St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 16, 1910

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Tide “auik tae proventy, 08 ¥v lerkc. Ts porations. The State's revenue. will be rais eee ye ould use the watler, i ts my excise and license fees, or by levies ee pit 2 Aiea Aig comparatively few Who have among the counties. » home so so happy and a life so sheltered that they do Greater freedom in determining what kinds of| t feel there is room for improvement. I do ‘propert rovi not believe the sla in the South had any harder Te he ee ee ded for in time than og t waged lot ni bear with three darling this amendment might be accorded the people| children, the last eight years, yet While I can of the counties and municipalities. It does not neither love nor respect a man who drinks, I am touch present tax restrictions. But the final} 7°t too narrow-minded to pity the poor weak crea- tures who are licensed to be ruined by our present form has not yet been decided upon and in its! government. Tt js inhuman to allow them to be- present form it is at least a long step in the] come intoxicated: then let them go home to abuse right direction. their families’ and perhaps commit some awful deed The adoption of this amendment would put an ms which they are not really gan yger ue — end to the annual tax equalization farce in Jeffer-| itidren wnase privetinns ane paving this money into son City. It would enable each county and mu- the city’ s coffers. I know by my own sad experi- nicipality to tax its property according to its needs | ence. ONLY A WOMAN. without reference to State taxation. It offers an opportunity for a modified reform of the tax sys- To the Balter of Bay sre cena. tem by authorizing counties to determine what] ; am certainly glad to read in your paper of the in- taxes shall be laid on different classes of prop-| vestigation made by the Interstate Commerce Com- erty. It would enable them to minimize tax dodg-| mission Into the Pullman company’s high rates and ing. large dividends paid. If this commission would look into the working hours and the pay the employes re- But the formulating of the amendment and its! sive they would find considerable more to investi- i i e « ae 2 eee submission to the people are first steps. An in- gate. F eee 4 : nee - »« |telligent and ageressive campaign will be required} ‘These men are not organizéd and must take what to increase the nays tavepad salaries would be greatly |probably be exerted by special interests, which do appreciated. A oa, not want tax reform, to defeat it. Many voters may be misled into voting against the amendmert Pedestrians Have Rights. . through ignorance of its provisions and purpose, if | To the Editor of the Fust-Dispatch. they are not enlightened before election day. The suggestions made by automobilists concerning preventives for accidents due to speed violations a. | nr” sustain the automobilists’ reputation for inconsider- ‘Senator Burton’s opposition to the waterways} steness, as one niay see when he proposes that every appropriation has many, symptoms of a diseare,| one should walk to a corner before crossing the but fortunately it is not catching. street. I am. stopping in the West End and have observed —_____-_ $9 e———————————— that from Academy avenue to Union boulevard is POLICE BOARD CHANGES. about half a mile. Midway between those streets If Col. Laird thinks he ought to share any| 414 must walk a fourth of a mile to a street corner, odium attached to the conduct of Mr; Bland a8/ i¢ the motorists’ suggestion be followed, in order that Police Commissioner, toward Col. Creecy; if he| the chauffeur need not twist his guide wheel or press Serres, Coe eehocs BAG THyeTes $F Sone Who a ae Nododibanails and selfish is the proposition ‘“ ” quaily e jobbed” the ex-Chief and helped to demoralize to deprive the children (on the ground of the auto- the Police Department and to bring the board | mopists’ conveniences only) of roller skating on the into discredit by encouraging intrigue and scanp-| granitoid pavements. It fs true that a congregation dalous gossip, his resignation is in order. The} °f skaters may obstruct passage. So may a congre- rood of the department would be conserved and gation of church-goers; but all these are easily regu- the credit of the Hadley administration advanced autoist would drive out the perambulator on the same by a change of the policy and methods of tho | principle. board so complete that public confidence in it} Isn't it the simplest solution of the automobDilist to will be restored. obey the laay? J. N. BASKETT. It is ‘gratifying to note the evidence that Gov. ‘ : Hadley realizes the necessity of rehabilitating | +, ine wairor of hee pee st Soe: the board. His appointment of former Judge} “Christian Brinkop and His Policy’ will be the Matt G. Reynolds is a good start in that direction. | title I will give this letter, and I want to congratu- The department never was in greater need of late our honorable assessor .for the good spirit and M determination shown by him. Mr. Brinkop deserves strong, capable, jist control and direction. much credit for his unusual showing, earning about a see RY one-half million dollars for the city’s strong box his If the lid goes on the Sunday sermon