Muskogee Cimeter

The Saturday Morning Phoenix say that fifty men are grumbling and talking of lynching two Negroes who are in jail. We go on record as saying they are fifty D—cowards and slackers who are. willing to murder two unarmed men, but are too D—cowardly to meet ten armed men in equal combat. We serve notice that there are at least fifty TO THE PUBLIC. I call the attention of all those who are liable to registration, to-wit, from 21 to 30 years, inclusive, the necessity of their appearing at their proper voting booth for registration on the 5th day of June. It is my duty to advise all that anyone refusing or neglecting to present himself for registration is guilty of a violation of the law and is subject to prosecution. It is the duty of all embraced in the classes between the ages above indicated to voluntarily register. The places of registration will be at the usual voting places throughout the County. The following is a list of the registrars. This applies to all of the precincts outside of the City of Muskogee: SEVEN CARDINAL POINTS REGARDING DRAFT REGISTRATION. WASHINGTON, May 26.—In its campaign to stimulate interest in registration June 5 for the war army, the war department today issued a memorandum emphasizing the seven cardinal points to be remembered, particularly by men between the ages of 21 and 30, inclusive, who will be required to register. The memorandum follows: "1—There is only one day for registration, June 5, 1917. Those Exempt. "2—Every male resident of the United States who has reached his 21st and has not reached his 31st birthday must register on the day set, June 5, 1917. The only exceptions are persons in the military or naval service of the United States, which includes all officers and enlisted men of the regular army, the regular army reserve, the officers reserve corps, the enlisted reserve corps, the national guard and national guard reserve, recognized by the militia bureau of the war department; the navy, the marine corps, the coast guard and the naval militia, the naval reserve force, the marine corps reserve and the national volunteers, recognized by the navy department. "3—Registration is distinct from draft. No matter what just claim you have for exemption you must register. "4—Registration is a public duty. For those not responsive to the sense o fthis duty the penalty of imprisonment, not fine, is provided in the draft. "5—Those who through sickness shall be unable to register should cause a representative to apply to the county or city clerk for a copy of registration card. The clerk will give instructions as to how this card should be filled out. The card should then be mailed by the sick person, or delivered by his agent to the registrar of his home district. The sick person will enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope for the return to him of his registration certificate. The Absentees. "6—Any person who expects to be absent from his voting precinct on registration day should apply as soon as possible for a registration card to the county clerk of the county where he may be stopping, or, if he is in a city of over thirty thousand, to the city clerk. The clerk will record all the answers on the card and turn it over to the absentee. The absentee should mail this card to the registrar of his home district so that it will reach that official by registration day. A self-addressed stamped envelope should be inclosed with the card to insure the return to the absentee of a registration certificate. who expects to be on day should apply to the county clerk if he is in a city or clerk will record all the absentee. The alf of his home district on day. A self-addh with the card to insure certificate. Booths will be open 5, 1917. "7--Registration booths will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. registration day, June 5, 1917. Vol 18 No. 21 The Muskogee Cimeter. COWARDS men who will uphold the law and meet the cowardly slackers when they make their attempt. Every man who will engage in a mob is a traitor and a coward. The Phoenix is at its old game, and was in a way responsible for the near lynching of 1915. The better class of both races will not permit of a lynching in Muskogee. aspects to be absent from his voting should apply as soon as possible for county clerk of the county where he is in a city of over thirty thousand, will record all the answers on the cardate. The absentee should mail this home district so that it will reach that A self-addressed stamped envelope card to insure the return to the abcate. will be open from 7 a. m. to 9 p. m. 7. MUSKOGEE, OKLAHOMA. SATURDAY JUNE, 2 1917. May 30, 1917. SIR: Every peace officer, including sheriffs, constables and police, is a Federal Agent to facilitate and aid in the registration to be made on June 5th. It is the duty of a sheriff to arrest any person, eligible to be registered who refuses to be registered, and also to arrest any person who seeks by force, persuasion or any propaganda to prevent any person from registering, or to interfere with the registration in any way whatever. Likewise it is the duty of every constable and policeman to make such arrests. Direction is hereby given to arrest any such person and report to me or the Adjutant General, or the United States Attorney of the District in which the arrest takes place. It is also the duty of the members of the registration board to see that all such persons are arrested and held to await prosecution. or go to prison foroad. Take your c On account of notice to our age, script price of will remain at $1,000 till July 1st, 1917, the price will be $ NOTICE Okmulgee, Okla., To the Stockholder ams Oil, Gas and Co.: Notice is hereby by virtue of author me as President of Oil, Gas & Devel pany, a special m stockholders of sa hereby called to Washington, D. C. number to be de applying to the President at No. N. W. Washington. This registratino system is a plan adopted by our country in this hour of a national crisis to successfully prosecute a war that imperils all democratic institutions. Any person who interferes with this plan is a traitor to his country and must be treated as such. Done and dated at the State Capital on this the 30th day of May, A. D. 1917. The Negro should leave the mob-infested centers of the South and go into the North and West where he can at least fight the devils with the same fire. Register and give the slackers hell. The infernal d—— cowards that engage in lynching and mobbing will not fight for the flag. They are the slacker class. They come in thousands to burn one defenseless man and run like cure when they face armed men. Register. Prepare to destroy the curs. