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The Muskogee Cimeter. Still we believe it The Next President and Vice President of the U. S. A. UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD JOHN H. HARRIS "ARKANSAS RIVER ROUTE" NEW TIME CARD EFFECTIVE SUNDAY, MARCH 5 h. 19.6 2-TRAINS DAILY-2 between 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 Pswhucka and Tulsa 10; 40 a. m. No.2 Wichita, Ark City and Tulsa 6:15 p. m WESTBOUND CHARLES E. HUGHES MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY NOV. 11 1916. A. M. E. Church New School Site with Buildings Near Muskogee and Tullahassee A Girls Building Notice By Publication In the District Court of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma: No. 5267 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 u-ess be 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 Whereof, 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 Plaintiff. WOULD KEEP THE OUT OF THE Having Barred Liquor Notices From Legislators Will Consider Bill Seek to Further Assail th WOULD KEEP TOBACCO ADS OUT OF THE NEWSPAPERS Having Barred Liquor Notices From Journals In "Dry" Mississippi, Legislators Will Consider Bill Whereby Prohibition Cranks Seek to Further Assail the Freedom of the Press The claim has been often made that prohibition eventually will menace the freedom of the press. Those who now aim to prevent the making or consuming of liquor, dancing, card playing, smoking, Sunday baseball and theaters, eventually, it is said, will attempt to dictate the policy of newspapers. This story was printed in the Jackson (Miss.) News: The following is from the current issue of the East Mississippi Times, published at Starkville: The biggest and most profitable advertisers to the country newspaper at present are the manufacturers of tobacco, cigars and cigarettes. They are sending out some good cash contracts and the newspapers of the state will reap a rich harvest unless a lot of idiotic imbeciles meet in Jackson next year and pass a law prohibiting Mississippi newspapers from advertising tobacco. And that's just what is likely to happen at the next session of the Legislature. If a lot of cranks and professional reformers, led by an alien fanatic, can pass a law prohibiting newspapers from publishing liquor advertisements, they can, with the same sort of logic, coerce and intimate the lawmakers 1 ```markdown ``` "DRYS" FEAR THE PEOPLE AFRAID TO LET THEM VOTE ON THE QUESTION OF NATIONAL PROHIBITION FAVOR POLITICIANS Want State Legislators, Instead of the General Public, to Ballot—Joseph Debar, President of National Wholesale Liquor Dealers' Association, Criticizes Desert Folk's Attitude "It is perfectly plain that the 'drya' are still afraid of submitting the question of national prohibition to a veto of all the people." TOBACCO ADS NEWSPAPERS from Journals In "Dry" Mississippi, I Whereby Prohibition Cranks the Freedom of the Press Into passing a law prohibiting the publication of tobacco advertising. Worse still, if the legislature can tell the newspapers what they shall, or shall not publish in their advertising columns, it is but another step to telling them what they shall, or shall not, publish in their news columns. And it is then but another step to the establishment by statute of a rigid censorship of editorial columns. What then, brethren of the pen and pencil, will become of our constitutional guarantee of the liberty of the press? No editor or publisher who has a true reverence for his calling, who attaches any value whatsoever to the constitutional clause that declares the liberty of the press shall never be abridged, can cheish any respect whatever for the Weakley anti-advertising statute. A free and untrammelled press has made the United States the greatest government in the world, and if true Democracy ever perishes from the face of the earth it will be because we have allowed demagogues, charlatans and professional reformers to muzzle the press. Give the fakirs of this type an inch and they will take a mile. They have already taken the inch. Will the press of Mississippi permit them to go the full distance? l Site with Buildings d Tullahassee THE MUSEUM Boys Building R. O. & G. CHANGE TIME Sunday, October 8th. no. 5 leaves for Henryetta at 8:00 a.m. instead of 9:30 a.m. Henryetta at 9:55 a.m. no. 1 new train for Dawar, Henryetta and Denison, leaves arriving at Dawar, the first stop, at 2:10 p.m.; Henry- ta; Denison, 8:00 p.m. no. 2 will arrive from Denison at 2:05 p.m., and depart for 5 p.m. instead of 2.45 p.m. arriving Joplin, 7:00 p.m., aaker. no. 6 from Henryetta and Dustin will arrive at 6:00 p.m. 50 p.m. at toains 1 and 2 operate to and from Denison, instead of 6, and do not stop between Muskogee and Dewer. Passen- mediate points will use train No. 5, leaving Muskogee at and No. 6 arrive 6:00 p.m. Na City trail leave at 8 a.m. aed 9:30 p.m. CALL 519 or P. B. X. 4201 