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No. 15 
VOL. XII Apr. 10, 1914 
PRESIDENT WILSON cannot and ought not to lose 
his fight with the toll question in the Senate. With him 
there will be many strong Democratic leaders. With 
Lodge and Root in line Wilson will have able supporters 
within the ranks of the opposing party. It is now a 
moral issue and not a political issue and it ought not 
be partisan. Theoretically, no one would contend that 
the United States ought not to have the right to charge 
or vote not to charge tolls for American ships. 
Unfortunately the question is not. one of eco- 
nomic right to operate our own canal, but wheth- 
er this government will repudiate an agreement 
which it succeeded in making with Great Britain; a 
treaty, at that, that was entered into at our initiative. 
With nations, as with individuals, there are moral obli- 
gations which must be lived up to, even at the expense 
of an economic loss. The United States agreed on con- 
dition that right to build the canal be granted that the 
canal should be open to “all nations on equal terms.” 
There is no moral opportunity to retreat. The success 
of the opposition will put the modern peace and arbi- 
tration movement back fifty years. President Wilson’s 
toll policy should be supported by Republicans and Dem- 
ocrats for ethical reasons. It is not unlikely that for- 
eign governments will sooner of later grant subsidies to 
ships using the canal equal to the toll charges. Then 
there will be no reason why this government cannot 
rcimburse its coastwise vessels. Until such times the 
terms of the treaty that this government sought from 
and obtained with Great Britain must be observed 
if our word is good as a nation. 
A CERTAIN CLERGYMAN of Ware desires the repeal 
of the Bar and Bottle Bill, but Robert A. Wood, now 
police commissioner of the City of Boston, who has had 
a far wider opportunity to study the evils of the liquor 
problem and to observe the operations of this particular 
regulation, is still in favor of the Bar and Bottle Bill. 
Much of the so-called temperance legislation is careless- 
ly drawn and thoughtlessly urged, but that bill appears 
to be sane and regulative legislation. It should stand. 
THE WARDEN Wuo ReEsIcNeED at Sing Sing acknowl- 
edging his incompetency for office showed rare courage 
and uncommon common sense. 
Ir THE WomeEN Courtp Votre on the question of 
woman’s suffrage would the woman’s suffrage movement 
win or meet its Waterloo? 
ENGLAND AND IRELAND have been the cynosure of all 
eyes for weeks past. For generations the voters of Ire- 
land have struggled for home rule. Now the fight is 
about over; home rule is assured and all Ireland will 
be united under a home government with headquarters 
in Dublin. The House of Lords has consistently and 
persistently opposed the movement and their opposition 
has been successful until now. Over the House of Lords 
the House of Commons has won a triumph. Ulster and 
the neighboring counties have been aroused by the pros- 
pects and have made a spectacular demonstration against 
the proposed change, and have registered an unmistak- 
able protest against a Dublin parliament. The protest 
is based on old ecclesiastical hatreds handed down from 
the days of King James, and the newer economic law 
of effective representation. Under a Dublin parliament 
the Ulsterite representation would ever be in a minority 
and hence the economic objection. Fearing that the Dub- 
lin parliament would fail to give them their rights, nurs- 
ing an old religious prejudice meanwhile, a demonstra- 
tion was inevitable. Rumors of armed revolt have been 
heard and will continue to be heard, but such an issue 
is not probable. Some way out of the dilemma will be 
found and Ulster will have a fair representation in Dub- 
lin despite its fear. The affair appeared serious at one 
time, but the difficulty will soon be remedied. 
Goop FRmay commemorates the tragic death of 
Jesus Christ and the inauguration of the gospel of the 
new start in life. In early days of human life men were 
harassed by dangers, disease, war and enmity and knew 
nothing of the greater and better life that the Founder 
cf Christianity came to reveal. In Him the Good of the 
Universe was supreme and. His conflict with evil ended 
in His tragic death. Generations have fought over the 
theological explanations and implications of His death, 
but out of all contentions there arises a unity of opinion 
that to Christianity and to Jesus the world owes the 
great truth, the forgiveness of sin and that for this truth 
Good Friday stands. Positively expressed it means a 
new life, a new start, arid a new beginning. Man may 
well pause in his busy life and consider the meaning of 
this great Church Day. They crucified Christ, those men of 
the early century, but they could not exterminate the 
power and influence of Him whom they did slay. The 
world may well call Him Saviour. 
Tue Russtan who provided in his will that his body . 
be carried to the cemetery in an aeroplane reversed the. 
usual order. To a flight and then a funeral he preferred 
a funeral and then a flight. Most folk would prefer 
to wait until death for an aeroplane flight. But why 
fly at all? Is not the ground good enough? ‘There are 
many roads to publicity, but this is up in the air! 
THERE Is Stn, War In Mexico, but thanks to the- 
cautious policy of this government our interests are only 
those of “watching and waiting” spectators. “To watch 
and to wait” and be at peace is better than “watching 
and waiting’ and be at war. 
Tur Rea, Estate AGENT worries about spring 
rentals, the merchant spring outfitting, the farmer spring 
plowing and planting and the good women about the 
spring bonnets. 
Wuat AN April, WEEK—rain storms, snow flurries, 
crocuses, mild days, pussy willows, robins and bluebirds 
all in one week, 