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. Nettie Crawford, Plaintiff, VS. No. 5751 Edgar Crawford, Defendant Said defendant, Edgar Crawford, will take notice that he has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, upon the ground of abandonment and that he must answer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 1917, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Court Clerk of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and affixed the seal thereof, this 1st day of June, 1917. J. H. GAINES, Court Clerk By JOHN ZUFALL, Deputy. A. G. W. SANGO, Attorney for Plaintiff. NOTICE BY PUBLICATION. In the District Court in and for Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma. E. M. Dennis, Plaintiff, vs. No. 5750. Mamie Dennis, Defendant. Eald defendant, Mamie Dennis, will take notice that she has been sued in the above named court by the above named plaintiff, upon the ground of abandonment; and that she must answer the petition of plaintiff filed therein on or before the 14th day of July, 1917, or said petition will be taken as true and a judgment for said plaintiff will be rendered accordingly. In Witness Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand as Court Clerk of Muskogee County, State of Oklahoma, and affixed the seal thereof this 1st day of June, 1917. J. H. GAINES, Court Clerk Last week we advised that guardians should nivest in Liberty Bonds. Our advice is being followed. Thanks. The Cimeter leads. All others follow. The guardians are doing a patriotic duty. Every U. S. Marshal, every Sheriff, each Constable in the U. S. can and will arrest all slackers on June 5th. Register or go to prison for a long peroad. Take your choice. On account of failure to get notice to our agents the subscription price of the Cineter will remain at $1.00 per year until July 1st, 1917, at which time the price will be $1.50. NOTICE. Okmulgee, Okla., May 31, 1917. To the Stockholders of the Adams Oil, Gas and Development Co.: Notice is hereby given that, by virtue of authority vested in me as President of The Adams Oil, Gas & Development Company, a special meeting of the stockholders of said company is hereby called to assemble at Washington, D. C. (Street and number to be designated upon applying to the Secretary or President at No. 1216 You St., N. W., Washington, D. C.), on Thursday evening, June 14, 1917, at 8:30 p. m., for transacting the following business: 1. To so amend Par. three (3) of the Articles of Incorporation of said Company as to re-establish a main office of said Company in Oklahoma, and to abolish Washington, D. C., as a branch office altogether. 2. To change the present fiscal year of the Company to the calendar year beginning Jan. 1st and ending Dec. 31st of each year. 3. To consider and act upon the matter of holding an Annual Meeting of the stockholders of said Company immediately following an adjournment of the special meeting called herein, for the purpose of electing Directors of said Company to serve until Dec. 31, 1917, should the fiscal year be changed to the calendar year, beginning Jan. 1st and ending Dec. 31st of ecah year. 4. For considering and acting upon such other matters as are deemed timely and of special interest to the said Company. REGISTER ON THE 5th. Don't be a slacker. Every man between the ages of 21 and 31 must register. It is your patriotic duty and must be done. Some of the slackers who refuse to do their duty will go to jail and others may be shot as traitors. The Negro will not fail to do his duty in this crisis. When white men who come from foreign lands are fighting our government the Negro is showing his loyalty by enlisting to serve his country. Every preacher, teacher and all race leaders must see to it that our men register on June 5th. Drive away from your homes the white slackers who come and advise you to be a traitor. Report them to the U. S. Marshal and they will get justice. While Atlanta, Ga., was being destroyed by fire and property worth millions going up in smoke the people near Memphis, Tenn., were having a lynching at the stake. Of course he was bee and burning a human being a Negro and while his piteous cries were ascending heavenward the barbarians shouted in great gless. Many Negroes lost property and were sufferers in the Atlanta fire and many white persons it will be found are the sufferers who attended the Negro burning because many of them were women and some loubltess in delicate health and when that child comes in the world it will come branded with the mark of a Cain and all through life the sin of its parents who participated in the barbarious and hellish murder will be visited upon it. God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. Tobacco Habit BANISHED in 48 to 72 Hours Immediate Results Tobacco Redeemer is in no sense a substitute for tobacco, but it is a radical, efficient treatment. Tobacco is a substance that you use to use tobacco again or to continue the use of the remedy. It quells the nerves, and every way. If you really want to cut the tobacco habit—ret rid of it so completely that you never have it in you—you should as soon begin a course of Tobacco Redeemer treatment for the habit. The Stella Manuel case promises to be as interesting as that of Luther Manuel. The young woman is the owner of property easily worth a hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars and there are others of the race equally as wealthy. Oklahoma has many colored people made wealthy by reason of her rich deposits of oil, coal, gas and other minerals. Give the young colored man a chance of being trained for officers. It is a duty our Government owes to its loyal colored citizens. If there is any colored prejudice lurking in the cuticle of the administration it should be eliminated instanter. The war if won at all must be won by the loyal sons of the Republic, regardless of race, color or creed. Read the advertisements in this paper and patronize those who advertise with us; they deserve your trade. Our subscription is $1.00 per year. Agents wanted. Good commission paid. Write us. It is guaranteed to any woman who will use Sanol Eczema Prescription will find a perfect complexion. It will cure any eruption on the skin. It is a skin Tonic. Sanol Eczema Cure is a household remedy. A trial will convince you. Get it at the drug store. On account of her fair treatment to all of her citizens France stands in the front rank of the Nations of the world and her loyal black patriots are her saviors and they come from the most remote parts of the dominion to fight and die for France. The United States should profit from this example. "If that be treason make the most of it." Large Trial Bottle of Sanol for 35c. Sanol is a family remedy. Sanol is sold on an absolute guarantee. Remember if it says Sanol it is all right. 35c and 13.00 at the drug store. NEGRO TRAINING CAMP. Washington, May 28.—A training camp for Negro officers will be established at Fort Des Moines, Ia., where 1200 candidates for commissions in Negro regiments of the new army will be trained. 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The remainder will come from Negro regiments of the national guard and from grades of the various educational institutions for Negroes. Do you get up at night? Sanol is surely the best for all kidney or bladder-troubles. Sanol gives relief in 24 hours from all backache and bladder troubles. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. 35c and $1.00a bottle at the drug gstore. Indian minors should invest in the Liberty Loan. There are many colored minors whose guardian would be doing a patriotic act to make such investment. 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 35c bottle will convince you. Get it at the drug store. We are asking every member of Congress, regardless of his political leanings to give us their help and see to it that Oklahoma has her just share of representation in the Training Camp for Negro Officers and we promise that our boys who are given the chance will make good and all the citizens of Oklahoma will be proud of the record they make. The best trained troops the world has ever saw are going to Europe with General Pershing and that means that the Black Battalions of the Republic, the 9th and 10th Cavalry and 24th and 25th Infantry will be with him. A Negro mechanic has invented a device that will destroy submarines and thus you see that the Negro is using his brains as well as his brawn to help out Uncle Sam. All of which shows he is entitled to all the rights of a citizen, including the right to vote and be selected as a juror in Oklahoma and elsewhere. S. L. Dudley on South Main Street, is the harness man when you need anything in that line call on him, as he deserves the patronage of all good people. He is a deserving young man, who has lived in the city for a number of years and is making good. Read his ad. 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 Bixby, its editor, got rich at the Republican pie scounter. What base ingratitude. Rev. U. S. Mingo, is a great revivalist and is now making a tour of the state of Louisiana and other southern states representing the Muskogee Cimeter the best newspaper in the southwest. Whatever information is desired about Oklahoma and her Negro towns can be gained by interview with Rev. Mingo. He will be through your town and community and he will tell you the truth about Oklahoma, about farms and city property. See him if you are interested in Oklahoma. Report comes to this office that a splendid oil well has been brought in at Red Bird. We rejoice with the citizens of that progressive little city. Some time ago we advised our people who owned property to hold it and those who held on will never regret it. Those who purchased property in this country anywhere should be sure and see to it that the oil rights are not reserved by the grantor. We understand that in some of these towns the grantor reserves the oil right, but our information is that in Red Bird when one buys property he gets the entire title. We give our people this information not because we are interested in Red Bird as a property owner, but because it is our duty. Register at once. Don't delay. It is a patriotic duty and our boys will do their whole duty fearlessly and well. It is always easy to find where the Cimeter stands on any subject. We always make our fight in the open and whole sometimes we may be wrong, yet you always known which way our musket is pointed. Some fellows are cussing us about our stand in the Langston matter but it is plain we have not given any one the double- THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION [Morning Telegraph, N. Y. City.] National prohibition would also be responsible for a good many bone-dry after-dinner speeches. We've Got Bill's Number. Mr. Bryan says he will be loyal if war "actually comes." If war "actually comes" nobody should ask Mr. Bryan whether he is loyal or not. He has shown his hand. Don't You Dare! [Luke McLuke, Chinchmati Enquilter.] A bill introduced in Congress prohibits the advertising of liquors in newspapers or other publications. We wish some Congressman would have and enough to introduce a bill prohibiting the advertising of patent medicines that contain enough booze to keep a prohibitionist comfortable. This would throw a scare into some of the red-nosed humbubs and make them attend to their own affairs. No Whiskera To Decelve. Bryan says America worships nine "false gods." He's one false god that they've quit worshiping, though. They Should Be. Georgia is in the throes of a special legislative session, and the professional prohibitionists are in a quarrel as to who shall be the author of the bone dry law. Several of the men who were responsible for Mississippi's quart-at-a-time law are now heartily ashamed of it. GALLIVAN SAID SOMETHING. Imbedded in that mighty mountain of words, the Congressional Record, is a true epiqram, which is defined by what the literal German-Jewish immigrant calla languagers, as a short and pithy saying. It is found on Page 5103, and is accredited to Mr. Gallivan, of Boston, who said: "Mr. Speaker, rum has more enemies in public and more friends in private than any other substance the world has ever known." On that day, February 28, the Massachusetts member had many more things to say, but nothing approached the breadth, depth and solidity of that line. Match it who can—Cincinnati Enquirer. --- WHY EZRA AREN'T YOU GOING TO SHAVE AND GO TO CHURCH? I SHOULD SAY NOT! Y THINK I WANT TO BE ARRESTED FOR VIOLATING THE SUNDAY LABOR LAW? BIG EVILS SAY IF YOU WANT TO ARREST SOMEBODY, THERE'S A MAN OUT HERE BUSTING THE BLUE LAW ALL TO THUNDER! AND TO THINK IF THE BLUE LAWS HADN'T CLOSED ALL THE ICE CREAM SHOPS HE MIGHT HAVE GONE TO SUNDAY SCHOOL AND GROWN UP TO BE A GOOD CITIZEN NIST! I HEAR FOOTSTEPS "BONE DRY" LAWS MAN IN TRENCH WELCOMES BEATEN IN HOUSE HIS RUM BEFORE A CHARGE Pennsylvania Legislators Refuse To Favorably Consider War-Time Prohibition Measures A staff correspondent sends this story from Harrisburg, Pa., to the Philadelphia Inquirer: No "bone dry" regulations for Pennsylvania during the war was the answer of the House of Representatives today upon a roll call on a motion to place upon the calendar the Mitchell bill, which had been voted upon negatively in the Law and Order Committee. The measure would prohibit the manufacture or sale of intoxicating liquors during the period of the hostilities with Germany with a view to the conservation of grain. Representative Samuel J. Perry, of Philadelphia, spoke in opposition to the bill, declaring that in view of the fact that Congress had already voted against a similar proposition on a national scale, there was no need for action by the Pennsylvania Legislature. It requires 104 votes to place a bill on the calendar after unfavorable action thereon by a standing committee. Upon the motion to put the bill on the calendar, the ayes were 64 and the noes 104. The house shortly afterward passed by a vote of 104 to 6 the Stoffett bill, making it a misdemeanor for any minor to misrepresent his or her age in order to procure intoxicating liquor. RAVING REFORM The length to which foolish and hysterical zealots will go is shown by the treatment of Otis Skinner's company in Nashville, Tenn. In "Mister Antonio" there is a barroom scene. This is but a reproduction of the interior of an East Side saloon and is as harmless — perhaps more harmless— than Nashville "near-beer." It is merely an accessory to Mr. Skinner's art, and certainly no more in contravention of Tennessee law than is the murder scene from "Macbeth." The statutes of the state do not permit the sale of liquor, but surely they do not propose to command citizens to forget that it ever was sold; the same statutes prohibit murder, larceny and many other offenses that are portrayed on the stage, and that have been portrayed heretofore without offense. It is only the prohibition hysterical it seems, who goes to lengths that render both him and the cause he represents ridiculous.