The Washington herald., 1914-06-28
"CAUSE" ROOT
OF MANY EVILS
Crimes Have Increased, Not
Decreased, in Suffrage
States, Says Anti.
FREE LOVE" IS SCORED
Writer Quotes Book Advocating Mat
ing of Children Without Pretty
but Empty" Formalihes.
Ry MRS. HORACE BROCK,

President Pennsylvania Association Opposed to
Woman Sunrsgr.
Both to the present observer and the
future historian, the period in which we
live is 10 be known as an age OF radi-
calism. Proof of this is so abundant on
every hand that neither conservative nor
revoIutionist will deny it. The conserva-
tive deplOres and sometimes fears the
extremist tendency, but suggests the
preservation Of common sense as a REM
edy; the revOlutionist on the other hand.
assuming everything is wrong as II is,
advocates anything that will bring
change.
The latter. he believes. means progress.
and he proves it just as easily as
mathematician juggles algebra to prove
that two and two are five! Progress.
he asserts. has never come without
change of some sort, therefore any sort
of change must bring progress. The
advocate OF rldiCalism is not confined
to any one definite idea of what kind
Of change will hiring progress: there are
"ffty-seven varieties Of radicals, and
they pin their faith on reforms rang
ing from votes for women" to cubst
pictures.
No matter what hobby the radical is
afflicted with. he, she or it-fOr mankind
is about to sprout a neuter sex of merely
human beings" they tell us-believes
that all history and experience ought TO
be ignored in order that communism,
socialism, feminism. or the abolition of
constitutions, courts, capitalists. private
property, marriage, and EeK itself can
be tried by all the world to determine
whether the race can survive the expert
ment
Ignore Fair Trials.
Radicals are not content with a few
tests here and there: they would force
their theories as the law of the land, in
every country on the globe. were il not
for the fact that the majority of peo-
pie have retained their common sense
With missionary zeal, the typical radical
is never disturbed when his theories fail
in practice In seIf-selected and most
favorable environments, but continues to
preach his doctrines. on the grounds
that they are progressive b-cause they
are different from what ~ per cent
Of his fellows have found to be praC-
tical. II does not worry a sucialist, for
instance, to admit that socialism failed I
many centuries ago in four provinces |!
OF China nearly equal to the present
population of the United States; nor that !
every communistic colony has perIshed:
nor yet that the citizens of Milwaukee, !
In April, 1914. after disastrous eEperi- /
hO'b "'hH sotluliht auhlihlslTdllOn lnat
was to prove municipal wedge for
worldwide Marxian experiment. rose en- {
masse and destroyed il as a "pIunder-
bund and hlunderbund."
Neither does the votes for women
radical pause to reflect that Colorado has
produced. after twenty-one years OF
woman suffrage, the weakest State gov
ernment in the Union: nor that none OF
The fancied reforms she has promised
rave been realized. Give US the vote
she cries, and watch US abolish corrupt
politics. white slavery. rum, child labor.
ina low wages" Yet the woman suffrage
states shelter Mormonism and examples
y political corruption that enable men
Ike Judge Lindsay TO say: Colorado has
perfected the science Of corrupting men.