in Topeka, firat year In office, as was stated by the newspapers. will the people catch the trolley and go to the| Mr. Brinkop’s statement through the press that he next town the way they do when the lid goes on| was determined to make people pay..in proportion, to in Indiana? their wealth made a hit with every ofie, I’m sure. ‘: EE Te ne ee i ie ase ae Mr. Brinkop must be given credit for being the s to have th to show the “‘big fel- POPULARIZING THE PARKS. Dab" Gk tate tape pose Oe Be, Park Commissioner Scanlan has plans to make| The Assessor seems to be a’ man of much deter- the city parks more useful to the people. Grani- | mination and confidence. I admire Mr. Brinkop for toid walks for roller skating, tennis courts and co ane ig rose fae cena Ahh og essa. bbe egg | ORE. panes a laren co Lake in Forest | the Post-Dispatch on its fairness towards the public. are some e innovations proposed. A BRINKOP ADMIRER. Speed in making the improvements and a: —_——- to them will not be amiss. If the private ten- Suffragettes Love Home. nis courts in Forest Park are instantly turned eo ny age of the Fost: a, ih aaa ctl ease let me say to “ ome ving Woman” over to the public, it will be progress. Golf links) oan prove or disprove anything by the Scrip- and public bathhouses, where possible, would be tures. SO many minds have had their say in the agreeable accessories. They have proved most} Scriptures that to get the truth one must drop all popular in Chicago. the trimmings and adhere strictly to the teachings ne grou Jesus. Did Jesus teach equality between the sexes: =r, ae Ga anenisen te uae sieh, I think He did. A thousand times yes—everywhere and all the time. The best advocate a woman ever in arousing pride in municipal activities and in had died on the cross. And woman has shown her toning the civic conscience. The city can do] sense of justice, love and faithfulness through &l! nothing better with its money than use it in mak-| the ages by her devotion to the cause of Christianity. d eager to ing the parks welcome to the people and enticing If so many women are in the position an that boasted the people into the parks. shirk their household duties, where is tha home life and ideal love dream and womanly influ- RONG RR stiak alg eo ME cera ence for good which goes with the anti-suffragette? A consoling reflection is that the street railway Is it not true that Chinese labor reacts upon itself, company can’t raise its rates because it raised| and for the very reason that farmers’ wives go in- wages, or increase the discomforts of travel | sane from (monotonous life, lonely and unappreciated either workers in the home seek an outlet from unbearable FE SSS ENO een: conditions? Have we ever had woman suffrage? Is not the state of things today proof something 1% FOR A SANE FOURTH. wrong? And if you agree that suffrage is good for Mayor Gaynor of New York has approved an| the widow, the divorcee and single woman, how can order of the Fire Commissioner that no fireworks| you consistently refuse it to all women? shall be sold at retail in Greater New York be-| Toe be 4 sutfragette does not mean to neglect OF abandon home ideals or love, or even be a divorcee, -thypehe eaptinatagea omy 10.--R & too early for Many women are divorced who are anti-suffragettes the small boy to grieve, but “ne retailers @reé|.n4 many are not divorced who are suffragettes. weeping. Look you to the little article in Tuesday’s paper just One fireworks manufacturer estimates that| above your own, “A Cry of Despair.” Dont you there are now.on hand in the country $5,000,000 | think ** would be better for that daughter and those other children if that mother were a strong-minded j worth of fiteworks. Other information is that| cutrragette—a leader—and lead that husband by the Small dealers find the Fourth of July a better] nose down the back steps and out in the wide, wide holiday business opportunity than any other, not| world, where there is plenty of room and God to even excepting Christmas. look after him? My dear lady, we are pushed out willy, ‘nilly, into the world whether we will or no, Heretofore this argument has been effective. A In’ the factories, in the office, the daily grind for Sane and safe Fourth of July -would probably de- bread is before the major part of the world of women. Btroy $5,000,000 in business. But it would pre-| We must make good. vem the killing, blinding or maiming of 5000} Women are making « stand A alae home, for the gacredness ve, when they me — edhe. $35,000,000 in fireworks business Wecéssity knows no law. It is not a question of wares t as done in seven years the natién has paid}”; . 1. not advocating to neglect the baby; in tact, | with 34,000 dead and seriously wonton, or ONC] am old-fashioned enough to think it woman's duty not per $1000 of business done. to neglect the baby.. I am: not neglecting my babies. In number. of casualties Missouri is sixth in} sot up one hour earlier this morning to have move Spee wae cs SE ERR EN | to write this letter—so there! And when the me 8 speeches on stindst a1 occa- ene ae pcg we rom SR third in the list of} - ios to vote I will get up just a little earlier oF ie ahs, ogda oli beats “of sound and wounded d008/ ay up at night just a little later and vote. . .