for Information. M. O. & G. CHANGE TIME Sunday. October 8th. Train No. 5 leaves for Henryetta at 8:00 a.m. instead of 9:30 a.m. arriving at Henryetta at 9:55 a.m. Train No. 1 new train for Dewar, Henryetta and Denison, leaves at 12:45 p.m., arriving at Dewar, the first stop, at 2:10 p.m.; Henryetta, 2:20 p.m.; Denison, 8:00 p.m. Train No. 2 will arrive from Denison at 2:05 p.m., and depart for Joplin at 2:15 p.m. instead of 2.45 p.m. arriving Joplin, 7:00 p.m., 45 minutes earlier. Train No. 6 from Henryetta and Dustin will arrive at 6:00 p.m. instead of s:50 p.m. Note that toains 1 and 2 operate to and from Denison, instead of trains 5 and 6, and do not stop between Muskogee and Dewer. Passengers for intermediate points will use trin No. 5, leaving Muskogee at 8:00 a.m and No. 6 arrive 6:00 p.m. Oklahoma City trail leave at 8 a.m. aed 9:30 p.m. CALL 519 or P. B. X. 4201 for Information. Open Evening Until 6 Sunday 10 to 4 MOVED Dr. J. C. PUTNAM, Chicago Dentist Moved to Fite Rowsey uilding Cor. 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AUTO SALOONS IN COLORADO CAFES ON WHFELS DO BIG BUSINESS THROUGHOUT "DRY" STATE Owners Do Not Pay Licenses, According to Deputy District Attorney—Sell "Rotten Whiskey" at Fancy Prices—Authorities Are Powerless To Prevent Law Violations The Denver Post tells, in the following fashion, of the difficulty Colorado is having in enforcing her prohibition law: From one end of Colorado to the other there are more than a thousand saloons, each doing a lively business, not only every week, but on Sunday also. They pay no license, either government, state or city, and every cent they charge over the cost of the rotten whisky they sell is clear profit, according to Robert H. Kane, deputy district attorney, who is designated by District Attorney Rush to try liquor cases in the county court. 1,000 Salloons on Wheels. According to Kane, these saloons are automobiles, but saloons, nevertheless. "They are operating in all parts of the state," said Kane. "In most counties the authorities are doing all they can to suppress the business, but are not able to do so. These automobiles bring booze from Wyoming, Nebraska, New Mexico and Utah, whichever state happens to be the nearest. Some of them operate as common carriers and make a pretense of obeying the prohibition law, but none of them that I have heard of do obey the law. "It is only a pretense. They take orders from their customers, then cross the border, buy the liquor and return with it and deliver it to their patrons, charging a large profit on each package. The charge is ostensibly a charge for hauling. "The customer will order, say two quarts of whisky. The saloon on wheels will take that order and many others and go to Cheyenne, for instance, buy the two quarts of whisky for $3, bring it to Denver, where the customer lives, and charge him $4 for it, making a profit of $1 on the deal. If officers attempt to arrest the owner of the saloon on wheels, he will say that he charged the $1 for hauling the liquor to Denver. Violate the Law. "The law which requires that an affidavit shall be sworn to by each purchaser of liquor which is imported into this state that the stuff is for his own personal use is constantly violated by these automobile saloons. Also the tax of 25 cents on each package of whisky imported into the state is seldom paid. "The profits from this business are enormous. One wholesale bootlegger whom I tried and convicted in the county court paid a fine of $250 and costs. In addition he paid his lawyer $150, making a total of $300. He boasted afterward that he had made $10,000 by supplying small bootleggers with whisky. He has quit the business, as far as I know. A second conviction would mean a penitentiary sentence for him, but he made more money bootlegging in a few months than he could in a year with a legitimate saloon in a wet state." THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION JUST SO, JUST SO. [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] The maddest man we ever met was a Reformer who once found himself the target of Reform. [Macon Telegraph.] If Mr. Bryan can't break into the first page any other way he might think over the proposition of hunting for a leak in the gas pipe with a match. DRY AS THE ATLANTIC. [Minneapolis Labor Review] The Mayor of Lewistown, Maine, ordered the saloons closed during a recent street car strike. We were under the impression they were all closed sixty years ago when the state went "dry." HE CAN PROVE AN ALIEI. [St. Louis Globe Democrat.] Whether Woodrow is re-elected or defeated they can't blame much on Bru. Bryan. THE SCHOOL OF TEXTILES This is a part of the German general staff, the men who highly organized brains are largely responsible for the remarkable efficiency of their soldiers. If liquor used moderately, injures the brain, as the Prohibitionists say, why has it not put a kink in the