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The Pioneer Press. "HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S RIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNDERBED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHED 1882 SNAP SHOTS. SNAP SHOTS. BY BRUCE GRIT Races like individuals have each a distinct and separate mission to perform, in the world's great field of battle. All are responsible to God for their stewardship. Were this not true the Almighty would never have created different races of mankind or set bounds and motes to their habitation. The Mission of the Negro race is to preserve its identity; to develop original manhood and womanhood; to build up its own wherever the numbers, talent, means and ability exists for racial development and growth. Segregated, and divided we are doomed to failures. But segregated, united in feeling, sentiment, and action, no power on earth can prevent us from rising to the heights of true greatness or from becoming a potent force in the business and political life of any nation of which we are a part. The individual success of some Negroes is only individual selfishness, of which there is already too much, for the good of the many, or the lasting benefit of the few who achieve it by desorting or ignoring their race in their prosperity, and failing to remember the pit from whence they were digged. Reforms that really reform, are those that begin from within, not from without, and the Negro will do well to remember this. There is a great need of many radical reforms in the Negro race before it can hope to claim the serious attention, or to command the respect of other races. "Unless above himself, he doth erect himself, How poor a thing is man!" The Negro too readily mistakes kindness for indulgence, and discipline for oppression. He too often abuses the former and revolts at the latter and it is this misunderstanding of the scope and meaning of these terms that make him a shiftless, worthless, aimless and spineless coward, or a peripatetic martyr and kicker under rigid discipline. There are a great many Negroes who try to make themselves as well as others believe that the race can only attain to success through individual effort, and those consequently discourage every attempt made by public spirited members of the race to benefit the whole race through organized effort. Negroes who have made any success through individual effort, owe their success largely to the sympathy and patronage of the white race to whom they have catered in special lines of endeavor, while posing as representative Negroes. Some of our leading Restaurateurs of the old days as of the present time, Barbers, Merchants, shop keepers &c., who have grown prominent and prosperous, owe the greater part of their prominence and prosperity to the support of friendly whites who are now beginning to grow cold toward the Negro in business who is ambitious to excel in his line—there's a reason—and it will be found fully stated in an article in the African Times and Orient Review, for Nov. 1912, at page 154. The Negro who reads it and does not get his eyes opened, must be dull indeed. It is this class of Negroes who see nothing in the black race to com. ```markdown ``` and their admiration or to deserve their respect. And these have not sufficient spirit and race pride to be patriotic Negroes. They are Negroes only in name and because they have to be. Socially "they are world by themselves and disdain a division." They draw the color line in their business as rigidly (if not more rigidly) than some white men in the same business, and they are often the chief spokesmen at public meetings to denounce outrages upon the race and are not seldom the chief pillars in the church. They are continually knocking down the ladder which has lifted them, as it has others of their kind into lucrative positions and easy circumstances—the race. Of course men of color who have been exceptionally fortunate in business or politics owe nothing to the Negro for their success—oh no—the Negro with them is merely an incident. But these "exclusive Negroes" forget that there is no place for them in any race save their own no matter how rich or cultured they may be—the bar minister is their African reinforcement and if they pass the rubicon (as many have and been detected) they fall and dash themselves to pieces. The breach between the races in this country is growing wider daily, and we only deceive ourselves when we try to believe that we are approaching that period in the human progression of which Burns sang: Dean Swift says; "Some people have just religion enough to make them hate each other," and I concur in this view. There isn't religion enough of the right sort in this country to make the "white christian" "Love mercy, deal justly and walk uprightly before God." They have had larger opportunities and advantages for arriving at a correct interpretation of this Divine injunction than the Negro—perhaps, and yet they do not follow the advice it gives, in their contact with the darker races. Negroes, Chinese, Japanese, Indians &c. are not comprehended in their code of religious ethics. To each other they are wond'rous kind." The milk of human kindness flows from them like a spring of living water when they are called upon to exercise Christian charity to show forth the spirit of brotherhood—the spirit of Him who is