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Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1914-01-30

2 Political: President Wilson's annual
message to congress advocated direct
election of president and a waiting pol
Icy in Mexican affairs The Barthou
ministry in France resigned after a de-
feat by a majority Of rs votes
Floods: Rising waters In southern Texas
began a work of destruction which
caused a loss of over 100 lives and
damage amounting to 100000
J. Fire: Is deaths In the burning of the
Arcadia MOTEL. Boston.
Political: The house of representatives
passed bill authorizing 242.0O0 volun-
teers subject to the order of the presi-
dent
s. Storm: Snow fell In central Colorado
to the depth of 45-6 inches. blocking
railroad traffic.
6hipwreck: Swedish steamer Malmber.
get foundered OF Bodo Norway; IS
lives lost
Obituary: Lieut. Col. David du Bose.
Gaillard. U. s A.. an engineer conspic-
uous on the Culebra cut of the Panama
canal. In Baltimore: aged g.
Panama Canal: Gatun dam completed
after six years labor.
Political: National senate passed the
Hetch Hetchy valley bill converting
the domain into reservoir
Obituary: Phoebe W. couzins. author
and lecturer. In st. Louis: aged 70
g. Anniversary: Centenary of Hollands
revolt against Napoleon Bonaparte cell
ebrated ny historical pageanIry
Sporting: Georges Carpenter. French
champion boxer. defeated Bombardier
Wells OF England in the LIST round In
Landon
O. Mexico: Mexican congress annuIIed the
October elections and named Huerta
provisional president pending new cleo
tion In June. 1914
~ Rsrsonali Nobel peace prize for INA
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SPECULAToRs IN STARVATION.

For the creature who spceulates IN the
bare necessities OF life it is dificult for
any normal human being to have any
liberation. The average man. rooted as
he frequently is in the strange tradition
OF eating. has a feeling toward the food
speculatUr for which contempt and hatred
are mild terms. The food speCuIator Is
an individual who tries to make money
by causing or aggravating a famine.
There may be, and probably are, viIer
and more disgusting persons. But at the
moment it is difficult to remember what
they are. The middleman Is at present
a necessary evil under the existing sys-
TEN Of distributing produce. But when
he tries to take advantage OF crises that
bring starvation and disease. when he
attempts 10 grow rich out of starvation
and disease. he becomes a psstiferuus
parasite that il is necessary to eXtirpate
by the strongest measures. The miSer-
able huckster who stores up food in order
to create a famine puts himself beyond
the bounds Of human liberation.
But what is ever done to discourage
this depraVity? What happened to the
noble contractors who poisoned American
soldiers with putrid meat in the Spanish
War?-New York Globe.
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Some say that though they don't be-
iieve women should vote. and would not
exercise the franchise themselves. other
women should have 1t II they believe
they want 1t. The woman who wants to
vote. however. is very little interested
in her so-called emancipation" II she is
not illing TO join the suffragists. Yet
since the National American Woman
Suffrage Association was organized in
1853. with all Its promises 10 women, In
freedom" equality" etc, II has sue
ceeded in building up its present inem-
bership TO a total that represents three
out Of every 100 mature American women.
Why? Because the overwhelming ma
jority OF women are opposed 20 e1ercis-
Ing a duty that women have never proved
better able TO perform than men. and be-
cause they realize that IL enfranchised. a
woman who neglects this duty. Is on q
par with the soldier who deserts his flag.
Is II reasonable to suppose that ninety
seven women out Of 100 DO not know what
they want? Is It fair to the intelligence
OF woman. the mental equal and spirit
ual superior of man. to tell her that she
is a slave in practically every condition
OF her life." as suffragis say. and that
she has not brains enough TO know II?
The plain facts In the case are that
women realize that they are better on,
on the average, lnan men, they 90 not
wish to become his equal" Women
who try TO compete with men In every
condition Of their life. usually find that
the much mlsrepresented male, on the
average. is rather a hard-working citi-
zen. who is willing to do things every
day, without complaint, that would ruin
both the health and nerves Of a woman.
Not only that. but socially. legally, in
dustrially, the poor man is 50 hopelessly
at the mercy of woman that the plea for
her emancipation" seems ludicrous.