For the First. 1910-OQuarter—1910 Sunday « - = « 277,110 ’ Daily «'~ « + - 167,601 - man Hmployes.

DRIFTING DOWN slang CURRRENT. po! and other things, is coming. ~He will be | ) guest of Missouri, He will be entertained by . Hadley, the State Waterways and Forestry ‘ission, the State Board of Immigration, with State officers, colonels, villagers and : en vidense of this appears in that part oe ‘the programmed entertainment which mentions | _ the Current River.” Floating down s. n this trip things of political we infer that the -Governor inoculated with the virus of dag ne Ge : ern or taking chances: when he fore- rs ¥ han “enemy of the administration?” er is the greater because Gov. Hadley n ms, hitherto successfully held “has Deen drifting down the cur- until he | | near the rapids. Under se spell of Pinchot’s | he is not unlikely ) get ‘caught in the whirlpool and be carried vay, despite limself, to the realm of light and pason, to the embarrassment and discomfiture of ne ) organs of stand-pat gloom and reaction, and

aL Tt , which is the. most nce ana - fs not yet hardened of ka, He can’t see jus- per motormen to work and forbid- 2 pce inoees ‘keep open, why aS the butchers must knock = hae ror Billard has no patience at all with that onacience-salving which manifests itself nent puritanical laws for display ly He doesn’t like class legislation a ns = to prove a ridiculousness, : the 1 ness of our laws al- But. Mayor Billard wil not win @ change in ‘laws. We want them all. They reassure | ‘They aré the best evi- gion. Moreover, they touch with the ss of forbidden fruit any number of things lun $n se but merely malum prohibitum. g @ foolish law now and .then is a good. tata att vai It proves ovr Speci | It for nothing 4 stem cae ag “ ; tag ea os me ’ 2] at : . like, so they hissed him. at it was not unnatural. t “while One of the most earted of-men, is also one of the A ia be ‘doubtful if he ever made a

+ that St. Louis purpose contributing this year that the So long women have waited, her tenes and Weer fireworks business m ? and pleading have gained for her the epit LES en ‘weaker ex.” But is she? Every woman knows bet- i allies seems Bie sanooiante ax eckarte be Strong to do, strong of heart, long suffering and oes | Roosevelt ana by Pinchot, the administration is kind. She is here to stay now—the suffragette. A CLEAN-HOMED SUFFRAGETTS. to ag this a star hot. and INT, sum- ' Self-Restraint for Women. th To the Editor of the Post-Dispa