as Jean Paul Richter says, the mightiest among the holy, and the holiest among the mighty and who Himself said. "For there is neither bond nor free Greek or Jaw &c—all are one in Christ Jesus." But the modern white American christian as a whole does not subscribe to this democratic view of the equality of man. He loves Jesus so he says but—the Negro—well as Kipling puts it, "that is another story." Now how is it possible for two races so dissimilar in thought and feeling as to what the religion of the Lowly Nazarene taught, really means, ever come on common ground and join as one in their ascription to the Giver of all Good. If we cannot reach common ground in matters of religion how can we in secular matters, business politics, trade, industry, commerce? One cause of the widening of the breach between the races is patent One cause of the widening of the breach between the roots is patent even to a man up a tree. It is the phenomenal progress which the Ne- gro has made since freedom and his insistence on telling the world all about it with all his voices. In this respect the Negro has been a despair pointment to the observant white men and women of today, who as children heard their forbears say of us, "that we could not endure for long as free men, thrown upon our own resources, that we are inferior in mental equipment to the white race and that took learning would prove to be more of a discipline than a pleasure—this is true of a great many of us, even today—who foolishly waste time which might be occupied in mastering "the three Rits" and some of the "oophies." But there is a large army of bright young Negroes who have demonstrated their capacity in the higher reaches of thought and who have shown themselves advantage, for advantage to be the peer in the force that wins—of any white man that walks upright. And here is the crux of the opposition to Negro advancement—the cause of the growing coolness to Negro higher education, and the paradox and spasms in favor of Industrial education. Count Matternick standing on the veranda of his palace on the Rhine overlooking a field divided by a stream of water in which men were engaged at work said to his guests: Gentlemen behold the true philosophy of society; gentlemen in the palace, serfs in the field, and an impassable barrier between. This seems to be the philosophy of American society today. The Negro is a rival in trade, in the professions, in skilled employments, must not be permitted in fact. Or if permitted anywhere, must not receive the same rewards for his services as are given to white men. He must be made to realize (and he does realize) that he is different. While he is different—made so by the Almighty, it does not necessarily imply that he is fundamentally inferior to the race which adroitly and diplomatically represses his ambition to quit himself like a man, and which withholds from him the need of commendation due him wherever he does demonstrate the qualities of head and heart, which prove that after all, men of talent and genius whatever their race, are MIND, and that no race has a monopoly of MIND. Now the sum of the matter is this: The Negro is entering upon the period of disillusionment the world over and it behooves him to see with clearer vision than ever before the utter impossibility of reaching the goal of his ambition in this country or in any country by running with the Fox, and holding with the hounds, that if he would attain to the place to which he aspires in this nation he must do so as a Negro unashamed, and unafraid of being identified with this race. The men of learning—the talented tenth—among us must get into closer touch with the "dark and millions," must win their confidence and respect, must encourage them, and show them the value and importance of organization intelligently directed, must be proud of the Negro race and teach it to be proud of itself, hopeful of its future and confident that its future is big with promises. The talented tenth can has no higher in the scale of being (except by false pretensee) than the race of which it BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN." DECEMBER 6. 1912. VOL. 32. DECEMBER is an integral part. If it will see us opportunity and seize and use it wisely there will be fewer briefless lawyers, more prosperous business men, more successful clergymen, and physicians and Negroes the country over will begin to rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things. When Negroes begin to THINK BLACK, they will then understand why the white man THINKS WHITE. I don't know a single white man who wants to be like a Negro, think as a Negro, feel as a Negro, but I do know of hundreds of Negroes who are, as Dr. Blyden once wisely said seeking to secure outward conformity to the white man. Why we deify a race that looks down upon us with pity and contempt is beyond my ken. THE SOCIALIST FORM OF GOVERNMENT. BY DR. J. T. WHITSON, UNION TOWN, PENNA. Mr. Poor Man, do you wish to become a free independent American citizen? Listen to me while I tell you how. The poor man never has enjoyed this proud position since this country has been a Nation. No other government known to the human family can presenter to you this high prerogative except a socialistic form of Government. The Socialist government is the only form of government in which a poor man is not dependent on the rich man. A man is not