What mans word before q court OF law
is equal to a woman's? What woman
would rather trust her privileges or
rights to q woman instead of to a
man? What woman would feel that her
interests were better safeguarded. and
the governments efficiency increased, IL
We had feminine governors. generals, ad
mirals engineers, builders. policemen,
firemen, postmen, etc? Would a woman
vote to have herself represented in the
cab OF locomotive, or at the wheel Of
an ocean liner, by a woman? And yet II
women do not desire to achieve the end
OF turning out the men, and snatching
the reins Of government themselves, why
do they so vigorously demand the means?
Need Mans Government.
The truth is, We need a mans govern
ment, so long as men WELD the only ulti-
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luxury which we had never hoped for in
a workaday shop. There was the famous
importer. Kazan Jian, sending US hand
some rugs and gaily decorative screens.
One OF the colony's most prominent ar
lists brought us huge vases Of flowers.
A handsome silver tea service also was
given US for the summer. General Office
equipment came pouring in. and In a
very few hours bare shop was con-
verted into a weII-appointed headquart-
ers.
The success Of the day did not end
with the help Of friendly neighbors. Dis
tinguished women who were in Newport
attending Mrs. Belmont's conference of
great women were only too willing to
raise their voices again TO a Newport
audience in behalf of Votes for women. "
Senator Helen Ring Robinson, of Colo
rado; Miss MEry Bartelme, assistant
Judge of the Juvenile Court Of Chicago:
Mrs Ella Reeve Bloor, and Miss Kate
Gordon led the suffrage discussion from
all angles. Mrs o. II. P. Belmont, who
presided over the meeting. graciously
welcomed the Congressional Union TO
Newport. The Duchess Of Marlborough,
sweet and simple as maid Of sixteen.
came from her tennis match. accompa-
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At
NEWPORT EAGER
Coming Conference Presages
Thrilling Meetings for
Campaign Plans.
INTEREST IS INTENSE
Summer Headquarters Finds Keen
Rivalry Among Champions
of Cause.
ny DORIS STEVENS,

There are always those who say, Tt
can't be done
Many such uttered these discouraging
words when We opened Congressional
Union headquarters at LIS Bellevue ave
nue.. Newport. r. l. This is a very
peculiar community" said one. This
is the home of the conservatives" said
another. You will never get the sum-
mer colonists.' said a third. they are
too much interested in their summer
frivolities.'
But all campaigning suffragists. who
migrate from one firing line to another.
know that each community prides itself
on being peculiar" Each city tells you
in whispered tones of the terrible graft
in its administration. voters OF all parties
speak OF their legislature as the most
corrupt in the country. And so We got in
Rhode Island a full quota OF such state
ments. But suffragists have never taken
disbursement too seriously, much less
the Congressional Union. and so July
found us opening summer headquarters
with hope and great flourish.
Newport EnthusIastic.
The day we opened one would have
sworn there was not an anti in the
whole of New England, so numerous
were the friends who came. eager to help
US establish ourselves. There was New
ports most prominent antique dealer
sending US French tables and chairs, a
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OF children removed from the mothers
supervision to the teachers
In various ways she has learned about
the adulterarion Of foods, :hr vice deus
OF all kinds and the DANCES uf unsanitary
cities, and she realizes that The home Is
no longer contained within the fouI
walls Of a house, but that the world is
home. and that woman. 10 nll her Drsi-
ton as keeper and maker Of ne home.
must have a voice in the sHaIrs 90 the
world, concerning the kind Of men who
shall select teachers TO er'ighI=n the
minds OF her children. the presence of the
saloon around the corner. and the en-
forcement Of the city. State, and naIiona
health laws.
To Set standard of Women.
Even though her house be spotlessly
clean, what does il avail if her children
must drink impure milk and eat doc
tored"i meat? II her boy be as pure
as snow. what can a mother do if a sa-
loon surrounded by vicious men is always
TO be passed on the way home? She re-
members. this college girl. that John
Quincy Adams was made President of the
United States by a single vote; that An
drew Johnson was saved from disgrace
by one vote. and that Washington on the
Potomac was made the Capital Of this
great ndllOn Dy lne marx on one piece
Of paper called a ballot.
During four formative years the college
woman has lived in a cooperative COM
munity. a place where each is response
bic for the sins and welfare of others,
a miniature state which is the nursery
OF principle and honor She has come
in contact with all kinds of men and
women. She has sat at the feet OF sChol-
ars and listened to the talk Of fools. She
understands wOman's capabilities and
Weaknesses. her hopes and aspirations,
and knows that il is only woman who can
answer the call of woman for help.
