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The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01

The federation has been called the
older women's university and 1t is
well named. At the general fedora
ton l had the feeling that it was al.
together like college reunion where
the alumni had cast aside home
cares and have come back to then
alma mater.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01

ence of the teachers. Miss Logan,
Professor Colgrove and Prof. Henry
$. Curtis will speak. Professor Cur
tbs will lecture twice on playground
subjects, and then will deliver third
lecture tomorrow evening for the
public.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01
Can't Solve Problems.

Men can never solve the problems
Of life alone. Women can never solve
them alone. 1t takes men and wom-
en- working together, cooperating and
working together, to solve the prob
lens that confront us today.
"The awful war in England makes
us realize that there is something rad
ically wrong with our so-called boast
ed civilization There is something
fundamentally wrong with our ideas
of government. Had the mother spirit
of Europe been able to speak in
practical and adequate way through
the government Of Europe, we do not
believe that petty national controver-
sizes would have led to the destruction
of the fruits Of centuries Of industry
and the sacrifice Of thousands and
thousands of human lives.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01
Men Not Always votins.

'Tn considering this question too, it
is well to remember that men have
not always voted. Back in history
there was time when only the king
had a voice in the government. Then
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01

REPUBLICAN TICKET
FOR UNITED STATES SENATOR
4. B. CUMMINS
Of Des MolneJ.
For Congressman First Iowa District.
c. A. KENNEDY.
of Montrose.
STATE TICKET.
For Governor.
GEO. w. CLARKE
of Abel.
For Lieutenant Governor.
WILLIAM L. HARDING
of Sioux City.
For Secretary Of State.
WIN. S. ALLEN
of Fairfield.
For Auditor Of state.
FRANK S. SHAW
OF Toledo.
For Treasurer Of State.
w. G. BROWN
Of Clarion.
FOR Attorney GENERAL.
GEORGE COSSON
of Audubon.
For Railroad Commissioners.
JAMES H. WILSON
Of Menlo.
CLIFFORD THORNE
of Washington.
For state Senator.
JOS. R. FRAILEY
OF Fort Madison.
For State Representative.
CHAS. F. SAWYER
of Keokuk.
For County Auditor.
GILBERT LEE
OF Fort Madison.
For County Treasurer.
JAMES MAXWELL
Of Primrose.
For Clerk.
o. r. JOHNSTON
of Fort Madison.
For Sheriff.
JOHN c. SCOTT
of Montrose.
For Recorder.
ED. G. VAUGHAN
of Keokuk.
For Attorney.
w. R. c. KENDR1CK.
Of Keokuk.
For Coroner.
WALT II. CLEMENTS
Of Fort Madison.
For Member Board OF Supervisors.
I. HOSIER
Of Fort Madison.
JOHN De ROSEAR
of Mt Hami,,.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01

the more powerful barons were given
voice. and then the lesser barons.
and after years OF struggle the rich
citizens were given the right to vote.
1t was not until the middle part OF
the last century that the middle class
men Of England, and then only COM
parative few Of them, were given the
right to vote. Nearly ali Of the argu-
ments that are advanced against wom-
ans suffrage today, have been ad-
vanced In the past against mans suf-
frage
s People who were opposed to equal
suffrage in Illinois now, after seeing
all the benefits that have already &C.
scrued to the state through men and
women working together, are in favor
of this great principle.
All Parties Indorse Il.
"All political parties in the state OF
Illinois have now practically come
out for equal suffrage. The social
lists have from the beginning stood
for 1t. The progressives have always
had a suffrage plank in their platform.
The republicans have now come out
for full suffrage for women, and the
democrats at the democratic conven-
ton, mentioned woman suffrage with
the initiative and referendum and
other measures dear to the heart OF
democrats, to be settled by consti-
tutional convention. Mentioning the
word in this way practically puts the
democratic party on record for SUI
frage, and it is so construed by the
democratic party.
"They told us that the women OF
Chicago would not vote, that they
would not register. 21S,000 women
registered in Chicago and these wom-
en- uniting with the good men sent
many exceptionally fine men to the
city council last spring. We have
never had SO fine a group of alder
men in the city council before.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01
Must stand Equal.

