Judge — March 23, 1912 — page 4: what you’re looking at

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EDITORIALS Blessed are the Peacemakers! As JUDGE looks over his parish of the world, he thinks it is filled with bitter differences. The human race appears to have lost its temper and it acts as if it did not want to find it There are turmoils and conten- tions on all continents, Nation has set itself y against nation. In some ba ~) lands there are internal wars; in others, one class or faction is contending a st another. Political differences, which ought to ex- ist in seemliness, are bitter in Europe and in our own country. Appalling strikes have occurred or are apprehended ‘on both sides of the Atlantic. Men go out of their way to besmirch each other. Ordinary disputes beget anger and quar- rels follow. What is the matter with the race uni- versal? Is there world-wide derange- ment of livers? Each individual should do something to change the drift. The need for Sunny Jims was never before so great. Instead of cherishing bitter- ness without reason, each one should cultivate a disposition at once cheerful and charitable. Instead of roasting your fellows, boostthem. They are all just as good as you once thought them. Look cheerfully at their best qualities and do not dwell sardonically on their shortcomings. Differ in politics with those about you in good feeling, holding your own opin- ions and respecting those of others. In all disputes give your op- ponents credit for honest views. Be cheerful and tolerant. If you have lost your temper, find it again and set others on the same quest. Thus you will help eradicate the epidemic of bitterness which appears to have traveled around the world, and you will earn the exceedingly great reward which is re- served for the peacemakers. Bounties on Children. Glory, honor, and power to the Susan B. Anthony Club of Cincinnati, and also a word of suggestion. This organization is to work a system of bounties of from again. $500 to $1,000 to every mother who raises a child to the age of twenty-one years. The object is commendable; but, for the land’s sake, how did the club come to take that name? Susan B. Anthony was a great woman, who, however, lived and died a spinster. An organization for the encouragement of mothers and motherhood ought to have a more appropriate name. It should also discriminate in the matter of bounties. Some chil- dren raised to the age of twenty-one years would be fully worth $500 or $1,000 each, while others would bring only bar- gain-counter prices, and still others— well, it would be difficult to put a value on them, That Ever-present “Houn’.” Some of Underwood’s Alabama ad- mirers are angry because Wilson men have been kicking the Alabamian’s dawg aroun’, These Wilson men have been saying that Mr. Underwood represents certain interests, and the Alabama folks are asking whose tootsey wootsey Wilson is, and they intimate that they could say things that would surprise the people. They are mistaken in the latter respect. Nothing that is said in a presidential year can surprise the American people. The Prevailing Panacea. The United States Supreme Court has ruled that the State of Oregon may continue to have the initiative and referendum just as long as it likes. These toys are B popular with some people because they are new. When the inventors in politics—who appear to be too numerous and too humorous to count—present some other new device, the initiative and referendum will be packed in cam- phor and put on the top shelf. The referendum is not as new as it looks. It has been for generations in operation in nearly all the States. In New York, for instance, nearly every year the electors are called on to vote on amend- ments to the State constitution and on bills for bond issues. As a rule, only from one-fourth to one-third of the electors take the trouble to vote at these referendums. Beware! Fraudulent efforts to dispose of worth- less lands or to sell acreage by misrep- resentation ought to be made criminal by law. A good many people, not acquainted with local condi- tions, have been deceived into purchasing lands inthe Florida Everglades, led astray by allur- ing and deluding circulars, in which land under the water most of the time has been portrayed as fit for habitation and rich in crop. Similar swindles have been perpetrated in the sale of Western desert lands to innocent persons. The Canadian govern- ment comes near the line in circulating among American farmers pamphlets pretending to describe the bounteous areas in western Canada. These pam- phlets tell the truth only in part. They depict inviting summer scenes on farms up there. But they do not tell that there is freezing weather in eight or nine months of the year. They fail to state that for months in the winter the mer- cury stays at thirty degrees below zero, nor do the numerous illustrations of these pamphlets show the deep snows which for weeks isolate settlers from each other. The land swindlers—wheth- er they be government or individuals— ought to be suppressed. It is too bad for persons who have sold out their old homes to be seduced into taking their families and household goods into regions barren or inhospitable, A Paternal Court. There is no subject of interest involving human rights that is beneath the purview of the United States Supreme Court. That trib- unal, considering the appeal of Quong Wing, of Montana, from a tax of ten dollars imposed by local authority on Chinese laundries, has just decided that one Chinaman is a laundry in the mean- ing of the law, while the ordinary wash- erwoman—whose freedom from tax was cited by Quong Wing—is not a laun- dry. Aside from the novelty of the legal question thus settled, this decis- ion no doubt strikes a harmonious ra- cial chord in the vicinity of Quong Wing's operations. Is this decision to be con- sidered a victory for woman suffrage, or is it not ? comicbooks.com