German officers' grim matter? PROHIBITION PUTS A CRIMP IN FIVE SOUTHERN STATES ALABAMA, ARKANSAS, MISSISSIPPI, GEORGIA AND TENNESSEE FORCED TO SHOULDER $25,000,000 IN DEBTS BECAUSE OF "DRY" LAW THREE CONDUCT BUSINESS ON CREDIT James G. Rice, After a Personal Investigation, Writes Article for Memphis Herald, Depicting the Bad Effects of Anti-Liquor Statutes When Not Supported By Public Sentiment James G. Rice, of Chattanooga, after a visit and personal investigation of five Southern States, declares in the Memphis Herald that prohibition has nearly bankrupted them. In a letter to A. L. Rowe, editor of the Herald, Rice says he has the official records to back him up. The article says: The policy prevailing in a number of Southern States of enacting laws that destroy revenue-bearing property and failure or refusal on the part of the legislatures to provide ways and means for covering the loss back into the public treasuries, through other forms of taxation, is causing public concern and a great deal of worry on the part of public officials. appropriations because they could not be met by the treasury. He even vetoed appropriations for biennial reports of state officials and some appropriations to charitable institutions of the state. The state is now running its affairs on what some of the officials call "a ruinous credit system." When a department issues a voucher no definite information can be given as to when that particular voucher can be paid. Georgia was forced to sell bonds to the amount of $3,500,000 a year ago to pay deficits in her revenues. The issue was taken by a wealthy citizen of Atlanta after the governor had tried to sell the bonds in New York. The re Resort to bond issues and other forms of borrowing has become more frequent of recent years to pay deficits in public revenues, and many counties in some of the states have suffered their warrants to depreciate in value until the discount on them is as high as 20 per cent. This depreciation causes much loss to the taxpayers, for the reason that when contractors make bids on public work they include the discount on the warrants in their bills. Conducting Business On Credit. Three Southern States are now conducting their business on a credit basis in the absence of sufficient revenue in their treasuries to meet the current expenses of government. All five are under prohibition laws that deprived the public treasuries of revenues approximating $500,000, a year each, without making any improvement, so far as records show, in public means. For example Alabama has had trouble with its finances ever since the state began experimenting with prohibition. The deficit in the revenues of the state at present is about $3,000,000, and it is being increased. The state has a bounced debt already approximating $11,000,000, and if the looting deficit is added, the total debt of the state is about $14,000,000. Early in the present year, Governor Henderson went to New York and made arrangements with a large financial institution to pay the current warrants of the state that could not be paid out of the treasury. Interest is paid on these warrants from the date of issue until they are taken up by the state from proceeds of future bond issues. The next legislature of Alabama will be asked to authorise a bond issue in sufficient amount to cover the deficit in state revenues, and the amount will be about $3,000,000. Really, Governor Henderson recommended a bond issue in that amount to the last legislature, but $1,500,000 was as far as the legislature would go in that direction. A provision was incorporated in the enabling act, submitting the bond issue to a vote of the people. In the referendum the issue was defeated, and the administration was left with a big debt on its hands with nothing to meet it. Arkansas in Chautie Condition. The fiscal affairs of the state of Arkansas are in such chautie condition that it is difficult to say with certainty how much that state owes. It is difficult to determine how much of the indebtedness is due to prohibition laws. However, it is a recorded fact that when the prohibition law of that state deprived the treasury of near a half million dollars a year that a collapse of public credit resulted Governor Hayes was forced to veto many needed appropriations because they could not be met by the treasury. He even vetoed appropriations for biennial reports of state officials and some appropriations to charitable institutions of the state. The state is now running its affairs on what some of the officials call "a ruinous credit system." When a department issues a voucher no definite information can be given as to when that particular voucher can be paid. Georgia was forced to sell bonds to the amount of $3,500,000 a year ago to pay deficits in her revenues. The issue was taken by a wealthy citizen of Atlanta after the governor had tried to sell the bonds in New York. The recent