Muskogee Cimeter

SANTA A Merry Xmas and A Happy New Year to all My colored friends just a word for you, I know that you'll admit t'is true Since my God made time and space, You have been mistreated by another But let them alone God will fix them jud They make you work with all your migh From morning noon until the night, If for your rights you would speak up They will tell you quick that is enough But let them alone God will fix them jud You have been mistreated by another race. But let them alone God will fix them judgement day, let them alone. They want you to work, work hard. Just give you bread and a little lard, Because you know that they don't care Far you are black and got notty hair. But let them alone God will fix them just Yes they want you to work from year to But nothing at the end you will clear And when you ask for a settle-ment, They will put you off without your co But let them alone God will fix them just And if they give you nothing at all, Keep your mouth or get a bail. Over this don't grieve my friend For God will fix it at the end Yes they want you to work from year to yerr; But nothing at the end you will clear, And when you ask for a settle-ment, They will put you off without your consent. But let them alone God will fix them judgment day, let them alnne. And if they give you nothing at all, Keep your mouth or get a bail, Over this don't grieve my friend For God will fix it at the end They have the money and the land But keep your part out of your hand, Yes they want to satasy me and yon On just one dollar bill or two. Some times they die, young and old Just because that they go cold They fix it here of late: You can't get your hands on your rebate; Some times they die, young and old Just because that they go cold They fix it here of late: You can't get your hands on your rebate; But let them alone God will fix them judgment day, let them alone. The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY DEC. 23 1910. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the Superior Court of Muskogee County, Oklahoma, No. 6540 Lula Washingtoi Plaintiff. The defendant Phillip Washington, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the Plaintiff, Lula Washington, for Divorce and Custody of children, and that unless he answer the petition filed by the Plaintiff alleging gross neglect of duty and abandoument on or before the 9th day of February 1917 the allegations contained in said petition will be taken as true and confessed and judgment rendered accordingly In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Clerk of said Court and affixed the (seal) thereof this the 23rd day of December 1916. C.H. Shaffer, Court Clerk, By E. A. Hill, B. M. Hatton, Attorney for Plaintiff Coal For Sale The Henryotta Nut Coal $6.00 per ton Sippes Coal Comprny Phone 96 421 So. 5th St. ii NOTICE BY PUBLICATION In the District Court of Muskogee County, Sate of Oklahoma: No. 5390 Eulah Trammel Plaintiff, Vs. Leo Trammel Defendant. The defendant, Leo Trammel, wiltake NOICE that he has been sued in the above named Court by the plaintiff, Eulah Trammel, for Divorce for Desertion and Cruelty, and unless he answer the petition of the plaintiff, Eulah Trammel, on or before the 20th day of January, 1917, the allegations set forth in said petition will be taken as confessed and judgement rendered accordingly. In Witness Wherof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said District Court this the 8th day of December, 1916. C. H. Shaffer, Court Clerk, Tom L. Fuller, Deputy Clerk, Geo. W Parker, Attorney for Plaintiff. The Negroes of this State will have to get together instanter and may out a line of action to prevent the school term for the minority schools being cut down to three months. Down in McIntosh County they are facing that condition, and to a certain extent the people themselves are to blame. In Muskogee last year the schools were cut short about three In the Superior in and for Muskogee County, State of Okla Malindy French, Plantiff. Said defendant. Henry France will take notice that he has been sued in the above named Court by the above named plaintiff for an absolute divorce from him the said defendant, upon the grounds of extreme cruelty, gross neglect of duty and abandonment, an' for the custody of the one minor child of said plaintiff and defendant, and that he must answer the petition of said plaintiff filed therein, on or before the 1st day of Feb. 1917 or said petition will be taken as true and a judgement for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly, together with the costs of said plaintiff in said suit laid out and expended. Attest C. H. Shaffer Clerk of said Court By E. A. Hill Deputy W. H. Twine, P. R. Price, Attys, for Plantiff. weeks and this year we understand it to be a month. We do not get this information from any teacher because we understand that the ring in McIntosh County, and the same is probably true in this city and County threaten to cut off the head of any teacher "who talks to much," we presume there must be something rotten and the threat keeps somebody from talking to much. There is a remedy in this school business but not by the route of hiring a Lawyer on account of his "influence" and color of his cuticle as was done in the McIntosh County case, and the result showed that fluence and color of cuticle even it was white did not win, a black fellow could lose just as easy. It is funny in Muskogee how the bosses scare the teachers and not even a patron can get close enough to one to hit bim with a red apple and they are afraid to talk with some of us for fear that the big bosses will ease them of telling tales, but happily we know conditions are the same here as elsewhere and we can draw our conclusions from the poor frightened outfit who will run if you look their way. We don't blame the teacher who are doing their best to hold their job but we do blame cusses who