Muskogee Cimeter

The Muskogee Cimeter. Vol. 18 NO. 21 BIG Negroes will go in the Federal Courts No Begging for assistance of any political party in this fight Violation of Supreme Court DECISION With a determination to never cease and to fight on until every election official in Oklahoma is jailed who denies black men their liberty and free access to the voting privilege, the Negroes of Oklahoma have risen up in arms to, with their dollars, slam these scoundrels and rascals into the Federal courts. In most of the counties of this state the Negroes have in large numbers registered unmolested but in McIntosh, Muskogee, Wagoner and Okfuskee counties, the real black belt of Oklahoma, there has been a flagrant violation of the recent Supreme Court decision and Negroes have been intimidated and abused by the minions of Gov. Williams. For instance, at Rentiesville, a Negro town in McIntosh county, where there are 180 electors, four Negroes are registered. At Eufaula with about 400 black electors, six have been permitted to qualify. In the city of Muskogee, with about 12,000 odd Negroes, their rights have been curtailed and denied with a viciousness unheard of in this state. At Boley, which is situated in Paden District No. 2 with 500 odd electors, not a single Negro is registered save and except three or four who affiliate with the Democratic party. Wagoner county registrars were equally as ruthless in their disregard for the citizenship rights of black men and the time is ripe for a fearless and determined stand against the outrageous encroachment of Southern prejudice. There will be no begging for the assistance of any political party in this fight. It is a problem that belongs solely to black men and they propose to shoulder their own burden and face the enemy with black initiative and intelligence. In the supplemental registration, which begins the 18th and continues for ten days, the Negroes of the various counties who have not been permitted to register intend to peaceably and lawfully present themselves before the registrar. They propose to have present with them witnesses. On election morning these same Negroes, registered or unregistered, propose to present themselves to vote and have witnesses in this instance. Also, with this record made, they propose to file suits for damages in the Federal courts against every election official who denies black men their Constitutional rights. Backing this move are all of the Negro newspapers of the state, who have started already a campaign for funds. Lawyers will be employed and a vigorous and forceful fight be made to prosecute every cowardly attempt to confiscate the liberty that is justly the right of black men. A citizens committee has been formed to hold the many dollars that are pouring into this fund, the members of which are Dr. A. B. Whitby, president of the Oklahoma City branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Hon. E. N. Guillory, president of the Muskogee Negro Business Men's League and Hon. O. W. Gurley, a heavy taxpayer and property owner of Tulsa. Every loyal member of the race is asked to contribute to this fund, the time is short and the finance is very much needed. Every dollar contributed will be accounted for each week through the columns of the Negro Journals of this state. The move is non-partisan entirely, the guiding spirits of the movement are actuated by but one purpose and that is the desire to effectualize the black man's right to do anything in Oklahoma, that, under the law, any other man may do. If you love your race—if your race pride is worth a dime or a dollar—cash it now by sending your financial assistance to any of the members of the Finance committee whose addresses follow: Dr. A. B. Whitby, 3151/4. E. Second St., Oklahoma City. Hon. E. N. Guillory, 207 So. Second St., Muskogee, Okla. Hon. Q. W. Gurley, 114 North Greenwood, Tulsa, Okla. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY OCT. 21, 1916. In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: No. 1207 The defendant, Fred Allen, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named court by the plaintiff, Maud Allen, for Divorce, for desertion, and that unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff, Maud Allen on or before the 19th day of November 1916, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgment rendered accordingly. In Witness Whor of, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 6th day of Oct. 1916. C. H. Shaffer Court Clerk Tom L. Fuller, Deputy Clerk Geo. W. Parker, Attorney for Claim Off. STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT Circulation, etc., Required by the Act of Congress of August 24 1912 Of the Muskogee Cimeter Published weekly at Muskogee Oklahoma for October 1916 State of Oklahoma, County of Muskogee Before me a Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid. Personally appeared W. H. Twine who having been recently sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Editor of the Muskogee, Cimeter and the following is to the best of his knowledge and belief a true statement to the ownership management of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption required by the act of August 24th 1916 embodied in section 442 Postal laws and resolution and regulations printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: That the names and addresses of the publishing Editor managing Editor and business managers are The Cimiter Publishing Company, Muskogee, Oklahoma. Editor W. H. Twine, managing Editors P. R. Price, E. D. Nickens, Muskogee, Oklahoma. Business Managers W. H. Twine Jr. E. D. Twine Muskogee. Oklahoma! That the owners are W. H. Twine, That the known bondholders mortgagees and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more or total amount of bonds, mortgagee or securities none. W. H. Twins' Editor Sworn to and subscribed before me this 1st day Oct. 1916. My Commission expires June, 9th 1920. F. J. Gordon The National committee should send every cent received from this District, back into the District to carry on the Congressional campaign and elect Hon. Harry Ward. Some of the fellows are sending their contributions to the National committee and not doing anything at home. Do they want to win? An old friend of ours who has been out in Western Oklahoma says that part of the State is alive and its like going into another State in so far as Republicon is concerned. He says out ther they are fighting to win and over here are running for federal places. A vote for the fair election law is a vote for justice and right. Every Republican will vote for that amendment and every fair minded Democrat will do the same and all the Socialists. Hence it will carry by a good majority and Oklahoma will be free. On Tu'say right a Hughes-Fairbanks club was organized at Old Agency church. Mr. A. W. Marshall and W. H. Twine were present aiding and assisting in the organization. The National ticket is sure to win and when it does watch the follows here who did nothing to put Oklahoma in the Republican column get up and showl for office. Some of the Republicans are doing their level best but are handicapped for funds. The Highes-Fairbanks club of Harris Township one of the big clubs of which Mr. Garner is President and Mr. Dixon is Secretary held a meeting on Monday night in Reevesville and were addressed by Mr. Dungee, Editor of the Black Dispatch of Oklahoma City, Mr. E. D. Nickens and W. H. Twine, A spendid crowd of voters greeted the visitors and much good was done for the cause. This large club will be a factor in the election and especially in Harris Township where Judge Lewis is a candidate for Justice of the Peace. Mr. Marshall the originator of the organization of those clubs among our people and President of the Mother club in Musk gee was present and gave some timely advice. The clubs are growing rapidly. The Negro Democrats in Muskogee aside from their politics are pretty decent fellows (Politically) they are bad. But there is one in the bunch who is the worst ever. He is in a class by himself he is a dangerous proposition at all times, professes to believe in Lynch-law that thrift may follow fawning, is a tatler and news-monger and is as dangerous to the race as the burning fires of tell to a powder magazine. Even the Negro Democrats fear, hate and distrust him He