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The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-03-25

Another cry from the underworld
echoed the words of the letter above.
1t was more bitter, though, and it read
in part:
Calls Them Hypocrites
you're looking for the things that
made such women as I. Low wages!
Dance halls! Hunger! Cold! They
all helped bit, but they didn't turn
the trick themselves. You're all
bunch Of hypocrites, afraid to look the
thing in the face and afraid to learn
the truth.
Wait Like Wolves for Tired Girls
Il don't know any girls who sold
themselves for money to buy bread or
clothess But I know lots of us who
hit the road for hell because lot of
blackguards kept bounding them with
their rotten attentions God help the
men and not US. We're all right when
we start. All we need is to be left
alone. There are hundreds and hun
dreds of kids and sports who hang
around State street and wait, like
wolves, for the tired girls to leave the
store.
Make the Men Be Good
"Why don't you make the men be
good? All the wages in the world
won't help US. Make the men good
and the girls will be good Now they
haven't got chance, and they never
will as long as the law smiles at one
and splits at another" This letter was
signed with the initials L. M.
While these comments on the situa-
ton continued to pour in, the civic
consciousness awakened by the COM
mission bestirred itself in the launch
ing OF committees and private investi-
eating forces.
In some stores numbers of girls ap-
preached their employers to demand
larger salaries.
All were assured that they would be
taken care of as soon as something
definite has been agreed upon. Several
designations were rendered by girl en-
ployes as result of parental advice.
A mass meeting for the discussion of
"a living wage and Saturday half
holiday" was scheduled by the Juvenile
Protective association, the Consumers
league and the Women's Trade union
for next Friday night.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-03-25
UNCLE JOE HAS GONE HOME
Forty Years of Public to Be Followed
by Looking Around
A Bit"

Joseph Quincy Cannon, private citi-
zen, went home" last week after
nearly 40 years of public service. I'm
attended, the erstwhile Gear of the
House" picked up his grip sack and
started for Danville, Vermillion coun-
ty, Illinois.
"Uncle Joe" and two big cedar boxes
left together. The boxes contained
the private letters and documents OF
long series of years in the midst OF
Washington's political turmoil. t
took weeks to sort them out from the
accumulation of the former speaker
letter files.
"Well, Pm through" sighed Gun
Gle Joe," as he Strengthened up after
closing the last box, shook the dust
from his hands, and rumpled his scanty
gray hair. give had a devil of a job
getting rid of stuff. l must have had
thousands of newspaper clippings and
cartoons besides my letters and papers
They were all worth keeping when
gathered them and | had a hard time
wedding them out. Most of them were
clever, but scarcely of a compliment
airy nature" and "Uncle Joe's" steel
gray eyes twinkled reminiscently.
"What are you going to do back
nome ?" he was asked.
He rubbed his head refectively
hoisted himself to the edge of the table
wrapping his long legs about the back
of chair, and began:
"Well, my business is in pretty gooo
shape. I've got a little bank stock
and that is pretty we'll organized. My
farm land is well handled. | guess
I'll just look around little bit. Wher
l was young wanted to travel, but
was too busy earning living. Now
don't care much about it. The folks
are planning grand trip around the
world-China, India, Japan, the Philip
pines and all the rest of it"
"Uncle Joe" stroked his beard mo-
ment and then, leaning forward conf
dentially, remarked:
"But Pm not going. 1 may take ;
/ little run through Mississippi and Ar
kansas, where want to look over som,
land for investment, but that will b.
about all of the travelling I'll do.
Pm not tired; l feel just as well a
l ever did, but suppose that is be
cause I'm the old devil they say
am"
will you continue in politics ?"
He pondered minute, then replied
when l lose interest in politics yo1
can bet I'll be dead. still will be il
politics, as private citizen" then
as an afterthought, without persona
ambitions"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-03-25
GIRLS PLACE BLAME ON MEN
Girls of ChicagO's Underworld Put
Blame of Downfall Where 1t
Rightly Belongs

