Muskogee Cimeter

Vol. 18 No. 8 RAPS DRY'S NEW STUNT LOUISVILLE TIMES HITS AT THE FILMING OF PATERNALISM "Demagogues" and "Time-servers" Might Be Expected to Vote For Prohibition, Says Editor Who Pays His Respects To Governor of Indiana Under the caption "Paternalism Filmed" the Louisville (Ky.) Times has the following to say concerning the action of Governor Goodrich of Indiana, in having himself "filmed" while signing the "dry" law: Paternalism takes on the airs and graces of the period. Interference with what remnants of personal liberty—what fragments of individual volition—we still enjoy, has been filmed at last, and Governor Goodrich, of Indiana, presents a wondering world the spectacle of the chief executive of a great commonwealth playing in a prohibition scenario; and bestowing a seed of penholders upon a horde of eliminating zealots who would carry back to an unathinking constituency concrete evidence of their enthusiasm for putting their fingers into their neighborhood business. Do far as prohibition, per so, is concerned, there is nothing surprising in the fact that the demagogues and time servers of Indiana should vote for such a bill. It is not even surprising that they should carry their usurpations so far as to provide that newspapers carrying liquor advertising may not be circulated in Indiana. But that the governor of a sovereign state should make a motion picture spectacle of himself in the act of ratifying an interference with the commonest constitutional liberty of the population is remarkable enough. People Are Patient. The people must possess their souls in patience. It is not conceivable that much longer will they submit to their exploitation by political hired men, who seek nothing but public office, their objective easy gain, the means, votes of guillible moralists; who pose in their dreams the feasibility of sat morality. Governor Goodrich hales his family into the executive chamber to witness the signing of this oppressive and presumptuous act. "Action, ready, go" is the word of the movie operator at the governor's elbow; and he then pokes his pen deep into the private lives and purposes of the people of the state of Indiana. The governor left no stunten to inform his left hand—and the people of Indians—of what his right hand was doing. Nothing could illustrate more luminously the general purpose of prohibition propaganda than the performances of Governor Goodrich. Virtue might have been left to reward itself if there were no votes to win in Indiana. But when paternalist meets votes then must come moving pictures; or some other fashionable form of publicity. So far, however, Governor Goodrich wins the pup for the assurance with which he parades paternalism as a medium of political circulation. JAMAICA GINGER BARR D A dispatch from Huntsville, Ala., to the Cincinnati Enquirer states: It is against the Alabama prohibition law for a druggist to sell Jamaica ginger, according to a verdict of a jury in the Circuit Court today in the case against Dr. J. D. Humphrey, former Mayor of Huntsville, and for 37 years a drug dealer here, who was charged with selling Jamaica ginger. The jury convicted him, assessing a fine of 6000. The Muskogee Cimeter. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY MARCH 17 1917 ILLS CAUSE OF POVERTY SICKNESS IS CHIEF SOURCE OF DESTITUTION AND PENURY LIQUOR CASES FEW Report of New York Association For Improving Conditions of Poor Shows Ninety-Six Per Cent of Charity Seekers Are Victims of Disease Under the caption "Poverty and Sickness" the Gloversville (N. Y.) Herald contained the following editorial showing liquor an insignificant factor in the causation of crime: What is the most prolific cause of poverty? The prohibitionist is accustomed to say, unhesitatingly, "alcohol." The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, in its report for the past year, gives a different answer. It is illness. The preponderance of that cause over all others is astonishing. The association says that 96 per cent of the destination in the metropolis was caused by the sickness of wage-carriers. The other 4 per cent was divided among alcoholism, wife desertion and nonsupport, delinquency, old age and unemployment. It must be recognized that 1916 was an unusual year, especially in the matter of employment. Ordinarily, in New York or any other city, the lack of work would be an important factor. It may be admitted, too, that alcohol has probably played a bigger part than the figures indicate. Sickness Chief Factor. The report is significant and doubtless true on the whole, because it brings out the general truth that the greatest economic evil that individuals and civilized society as a whole have to contend with is simply sickness. And against this fact must be set the assertion of modern science that at least half our sickness is today easily preventable. It merely requires reater knowledge and carefulness on the part of individuals, and greater attention on the part of public authorities. We may recognize, after a few more years, that our greatest public problem—like our greatest private problem—is health. We