$50 much OF our work in the past
has been simply remedial work. We
have striven to ameliorate human
want and human woe without being
able to attack their cause. And back
of all disease and suffering there is a
cause and that cause, directly Or In
directly is sin. And what causes q
large proponderance OF the sin of the
worlG-the double moral standard for
women and for men. No amount OF
medical science, no philosophy, no re-
ligion, no legislation of any kind can
save the world until men and women
stand equal in the sight OF men as
they do in the sight Of God.-and we
have one political and one moral
standard for women and for men.
The women's clubs have been doing
a good work but think of what tre-
mendous power for good these edu-
Gated, thoughtful, unselfish women
would become, organized as they are
in the state declarations and in the
one great general federation, If wom-
en- everywhere were given the right
to vote. This fact was recognized by
the general federation itself when its
great biennial convention held in
Chicago last June passed a resolution
endorsing political equality regardless
Of SEX"
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01
The Program Tonight.

The program tonight viii be an IN
teresting one and the public Will be
invited to attend this meeting, when
will be addressed by the Hon. H. r.
Patteng gill. The meeting will be open
to the public, Superintendent Lynn
stated today, and anyone interested is
welcome to attend the meeting 10.
night. The program will commence at
500 o'clock. There will be music
and following this, Mr.. Pattenslir
talk.
Final Day Tomorrow.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01
Mrs Trout on White Slavery.

MRS, trout on "h,ee slavery
In speaking Of white slavery, Mrs.
Trout said: why have we white
slave law in Illinois such as is now
on the statutes? For stealing girl
and placing her in the worst slavery,
the maximum penalty is one year in
prison. For stealing horse valued
at SIS, Is twenty years Imprisonment.
We have such a condition of white
slavery not because our men are de-
PRAYED, but because it is less easy to
steal girls than horses. Why do we
have such an atrocious law? It is
because the man with home and
family has never had fair represent
alton in our politics. Our good men
are as much opposed to such laws
as our women are, only the home and
its interests has not had fair repre-
sentation. Every married man, for
example, represents two grown peo-
pie. himself and his wife. Frequently
he has grown daughters or widowed
mother. in that case he represents
three or four or five grown people,
including himself, but he has just one
vote. That one vote can be over
balanced by some unmarried man re-
sponsibIe or irresponsible, who repre-
sents only himself. The home and its
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01

Marjorie Flohrer, Mud; Mildred
Link, Hickory stump; Rosa Durker
No. 3: Ida F. Kearns. Scrub Oak;
Charles Slarburg, Chalk Ridge; Louise
Smith, Maple Grove; A. c. Evans
principal, West Point; Kate Kile, as
sistant, West Point.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01

Final Day Tomorrow.
Tomorrow will wind up the CONFER
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01
Charleston

Emma Noonan, Charleston: Mary
Philip. Charleston; Ethel Hamilton
Rurch; Theresa Pickering, Beverly
Marie Herman, Center Crossing; Car
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-10-01

Julia Hoffmeister, Hickory Grove; ;
May H. Gregg, Brush College; Mrs.
X. Schipper, White; Grace Eoff. Jay
Bird: Lucy Smalley, Liberty; Carrie
Buck, Locust Grove; Laura Weidinger.
Mansheim; Eva Sharp, Stone; Evelyn
Schenk, Knopp.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-07-02

own the small individual pans bake
in small turnover shapes.)
BEEF AND SAUSAGE LOAF
To two pounds of beef add one
pound of sausage meat. Mix thor.
oughly. Salt to taste. To one egg
add two tablespoons of water or milk
and mix into meat. Add three table
spoons of fine crumbs. Shape into
long narrow loaf and put in skillet
with half cup of water and slice
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1914-07-02
of onion. Cover with pan and set
skillet in over. Basic often.
1000
A SAUcY SAURIAN

While picking berries near John
Fessler's place DR.. Wolfdan and Mr..
Swinney disturbed a fve-foot ALI
gator Mr.. Swinney was standing on
him quietly gathering berries when
suddenly his feet fell out from under
him.-Anachuac (Tex.) Progress.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
Travellers Tales of the Coloncps Fees.