Chicago, March 13.-Reformers and
the unreformed-the senatorial vice
investigation commission and the wom-
en- for whose moral downfall the COM
mission is trying to determine the
differed yesterday on the rela-
ton between low wages and low NOR
ality. Letters received by the COM
mission from women of the under
world Knocked at the work which the
members are doing:
One of these letters, signed X. R. L.,
reads:
ITO the Commissions: Girls don't 90
wrong because they are hungry or be-
cause they need clothes. They go
wrong because they are tempted by
lies and overpowered by the evil in
men.
They listen to the fair and pretty
things that men tell them, and they
fall because they think they can trust
themselves and trust the tempters. 1t
is not the employer. l was a good
girl and | worked in store.
Considered Her Their Prey
Il didn't get much money, but that
didn't matter. | lived on SO week.
and would be living like that now
but | met men. They seemed to con-
slider me their prey and all the time
it was fight, fight. They wanted to be
nice to me, they said, and to take me
to the theater and treat me fair. and
give me a chance to enjoy life.
Thought Only Women Bad
Il didn't know men were bad-all
bad-where a girl is concerned. 1
thought only women were bad. /
thought all girl had to do to remain
good was to be truthful with herself.
God pity women who think that and
who keep their trust in men until it
is too late Every day it was some
one else-always smiling at me, always
trying to give me fair chance to be
happy. In the street they followed
me-these | could avoid-but the
friends who hung round
IF They Had Only Left Me Be-
That is the big secret of the thing
that makes a good girl bad. If they
had left me be-if they had only left
me be-only let me live as / wanted
to, l wouldn't have had to stink into
the room when your commission was
trying to solve things, and wouldn't
have had to sit in corner with nv
ven down, afraid to look good women
in the face"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-03-25
EASILY DECIDED
This Question Should Be Answered
Easily By Redwood Falls
People

Which is wiser-to have confidence
in the opinions of your fellow-citizens
of people you know, or depend on
statements made by utter strangers
residing in far-away places? Read the
following:
H. D. Thorp, photographer, Mill &
Second Sts., Redwood Falls, Mimi,
says: Il feel very grateful for the
benefit / had from Doan's Kidney Pills.
For several years | was subject to at
tacks of kidney complaint and / was
suffering intensely when friend ad-
vised me to try Doan's Kidney Pills.
There was constant pain in my back
and the kidney secretions were too fire.
quent and distressing in passage /
had been treated by physicians, but it
was not until / procured Doan's Kid
ney Pills that | got relief. This rem
edy rid me of the disagreeable pains
in the small of my back and corrected
all fault with my kidneys"
For sale by all dealers. Price so
cents. Foster Milburn Co., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the United
States.
Remember the name oan's-and
take no other.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-03-25

For Sale-Organ, cook stove, hard
coal heater, fruit jars and other house.
hold utensils and gardening tools.
Cheap if taken at once. Mrs. H. VIM
ter. Phone 229. 34-1t :
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1913-03-25

HazOl-NIenthOl Plasters, quick
ren-f in Lumbago, Backache, Sciatica,
Neuralgia and many painful affections.
They drive away the pain until it is quite
forgotten. Yard rolls 81 90; smallersize 25c.
Dealers have tie II in stock, or direct from
Davis u Lawrence Co, New York.
Samples mailed upt n reuueat. &c. stamina.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12
BUYING THROUGH THE NEWSPAPER

One of the difficulties in making household purchases
that the majority of people hate to dsappont saespeo
pie After the clerks have done their best to make
plantations most people dislike to leave without making
purchase.
The store may advertise that it is always pleasure
to show goods But after stock is disa1ranged the
orty of people dislike to put salespeople out Sometimes
clerks get tired and and unpleasant things when
customers are critical.
At the time judging by the analogy of business
good deal of study of conflicting offerings is needed for
judicous buying The purchasing agent for manufac-
turing would dare to buy until he had
the leading offerings.
great many people, for the set forth above
always consciously taking articles that appeal
to them. The things don't look like good value. But
either they too tired to hunt for something better
they dislike not to buy after having given the trouble
how goods.
When you buy after studying the advertising col
of this newspaper lot of needless friction
you get the benefit of competition After comparing
the offering Of different merchants, you satisfy
self pretty thoroughly to which giving the best bar
gain in given line. You make shrewd guess as
to who will make the best cuts to clear stock who has had
the most enterprise to good styles and the
substantial values.
All that remains then, is go direct the spot and
get the goods AS is fatal to msrepresent the
light of public print the result usually proves satisfactory
Five minutes in the newspaper you money, and
ables you to avoid friction
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12
Since Men Dress Very Much Alike
All Men Would Be Good If Goodness
Had Anything To Do With Clothing