—New York Morning Telegraph. Our Daily Special [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] Never Do Privately What You De- noance In Public. Member of Royal Fusileers Describes Scene When Liquor Is Given To Soldiers About To Attack the Enemy—Fighters Dcn't Want Prohibition Arthur G. Empey, Ogden, Utah, who served twenty-two months with the British Royal Fusileers in French trenches, is making a lecture tour of America. During his speech he describes the eagerness with which the soldiers await the "rum ration" given them before a charge. J. M. Allison, New York correspondent of the Cincinnati Times-Star, quotes Empey: Empey as saying in an address to the Business Men's club of Cincinnati: "Before the war some of you people waved flags and shouted, 'Why don't you let us in it?' Now we're in it, and it is to you to don the uniform and fight. Being at war you've got to kill the enemy with rifle bullet, stab him to death with bayonet or mow him down with machine gun. You can not stay home and wish him dead. If you want the Stars and Stripes on the battle front of Europe you have got to take "We'd been told that we were to go over at 2 o'clock," he said. "When it got to 1:30, you could see the men pretending that their elbows itched, so that they might get a look at their wrist watches without seeming to be anxious about the time. And if you caught a man looking, he said: 'They're a blessed long time coming 'round with the rum relief.' You know, they serve out a good, stiff three fingers to every man just before the word comes to go over. There's a man stationed on one of the firing tables who can't help showing he's nervous. His face is white and his hands tremble noticeably. Some joker, back in the trench, throws a rock which hits on his trench helmet. He falls down Into the trench screaming for stretcher-bearers and it takes five minutes to convince him that he's not shot in the head. Everybody laughs, but he sits down all white and shaking. The guns get so loud that the men have to shout in each others ears, passing the news that we are not to go over until 3 o'clock. There is more grumbling because the rum relief hasn't arrived. Some of us lock out over the ground which has been no man's land for three months and pick out the places where we're likely to stop for good after we start across. Still the rum relief hasn't come. I can always tell, says one man, 'If I'm to get a full drink. If th' sergeant's sober it's all right. If he's drunk it's a short one.' Right o, says another man. 'Last time I asked him if he wasn't a pawn-broker before he was a sojer. It only wet th' bot tom of th' tin.' Grape Juice or Rum? "You may think," said the lecturer, "that it's highly immoral to give men intoxicants who are going into battle and likely to be in another world before time for the next drink. I never thought so, over there. I remember thinking of one man in America—no need to name him—whom I'd like to see among us in that last hour before going over the top, with a bucket of grape juice on one side of him and a pannikin of rum on the other—and see which he'd take." The Cincinnati Enquirer also quotes Empey as saying in an address to the Business Men's club of Cincinnati: "Before the war some of you people waved flags and shouted. 'Why don't you let us in it?' Now we're in it, and it is to you to don the uniform and fight. Being at war you've got to kill the enemy with rifle bullet, stab him to death with bayonet or mow him down with machine gun. You can not stay home and wish him dead. If you want the Stars and Stripes on the battle front of Europe you have got to take them there." "A Welcome Offering." "Prohibition may be all right in peace times," the speaker continued, "but if you are ordered to capture a German trench, when you know the vast majority of those who charge will never return, the portion of rum the Sergant serves you before you go 'over the top' is the most welcome offerings you ever received. And if a certain American was in the British trench at that time and had a gallon of grape juice offered to him or a 'slug' of whisky, you bet he would take the whisky." THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION In "Dry" Alabama. [Birmingham Ala. Horald.] Sing a song of sixpence. Pocket full of rye. Father broke his bottle— Now his pocket's dry. [New York Morning Telegraph.] National prohibition during the war is now being urged in various educational centers. National prohibition before, during and after the war might be all right if only it would prohibit. A Dry State(ment). [C. T. Davis, in Arkansas Gazette.] Suppose, for instance, The wearer Of one of these Fashionable Form-fitting suits Should by diligence And industry Acquire a quart Of the real stuff, How is he Going to get home with it And escape The finger of suspicion And the following Footsteps of thirst? I am again These form-fitting Clothes. - Photo Copyright by American Press Association, New York City. Unlike "Jack and Jill," who went up the hill, the English warriors in this picture went down the hill and back up again, but they did not get a pail of water. Beer is a favorite beverage of the English soldiers at the front. - Photo Copyright by American Press Association, New York City. Unlike "Jack and Jill," who went up the hill, the English warriors in this picture went down the hill and back up again, but they did not get a pail of water. Beer is a favorite beverage of the English soldiers at the front. COMPARES PROHIBITION TO METHODS OF PRUSSIANS MINISTER CITES DECREE OF FREDERICK THE GREAT— "THE UNENLIGHTENED MUST BE COMPELLED TO BE RATIONAL AND HAPPY" MEANS SUBJECTION OF THE CHURCH Writing in the Independent Magazine, Rev. Wallace Short, of "Dry" Iowa, Declares That Under Such a Conception the Power of Religion Will Surely Decline Writing in the Independent Magazine, Rev. Wallace M. Short tells why he opposes prohibition. Rev. Short lives at Sioux City, in the "dry" state of Iowa, where he has had an opportunity of personally observing the workings of prohibition. The following paragraphs are a few interesting excerpts from Rev. Short's article, "Way I Am Not a Prohibitionist:" The crucial question in the discussion of prohibition is not whether alcohol is beneficial or injurious to the human system, but whether our main dependence for the promotion of personal morals in America is to be the political body acting through the police power by physical compulsion