is an honest looking political monstroysty, but as dishonest as hell The bit dog will holler watch listen for the bowl. Mr Guessler the Chairman of the Republican State Committee Dennis Blynn and Mr Parkinson candidate for Corporation Committeeman were in the City last week and made a speeches at the Gayity to a crowded house. Some of our leaders tried to get an interview with the State Chairman but failed to do so because the local leaders of the Republican organization kept a barbed wire fence around him and none could break through, but finly Mr E. D. Nickens, broke over and held a short conversation with him Mr. Guiessler is not to blame as we believe he is making a real fight and desired to win and is not afraid to meet the fellows in the trenches and advise with. But there was so much of social side, reception and cinning that even Dennis Flynn did not get a chance to see and shake hands with his old time colored friends who were with him in old Oklahoma. He who would be free must himself strike first. The Negroes of Oklahoma must do their own fighting and accept what assistance they can get from others. the Price is right, i T. M e is right, if its Mi T. Millers Money to Loan Midland Valle "ARKANSAS RIVER NEW TIME EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, 2-TRAINS between Muskogee & Tulsa, Okla. B EASTBOUR No. 4 [Motor Train] For Ft. Smith No. 2 For Ft Smith and points beyond No. 6 From Pswhuska and Tulsa..... No.2 Wichita, Ark City and Tulsa..... WESTBOUR No. 1 For Tulsa, Ark City and Wit No. 5 For Tula and Pawhuska..... No. 7 From Ft. Smith and point beyond No. 3 (Motor Train) From Ft. Smith FOR FURTHER I Phone 1308 or 495 Phone 3741 MOV Dr. J. C. P Chicago Moved to Fite Ro Cor. Okemulgee a Id Valley KANSAS RIVER L NEW TIME CA VE SUNDAY, MAY RAINS DAY Tulsa, Okla. Between EASTBOUND For Ft. Smith and and points beyond and Tulsa.... y and Tulsa.... WESTBOUND City and Wichita whuska.... and point beyond From Ft. Smith and FURTHER INFO 495 M MOVE J. C. PUT Chicago De ed to Fite Rowse Okemulgee and S "ARKANSAS RIVER ROUTE" NEW TIME CARD EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, MARCH 5th, 1916 2-TRAINS DAILY-2 etween Muskogee & Tulsa, Okla. Between Muskegee, & Ft. Smith EASTBOUND No. 4 [Motor Train] For Ft. Smith and points beyond 7:45 a.m. No. 2 For Ft. Smith and points beyond 6:20 p. m. No. 6 From Pswhu-ka and Tulsa 10; 40 a. m. No. 2 Wichita, Ark City and Tulsa 6:15 p. m WESTBOUND No. 1 For Tulsa, Ark City and Wichita 8:00 a. m. No. 5 For Tula and Pawhuska 5:00 p. m. No. 7 From Ft. Smith and point beyond 11:45 p. m. No. 3 (Motor Train) From Ft. Smith and points beyond 7:30 p. m. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Lantern Job Print. 218 Elgin Ave. ```markdown ``` 212 N. 2nd Suites 20-207 PRICE $1.00 A YEAR ON On this side of the State the Republican organization is doing nothing to protect and assist us in securing that right and our people have come to the conclusion that they must do the fighting and are proceeding along the line that a vote for electors and members of congress at least be obtained and will demand to vote for that part of the ticket. They take the position that we live in the United State and will vote for such officers now and after while when we move into Oklahoma will vote for State officers. By following this method, we can elect Hon. Harry Ward, in this district and Hon. Bert Chand'r in the First Distr'ent. With these men in Congress and the Republican party in power in the nation, the mugwumps will be eliminated in Oklahoma and the Republican party take on new life. The Republican Party is certain to win in the National contest. The party is united presents a solid front to the enemy. And at this writing it looks like Okla. will enter the Republican fold as another "Mysterious Stranger" The fight in the 2nd District is a warm one and Harry Ward is making a winning fight. Valley R. R. RIVER ROUTE" TIME CARD DAY, MARCH 5th, 1916 S DAILY-2 Opposit of Kress P. R. Price ..... Associate Editor E. D. Nickens ..... Associate Editor W. H. Twine, Jr ..... Manager E. H. Twine ..... Collector THE N. A. C. W. MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muckoges. The daily Phoenix is sometimes Republican and sometimes independent but at the present time it claims to be independent, such a changing is not worth three whoops in h — — to any political party and yet Bidy, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie counter. What bass ingratitude. The Republican party is the ship and all else the sea. The Oklahoma Negro is sure a 'shat from bitter experience. REPUBLICAN COUNTY CANDIDATES. For Congress Second District Harry Ward. For Sheriff—F. J. Bays. For County Attorney—H. C. Whipperman. For County Judge—Myron White. For County Treasurer—A .A. Coupland. For County Assessor—J. W. Hubbard. For County Clerk—W. S. Harsha. For Court Clerk—Dr. J. M. Coon. For County Superintendent — Miss Alice M. Robertson. For County Surveyor—M. A. Earl. For County Weigher—F. T. Swift. Commissioners. No. 1.—John L. Cooper, Ft. Gibson. No. 2.—J. C. Rhodes, Webbers Falls. No. 3—Irvin Blanchard, Haskell. State Representatives. John Lieber. O. E. Cramer. Geo. Leopold. Editorial Comments If you had two dollars to invest would you trust it to the business magnacity of Josephus Daniels? Then, why let him handle the millions that are to be spent on the new navy? Judging by the signs of War Department activity the Administration is cunningly arranging to bring the Millitamen home just in time to enable them to vote for Mr. Hughes. A train of thought on a one-track mind has to be composed of shuttle cars. Three years ago Woodrow Wilson was explaining that hard times were psychological, but he isn't trying to squirm out of responsibility for the present prosperity. The disaster to the Memphis caused very little excitement, Americans being used nowadays to seeing the navy on the rocks. This Democratic Congress has passed into history—profane history. President Wilson's speech of acceptance could have been phrased even more succinctly In the graphic words of Ross Tweed, "What are you going to do about it?" We see by the interviews with the Mexican commissioners that the campaign plogan this year in the Sonora bandit belt is "Thank God for Woodrow Wilson." Mr. Wilson's eulogy of Lincoln at Hodgsonville was more literary but less sincere than the one he pronounced upon himself at Shadow Lawn. The new half dollars will have an alive branch on one side and on the other an eagle, in full flight. Wilson money. Motto of the McAdoo shipping law: "The sun never rises on the American flag." A Democrat's idea of an ideal watchdog of the Treasury is a Poemcranian. Mr. Wilson is now busily engaged working the other side of the suffrage street. The campaign agents who two years ago were loudly engaged thanking God for Woodrow Wilson seem to be taking their vacations just now. A record wasn't the only thing the late Congress broke—there's the Federal Treasury. Congress didn't want a Tariff Commission composed of $12,000 men, those $7,500 salaries being designed for $1,200 men. THE FEDERAL MUSEUM OF ART AND CULTURE Wine is an indispensable adjunct of the soldiers in the European War. Prohibition has obtained no footcuff among the one.hundred.per-cent men who are braving Death every day. This picture shows the officers' mess in the Serbian camp on the Eastern front. DRY LAW RESULTS IN 40,000 LEAVING BIRMINGHAM, ALA. LAWYER SAYS AS MANY MORE PEOPLE WOULD QUIT THAT METROPOLIS IF THEY HAD TRAVELING EXPENSES, AS IT IS PRACTICALLY BANKRUPT FREE PUBLIC SCHOOLS ARE ABOLISHED City Spending $2,504,000 a Year For Liquor, the Money Going to Other States—Courts Turn Down Proposed Bond Issue, Not Counting the Begging of $2.50 From Each Citizen—Disease Plague Reigns One of the most forlorn cities in the nation as a result of prohibition, it is said, is Birmingham. The Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald publishes the following letter: "In the issue of your paper of this date appears an article over the signature of Hon. Thomas E. Kilby, of Aniston, felicitating over the conditions in Birmingham due to two years of prohibition. Among other expressions which he uses we find the following: 'Benedict effects of prohibition in Birmingham.' 'Birmingham is not alone, however, in enjoying better conditions under prohibition.' 