Idaho labor herald. (Boise, Idaho) 1913-1914, 1914-11-19
WOMAN WHO WOULD UPLTFT A WORLD


10 say less leave unsad in however brief sketch Of her
would be aectaohe picture tells tale life work
beside Joseph Fe and her continuance of succeeding his passing
tell their part unmstakably.
Not impulse to larger activities thar
are copased in the personal aacons has depth of mind
reach fundamental issues Women inherently radca
thinkers the feminine of mind being other than those which
lead to the PERCEPTION of But Mary Fe human ind
vdua first and second In this side unique but
there not AS active and responsible head of the Joseph
es Fund tor the restoration of the land to the people she easily
the leader of the revolutionary known history
The world does not understand this yet because super
hy obvious that land appropriation the base of all averes
and explorations All seeand
the asocracies the swords scepes nases the money
bags OF putocac here and there
all kings and money lords of finance
slavery and itself all the aodial of land
many indeed men or women know even the mean
ing of aloda and much the deep terrible significance
OF alloting titles to the earth's unused
But Mary Fes knowsand she is very able very wealthy and
wholly true to the best she knows She may
Joseph Fels her husband with him. There complete sympa-
thy and understanding between thea and beautiful friend
ship not quickly to be severed by DEATH learns from those
who tell that in her speech and thought today there the seeming
consciousness of his presence He is there in London with her
wherever helping guiding consulting only when circumstances
force his absence upon her is she sensible of the separation 1t
his worthers Well she knows what For years they worked
together in the utmost hamonyn America Europe Australia
almost eveywheetrue cosmopotans teaching truth wide
earth deep human lie aught hope of freedom
and justice as the human heart reach
Mary Fels know-and great truth drew her away
from the petty charities and reforms that do but change the person
mel of slave and freedom and the
while land monopoly exists Dynaste and putocraces will
most dangerous in the world
Which is venued in Of hero worship, of which hope
70 remain unaant One person another nnscay me
Tor am quite certain that could be greater than another had
not the nmerorou accident of birth fortunately endowed
one and not the other This terrible inequality of endowment
abnormal greedbon and unnecessary There should be million
Mary Fels in the world-that say a million woven beautiful
Intelligent profound with sympates wide human suffering
and wealth and energy with which to combat the nhuan grees
that erstwe would devastate the and drive mankind
is Nero and cae slaveres that million possible
and other millions OF and women free pursue whatever may
manly humorsiyeven to make her lgoten wealth mpos
sbeMary Fs gives all that much as much even as
the widows mite and the of Ind more than that
If homo awaken the fact that ownership
ownership and that every man needs to own himself and
must be permitted else if he understands that
the orcbe Withholding of idle the poverty that
slavery from land monopoly and only by
ing land tenure to and oupancythen will be a off, with
and kings and money bags then he will build
not to Henry George who built his when he
Progress and Povertybu Joseph Mary whom the
ayed enlighment.
Being also we'll as an individuality Mrs Fe isl
strongly sympathetic to the suffrage in the United States
elsewhere Unnedy it has influence and her financial
support but never to the exclusion dnhmen of her lions
snare OF work 1o tree land and tree men, Does she oveesmae
the Importance of the suffrage question? Perhaps the vote in Cali
forna this fall the single enabling amendment Local Tax
Exemption No. y will justify her faith in the voting wisdom oil
her
Henry George used say that take fewer ballots than
bullets to the people Certainly it is true that the
ballot box has immense value educate factor when as
rarely enough the vital issue is presented there
that until very powerful minority has been educated
unany the basic question of land tenure 50 that the aodia
allotment system be abolished and of use and oc
cupancy ry established its place all effort freeing the
land but educave In its last analysis human human
ignorance And divorce himself the human mass
and ewether he indeed by dying an open question The
ignorance of the mob binds all No one free where there are
slaves, and least of all those who whip the slaves
Popular thought sentiment usually crude and bana thing
the centuries flow by becomes less bana and that
finally be educated the point where perceive and u
dersand the basic of human slavery far cry
now But Tar or near the hope that rs courage and strength
an increasing Of nsurrcon all forms ntrenced
greed And the head of this army very small woman very
coney with a very unusual magnetic style Of spec-rather
md in manner but her voice clear and musical (quong Daniel
has been Written Of The Little Woman Who Would Upift al
World the North American Of Philadelphia recently character
lied her and much has been left unsad destined for SO
onspeualls IN the world