or the moral and spiritual forces operating in an atmosphere of faith and freedom. If we shall decide that our chief reliance for the promotion of personal morals is to be the physical arm of the state, then one of our best known champions of prohibition is correct when he summarizes his argument thus: The use of alcohol is harmful, and, being harmful, its manufacture and sale should be prohibited. In that case our method will be that of Frederick the Great, the father of Prussianism, who promulgated the famous decree that "the unenlightened must be compelled to be rational and happy." We shall, of course, then always be meeting the embarrassing question as to who it is that is endowed of God and qualified by experience and training to determine what is harmful or beneficial for us all. The ready answer of the prohibitionist is that whoever can get the political power, he it is that is endowed and sent of God to compel us all to be rational and happy according to his program. Means Subjection of Church. If we accept the philosophy of the prohibitionist, then the chief striving of the church will be to get the political power to compel the observance of its program. Or, still worse, the chief effort of every would-be reformer will be to subdue the pulpit and the church to his political uses, giving always as the reason for his propaganda that he seeks power to do the people good, to compel those whom he regards as unenlightened to be rational and happy. Under such a conception the teaching and inspirational power of the church decline—cannot help declining. The ministry becomes a secondary and subservient calling, attending mainly, under the dominance of the political reformer, to the externals of morality, and neglecting the study and nurture of the invisible spiritual cosmos that dwells within each man. Moreover, as a matter of history and observation, no people play the political game more dishonorably than those who enter the political arena in the pharisaic spirit of "I am holier than thou" and in the undefined feeling that any method or spirit is justifiable for the promotion of a "righteous" cause. No more shameless or portentous chapters have been written in modern political history than the unusual methods adopted in prohibition states for the attempted enforcement of prohibitory laws. Government has been taken out of the hands of the people, as in the outer law of Tennessee, and the prohibition commissioner of West Virginia. Everywhere a financial premium has been offered both to the legal and to the extra-legal law enforcers—as in Iowa and in every prohibition state—by which legalized blackmail and ranking injustice are constantly carried on. These attempts at enforcement must break down of their own weight. The habit of free peoples is for each person who sees—or thinks he sees—a better way, to put it into practice in his own life. If it is good, it wins its way, and becomes universal, or nearly universal, custom. Thus it may grow into the common law of the land. "Docs Four Mischievous Things." If the prohibition medicine were merely harmless, we might submit to take a bottle of it whenever asked to do so, and raise no objections. But the fact is that every man who votes for prohibition does four mischievous things, any one of which must ultimately prove more than an offset for any good prohibition may accomplish. (1) When the voter makes his cross in the little square which the prohibitionist indicates, he sets the police to interface with the habits and rights of millions of the best men and women in America, and starts that endless political strike which makes it forever impossible to attend to the proper business of government without losing sight of that proper business in the interminable "wet" and "dry" conflict. (2) The prohibition voter inserts the entering wedge to destroy all security of property in our great republic. If he may confiscate the property of one group of citizens in the name of reform, then he may do the same thing in another case. Any class of business men will resist such injustice in precisely the same way as do the distillers and brewers. If the prohibitionist will volunteer to share this hardship, then the public may thin better of his justice and sincerity. New Kind of Law. (3) The voter for prohibition enacts a kind of law which is in a wholly different class from all usual and just laws, and which the ordinary officials elected by the people have never proved adequate to enforce. Therefore, he must follow his prohibition vote with a vote for unusual financial emoluments for law enforcement, and with measures for taking the machinery of law enforcement out of the hands of the people by the appointment of state constabularies and commissions over which the voters have no power. (4) The prohibitionist drags the church into the arena of endless and bitter political strife, makes the ministers the feeble servants of the political reform machine, diverts ministry and church from the brotherly helpfulness of the Christ, teaches them to stand apart from personal touch with human need while doing the easy and characterless thing of voting to have the police do their true work. 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Democrat, relates: Temperance fanatics in the Iowa senate who would take advantage of the war situation to make the entire country "dry," were virtually drummed out. Senator Thomas E. Taylor of Buchanan county introduced a concurrent resolution calling upon the Iowa legislature to ask congress to enforce nation wide prohibition during the war. The resolution was voted downby an overwhelming majority on a viva voce vote. At noon Republicans in the senate went into secret caucus as to future procedure with the amended Kimball primary bill, which passed the house yesterday and repeals the nonpartisan judiciary law. Senator Enger introduced a resolution authorizing city and health authorities to concentrate their energies upon young people who are loading and failing to improve their opportunities with a view of spurring the drones into activity. No action was taken. BEATS "BONE BRY" LAW A dispatch from Topeka, Kan., to the Kansas City Star, says POLICE SEIZE HUNDREDS OF LIQUOR-FILLED BOTTLES IT'S A "DRY" TOWN However, a Visit to Washington State Will Gavinsee the Skaglies Exports of violations of the prohibition law in Washington state keep coming in. Listen to this from the Spokane Spokesman-Review: More than 300 paint and quart bottles of whisky, all bottled in bond, were soaked on a search warrant last night in a vacant house at Noodle Nevada street, Lidgerwood, by Sergio Mashon Dan A. Pletcher and William R. Warder. The officers got a tip three days ago that a wagon load of liquor was cached in that neighborhood, that it had been brought there in gunny sacks early Monday morning, but their informant led them several blocks astray. After Officer Flipheus had received a tip that led him to the recent house he found the liquor in a closet. The front door to the house was closing wide open. Persons attending a church meeting across the street guarded the liquor while Duncan went to call Wardell. The House, in 10 gunnyseats, loaded down the petrol wagon. The police are attempting to locate the owner of the house and liquor. Arrested, Arrested, Arrested Fred Carter, age 34, Division butal, a mechanic, who appeared yesterday at 6. p. m. on the Division street bridge by Motorcycle Patrolman Paul Smith on a charge of carrying concealed weapons and of having liquor in his NO DANGER OF FAMINE PROSPECTS GOOD FOR THIS YEAR'S GRAIN CROP UNLESS SIGNS FAIL Noted Chicago Statistician Says the Food Panic Scare is "Silliest Exhibition of National Hysteria Known" and Has Slight Foundation in Fact Chicago.