The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-13

promotion OF suicide
A good part of the London clergy openly favor let
ting the hunger strikers among the suffragettes
starve themselves to death, and it is astonishing
position for ministers to take
Endorsement of suicide for any reason, is taking
big risk in the business of moral instruction and
upift, thin and fine is the line drawn between
sanity and the various forms and degrees of mental
unbalance. If a woman is to be permitted to take
her life through starvation In protest OF her arrest
for rioting destruction of property, why not the
drunkard and confirmed theft
The government is particularly careful lest the
condemned murderer "cheat the gallows," notwith-
standing the positive certainty of the partys future
absolute uselessness Should it be less solcitous in
the case of a woman whose mere change of opinion
as to political rights would restore her value
law abiding, useful member of society,"
Londons clergy will labor for the soul of a muir
deress until her last kick in the hangmans 1t
seems like moral elasticity when they would wholly
abandon the woman when she is not murderess but
has merely become mentally over-heated in politics
But maybe the London clergymen who favor sui
eide they whose church property has been dam
aged. You may do things to humanity that you may
not do to property.
You sprinkle your lawn much cheaper now.
Anyhow, Huerta has got a navy that is worthy of
being under observation" by u. s. admiral.
Can you sing9 You're wanted at the Community
Sing Sunday afternoon at 2:30.
Those striking Bronxvile golf caddies who beat up
members of the Country club set horrible ex-
ample.
Let's see nowl When did the Tigers win their last
gamef
There seems to be rising demand that the pro-
gressive whale throw up Jonah Perkins before
starting out the next voyage the political river
Of doubt
Ohio is due for the 17-year locust pest But the
Buckeyes should cheer up. Scientists say the To-
Gusts make bully soup
And the county is going to pay for Is more guards
new reasons turn up for Johns paying his taxes
graciously
Wanted: SO standpat delegates strong men pre-
ferred, to be able to pull steam roller in Tacoma
next Thursday. Apply for job at Moose hall today.
Commissioner Mills declares that there are a lot
of apartment houses in Tacoma that have no fire
escapes. We wonder how Commissioner Mills would
explain should of these houses burn night,
together with twenty or thirty men, women and chill
dren.
There will be many jobs to fill next fall but we
shouldn't worry. Thereu be plenty of politicians
looking for 'em.
It's one thing to say you'll do something when you
campaigning for office, but it's another thing to
do it when you land your berth.
No use trying to keep upl Masters of dancing
have declared for the s'tatao," which is
Chinese 1t is of short, quick steps. Fellows used
to the girls father tata at ought to be able to
somewhat grasp the "tatao."
Pike, who climbed over a 10 foot spiked wall and
got into Buckingham palace, turns out to be not
suffragette but drunk. It takes suffragettes and
drunks to hoodwink London police.
And now a congressman has advertised Bryan's
lectures by offering bill to fine him $4,000 for de-
Chan