legislature of Georgia made appropriations of $500,000 in excess of the estimated revenue for the year. Georgia has run behind, therefore, in recent years about $4,000,000. Mississippi in a Displorable Condition. The state of Mississippi has a deficit in revenues of about $1,350,000 to be covered some way at the end of the present biennial period. The auditor complains that a credit system upon which the state is forced to conduct its business, in costing the people a great deal of money. He also says that "many of the counties suffered their warrants to depreciate in value" until they are at a discount of from 15 to 20 per cent. Public school teachers in many counties are forced to stand a loss of $20,00 out of a warrant for $105, according to the state auditor. There has been a depreciation of taxable property in Mississippi in the past two years of $21,000,000. This depreciation, says the state auditor, takes about $125,000 a year out of the trees ury. The last legislature in Mississippi made appropriations of about $400,000 in excess of revenue. State officials are asking that bonds be issued in sufficient amount to pay all accumulated obligations of the state, but the legislature does not respond to the appeal. Improvements in public schools is very much handled by these conditions, and a number of the charitable institutions of the state are suffering for money. Tennessee's Bonded Debt Increased. Tennessee's Bonded Debt increased. The last legislature of the state of Tennessee found a deficit in revenues of $103,000. This has been converted into bonds and is now a part of the bonded debt of state. It was caused in a large measure, if not entirely, by the operations of a prohibition law. It is a part of the fiscal history of Tennessee that before prohibition was adopted the state was reducing its bonded debt by $250,000, or more, a year. Practically nothing has been paid on the debt under prohibition administrations. The larger cities of the state, and many of the counties, have suffered losses almost beyond computation by this policy. How much the same policy of destruction has increased the bonded and floating debts of the cities of the South can not be definitely given until the government takes another census; but it is safe to assume that the increase in the cities has been as much as in the states. Estimating upon this basis, the five Southern States under discussion, together with their cities and counties, have been forced to shoulder debts to the amount of $25,000,000 in the past six years. These are debts that could not have accumulated under sensible, constructive laws and administrations. PROHIBITION BIG FAILURE BANKER AND MERCHANT CALL "DRY" LAWS A FARCE AND FALLACY Business Men, Farmers and Taxpayers Suffer From Evil Effects of Sumptuary Legislation While Much Liquor Is Consumed at Enormous Prices The detrimental effect of prohibition upon the business man, the taxpayer and the farmer is shown in newspaper interviews with two business men of the "dry" states of Washington and Idaho. The Battle (Mont.) Miner, which printed the interviews, says: Fred M. Hinkley, a banker of Clarkston, Wash., who has been in Butte on business, says that prohibition in Washington is not only a farce, but that it has hurt business to a remarkable degree. Property values have depreciated, while there has been a burden of taxes taken from the citizens, and the working of the law recently voted by the people of the state is turning out in just the same fashion as elsewhere in so-called "dry" territory, he said. "Can you get a drink in Washington?" Mr. Hinkley was asked. "Get a drink?" Uh, you can get a barrel of the rottenest stuff in the world and a little bit of good liquor if you want to pay triple the price that ordinarily prevails, and the price is being paid. Bootlogging Galore. "The working of the prohibition law in Washington is the same as in other states, not only in the west, but in the east as well. There is bootlegging galore and the situation has become vile," continued Mr. Hinkley. "For instance, the man who would never think of taking home with him a quart of liquor, but who would be satisfied with a drink or two at an open bar, now must get a lot of 'rot gut' in quarts and plums. The man with money can, of course, secure all he wants and at a fair price, but the working man, the laborer with a family, who wants a little stimulus after a hard day's work, has to dig down deep to secure a personal privilege. "Not only that, in respect to drinking, but the community is suffering directly from the effects of the law. A burden of taxation will have to be placed to meet the running expenses of every city, county and the state. Idaho Man Talks. P. W. Green, a well-known business man of Idaho, who makes his head quarters in Lewiston, Ida., was also in the city yesterday and had about the same story to tell. He says that it is getting almost