Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1913-09-08

/ ASoi party III VI SAhS mat IL lQef6 is
to be any extension of the franchise
it must be made to include women.
This puts the sections that went on
strike to secure manhood suffrage in
in an awkward dilemma. Socialists
and liberals combined to secure the
vote, the former agreeing to the lat
ter's program. The liberals are in
a fix because they do not want wom-
an suffrage and the socialists are
worse off because, though consenting
to the compromise, they are pledged
to the universal vote.
Hunger Strikes No Novelty.
The historian has been very busy
searching for precedents both for the
suffragette and her tactics. In I.vsis-
thata, a creation of Aristophanes in
one of his comedies, is found the
original Mrs. Pankhurst, and, indeed
the originator of the birth strike
idea, put forward by German social
lists during the week. 1t is recorded
that the boycotting of husbands in
ancient Greece was not a great sue
cess and Lysistrata was left lament
ing the many defections among her
followers, who, under all manner of
excuses, went home to see that every
thing was all right. And the hunger
strike, presumed to be a creation of
the militants, is really one of the old
est legal institutions of ancient Ire
land. Having failed by all other
means to get money out of a power
full debtor, creditor would stand
before the debtors door, refusing to
take nourishment until the sum was
paid. If the debtor allowed the per-
son fasting to die, he was held to
answer for his death and had to pay
his family a large sum in addition
to the original debt. Sometimes
such fasting was done for the pur-
pose of making converts to Chris
tianity, and it is recorded of st. Pat
rick that he employed the method
successfully against a famous heath
en- leader
Fashions Reaching the Limit.
,Militancy in a milder form is still
active in the matter of dress and
fashion. Despite the agitation
against the diaphanous or so-called
X-ray skirt, and the systematizing of
that agitation into organized dress
reform associations, word comes
from Paris that the end is not yet in
audacious creations. Colors are to
run riot and costumes are to combine
every shade from dazzling puppies to
the hue of cold gravy. Evening
gowns will be open to the waist be-
hind, and street skirts are to have
diaphanous effects over pink tights,
and opacity is to be insured only so
far as the knees" To the historian
this will mean note to the effect
| that the ultra fashionable woman of
| the second decade of the twentieth
century was a semi-nude, the nudity
being in one direction by day and
in the other by night. Beyond that
it would be impossible to go without
calling in the police
Canadian Feeling in Thaw Case.
AS one form of insanity suggests
another attention is directed to the
case of Harry Thaw, who comes near
er to place in history by the action
of the Canadian authorities than he
did by his escape from New York.
That he was Justify cheered by a
court mob on gaining point against
| New York state may be apologized
| for on the ground that it was
only the action of an irresponsible
crowd; but it would seem from the
attitude of the Dominion law officers
that there are others who share this
bitter national prejudice. Canada is
at liberty to refuse court recognition
of United States attorneys; to dis
claim interest in the question as to
whether Thaw is a conspirator or
fugitive from New York asylum,
but it cannot escape the fact that
Thaw is an immigrant who violates
the sweeping provisions of the Can
adian law against undesirable aliens.
Thaw himself is detail, but the an
mails setting forth the relation of the
Union and the Dominion will record
that such was the feeling on the part
Of Canada, law, sudden in it's op-
Grafton when applied to an, undesir
able arriving from overseas, was de-
layed in the case of a United States
fugitive whose protection might be
construed as an affront to this ma
ton.
Ruling on Labels is Reversed.
But inconsistency in law is not the
monopoly of any one country. Some
time ago it was protested against
California wine growers that they
were misusing names in calling GER
tain of their products port" and