Colonel Roosevelt may not be the saiest suiue
for this country politically, but he mas always
borne the reputation of being model OF nnancia'
disinterestedness Therefore 1t is with SURPRISE
and incredulity that the public hears travellers
tales of his presenting bills TO asonished Brazil
ians for his lectures, after having been royalty
fetedp by them for all the world like our canny Sec
rotary OF state among his admirers on the Chau'
tauqua Circuit
The Colonel went down TO South America to de-
liver a lecture, for which honorarlum was prom
ised as is customary the world over when as
tinguished foreigner is asked TO make an eApen'
sive trip TO talk before learned society II whhe
down there he developed the habit of presenting
bills to people who sought to honor him II VIII
occasion establishment; for If the Colonel chose TO
turn into riches the distinction which the American
people have co erred upon him he need not have
gone abroad 10 do SO. All ChauiauQua was open
TO him The stories from South America are not
in keeping with his character. The Tribune does not
admire Colonel Roosevelts doctrine but 1t taxes
pleasure in saying that it never detected him IN
trying to get rich out of preaching it,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
The Post Mortem on Might-Have- Been
HumoriSt.

Exnlaining pleasantly which will not explain
itself is of the most narrowing experiences
humorist can suffer. AS John G. Whittier would
have put it. "Of ali sad jokes of tongue or pen, the
saddest is that which might have been Ambassa-
dor Walter H. Page would be either more or less
than human if his faith in himself a humorist
had not been soured by the failure Of the rest Of
tie world to appreciate his afterdnner Inspirations
and TO classify him enthusiastically another Mark
Twain or George Ade
Mr. Page has endeavored to correct the impression
caused by his pleasantries in London by cabling a
verbatim report of what he said Here is the passage
in which he gave his humor the freest rein:
7 viii not say that we have constructed the Pam
ANA Canal for YOU 0aughter), for l speaking
with great frankness and not with what is some
times called diplomatic ndirection Qaughter), but
I will say most truly that it adds greatly TO the
pleasure Of building that great work that it is you
who will most profit 10y it QaughteD.
This looks in type suspicously like one OF those
Ieaveo-print7 speeches in The Congressional Rec
ord" in which the solitary midnight lamp orator
furnishes his own bracketfuls Of uproarious inter-
ruption These brackets will never impress our
sophisticated and canny Senators
We fear that ar earnest judge of humor like Sec
rotary Bryan could read the Page jeu desprt twice
over backward and forward, and never find any
thing funny in it. Either humor or as serious
opinion, any Secretary of state in his would
have blue penced it had he had a chance to do so.
Mr. Bryan is busy man, and it would be cruel per-
hans TO tie him down still further to desk work in
Washington Yet it might appease the Senate and
il would certainly the country IL he should
dedicate himself from on to the great task Of
censoring in advance all Mr. Pages threatened after
dinner humor.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15

tain only one, will be realized one OF these days
by business men and they will stop putting their
hands in their pockets to support such suicidal
policy
But aside from the economic aspect of the que5-
ton the desrabiy Of some sort of Christian unity
is rapidly ceasing to be merely dream of the tut
ure Christianity to-day is undergoing profound
revolution no less real and farreaching because 1t
is largely silent. 1t is ceasing to regard as OF SUI
preme Importance the theological controversies many
Of them petty and trivial from our point OF view
and most of them both bitter and bloody, that make
up so much of its history, and is seeking TO lind
larger and worthier mission in meeting the needs
and problems Of modern life. 1t is in the spirit OF
this wider outlook that this movement in behalf
Of unity has been inaugurated. Sectariansm is a
sort Of spiritual egoism which cannot long endure
when men come TO realize how impossible it is for
any two human beings to apprehend even the most
evident truth or fact in exactly the same way
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
France at Panama.
walton possibl