—The grain world is either personally acquainted with B. W. Snow, well-known statistician of Bartlett-Frazier Company, or knows him by reputation. Mr. Snow says that the "famine panic" which has swept this country in the past six weeks is the illest exhibition of national hysteria ever known, that there is no famine in this country and there never will be as long as the present relation between producers and consumers is maintained. He continued: "This wave of hysteria is one of these unaccountable things that sometimes sweeps even thoughtful people off their feet." Last year the crop season was wholly unsatisfactory for practically every product of the American farm, and the volume of production of all foodstuffs was smaller than usual. Colcident with shortage in most foods came a demand from abroad for a larger percentage of our production of staple food crops, wheat in particular, than usual, and these two conditions left the public mind fallow for the seeds of fear. Somebody Exaggerated. Well-meant efforts on the part of the Government officials at Washington to stimulate production of foodstuffs gradually became couched in such extravagant and alarming language, particularly when it was repeated by amateurs, that it overshot its purpose and thrust the fear of immediate famine into the public mind. Officials, who in periods of national excitement should be particularly careful in choosing their language because of their positions of apparent leadership, indulged in clamor, abuse and the arousing of class prejudice, all of which only tended to further inflame public fear. At the present time the only food shortage in sight is the probability of a much reduced winter wheat crop. Even at the worst, unless a disaster shall again overtake the spring wheat crop, we will produce wheat enough for our own needs and a fair amount with which to feed the allies. In the case of corn, one of the best food grains known, we shall have an enormous acreage, and there is every probability that the crop will start in splendid promise. The oats acreage is already record-breaking and the crop promise superb.—Cincinnati Enquirer. WANTS DEALERS REPAID IF PROHIBITION COMES Washington. D. C. —Protesting against the attitude of many members of Congress to abolish the legalized liquor business of the United States, D. Clarence Gibbonney, president of the Law and Order Society, of Philadelphia, in a letter to President Wilson, recommended the appointment of a commission to investigate the entire liquor business. In his letter to the President, Mr. Gibbonney laid emphasis upon the fact that it was his intention to dispute the efficacy or necessity of prohibition, but that only through a thorough investigation which would lead to some form of compensation for those now engaged in the liquor business could justice be done them, as they would, he said, be deprived of a living immediately upon enactment of a prohibition law. Mr. Gibboney pointed out that the people of the United States have always taken a large share of the profits of this legally established business and that those who acquired the legally held investments involved, "had every justification for believing that their rights would be protected by law." He asked that at the earliest possible date the President appoint a commission to investigate and study the entire liquor business of the United States. The commission, he suggested, should consist of five members: One member to be a nationally-known representative of the prohibition cause, one to be a representative of the local option cause, one to represent the "abolition-with-compensation" cause, one to be an acknowledged representative of the liquor men or the liquor business, and these four to select a fifth, who shall act as chairman of the commission.—Philadelphia Inquirer. If They Can Spare the Times. Mr. Bryan will lecture on crop production in the South. The farmers should hear him, if they can spare the time from their work. IOWA CITIZENS ARRESTED BY HUNDREDS IN BLUE LAWRAIDS TELEPHONE OPERATORS, NEWSPAPERMEN, MOVIE PEOPLE, DRUGGISTS AND FRUIT DEALERS AMONG THOSE CHARGED WITH WORKING ON SUNDAY County Attorney Announces That Ministers Receiving Salary Come Under Ban of This Puritanical Prohibition State Sixty Jewish Defendants Will Take Case To the Courts The prohibition of liquor in Iowa, as predicted, is being followed by the enforcement of the most drastic "Blue Laws" in the history of America, not even excepting the statutes of this kind which held sway in the New England Colonies, to the horror of succeeding generations of more liberal citizens. The following dispatch from Des Moines to the Detroit Free Press, says: "Attorney General H. M. Havener's crusade for observance of the blue laws in Iowa today resulted in several hundred arrests in various cities. "Two downtown stores in Des Moines opened and did a rushing trade in cigars, ice cream sodas and other similar lines of traffic. Their proprietors were arrested. "More than 100 arrests were made in Council Bluffs, including telephone operators, employees of Sunday morning papers, newsboys, movie men, fruit stand proprietors and ice cream sellers. "In several counties the sale of newspapers was prohibited." May Arrest Pastors. "Madison county, where County Attorney Wilkinson announced that ministers receiving salary for the day would be subject to the provisions of the law, was one of the 'bluest' counties in the state, but no ministers were arrested." According to the Des Moines Register, of the 100 persons or firms caught in the first Sunday closing law raid in that city, 53 were charged with selling groceries, food, fruit, etc.; 37 for adding in staging a Western League baseball game; one restaurant keeper, one druggist, one garage proprietor, one pop-corn merchant and six theater proprietors. Cigar stores, drug stores, soft drink establishments, etc., were closed. Test cases will be asked by 60 Jewish citizens who claim that they are exempted by the law because of their religion. The Blue Law, cause of all the trouble, is an ancient piece of legislation, supposed to have died long ago. It reads as follows: "Section 5040—Breach of Sabbath. If any person be found on the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, engaged in carrying firearms, dancing, hunting, shooting, horse