impossible to secure farm and orchard labor in his locality, for the simple reason that men won't work in "dry" territory, yet Idaho is far from being dry. "The farmer is suffering, the orchardist is suffering and the business centers are suffering," says Mr. Green. "People who vote for prohibition don't stop to consider all the angles. The farmer and his help, who used to visit at periods some business centers find it unnecessary. They go there only to get what they actually need to return home with most of the money they brought with them. How About Business Man? "The larger cities of Idaho are absolutely ad. Heretofore, when a man would make a trip to the city from his farm, with his money to spend, he would also take along with it a little relaxation. He would take a drink or two, go to a show, visit his favorite merchants and spend his money freely but judiciously, and return home with a little bit of the small amount of happiness doled out in this world. Now it's all changed. The man who has to go to town does his 50 per cent less business, returns to his farm or country home as quickly as he can and leaves the business man or merchant standing sadly in the doorway. "Prohibition is the greatest fallacy the world has over seen among many. It never has worked and never will." PROHIBITING THE PROHIBITS. Under a Baton Rouge date line, the Crowley (La.) Signal carries this story: Representative Zaunbrecher of Acadia parish, announced last night that he will introduce a bill requiring all prohibitionists in the states to register with the clerks of the district courts and with the registrar of voters in the parish of Orleans. The bill will prohibit a prohibitionist from buying, receiving or drinking intoxicating liquors, and liquor dealers or saloonkeepers will be prohibited from selling intoxicating drinks to a prohibitionist. Violation of the act will be made a misdemeanor, punishable by fine or imprisonment in the parish jail. CANADIANS PROHIBIT PLUM PUDDING AND MINCE PIES One May Eat the Pastry Up There If It Doesn't Contain Brandy Thus Passes into Sweet Oblivion the Old-Fashioned English Christmas Dinner FRENCH SAILORS AT DINNER This war has proven conclusively that the talk we have been hearing for years, to the effect that the French as a nation have degenerated, is all bunk. The marvulous ability of the French warriors, who are fit rivals for the Teouon wonders, has not been dimmed by their generous indulgence in wine. That the enforcement of prohibition laws is a direct infringement upon one's personal liberty has oft been contended. So, Canada's "dry" law seems destined to curtail the jovial spirit with which the Englishman observes the Yule-Tide. This story is from the Detroit Free Press: As a result of a ruling of the Ontario License Board, plum puddings, mince pies and other Christmas delicacies of Windsor citizens will be minus brandy sauce this year. Windsor bakers and confectioners have been notified by License Inspector N. M. Mousseau, of the North Essex licensing district, that the board considers the use of brandy co GEORGIANS BREAK NEWEST DRY LAW Show Contempt for Statute Created By Legislature and Not the People Several months ago, Georgia second-probation law went into effect. The first law, after a trial of eight years, proved a failure, as citizens insisted on asserting their right to drink. Georgia, it must be remembered, was vowed "dry" by the Legislature and not the people. Concerning the newest law, the Savannah News says: Between fifty and sixty alleged violators of the prohibition laws, some of whom are defendants in several cases, will be tried during a jury criminal term of the City Court to be convened by Judge Reurke. Judge Rourke announced in court that trials will go on continuously, hearing of another being begun as soon as one case is submitted to a jury. It is expected the court will continue in session until November. The docket is declared to be of record also. K. GAS—RACE DECIDE STATE J. C. Mohler, secretary of the state board of agriculture, recently gave out a statement showing that Kansas has become a "race suicide" state, or at any rate a state of small families. His report on the census returns of 1915 showed only 4.1 persons in the average Kansas family. Uncle Sam has decided that there should be five persons to the family. But the complete figures by counties, on Kansas population, makes the showing even worse. Copies of the decennial census report are just off the press. These show that in only two counties in the state do the families average more than five persons. In Ellis county there are 5.01 persons to the family; in Trago county the average is 6.01. Only three counties in the state report families averaging more than 4.5 persons to the family—Rush, Russell and Scott counties. Morton county is the home of the smallest sized families, averaging only 3.4 persons to each. In thirty of the 108 