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30  THE CRISIS

and leave them unprotected and without voice in political life is more than unjust, it is a crime.
   
There was a day in the world when it was considered that by marriage a woman lost all her individuality as a human soul and simply became a machine for making men. We have outgrown that idea. A woman is just as much a thinking, feeling, acting person after marriage as before. She has opinions and she has a right to have them and she has a right to express them. It is conceivable, of course, for a country to decide that its unit of representation should be the family and that one person in that family should express its will. But by what possible process of rational thought can it be decided that the person to express that will should always be the male, whether he be genius or drunkard, imbecile or captain of industry? The meaning of the twentieth century is the freeing of the individual soul; the soul longest in slavery and still in the most disgusting and indefensible slavery is the soul of womanhood. God give her increased freedom this November!

Mr. Miller is right in saying that the results from women suffrage have as yet been small but the answer is obvious: the experiment has been small. As for the risks of allowing women to hold office: Are they nearly as great as the risks of allowing working men to hold office loomed once in the eyes of the Intelligent Fearful?

HAITIAN AND OTHER SAVAGES
   
Shortly after the declaration of hostilities between Turkey and Great Britain the Turkish authorities forcibly entered the Italian consulate somewhere in Arabia and removed the British consul, subjecting him to many indignities. Italy has entered into war against the Ally of Turkey but, although her own vital interests and the salvation of her Allies would seem to demand her participation in the attack upon the Dardanelles, Italy has not yet found sufficient cause to pick a quarrel with the Ottoman Empire.
   
Quite recently the governor of one of the most highly developed states of the United States was forced to resort to martial law to protect his own life and that of his family at the hands of citizens who opposed on of his public acts. Failing to lynch the governor of the chief of the lynching states, the habitual lynchers of Georgia burned him in effigy and, despite the efforts of a loyal and well organized military establishment, they continued to riot for several days, the governor meanwhile escaping into perhaps permanent exile.
   
Governor Slaton of Georgia was nearly killed because he had commuted to life imprisonment the death sentence of a man as to whose guilt of murder the governor claimed to have grave doubt, although this man had been convicted by the highest court in this great land. President Guillaume, of Haiti, was killed because he had ordered the execution without trial of more than one hundred men whose only crime was their alleged opposition to his governmental policies. Chief among the causes of opposition was President Guillaume's reputedly favorable attitude toward American administration of Haitian finances, and the people found little assurance of his sincerity or the success of his plans in the face of the fact that, not many years before, citizen Vilbrun Guillaume had been tried, convicted, and sentenced to a term in prison for fraudulent transactions with foreign banking interests.
   
In view of the fact that a man who 

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held a position of public trust in New York has just been executed for graft and murder, a fact which leads to the reasonable conjecture that others undiscovered and untried are guilty of like crimes, it can hardly be said that civic morality and respect for law and order are special perquisites of the citizens of the United States. As between the mob in Georgia and the mob in Haiti, the balance of provocation is certainly in favor of the slayers of Guillaume, especially since the attackers of Governor Slaton are not charged with the degrading stimulus of the Vaudoux and Obeah. Since Italy is not at war with Turkey, there is little ground for the fulminations of the American press about the Black Republic's affront to the flag of France and the duty of the United States to secure redress therefor.
   
It is perhaps beyond doubt that in the bushes of Haiti are many people as primitive as their African forebears, but to credit their superstitions to the people who control the destinies of the second American republic is as ridiculous as to say that the Indian snake worshippers of the western deserts directed the actions of Harvard University, Wall Street and the White House.
   
There are thousands of Haitians at home and abroad who are not grafting politicians, who know nothing about the Vaudoux, and who would welcome any effort looking towards a solution of the difficulties which have given rise to the longest period of unrest that even Haiti has ever known, beginning practically seven years ago and culminating the the tragedy of the last week in July. But no intelligent Latin American entertains any illusions about the purposes of the proponents of the Monroe Doctrine. Haitians are aware that the slave holding United States was about the last important country to acknowledge the independence of the people who, having overthrown Negro slavery and French domination, gave men and arms and money to the destitute Bolivar and sent him on the expedition which ended in the liberation of half of South America from the Spanish yoke, a service which is commemorated by the statue of Alexandre Pétion in Caracas. Haitians are also aware that, until the interests of the United States seemed to dictate a change of policy, this country ha taken no interest whatever in the political and economic conditions of the land of Toussaint l'Ouverture and Pétion,and we have yet to point to a single social or intellectual benefit conferred upon the first Latin American Republic by the great Anglo-Saxon nation of the North.
   
Under these circumstances it is natural to expect that Haitians who court outside assistance would seek it from nations which have had a closer but more disinterested contact with the one country in the world where enlightened Negroes -- real Negroes, not merely colored people -- enjoy the fullest measure of liberty and fraternity with men of similar tastes and equal attainments. Neither France nor England desires to possess the Mole St. Nicholas in order to dominate the Windward Passage. All South America knows that New York and San Francisco, cities greater in wealth and power than most Latin American states have each sent a mayor to jail for graft and that the largest state in the Union was barely satisfied with removing a governor from office for the same offense. Moreover, we have read about "deserving democrats" for jobs in foreign countries; we have seen Sullivan, not Tim, but the one who was sent to represent the American people in Santo Domingo by a government which prides itself on being the most high-minded, pacific, non-imperialistic which this country has had in many, may years.
   
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