The farmer and mechanic., 1915-05-25
of New Dav
CHIEF JUSTICE WALTER CLARK
Before Graduate Of Peace Institute Raleigh

Il ls a welt known maxim that the |
sr,d. of any nation in civilization is |
ina.sured exactly by the status held |
l.. the women Of that nation Among
ktgp,rous and savage people women
~, mere drudges. and beasts of bur
d..n With no rights that they can as
So, ~ that any one respects.
Auons semi-civilized people, as
a,.,ns the Mohammedans, they are
not trusted but are secluded from
uahhc gaze and it is a tenet of their
r.ti.ivn that the women have no
spIls Among civilized people women
-, the associates of men and in the
T. CHEST form Of civilization they are
th.Ht aauato.
scientists tell US that man has been
uu.a his globe for long period.
t.. taration Of which varies in their
c,tination from 80, ,00o years to 100,-
CD'bo0 Years However. correctt or
iacprrrct this may be, recorded his
tic, shows that mankind has been
I-r- for ~ least 5000 years and more.
I /, singular. however, that almost
ol lie programs in the evolution Of
tl,- race has been made within the
lio' l)3 years. and indeed the prog
te>- made in the living conditions and
about within little more than the
t1Si 30 years.
Columbus the Dividing Line.
Witru Columbus in the Pinta S
Shrpud, swung his hat above a tabled
So aud gazed abroad upon an un,
known world" the real division be-
tween the ages of the subjection OF
men aud their progress towards self
government took place. The art OF
printing had been lately invented and
soen after CopernicuS. and little
later Gaiileo gauging the starry
depths with the newly invented tele
scope. discovered that the world Wa:
not. A., had hitherto been deemed, th'
Certer of the universe but that it wa
H. fact merely a small and really in
Significant planet revolving around tn
suu which was itself 100000 time
larger than our earth, and that tn
sun Itself was so insignificant tina
thpush the light to us comes acros
the 5000. 900 miles interval in eigh
minutes there are other worlds an
systems SO distant that even with ou
imperfect instruments we know that
takes $4,000 years for their light
reach us. and yet there must be world
stili beyond.
There are hills beyond Pentland
There are lands beyond Forth"
Less Than a Grain.
Thus this world Of ours compare
e. the universe Of worlds is less tina
one grain of sand as compared to tf
multitude of the grains Of sand on TT
shores Of all our oceans.
About the same time that the col
ceptiou Of the human mind was thu
extended as to the limits of the un
verse. Columbus was discovering th
this little planet. small as it was
the universe was much larger ths
had been thought and what he CO.
Sidered the Indies was but in fact Il
eastern fringe of a new hemisphere.
Near about the same time tt
thoughts Of men were widened by Il
teachings Of Luther. Of Knox.
Zwiugle and others that however i
significant in the universe our who
planetary system might be, and no.
ever insignificant man was among t
teeming hundreds of millions up
this earth, between the individual m
and the creator of the limitleSs u1
verse there was no human lntt
mediary.
While these ideas and the
thoughts and this knowledge came
first only to the few they permeat
aud reached steadily a greater a
greater number of men, with the
salt that our political ideas gradua
broadened until we took on the m(
eru conception Of freedom of thOug
freedom Of speech and the right
government.
Suffrage Starts Here.
txcept for very restricted Suffrs
III England the real idea of g
ernment Of the people by themsel
first took shape in this country un'
the leadership Of Adams and Jeff
son. and Franklin and WaShingt
AT its first announcement it was c.
sidered anarchistic but demand '
made good by the sword when
independence of these States was
osnized at the close of the great Re
luton.
The force Of these ideas was c
tagtous. and in less than ten We
later France had begun its great re
luton and with varying fOrtu
these principles of the right of n
|" govern himself has spread abr
until even China Weakening from
sleep of forty centuries is a repu