facing, or in any manner disturbing a worshipping assembly or private family, or in buying or selling property of any kind, or in any labor save that of necessity or charity, he shall be fined not more than five or less than one dollar, and be imprisoned in the county jail until the fine, with costs of prosecution; shall be paid; but nothing herein contained shall be construed to extend to those who conscientiously observe the seventh day of the week as the Sabbath, or to prevent persons traveling or families emigrating from pursuing their journey, or keepers of toll bridges, toll gates and ferrymen from attending the same." Pinch Acting Mayor. Too. Attorney General H. M. Havener, who is responsible for reviving this archaic legislation caused the arrest of Thos. Fairweather, acting Mayor of Des Moines, also owner of the Des Moines Western League ball team. Although the proprietors were taken away by the authorities, theaters did not close and patrons remained in their seats. "Druggists were besieged with calls for proscriptions," adds the Des Moines Register, "but refused to fill any save on instructions from a physician that the case was one of life and death." Those restaurants generally open on Sunday did business as usual, but sold no cigars or candy from the counter. As a result of this misguided activity, Des Moines had an awful thirst. It was impossible to buy ginger-ale or "pop" or any of the non-intoxicating drinks used as substitutes for liquor. Even Utah Is Disgusted. The Salt Lake City, Utah, Tribune, in an editorial entitled "Blue Laws Revived." declares: "The so-called Iowa "blue laws," long supposed to be obsolete, have been put into force in Des Moines and the other towns of the county in which the capital of the Hawkeye state is situated. We doubt if any good will be accomplished. They had statutes of this kind in the New England colonies, notably Connecticut, prior to the revolutionary war, but they fell into disuse in the course of time. A great many people who work hard during the week have their rest and recreation on Sunday. Others who are compelled to work on the Sabbath have their 'day off' during the week. In neither case should there be any interference with their rights and privileges as American citizens. "We are not in sympathy with any movement to interfere with the enjoyment of those who are in the habit of attending the 'movies' or watching the ball games on Sunday. Very many of them are good Christians and if they are not bothered by conscience we do not think it would be right to attempt to force them to sit at home and wait for work to begin Monday morning. Men can not be forced to go to church or worship God according to the dictates of some other fellow's conscience, and laws intended to bring about that result are sure of failure. If the war lasts any length of time it may be that many of the people of the United States will have no heart for amusements of any kind, in which case men and women may be content to bear their sorrows in the seclusion of their homes and spend their time in meditation. If this happens they will not seek the Comforter in the statute books, nor will it soften their grief to know that when they begin to cheer up and become resigned to their misfortunes they will be arrested if they seek recreation. America Is Growing Better "With all due respect for those who would force a rigid observance of the Sabbath day, we can not help but think that the Iowa "blue laws" will not promote Christianity, but have exactly the opposite effect." The case of Iowa is identical with that of many other states which have gone dry. Yet none of the others has had the comerity to enter into such arbitrary and revolutionary abridgement of the rights of individuals. Having prohibited liquor, the prohibitions are not satisfied—they are attempting to prohibit everything in the life of amusement. SEND THE TOBACC If the Michigan women who were so indignant over the proposition to add the pocket for tobacco, suggested by Major Vandercook, to the "housewives" they are asked to make for Michigan men in the field could read the numerous stories from the front, written by men in the trenches or on the firing line, giving thanks to those kind friends who have sent them cigarettes or material for "smokes," and acknowledging the pleasure and comfort they received from the gifts, they would withdraw their objections and not only make the pockets but also fill them with the best tobacco obtainable. "Somewhere in France" earlier in the present spring a small number of men were holding a muddy trench against greater numbers. They were wet and uncomfortable, and not a man had "the makings." It so happened that with the much-needed rations came also a package of cigarettes which a Detroit man had sent to a nephew. It was the psychological moment. The lucky man distributed the contents among his comrades, not for forgetting the officers. The sky seemed to clear; the men "lit up," and comforted as much by the knowledge they were not forgotten by those at home as by the "friendly weed" gave three ringing cheers for the Yankee donor Didn't the giver do his bit? the soldier's lot is arduous. Often lonely, lacking many comforts that were his at home, he has put his life in danger for his country's sake. If he gets a bit of cheer out of his tobacco, he deserves it; moreover, he needs it if he has the habit. Let these women en avoid the idea of the old Puritans who decided that what they thought wrong or didn't enjoy themselves was wicked for every one else. Let us give our defenders what they know they want and feel is good for them rather than deny it because of our own views of what they should have—Detroit Free Press. MORITUI TE SALUTAMUS [Arkansas Gazette.] There is some talk of using Castor Oil as an antidote for snake bites instead of the usual remedy. -Siloam Springs (Ark.) Herald and Democrat. STEP-BROTHERS YOU BOYS SHOULD NOT FIGHT, YOU'RE BOTH VERY DEAR TO ME! MAINE PROHIBITION ILLICIT SALES TOM DEAN Joyous news for those who travel into Maine by land or sea when the hot and sultry summer comes! They need not approach it as another Tripoli—a desert coming out to meet the sea, with no comfort upon either hand. Steadfast to the vow taken many decades ago, she still stands for the prohibition law, but against the enforcement thereof. Its new Governor—Milliken is the name of him—was elected upon the pledge that he would rigidly enforce the parching statute, and e'en swore that he would call the armed militia to his assistance. With him weft into the General Assembly his party by a two-to-one majority. Certain persons void of understanding, charmed with the glowing descriptions of the effectiveness of the "bone-dry" prohibition of other parts, sought to apply the principle to Maine, launching a bill to prohibit alcoholic beverages from being imported into the state. Every mountain rocked and every stream halted on its course to the sea. As soon as the equilibrium was restored the shocked General Assembly promptly voted down the daring innovation by a poll of 100 to 31. Ringed around by mountains, seas and prohibitory laws, see where she stands; the mother of prohibition and the stepmother of all those who pour libations to Bacchus, Gambrinus and John Barleycorn!