The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-02-06

obey in the marriage ceremony, and so
 l said:
 Would it, in your estimation, be bet ter for the ceremony to read, Love. honor and forgive, or what would you sug- gest?p
 The word obey should be imposed upon Us i'll regard to only one attitude and that IS our attitude toward the Maker of us all, Dr. Shaw said promptly. Mar riage is the most sacred thing in the world, and should be entered upon with the greatest reverence and understanding. We teach our girls motherhood put we do not teach our boys fatherh, Take the marriages they are making over in Europe now bringing together hundreds of men and women and marrying them off like sheep, and then sending the men
 to war and leaving the war brides as
 they call them, behind. It's a perfect outrage; it's worse than barbarous-it' s wicked
 q have married more men than any other woman in this country. and yet I'm spinster.A Dr. Shaw said, smiling, and explained Der remark by the fact
 that as an ordained minister of the gospel she had married hundreds of men and women, and quickly added: T never use the word obey if it can be eliminated. This so-called .effacement' and unselfish- ness and subservance of women leads to divorce l sometimes think, oftener than anything else"
 Has suffrage reached what Mr Henry
 James would term the awkward age do you think?" l asked
 ITO term it the awkward age, now, would not be proper" said Dr Shaw That age will be reached later but not now. We are overcoming amazing diff faculties al present, and l believe the south will follow quickly in the wake of the western states in the matter of enfran- chisement.'
 Tn regard to your attitude toward the government in the matter of taxation, observed, will you outline your ideas ?' No one could follow the interesting discussion carried on through the press sometime ago in regard to my attitude in
 refusing to assist the government to levy
 a personal tax upon me without being impressed by the careless manner in which people read into an article their
 own thoughts rather than those of the writer said Dr. Shaw My perfectly
 calm and absolutely nonresistant state
 ment that 1 would not assist the gov
 ernment of Pennsylvania to impose an
 unjust tax upon me while it violated the
 fundamental principle of the national con-
 sutution. which guarantees to every state
 a republican form of government which
 places the source of power in the people,
 as a whole, and not in any segregated or
 self-appointed fraction of the people;
 which forbids any state to create special
 privileges or the denial of equal rights
 to any citizen. So long the state of
 Pennsylvania, by my disfranchisement,
 and that of all women repudiates the fun
 damenta law. l believe it is treason
 against the national government to vol
 untarily aid it in thus violating the 'su-
 ureme law of the land There was no
 word in any statement from me which
 could be coinstrued into a refusal to pay
 any or every tax that is imposed upon
 me l have always paid my taxes, but
 never without protesting against the tyr
 army and injustice of it. I will do so
 again. but refused to aid the govern ment to impose a personal tax by making out a specific bill of my possessions in
 order to assist it to impose this tax upon me.
 ''The law upon this subject is perfectly clear, even though unjust It states that, If the person refuses to fill out the bill the assessor will do so. In declining 1 Violated no law, but I stated a principle. and if there was any militancy involved 1t was the militaney of the government, not mine.'
 Which brings we to ask what your at