may recognize that no other object furnishes so legitimate a field for public interest, or gives such big returns for public effort and expenditure. GOMPERS IS OUT AGAINST "DRYS" Characterizes Prohibition As "Iniquitous Proposition" A special dispatch from Washington (D. C.) to the Cincinnati Times-Star says: President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, opposes the proposed "dry" law for the District of Columbia. He characterized a prohibition law as "an iniquitous proposition which violates the fundamental principles of human freedom and fails to accomplish the curing of the drink evil." --- THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION You Said a Mouthfull [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer] This would be a better world if a reformer was as anxious to reform him self as he is to reform others. Oh, Piffel Maybe Mr. Bryan thinks Germany could square the Lusitania incident by firing a chauquette salute in honor of the American navy. [Knoxville Journal and Tribune.] If congress while trying to muzzle the press could muzzle some of its own members it would be doing a good thing. We Give Is Up. [Morning Telegraph, N. Y. City.] An inspired reformer declares that "nobody can stop the liquor traffic except those who drink liquor.' But if they do, how can they? GIVE LIQUOR MEN JUSTICE SHOULD RECEIVE FULL COMPENSATION FOR ALL PROPERTY, RIGHTS SAYS WATTERSON Editor Answers Nebraska State Journal—Dealers Are Entitled to Protection Under Law, For Theirs is a Recognized Legitimate Business Defending its stand for fair play and compensation and attacking the confiscatory methods of prohibitionists, the Louisville Courier-Journal makes this reply to the Nebraska State Journal: Obviously the Nebraska State Journal is a typical prohibitionist, which means a fanatic blind to reason, law and common sense. Touching some recent observations of the Courier-Journal, it has this to say: "We fear Mr. Watterson does not take into account the fact that these great properties in Kentucky are the fruits of a system of indiscriminate sale of habit-forming beverages which has impoverished tens of thousands of families in the state and out of it. That his absorption and concentration of wealth is against public policy, and the application of the remedy will benefit a hundred where it injures one." We fear that the writer of this does not take into account the fact that "these great properties" came into being under the sanction of law and custom; that they represent a century of recognized honest and fruitful labor; that they have paid taxes and borne their part in the burdens of government and have their equal right with all other properties to protection under the law. If it is deemed that their continued existence "is against public policy," there is a way made and provided to get rid of them. By due process of law they may be condemned, and, their value assessed, be paid for out of the public purse. The guiltiest malefactor is allowed his day in court. Shall citizens who have committed no crime be denied their day in court? And shall such a question of elemental right be decided by ballot at the bidding of theorizers and enthusiasts who believe that religion may be promoted by Act of Assembly and mortals turned into angels by Constitutional Amendment? "Habit-forming beverages" is mouth-filling and resonant, but is there no difference in drinks? --- It is reported that Thomas Coffey of Boston U. S. A. is among the missing Americans who were on the Laçon when she was sunk by a German submarine. American Negro plays his part in every crisis of our government. Some day America will give her dark loyal citizens equal rights as is given in France to all of her citizens who willingly give their lives for the protection of their country in time of need. America should profit by the example made by France. Loyalty will win out in the end. When you have Backache the liver or kidneys are sure to be out of gear. Try Sanol, it does wonders for the liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial 25c bottle will convince you. Get it at the drug store. In the Superior Court of and for Muskogee County, Oklahoma. Allie Hughes, Plaintiff, ve. No. 6666. B. J. Hughes, Defendant. B. J. Hughes, said Defendant, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named court upon the petition of Allie Hughes, Plaintiff, asking for an absolute divorce from said Defendant on the ground of gross neglect of duty, and must answer the petition on or before the 27th day of April 1917, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment will be rendered for plaintiff according to the petition therein filed. Attempt. (Seel Court Clerk. By G. M. LOINBERGER, Deputy. H. R. EDWARDS, Attorney for the Plaintiff. MARLESS COSE DISMISSED. Charges against Negro School Head Not Sustained by the Evidence. Special to The World. Oklahoma City, Feb. 26.