—Cincinnati Enquirer. BILL BRYAN HAS A BRIGHT IDEA Wants State Newspapers Controlled By Nonpartisan Boards "Bill" Bryan has a new one. He wants to have some newspapers owned by states and published by nonpartisan boards. Here is what the Akron (O.) Journal thinks about it: The Hon. William Jennings Bryan is profoundly dissatisfied with the newspapers of the country. He wants the state to go into the business. Here is what he says: "What is needed," he declared, "is a newspaper published by a non-partisan board in every state and also at Washington. The minority members of the board should be named by the minority party itself and not by the party in control. When the dominant party does a thing objected to by the opposition, the majority board members should say in the publication why it was done and the minority members why it should not have been done." This reminds one of the exciting career of the Billville Banner which was owned by two partners. One of them had very decided deep sea googling convictions on the liquor traffic, while the other strenuously adhered to the dislocated view which in its intensity was sahariical. Unfortunately a dry election was ordered. The partners, of course, could not agree and neither had the funds to buy the other out. They therefore divided the paper, one taking the first two pages to advocate the dry cause, the other the last two to uphold the wets. Freedom of the press was not curtailed and consequently each day the first page was devoted to denouncing the corrupt cuss who was upholding the devil on the other sheet, while the corrupt cuss denounced the moral vagabond who edited the first sheet and had sold out to the days. Mr. Bryan's ideal paper might be very much like that. No doubt Mr. Bryan gets his novel idea of the great value and the profound interest that would be inspired, by that shining example, the Congressional Record, which is faithfully read by the proof readers and possibly some others who have to read it. SUPERIOR, WIS., RETURNS TO LICENSE AND REGULATION Business Falls Off During Era of Prohibition and "Dry" Legislation is Repudiated After a Year's Trial—Buildings Are Still Vacant One year "dry," and Superior, Wis., is repentant. After blindly following the Pied Piper of Prohibition, anticipating a business and moral millennium that was never realized, the city has returned to the saner course of license, regulation and control. At the recent election the city voted "wet." are a whole lot higher than they were and our other expenses have not decreased. Take the one item of our Saturday night business. We used to be rushed until late closing time. Now all we have to do on Saturday night is to wash up our show cases. I have a friend in the clothing business in Du The campaign was in many respects a peculiar one. The committee of license took no part in the campaign, other than to file its petition, preferring to let the voters judge from their own observations, while the real fight against prohibition was waged by the Superior Leader-Clarion, whose editor held no brief for liquor and who pleaded guilty to total abstinence. It was conceded that prohibition had been a failure. Why It Went "Wet." The abstemious editor of the Leader-Clarion contributed a series of articles showing the failure of prohibition and its detrimental effect upon the community. The following paragraphs, excerpts from these articles, illustrate clearly why Superior returned to license: "We were told by the 'dry' speakers last spring that a dry city would help business; that a factory always springs up when a brewery closes; that other business would immediately take the place of the saloons, and that business would hum as it never hummed before. "How about the other business that was to fill up the vacant saloons? There are exactly 107 vacant store buildings in the West End alone, figuring a store building as occupying 25 feet frontage. We have not counted the vacant store buildings in the outlying districts, but we presume that there are as many in the outlying districts as there are in the West End. "The only saloon building that has been occupied by another business, so far as we know, is the building owned by Paul Gappa on Broadway. Paul has put a grocery store in the front part of his building; and he has paid around eleven hundred dollars for trying to run a blind pig in the rear end. 500 Vacant Residences. "We have a record of the number of vacant residences and flats in the city, but we think it is safe to say that there are around 500. Possibly this is a good thing for the city, but we confess that we fail to see it. We fail to see the good effect of 'For Rent' signs in advertising the advantages of the city. "Some of our clothing merchants told us practically the same thing. One of them had this to say: 'This thing is driving me crazy. Our taxes are a whole lot higher than they were, and our other expenses have not decreased. Take the one item of our Saturday night business. We used to be rushed until late closing time. Now all we have to do on Saturday night is to wash up our show cases. I have a friend in the clothing business in Duluth, and he tells me that he has sold more clothing to Superior people in a year than for any three years previously. That shows where the money is going. "A merchant tailor had the following of offer: 'There hadn't been a year for a long time that I didn't make from 20 to 25 suits of clothes for boat men. I haven't made a single suit since the town went dry. Boat crews simply don't come up town. The minute the boats tie up the crews jump on the street cars and go to Duluth. You can't do business with a man who will not come up town.'" THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION [Elhira (N. Y.) Herald.] In sections of country that weep "dry" it is observed that the cort screw trade has been wenderful stimulated. Vote "Wet?" You Betl [Farhault (Minn.) Referendum.] "Bone dry" prohibition, that settl prohibition. There are millions w. do not go to saloons, but do like a glass of beer or wine or liquor. The will vote "wet." Their Opinions: Benjamin De Casseries, of New York recently obtained a planchette called on the spirits of the immortals to express their ophilions on prohition. This is what some of the wrote on the planchette, according Mr. De Casseries: Daniel Webster—"Prohibition is sign of national decadence. A count that is too cowardly to drink is on to toog." Robert Burns—"I should prohil the use of alcohol in the arts a sciences. But not otherwise." Rabelais—"Abandon, hope, all who enter the grapevinecery." Napoleon—"Prohibition is all rl for the dead. But I got away w Austerlitz on brandy." Thomas Jefferson—"Prohibition less libere." Confucius—"We tried it here in time, and a man invented opium cause of it."—Cincinnati Enquirer.