put on the scare. In an adjoining County there is a certain little ring of teachers who run things on account of being good tattlers to the boss and its our opinion that the same condition of affairs operate in the city of Muskogee. The status of the minority schools will be settled and settled right. The patrons of the schools throughout the State will see to that and in the very near future A SUCCESSFUL OPERATION On Nov. 20th, last, Lonnie Atkinson, was operated upon for appendicitis by Dr. J.E. Hart, our eminent physician and surgeon, assisted by Dr. Muckieroy. On the fourteenth day after the operation Dr. Hart, permittad the patient to sit up and walk around in his room, and on the nineteenth day thereafter discharged him from the hospital. The patient was at the time he was sent to the hospital for the operation, in a PRICE $1.00 A YEAR most critical condition, the pus formation having bursted. Lonnie is the nephew of our prominent and popular restauranter, Mr. N. Fuller, the efficient proprietor of the upto-date and "classy" People's Cafe, with whom Lonnie lives and by whom he is being sent to school. Mr. Fuller, selected and retained Dr. Heart, for this operation. Lonnie is highly respected and esteemed by his teacher, by his young associates and by all who know him. We are proud to note the complete recovery of this young man, and equally as proud of Dr. Hart and those who assisted him in the performance of this very delicate operation. Our friend, Dr. Hart, in no way surprises us however in performing this operation so successfully, as we have known for several years that he is one of the most proficient physicians and surgebes in the State. Congratulations bestowed upon him by reason of the operation would doubtless be perfunctory as the doctor is no novice at this kind of work' he having already gathered to himself an enviable reputation which comes of ability, seasoned experience in the practice of medicine and surgery, and the highest regard for the duties and obligations imposed upon him by his professsion. Both Mr. Fuller and Lonnie, are high in their praise of the work done by Dr. Hart., We contribute our felicitations to this praise, and congratulate the race upon having in it a Dr- Hart. The colored people of America about 12,000,000 in number, could be a great factor in the operation of this government, if they would unite and work collectively for the advancement of the race. The colored people as a race will eventually be forced together by the drastic measures of the prejudiced white people, who are taking advantage of the division existing in the race. Slow Up White Collector We hope that wherever a white collector has occasion to call at a colored home, the lady of the house will give him the same air a Negro gets when he has occasion to call at the house of another race. Don't let him march right in your house with hat on, a lighted cigar in his mouth. He wont do it if he meets a concerted action on the part of our women. Much more respect would be had than we get now if our women would not allow them to call them by name us, Jane, Sal, Hannah etc. Let our women demand respect from them, tell them your name is Mrs. or a reminder of this fact and insistence on the part of our women will in many cases bring about better results. ARE YOU A BELL COW? VIRGINIA BREAKS PROHIBITION LAW Nine Are Charged With Bootlegging in One Town Virginia went "dry" November 1. That the new measure fails to prevent bootlegging is shown in the following dispatch from Alexandria, Va., to the Washington Post: Nine persons, charged with infractions of different sections of the Virginia prohibition law, were arraigned in the police court November 13. Sarah Pinkney and Henry Williams, and W. M. Lee, who claims Fairfax county as his home, were held for the action of the grand jury. Brown and Sarah Pinkney confessed that they had purchased liquor in Washington and brought it to this city. The woman admitted purchasing three pints, and Brown confessed to having purchased four pints. According to the testimony of the police Lee, when arrested, had in his possession a quart of whisky and a portion of a half pint. Wilson McKnight and Harry Brown, charged with being intoxicated in public, were fined $5 each, and James Nowland, charged with a similar ofense, forfeited $5 celliateral. Carrie Williams and Sarah Brown were acquitted. --- THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION ALSO THE BLIND TIGER. [Chicago Daily News.] As prohibition spreads the price of leather goes up. How exasperating for the bootlegger! WHY DOESN'T HE TACKLE CALIFORNIA? [Indianapolis Star.] Why should Billy Sunday want to spend so much time in Massachusetts and Illinois, when those states went for Hughes anyway? JUST ONE GUESS. Mr. Dryan announces that now he is going to turn his energies to prohibition. Any guesses as to the name of the next Prohibition candidate for President? TO BE SUNG in ANY DRY STATE. [Luke McLuke, Cinchnatti Enquirer] Here's to the man whose grip is stocked when he hits your place. And who gives you a snort From an almost full quart, And leaves a glad smile on your face. HE DIDN'T SAY THAT. Billy Sunday denies that he is thinking of retiring and says he will proach as long as he has a voice and his legs are strong enough to hold him up. No matter whether anybody drops the coin in the basket or not, eh? YES, HOW ABOUT THAT? [Louisville Courter-Journal] The "Board of Temperance, Prohibition and Public Morals," says Congress, will prohibit the distribution of tiger advertisements through the United States marts. How about prohibiting the advertisements of all food which might be "one man's poison?" INCREASED CRIME IN NORTH DAKOTA "Dry" Law Multiplies Number of Inmates in State Prison Prison In prohibition North Dakota intemperance is undoubtedly a crime factor. Among 245 inmates in the prison when Warden Talcott prepared his report, July 