—After an all-day hearing today on charges that had been filed against J. M. Marquess, president of the Colored A. & M. college at Langton, that he had misused the funds of the school and lack of disciplin, the state board of education, unanimously dismissed the charges is not being sustained by the evidence. The board immediately ordered an audit made of the financial and other records of the institution by the state examiner and inspector and a system of accounting established in the institution. A rule that the state board had invoked in the school, that each student should be required to work a certain portion of a day, was revoked and vocational study will be supplied as soon as he school can be equipped, for it. A number of the students of the school were at the hearing as witnesses for or against the president, Marquess, testifying for himsei F. convinced the board that everything mentioned in the charges had been accounted for—Tulsa World. In the case above referred to the people were represented by Hon. J. Coody Johnson, of Wewoka. Mr. Johnson handled the case in splendid style and brought out all the facts and in our opinion proved every allegation made in the charges. We make no criticism of the Board of Education, because we believe that after taking all things into consideration that they thought best to be lines sand for a while. The ordering of an audit by the Board is sufficient to show that all is not well at Langston and the revoking of a rule as above shown proves that the position of the people was well taken. We are proud of the young men who testified in this case without fear or favor and told the whole truth and who stood like adamant against the severe cross examination by William Harrison, attorney for Marquess. Marquess had a chance to defend himself but he gives those who heads he chops off no opportunity for defense and we are informed that he is using the ax vigorously. Judge Vernor, after a strenuous session of court lasting several days, has appointed Attorney Ed. K. Brook, as guardian for Luther Manuel, the rich Creek freedman, who is said to be worth one-half million. The judge ignored all the nominations and went to the body of the citizenship of our citizenship of our county and made the appointment. He did the best he could under the circumstances. There were so many conflicting interests among the colored people who used their influence upon the minor and his mother that it was impossible for the court to satisfy all these interests and the court proceeded along lines that he thought best. The main thing is to protect the minor and we hope and believe this will be done. The Government, we understand, is satisfied with the appointment and we presume this ends the contest. COMING TO MUSKOGEE, OKLA. United Doctors' Specialist will Be at the Torson Hotel, Saturday, March 17, 1917. One Day Only. Hours 9 a. m. to 6 p. m. Remarkable Success of These Talented Physicians in the Treatment of Chronic Diseases. Offer Their Services Free of Charge. 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These laws are made by members of Congress, men who come from all points of the Union and who have no personal interest whatever in the city or the people for whom they legislate. An instance of this was shown when the Sheppard bill prohibiting the sale of liquor within the District of Columbit, but allowing purchase of all the intoxicants one might desire for personal use, came up in the Senate. A resolution to send the proposal to a referendum of the people was defecated. The people most affected were to have no voice in the matter and Washington will be without thirst parlors after November 1st next if the House concurs in the bill which the Senate passed. The measure looks like a sop to the prohibition propagandists. It is not a prohibition measure by any means. It simply cuts out the public drinking places and makes every man who wants to drink his own saloon. Anyone who has the price can get all the intoxicants he wants under the measure, the only difference being that he will have to get it in large instead of small quantities. What an impetus this law will give to the moonshiners who are doing business in the hills and woods just outside Washington. Back in 1898 when the soldiers were mobilized at Camp Alger, Fairfax county, then under prohibition, was alive with illicit whisky venders, who had their headquarters in the out of the way places, of which there are many. A measure such as the Sheppard bill is not one for temperance. It will simply give the tailors work enlarging the size of hip pockets.