Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1914-02-20

pue 70 passage. The business -.
nave Deen conspicuous bv tho,r -
sence. 1t Is charged by the Ran,,h,,o
ans mat the corporations of the conn
.ry nave been lambasted SO bv TIA
democrats that the business mon ID
uoe care 10 come to Washington even
70 make themselves heard and th,s
mas led Republican to comnara 49,
present condition to an old time r,a,a
lana ana what he says perhaps Il
worth telling. even If people do not
seree with him. Here is the Rennh.
leans story: p0D-
Like Melodrama Of Nellie
In a melodrama called Nellie the
DeautifGl Cloak Model the villain
leets Nellie, the beautiful one on
Tue brooklyn bridge and attempts to
throw her over tie iail into the East
river. She is rescued just in time
IN the next act the villain seives
Tue lalr Nellie and ties her to the
track IN the subway. A guard res.
cues the sweet girl just in time to
prevent her from being run down bv
the express train.
In the third act the villain meets
Nellie ON the platform Of an elevated
railroad station and tries to throw
ner INTO the street. Again she is res
cued, and the william is baffled.
IN the next act the villain meets
Nellie on the street and she shrinks
from him. whereat he inquiries: Mel
lie, why do you fear me?'
II you can find a parallel In this
story to the case Of the business men
who do not want to come to Washing.
ton to be heard in antitrust matters.
why find 1t. | think found it some
time ago.
Wilson and SuffragIsts.
There has just been another parade
OF suffragists on Pennsylvania avenue.
IL was by no means as big parade as
that one of March, 1913, but the par
Elephants marched in behalf of the
same cause-woman suffrage. Every
body probably remembers the trouble
which the women had in March last
trying to make their way through the
crowds of rowdies and worse who in.
suited them at every turn. The lack
of police protection for the women at
that time nearly cost several officials
their jobs. This time the women
marched without interference and un-
der perfect safeguarding.
The last parade was composed of
working women from the industrial
centers Of many states. The process
sion formed at the capitol and march
ed up Pennsylvania avenue to the
White House, where the leaders plead
ed with President Wilson to give the
light of his approval to the cause of
suffrage. The president gave the sui
fragists a verbal expression of well
come and then gave a pantomimic ex-
hibition of sidestepping which was the
counterpart of his "step of evasion"
on a previous occasion when the wo-
men called on him to ask him to urge
the house of representatives to au-
thorize the appointment from it's mem
bership of a committee on suffrage.
The suffrage organization under
whose direction the women were
marching and pleading is not entirely
removed from the suspicion that 1t is
antagonistic in its spirit to the Dem
ocratic order, spirit moved to resent
ment because it is the Democratic
party, as the organization views It.
which is doing what 1t can to defeat
the women's cause.
There are troubles in the suffrage
ranks in Washington and the thorns
seem to multiply daily. All the wo-
men are moving to the same end and
their paths are different, but they
run close enough together to allow
the pilgrims to exchange reproving
words and occasionally to reach
across and to indulge in a little hair
pulling.
Can't sldestep Much Longer.
Suffrage. men here say, is bound
to come and it makes absolutely no
difference about how 1t Is to come:
The days Of sidestepping everybody
seems to believe soon will be num-
bered. There is too much at stake IN
1916. and also, by the way, In 1914,
to make 1t seem wise for men with
ambitions to continue to voice as
anproval when women already are
enfranchised In many places and soon
are To he enfranchised in all places.
There are few curious things 10
be found in this tumble OF troubles
which is affecting the women suffrage
cause at this time. The COMPRESSION
al unions headquarters are In wash
ington and as everybody knows, mere
are also headquarters of the congress
sional branch OF the National Suffrage
association. Mrs. Medill Mccormick
chairman of the latter organizations
branch In washington, takes the view
that the women should work for sur
frage and .be antagonistic to candi-
dates for congress no matter to which
marty they belong provided they are
opposed to the great cause
Union After the Democrats.
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