All these things she knows and many
more. and with her new vision she he
comes conscious that she is a person, a
living, pulsing, human being: that II is
the college woman who will set the stand
ard Of womanhood for this century: that
it is she who is to be the leader OF prog
ress and righteousness. and that II is to
the/college woman that the State is look
ing for a SAVIOR. This is why she be-
lieves in equal suffrage.
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FAMOUS WOMAN, HER
BIRTHDAY and YOURS
August 16-Sarah Porter, Baroness
Marine, and Catherine Gockburn.

OF the three famous women whose
birthdays are celebrated on August l6 the
first in point Of the time in which she
lived was Catherine cockburn, who vas
born in London In 1913. She gained her
fame as q dramatist and philosophical
writer. having had one OF her plays sue
cessfully produced in London when she
was but eighteen years Of age. Although
born Protestant, she espoused Cathoii-
cism for a few years only to abjure II
when she married. at the age Of twenty
nine. Patrick Cockburn. a poor curate in
the English Church. After her marriage
she wrote books OF philosophy, which
were widely read at the time. Catherine
Cockburn was a very beautiful woman
and was known by her associates quite Gs
much for her exquisite beauty as for her
ability as writer.
The Baroness Marine was born August
ls, 1866 and she will always be remem-
bered as one OF the most remarkable Of
all Scottish poets being comparable with
the great Burns himself. For their nIu-
sical quality and a tenderness OF senti-
ment some Of her simple little songs even
surpass those Of Burns. The best known
of all her verses are those beginning with
the words I'm weaing ava, John"
known as The Land o. the Leal" An
other favorite is Duncan Gray Cam Hero
to Woo" and Charlie IL My Darling" a
song written IoT tne cause OI Ine Sluatls
tn; Baroness Marine led a quiet, un-
eventful life. She married when she was
forty her cousin. the sixth earl OF Marine.
with whom she lived a very happy. con-
tented life.
Sarah Porter. who was born in Hart
ford. Conn. August Is. 1913. made her
name celebrated because OF the large
boarding academy for young women.
which she carried on. which in the middle
OF the last century was the best known
institution of learning for women in New
England, with the exception of Mount
Holyoke College. 1t was said of her that
her sympathies were so wide that no
human being seemed uninteresting to her
and that she had a temperament almost
unequaled in its steadiness and even
ness" She was a sister OF Noah Porter
at one time president of Yale.
Copyright. l9lIl
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70 women. and was followed in the same
year by the universities of Illinois and
Missouri; in 1876 by Ohio State UniVer-
sity. and in Is7i by the University OF Wis
consin.
1t is a significant fact to remember that
three OF these States. Michigan, Ohio, and
Wisconsin. have recently defeated woman
suffrage At the polls BY tremendous ma
joritiez, each of which Is nearly double
the total piuralities OF the entire i've
States that voted for votes for women.
The universities OF Iowa. Kansas. Min
nesota. and Nebraska were opened before
1sTl, and all were coeducationaI from
their foundation. Cornell University,
founded in 1858, admitted women in ISTs.
Even the Massachusetts, Institute Of
Technology. founded In 1856, admitted
women in 1850. II any number Of women
had asked for technical educations, It
would undoubtedly have been opened TO
them earlier. Boston, Leland Stanford.
Junior, and Chicago universities opened
their educational facilities to women be-
fore they were enfranchised In any State.
Here Is the gist Of the matter. which
sunragists try to hide: American col
Iege women began to seek opportunities
for graduate work and to study for ad-
vanced degrees in the United States and
Europe from about 1850" This. Of course.
was thirteen years before women voted
In Colorado. Previously women did not
become highly educated in such IarSs
numbers as at present. mainly because
education itself. for man or woman, had
not become such a popular ideal and
women lacked the personal inclination 10
study.
The assumption that women must vote
in order to get opportunities for scholas-
tic learning is borne out by no facts in
American or European history.
Suffragists either lack a sense OF pro-
portion or a sense OF humor-which IS
much the same-whsn they advance such
theories. They are on q par with the
usual request last week by an English
sufTragist. who declared the priesthood
Is a human office, and that since women
are human beings il is unreasonable 70
refuse them the opportunity Of holding It
merely because they are women" Sane
persons are more inclined to laugh than
to tremble at such ridiculous demands.
but. seriously, il goes to show that this
hysterical unrest that some women are
making il their profession 10 cultivate
among their sex knows no bounds in rea-
son and will degenerate into the complete
sex revolution that the feministS desire,
unless people take more interest in the
conservation Of common sense-whICh
movement is focused today. as far as
women are concerned. chiefly in the ranks
Of the anti-sufIragists.