—Oswego (N. Y.) Falledium. Coal Miners Ref To Drink Kans Water Resenting interference personal liberty, resident burg, Kan., according to City Star, are threatening a result of the "Bone Dry" Star says: The "Bone Dry" Law b bring about a serious situ eral camps in the Kansas The supply of water is so identes have depended on wine for drinking. They ed their liquor by the ca and kept it in their home to Pittsburg tonight said dents, now denied the ri intoxicating liquor in their threatening a strike. According to the police "bone dry" law is being Iowa. This is from the Journal: Sam Goldstein, 923 Iow driver for I. Miller & Co. Neb., was arrested yestead noon at the corner of Six streets. On a truck whid driving ninety-six bottles of half-gallon jugs of whisk quart bottle of whisky He was charged with the portation of liquor under law. Goldstein's arrest is the der statute 2419 of the co This is the law resurrected ne General Havner a few and which prohibits the liquor to anyone in the six except druggists or phas use in medicine or for purposes. A violation is by a fine of $100. The first arrest in cont the enforcement of this arrest Monday of John 119 South Chambers street booked on a charge of portation of intoxicating TEN MILLION MOUTHS ARE FED BY LIQUOR INDUSTRY Prohibition Would Strike the Blow That Would Affect the Jobs of 2,000,000 Workers and Jeopardize the Livelihood of Those Dependent Upon Them MEMBER NATIONAL NEGRO PRESS ASSOCIATION 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—1 to any political party and yet Bixby, its editor, got such at the Republican pie counter. What base ingratitude. The Quinine That Does Not Affect The Neas because of its tonic and laxative effect, LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE is better than ordinary Quinine and does not cause nervousness nor hang in the intestines. It is full pname and look for the signature of R. W. GROVE 250 DRINK BAY RUM OUT IN IOWA The police departments of some of the "dry" towns of South Dakota have recently been called upon to deal with a new form of drinking—the drinking of bay rum—which some of the toppers have adopted as a beverage through their inability to secure intoxicating liquors. In these towns the sales of bay rum at the drug stores have recently shown large increase and the police departments now are maintaining a watch with the object of reducing such sales and preventing bay rum falling into the hands of drinking men in unusual quantities. The demand for bay rum became so great that rather than be annoyed further the proprietor of one of the drug stores of Mitchell voluntarily refused to sell any more of the liquid, although there is no legal restriction against it.—Sloux City (in.) 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[St. Louis Post-Dispatch.] RUSSIA POOR LACK LIQUOR PROHIBITION IN CZAR'S LAND IS CLASS LEGISLATION RICH DRINK WINE Bassett Digby, Correspondent of Chicago Dally News, Says Vast Nation Is Far From Being Dry — Peasants Must Drink Dangerous Substitutes For Vodka Russian prohibition is class legislation, according to Bassett Digby, special correspondent of the Chicago Daily News. Digby states: Before considering the results of prohibition in Russia it is necessary to note that the economic position of the country is extremely complicated. The men of the nation are away at the war: industry and agriculture are "carrying on" as best they can. Exporting is practically at a standstill. The peasant is deprived of his volks. To begin with, it is a mistake to imagine, as many enthusiastic prohibition advocates abroad apparently imagine, that no drink may be obtained nor drunken men be seen in Russia. Of vodka there is certainly precious little anywhere in the town, except in the cellars of the privileged classes—the nobility and high government officials. In the villages there is none. But only dull-witted men and poor men are unable to obtain drink in the towns and cities. In Kiev and the south generally beer and light wines are on sale without restriction. In Moscow, Petrograd and the big northern towns there are six sources of drink. Six Sources of Drink. There are the nobility, the high officials and members of the embassies, who are subject to no restrictions and obtain as much as they like. There are the cellars of citizens who either held heavy stocks before the war or who received a widely circulated tip over wine merchants' telephones just before the prohibition of sale came into force. There are the wounded officers and invalids who easily obtain drink permits from hospital authorities and doctors. There are the French subjects, who for some mysterious reason are given generous wine permits, while no other foreign subjects may receive, merely by statement of their nationality, even a single bottle of wine. STATE TREASURY COMMONWEALTH OF TENNESSEE There are the hotels and big restaurants, nearly every one of which, of any consequence, readily supplies drink—at a price—to clients who dine in a private room and who tip heavily. And then there are the brewers and distillers of strange decoctions of de-naturalized alcohol, furniture polish, hops and varnish. TEN MILLION FED BY LIQU Prohibition Would Strike the B 2,000,000 Workers and Je Those Depend The Philadelphia Sunday Dispatch contained the following article on the magnitude of the liquor industry and the detrimental effect of prohibition. Ministers and others who are fond of preaching the doctrine of prohibition invariably present to their audiences only one side of the question. The man whom, if given a chance, would feel inclined to vote in favor of prohibition or local option has probably stocked the situation as it really is. Do you realize, Mr. Voter, that the brewing industry—taking only this branch of the problem—is the sixth in amount of invested capital among the large industries in the United States? Do