Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1912-01-05
DR.. Founders
Modest Request
BY OSCAR cox
Copyright by American Press Asso-
citation. 1871

There Is an old Dutch town not a
hundred miles from New York which
up to few years ago. when but
ton factory was located there, was
very much in the condition of New
York when that city was called New
Amsterdam. They have a church
there where the congregation has
been used to listening to the same
kind of preaching ever since the place
was settled. and the same organist
has discoursed the same kind of music
for half century.
A new minister was called to the
church recently, but his call to the
pastorate was followed by his being
called down. for he shocked the con-
gregation by preaching socialism and
woman's rights. He had been chosen
on account of his name. which was
Founder, the congregation thinking
that they would listen to the same
| pulpit hammering to which they had
been so long accustomed. When they
! tired him be took UP his favorite
causes. devoting himself to them ex-
clusively.
Miss Katrina Van Schoonerhoven, a
member of this antiquated congre-
CATION, one day lost her bearing so
far as to permit the use of her domi.
cile for suffragette meeting From
every side came protests that one of
the old Dutch circle should lend her
house for such purpose. Miss Van
Schoonerhoveu explained. averring
that she was not a suffragette herself
and had lent her house for a purpose
Of which she did not even approve In
the midst of her embarrassment there
came ring at the telephone
Are you Miss Van Schoonerhoyen?
was asked in sonurous voice
II am"
II am DR.. Founder. l understand
that meeting of suffragettes recently
took place ut your house. | hope 10
make that meeting the beginning of
q movement
But, doctor, lent my house only
for a purpose in which take no per-
sonal''-
behalf of the suffragette movement.
and am counting on your personal in
f1uence to-
Il assure you that am not myself
a sutfragette: that r.
II can't hear you. What we want is
to stir up the town in the hope that
we may carry the suffragette ticket at
,,In
to women that is now left solely with
men: that we may eradicate that
clause in the national constitution
which gives the franchise to all except
women. Indians and IDIOTS
Il tell you I shall have nothing to
do with your endeavor for the suffra-
gette course. | take no interest in it.
| don't approve of it,"
Just SO. knew you would be with
US from the moment | heard that the
meeting had taken place at your home
| am arranging for II big meeting to
be held on the corner Of Van der Deck.
er and Bleecker streets. Your name
vii! be announced in the newspapers
as the principal speaker. | am sure
your eloquence will win many infiuen-
tial persons to our ranks"
DIR Founder. if you dare announce
my name in The newspapers as speak.
err at your meetings shall never speak
to you again"
You say you consent? ! knew you
would. We are going to have II brass
band in attendance; there will be
crowds of women distributing suffra-
gette pamphlets and no end Of enthu-
siasm. You will be mounted on n soap
boX-l have box provided-and po-
licemen will he on hand to see that you
are not joStled by the crowd"
DIR. Founder"
There will be fireworks"-
''Dr. Founder"
lin the evening"
'Dr. Founder. | wish you to under
stand that | will have nothing to do |
with your meeting, and if you insist |
upon mixing me up with the affair !
shall call upon my lawyer to get out an
injunction TO prevent you"
IL will call for you myself in n
carriage at O'clock and assist you
to the soap box. A limelight will be |
arranged in an opposite window that
will illuminate your face while speak |
ing
DIR Founder. If you undertake to |
carry out this program | SHALL wish |
you would go away from the tele-
phone, You are driving me wild. If
you don't stop this persecution l will
shut you off,
Then came in an entirely different |
voice. voice that Miss Van Schooner
hoven recognized at once as that of her
friend Ned Poindexter.
''Oh. Kit. you're real meap.''
Ned Poindexter, what have you
been up TOP
After all my trouble getting up the
meeting. hiring the band and procur-
ing the soap box for you to speak on.
10 say nothing of the limelight. for
you to go back on me in this way is
too awfully mean for anything"
Ned Poindexter heard vicious click
and found himself cut off. He smiled |,