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bet." and provinciaiiy assures US ina
"only in America" as such q thing pos
sible. (Now please. suffragists. look II
your women's Journal for last month. or
the editorial page. and see that this Il
true, before you comment on my vera
city,.
Now. disregarding the fact that Illus
trious women. like Sapho and Xanthippe.
seemed rather equal In mental combat to
such men as Socrates. centuries before
the Christian era, and that women In
Europe has become famous scholars and
patrons Of learning long before the dis
covery Of America. history assures Us
that in the United States. as well as
abroad, higher education for women has
been altogether Independent OF the agi-
tation for the ballot
In 1924, foTty-fve years before the Ma
tional Suffrage Association waS organ
lzed. Mary Lyon, who founded Mount
Holyoke. studied at Amherst under Prof
Eaton to become qualified for giving ex-
perimental instruction In chemistry.
Sounds more like 1914. does it not? Yet.
according to the suffragists. II 4 woman
had dared to learn the alphabet or leave
her spinning wheel at about that time
she would have been an outcast.
women'E Colleges.
In 1893. thirty-six years before the dawn
Of national suffrage hopes. Oberlln Col
legiate Institute was chartered as a col
lege. and offered all its facilities tc
women from the start. Its seminary de-
partment was large. but its college cur
riculum was said to compare favorably
with that Of Yale. Although few women
completed the college course. seventy
nine had received the Oberlin B. A. de-
gree by 1855.
II history is to be believed. then. some
Of our grandmothers had a chance to get
the same education as men years before
the present generation OF suffragists dis
covered that women are slaves"
In 1881, without the ballot, Mary Lyon
founded Mount Holyoke. In 1850. forty
three years before woman suffrage was
granted in that State, the University OF
Utah admitted women as well as men.
In 1855 Elmira College for Women was
established by a synod Of the Presbyte-
rian Church. Other denominationsI col
leges Of the Middle West and some OF
the earlier state universities admitted
women from the outset. The Catholics
Of course, have trained women as teach
ers. as well as taught the social graCcs
in their converts. since the establishment
OF their church in this country.
In 1870 the University Of Michigan. tbs
strongest and best known Of the State
universities at that time. opened its doors
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overwhelming najorities in some Of tbs
most advanced States In the Union, like
Wisconsin. Ohio, and Michigan? The
first suffragists held great conventions
at which orators famed the country over
made mastery appeals for "woman'I
rights" But how does woman suffrage
stand now?
The present suffragists find themselves
unable to attract attention unless they
parade the streets like a circus, pitch
army recruiting tents" and detail
beauty squads" to ''ensnare the pedes-
trian." State suffrage association felt
called upon. recently. to deny that its or
ganlzation, like some others. was selling
kisses on the street" Another publicity
stunt" TO force the weary editor to no.
ice the suffrage cause. is to gather a
collection OF curios ranging from the
tiniest baby's ring to the gold-rimmed
spectacles Of some long departed grand
father" as the head OF one Of their
melting pot" committees declares.
Neither the grandparents nor the in.
fants OF suffragists seem to outweigh the
importance OF the piece Of paper in q
ballot box"
Pardon my poor memory. had almost
forgotten another thing some OF the suf-
fragists do to cause excitement They
meet and pass resolutions against imag-
mary anti inaccuracies" and seek tc
humiliste their sincere opponents by per.
sonsl caricatures. which. like most OF
the things the suffragists do. have ar
opposite effect from that intended.
Long May She Raye"
This is undoubtedly why they say
without anti-sunrage. the suffrage
cause would be, TO the multitude, utterly
uninteresting." AntI-sufiragists are will.
ling to sacrifice everything but their
characters and regulations 10 keep ur
the interest In the suffrage issue. II the
majority for whom they stand will rise
in its might, when sufficiently enter.
tained, and put woman suffrage where II
belongs-in the class with populism and
free silver. and in the affectIonate arms
OF Its devoted twin sister. poor old So
cialism, where long may she rave.