counties in the state the average family consists of fewer than four persons. Shawnee families are smaller than those in Sedgwick and Wyandotte counties, the two larger counties of the state. In Wyandotte and Sedgwick counties the average family is 3.94 persons; in Shawnee county it is only 3.79. other liquors in puddings and pies a violation of the new temperance act, and that prosecutions will follow if any kind of liquor is used in bakeries. The Ontario license act allows liquor to be kept for manufacturing purposes, but the clause setting out the different articles into which it may be placed does not include pastry. There will be no relief for the bakers, the board states, by keeping liquor in their own homes and taking it to their bakeries, for carrying it from one place to another in an offense. "The safest way for lovers of brandy sauce with puddings and pies will be to make them at home this Christmas," said the license board official. A WIFE'S PLEA The entire state of Tennessee is "dry" that is, unadulterated liquor can not be sold openly. But bad whisky and other injurious substitutes may be obtained in "blind tigers." The following is a letter from a tennessee wife, to the Memphis tigers. Editor The Press: Why don't the administration close the dives in the city? Why don't they stop the sales of whisky? You can get it in restaurants all you want. Gambling is going on in every corner, and the police know it. The chief knows it. My home is wrecked, and my life is ruined. My husband has drunk until he has lost his mind and left his home and wife without one bite to eat, or one cent to buy anything with—running after those gambling halls and rotten whisky. Will the good people of this town stand for it? MY HUSBAND WAS ONE OF THE BEST MEN IN THE WORLD UNTIL THIS BLIND TIGER BUSINESS STARTED. FOR GOD'S SAKE, CLOSE THESE GAMBLING HELLS AND BLIND TIGERS. From a wife who has suffered and is today without a dollar. MORE ABOUT VERMONT. [Oleon (N. Y.) Times.] Vermont recently rejected state prohibition by 13,000 votes. In rural district, in township and in village, the Vermont marched to the polls and voted against state-wide prohibition whether his town was already "dry" or not. There was a sort of tack understanding that one community had no right to tell another community what was good for that other community. The president of the Vermont Local Option League was James M. Tyler, former Justice of the Supreme Court. Justice Tyler, now passed eighty years of age, is a total abstainer. On the other hand, he does not believe that it is a crime for another to have wine on the table, but he is not an advocate of even moderate drinking. He believes that each man must decide for himself whether he shall drink and to what extent. And what applies to the individual must also apply to the community. CAN NOW CRAWL INTO HIS HOLE. [Anaconda Standard.] Billy Sulzer is one man whose ability to fool any more of the people any more of the time seems to be exhausted. "DRY" CHIEFS ARE ACCUSED INVALID WOMAN CHARGES SHE WAS SWINDLED OUT OF $300 SOLD MINE STOCK Claims Names of Colorado Ministers Were Used to Induce Her to Buy Shares In Investment Company Launched By Anti-Saloon League Men 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 faliced 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 cut for shipment and that this ore was worth from $35 to several thousand dollars a ton. RELATES EVIL OF MAINE'S DRY LAW The Chicago Tribune contains an article of Mr. William Tinion, which we quote in full as being brief and to the point: "J. M. Burley writes The Tribune that Lewiston, Me., has very little drunkenness. I wish Mr. Burley could make a personal investigation of conditions in Lewiston and as a result thereof he would find very little about conditions in Lewiston to indorse. "I moved my family from Lewiston four years ago. For twenty years I resided in central Maine, and if there is a whisky question anywhere on earth it will be found in that state. "Governor Cobb of Maine, who during his term of office endeavored to give the people of Maine what they voted for (prohibition), significantly said after his experience, with prohibition: 'If I, for the moral, social, and economic welfare of the young people of my state, had to choose between prohibition—such prohibition as I found it possible to enforce—and free rum, I would stand firmly for handling THE MILITARY CAFE Here is the interior of a gun shelter at the extreme front. If liquor injures the human system, as prohibitionists declare, why don't the heads of the English, German, French and other armies in the great war prevent their men from using it? . ORT SMITH (ARK.) BUSINESS IS PARALYZED BY DRY LAW PROHIBITION PUTS OUT STREET LIGHTS, CUTS RENTS IN HALF AND DRIVES HUNDREDS OF RESIDENTS AWAY TRAVELING MEN SHUN THE TOWN Mail Order Houses Get Trade That Ought To Be Kept at Home-City Commission Is Dusted-Small