present agitation against women's garments is
the prototype thousands that have preceded it. and of
Ouands that will succeed in the unnmbered centuries
t
Clothes adopted by the human species to pro-
tect the body from extremes of heat and cold With
clothing after had long time, the
notion that there something imnodest, at least
proper the splendid mechanism which constitutes
human body, that in parts Of the world
persons to the extreme of believing that there
thing immoral about statues and paintings in the nude
just because they in the nude.
ANY newspaper in the United States will ev-
idence that anatomical facts have been forgot
ten and being rediscovered The news has broken
through into the progressive newspaper offices that
legs, and this circumstance being exhibited
bv and editorially scandal against the
Wesremember when the bicycle garb first to be
used by women what fine enthusiasm for clothing that
created and essentially the most mod
treated otherwise until the critics
got-used to the raiment.
There is the key to the situation-'used to ita We
humans like skittish horse blind in eye. We shy
every object in the road not because has hurt
us, but fearing it may
Then, too the historical perspective is lacking, most
being too busy get it. But the readers
that in the essentials Of morality the world
has improved for thousands of years.
Good good in any garb, and bad women
better because of the clothing they The
proof by analogy ought to be easy Men wear subsan
TALLY the kind Of clothing But the not all
good Some of them good and few of them bad,
just like the
Presently we'll be used to the garments the women
and when they back to buses and crinoines
we be wondering how they could possibly be foolish
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12
There Are Many Teeth In
Public Utilities Law, But
1t Needs At Least One More

Elmore SBanksonce Connecticut s leading statesman
kind emerged for few moments from the twilight
political land in which he dwells to proclaim that the
Public Utilities law lacks teeth. He is in part correct
Mr. Banks aforetime said it wouldn't The law is
constitutional Mr. Banks in trying to prevent the pass
of the law, said it wasn't constitutional He
member of the General Assembly that passed the law. He
had bill Of his IF that bill had become law and
Mr. Banks says this law has teeth what would there
law with neither teeth, gums. 1t would have been
without mouth throat gullet stomach other
sary organs.
There a defect in the Judson law, most serious
defect. Senator Judson knew the defect there He
dnt have the votes to take it out This defect consists
in the absence of provision giving the commission
mission to issues OF securities.
In the last General Assembly earnest effort was
put this necessary tooth into the law that
effort defeated by the school of craftsmanship
which Mr.. Banks attached when he there.
just have the picture of the New Haven
Companywith Mr.. Banks erstwhe political friend and
spiritual replica-the Hon. E. D. Robbins, before the
Public Utilities Commission in Massachusetts,, asking per
to issue 100000 in securities which far
Connecticut concerned, it issue without let
hindrance at its sweet will
Aside from the stock and securities feature, the Pub
Utilities very strong teeth. The commission
the rate order the service The power
placed.
law fails in the where it is effective the
commission. This if there such
fault it is in the people, for the law snguarly
strong with respect it's provisions for correcting defects
Upon petition of a hundred interested
the attorney general must for the removal
of the officer complained of.
However, it is too late to repent If Mr. Banks
favors adequate regulation of sinful railroads
he ought to be encouraged.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12