One of the suffragist pleas is that the
higher education Of women Is part Of the
general uprising Of women. They tell
you, for instance. that practically all the
women's colleges we're founded by suf-
fragists, and that before ''woman's
rights began TO demand the attention
Of our people, that women were hardly
allowed to learn the alphabet. One OF
them goes so far as TO say that the
great revolution was started when
women were allowed to learn the alpha
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ASKS ABOUT BRITISH TROOPS.
Belgian Outpost Commander Pro-
feaaes 20 De I'm the Dark.

Belgian Outpost Commander Pro-
fesses TO De I'm the Dark.
London, Aug. l5.-According to the cor.
respondent Of the Central News in Brus-
sells, Gen. BaiX. commander of the out
post division Of the Belgian army,
knows nothing of the location of the
British troops which were sent to Bel
gium 10 help tight the Germans.
The following account was today tele-
graphed to London by the Central News
correspondent relative to a visit to Lou
vain, Belgian army headquarters, and
an interview he had there with Gen.
BaIx yesterday:
Gen Baix told me that the Germans
who attacked his outpost division on
Wednesday numbered about 1900 men,
and were supported by field artillery and
maxim machine guns. By dint OF mag
nifcent rifle and artillery fire together
with brilliant cavalry sorties the various
sections Of the Belgian forces succeeded
In driving on the attacking Germans,
who disappeared to the eastward.
Gen. BaiX said:
Where are your English troops? We
are all waiting for them anxiously.'
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BY MRs. AUSTIN M. PURvEs.

BY MRS. AUSTIN NJ. PURVEs.
vics chairman Of the Organizing committee. Perm
sylrania Association OPPOSED 70 Woman sufrHse-
One Of the suffrage leaders says
without anti-suffrage. the suffrage
cause would be, to the multitude. utterly
uninteresting. Few people, would be curl
Gus enough to listen to its advocates"
Until a week ago. the writer had never
experienced, personally, the extent to
which siffragists consider II necessary %
down the "antis" one by one, in order
20 arouse suficient popular excitement
TO keep the failing votes for women
cause from absolute oblivion.
1t is an open question with many
whether It would not be as effective TO
ignore the suffragists altogether. The
majority OF the newspapers persue this
policy-hence the suffrage, necessity for
militancy in England, and parades and
melting pots in America-to keep the dy-
ing cause alive on notoriety.
Fenr ReprIsaIs.
The personal sacrifices one is called
upon 10 make when she comes out bold
ly opposing woman suffrage, and states
and stands for what the majority of
women believe, are so great that many
are deferred from voicing their opinions
from fear OF suffrage reprisals. As q
recent victim of suffrage ire, the writer
is in a position TO reveal some OF the
reasons why so many of her associates,
who would much prefer to drop the
whole affair. consider il their duty to do
all they can toward increasing the or
Eanized opposition to votes for women"
TO a force whose active members outnum-
ber the suffragists-
Some of the persons who write letters
TO the papers occasionally ask the old
question: why is an anti-sufragist?"
They dismiss the franchise for women
question with the indifferent remark, IF
they want II, let them have it" While
condemning its shallow disregard of the
fact that wanting a thing is no evidence
of its necessity or benefit, anti-suffra-
Gists are willing to admit this statement
as a fair and democratic test Of wom-
ans attitude toward the ballot. They
point out that II is just this test that the
suffragists have always avoided-because
they realize that the majority Of women
do net want to be thrust into politics.
The easy-going majority, however, is
often willing TO let the suffrage issue
drop at the personal preference stage.
That is how It was slipped through"
the suffrage States, to weaken admins
trations, promote discord, increase ex-
penses, and lower the status OF women.
The Washington herald., 1914-08-16
AMERICANS SAFE IN BERLIN,
U. S. EMBASSY CABLES BRYAN

The State Department yesterday re-
ceived a cablegram from the American
Embassy at Berlin. transmitted via Co.
penhagen. stating that all Americans at
that place are perfectly safe.
great meeting was held at City Hall,
Berlin. Wednesday for the purpose OF
extending encouragement and sympathy
to Americans now there, The embassy
reports that travel TO the south is prac-
ticafly impossible now, but a special
train has been sent to the Holland from
tier Boats between Holland and Eng
land are still running.
The embassy is assisting in the selling
Of tickets to Americans desiring to leave
by this means.
For the last ten days the embassy has
been maintaining a relief department.
and has been sending money to consuls
for the relief Of Americans. many of
whom are destitute. especially foreign
born.