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to the conclusion that patience
ceases TO be a virtue"
Cannot Mac The President

NNN--''' W Nt q virtue.
Cannot Nag the President.
The pickets cannot nag the presl-
dent-he doesn't care what they do:
nut TIE situation is getting 10 be seri-
Gus. During ndrtUts the people OF
America, whose sons ana fathers and
brothers are going to war to fight the
emperor Of Germany, who has PROV ed
himself 10 be the arch-criminal and
murderer OF all ages. do not want to
see their president compared to him
by neing hailed on eaudy banner
as Kaiser Wilson. But the preSi-
dent says such a reference has no re-
Election on him-that any president
OF the United states could not prop
erly he referred To as "kaiser'. and
he let's il go at that. lie smiles at
them, and last winter on a cold day
he had his servants carry hot coffee
out to the girls who were growing
blue around the gills from the in
tense cold
The chief Of the Washington police
now says he intends to stop the pick
etng, and the piCkets say they Will
not he stopped. He says he Will ar
rcst them as fast as they appear with
banners, and the headquarters here
have sent out an emergency call for
moro volunteers to tote" Kaiser
to be arrested they like the lime
light. and they Hike the near-marty-
dom. They really hope TO get in Jail
long enough to pull off hunger
strikC.
Don't Care il Germany Wins.
/ one OF them said the other day
that she didn't care whether the
! nited States got whipped hy Ger
many or not; she wanted suffrage.
and suffrage and suffering she would
have.
The chairman of the senate com
/ mittee on suffrage refuses to call ils
| committee so long as the pickets
/ picket, and that means that the SEN
ate will not get a vote on II. These
! picEets are not members OF the old
| suffrage party. of which Mrs. Gait
/ Is the head-they have an organiza-
ton Of their own called the Women 5
party. and Mrs. Catt and the real sur
fragets have Denounced the picketing,
and claim it is injuring the cause oil
suffrage There is no doubt about
that-;hey are injuring their cause
and cannot see It, or will not see it,
aud they are being egged by the
/ Washington Times, newspaper re-
Gently acquired by the Hearst inter
/ ests-always sensational and alwaN :
appealing to the haser passions OF the
low -brows.
The president tells them when
they go to him that it is up TO con-
gress, and conGreSsmen tell them II
is up to the president, and no action
is taken. They still 80 on pickeung
If this keeps up, somebody is Eoinl
to get mad and hurt somebody, one
of the suffragets has already bought
n pistol and fifty cartridges, and says
size is going to hang on to her ban
ner. She looks like she would use
the gun. too. in fact they all loot
like they would use 4 gun they ioof
fra, frown and feel an inv con
sc;ousness that they are real heroes
Just where the matter Will end ne
one wants to predict. but that 1t ma!
result in serious trouble is the belle
of the police. and a final effort WI
be made to stop it,
| The police already have takei
banners away from some OF TN
| pickets. and If this is kept M, n,
| doubt the public-the 'mob'-Wli
| lose interest and the whole thing VII
fade away.