1, 1916, 148 were classed as "intemperate," 93 as temperate, and of four no record was available. All, except 30 negroes and three of Indian blood, were white. Sixty-one bootleggers were received at the prison during the year; 63 were discharged, and 19 remained. Fifty-two of the convicts at the end of the year were in for one year, and 16 were in for five. Of the whole number in prison June 30, 1916, 182 were born under the Stars and Stripes and 63 under foreign flags. The prison reached its maximum population in 1916, with 296; the number in 1915 was 239. The warden comments in his report on the recent epidemic of escapes, when 20 made their getaway, 14 from within the walls. The cost of caring for prisoners at the penitentiary is $250 per annum per capita, and it is estimated that $190,000 will be required to operate the institution during the ensuing two UNCLE SAM'S CHRISTMAS STOCKING (Which Santa Claus Do You Want?) $325.000.000 REVENUE PERSONAL LIBERTY PROHIBITION AGITATION LOSS OF REVENUE LICENSE REGULATION AND CONTROL PROHIBITION TOM DEAN WHY IS IT? I AM ALMOST AS BIG AS I WAS IN 1855 I AM OVER FIVE TIMES AS BIG AS IN 1855. IS IT ON ACCOUNT OF YOU OR IN SPITE OF YOU? DRY TERRITORY PER CAPITA CONSUMPTION TOM DEAN. "In 1855, when there were only 31 states in the Union, 16 of these states adopted prohibition. These included such states as New York, Massachusetts, Ohio and Illinois. In other words, more than half the states of the Union adopted so-called prohibition laws. "What was the result? Immediately the larger states, representing the great industrial centers, repealed these prohibition laws as being absolutely impractical, ineffective and impossible of enforcement. Other states followed their example until today only Maine and Kansas may be considered as having thoroughly tested out so-called state-wide prohibition. "At the last wet and dry election in Maine, prohibition was retained by a bare majority of 758 votes. "According to the reports of the United States Internal Revenue Commissioner, the per capita consumption of beer, wine and whiskey (in gallons) has steadily and rapidly increased. In 1850, when prohibition was unknown, the average consumption for each individual was only 4.8 gallons. "This amount has been doubled again and again, the increase being most rapid since the adoption of state-wide prohibition. "While 19 states were dry at the time of the last report of the Internal Revenue Commissioner, the fiscal year ending June 30, 1916, shows an increase in tax receipts over 1915 of more than $13,000,000.00 on distilled spirit alone. "All of which proves very conclusively that prohibition does not prohibit but simply changes the channels of distribution, destroys revenue and makes impossible proper regulation and control."—From the statement of President Joseph Debar, of the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association. SAYS 1,000 CHILDREN ARE IN RUM TRADE IN PORTLAND (ME.) SHERIFF TELLS DETROIT NEWS STAFF CORRESPONDENT OF PROHIBITION'S FAILURE IN MAINE, THE ORIGINAL "DRY" STATE KIDDIES FIND THE BUSINESS PROFITABLE Act As Spies, Lookouts and Liquor Carriers - "Kitchen Bars" Are Favorite Resorts - Officials Powerless to Curb Illicit Traffic Which Debauches Young and Old Probably Michigan wouldn't have gone "dry" last month if the following story had been printed in the Detroit News, and other papers, before, instead of after, the election. The News has just sent George E. Miller, a staff correspondent, to Maine, the original "dry" state. After a thorough investigation, Miller reported that prohibition in Maine is a failure. Writing from Portland, Me., he says: "You can fill the palm of your hand with water and retain it there in plain sight as long as you choose to hold your hand still. But if you strike that palm with your other palm where is the water? You will not have destroyed any of it. It will remain in existence, but we will it be?" "That, said Sheriff William M. Pennell, of this county of Cumberland, "is the ill illusion I used to use in the days when I was actively in politics and ardently exposing the fallacy of prohibition. It is a graphic illustration. Under prohibition you can close the saloon. But you can't stop the traffic in liquor. You only scatter it. You multiply the kitchen bars, you start up the bootlegger, and I know from my own experience and observation you draw into the trade in whisky and beer numberless children and minors. Prohibition Is Wrong. "I think few men know more about the evils of intemperance than I. I have been sheriff eight years in all. If prohibition would stop intemperance and cure the evils of it I would be a prohibitionist. But it does not. Temperance and prohibition are not synonymous terms. Although I am a Democrat, that is a point on which I do not agree with Mr. Bryan. He speaks as if the two words meant the same thing to him. Either he does not know or he is insincere. I think he does not know how the great mass of the people live. "When I was elected sheriff last time I ran against a man who had been earnest in trying to suppress the traffic in liquor. It was claimed he had made Portland a dry town. I charged during the campaign that at least 75 Italians were conducting kitchen bars in the city. He said there were not that many. Yet between January 1, when I went into office, and the first of the following May I had 72 Italians in court for running that kind of a bar, and I did not get all of them at that. The principal of one of our schools, in a position to know something about the subject, said at that time there were not less than 1,000 school children engaged in one phase or another of the rum business. They were used as solicitors, spies, lookouts and carriers. 