Boys Can Buy All the Liquor They Want Another instance of what happens when a state is vowed "dry" by the Legislature and not by the people may be observed in the case of Arkansas, which became a prohibition state in name only, last January 1. The following from the Union Sentinel, Ft. Smith (Ark.), indicates the public sentiment in Arkansas: except the jobbing, manufacturing and banking, will have to pay occupation taxes in Fort Smith; taxes will be raised by raising valuations if not rates and the city will be passing the hat for current expenses while still riding the water plant to bankruptcy. Now we are astonished to see the two great dailies who have a monop- It (prohibition) has put Forth Smith's lights out! It has closed forty business houses on the Avenue, to be reopened in a few instances by soft drink stands, second hand stores, pool halls, repair shops and cheap restaurants—many of them paying no rents at all. It has driven hundreds of people out of the city and cut rents half into on Carrison avenue. The biggest hotel in the city is in the Federal Court receivers' hands. The City Commission is "busted" and on the sure enough water wagon —that's the city is running sixty thousand dollars worth on the funds that belong to the Water Department and that can not be legally applied for any other purpose than up keep and payment of Water Department bonds and interest. The public service is reduced to the minimum and the people from the country are not seen on Garrison avenue, nor do they haul their cotton to Fort Smith and trade with our merchants like they used to do. "There's a reason." Not so long ago there was a great whoop and hoorah campaign carried on in Fort Smith against mail order houses. "Trade at home" was the slogan. But today Fort Smith is the greatest mail order house patron according to its size on the American continent. "There is a reason." Blind tigers and boot-leggers give our local courts more to do, cost the people more, and pay less than ever before. The morals of the youth are not safeguarded. Any boy with the price can buy liquor in Fort Smith, and the worst feature of it is that he has learned that the arrest place to find it is in the city's holy segregated district. Thus prohibition and morals go hand in hand here! Many Ara Destitute. Hundreds of children of school age are not in school. Associated Charities are making constant appeals for help to feed the destitute. What is the matter with Fort Smith? Ask the Age Herald of Birmingham what is the matter with Birmingham, Ala., and you may find what has cut the population of that city forty thousand and the school census eight thousand. The plain unvarnished truth is that prohibition has paralyzed the local business of Fort Smith in all lines outside of the jobbing, manufacturing and banking interests. The people who use to spend their money in Fort Smith did so because they could buy anything they wished here, including wine, beer and whiskey. Prohibition has diverted all this trade to cities not run by milk sops and sissy-boys. To cities whose population is not regarded such moral degenerates that they can't take a drink without getting drunk and committing a crime. The traveling public has cut Fort Smith from its itinerary. The Commercial Club alone has kept the doors of the Goldman Hotel open for the past 18 months. One of the most popular medium rate hotels in the city (The Before) has gone out of business—closed up. "There is a reason." Prohibition is the Reason. If things continue as now for a few except the jobbing, manufacturing and banking, will have to pay occupation taxes in Fort Smith; taxes will be raised by raising valuations if not rates and the city will be passing the hat for current expenses while still riding the water plant to bankruptcy. Now we are astonished to see the two great dailies who have a monopoly of local advertising catering to their clientele by printing booster compositions about the flourishing (?) business conditions in this city, when they know it is nothing but bank of the filmsiest klad, at best—only whistling to keep their courage up. Quit it, gentlemen, because the people in the city and country are talking about you and questioning both your sanity and your sincerity. PROHIBITION PUZZLERS [From the Omaha (Neb.) Bee] To the Editor of The Bee: On the bulletin board of a nearby church is a poster reading about as follows: "The liquor consumption of Kansas is only one-sixth the average of wet states. Prohibition prohibits." Splendid! Say that again, please! Spendall: Say that again, please. But in 1910 there were seventy-six convictions of murder in Kansas. In 1911 there were more divorces granted on account of drunkenness than in twenty-five other states, only one state beat her in this line, it was the dry state of Maine. If there was a moral gain we hoped to see it in divorces caused by drunkenness. Now, if the liquor