Show howe about majority rule best clash over windows patriotism and politics by ED HOWE A A who reads a good deal must haie hae noted that the worlds progress seems to haie base been a succession of if great outrages not one ot w kiich need have occurred had the people exercised their just right to majority rule A handful of men were responsible for every great outrage in history the prompt hanging of a few would have prevented the rivers of blood the great famines find and suffering of which we vie hear so much I 1 sincerely bellev believe e to la majority rule if a president dent orders us to take part in a foreign war a majority of us do not believe in it Is our right to shake our fists tinder his nose and tell him we will nut not do it once when traveling trai eling I 1 visited a place where was nas exhibited millions of bones of children inquiry revealed that the bones were of children who had engaged aed a in it a childrens crusade to rescue the holy sepulchre from infidels some foolish man recommended the cru crusade and foolish parents responded instead or of ban hanging ing the man who made the recommendation it was ivas one of the great horrors of history and recollection of it has bas remained in my mind ever since I 1 was reminded of it recently by seeing a recommendation of radicals that parents send their children this winter t to march on washington and starve and suffer on the way that something may be kept going on to advance the cause of human folly NO a 0 my favorite notion Is that husbands and wives always clash over keeping windows up or down and that it Is the women who demand more fresh air than the men want I 1 heard two old people fussing about the sub eject lately and the husband had bad moved to another part of the house where he could arrange the windows to suit him they say much about the controversy in my presence but acted as though a good deal had been said about it in private on going out I 1 met another old fellow and told him about the incident which I 1 thought amusing my wife and I 1 have had trouble about the same thing forty years he said the natural habits of men and women do not suit each other and no one Is to blame the only remedy Is for or them to be as patient as they can and it if one does more than is fair find and reasonable in exercising patience there will be trouble both men and a nd women are very touchy about their rights 40 there Is lately appearing in print a summary of the pens pension lort scandal following lonin the civil war at first the grand army of the republic had only a total membership of twenty seven thousand but as the pension bait was displayed by greedy agents the number increased to A man nam named george E lemon established the national tribune to glorify the old sol dier and lie he once admitted to a house investigating committee that he then had in his office claims for pensions on which lie hoped to collect a commission of 25 23 each thousands of these clients were nere bounty jumpers there were many thousands of these in the war and many of them were vere paid 7 00 each for enlisting when more timid men were drafted many of them were deserters there were deserters during the civil war who sold their services over and over the politicians entered greedily into the movement as a means of securing grand army votes and soon it was a common saying the pension scandal was so rotten no editor or public man dared expose it the subject is of special interest now that veterans of the world war are beginning the same thing and the fact that there are millions more of them renders the subject vastly more serious thousands of the more intelligent world war veterans themselves recognize this and are openly opposing the scandal I 1 hope their influence will prevail the people themselves are helpless in the presence of patriotism and politics 0 4 0 there never was universal love there never will be it Is doubtful if such a state would be desirable men hustling to do better than competitors they hate have done much more for tho the world than the great souls who dream of universal love A 0 0 it is possible to reduce ones philosophy of life to three words be a gentleman provocation Is so ifft frequently offered by the rude that a gentleman is occasionally required to fight he must strike no foul blows stephen leacock Len cock a noted man writes mark twain had little school find no college ne ile thus acquired that peculiar sharpness of mind which comes from not going to school and the power of independent thought obtained by not entering college this treason lias his appeared before 11 II 0 wells says that genghis kahn who could not read and who i always lived half wild was the greatest statesman and general who ever lived 0 0 it Is said quite generally the present depression Is economic it Is really intellectual the men have all gone crazy we should turn control of affairs a over to the women and children the men have failed 0 1311 2933 bell 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