tered the government in 1892 as sec
rotary of state for home department,
and was chancellor of the exchequer
from 1905 until his assumption of the
premiership in 1908.
Mr.. Asquith has been twice married.
His first wife died in 1891 and three
years later he married Emma Alice
Margaret, daughter of Sir Charles,
wealthy Scottish member of Parlia-
meht 1t is said that in her youth
''Margot'' Tenant declared that she
proposed to become the wife of the
prime minister of England. One of
her first acts, after taking up her
residence in Downing street, was to
hold exhibition of gowns designed
by a Partisan dressma,ker. This Scan
dali led to bitter denunciations of the
offending lady, and she has never at
tained the high social position usually
accorded to premier's better half.
When Mrs. Asquith entertained a
''SaIome" dinner at the official resi-
dence, Puritan England grew black in
the face from Indignation Dear me,
how interesting" remarked Mrs AS
quith, with a"shrug, when told of the
displeasure of her censors.
Mr.. Asquith, like most Englishmen,
is a sportsman, but he restricts his
own activities to golf. He is a devo-
tee of the ancient Scottish game, and
to it he attributes his usual good
health.
DR.. Francis Edward Clark, president
and founder of the United Society of
Christian Endeavor and the leader OF
an army of fifteen millions OF young
people in all parts of the world, vii
pass his sixty-second milestone today.
The man who, because of his initials,
is anectionateIy known as Father En-
deavor,'' is Canadian by birth but
a New England Yankee by descent.
He was born at AyIner, Quebec, Sept.
II, 1851, the son of Charles C. Symmes.
Left an orphan at eight, he was adopt
ed by his uncle, the Rev. E. w. Clark,
and assumed his name. He began his
work as a minister in Portland, Me,
and there, in 1881, founded the first
Christian Endeavor Society
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12
EDITORIAL NOTES

The first of those terrible engines of
warfare known as the Gatling gun was
invented in 1852 by Richard Jordan
Calling, who was born in North Caro-
lima ninety-fiVe years ago today. Cat
ling, the son of a rich planter, was
well educated, and early devoted him
self to scientific work and mechanical
experiments His first device was a
screw propeller for steamships, on
which, on applying for patent, he
found himself anticipated by Ericsson.
Next he contrived a machine for plant
ing rice, wheat and other grain in
drills, which proved highly successful.
Having used his inventive genius in
such a manner as to assist in feeding
and preserving humanity, he next set
about the task of contriving machine
for killing his fellows. There were
crude rapid-f1re guns in use when Cat
ling turned his attention to the sub
Ject, but they were of little practical
value. The Calling gun soon led to
a revolutionizing of artillery, and until
his death ten years ago the inventor
devoted his time almost exclusively to
perfecting and manufacturing that
formidable weapon, which has been
adopted by all the armies of the world.
Tens of thousands of graves now at
test to the deadly accuracy of the
Staying machine invented by Calling.
The Rt- Hon. Herbert Henry Asquith.
prime minister of Great Britain, will
celebrate his sixty-frst birthday to-
day. It is generally predicted that the
statesman will soon find the cares of
Office, the trials of leadership and the
heckling of the suffra gettes too great
a burden for one of his years, and will
retire to the easy somnolence of the
House of Lords. Life has held many
terrors for Mr.. Asquith since he be-
came premier in 1908, thanks to the
unceasing attentions of the bashibaz-
oukesses led by the unterrified En-
incline. Aside from the troubles in
! f1icted by the belligerent ferninists Mr..
Asquith has had to bring to bear I'M
usual qualities of tact, diplomacy,
suasion and action in order to hold to-
| gether the warning elements in the
| IiberaI-Labor-Ir alliance.
At sixty-one, Mr.. Asquith is still a
youth, as compared with British prime
ministers of the past. Gladstone was
! in his efghty-third year when, for the
fourth time, he assumed the Office of
premier. Lord Palmerston was sew
| enty when he assumed the Office, and
was eighty-one when he retired. Dis
| raeIi, belI-Bannerman and Lord
| Grey all assumed the cares of state
when well past Mr.. Asquith's present
| age.
! Mr.. Asquith was born in Yorkshire.
Sept. 12 1852 He was educated at
BaIIiol College, Oxford, and became a
| barrister at tventy-four. His parlia-
| mentary career began in 1886, when he
was elected from East Fife. He en-
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12
DEATH OF MAYOR GAYNOR