consumption is one-sixth of the other states, it must not be responsible for her criminal record. Perhaps low wages have something to do with it. A Kansas subcommittee of the State Industrial Welfare Commission reports that of 564 women laundry workers checked up, 179 are receiving less than $5 a week, eighty-one less than $5 and some are receiving $3.50. Out of the entire number but fifteen are paid more than $10 a week. Only 1.7 per cent of the whole labor populace resides in Kansas, and the average savings deposit is only half as high as the average of other state inhabitants. Well, there might a reason. But on the other hand, supposing this one-sixth alcohol consumption is like all other prohibition doctored statistics and that the alcohol consumption is higher there than here, for in twenty years alcoholic deaths increased 53 per cent in dry states, while they decreased 34 per cent in regulated states. Why do we need prohibition if it don't prohibit? Or even gets us from bad to worse. WILLIAM WRAGE. HANLY VS. THE PEOPLE Here is about the richest thing that has happened yet in American politics. J. Frank Hanly, Prohibition candidate for president, in accepting the nomination in the usual formal speech, bluntly informed the people that the delegates of the recent St. Paul convention didn't know what they were about when they incorporated planks favoring the initiative referendum and recall in the party platform, and that he would repudiate them, as being "subversive of representative government." The decent thing for Hanly to have done would have been to decline THE VANDAL this question (Prohibition) as an attack Nascar W. Underwood of Alabama. You are, Mr. Underwood. And the very might be dangerous to the community, re on the theory that this might spread g exhibition) as an attack upon the fundamen of Alabama. d. And the very same people who are to the community, may eventually try to this might spread germs among the com PROHIBITIVE BILL ANTI-SALARY LEAGUE LIBERTY "I regard this question (Prohibition) as an attack upon the fundamental principles of our Government."— Congressman Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama. "I regard this question (Prohibition) as an attack upon the fundamental principles of our Government."—Congressman Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama. Right you are, Mr. Underwood. And the very same people who are now fighting the use of liquor, on the ground that it might be dangerous to the community, may eventually try to prohibit a man from kissing his wife or his sisters, on the theory that this might spread germs among the community. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION NO WONDER. [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] A Prohibition orator Put our town on the blink; His arguments were so blamed dry, He drove us all to drink. THE PRINTER IN "DRY" IOWA. [Iowa City (Ia.) Citizen.] Baron Yarensk Kharkov Auflyagff-doff shrdlu nwfpw hrdlu kgkwd d o-doff, of Davenport, was in town last night. INQUIRING TO KNOW. [Boston Globe.] Nebraska really a doubtful state? Because of, or in spite of, Mr. Bryan? BUT SEATTLE IS DRY. [Seattle Post-Intelligencer] Local purchasers of intoxicating liquor are expressing the settled opinion that food is not the only commodity that has increased in price in recent months. A BIG FACTOR IN THE RESULT. [Philadelphia Evening Ledger.] They are not saying so, but the optimism of the Democrats seems to be based very largely on the unimportance of Mr. Bryan in the campaign. RYING TO FO COUNTRY TIS OF LIBI TO FOOL THE TIS OF THEE, SW LIBERTY TRYING TO FOOL THE PEOPLE MY COUNTRY TIS OF THEE, SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY PAID AGITATOR BOOT-LEGGER PROHIBITIONIST ANTI-SLUM LEAGUE "You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."—Abraham Lincoln. NO WONDER.. ANTI-SALARY LEAGUE upon the fundamental principles of ame people who are now fighting the day eventually try to prohibit a man fro arms among the community. SOUND LOGIC. The great moral issues which have confronted the world have not been worked out at the point of the sword or with the force of the governments behind them. The progress that the world has made in morality comes from the heart, following the teachings of God, and not from the force of men—Representative Oscar W. Underwood of Alabama. SNUFF "JAGS" POPULAR Tickle Dust Mixed With Cider Much Used in "Dry" Oregon. The Labor Review of Minneapolis, Minn., under the heading of "Every Man His Own Distillery," takes a crack at Prohibition. The Review says: Snuff jags are becoming popular in Portland, Oregon, since that illustrious community went dry. One of Portland's daily papers headlines the fact that the "boys" are mixing snuff with apple cider to give it the desired "kick." If the drys had their way we would all be carrying a box of snuff and an apple. OL THE PEOPLE THEE, SWEET LAN PERTY