'Blow' was the word they shouted to each other on the approach of a deputy sheriff, and they could pass the word through a district almost as fast as by wireless telegraphy. They made it extremely difficult to detect the trade in liquor through the kitchen bar. "They talk about a state constabulary. We have tried that once, though it was so long ago that I do not know much about the way it worked. But we did have the Sturgis commission, which I flatter myself was provided largely for my benefit. I then was sheriff here, as I am now. That commission was created by the state legislature for the ostensible purpose of enforcing the prohibition law. It had funds and a force of deputies and it went into every county in the state except this one. I went before that commission of my own volition and told them I knew they were playing favorites in their prosecutions. I said I KNOW and I am here to tell you. The commission did not last long, although it spent a large sum of money and did not suppress the liquor traffic." They Like This Sheriff. "I am a temperate man, but not a teetotaler. I have held the view for a long time that prohibition is a failure and have preached my convictions wherever I was. I was first elected sheriff in 1902 and ran for re-election on the platform that prohibition is a failure and was re-elected. That was in 1904. In 1906 I ran for the third time and on the same platform and making the same arguments and again was elected, this time by the largest majority of all, the county at the same time going Democratic for the first time in 50 years. "When I speak of insincerity I recall the action of the ministers of Westbrook, a city in this county. They held a meeting one evening to discuss the liquor traffic in their town. I heard of it and attended. I was bitterly abused by the various speakers who assured a covered house that conditions in West York had never been as bad as them. "As they were about to conclude the program I went to the front of the hall and demanded to be heard. To my surprise I was applauded. Permissible was given me to speak. I said I had heard their complaints made in that public place, but had never received a complaint from any one of them on which I could act in my capacity as sheriff; that I had appointed deputies for Westbrook with instructions to enforce the law stringently because that was what the town had voted for; it having cast its vote against me and my platform that prohibition is a failure. I wanted to give them what they had voted for as thoroughly as I could. I told them that any edition among them who would come to me with a complaint and facts on which I could act would get results as for as the law would reach. "Not one of them either at that time or at any other made such complaint or offered me any assistance in enforcing the law in Westbrook. So I say I am reminded of the insincerity of some of the prostitutionists. "I say you could not stop the sale of liquor in a place like this if you had all the money and all the men you could get at work. It simply can't be done. You would not get more than a spoonful out of a gallon. Here is the water front riffles in extent and hundreds of motor boats. Here are the railroads. And here are the state highways with the state line only two hours away by automobile. When my last predecessor was trying to enforce the law there were half a dozen machines making daily runs to Portsmouth each bringing back gallons of it. I believe he caught two automobiles while he was in office. Ho Lets Saloons Run. "It simply is not in the books to stop the traffic in the stuff. They can do what they like and say what they like. I know. Why, we have had more than 60 enquiries to the prohibition law, trying to make it drastic enough to become effective, and it never has reached anything like effectiveness. I have in mind one man here who served an aggregate of between five and six years in jail and paid fines of not less than an aggregate of $12,000, and you could not make him stop. His son is running a place here now. "Under my administration I permit a certain number of them to remain open where I can see what they are doing. They have to close at 10 o'clock every night, which means 10, and not 10:01, and they know it. Saturday night they have to close at 7:30, and that means 7:30. Sunday they must be closed and they must be closed on every holiday, on election day, and on every other occasion where there is any unusual excitement and a crowd in the city, as when there is a circus in town. When there there was an encampment of soldiers here they were closed for 10 days. They they because they know of what will be done to them if they do not. In fact I can close them all inside of an hour at any time. Can't Suppress Traffic. "The prohibitionists say if you can close them for a day or 10 days or on Sundays or holidays, that proves you can close them for good. It does. I admit it. But it does not prove that I can suppress the liquor traffic, which, as I understand it, is the purpose of the prohibition law, at least in theory. In practice I am afraid it is used as the plaything of politics more than as a real sincere, honest agency for the suppression of what is admittedly a great evil against which mankind has been and is struggling. I know about the evil of it. I have seen much of it. I know that the man who comes to the fall to serve a sentence for drunkenness is not the man who buys a drink across the bar of a saloon. He is the bottle buyer. He drinks diluted alcohol and he is a 'steady boarder' at the jail. He and his kind keep up the half-time trade. "I can say much more against the grog shop drug store than against the open bar where beer and ale are on draft. The saloon I can close, but the drug store is open for business day and night. Some of them are at it 20 hours a day. They sell the half pints. They are the worst offenders and the hardest to convict, because they are permitted under the law to have liquor on the premises. And yet, to advocate and carry out what is manifestly for the best interest of the community you have to bear the stigma of being called a grafter and lead yourself up with enemies. I am glad to say I am through and out of politics," The Cimeter is the only Republican paper in the City of Muskogee. 