The death of Mayor Gaynor re-
moves one of the abIest men in
public life in the United States.
During more than twenty years,
in which he was after one fashion
Or another in the public service,
his work was efficient, and his Of
fetal conduct was nearly always in
line with the public opinion and
demand of the time.
He was stout fighter, who gave
blenched from the combat, nor
cried for mercy from a foe, and no
opponent was powerful enough to
command his acquiescence against
his will, His public career would
have been practically without a
blemish, had he not, as Mayor of
New York, granted to the great
transportation interests within the
city certain concessions which, dur
ing his campaign for the office he
had said ought not to be granted.
That his conduct in this respect
grew out of any moral or intel1ec-
tuaI delinquency no one of under
standing ever believed The best
judgment Of those familiar with
the facts was that Gaynor, as
mayor, yielded to a necessity, sub
ordinating his own views of how
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12
RADEORD B.SMITH
1912 Main ST. DEPARTMENT STORE, SO Fairfield A.
STORE
GREAT SALE. TOMORROW, SATURDAY.

At Sc-Large lot of pennants-why
pay more?
At $1.OO-Large ia blankets,
white and gray.
At sc-Men's and women's rubber
heels.
At 1Oc-Good bed ticking.
At 8c-Gilt extension rods with big
silvered ends.
At 25c-Genuine police suspenders.
At 5000 paper napkins.
At 25c-Large pieces fine channels
At Sc-Dennison crepe paper, all
colors.
At 5Sc-Lot extra size pajamas for
big men. Before we move we will
sell off these large sizes of $1.00 pa
jamas for 58c.
At sc-splendid gas nantes, up
right or inverted.
At $1.5O-Very large and handsome
colored bedquilts, pink and blue on
~.
At Sc-Spectac1es and eyeglasses.
at 25c-Great variety patterns of
the best table oilcloth.
At Sc-Larges cans household paint.
At 121ac-White. or unbleached pill
Iowcase muslin.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12
SAFEST PLACE IN THE WORLD
(Toronto GIobe-)

What is the safest place? Bishop
Hatto, who thought his tower on the
Rhine 'the safest place in all Ger
many" was speedily undeceived, and
so might we be in the choice of home
even if it is not a tower on the Rhine
as the safest place. Mr.. Fred A
Bishop, the president of a company
that has carried 60, 100000 passengers
without the loss of life on a line of
steamers plying between New York
and Coney Island during the past tFlir-
ty years, says the safest place in
America is the deck of a steamer He
quotes statistics to show that in the
United States during the fiscal year
ending June so, 1872 3o7, 692, 494 spas-
sengers were carried on steam YES
sells that are required by law to re
port the number of passengers carried
Taking the total number of lives lost
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12
CHILDREN TAKE
FRIGHTFUL CHANCES.
CNew London Day.)

a few days ago at the Memorial
hospital a little boy died, as the re-
suit OF being struck by an automobile
The accounts of the accident seem
to indicate that the unfortunate lad
jumped in front of the machine that
injured him and that the driver had
no chance to avoid the accident. The
case is only one of many that are be-
ing reported from all over the coun-
try. and when one stops to think of
the frightful risks that the children
take it is a matter of wonder that the
list of fatalities is not many times as
large.
There are a great many automobile
accidents that are due to the careless
ness of chauffeurs, who drive their
machines at reckless speed, and who
do not seem to care for anybody but
themselves. There can be no eX-
cuse for that kind of conduct, and
when anybody is injured, under such
instances, the person at fault
ought to be held to a strict accounting.
A good many accidents, however,
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1913-09-12

particularly those in which childreu
are involved, are not the fault of the
person operating the car. No mate
ter how well controlled the machine
may be, if child jumps out from
some hiding place, right under the
wheels it is beyond the power of a hui
man being to avoid hitting the Iitda
one.
The possibility of such accidents ia
increasing all the time as the nuH+
Der of motor vehicles in use multiplied
and it is essential that parents and
others, who have charge Of childreH
do everything in their power to keep
the little ones from being manned and
killed.
1t isn't easy to impress upon youna
people an appreciation Of the danger
that is involved in running into the
streets but the effort in that dfrec4
ton is certainly worth while. It n
evident that a good many parents Dc
not give the matter any thought
special Providence is supposed to look
after children, but it is the part ol
wisdom to assist Providence as much
as possible, when human life is inf
VolVed.