independent when another man owns the tools of industry and the job by which he is to earn his living. Under Socialism all the industries that are used in common will be owned in common. All the land and other natural resources will be owned in common. As everybody will own the industries and tools, each individual will own as much as any other individual and will be his own base, and will be entitled to the full product of his own toil. As the land will belong to everybody each individual will be entitled to enough of it for his own home purpose, hence under socialism every person who wants a home can get it. It will not be necessary to rent from another person because they will not own any more of the land than you. When we, the people, own in common the industries and land we can easily regulate wages and the number of hours in a day's work to quit ourselves. We can also regulate prices of provision, clothing, etc. There will be no particular man to corner the eggs, butter, or meat, etc. for the purpose of skimming the people out of money and starving the poor. If money continues to be the medium of exchange, these prices will be uniform and at a figure satisfactory to all the people. Under socialism we will have Government Insurance Companies and the sick and disabled will receive during such disability the same wages they received while well and at their usual vacation. Sickness will make no difference in a man's wages. This will apply to women as well as the men. The same rule will apply to persons who are eligible for old age pensions. If the law requires that the least wages paid per day for labor shall be five dollars the old Continued on second page. VOL. 32. Anecdotal Literature Capt. M. H. Hodgins of New York said, one afternoon, to a police reporter, "I went to a midrama the other night. The heroine was fat—fatter than myself. In the second act she fell overboard, and the hero, a little scrawny chap, plunged after her, and seemed to be having a good deal of difficulty in swimming with her toward the yacht." "As the hero splashed and struggled under his heavy burden a god yelled from the gallery: "You'll never do it that way, boy I Save what you can now, and come back for the rest. Make three trips necessary." "Let us celebrate Thanksgiving easily, but temporarily," said Stimeon Ford of New York. "Let us not emulate the colonel, for you know, the colonel came down to breakfast, the morning after Thanksgiving, with a bandaged band. When asked what was the matter, he said: "Confound it all; we had a little Thanksgiving party last night, and one of the younger men got boozy and trod on my hand as he was walking across the room." Mrs. Nettie Kirby, conductor of the national division of the Sons of Temperance, in an address at Worcester, pointed out the absurd folly of attempting to drive away sorrow by getting drunk. "There is no greater fool on earth," she said, "than the man who tries to pull himself out of trouble with a corkscrew." Senator Penrose, on a visit to Atlantic City, rang for a bell boy to take a telegram, but it was not until the twelfth ring that the boy appared. "You've been a long time coming," said the Senator. "Yes, Sir," said the boy. "You use, sir, its our dinner hour." "I know why you bell boys are coiled buttons, you're always off." Frank Krause, a Cleveland philanthropist, has published the Tuirty Cent Egg Club, and hopes, by means of a club boycott, to bring down the price of eggs to a reasonable figure. Being complimented on the hard and unselfish work he has given to this movement, he replied: 'Unselfish work that doesn't pay, is what this country needs more than anything else. We are all mercenary here, I once said to a little newsboy. "The first is to become a millionaire; and the second is to become a multi-millionaire. Department of Archives, C Boston, W. Va. --- NO.38 BY W. G. THE FAT HEROINE * * UNDER THE TABLE * * THE CORKSCORE WAY. NEVER ON. * o * His Two Aims. "Have you any aim in life?" "You sir, I have two aims." "What are they" my son?" Continued on third page. The Pioneer Press The Pioneer Press INDEPENDENT WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE MORAL, RELIGIOUS AND FINANCIAL DEVELOPMENT OF HUMAN ITY. 5 months 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the ad- veriser pays every three months. J. R. Clifford, Editor & Proprietor Drawer: S69, and Bell Phone, 60K M. Artist: W. Vs. SATURDAY, DEC. 6 h, 1912 Read our 95 year old writer's poesic prophecy concluding his Anecdotal Literature relative to Tendy. Rev. Dr William Gerhardt reads and writes without glasses. As to the $25,000 to be given by Andrew Carnegie to future Ex-Presidents and their wives long as they remain unmarried, we will simply give two lines of a hymn our mother in law so often sings: "Foor and needy, though I be, God, my maker, cares for me." Until the several Negro preschers of this city, openly and above board, coined the two filthy houses of resignation in full bloom and have been for years—right among them, and carried on by that class of white women, decent whites force out from among them, their moral courage is lauding. How in the name of justice can the colored children be fitted for life by moral, ignorant and generally deficient teachers? After fifty years of freedom, with thousands of well educated teachers wanting schools, why should persons who can work no kind of a