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—I to any political party and yet Bicky, its editor, got elch at the Republican pile counter. What base ingratitude. HAS STOOD THE ACID TEST. [Philadelphia Eventing Ledger.] We have no patience with those who assert that they is no strength in the United States navy. Any institution which could survive three years of Daniels must have the goods. AN EYE TO THE FUTURE. "What's the idea of your working so hard for prohibition?" "I want to be recognized as one of the deserving patrons who helped to elect the ticket," replied Uncle Bill Bottletop. "Maybe they'll give me the job of hunting around for any illegal liquor and destroying it." A SUNDAY ARGUMENT. [Washington Post] A Michigan automobile is suing for damages because a neighbor's horse attacked his machine on the road, and billy Sunday cites the case as an argument for prohibition without knowing what the horse had to drink. LIQUOR MAN REIMBURSED COMPENSATED AFTER HIS PROPERTY IS DESTROYED COURT AIDS HIM Montana Judge Declares That Saloonist's Stock Can Not Be Confiscated Without Payment, Except as a Last Resort, and Then Only in Case of Absolute Necessity The Supreme Court of Montana has handed down an opinion holding that a saloonist's property can not be destroyed without compensation except as a last resort, "available only in the presence of imminent and overwhelming necessity which brooks no delay." A dispatch to the Butte (Mont.) Miner from Helena says: During the "Muckle" McDonald rebellion in Butte in the fall of 1914, the saloons were ordered closed by the state. Colonel Dan J. Donohue, commanding the Second Montana infantry, seized some liquor from the barroom of a saloonist who disobeyed the order and ordered the staff poured into a gutter. The liquor dealer afterwards brought suit and secured a verdict for $800 in the district court in Butte. In affirming this verdict, the state Supreme Court said today: "Under constitutional government such as ours, the destruction of private property without compensation to the owner must be the last resort, available only in the presence of tenuiment and overwhelming necessity which brooks no delay. In failing to allege facts sufficient to disclose such necessity, the answer falls to make out a justification for the trespass, and for this reason the offered evidence was properly rejected." RAILWAY PLANS TO RUN LIQUOR TRANS C. & O. Puto On "Specials" For Persons Carrying "Wet Goods" Into "Dry" West Virginia Those who believe that prohibition is prohibiting in West Virginia are respectfully referred to the following dispatch from Charleston, W. Va., to Pierre (S. D.) Journal: Orders issued by the Chosapeake & Ohio railroad today announced the creation of two special train beginning tomorrow on which persons carrying legally labeled liquor will be permitted to travel. The trains will move each Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday between Ashland, Ky., and Charleston. Each passenger may carry one suit case filled with liquor, the case to be no larger than 243x38 inches. Persons will not be permitted to transport liquor on regular trains, a regulation which has been in force for some time. TO TEST IDAHO'S "DRY" LAW IN SUPREME COURT Highest Tribunal In Deciding Case May Hold Prohibition Legislation Is a Violation of the Rights of the Individual as Guaranteed By the Federal Constitution HUNTING FOR TROUBLE THE WATER WAGON William Jennings Bryan, who has never been right on any great public question, announces that he will try to make the Democratic party Indorase prohibition. In this particular, it is well to remember that all national parties, in convention assembled, refused this year to put a national prohibition plank into their platform. Even the Prohibition Party spurned national prohibition, declaring that the scheme was not conducive to true temperance. Idaho's drastic "dry" law may be held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of the United States. A test case is now before the court and it may decide that Idaho's prohibition is a violation of rights of the individual guaranteed by the Federal constitution. The Bose (Idaho) Farmers' Review has the following to say concerning the case: Idaho is greatly interested in the appeal pledging before the supreme court of the United States in its case against Ed Crane, arrested and convicted at Moscow for violating the prohibition law of this state by having in his possession a bottle of liquor. The case is one of the first of its kind on record. Had Bottle of Whisky. Crane was arrested in Moscow on a criminal complaint sworn to by Grant Bobbine, chief of police, charged with having a quart bottle of whisky in his room in the Hotel Moscow. He was given a preliminary hearing before Judge Will J. M. Morganidge in the prosecution and bound over to the district court for Latah county. Before the case came to trial in the district court a writ of habeas corpus was obtained from the state supreme court. It was admitted by Crane and his attorneys, Judge J. H. Forney and YOUNG BOYS GET DRUNK ON "JICK" Jamaica Ginger Used As Substitute For Whisky In "Dry" Colorado When a state or city goes "dry," the drag stores do a rushing business in Jamaica Ginger, or "Jick," which contains heap much alcohol. The Denver Post hereby tells how popular "Jick" is in "dry" Colorado: The character of "Jamaica ginger" has been put formally on trial in a case filed in the state supreme court. N. N. McLean, a druggist at Lamar, has appealed to the court for a stay of execution from the sentence of the district judge filing him heavily for soiling the ginger in two and four-ounce quantities without a prescription. McLean says that he and his clerks sold the ginger only for what they believed to be medicinal purposes and that they were not trying to outwit the prohibition law, which forbids the sale of intoxicating liquors or substitutes. 