The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1913-08-01

shambles failure drowning the defenseless in
distress suicide all in the of and
businessa this that his wives and daughters
play the My Lady Disdain in Republic! What
shrekng be laughed day just
merry the comedies of Aristophanes and Plau
tus.
is this inconsistency in human nature that perpexes
all. The dog that will bite when wagging his tail is
unknown The animal that will snap when showing signs
Of rendiness has been discovered Snakes hiss
when about to strike All animals give some sign OF
enmity toward Thus that alone is the
arch sham and hypocrite and to him alone given
language conceal his thoughts. He alone smile
and smite at the time He alone frown and
fIatter and stab in the DARK.
Solomon said there four wonderful things in the
world, all understanding-the of ship the
the way eagle in the air. the of
on rock, and the way of man with maid But still
wonderful is the of the demagogue and political
sham with the people
The slowest and most subtle of all processes is the
evolution human thought. A people passes
through intellectual economic social revolution
with little consciousness that revolution than the
newborn child has of its mothers travail. We so
passing So is Europe. And all other and nations
are affected.
From the first awakening the European intellect
the end of the dark down to day, the masses
knew thought little of the mighty stream whose
current they being carried few have felt the
every age. caught spirit voiced 1t,
and died martyrs to truth Some felt it, spoke and died
forgotten These pioneers make that small minority
which always right" says. the
advanced mind of the fifteenth century could have
prophesied what fruits each succeeding century would
from the groupings of the human intellect at the
dawn after the long night of superstition Who coudave
predicted this industrial, this wonderful machine
ours with machines that endowed with in
tegence than many men? Who could have foretold the
splendid achievements of science the advancement of
surgery the emancipation medicine from magic?
AS the years dissolved into memory and the
day grew to morning and the sun peeped through the
mists of ignorance and credulty, the advanced
minds tried to adjust themselves to conditions, Every
such attempt by that great of human
the eternal and the advanced thinkers
ostracised or put to death These and
administered by those who believed and still be-
eve that the universe stationary engine whose fires
banked the morning of the seventh day of
ton and have never been stirred up since
All revolutions, all good and permanent revolu-
tions have been born in the brain and fought
in the of thought They have been bloodless.
Violence has only hndered Them stopped them The
American revolution begun in Europe long before
the shot heard around the world fired War; blood
she'd and rapne only symptoms of the of
revoluonthe the tolls the eruptions the body
polite
Nearly literature age saturated
with social revolutions We shamming when turn
eyes away and do face it. Nearly all of the
temporary British novels social economic in
free; they commercialized they do give forth
the call of liberty; they Mammon There two
notable exceptions Margaret Deland, in her Iron Won
an and Theodore Dreissern in his Sister Carrie "Jen
ME Gerhardt" The Financier The best American
novests today
today is striving adjust herself tc
conditions. The primitive idea proper
sphere" has passed the intelligent per
Woman is in the labor market. She is already in
dustralzed. Like the plant in dark cellar her tendrls
grope toward the dim light at the window She is dream
ing independence. She is reaching toward the sur
almost unconsciously She has faint stirring in hel
and ancient creeds The true woman longs stand be
side the in his aims and labors just the old
man Teuton man and wife stood heart to heart sou
soul, brain BRAIN shoulder shoulder The
hates the parasite. She hates with all her
the parasite women who are the ougrowth of the mod
domineering, overrch people. Of the para
site ourshed among the philosophers and states
men of Greece Percles had his Aspasia and Antony hi
Cleopatra She riotous vulgar the regal feast
of Belshazzar and corrupted nearly all of the royal house
England, but she in the hisor,
of the world common and impertinent today
She has left the gilded palaces of the kings and dwe
in the House of Gold
The true woman knows in her heart if the parasite
with barbarc Injuries, her diamonds and jewellet
junk the toy and payhng of is to be the permanent
and final manifestation of female life the globe the
the deathknell of woman's for good is sounded
She luxurious, parasite life is up
on the backs of laborng and and largely w
underpad working girls just all the glittering
life the Fourteenth and Charles the Second drew
its from the patient people who worked
loyal sentiment, and tried do justice love mere
and humbly before God, That is the historic
you read of the millions showered upon tn
dsreputable Madam Du Barry by Louis the Fifteenth
gasp ask, who produced all this wealth which kim
could call his to confer upon leeches?
There three marked types of female parasite On
Is the woman who under the of marriage
self for luxury, jewels and indoen life another VIII
makes the bargain without marriage the last is tn
mournfu creature that eternal priestess of humanity
blasted for the sins of the people Fac
one sells herself. birhrght a of pot
tage, commits the objectionable sin against
and love