'In view of the fact that prohibition has not injured labor conditions in Birmingham,' and 'in view of the fact that it has kept in Alabama millions of dollars that formerly went out of the state for wholesale liquor shipments.' Mr. Kilby need not have signed himself as being from Aniston, for his card" is proof enough that he knows nothing of the true conditions existing here in Birmingham. "I have been practicing law here now for a number of years, and I venture the assertion that money in the hands of the masses is tighter and harder to get and business and professional conditions worse than ever before in the history of this city. It may be conceded that the city inspection fee on liquor materially decreased the shipments of liquor to Greater Birmingham during the time it was in force. Since this fee has been held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and removed, the number of shipments into the district has greatly increased, and it is now estimated, based on the best obtainable record evidence, that 3,000 liquor and beer shipments are received daily at the various express and freight offices in Greater Birmingham. Liquor packages contain two quarts and average $3 in value; beer shipments contain four dozen bottles, averaging $5 in value, making the average value of each shipment of liquor and beers $1. F Birmingham's Liquor Bill. Omitting Sundays, and figuring shipments for six days a week only, the amount expended daily for liquor by citizens of Greater Birmingham is $8,000; weekly, $46,000; monthly, $192,000; yearly, $2,804,000. Let it be understood that this money is paid in cash and goes out of the state of Alabama, and has no reference to expenses for liquors and beers in Jefferson county outside of Greater Birmingham. The question is not, What is the matter with Birningham? but How long can Birmingham stand this drain upon the purses of her citizens? And the money is not put back into circulation here. The result is not only the loss to the business interests of the city of this money, but also the income to the city of license fees and taxes on this traffic, amounting to over a quarter of a million dollars annually. Just sit up and take notice of existing conditions. Our commis- sloners inform us that the city is practically bankrupt. They have imposed an annual street tax of $5 per capita. They propose, and will impose, a monthly tuition fee upon every boy and girl attending the public schools of the city. They propose placing a tax or license fee on every owner of a private cow, and are conidering increasing the amount of licenses on businesses and professions generally. Tax Values Go Up. In addition to all of this, tax values on real estate are being raised to such an extent as to amount to almost cow fiscation. Take Third avenue, between Fifteenth and Twenty-second streets and one can count thirty-odd vacant stores. Take Fourth avenue, between Fifteenth and Twenty-second streets and one can count more vacant stores. Take First avenue, between Fifteenth and Twenty-second streets, and the vacant stores are still greater in number. On Twentieth street, between Avenue F and Tutwilier Hotel, our main thoroughfare, there are nearly 50 vacant stores. Take Second avenue, between Fifteenth and Twenty second streets, and the number of vacant stores will crowd the 100 mark "In the Age Herald of the 17th instant the startling information is given that the census of school children in Greater Birmingham which has just been completed is nearly 8,000 less than the school census of two years ago, which indicates a loss of approximately 40,000 people from the population of Greater Birmingham during the last two years, and there are 40,000 more who would leave if they had money enough to get out of town. "What are the causes? Whither are we drifting? Think it over. "MATT H. MURPHY, "737 First National Bank, Birmingham Here's Another Letter. The following is from the Baltimore Sun: To the Editor of the Evening Sun: Sir...Just to give the friends of prohibition and the Baltimore public an idea of what prohibition does for a city. I was in Birmingham. Ala., a short time ago and these are a few of the facts I heard: The city is bankrupt; it tried another bond issue, but was so much in debt already that the courts would not allow it to go through. The city just had to have some money, so the officials sent collectors, from door to door to get $2.50 from each male over 21 years of age. Just think of a city having to collect money that way! And now some people are taking legal steps to stop this collection. In every city that is "dry" it is the same story. And the merchants in all lines will tell you they can see no benefit to business; it just holds its own as before the city went dry. Birmingham is also having an epidemic of typhoid and tuberculosis, its public hospitals filled and no money to run them with. Doctors and nurses are going unpaid. Dear people of Baltimore, make it your business to see that this never happens to our city. I am not in the liquor business, but in the manufacturing jewelry business. W. IRVING BLOOM. FINNEGAN'S PHILOSOPHY Single Track Minds. "What is he?" asked Finnegan. "Sure at Injalnypoles he said he was full of Annymated Concerv'tism. Fwhat's that ye say? 'Tis the turn-table on the wan thrack mind. It kapes spin'n' round and round an' divil a man can tell fwhat switch it will pick up it dinnau itself. So ye dinnau where to lay for it. "Twas so wid the arrumed freight ships. 'They're not warships,' he says, 'onless I change me mind,' he says, 'which I have,' he says, 'an' anyywan who says so is a liar,' he says, 'but I refuse to discuss it,' he says. 'Till pass the buck to Congress,' he says, 'on'y I won't,' he says, 'for tis no business of their's,' he says, 'though they must vote on the resolution,' he says, 'to show where they stand,' he says, 'Since you'll lay it on the table,' he says, 'an thin they can't vote,' says Wudthrow to Stone. "I—I—thought I seen a fallacy,'—says Stone, timid like, but the Great Idaylist brung down his fisht wid a tump. "Table the risolution,' says he,—an away goes Stone. "Fwwhat does this mean?' axes the Sinit. "Gintlemen,' says Stone, weepin' bitterly, 'Ye can frisk me. But thim's the orders,' says Stone, 'an' if any man livr knew fwhat it meant he's kept quiet about it.' "So wid the fightin' wurd. 'We're too proud to fight,' says this terrible man to a bunch iv just-overs at Philadelphia. 'Haw-Haw-Haw,' says the world (n laugh gets his goat, Jawn). I was thinkin' iv somehin' I didn't say,' yells Wudhthrow. 'Haw-Haw-Haw,' says the world, laughin' to split. 'Be this an' be that "Too Proud to Fight' has made the repypashun in Wudhthrow. 'Tis like the Monroe Doctrine to Monroe, or Emanshipshun to Lincoln. 'Twas thralled into ivy tongue. •Its better known than the twenty-third psalm, or the famous oration iv the Guy-nor iv North Carling. If an Ashtonite poked another in the eye, he's give him the coon faint 'Are Ye Too Proud to Fight? an' they'd both laugh before they wint to the flurge. All the recruitin' signs abroad had it an 'the shame wud bring three recruits, where 'Tipperary' or run wud bring wan. 'Oh, won't ye phaze stop laughin'? says Wuththrow, but they laughed the more. So he sends Jim Ham Lewis to explain. He's called Ham by reason he's so fond of pork. "Three thousand years agone," says Jim Ham, "or maybe less," says he, 'an' ould Dago said 'Non Dinny Carey win Kerry' (or the like o' that, Jawn. It means not to have a chip on yer shoulder). 