The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1934-03-30
Howe About:
Different Characters
A Woman's utopia"
Natural Law
By ED HOWE
G. Bell syndicats.-wNu Services.

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day of her life she did charity work,
or talked about it. She believed In
sending missionaries to convert the
heather. She loved art, and lived In
an emotional and sentimental atmos-
phere all her life, to the entire neglect
OF practical common sense and educa-
ton; she talked necessarily of justice
for her subjects, and actually treated
them so badly that finally they beat
her to death, together with her hus-
band and children.
Katherine, also of Russia, was not a
beautiful character; in fact, a good
deal of tom boy, but no one ever
charged her with being a sentimental
fool. She was so much devoted to
| common sense that she invited Vol
taire, master of it, to her court; she
bid against Frederick the Great in an
attempt to buy him, that he might
give her subjects the benefit of his
wisdom.
No fortune tellers or mystics were
admitted to her circle of friends or
advisers; had she invited a Rasputin
to her court by the back stairway, she
would have slapped his mouth had he
talked the nonsense Rasputin talked
to the last empress of Russia.
l don't know there is any moral to
this, but it is curious incident In his
tory often think about.
"a woman's idea of Utopia" wife
writes. sis to have her husband far
smarter than she is in the necessary
activities of life. Such husband
earns more money than she could, and
spends and invests 1t with better
sense He makes it possible for her
to be with interesting and important
people He f1atters her constantly,
and considers it definitely his business
TO make her life a success. She has
time to keep herself decorative" =.
This will flatter the men little, and
the poor devils get so little of 1t l
have gone to the trouble of reprint
ing it.
From the beginning of the human
race every man of reasonable intelli-
gence has finally admitted that nat
ural law is the supreme power, and
cannot be changed. What we call the
Capitalistic System (and which so
many say is tottering) is natural law.
Every race of men has practiced 1t,
hated It; millions have said there is
no death, but every one has defeated
his own argument by dying. -. Get
food, clothing. shelter; extract from
life such comfort as is In it. That Is
the law of Nature and of the Capital
istic System. Living in idleness off
the neighbors is the doctrine Of a
rebel thrown out of Gods kingdom.
At one time Silerius was in effect
dictator of old Rome. Silerius nowhere
says this in his writing, but the in
PRODUCTION to the memoirs says Siler-
ius was head of the army, and close
adviser and friend Of the emperor,
weaker man. In that ancient time
Silerius was in the position of the
modern Mussolini in Italy, or Hitler
in Germany, although not an equally
great brawler.
Silerius confesses in his memoirs
that were he free to completely order
the affairs of the people, he could not
think Of plan better than the plan
they had worked out for themselves.
He often thought, he said, of an Ideal
world. but the old human nature al
a. IoI nd hn amid
no plan that would probably work
better.
Silerius was vigorous, adventuring
man with women, and thought much
of better relations between the sexes,
but concluded at last that new and
better way, offering less quarreling
and suffering, could not be devised.
1.-THE charges of the men and women
against each other are true" he said,
'but can think of no remedy"
In his time the political parties
were distinguished by colors; the
radicals were called blues, the con-
servatives greens, etc. He sided with
neither: charges of both were true,
he decided, as were the charges OF the
poor against the rich, the charges of
the rich against the poor, but he did
not bankrupt his government trying
relief plans, as he could think out no
remedy promising success.
"Giye me one more day, month or
year." man usually says to God In
his prayer, land l will become great.
feel l have it in me, II given time to
get it out. ] know what the trouble
is with the world, but somehow l have
not yet convincingly framed and
pointed 1t out. I love the higher life,
but somehow the lower has swamped
me. Give me until tomorrow again,
and l again promise to do better"
am in love with another woman;
telephone girl. When / ask for num-
Der, she says: "All right, SIR in q
way that Is irresistible. j
have never seen her, and hope
never will. Charming as they unde-
niably are. on close acquaintance wom-
en- inevitably display gross human ma
ture that shocks an idealist sucn as
lam. don't know her name,
or want to know it: I fear i will turn
out to be Schwindler, or Legg, or other
of the ugly names with which the race
is afflicted. Maybe she has husband.
and I hate husbands. I'm Hindu i'm
nv private disposition: the Hindus
marry when their brides are ten years
old. and place guards about them to
chase lovers for six years.
Thara is humhlaneSs about the