1 Witnesses at McLean's trial testified that the ginger, when diluted with A. H. Oversmith, that he had the liquor in his possession, but it was maintained that it was for his own use and benefit and not to sell or give away. No evidence was produced to show that he had tried to sell or give away any part of the liquor. Crane's release was asked for the reason that the liquor in his possession was for his own use, and that the legislature of the state had no right to declare that the mere possession of whisky was a criminal offense, unless he had it to sell or give away or reach the public in some other way. It was urged that Crane's rights in the premises were guaranteed by the constitution of the United States, and that these rights could not be abridged by the laws of any state. He's Still in Custody. The supreme court of the state held adversely to Crane. It upheld the constitutionality of senate bill No. 50, the state law under which the action was instituted. A writ of error was taken to the supreme court of the United States and there the case is pending. It is on the supreme court docket as case No. 300, October, 1916, term, and is expected to be reached early in January, 1917. In the meantime Crane is nominally in the custody of the sheriff of Latah county under the commitment of the probate judge. milk or water, had a "fine kick" in it and made an excellent substitute for whisky. Evidence was given showing that many of the purchasers of the stuff were young boys of 18 and 19 and that the druggist sold from two to four bottles of the stuff daily, although a dose for medicinal purposes is a half teaspoonful. "LAND OF THE FREE" Editor of The Press: Sad to say, once in about every fifty years or so a great wave of fanaticism sweeps headlong over this fair country. We are being overwhelmed by some such wares today. If a man or a clique of men would try to make you stop eating meat, for instance, you would be indignant, insulted, outraged. So would all of us. We would rise up against this infamous band, one and all, and cram their measure down their own throats. Now what is the difference between this and prohibition? It is exactly the same theory. Does that statue outside New York's harbor mean anything to you people? Is it a symbol of America or a farce? Liberty does not mean exemption from tyranny without, but also protection from tyranny within—it means personal liberty! And prohibition will mean the death of this cherished symbol of the United States of America.—Foreign Born. It now is said that William Jennings Bryan may be a candidate of the Prohibition party in the next presidential campaign. Admirable arrangement. Both the party and the candidate are too used to defeat to take it to heart. NEITHER HAVE WE. [Cincinnati Post.] Has Mr. Hanly congratulated Mr. Wilson. We haven't noticed. Bill Bryan is going to have an awful getting that Democratratic dönkey o the trough of prohibition. A GOOD SELLER. [Richmond (Va.) Times-Democrat.] "Is this cellar prefectly dry?" inquired the prospective purchaser. "Well," responded the talented agent, with a knowing wink, "it always had been until the prohibition law wont into effect." THE HUMOR OF PROHIBITION. [Cincinnati] Enquirer.1 A liquor firm in Covington, Ky., recently received an order for whisky from a woman in prohibition Virginia. The whisky was sent by express, but was later returned by the state authorities. The package containing the whisky bore this label, which was attached by the dry powers that be in the state, that once had George Washington as a citizen; "NOTICE. "The Virginia law says that a female must be at the head of a family with children in order to receive liquor shipments. The woman who ordered this whisky is a widow without children. According to our state law she will have to go dry." Can you beat it? EVEN IF HE'S A "DRY." [Milwaukee News.] Missouri snowed Prohibition under by 124,000 majority. That ought to be plain enough even for the man from Missouri. "BASSING" KANSA8. Confidence in the superior uplift of Kansas life receives a rude shock by the report of the Stato Beard of Corrections. A social and moral milionium claimed to be regular fixture of the dry belt appears to have missed connection down there. The crop of crime is just as abundant and the penitentiary as crowded as in states less disposed to boast of civic righteousness.—Ohaha (Neb.) Bee. THE CITY OF BIRMINGHAM Instead of trying to abolish the saloon, the German soldiers, who are highly efficient, physically, and mentally, although not Prohibitionists, took the saloon to war with them. This shows a Canteen or military saloon behind the front in France. FOUR STATES VOTED "DRY AND FOUR "WET" IN 1916 HOWEVER, THE POPULATION OF THE MOIST QUARTET IS 7,352,186 AND THAT OF THE PROHIBITION RECRUITS 4,962,928 USE OF LIQUOR RAPIDLY INCREASES Federal Statistics Show More Drinking Is Being Done Now Than Ever Before—In 1855 When Over Half of the Union Was Dry, 14 States Repudiated Prohibition Joseph Debar, president of the National Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association of America, makes the following answer to the utterance given to the press by the Rev. Purley A. Baker, national superintendent of the Anti-Saloon League: "The statement made by the Rev. Baker that twenty-four states have outlawed the drink traffic, is misleading and untrue. In recent elections, in each and every instance no attempt was made to prevent the consumption of alcoholic beverages for personal use. Indeed, the Anti-Saloon League fully recognizes the impossibility of voting any territory 'dry,' in fact, that organization simply urges upon the people the closing of the main channels of distribution, operated