France ought, ind led, to have a memorial at
Banana such as is now suggested: if there are TO
he any monuments besides the colossal works OF
\ he canal itself Her achievements there have been
Ascured by the circumstances which brought them
70 end. Put they were really gigantic and G,
p Of far higher recognition than they have
Ronly received.
othing could be more unfair than the bald
& ord that the French failed While the Americans
&F cceeded Truth and justice require recognition
~ the radical contrast N conditions. The French
ere not bafied by the engineering problem. They
&Eere defeated by diplomatic and sanitary circum-
Stances The Monroe Doctrine and the New era
nada treaty prevented them from getting control Of
I canal zone and doomed them 10 subservience to
Colombian law and as the secret of suppressing
yellow fever and malaria had not set been dscov-
cred, they were left helpless victims of those
plaques
1t is to theh everlasting credit that in spite OF
these crushing handcaps they eXcavated about two
Il fths Of the canal prism, and provided hundreds
buildings and vast stores of machinery and
uppies which after all these years we still find
* the highest utility. They did a great work in
be face Of insuperabe difficulties; and although
"a hey were from the beginning doomed TO defeat
= hey are entitled to the honor and grateful remem-
brance of those who followed them.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
The Anonymous Letter Writer.

Now that the cause cel6bre Of Elizabeth has de-
parted from the boards it seems worth while TO
point out again the utter meanness and cowardice
Of the enemy who turns to an anonymous letter for
revenge
This New Jersey trial has resulted as have most
trials based the identification of written material
The handwriting experts long since lost most Of
their authority hereabout and when it is attempted
10 apply such expert evidence to typcwriting it is
easy 10 forecast the result Occasionally typewriter
copy furnishes a peculiarly good clew. But in most
cases the machine made letter is hardest of all TO
trace And as in the Pollard case even if there is
some evidence to identify the particular machine,
Won have still to identify the particular hands which
touched the keys.
Thus the anonymous letter writer Of to-day with
sense enough to take proper precautions is prac-
ticalIy certain to escape detection Hitting a man
from behind in the dark is perilous method of at
tack compared to this game The latter stands out
as ouite the most cowardly crime on the statute
hooks. 1t deserves all the contempt that society
cives IT, The law is all but helpless before it and
nothing but public opinion working upon private
conscience can keep it down.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
International Slangwhanging.

Much as any interference with the freedom OF
the press is generally to be deprecated, there IS
room for sympathy with the action which the Ter
man government is reported 10 have taken to"dlu
some of the more rabid anti-Russan papers OF tna'
country. For those papers have gone far beyond
the bounds of legitimate record and comment
TEey have conducted a venomous propaganda win
the deliberate purpose Of causing ill feeling strained
relations. and perhaps even wal. between TWO
friendly countries.
Such conduct comes indeed, very close TO VIC
lation of the neutrality laws. 1t is forbidden 10
wage war with powder and shot against frienuly
nation. Morally, it is as bad TO wage war with
false witness and malevolent inyective. If such
utterances should provoke war as it is within the
range of possibilities for them TO do tn authors
would be as responsible, morally, as though they
had marched across the border in military array.
If newspapers tranfOrm themselves into tlibusters
they must expect to meet flibusters' fate.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
Working for Christian Unity.

The nroiect TO hold an nterdenominational con
ference of Christians throughout the world to dis
cuss the question of Christian unity is hopeful
and suggestive sign Of the times. It had its in
ception in the Episcopal Church, which appointed
a commission in 1910 to take the question up with
the other regi. us bodies. The response of these
bodies has been prompt and cordial and represen
tative committees nave been appointed by thirty
seven religious bodies to arrange when and where
the world conference of Christian churches shall
be held.
The conference of course will have legislative
powers: it will be simply advisory and consuta
tive body But the fact that such representative
gathering is to be held to discuss unity prac
teal and live question is in itself strong proof
that Christians are more and more coming to see
the moral and economic waste Of maintaining so
many religious organizations, which often expend
most of their vitality in competing with each other
The folly OF denomnationalism has indeed become
so evident in the foreign mission field that many of
the missionaries are as much as possible working
along the lines of a common understanding The
now famous Kikuyu case in East Africa is strik
inc evidence of this tendency while the criticism
IN England OF the missionaries who held the union
meeting in Kikuyu shows that any real Christian
unity is vet far distant in the future.
Nevertheless, this great movement, which has been
so bonefully launched, will be most valuable as an
ohiect lesson Composed as the conference viii be-
of fine most famous and influential men in the var
ors Christian bodies their discussions and sugges-
tions will bring home TO every Christian man ana
1yoman the absurdty and needlessness OF sectarlan
divisions. The economic waste OF small Town OF
~irooo desneratey trying to support ten or twelve
churches. when it is really able by rgnts 10 nisin
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
l-employing the Siegel Crash
Victims.

