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irnc• • • •WtoBra(FOVKDCD47M.) BaMUfttaff 119 nirteld A•#.00 wmt Ifar tl WEEKLY. .*!.♦©JBi Wieport Cw»per year tn tdrostcPHONICedftorialPHPAAimYf11S7.c'it' '' mraw BXPBE8BNTATITEH ■nut QMatUt * FMKoki. If«w York. Boston sad CMcu*Evening Newspaper of Bridgeport CanningAssociated Press Service.% _ __MONDAY, JUIiY 31f 1918.\For President WOODROW WILSONFor Vice President THOMAS R. MARSHALL••THE BLACK TOM EXPLOSIONi*•i *PIli If*i*kSe*^^TEW YORK outdid itself in describing the explosion at theBlack JTom Terminal. A great light and a great noise ! combined to. make it appear|to the New York newspapers that j the end of the world had arrived, and allusions to the last trump i appear in most of the early stories which were written. -v The property damage resulting from the explosion is large enoughj most from fire. It will reach perhaps to $25,000,000. i The loss of life appears to have been exaggerated. Esti-j mates of 300 dead have fallen to not more than a half dozen, or perhaps a dozen, with a list of wounded smaller than that produced by a first class wreck on the New Haven railroad.The truth is that the world is wound up to afford the maximum amount of security to the human creatures who inhabit it. It takes a good deal more than the explosion of $5,000,000 worth of war ipaterial to kill very many of them. Even when men deliberately arrange parties for the purpose of killing, each other, the protective power of environment is so great it is difficult to get classy results. • 'Five million dollars worth of war material deliberately fir-! ed on the battlefields of Europe, in the average,‘would do just I a little more damagie to life and limb than this .explosion did. j The human will to kill is slightly more potent for the purpose j than the same forces blindly released without purpose.' The property damage is quite anoth°„- affair. ‘ Nature is not I as careful of property as she is of men. Any of her trifling exasperations such as cyclones, hurricanes, earthquakes, or con-1 flagrations make no bones of property.One would suppose, reading the Republican platform, and I. noting the views expressed by the Republican leaders, that God’s : especial interest is in property. Or perhaps Mr. Hughes charges ' r the Almighty with neglect, arid proposes to put property rights ’ where the Republican party thinks they belong.The Farmer has often spoken to its readers regarding the i wisdom of putting their fears on a mathematical basis. The edi-• tors of New York newspapers, stirred by a little extra noise and light in the night, had a fine panic all over their newspapers, j They made New York appear like the last town in Armageddon. But most of them are hot for. a war with Mexico and some of them join the belligerept colonel and would fight Germany. We assure these editors, that the lights, the noises, shocks, explosions, copcussions, manglings, woundings and slayings, together with the property losses would be much greater than those occasioned by the rebellious Big Tom Terminal.Two men, it is said, have been placed .under arrest on a charge of manslaughter, as the innocent causes of the explosion, and the deaths that followed.Should Col. Roosevelt be placed under arrest on a charge0 t: 1lt;C1 ii t\ b S h tl0 t, cJ1 1 t *v c£ctcIrC1E1if4tIlt;11\a »of inciting to manslaughter?TOO EMOTIONALSr.'fl,*1j***■jmA piSTINGUISHED woman writer points out that two con-1 xV * ventions of women were held in Chicago while the Re-j publican convention was in progress. She claims, with del^ght-| ful irony, that these conventions afforded proof that women are to6 elotional to have the ballot.Her proof consists in the following facts:—The women did not, like the Republican delegates, cheer forforty minutes consecutively. They did not fight in hotel lobbies over impersonal matter^ They did not bear their leaders upon their shoulders about the convention hall. They did not work | to the stimulation of a brass band. They did not go to the plat-! form carrying images of elephants and teddy bears.Anybody who has seen the cool atmosphere of a pink tea, »given by a woman suffrage association, who has then attended a pinochle party given by the Steenth Ward Republican club, \ with a keg of beer on the side, and oodles of smoke all about will Realize that women really are too emotional for anything.
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Bridgeport Evening Farmer
Bridgeport, Connecticut, US
Mon, Jul 31, 1916
Page 12
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