you know that it represented, alone and by itself, an investment of over $71,000,000 in 1905, according to the Census Bureau—more, of course, in 1916? Do you realize that its annual product represents a value of nearly $375, 600,000 (Census Bureau, 1909); that it employs people at wages superior to all but one or two industries in the country? The Farmers' Share. Do you know that the raw materials worked up in this industry include barley, corn, wheat, hops, coal, oil, brick, iron and steel, lumber and cement—in fact, all building materials, machinery without end? Tennessee has just been made "bone dry." No liquor can be shipped into that state. Finances of Tennessee are in bad condition, as one result of prohibition. In the above cartoon the Commercial Appeal, without editorial comment, pictorially calls attention to this fact. Do you know that the distilleries of Peoria alone consume the equivalent The purpose of the Anti-Saloon League is to crush the liquor industry, which has been recognized as a lawful institution by no less an authority than the United States Supreme Court. With its gage of professional reformers, the Anti-Saloon League is trying to abolish the liquor business which furnishes the nation and the states with an income of $325,000 each year. Read this dispatch from Washington (D. C.) to the Cincinnati Enquirer: "Final action on the immigration bill was deferred by the senate tonight to permit committee consideration of an amendment proposed by Senator LaFollette, to eliminate persons who advocate or teach destruction of property. A vote on the passage of the bill probably will be reached tomorrow. Senator LaFollette contended that there were other sufficient bare against Anarohleite, and that a provision to which he objected would shut the doors of the United States to worthy men from other lands because destruction of property had been incidental to a revolution in which they were concerned." Doesn't the Anti-Saloon League advocate the destruction of property? Doesn't it teach the doctrine of confiscation without compensation? How much money does it contribute toward the upkeep of the United States? Why do people "fall" for it? THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION WHY STOP IT, OF COURSE. [Philadelphia Inquirer.] Hartford, Connecticut, has a research foundation which will investigate the subject of "why men drink." And, having found out, the men who do drink will probably ask with Weta, "what yuh gonna do about it?" CHEER UP, BILL. [Houston Post.] Now a newspaper reports that it is Billy Sunday's intention to retire next July. Billy is too pessimistic. Money always goes fast about Christmas time, but there will still be a good deal of it left next summer. HELL MAKE IT A PLIVVER. [Anaconda Standard] Judging by his past achievements as a mechanician, Mr. Bryan will be usable to convert his water wagon cost currently into a steam roller. BUT HE PICKS THE MONEY SPOTS [Detroit Free Press.] Billy Sunday proposes to tackle New York City next. You've got to hand it to Billy—he doesn't pick the easy spots. AND THAT AIN'T NO LIE. [Indianapolis Star.] When Bryan sent his cablegram to Lloyd-George the President must have heaved another sigh as he realised that William no longer is in the Cabi net. MOUTHS ARE MOR INDUSTRY How That Would Affect the Jobs of Peopardize the Livelihood of Lent Upon Them of the entire corn product of the states of Illinois and Iowa as far as it leaves the farms? Do you know that the production and distribution of alcoholic beverages together give employment directly to about 1,200,000 people, representing a population of 6,000,000 out of a total population in the United States of 80,000,000? And if we figure those who would be indirectly affected, the number employed would reach about 2,000,000, representing a population of about 10,000,000. Do you realise what these few figures, taken at random, signify? It is not alone the destruction of these trades and the unemployment of the men engaged in them, disastrous though that would be. The capital would seek and find other avenues of profit. The people that were employed would be compelled to hunt for other lines of work with the ultimate result that the standard of living for all workingmen must become lower. In one instance a manufacturer of bar fixtures, finding business curtailed by prohibition, discharged 2,500 out of 3,000 employees, and with the remaining 500 took up the manufacture of planes, and by virtue of experience in handling wood was able to undersell others and put several piano factories out of business, so that not only his 2,500 employees were out of work, but also those of the piano factories that went to the wall. QUOTES BISHOP ON PROHIBITION Lawyer Takes Issue With Preacher Who Voices "Dry" Views In Lenten Sermon Attorney Henry Probacco has sent the following letter to the Rev. George W. Gunnell, who is delivering noonday addresses at the Lyrio this week: I heard you at the Lyric Theater at the noonday services, and touching what you have to say in relation to prohibition, I want to offer a very candid criticism. A few months ago I wrote a letter to Bishop Futtle, in which I expressed generally my criticism of prohibition, to which I received the reply in which he said: "Yes, I entirely agree with you about 'prohibition.' 