'Non Dinny Carey win Kerry,' says Jim Ham, 'an' Jautus Sayzer, says he, 'an' Tolmy Philadelphia, says he, 'an' the Earl iy Cheatem, says Jim, 'an' William Haltch Seward, says Ham, 'an' a lot more I forget, says Ham, 'who felt the same way,' says Jim, although he says, 'the nivr said so,' says Jim Ham to the Sinit. "Now," says he, 'how, I axe ye, cut the Prisidist know that the cultivated Christian audience,' he says, 'iv inny grants,' says he, 'wud fall to grasp the noonance,' says Jim Ham An' Jawn, they shut the dures the way the people wudn't see the Sinit lose its dignity.' "What's a noonance?" asked Malumphy. "Tis a sort iv intellectual gold brick," replied Finnegan, slightly puzzled, "he which ye say what ye dount mane, an' mane wye dount say. The noonance comes out iv it somehow. Tis like I dinnau what. Just exactly like it," he added after a short pause, "I eudden't tell him apart." "Well," said Malumphy, "the single thrack mind gets nowhere, I'm thinkin'." "Th' gauge is none too broad," replied his friend, "an' the throffle's heavy," he added. *Non Dialcare est Vincent* Champ Clark Sees No Rainpows in Maine Result. "We got whipped, and I guess that is all I will say about the Maine election," said Speaker Champ Clark. "We got beaten good and plenty." THE WINE GARDEN Photo by Paul Thompson, New York City. But all of this wine is to drink. It is for the French warriors at the extreme battle-front, and is but a portion of the immense supply that is constantly being furnished the soldiers. This wine, direct from the famous French vineyards, is renowned the world over. AFTER THE VICTORY ```markdown ``` Following a successful attack on the enemy, Thompson officers in the Somme district are drinking their wine as a toast to Dame. Fortune. CITIZEN DRINKS "JICK" IN TOPEKA (KAN.) AND DIES Ed Bennet Never Tasted Real Liquor In This Prohibition State, Yet His Was a Drunkard's Death—"Jick" is the Nickname of Jamaica Ginger The Kansas City (Mo.) Post, in the following story from Topeka, illustrates one of the effects of prohibition: They'll burry Ed Bennet in the potter's field today. The funeral will be in the police station. Ed Bennet died a drunkard's death. But he never tasted ordinary liquor. He was a friend or "Jick." "Jick" is the police vernacular for Jamaica ginger. There are many friends of "Jick" in Kansas. When the cortege starts to the field, six men will shuffle along beside the pinbox box. They, the pallbearers, also are friends of "Jick." said HARVEY Parsons, chief of police. The supreme court has held that Jamaica ginger is an "old fashioned remedy," and may be sold in Kansas. The police say it contains 90 per cent alcohol. Drug stores keep gallons of it on hand in 15-cent bottles. "Jick" and horses were all Ed Bennet leased. Once he was a railroad switchman. He quit the railroad for the circus. He cared for and drove 16 horses in a team. Then he began to drink "Jick." Since, he hasn't worked. He slept in the barn and ate with police prisoners. They will not wear white gloves and carry themselves with pride. They are broken and bent. "It will be an example for others—to see those broken men, all victims of 'Jick,' burying another victim." ANOTHER "DRY" TOWN "WET" Editor Ohio State Journal: The prohibitionists are trying to vote the saloons out, thinking thereby to make people stop drinking by force. In view of this let us see what prohibition is. Does it mean temperance? The answer to that question can be found in Highland county and in the city of Greenfield, O. which had prohibition forced on it. Inspectors of the state liquor license commission have made an investigation there and they were astounded at the scale on which bootlegging is carried on in that little city of 5,000 souls. When these inspectors departed from the city, they carried with them more than 100 affidavits charging illegal sales of liquor against 33 residents. Prohibition in Greenfield has not brought temperance; but on the other hand the vicious practice of bootlegging, secret drinking with excesses that go beyond those of public drinking and a great mass of law violators. Every one of these conditions is worse than the open and regulated saloon. Our prohibition friends cannot deny my assertions, for the daily newspapers make the announcement that the members of the state liquor license commission are making ready to certify the 38 people and the 33 pieces of property where they are in business to the state auditor for the imposition of the $1,000 Dow liquor tax. It will be a sorry day should Ohio go dry. A. J. WILSE. Columbus, September 25. said Harvey Parsons, chief of police. The supreme court has held that Jamaica ginger is an "old fashioned remedy," and may be sold in Kansas. The police say it contains 90 per cent alcohol. Drug stores keep gallons of it on hand in 15-cent bottles. A 15-cent bottle will insure a drunk. "Jick" and horses were all Ed Bennet loved. Once he was a railroad switchman. He quit the railroad for the circus. He cared for and drove 16 horses in a team. Then he began to drink "Jick." Since, he hasn't worked. He slept in the barn and ate with police prisoners. Sunday in a drunken stupor he climbed on a table to sleep. He tossed restlessly under the influence of the "Jick" and rolled to the floor. His head struck on the concrete and his small was fractured. "MODEL DRY COUNTRY" Says the Houston (Texas) Freeman: For many years prohibition speakers throughout the country have pointed to White county, Illinois, as a "model prohibition country." White county was held up as an example for other counties to emulate. Now comes the Illinois state board of health with a report on conditions in White county that has shocked all of the drys in the Middle West. Complaints reached the board of health that tuberculosis had reached the proportion of an epidemic in White county and an officer was sent to that section to investigate. The report of the representative of the board of health shows that not only is tuberculosis alarmingly prevalent in White county, but there are other contagious and infectious diseases; that the moral tone of the county is at a low ebb; that the inhabitants are deficient in education; that many families related by blood have intermarried; that the crop of imbeciles and cripples is large; that blind tigers are numerous; that the health of many of the women has been wrecked by indigentimate use of patent medicines and other nostrums; and that radical steps are necessary by the health authorities to reform conditions. White county has lost the "white ribbon" and there is grief in the Anti-Saloon League camp. HE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION YOU KNOW IT. [Washington (D. C.) Post] A clean-up campaign in a dry town usually remarkable for the number empty jugs found in the back yards. WHAT DOES FRANK DRINK? [Anaconda Standard.] Mr. Hanly says the Prohibitionists I poll 1,000,000 votes. Mr. Hanly uses rainbows with a grace and andon remarkable even in a Prohibi- nial presidential candidate. Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer,! The Drys are humbugs, I insist," Remarked the angry Mr. Gest, I saw a Prohibitionist Intoxicated with success." ABOR CHIEF FOR LICENSE CLARES PROHIBITION IS NEITHER TEMPERANCE NOR MODERATION rew J. Gallagher, Ex-President of the San Francisco Labor Council, Holds Abolishment of Long Hours, Ignorance and Poverty the Only Possible Solution other leader of labor has assailed bition as a fallacy and detriment to workers. In the San Francisco (L.) Bulletin appeared an ac of the statement of ex-President other, of the San Francisco Labor all opposing "dry" legislation: opposing dry registration ervisor Andrew J. Gallagher, ex- ent of the San Francisco Labor ill, issued a statement today de- his opposition to the prohibi- mendments and explaining the he and many members of ord labor are against prohibition statement follows: present agitation for prohibi California presents a fair sam the kind of reforms the work ople will have to face if they their social betterment in the of the theorists and logicians whi their inspirations from other than the real facts and condi- of life. I venture to say that is not a single sane person in immunity who does not sincer- ire to establish universal ten- use in the use of alcoholic liquor- exhibition Not Temperance. bition, however, is not temper it is no more temperance in no alcoholic liquors than probi- ould be termed temperance in to medicines, coffee, ice water, card-playing, or any other that may be abused and there- in injurious effects upon the life. Prohibition of the use of that may prove injurious it is not a sane remedy. causes of intemperance in the alcoholic liquors arise most fre- among working people, and in- forms as well as workingmen yes realize that the main are due to poverty, unemploy- work and ignorance. fore, organized labor, which lost intelligent and progressive the working class, does not embrace or advocate prohibits foremost leaders and are on record against profts a remedy, and advocate ins means to promote tempers ordinary pricibles and practice organized labor, namely, conducts to organize, educate and he terms and conditions of emnt of the workers. By the sent of ignorance, overwork payment and poverty, temper will follow as the logical and in result. or Advance, the Solution. or the prohibitionists to prove obhibition anywhere has acco- mands as much in these respects as anized labor movement is ac- cording everywhere. Any person faculty to observe must admit any trade or community in organized labor has made ad- perance is one of the com- presults. explains why organized labor is opposed to prohibition as a way to establish temperance, in the judgment of labor, the external remedy and does fish the causes of intemperit introduces, to little or no external strife among the citizen community, and it hinders the social and economic act, the real progressive recof of society that is required the social evils of intemper- and, poverty and vice may be NOT ON YOUR LIFE! THIS OLD HOSS HAS A BIGGER LOAD NOW, THAN HE CAN HAUL! HEY CABBY! DRIVE ME UP TO THE NATIONAL CAPITOL PROHIBITION TAX PAYER $325,000,000 LOSS OF LIQUOR REVENUE SAVE THE GIRL!