Bisbee daily review. [volume] (Bisbee, Ariz.) 1901-1971, 1913-03-04


10 talk With yonr irisnd-with Ann
Suilivani1
Then you'd begin to get at life
You'd be getting down TO premises
then. that aren't wrcng-with Ann
Sullivan and her sorti"
"Oh. well. I reckon you'd only find a
little sincerity and honesty. and. well
--maybe-love. that's all Just tbs
things | didn't get myself Have you?"
"why didn't you?" She ignored his
brutal query.
because I'm a theorist Because
I'm a visionary and a fool. reckon
Because I like TO see fair play even
in a dog fight. and the people of this
country aren't getting fair play. Be
cause I'm the sort OF fool that Mr.
Rawn isn't There's the difference!
ARE you happy. Mrs. Rawn?- again
ne demanded suddenly. since she still
was silent "Tell me the truth
think you know I'm not going 10 talk
I'm going away somewhere-anyhow
for the summer. l suppose, maybe,
this is the last time I'll ever see you
in all my life"
She felt the eandor OF his speech
and replied in like kind. smiling slow.
Is. mo use my lying" she said "You
know I'm not happy. And. yes.
know you'll not talk Who is happy
We all just get on just the best we
can. / take my Joy in making other
women envy me. Isn't that about
all women want? Isn't that the height
and limit of their ambition? Isn't
that success. SO far as a woman is
concern? Don't they cling to it. 'all
of them-till they get old? suppose
so. but know It isn't happiness. Yes
I'll admit 10 you do miss something"
His eyes rested upon her, searching.
Unconsciously she looked down al
her wrists The red mark of his fin
gers still fingered there. 'T'I have
to ask Ann Sullivan some time" she
laughed.
zone thing" answered Halsey
shed tell you that she isn't trying &c
get the envy Of her neighbors. l don't
believe she'd be happy in that!"
"oh. but she's fresh over-she's not
American yet, don't you see? She
| hasn't had q chance-you can't tell
what she would do if she were rich.
There are two ways. of looking at
| H." said Halsey musingly. his anger
passing. now leaving hira meditative.
/ relaxed They were talking now as
| though there were not two others, un-
happy. waiting on the gallery near
| BY. "I'n tell you something. IL you'll
let me talk about myself. Mrs. Rawn."
go on; I'm glad"
| u don't suppose you care for things
| that interest me. You called me a
Socialist. I'll admit that / studied a
/ lot about that. attended their meet.
ings, all that sort of thing. Maybe that
| made me think 1t seems to me that
| money is rolling up too fast in this
/ country nowhere all mad about
money. It's like the big apple with
no taste to Il. had It offered me to
choose between those two. and took
the. little apple that to me seemed
sweeter.
Nov. / We perfected that invention
TN make somebody rich any tine
say the word--any time like that bis
apple and not the little one-any
time | like that success which comes
from outside and not from inside But
I've figured that that doesn't mesI
happiness. Maybe I'm wrong I don't
know. Somehow believe that Abra
ham Lincoln, or John Ruskin, or jim
Sullivan. or Tim, or Ann, or Sir Isaac
Newton-any thinking person-any
philosopher-wouid come in with me
about this. I broke up the machines.
"Why-where it meant ruin?'
Because they'd tighten up the grill
of a few men on the neck of the PEG
pie! don't know whether you cal
that being a Socialist or not, and
don't care. Change is coming It's
not the fault of the poor that it's com
ing. It's the fault Of the rich. broke
them up-because things cant go OF
this way, money rolling up all the time
for few, and life getting harder al
the time for so many. God dim
make the rivers and the mountains
and forests for that purpose-to giV'
them TO a few. We've got to make
changes, and big ones, in this govern
ment. or we're gone. I'm no Socialis
at all / don't want what some one
else has WON'T he's won it fair. Bu
the wrong is in our government-th'
very one Of all on earth that mean
fair play. We don't get it-now. Some
lay We must / don't see what differ
snce it makes what name you give tbs
new, form of government. There mus
be change, that's all; or else we'r'
gonei
We'll, now, what they wanted me te
do was to give that all to few.
couldn't do IL, My God, Mrs. Rawn
faced it and I tried, and l couldn'
10 it, Maybe / was wrong. Anyhow
mere stand
do you know" she said at length
, slowly, these are things that never
h came to my mind in all my life?
I never in all my life thought OF any o
: these things. 7 only wanted"
{ You wanted to win. You wanted
I what most American women do
mouey-station- be enTied