'Temperance!' By all means support it yourself and urge it upon others. It is 'self control.' But prohibition is exterior control and Liberty cries aloud, have less and less of that I entreat, rather than more and more of it, as civilisation and progress advance." I was surprised to hear you advocate the use of "force" to obtain prohibition. For everyone who believes in the Golden Rule repudiates the attempt to make good, honest or sober by "force." P. S.—I and my family are Episcopalians—Cincinnati (O.) Times-Star. GOOD-BY TO PROHIBITION THE "BONE-DRY" LAW WILL MAKE ALABAMA "WET" Representative Henry Merritt Is Sure Reaction Will Follow Plan For Turning State Into a Desert — Declares Congress Is "Hog Wild" "If a 'bone dry' law is enacted in Alabama, good bye prohibition," said Henry Merritt, representative from Macon county in the legislature and chairman of the temperance committee in that body. Mr. Merritt reached Montgomery by automobile from Tuskegee Thursday afternoon and the chilling breezes encountered on the way made him think about the times when one could find something more warming than a steam radiator at the Gay Teague hotel where he is staying. Enough Dry Laws. "We have enough prohibition laws," said the gentleman from Macon. "What we now need is more law enforcement. To pass a law shutting out the importation of liquor entirely from Alabama would bring about a reaction, sure, that would have the same effect as the prohibition amendment voted on in 1909. It was that word 'forever' in that amendment that helped to defeat it. "There are a great many prohibitionists in this state who do not wish to see Alabama 'bone dry.' I am not one of those prohibitionists that drink one way and vote the other, but there are enough of that kind to make absolute prohibition politically unpopular here. Congress Hog-Wild. "Congress seems to have gone more 'bog-wild' on the subject than the latest Alabama legislature was ever accused of being. We could not have been induced to go as far as the senate went today when that body made it a crime to even order whisky to be shipped into a dry state."—Montgomery (Ala.) Advertiser. FANATICISM We are not progressing, but turning backward, when congress undertakes to say whether a man shall read a newspaper in which an advertisement of liquor is published, and to say that a man must go to the penitentiary if he fails to live up to the prescribed code of morality. A long time ago in England there were laws under which many petty offenses were punishable by death. Shall we have in the future a law under which a man may be hanged, drawn and quartered for smoking a cigarette? And in a period in which few persons actually are punished, and fewer adequately punished, for murder? A difference in the form of government not to be overlooked, is that in this country and in this age the people govern. The people may be, occaionally, fanatical, but there is hope for the same in the fact that fanaticalism is not a permanent condition.—Louisville Courier Journal. GIVE US PROHIBITION PROFESSIONAL DRY SENATOR ALL RIGHT, SIGN HERE. BONE DRY LAW. BUT NOT TOO MUCH PROHIBITION By opposing the "bone-dry" law, paid reformers of the Anti-Saloon League are demonstrating that, to protect their jobs, they are against real prohibition. The "bone-dry" law will make people vote as they drink. "HE SHOULD WORRY!" QUESTION WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO 1,600,000 AMERICAN WAGE EARNERS WHO WOULD BE THROWN OUT OF WORK BY PROHIBITION? WELL, LETS SEE - LET THEM LOOK FOR OTHER JOBS ANTI- SALOON LEAGUE PRESS GIVES A HOWL IT LOSES LIQUOR ADS Many Papers, Through Fear, Surrendered News Columns To Prohibition, But Now the Business Office is Being Hit, and—It Hurts The howl going up from the press all over the country because of the move to deprive them of "wet" advertising is both amusing and instructive. The proposed Russianizing of the press is merely the coming home to roost of that fine large fowl of fanaticism which the press at the dictation of the Anti-Saloon League has helped to raise. take charge of the advertising columns of the press, and this is only a beginning. The worst is yet to come and the press of the country may as well prepare for it. The abject surrender of the news columns of the press to these propagandists led as naturally as night follows day to the assumption that with that surrender went a kind of proprietary interest in This chicken of magnificent proportions seems to be crowding the cash register on the press home roost, hence the frantic howls from the business office. The press of the country has been and still is subsidised through fear, and added to this lack of courage, this cowardice, has been the base and ignoble idea that hypocritical pandering to this element would be profitable. Censorship Is Coming. The press has catered to that campaign, to that spirit which has made possible and inevitable this move