—THE GIRL OUT IN "DRY" DECATUR, ILL. Labor Paper Points to Immorality Among Kiddies In That City Adding: "We Had Better Formulate Some Plans to Send All Our Boys and Girls to the 'Wet' Towns" USE OF LIQUOR STILL INCREASES Internal Revenue Report Shows Gain of $10,000,000 In Tax Receipts From Nation The latest figures showing enormous increases in the internal revenue on whiskey, beer and tobacco in the United States are certain to make the Anti-Saloon League and the prohibition exherters unhappy. These official figures show tremendous increases receipts from spirits during August, 1916, and an increase of practically $10,000,000.00 in internal revenue receipts for the first two months of the present fiscal year over the same period in 1915. The figures for September have not yet been sent out from Washington. This is only one more official proof of the fact that prohibition has not diminished the output of spirits in the United States, as is constantly being claimed by the Anti-Saloon League. The following is a special dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer from Washington, D. C. Treasury Department officials are surprised over the enormous increases in internal revenue on whiskey, beer and tobacco. The receipts from spirits during August, 1916, were $12,643,595.49, as against $9,927,613.97 during August, 1915. Receipts from tobacco were $8,902,253.61, as against $7,237,409.26 for August, 1917 Receipts from fermented liquors were $10,748,262.40 during August, 1916, as against $8,639,712.30 during August, 1915. Although the fiscal year is yet young, having begun on July 1, the internal revenue receipts since the fiscal year started already show an increase of $9,933,659.19 over the receipts for the same period last year. SAVE THE GIRL OUT IN "DRY" Labor Paper Points to Immorality Adding: "We Had Better Form Our Boys and Girls The following is from the Decatur (III.) Labor World: Regardless of the protests of some local reformers, the Labor World contends that the morals of the young people of Decatur are worse than they are in other communities of the state, and we are able to produce figures to prove our contention. That the morals of young people in Decatur are of a standard below those of Springfield, Ill., are proven by the police records of the two cities. Springfield with its 216 legalized saloons and 20,000 more people than Decatur, have us backed off the boarus according to the police records. During July the total number of all arrests in that city was ninety-five. Of that number four were under age. In Decatur, which is without legalized saloons, during July there was a total of 126 arrests made and 21 of them were boys and girls under legal age. In commenting on the recent joy ride to Springfield which terminated in the girls implicated being sent to Geneva, Saturn's Review said: "It is said Decatur is no worse than other towns. The same conditions are said to prevail in about every city in the state. It is said there should be THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION EVE WOULDN'T HAVE CARED. [Louisville Courier-Journal] Red flannel underwear is doomed because of the cost of dyestuffs. Too bad, when the quality of the dry territory whisky is bad and the cost of camphor is high and the season for rheumatism is near. ALEX WAS "SOME" TANK. [Chicago Daily News.] Still, the military "tank" is no new thing. Read what Plutarch has to say about Alexander's capacity for wines. "Billy Sunday will give Boston ten weeks of his time." And Boston will naturally be anxious to do something handsome for Billy in return for such a magnificent gift. wow! [New York Telegraph.] It is said that William J. Bryan has no talent for music and never could master any instrument. How about the mouth organ? A PROHIBITION STATE. Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona relates that an eastern tourist was traveling in the southwest and stopped in a particularly dry section of Arizona. "This place is the limit," he remarked, addressing a native. "I don't think there is another locality on the face of the earth that is quite so dry. Doesn't it ever rain in this section?" "Rain!" exclaimed the native. "Say, stranger, we've got bullfrogs around here over eight years old that hain't learned to swim yet." RL!—THE GIRL DECATUR, ILL. City Among Kiddies In That City, imulate Some Plans to Send All to the 'Wet' Towns" some new laws on the statute books, some that will prevent young men taking young girls from a dry town to a wet town and ruining them." Police court records show that Decatur is worse than other town. Regardless of what the Review says the total number of arrests in Decatur and the number of children arrested is so much greater than Springfield that it behooves us to stop long enough to look into the matter and ascertain the cause if possible. Decatur with its large corps of moral reformers; with its multitude of fine churches, aggregating more than a value of a million dollars; with its high salaried ministers; with twenty thousand less people and without a saloon, shows more than four times as many juvenile criminals as does the city of Springfield. Instead of doing as the Review says, "pass a law to prevent young men taking girls from a dry town to a wet town and ruining them," we had better formulate some plan to send all our boys and girls to wet towns. Records show them to be much safer in wet towns than they are in Decatur which is now under the regime and control of hypocritical ministers and Anti-Slaan League reformers. "DRY" CHIEFS ARE ACCUSED INVALID WOMAN CHARGES SHE WAS SWINDLED OUT OF $300 Claims Names of Colorado Ministers Were Used to Induce Her to Buy Shares In Investment Company Launched By Anti-Saloon League Mon An invalid woman of Denver has filed suit against two officials of the Anti-Saloon League whom she charges sold her worthless mining stock. The Denver (Col.) Post reports the case as follows: In a complaint filed in the district court today by E. M. Sabin, attorney for Mrs. Emma Showers, an invalid who has for many years been confined to her home, Arthur J. Finch, superintendent of the Colorado branch of the Anti-Saloon League, and G. Arthur Holloway, secretary of the same organization, are charged with using the name of the league, that of its organizer and of Denver ministers of the gospel to induce her to buy stock in a mining company they had organized and which has proved worthless. Mrs. Showers in her complaint charges Finch and Holloway with wilful and malicious fraud and asks for body judgment against both of them and that they be confined in the county jail until judgment against them is paid. The suit is for the recovery of $300 which Mrs. Showers paid for 5,000 shares of stock in the A. S. L. Mines Investment Company. The complaint states that Finch and Holloway are what is known as promoters and that after they had organized two mining companies that had failed they started the A. S. L. Mines Investment Company with a capital of $5,000,000, in which company both of them were officers and directors. "Had a Short Life." "The A. S. L. Mines Investment Company—meaning the Anti-Saloon League Mines Investment Company—had a short lease of life," the complaint