathers wrong, all
girls should get married and rear chill
dren and ind their life in "the home"
all boys should wear wool socks and
hobnailed shoes and the universe
should retire and wonder while Man
disports himself in the spotlight.
Every child who doesn't learn tho
Golden Text in Ave minutes will be ia
ken home and chastised in the name
of the Lord.
Men Of this sort are generally over
bearing, tyrannical, intolerant DULLES
whose wives meekly go the weary
round and whose children regard them
with fear and dislike.
It was such q man as this who took
his little five-year old son to the wood
shed, tied him to a wood-saw and beat
him into unconsciousness because he
forgot a text he was to learn at Sun
day-school All brought out in trial in
Massachusetts a month or 50 since.
According to the Rev. Gustav
there are some good women"
This is, indeed. an admission.
These women, however, says he, are
those "who take care Of their homes, ="
and "who alone are worthy OF the bal
! lot"
There is nothing more nauseating, II
it were not 20 amusing because an
expose of the Grass ignorance in which
the individual wallows-as "bally rot"
of this sort.
The women who are worthy of the
ballot are all women.
But those who would the most intel
Igently use it are those who go out
into the world and earn a living for
themselves, frequently their families.
and oftener than not some good for
nothing man who is hanging on to
their skirts.
1t is the laboring woman. the work
ing-woman. who sees the advantage
of the franchise-the need of it.
1t Is an economic. not a political,
question. with her.
To protect herself against the rob-
Der hordes who infest the business
| world" she must back up against the
wall and fight for her industrial life.
And her best weapon. her most ef-
fective one. the one that will do the
, work. she recognises ~ the franchise.
But 1t is the type. represented by the
Rev. Gustav Hitler, who 10 her most
implacable foe.
Those narrow, bigoted. ignorant but
eminently virtuous and exaltedly god
" men who declaim against her Al .
mere medium for the continuance Of
the race.
There IL . lot Of this sort of thing.
In greater or less degree. talked from
pulpits.
More elegantly, perhaps, but none
theless tn done. f.s>%a
The truth 10 the protestant church.
Instead OF dillying with what are cali
ed social problems" should b preach
Ing tho gospel Of Christianity-of de-
lcency and fair feelinx-of tolerancs
land charity. RI
The gospel Of tho Golden Rule-"do
unto others - you would have them
| do % Pea
10 point - tha perfect maE-nok .