.s,,,ri,v will honor MIR John Claim anu
-, ,thor donartment store proprietors for the
nromptness with which they offered employment ~
rs many rs possible Of those who were thrown o"'
Of work by the closing Of the Siegel stores 'u,D
false. and malicious talk has been heard ABOUT Tue
indifference of department store propuetors TO 'ue
welfare of their employees No report Oh au INV
eating committee could have answered II 50 e"e0'
uany as the ready sympathy which such propr'e'oi'
bIe shown TO employees of another store for whose
ksfortunes they were in way responslole'
rbe action of Mr. Clahin and the other prophet Is
has averted i'm part, we hope in large part "
great industrial tragedy There is nothing sauue'
i'm the economic world than the closing OF ouSl-
ness that throws out of work hundreds OF unsAieu'
not well paid wage earners, fathers perhaps WIN
families to feed. or, in the case OF department
stores girls who have surplus and VINO VIII race
2 long period of idleneSS.
AMI in this Siegel failure the situation was maze
many times worse by the fact that TN employees
VIII had been able to save kept their small savings
in the bank which was rul in coI1ecton with the
ASiegeI store. All such lost not only employment
but the little capital which they had boarded up
- against such a catastrophe.
Arwo thousand men and women turned adrift al Il
ament when work is VIGOROUSLY hard 10 obtain
%nd with their savings sacrificed TO the false conf
dence which negligent state permitted them to
feel in a privote bank, their situation was sad IN
>deed 1t has been Shtened just because OF the
feeling which other employers of labor ike theirs
had for those who had been suddenly thrust upon
tbe streets The tragedy las not been averted but
il has been lessened. Responsibility for it rests
heavily upon the state, whose laws made its aggra-
walton possible.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-15
THE "NEUTERISTS"
So an "Anti" Suggests That the Fem
inists Be Named.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: Allow me TO recommend to "A
Mere Man" whose letter OF March 10 is
answered by your correspondent "Femi-
mist" in this mornings issue, that he at
tend one of the meetings where he can
hear the desired propaganda. At such a
meeting, held a short time ago, some half
dozen speakers occupied about twenty
minutes each, endeavoring to convince
their audience of woman's right to do the
several things which they Ohe speakers,
who were, of course, womem had already
accomplished with unquestionable sue
cess. unrestricted by law or society,
| would like to ask Feminist" in what
way women are prohibited from pursuing
the higher education If they so desire;
from practising any OF the professions
they may elect Except stringing tele-
graph and telephone wires from the tops
of poles). or from registering their opin-
ions in much more public way than by
ballot. She seems to be doing the latter
very effectively herself.
Everywhere there is evidence of encour-
agement for every woman to undertake
any work for which she is fitted, and even
for activity in which there is a question
of fitness, if she wishes to pursue it. Sex
is the only determinative restriction, and
many women pay the price of disregard
ing It. Nothing can eliminate it, for 1t is
the gift OF the Creator, to be used for
spiritual ends, which the so-called femi-
nists apparently leave out OF their scheme
to identify the masculine and feminine
elements of society. They overlook their
own distinctively feminine powers in
aping those of men, and ''feminism" is q
misnomer; the movement should be called
"masculism." Perhaps a more accurate
substitute for the word. which Mrs. Hale
says is overworked. would be "neuter-
ISM" and for its propagandists "neuter-
lists" since one sex cannot actually be
converted into the other.
ALICE EDITH ABEL.
President Wage Farmers Anti-Suffragc
League.
New York, March Il, 1914.