states. "The incorporators and promoters, according to their statement, sold several thousands dollars worth of stock but had not and never acquired any property and allowed the charter to be cancelled. The company, itself, today has no legal existence." They represented also that the company was holding under lease and bond the War Dance mine; that it had control of the Clay County mine in Gilpin county and that there were several hundred thousand tons of ore in the War Dance and Clay County mines already blocked out for shipment and that this ore was worth 355 to several thousand THE WATER CITY OF NEW YORK. Photo by Paul Thompson, New York City. The immense quantity of wine in this picture is but a small part of the shipments that are being made to the French soldiers at the front. DENVER REAL ESTATE.IS GRIPPLED BY PROHIBITION NEARLY ALL OF THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-FIVE STORES CLOSE USED AS SALOONS. FOR RENT NOW—FEW OCCUPIED AT REDUCED PRICES WORKERS HAVE TO LEAVE TOWN Can't Get Jobs In Colorado Metropolis -City Loses $27,462 A Month On Account of Vacant Buildings and $94,381.90 from Reduced Pay Rolls Although prohibition in Denver, Colo., has been in force less than a year, Denver already has been hard hit financially as a result of the dry law. Not only are men and women who were formerly employed in the liquor industry, out of work, but persons heretofore engaged in allied trades are jobless. Parades of the unemployed may be witnessed often in Denver and contrary to the prefiction of prohibitionists, hundreds of buildings once occupied by saloons are vacant, with no prospect of being rented. It is a prohibition saying that when a saloon is driven out of business, the vacant place will be occupied by a grocer, a butcher, etc., but the case of Denver displeases this statement. A pamphlet sent out of Kansas City, Mo., contains the foregoing facts against prohibition. Production and Real Estate. The following is a half page from this pamphlet, demonstrating the dry laws influence on real estate in Denver: 2312 2520 Eugene Woener.....2721 2933 Schlitz Brewery Bldg.....2562 Whitehouse.....1741 Schlitz Saloon.....315 John Cahan.....1404 Max Eller.....1862 Chas. List.....1462 J. Leibson.....1441 American Engle Bldg.....1325 Miners Saloon.....1818 Henry Renner.....1201 W. Bocas & Spirogavalka.....1761 J. Murphy.....1300 M. O'Connell.....2063 Jan. Meadow.....1719 Contos Bres.....1729 Theo, Dragon.....1814 V. Tintonoff.....1854 Jim Ryan.....1925 Chas. Graham.....1932 E. Clerillo.....2000 F. S. Ashridge.....2062 Zangs Hotel.....2931 Zangs Saloon.....2762 2063 Joe Frederick.....2362 John Buchen.....2434 John F. Quirk.....3801 F. Cylester.....3800 John Henry.....3787 Mehliczrank.....4062 Schlitz Saloon.....4053 Practically all of the three hundred and fifty-five Denver stores, previously occupied by saloons are vacant or being rented at greatly reduced prices. In not a single instance does the rent equal the former figure. The pamphlet announces that as a result of prohibition, Denver's loss in payroll amounts to $94,381.90 a month and the loss in rentals to $27,492.00 a month. When the saloons were running, the 355 buildings infured by prohibition, rented for $35,095.00 a month. At present they are bringing in only $7,633.00. Working men may be interested to know that of the brewery employees thrown out of jobs by the dry law, 47 have left Colorado and many have secured work in Denver at about 12 hours a day for $12.00 a week, when they formerly received $18.00 and $20.00 a week. There are approximately 100 homes of former brewery workers who are trying to sell them at a sacrifice so they can leave the state, as it is impossible for them to These homes have been advertised in the only papers, with few inquiries. The Denver Post states that during the first six months of 1915, when Denver was "wet" and liquor was being sold under strict regulation, there were 136 arrests for drunkenness, and during the first six months of 1916, when Denver was supposed to be "dry" and no liquor was supposed to be brought into that city, unless for personal consumption, there were 568 arrests for drunkenness. Denver's prohibition law went into effect last January. Mass meetings and street parades were held recently in Denver by many of the 5,000 persons thrown out of employment by prohibition. Comment on the Colorado situation was recently made by the Building Trades Council and unions of California, as follows: "The prohibitionists argue that if we will destroy the saloon, the brewery, the winery, it will only be a short time before the employees in these trades will find jobs in other industries. They told us in Colorado more bread would be consumed, more Former Rent. Present Rent. 1. $25.00 Vacant 2. Owner Vacant 3. Owner Occupied 4. Vacant Vacant 5. $35.00 Vacant 6. $125.00 Vacant 7. $20.00 Vacant 8. $125.00 $40.00 9. $125.00 $75.00 10. $200.00 $60.00 11. $100.00 Vacant 12. Vacant 13. $75.00 Vacant 14. Owner Vacant 15. $100.00 Vacant 16. $100.00 $20.00 17. $45.00 Vacant 18. Owner Soft drink parlor 19. $50.00 Vacant 20. Vacant 21. Vacant 22. $60.00 Vacant 23. $100.00 Vacant 24. Owner Vacant 25. $60.00 Vacant 26. $25.00 Vacant 27. $25.00 Vacant 28. Vacant 29. $25.00 Free rent until May 30. Owner Vacant 31. $35.00 Vacant 32. Owner Vacant 33. $50.00 $12.50 34. $40.00 Vacant 35. $25.00 Vacant meat eaten, and more clothes worn. Has this been true? Colorado has answered the question. We found in organizing the unemployed in Denver, following the enactment of prohibition, there were over 300 bakers and more than 200 butchers absolutely without hone of a job. The very class prohibitionists told us would have more work were thrown out of work." THIS IS NOT A PIPE DREAM: FIND REAL LIQUOR PIPE LINE. The Cedar Rapids (Ia.) Gazette spins the following yarn about a happening at Sioux City, in "dry" Iowa: While excavating in the rear of his building at Madison, S. D. Fred Furth discovered a copper pipe underground. Following it through subterranean meanderings he found that it connected with a barrel of liquor in a dark corner of a cellar. HARVEY REDHOT FOR HUGHES €spousal by D tinguished Edi- for of the Cause of the Re- publican Candidate a Significant Campaign Feature, ORIGINAL “witso GOOSTER the Gratification of Personal Amit. tlen=-A Demotrci’s Patrictic Stand. Tie avowst of the cause of Mr. Hughes hy Colonel Geerge Harvey is one of the distinct features of the present enmpalzn. It would be ex nifcent In tris chat a tonn of bis prestige, who hed ctweys tralned vith the Detocrutag party, had espoused the ca of the Republican candi- autc, Bot 1a Mr. Marvey’s cree the significance is very much greater, 0 well ag the importance of the erent. THe lus bow not or’y, a Democrat, Det a Wilson Denocrat, Moreover, he was the first man of prominence to ndveente the election of Woodrow Wilson ts Mronitent, and for many Jeors one of the closest friends and Advieers of the presut occupant of the White House. Mr. Harvey not only proposed Mr. Witsca for the Presidency, but ns early as 1910 toe terested United States Senator Smith, & Domucrstic leader of New Jersey, fa Me. Wilsow, and this resulted in The Wilson nomination aut election as Governsr of New Jerey. Mr. Vorvey not only comes out for Mr. Hughes, but gives" very inteltf- Gent recsons fur bis action Im the current number of kis “Norih Amert can Keview." In his Jedtucat there are tio vital questions to be answered Lefore election. One Is, which of the (ko great parties at tis particular guacture In our progress os a nation is the better eqlpped end the wore likcly to render ihe highest public service? The other Is, which of the tio designated leaders ls the more eer- tain to preserve, protect ani defend the Constitution of the United States? Suck on laeve as the Denwerats clair, that Mr. Wilson Las kept us out of War sud vierefore is entitled to te gieetion, 1s brushat rate es some thing that has go proper piace in the mint of the voter of this year, Ip Mr. Marvey's Judzacut, only the most insane purtiean would venture to sugzeit a porsitility of Mr. Wile gon or Mr. Hughes Inciting of {nviting War with sny European or Actatle Power, and therefore there {s no fair fasne betweea them on this question. There sre three elewents that are tnvoived In the snerers to these two questions, those