AUGUST 1, 1913 



•policeicomen as well as policemen on the 

 police force, and their business is especially 

 to deal with women who are criminals. May 

 God hasten the day when good motherly 

 women shall be expected to fiU various of- 

 fices which jiist now only men are deemed 

 competent to hold. 



THE KINGDOM COMIXG. 



In the opening paragraph of Our Homes 

 for July 15 I reiterated what I have said 

 several times before, that some great world- 

 wide event is just before us. I do not know 

 just how nor in just what way; but God is 

 hearing the prayers of his people, just as 

 he heard their gToanings in the land of 

 Egypt in olden times. It looks to me just 

 now as if the coming Moses might be in the 

 form of woman ; for where in all this world 

 of ours can we find more of the Christlike 

 spirit than there is in the mothers of our 

 land — -the mothers who have long been 

 praying for the safety and welfare of their 

 boys and girls? Read the following, which 

 I clip from the Plain Dealer: 



WOMEN INVADE IN AUTOS ; SVFFRAGISTS, IN HITN 

 DEEDS OF MOTORS, TO STORM SENATE. 



Washington, July 21. — Scores of suffragist-laden 

 automobiles are hastening toward Washington bear- 

 ing petitions to Congress for a constitutional amend- 

 ment granting universal suffrage ; and by the end of 

 this week, leaders of the National Woman Suffrage 

 Association said to-day, these automobiles would be 

 numbered by the hundreds. The Senate and House 

 are to be stormed by the motoring women July 31. 



Already a number of State parties of women are 

 on their way here awheel. An official announcement 

 says that delegations are now on the road from Mon- 

 tana, Tennessee, Virginia, New York, Massachusetts, 

 Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and several other States. 



These early starters are speaking for the " cause " 

 along the way and swelling thir lists of signatures 

 to the petition to Congi-ess. 



If it is really true that the good women 

 (and especially the mothers) of our land 

 are marching on to Washington, we shall 

 certainly have national suffrage for women 

 sooner or latei'. Just now the world (in- 

 cluding China) is demonstrating that girls 

 and women can do almost any tlung that 

 boys and men do. We have women on the 

 IDolice force in many of our lai'ge cities; 

 women at the head of our schools in our 

 gi'eat cities; women managing farms better 

 than the general run of men manage — 

 women everj-where. Why should not these 

 women who own vast properties, and fill 

 important positions, have a word to say in 

 regard to law-making and law enforcement? 

 With woman suffrage ends the thralldom of 

 the liquor-traffic. No brewer or liquor-deal- 

 er will fill an important office when the 

 women vote; and the brewers and the Uquor- 

 dealers will make the fight of their lives, 

 before they permit women to have the right 



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of suffrage. Watch and see if I am not 

 right. 



THE LABOR TROUBLES OP THE PRESENT DAY. 



We are receiving quite a few articles in 

 regard to trades unions, socialism, etc. Some 

 of them are so extreme, or at least look so to 

 me, as to condemn every man who employs 

 labor. May be I misunderstand, but that 

 seems to be the drift of some of the extrem- 

 ists. Perhaps they mean that the man who 

 employs labor should not make any profit. 

 He should pay the man he hires enough so 

 that employer and employee will be on an 

 equal footing. I should Like to see some of 

 these people try to run a factory employ- 

 ing, say, a hundred men more, or less. The 

 employer who undertakes the responsibihty 

 of paying his help every Saturday night 

 must have a margin. Sometimes he makes a 

 profit; but at other times, in spite of all he 

 can do, he loses money. He does not get 

 for his goods what they cost him. Un- 

 avoidable losses and disasters occur. He 

 must have some capital stored up to meet 

 these emergencies. It is hke having a stor- 

 age battery to Light our homes when the 

 engine is not running, or when the wind 

 does not blow. Young people who start out 

 in the world must, as a rule, work for wages 

 till they can get a start so as to own a farm 

 or set up in business; and they get this 

 start by working for some older person 

 who has been able to save up a little and 

 emi^loy help, and pay that help promptly. 

 I am glad to see laboring people forming 

 a combine or union to protect themselves 

 from gTeedy capitalists or greedy manufac- 

 turers, and they have a perfect right to fix 

 their wages. Whenever they think their 

 employer is making too much profit on la- 

 bor it is certainly their privilege to refuse 

 to work any longer at the price they have 

 been getting, and tliis whole thing ought to 

 be arranged jDleasantly on both sides. When 

 we can not agree, let us "agree to disagree." 

 But when the man who has dropped his job 

 because the pay is not sufficient presumes 

 to interfere with somebody else who would 

 like to take the work he has dropped, it is 

 all wrong, as I see it. Is it not like the old 

 fable of the dog in the manger? He can 

 not eat the hay, or, if you choose, he will not 

 eat it; but at the same time he plants him- 

 self there, and refuses to let the hungry 

 horses and cattle have the hay they would 

 be glad to get. 



Quite a number of articles I have receiv- 

 ed reject the good old Bible, and make sar- 

 castic remarks in regard to the Christian 

 religion. Of course we can not give place 

 to such articles in these pages. 



