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Show SUFFRAGE SUICIDE. CHE member of the National Woman's party advisory board who toured the country at government expense for the first Liberty Loan, and recently in a speech before suffragists of Baltimore urged her sisters in short sightedness not to lift a finger in aid of the second bond issue, is a living example of the reason why suffragists will gain nothing by the disgusting tactics they are pursuing. The ringing speech of Miss Henry O. Havemeyer of New York, the woman in point, in which she said: "I haven't nerve to ask for money for a battle for democracy when we who demand true democracy are thrown into jail for so doing," received hearty applause from one hundred hun-dred and fifty pairs of hands. Following Mrs. Havemeyer's remarks, Mrs. Abby Scott Baker of Washington, an official of the Woman's party, with three sons in the government service urged a boycott on the loan. So long as the Woman's party persists in turning the present exigency ex-igency of the government to political account it deserves to be hooted. The little group of willful women which -sees only its own problem at a time when the nation is plunged in a war for liberty is not worthy of the vote. If the suffragists will come out and make their leaders come out and show the patriotism and loyalty which America's real women are showing, forgetting their own little propaganda in the bigger na'-tional na'-tional crisis, the national suffrage of American women will be much nearer at the end of the war than it will ever be if the party leaders continue their present policy of suffrage suicide. The democracy of which the suffragists have made such "big talk" has plainly never been conceived by them when they sullenly and childishly devote all their energies to defeating their own country in its war for world democracy because their own little problem has temporarily been shelved. The Town Crier. i t t H DRAFTED. V?CE had never thought of being a soldier. When he heard the con- JJ scription law had passed it occurred to him that sorne day he might be. But that day seemed very far away. He knew that Uncle Sam was raising a big regular army and a big national guard, and he thought that would be all that was needed. People seemed to think the war would be over before many Americans could get to France, and anyhow lots of fellows would probably be going before he was wanted. Then his number came from Washington among the first. Soon the local draft board met. Pie was summoned for examination. He felt rather proud when the doctor told him there was nothing the matter mat-ter with him, for pride of health and strength is a human instinct. No, he had no dependents ; but he had a good home, the home he was brought up in, and a mother who kept her tears to herself and would not tell him not to go. And he had a good trade, and was saving something. He was not quite sure what for but he began to suspect, sus-pect, though none of those liehad met so far seemed to be the right one. ' But it didn't matter so much now. He; was reading the war news every day. He was learning .what the enemy had been tryirig to do to his country. His country. It had become his country so easily and it had asked him for so little that he had seldom thought of it before be-fore as his. He squared his shoulders a trifle as he realized what it meant to him. And as it came home to him that this was not only his country but that his country was depending on him for its protection, for the protection of everything that made him love life fin America, pride of patriotism touched his heart, and he promised himself as his muscles set taut that he will do it. . . And doing it he is, God bless him ! We don't know his name, but our prayers are with him, and millions like him ; and here's our hand, comrade, and everything that is back of it ; and we'll keep the home fires burning until you come again. Detroit Saturday Night. VJHE last issue of "The Commoner" demonstrates in a dozen VJ.V different ways that Mr. Bryan still manages to contain his saving sense of humor. He has poked no end of fun at Mr. Taft of late in fact ever since the genial ex-president took to the Chautauqua circuit; and when the latter suffered severe indisposition, due to the irregularity of meals he encountered, the Commoner could not lielp giving him the following jolt : "Mr. Taft is to invade the west again on a speaking trip, this time for the purpose of impressing the people with the unwisdom of an inconclusive peace. In view of what happened to spoil the ex-president's ex-president's trip west in August last it is to be hoped that he will make a wiser choice of hotels or of menus therein |