under license, regulation and control. Before attempting to do even this much, it substitutes for the main channel another avenue "Only twenty-three states are 'dry'—many of these by act of legislature and not by vote of the people. In March of this year Vermont repudiated prohibition by a two to one vote. The population of the twenty-three 'dry' states is only 32,306,341, while the population of the wet states is 59,665,926. The population of the states voting 'dry' last Tuesday is only 4,962,328. The population of the states voting 'wet' is 7,352,136. These states are Missouri, California and Maryland. All of these figures tell their own story and show that on Tuesday over 2,000,000 more people voted 'wet' than 'dry', while there is still twice as many people living in licensed states as in so-called prohibition states. Protect Individual Rights. "The states referred to have not outlawed the drink traffic. On the contrary, they have in various ways arranged to protect and perpetuate the right to use wine, beer and whisky by securing laws which designate the quantity that an individual may buy or receive for personal use. "The further statement by the Rev. Baker that most of the territory in the remaining states has abolished drunk through the instrumentality of local option is not true in any sense. "Some districts have voted against licensing the saloon, but in all instances the right of the individual to secure wine, beer and whisky for personal use has been protected by the efforts of Mr. Baker and his colleagues of the Anti-Saloon League. "The Rev. Baker complains that neither political party was willing to declare for national prohibition. No national party can in honor afford to do this without providing compensation to the interests destroyed. "No national party can go before the people favoring confiscation of property. Only 350,000 Prohibition Votes. "As to the claims of the Prohibitionists, Chairman Oliver W. Stewart of the Prohibition National Campaign Committee, in an official statement says he does not hope for more than $85,000 votes with the final count in 1916 election. When this is contrasted with a total of more than seventeen million votes just cast, its insignificance is apparent. "Any and all attempts of the Anti-Saloon League to show suppression of the liquor traffic and reduction of the consumption of alcoholic beverages, through the addition of dry territory, are absolutely controverted by the official statements of the United States Internal Revenue Department. "While it is true that four states, Michigan, Nebraska, Montana and South Dakota, voted out the saloons in recent elections, in each and every instance no attempt was made to prevent the consumption of alcoholic beverages for personal use. Indeed, the Anti-Saloon League fully recognizes the impossibility of voting any territory 'dry', in fact, that organization simply urges upon the people the closing of the main channels of distribution, operated under license, regulation and control. Before attempting to do even this much, it substitutes for the main channel another avenue of distribution, namely individual shipments for home consumption and personal use. The two effects resulting from (near) Anti-Saloon League methods have been to greatly increase the price of wines, beers and liquors for personal use, and to cut out a revenue received by the states, cities, towns and counties. People Didn't Vote. "As before indicated in many of these 'dry' States, state-wide prohibition was enacted by the legislatures and not by vote of the people. Efforts to secure a direct vote on this question by those favoring individual liberty in these 'dry' states have been constantly suppressed. "As for the country at large, it is rapidly approaching the same condition which existed a little more than half a century ago. "If history repeats itself, the reaction against sanctuary legislation is about due and every indication points to the fact that states now 'dry' in name will repudiate present laws for exactly the same reason that so many states repudiated prohibition back in the 50's. Many of these states are suffering not alone from the loss of revenue formerly derived from license, but from a general contempt for all laws that seems to invariably follow in the wake of 'dry' legislation. "While four of the states recently voted 'dry', it is well to remember that in many other states—those under prohibition as well as under license laws—elected avowedly liberal candidates over nominees whose utterances and records were strongly in favor of prohibition. Use of Liquor Increasing. "According to the monthly reports of the Internal Revenue Commissioner, for the fiscal year, increases in taxes on whisky, wine and beer have been such as to indicate the largest output in the entire history of these industries. "Indeed, not only history teaches but long experience proves that license, regulation and control offer the only practical solution to the so-called liquor problem. That this truth is becoming more and more universally recognized is best evidenced by the fact that not only great cities, but the large industrial states as well, refuse to again try the experiment that proved so costly in the 50's." SPEAKING OF MONEY If people in "dry" states save their money, as the "dry" spoutens caffia they do, why is it that the savings accounts in Kansas are only one half as large as the savings accounts of the rest of the country? Kansas has been "dry" for thirty-five years. Prohibition has had ample time to show its effects—to bring uncold "blessings" upon the people.—Omaha (Neb.) Protector. . i Phone 1286), Delaney MILLER & DELANCY UNDERTAKERS We Can Serve You Far and Near We Sell Caskets $35.00 Up 332 N. nd2St Midland Valley R. R. Special Round Trip Fares For The Christmas and New Year Holidays to Points On The Midland Valley Railroad For Full Information Phone PBX 4200 or 495 Muskogee, Okla. 