The daily sentinel., 1913-04-15

that discourse no taint of selfishness,
of demanding from our neighbor the
fruits of his labor because we are too
busy picking flaws in others to at
tend to our own business of earning
our Legitimate share OF this worlds
goods.
Aeschylus, some 500 years before
Christ, gave socialism a needed rap
when he said:
God ever works with those that
work with will.
Kick not against the pricks lest sore
pain come
Aristotle, another ancient philoso-
pher. said: Nature provides us with
tools for our work, but not with
work for our tools
When the news reached us,
through the press, of the passing
away of ]. p. Morgan, someone said
to me: 81 don't think it is right for
one man to be allowed to accumulate
so much money, when so many have
none"
Think of it, What narrow opin-
ion Since coming into the west |
have heard so many talk along such
lines: that one man should not be
allowed to accumulate more than
limited amount of money and prop
erty: that the residue should be di-
vided among those who have none.
etc. This theory, or opinion, or prin-
ciple, or whatever il is called. to-
gether with several others of like i'm
port, seems to have a certain label
tackled 90 it, upon which we find the
word Socialism
Now, if | was bright enough to
make my few dollars earn many,
many more dollars, and this was
done legitimately, | am quite sure
would not be lazy in the matter of
dollar making but would get all that
could. And believe that every so
cialist would do the same. But, be-
cause | am NOT bright enough to do
this, and someone else is, | am not
going TO be a dog in the manger"
and Kick and snarl because it is the
ether fellow and not | who wins out,
then try to give my snarl some sort
of dignity by calling it socialism.
What will the world gain if laws
are made and enacted compelling in
dividuals or corporations (call them
trusts or anything else. if that helps
oub to divide their surplus earnings
I among lot of lazy snarlers and
ldckers? In a short time these dis
sruntled ones will have spent all of
their share ana viii look around for
more cause for complaint, to get an
other division. The man who earns
the dollars is the man who takes care
Of what he earns. The man who
( takes what others earn is the man
who gives wings to the dollars; or,
as Philemon said, more than 300
years before Christ:
IF what we have we know not how
to enjoy,
And pray for what not, we shall lose
BY fate the last, by our own fault
the first"
In the last number of the Century
Magazine, on page 953, is an article
that every womanly woman in the
United States of America should
read-"The Silent Suffragists of
America" Would it be violation
Of the copyright laws to reprint it in
your paper. Mr.. Editor?
If | should ever be induced to take
up politics, it would only he to work
against these senseless fads of So
cialism and woman's suffrage. 1t
hurts deeply to see my countrywom-
eli or women of any nation cheaper
womanhood, bring it down into the
filth and slime of destructive vio-
Just laws are enforced against such
disorder and crime as has robbed
such women as Mrs. Pankhurst of
womanliness and liberty. And, if an
American woman has been caught in
the melee: then, for the sake of all
good women in the world who are
not in sympathy with this lust for
law breaking, | hope and pray that
our president and all public officials
will refuse to interfere with the Eng
lish people who enforce the law, and
let the American woman take the
punishment that she deserves. If
women will forget their womanliness
so far as to do violence to life and
property with a malicious disregard
for law and order, then chivalry is
out of place and they should receive
the same punishment that the law
metes to men. The Bible-our great
book of laws-is authority for this
But | have such faith in the rule
of Right that | believe that, before
it is too late. the real women of the
world will arouse themselves to face
these dangers of disruption and an
archy, and that, through their eff
forts to put down the wrong, our
womanliness will be saved Right is
stronger than wrong, and fright will
prevail" Let us send out the pray
er that went out from the heart of
Socrates-'I pray thee, o God, that
may be beautiful within'-then we
will find that woman's rights have
been established in the Supreme
Court of Infinite Love
EMMA e. COOLEY.
Mack Colo Anril IN 1912