Milford chronicle., 1920-08-27

other points lower Delaware for the city papers, at
tempt to create idea that the manufacture OF apples
into cider in lower Delaware, is new business which
operated for the express purpose of making drink from
which the appetite liquor is to be appeased This
subject for space writing which the Georgetown write
especially plays upon There is less cider manufactured
now than twenty-five years ago-because OF the sehe
price of apples on open market Cider is perfectly
legitimate article to manufacture and is used for manu-
facture of vinegar mince pies and beverage fol
MANY families where available 1t is no new enterprise
and the rural regard the printed statements as an
other evidence of of understanding of the real
conditions of people in lower Delaware by the city
folks who misled by the mis-statements OF real
truths by the local correspondents Of the city papers
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WITH WOMAN SUFFRAGE accomplished fact we
face very responsibility to educate our women
in political methods which will be for their guidance and
enable them to so shape their efforts to accomplish
practical results themselves for their part and for
the general welfare of the people Along this line an ed
itoral from the York Times is interesting reading
and it is reproduced as practical suggestion as well as
presentation of some of the adverse conditions
which will have to be solved. The Times says:
With ratification of the Suffrage Amendment now vir-
tuaIv assured the country will begin to ask What next
is to One is suggested by the historic
remark of Robert Lowe when male suffrage was greatly
extended in England fifty years ago. He had fought the
bill with of powerful and brilliant speeches. but
when defeat him he accepted it with good grace
The new voters had come and the only question was
what to do with them. said: 1--WE must now edu-
cate our rulers"
The education of new women voters is largely
their own affair They would not it from the
hands of inferior man. But the wiser ones among them
know that their sex has deal to learn and to take
to heart before the political responsibilities to be laid
upon be measured up to- The attainment of the
right of suffrage is only the beginning of long expert
ment beset by many difficulties. Some of them are ap-
pang There is example, the question of the color
tho he horn WOn
en- of the great cities the North There the shell
tered classes and the ignorant classes. viii they not
weight of too much berty?" Plainly, the work
educating rulers cannot be undertaken too
or pursued too long.
Some lessons for them lie obvious to the eye. They
taught by the very activity politics. the
effort the This work has inevitably been
that agitaors And been attended by methods
which the ought to drop. We mean the in
tolerance the intense sexconsciousness the angry
saus the resentments, the absorption in single aim
which have too often marked-and marred-the suffrage
With the won there will be need for the
of such weapons, if there ever The
women voters expect to merge into the general
mass They longer stand class, Interest"
apart The more sagacous of their leaders happily
Of this mind They have frowned anything like the
idea of founding distinctive Party. The pecu-
liar influence will, of course, continue be
exered in their way in political life; but,
lowered with the full rights of citizens, they ought to
think of themselves politically, merely part of the
electorate Charles Sumner declared Indignantly
hat he a man before he a Commissioner The
new female voters should feel hereafter that they
citizens before they are women.
Their attitude toward public Office is another sub
ect in which they ought to seek sound instruction.
gloomy publicist in Kansas, where the
some time been voting predicts that the number of Gov
rnment officials of all kinds will soon be doubled as a
esut of suffrage in order to make places"
he voters Not if they the good economical
that they have promised be politics.
TO certain Offices they entitled to aspire
ess will But they ought the best of them who
AVE tried have that they have nearly everything
learn about the conduct of public business that
ice-seekng should after competence to fill Offices
las been acquired and demonstrated.
1t is to imagine the swift reort sharp-tong-
led suffragists Have voters ever given heed to
hese beautiful counses? Have they the thought
If Office for which they fully qualified? Could
women voters ever be ciqush and freaksh and
,fectual than the FortyEght the foppish male dali
iers with revolution and anarchy? But begging the
pardon of the ladies' all this is admitted And What is
asked of them is to show largemindedness enough to
this whole question in the round and to model them
selves not upon errng male voters but upon the ruest
conception of the conscientious citizen in democratic
state Only so can they the fears and confute
The reasoning Of those who opposed woman suffrage
mt who ready &c hope that the new yoers-tne
new rulersw enter the school of experience and
it themselves for the duties to be laid upon their
graceful shoulders Ii
GOVERNOR cox, we are told, is wet" candidate
That is say, he is against Prohibition. He not
ndeed abrogate the Eighteenth Amendment
he decision of the Supreme Court But he is wet and
MS nomination triumph for the 'Wets," and his
election would make the wet" victory complete. So
told, by his opponents but by his friends who
hortle in their at the in which they put
Mr. Bryan and the AntsaloOn League by nominating him
or the Presidency.
Now do not know do particularly care
what Governor personal convictions the subject
lre what his attitude is toward the Eighteenth
yet what it would be if he elected
President mind the ratification of the Amend
nent the decision of the Supreme Court have dis
lnsad the matter excentng cnnrse far is