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Hughes in w Speech Dellvered at Plattaburg, NY ‘The tenet (hat tiey be eat of Preat ent Wileon be that he hae boon eat Dale the tthe, for We: thie Been an bath aidoa of winiont all hnpartant quem tone We Hot fy be wontored Chat Thon WAAL Hitler favors WHiOn's re-otee Aton, Whe elocty tool wear naturatty Whee anything (hat aWHehow on and al | SOMETHING WRONG | a here ta romotitng wrone In prowl BAtlon Town Who Arkin men oan |dIAIN Noor with HOMUlARLY, Some Rody fe te bho ' tepenaing tt Rd poditing Hh ANA While MORE Poo py Wow tte aaunee Nat Cow ow prove Charon Clty (la) Press, I Editorial Comment { Bryan butia Wileow tute Watehtwt walling maketh woetul Wanting Cooditate Hugher doom't talk like © tH lo tfon WRnes te Nawneetng ard the Dore aus ure youmeriea The Wilton Adotoletration etande Per (aes Ait more taxes The Moghes trail with be ool by We Lime Che Deroonnte stetke tt Ae & party leader, would HC be tate Re reter te 2 Mam bowls aa 2 Dork Dewitt Fiera faye Wo Tag how talks epowt Padicial No Peonve can wneter @tawd em Pores) DRY GIT {o MURDER MAD AT GHATTANOGA A favorite prohibition argument: ft {hat prohibition Feducow ertme to a nvfivtmnam Mut door 10h cue anawer te fuvinished by Cale ar ute trom the Chattanooga CRem.y Le on he Getwber Coy oo Ne: erkminal eowet whieh his gee es col oe! abtinhed f Yocont fy Che Gal oF murder canes (hat wt doubtlowa atand for rome Aline (9 come, During Che month fust oyddod, dualge MeRoynotda called etxt toon homlolde eases, and of that nat Der Anal diaposition wax anade of all exeopt four, Which Were continued OWL of the Courtoom actually tried dy Juries, There Were twelve convtetions and Dal two verdtete of wot guilty: That within (ele war a record AOC tho twelve ventlots OF aUIlLY, four wore for muntor in The frat degree WHOD ts another record, Law Saves Pour Nat for (he anttoapttal pantermen Jaw, MHF MeN WOUNE have doudttess Doon sentenced to death, as in each o Uhe oases the evilenee was conclusive Then Were elk Verntlete of muntes An Che soooNd dagreR, WAKER wINter CN Taw oAPTLOR @ RARL@MOR Krom Cent Awonly YOar® eACR, TH Unee of thes casos th (he event Judge MeReynotd doos not RrANE Mew trtala, he wil Joudiions Facommend te maxima Poniahmnent of twenty years Tr on eaee (he fry pecoummended Che man mum panlsdment THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION GIDDAPI - {Cinolnnatl Bnaulrert “They toll mo there was nome trou ble at that lecture on whiskey given by the prohibitioniate Iast night,” ald Jones. "Yon," ropliod Smith, “It roots that the npeaker wax full of hin wubjoct and that the audience drank in hin words.” FOR THE SOUTH Is “DRY” {Piiladerphin Inquirer 1 Mr. Hryan nays the Democrats wilt hot pormit thelr party to “he buried tn @ drankard’s grave.” However, we can noe whore he tn going to have brow ble making the (stolid) South take the pledae. CHICAGO BUSINESS MAN AD- VOCATES COMPENSATING DEALERS “EVIL PRECEDENT” No Private Property Is Sate From Puritanism, Says Ed- ward A, Gore Foreign Coun- tries All Reimburse Victims of Prohibition, Only America Confiscates . Declaring (hat proktdition, tn ostad- Mehing the principle that (he property of the liguer man can be confiscated without componsation, Is estadlishtng the same rule with respect (o any other industry that Puritanism may aetect for destruction, Rlwant A. Gore, Mfvential member of Che Chicago Aw pociation of Commerce, took occasion t@ give bis Views on Compensating the Higugg man, “The treatment acconted the liquor man is unjast and um American,” he declared, “Once let the principle Decome ee tablished that property tn one tine o Dusiness may de destroyed, that the owner may de despoiled of Ris prop erty, and the same rale will be held eect With respect to other property thal those who are overcharged witt ) Puritanten may select for desirec | ton.” san Gore | A Chatlenge Te Liberty. "We Dave long held oursXives up te be cittrens of a country Which invites the oppressed of every land to come to ite shores and bere fied freedom ot opportanity, here find the protec: tion of laws guarantecing equality of atl. Te the let of the treatment the Tewor men Dave met with, Tam afraid ‘that that proed Dowst of Amorioa mast de challenges’ Freetom Mas bere ours, Dat there ecems to be an cle went of Paritanism in oar country WHR Wold Craad Creetom down and Jerect in it stead something masgue- Fyeding i ite Dabitiments which even | the ol Puritan would have repodiated as represonting what must be the paincinies of this country We need @ slop and take mote of The fect that ‘hte Ding is to ooRtinee, the Nher Ves af whieh we Dawe Doser? will eR melt away and the man whe alates to De a free man Mm America We making a clalme that be oan Rot woe tain “You are familiar, no dood. with the lexislation (hat transpired Switrertand when & was propored to Geotray the adsieihe Mdestry, yor ne Gow read! Wal when thet matter was pending in the legisiative Naty im Swtremand a ember of that Nady rove and sal (hat De GM Pot think TAAL QOMUPADRALION WAS ReSeREEEY De canee th De Uriel States compere: tion War Bat provided when proht Ditka prevelied, and mmetiarely from every she of (he legislative se @amdiy there amore & protest to the eheok Uhal mo matter WRAT Ode Unies ‘Srates Red or bad pot dome The logiele tive Daly of Sw itreriand woeld enact | ee lew that Ded stoet A any eve | piston of disbonesty? Ae a resek ) Whe maasore Finely adopted povited fee compensation to De Mrmer wh | pelmed the adstethe plant, te Die om paves, te the dineiler whe etme’ 5 | ape Din amples. te ube eaber ws | marketed Ram De emplren Now is the time for sour Xmas _ shopping and this store is an ideal place to make your selection A few suggestions Keep this iist it will paoxe useful. DIAMONDS , Mill T. Millers "112. N. Second St. oe 2 M. 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