of military and In- dustrial prepareduess goverment by and Cor the people, end national honor aul oppeston fo for as all of these gre eaheerned, the answer ts the exme: Br. Mnehes ts the man who should be chigen from each and every standpelit—toth as the repre sentative of Uie Repubilicen party and es na gal. ‘The best Interests of the country ere to be serred by his election. Mr, Harvey cnlle attention to the fact that We citer absence of selt- seeking on the part ef Mr. Hughes throughent Nis cut ce exrcer, couflems the belief that he in, fret, frou Aye ery notage 0 bie stag, stand On the otber bond, no less surely anit ninst disappolutingly, happenings of the past Oxo years eitiataating in the betopnl of Lis country for the ‘ 8 of personal ambltion, Prove incontestubly that Me. Wilson stands for Wilson fest, ‘That ts Mr Harvey's opiaton, dn bis Judgment tiere 15 no nocd to seck A concty: sion; tt finds ttstt, ‘Tho summing ny of tho situation ty thst upon th clearly worked tsues as between ths cendistes, there Is no reason why any professed = Repmbllcan, any thovghica! Péogressive or any prin eipted Desocrut should not, and overs venson why every patiotle Republt én should vote for Mr, Hughes fot | Proaident. Such advies from such a source Blould make @ decp Impeceston upon the Avicviean clectoraté, 1¢ certainly 4s not given through any prejudies agalast Mr, Wilson, for ite author would uaturally be edteposed tn ta Yor of the President. Nor does It come frou any lock of knowledge of Mr Wilson's methods and Intent. The fotlwcey of the (Wo men has bees too lung and too close to admit of eng lack of knowtedge om Mr. Mar ves's part, ‘The ian who, as Mr Wiison’s frtend, fest started the mmovenent for hint for President, now after a tort of Mr. Wilson tn tbe White House, advises the Americas people to vote for Mr. Hughes, There ‘should be no hesitancy on the part of the voters to follow this advice, f ‘Mr, Wilson has beeome so thorough ly neutral Unet he looks with grave clon on the American contentios ‘apy Interaationnl dispute, cd —— ad o , WITH THE SERBIAN ARMY 2 ic “an eae ae [Saget Se “i e gee +: Sa Cae ‘hoe SS Rae ee (a aay ° g 3 Wii | ee peg 7. K 4 : ae VA~ acjunet of the eciciers in the Eurepean War, nu PAUL Ar Tp be) UWP RESELTS TH 40,000 Oily Ll iy uy Praca TITLARTAD UE ERIS CARAGHAM, AL LAH ; hiihig i , 3 LAWYER SAYS AS MANY MORE PEOPLE WOULD QUIT THAT Mei NJPOLis IF THEY HAD TRAVELING EXPENSES, AS IT IS PRACTICALLY BANKRUPT OFC Dah SPHAATG AS PEE PUBLIG SCRUSLS PRE ABOLISHED Cily Spen ; +003 a Year For Liquor, the Money Going to Othe —Courts Turn Down Proposed Bond Issua, hoess. iudag the Begging of £2.50 From Each Citizen—Cisease Plague Reigrs . Que of the most forlorn cities in the mat a result of protibitio., i ts seid, Is Birmingham. 7 Birmingham (Ala) AgeHeraid palilet. the followlag lester In the teexe of your paper of this . ra an articie over the sigza. ture of Thomas E, Kilby: of Aa 8, s over the coniitioa a birt ae to two years of y A other expressions L nigham 5 roaibiion haz wi 4 a ions ia Birmin, of the fact tha a 2 wa millions of dol ml Weat out of the 7 liquor shipments 7 J aot have elgned hin. {orm Anniston, for bis agh that he kuows a true condfttoas exist I bave Leea practicing law here 2 for a nun 7 of years, and I veo ' 1 the: money in the ¢ ® fs tighter and be end busipass and pro t 5 worse than ever foro tn ory of this elty, Bt may t 1 that the efty Insp toa Nquor materiatly de- is of liquor to ( i ngbam during the time ‘ Since this fee has deen itutional by the Suprex end removed, the number of into the dletrict bas greatly i 1, and it 4s now estimated, + 1 the bert obtainable rocord v that 3,00) Mquor and beer shipments are received daily at thy v express and freight effices in Cr irmingham. Liquor pack Aso contain two quarts aud averase $5 ia valve; beer shipmeats contain four ¢ botties, averaging $5 in value, meking the average value of each ebipr ent of Mquor and beers $4. @ iemingham’s Liquor eM. Owiiting Sundays, and Sguring ship- ments for six days a week only, the émount expended daily tor Nquor by | citizens of Greater Birmingham {¢ $8,000; weekly, $45,000; monthly, $192.0 yearly, $2,304,090. Let it be understood that this money ts paid in | cash and goes out of the state of Atv bama, and hss no reference to expen Citures for Liquors and beers in Jemfer- son county outside of Greater Bir- mingham, The question is not, ‘What 49 the matter with Birmingham? but ‘How long au Birmingham stand this drain upon the purses of her citt: zens!’ And the money is not put back ‘Into circulation here. The result 1s pot ouly the loss to the business inter. e518 of the city of (his money, but also _ the Income to the city of license fees _ snd taxes om this traffic, amounting to lover a quarter of a mililan dollars Snnually, Just sit up and take notice of existing conditions, Our commis a stoners inform us that the city i practically bankrupt. They have tm posed an annual street tax of $5 pet capita. They propose, and will im Dove, a monthly tuition fee upon every boy and girl tiending the publi schools of the city, ‘They propose placing a tax or license fee on every oonct of 2 private cow, and are con sidering tmcreasing the amount o leer ses on businesses and professions generauly. : Tex Values Go Up. SR SOSEC® 1) SH OF this, TRE VErNes on real esate are being raised to such an exieat as to amoamt to almost cov Gsca‘ion T-ke Third avenue, between Fifteenth and Twenty-second streets and au can count thirty-ofd vacant stores. Taso Fourth avexue, between Fitteonth and Twenty-second strcets and one can count more vacant stores Take First a:taue, between Fitteentd and Tweuty-second streets, aad the vacant stores are sli greater in num ber. On Twentieth street, between Avenue P and Tatwiler Hotel, ous thain thoroughfare, there are nearly 5) varont etores. Take Second ave nut, between Fifteenth and Twenty second streois, and the number of va cant vlores will erowd-the 109 mark ‘In the Age Herald of the 17th in stant the startling information ‘ given that the censis of school chil dren in Greater Birmingham whict bas Just boca completed ta near $000 leas than the school census o two yeare ago, which indicates a tos: ot exroximately 49,000 people fron ‘the population of Greaier Birming hata Guring the last two yoars, anc ‘there are 40,000 more who wou! jeavo if they had mony enough t “ret cut of town, | ‘What aro the causes? Whither ar (we drifting? ‘Think ft over. *MATT H. MURPHY, | «93? First Nationa! Bank, Birmingbam Here's Another Letter, @ The following {s from the Baltimore Sun To the Riltor of the Evening Sun Sir:—Just to give the friends of pro hibition and the Baltimore public an dea of what prohibition does for 4 fy. 1 was in Birmingham, Ala, « short time ago and these are a few of the facts | heard: The clty i bankrupt; it tried another bond issue but was sqmuch in debt already that the courts would not allow it to go through. The city just had to have some money, 80 the officials sent col- lectors from door to Goor to get $2.50 from each male over 21 years of age. Just think of a city having to collect money that way! And now some peo- ple are taking legal steps to stop this collection, « In every city that ts “dry” ft ts the same story. And the merchants ia all lines will tell you they can see no deneat to business; it just holds its own as before the city went dry, Birmingham {s also having an epi: demic of typhold and tuberculosis, its public hospitals Milled and no money to Fun them with Doctors and nurpes are going unpaid. Dear people of Baltimore, make it your busivess to see that this never happens to our city. T am not in the liquor business, but iu the manufacturing jewelry business ‘ W, IRVING BLOOM. FINNEGAN’S PHILOSOPHY Single “Track Minds. “What is he?" asked Finnegan. “Sure at Injainnypoles he sald he was full of Annymated Concervitism, Fwhat's that ye say? Tis the turn-table on the wan thrack mind. It kapes spin nia’ round and round an’ divil a maa can tell fwhat switch It will pick up. Tt dinnaw {tself. So ye dinnau where to lay for it. “T'was so wid the arrumed freight ships. ‘They're not warships,’ he says, ‘onless I change me mind, he says, ‘which I have,” he soya, ‘an’ annywan who says so is a lar,’ he says, ‘but 1 fefuse to discuss it,’ he says. ‘Til pass the buck to Congress’ he says, ‘on'y I won't,’ he says, “for t'ls ‘Ro business of their's, he says, ‘though they must vote on the resolution,’ he says, ‘to show where they stand,’ he says, ‘Hince ye'll lay it on the table, he says, ‘an’ thin they can't vote,’ says Wudthrow to Stone. “‘I—I—thought I seen a fallacy, — Says Stone, timid like, but the Grent Maylist brung down his fisht wid a vump. : “Table the risolution,’ says he—an’ away goes Stone. “‘Pwhat does this mean? axes the Sinit. “‘Gintlemen, says Stone, weeptn’ bitterly, ‘Ye ean frist’me, But thim’s the orders,’ says Stone, ‘an’ {f anny man vir knew fwhat tt meant he's kep quiet about it.’ “So wid the fightin’ wurd, ‘We're too proud to fight,’ says this turrible man to a bunch iv fust-overs at Phila: dephy. ‘Haw-Haw-Haw, says the wurld (a laugh gets his goat, Jawn), ‘L was thinkin’ iv somethin’ I didn't say, yells Wudthrow, ‘Haw-Haw- Haw, says the warld, laughin’ to split, “Be this an’ be that ‘Too Proud to Fight’ has made the reppytashun tv Wudthrow. Tis like the Monroe Doe trine to Monroe, or Emansfipashiun to Lincoln, ‘T'was thranslated into ivry tongue. @Tis better known than the twenty-third psalm, or the famous or- ation tv the Gav-nor tv North Carling. If an Ashtantee poked another In the eye, he's give him the coon f'r ‘Are Ye Too Proud to Fight?’ an’ they'd both laugh befure they wint to the fure, All the recruitin’ signs abroad had it gn ‘the shame wud bring three recruits, where ‘Tipperary’ or rum wud bring wan, ‘Oh, won't ye plaze stop lanzh- in’? says Wadthrow, but they laughed the more, So he sints Jim Ham Lew 1s to explain, He's enlled Haw by rea- son he's so fond of pork, © “Three thousand years agone, says Jim Ham, ‘or maybe less,” says he, ‘an’ ould Dago sold ‘Non Dinny Carey win Kerry" (or the like o° that. Jawn. It means not to have a chip on yer shoulder), ‘Non Dinny Carey win Kerry,’ says Jim How, ‘an’ Julius Say. zer,’ says he, ‘an’ Tolmy Philadelphy,’ says he, ‘an’ the Earl tv Cheaters’ says Jim, ‘an’ William Haltch Seward,’ says Ham, ‘an’ a lot more I forget,’ says Ham, ‘who felt the same way,’ says Jim, although he says, ‘they nivir said 80,’ says Jim Hom to the ‘Sinit. “'Now,' says he, how, I axe ye, evd the Prisidint know that the cultyvated Christian aufiefice,’ he says, ‘iv immy- grants,’ says he, ‘wud fll to grasp the hooauce, sys Jima Ham An‘ Jawa, they shut the dures the way the peo- ple wudden't see the Siult lose its dignity.’ “Fwhat’s a nocance?” asked Mal- umphy. “Tis a sort itv Inteilectnal gold brick.” replied Finnegun, slightly puz- rled, “be which ye say fwhat ye doant mane, an’ wane wye doant sny, The yhooauce comes out Iv {ft somehow, ‘T's like I dinnau whet. Just exsetly Hike i,” he added after a short pause, “L cudden't tell thim epart.” “Well,” said Malumphy, “the single thrack mind gets nowhere, Mm thinks to” “Th' gauge ts none too broad,” re plied his friend, “un’ the theafie’s heavy,” he added, e Non Dinicare est Vincere, ‘BEATEN GOOD AND PLENTY* Champ Clark Soes No Rainbows in Maine Rewit. “We got whipped, and 1 guess that 5 all I wil say about the Maine election,” said Speaker Chawp Clark. “We got beaten good and plenty.” i WINE, WINE, EVERYWHERE , eae 3 ee . SP SP a rar h . ae Sa outta. eer ee Se c Ra ae ar Say Si a eae Se eee ht Se oe PAS eae PG fee es RS a Gea he Se t re ae ies See) WR SS toate ee abc eae 0 5 ai a 5 et tn soe SN a pbs fe ef the Bet AN eae oe est a Bee ic ee: Apr EER Se ae eS Py i Pe Gg ERI RS ES ie ae ete at Oi + sabe wge Poe eds < <6 en een ere —Phito by F fn, New York Cty But a’! of this wine is to drink. it is for the French warriors at the extreme tattle Ment, and is but a portion of the immence supply th is con y being furnlehed the soldiers, This wine, direct from th@ramous AFTER THE VICTORY. Sf > SiS ER See ee CS knee POTS eeeeee rho Cees ae ae ES ge sled \ SFE Wiese: WA Paes he eh ee NS Per. cae a aks Se eS HS Nf Bete SEaer eee fe Pah xh See ag ot; Merial Eee Re ot sO CO Cw < STR: Sa Rema Binet ty Fs ee So) OSES (ROR Se ae | kl Se ges Rea ig ok By ae = Saco, EBS GRE DoS 2S. soe 3 Ul Meier ee a oe gee Coney oes oe a Si OR Baal arpa pe SEE Following @ cuccsesful attack on the enemy, these officers Ing the Somme district are drinking their wine as a toast to Dame Fortune. CITIZEN DRINKS “JICK” IN TOPEKA (KAN.) AND DIES Pd Bennet Never Tasted Real Ligue? In This Prchibition State, Yet His Was a Druskard’s Death—‘Jick” is the Ricknamo of Jamaica Ginger ‘The Kanes City (Mo.) Post, in the following story from Topeka, iius (rates one of the eects of prohfbition Thoy't boty Ed Benngt in the pot. ters’ Gold today. The funeral will be ia the police atation, Ed Bennet died a cruasstd’s death, Ext he never tasted ordinary Nquor. He wasa friend of “Sick. *Jiok’ ta the police vernacular fer ccasien ginger, There are many fiends of “Jick” in Karsas. When the cortege starts to the field, six men will shuffle along beside the pino-box collin. They, the pallbearozs, aino ere iflends of “Jick.” Thoy wil not wear white gloves and corry themselves With price. They are broken and bent, “It whl be an example for others— to sce those broiea meu, all victims of ‘Sick,’ burying another victim,” ANOTHER “DRY” TOWN “WET” g ate Journal: onists are trying to ons out, thinking thereby oft Y ha’ an is, Does it mean temper anawer to that questfon can be 1 fm Highland county and in the city of Greenteld, O., wich had probi- b m forced on it, Ipepectors of the ato liquor license commission have nade an investigation there and they were astounded at the scale on which bootlegg.ng is carried on in that little y of 5,900 souls. When these {a- spectors departed from the city, they carried with them more than 100 afll- davits charging illegal sales of liquor against 38 residents, rohibition in Greengeld has not brought temperance; but on the other band the vicious practice of booties ny soret drinking with excesses { go beyund those of public drink. and a great mass of law violators Every one of these conditions is worse than the open and regulated saloon, Our prohibition friends cannot deny my assertions, for the daily news: papers make the announcement that tho members of the state liquor Hconse commission are making ready to certify the 83 people and the 33 pieces of property where they are in business to the state auditor for the imposition of the £1,000 Dow liquor tax, It will be @ sorry day should Obio go dry. | A. J, WILSE, Columbus, September 25, tald Harvey Parsons, chfef of police. ‘The + > court has held that Jamaica ¢ ig an “old fashioned rem a may be sold in Kansas, = pe cay it contains 90 per ent aleoh: Drug stores keep gab tons ex hand ia 15-cent bottles, A ldcen: le will insure a drum. Hick” sud borses were all Ed Ben- m tov Once he was a raflroad t 3. He qult the railroad for the a8. He caret for aud drove 3 horses in a team. Then he begas fince, he hesn’t worked. He sleps in ant ate with police prip Sunday im a ¢runken stupor he clirzbed ca a table to sleep. He tosced rest er tye influence { the “Jick” and rolled to the floer. His head struck on the concrete and es | “MODEL Day COUNTRY” | ; » tLe Houston (Texas) Free | man | For many years prohibition /epeakers throughout the country /have pointed to White county, Ib ling ‘model prohibition coum it y." White couaty was held up as | a8 example for oiher counties te | Now comes the Iinols state board of bealth with a report om | conditions in White county that has shocked all of the drys in the Middle West. Complaints reached the board of health that tuberculosis bed reached the proportion of am jepidemic in White covnty and ap | om WSs sent to that section to investigate, e The report cf the representative of the bosrd of health shows that Bot only ta selosis alarmingly Prevsieat in White county, but there are other contagious and im fectious diseases; that the moral tone of the county {s at a low ebb; that the inhabitants are dedcient ip education; that many families re lated by blood have intermarried; ‘that the crop of imbeciles and crip ples is large; thet blind tigers are Rumerous; that the health of many of the women has been wracked by indiscriminate use of patent medi eines and other nostruma; and that radical steps are necessary by the health authorities (o reform condl tons. White county has lost the “white ribbon” and there is grief tp the AntiSaloon League camp.