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yt .a ‘ ; “bp Gs Seo, Steet Pea , * » | A A Dy s aewautl. Pe Ra a ; we el my YT ANY To iain iy i Cah 2/9) Nenana | == Wii iglese yo oo / Hh rave a mare Gi saul > Say ie cmueaag ee a aD bs 4 = ORES titme | re lated under judicia] police supervision. Doubtlesg the | —_—_—__-~ oo MR. HITCHCOCK IS Prom the New York World. In the last fiscal year the expenditures of the department exceeded the receipts by $17,480,000... The only remedy, as Mr. Hitchcock first looked over the situa- tion, appeared to him to be for the Gov- PAY MORGANGUGGENFELLER. ernment to charge more for carrying I, periodicals. In the meantime he was, Js there would come upon the scene forced to resort to other methods. So he At this amusing writing undertook various improvements in the service and effected a number of econ- And think to find his lot serene omies, with the result that, without And earth withal inviting? touching the second-class rate, the Then will he kindly step around deficit for the first half of the present tervi year has been reduced to $4,072,000, as To ww the teller, And in such bliss as he has found Pay Morganguggenfeller. ~ —-— --—- +e Ooo SOC ——————— JUST A MINUTE. Written for the Post-Dispatch by Clark McAdams. |

LEARNING,

the first of May, proposed increase will ap- | ply toa laces meant a , the corporation’s 225,000 employes, and will in- crease the pay rol about | 94,008,008 annually. ef United States Senator |

against $10,265,000 for the same period last year, a reduction of over $6,000,000 in six months. For the quarter ended Dec. 81 there was an actual surplus of $2,115,000, the largest for any quarter in Il. the history of the Postoffice Depart-| wong someone dance a nimble turn ment, Without being able to indulge his fa- By way ot living blithely, vorite theory that second-class matter | And im mo very great concern Disport his graces lithely? should pay a higher rate, Mr. Hitch- cock has demonstrated how by the ap- Then let him enter in the lot Of every earthly dweller, plication of a little business intelligence And from his none too ample jot along practical lines the postal service can be made self-sustaining. If he will Pay Morganguggenfeller. look thoroughly into the question of the Government’s payments to the railroads and the opportunities for saving money in that direction, he will be still more amazed by his discoveries. A year’s ex- perience has taught the Postmaster- General several things. He is not yet too old to learn more. tinea THE HFOUSEWIFR. From the Chicago Record-Herald. There will be widespreaa approval of certain prominent club women of Kentucky have lodged with the Census Bureau against the listing of housewives as people who have no cupation. If there is any- body in this world who has more steady occupation than the housewife the pub- lic would like to have his or her Iscecmuené established. To list a woman who ‘ees for a husband and five or six children,* makes the beds, does the SWeepihg, patches. the little breeches, darns the stockings and makes her own clothes as a person IIT. Or would you stick around a bit Enjoying this existence, And wholly indisposed to quit It short of great resistance? Then will you also get in line, Or buyer or a seller, And for the favor superfine Pay Morganguggenfeller. an hour for its 1200 motor- men and condpetors. The increase will amount to about $75,000 a year, ‘gon: Father, what is a fauc pas? * Father: Anything that President Taft — You Never Heard of It—but Wait. pourn is not a booming town in the sent sense of that word—the sort that reach their zenith in a short. space of time and then die a slow death in all time to put a town that enjoys a steady flow immigration which when coupled opportunities in every her unsurparsed justifies assertion metr has that Thore are strangely tutesing thea | the | & political industries no the fostering care of the State?

certainly deserves righting. Perhaps the man who prepared the eo blank that is to be usell by the enumer- , . ators lives at a family hotel and has 4 wife who kills time by playing solitaire or reading the best sellers. SOME CLASS TO ALBERT. Se | —————_| erty, From the Galveston News. Hy eS a 2

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