Lower coast gazette., 1913-05-17

bill. Progressive Leader Murdoch
and thirteen OF his Progressive follow
ers voted against the bill along with
the Mann-led Republican minority.
Little now is left for the House to do,
and the eye and ear Of the interested
is now in the Senate Chamber. where
the final fight will be made.
The State OF Illinois Senate passed
the bill granting votes to women.
The Election Committee Of the
House Of Representatives Of that State
has reported it iavorably.
GOV. Dunno does not make public
mis- executive feeling towards this in.
novation and the matter Of woman sui
frage in Illinois rests upon these two
bright and one pale prospects.
General Estopinal voted for the tar
If Dill and stated though he was
against the sugar provision he did not
think it wise to bolt his party's ma.
jority without having anything to be
gained by boiling.
Colonel Roosevelt will stump the
State OF New York advocating the
passage Of Gov. Suffers democratic
Governor of New York; direct primary
law which was defeated in the House
and Senate of New York State. He has
placed his services at the disposal OF
Gov. Suffers committee, which vii,
arrange the Statewide campaign to
create a sentiment in favor OF the
bill.
Lieut-Gov. O,Hara is in indeed an
unenviable position. Evil has proven
by the Lieut-Gov.'s commercially frank
confession of the truth Of part OF the
accusation that he wa acquainted
with Evil for one day. From the ten
or OF the investigation one would
judge that Evil had prophetically fore.
seen the present crisis and had wise.
ly prepared for it. tieut-Gov. O,Hara
has been honest. He admits the
friendship with the woman, but as hon.
estly denies the excessive intimacy
which Evil would madly make him
guilty of committing.
The sad feature of the whole charge
is the even slight truth upon which the
charge is based. And though none
can but praise Mr.. O'Hara's sincere
admission, no n could do so without
feeling the reluctance of the acknowl-
edgement of the evil, knowing that in
these times bills are so often Judged
by their authors.
No onecan deny that Evil hes been
evilly successful. nor that the passage
of the bin has not been blocked. But,
again and again, the reasonless Of this
successful evil is evident without reas.
oning. The morality OF the bill must
be judged apart from the morality OF
its author. But Evil is practical and
knows from a worlds lifetime of OK.
perience that the morality of the
cause will never be separated from
the morality Of the effect. Evils
%practicality has served il we'll and
EVIL has the advantage Of an eternity
OF experience, and because of this I'D,
ditional strength, the man or men who
fight it must know that the fight is
more than an uphill fight-it is a los.
t ing fight except il allied with these
ment is another eternal power-Good.
ness-which is stronger than Evil and
an evenly strengthened adversary.
The effect which this clouding OF
the question will have upon the
threatened determination is to dim
inish it's intensity, ii not to kill it.
It will remove the poison and make
1t harmless if it does not, in its mil
! lions of moving ways, move men to re
pudiate the measure SO as to repudi
ate the man. To those Of its active
members it will tell them, "This will
kill me-Evii..
!. To those who are good, j~usticeloV
ing men, it will make the perfidy oil
its prime mover as black as it can te
their eyes and make them hate him
: if it can, and then in q constituencies
way. it will advise them as though in
I The voice OF an angel. "Repudiate him
by repudiating it."
: Thus has Evil succeeded if men vote
. for men and not for measures.
!. President Wilson asks a veto Of the
Alien Land Law by Gov. Johnson, Of
; California, and promises to cooperate
: III a systematic effort to discover and
: correct any evils OF alien land owner
ship.
J The Shriners' Imperial Council met
: in Dallas. Texas, last week.
Erie railroad officials have Deey
] threatened il they continue to trans
port strike breakers SC Paterson, N
e J.
r a pyramid Of rocks placed by strik.
:, ers upon the tracks near Paterson was
discovered in time to prevent the
I wrecking OK a passenger train upon
which the president OF the Erie and
t other officials were riding.
o The Public Health Service has filed