to take charge of the advertising columns of the press, and this is only a beginning. The worst is yet to come and the press of the country may as well prepare for it. The abject surrender of the news columns of the press to these propagandists led as naturally as night follows day to the assumption that with that surrender went a kind of proprietary interest in the advertising columns also. The surrender in the first instance had been so extremely abject, the spirit of toadyism so servile, that it is not strange if the regulators presumed that no demand they might make would be refused. Under all the circumstances this presumption was both natural and justified. New that the hand out of which the great American press has been feeding its news and editorial columns takes a vigorous slap at the business office, there is "wailing and gnashing of teeth" throughout all the land.—Ohio Valley Times. OUR CONGRESSIONAL FAL- STAFFS. The day may yet arrive when any actor daring to appear as Falstaff or any other bibulous character on an American stage will be hailed to court in short order and incarcerated in a Federal prison on the charge of corrupting the public morale. As Congress has passed a law prohibiting circulation through the mails of any publication containing an advertisement of alcoholic liquors the next step, logically, will be for it to pin the white ribbon on the theater. And of course Demon Rum will be chased off the movie screen. No more will the comedians, so-called, in baggy breeches and slapstick shoes besmear each other with the wedding cake after having drained the nuptial wine straight from the bottle. Those thrilling scenes from the Wild West films in which Red Nose Pete and Boozy Bill shoot up the Palace Dance Hall after imbibing freely of its wares will be deleted carefully by the connoise. And views of the mountain moonshiner in his romantic habitat will be barred absolutely. But while all this revising of the morals of the country is going on will the block bottle in the Congressional anteroom be drained "bone dry?" That's the important question—New York Evening Sun. INTRODUCING "TOMMY.ATK A man pours a drink from a cup into a large container. Here is one of the British soldiers, made famous by Kipling rack Room Ballads," receiving his usual tot" of rum. Inasmuch man, the French and the English, who have done practically fighting in the European War, openly indulge in liquor, and as is victor, the Prohibitionists can not for the life of them use fict as material for "dry" arguments. A TOAST TO THE KING THE Here we see Tommy Atkins drinking His Imperial Ma The English soldiers are allowed their daily allowance of liqu THE MILITARY MEETING Here is an official photograph taken in the Somme district The French warriors have liquor at every meal. They are a bunch of men, and oh! how they CAN fight! No, they do not Anti-Saloon League. FASTIDIOUS FOLKS And now Prohibitionists, in conference in Chicago, in addition to not liking John Barleycorn, don't approve of the scant garb of the Goddess of Liberty on Uncle Sam's new silver quarters. Frances Beauchamp, secretary of the party's national committee, declares: "There is plenty of room for more clothes on the figure. I do not approve of its nudity." Mrs. Virgil Hinshaw, wife of the national chairman, said the government evidently wished to have the figure "in style by putting so few clothes on her." Oh me! oh my! And we'll bet a big red apple against a last year's bird's nest that not one person in fifty who has received or seen this new coin has even noticed whether it bears the figure of Liberty or of an eagle, or whether Liberty is clothed and in her right mind, dressed for the ballroom, or in the altogether. Some folks are so intent upon being shocked that they remind one of the fastidious females who objected to the "ol" swimmin' hole" being so near their home, and who continued to object to it after it had been removed a half mile further down stream because they "could still see it—with spy glasses."—Mansfield (O.) News. WEST VIRGINIA MAY VOT The statement was made in litchi, recently, that West Virginia and Iowa already voted of prohibition. This is born by the following dispatch Wheeling to the Cincinnati quirer: Senator B. J. Rosenblor Ohio county, who is at home during a recess of the Legisl will ask during the present that the wet and dry question be submitted to the people next election, two years. "The two years of prohibition been ferces, declared the S and I believe the people have the right to vote on the ter again." Below, in an Associate dispatch from Charleston reason why West Virginia of it: "A bill aimed to stop the tation of intoxicating liquor the State was today introduce the West Virginia Sense House of Delegates. The be make it a misdemeanor for son to bring into the State than one quart of intoxicator during a period of this Common carriers knowing miting a violation of the a be liable to a fine of not $200. Since West Virginia prohibition State, large of of liquors have been brow the State from Maryland tucky, special trains have run for that purpose on the railroads."