problem, and know nothing about language, be given an emergency certificate? We broke it up in this county thirty years ago. The Pioneer Press is in receipt of an invitation to attend the ceremony to be held upon the 10th day of December 1912, at one p.m., on the occasion of the unveiling of a Statue erected upon the Capitol Grounds, in memory of the brave men and devoted women who saved West Virginia to the Union, and which is presented to the State of West Virginia through the instrumentalities of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Woman's Relief Corps by Colonel William Seymour Edwards. It is being said with what right of authority we are unable to say, that social changes will be made by the incoming party of our world famed constituency, framed by the finest Christ like brotherhood of men that ever worked together. It should never be changed and every effort should be made to not only preserve it, but live up to all of its plans and purposes, which if done, will cause every American citizen to love the Bible more, his country better and his fellow man his brother beloved. $10,000 That a certain Philadelphia firm gave to President-elect Wilson, or his cause $10,000, is currently reported. The question is; if this is true, could he to receive it, if it can be proven that during the war of the rebellion, this same firm, when eastern, northern and western Union soldiers were dying in the South by hundreds and thousands because of chills and fever, &c., not only caused a tariff to be put on quinine, but raised its price from 32 cents per ounce to $4.70 per ounce. Such people don't love their country nor its citizens, and their money can be of no leading benefit to the person or the cause represented. Fair Play. If a Negro commits a crime he is arrested, taken to court, and tried as white criminals, sent to the same jail and penitentiary, where they all mix and mingle as bed fellows, eat of the same food &c. If he owns property, he is taxed exactly as the white property owner is, and if he gets sick with the various common diseases, he is given the same medicine that is given to whites. Now in the face of these facts, why not give the Negro all the opportunities that are given to white people? How can the educated whites deny Negroes the rights of citizens in education, and then bail them up in court and punish them as educated white criminals are punished? Is it fair? Is not education man's light and guide to good conduct? If then, the Negro is decided it, why should he be expected to fill a good citizen's place? The Negro should have the best of schools, and the best of teachers, but too often, they have the worst of schools and the worst of teachers. Overwork of Children. Those the overwork of children is overwork in gossip can easily be proven. It is next to impossible to overwork a child if the work is to do, phases it. O all the peoples of earth, the Germans are the best fited to die out living any and every where, and why? Because they teach their children to work soon as they are large enough to try to work. Go to Germany, and as a rule, wherever the father is working, and whatever he is doing, his 4 or 5 year old boy is trying to do with baby tools to work with. It develops their minds and muscles, and rest of all incubates industry. And the mothers have their girls, making doll dresses, washing, ironing, patching them &c. Is it not better to have the little tots busy at work, than to have them idle, running the streets and learning all kinds of badness? Absolutely so. A truer saying than the following: "Idleness is the devil's workshop," was never spoken. The prettiest sight we ever saw, was in Winchester, Virginia, where, entering a house a mother and her 4 year old girl were found busy ironing clothes. The former ironing clothes, &c., and the tot doll clothes is bad washed, with tiny irons and was hunging the ironed pieces on a small revolving clothes horse. What kind of a woman will that little girl make? A womanly woman, and but for the want of such instruction in infancy the homes are void of women. Whatever you—father and mother do—teach your children to love and do it, too. If half as much was written about cigarettes, crasp shooting and leading, much good could be done. Factories are no places for children to grow up in, and we might add, our schools are doing away with the practical side of life, and dealing with the superficial—things to be forgotten, or never used if not. Some White People Think seriously. Boarding a B. & O. train some weeks ago we sat next to a Jewish rabbi who was in a heated controversy with a Protestant Irishman preacher, and they were having a hot time. The Irishman was too wittery for the Jew who was clever however. Finally, the Jew appealed to us, exactly what was wanted. Before we got through the culmination hung on as to whether the Jew, Irish or Negro race had suffered the more. We pictured the Negro's suffering in all of its horrors for 250 years; the Irishman proved his people had suffered as no other race under heaven for 800 years, while the Jew went back further, but could not forly his theory with facts. At this juncture the tide of talk turned to the cause of the affiliation of the three races, with an agreement that the Negro race was more Christ like in its suffering and would, in time come one stronger than the others. The Jew referred to the fire of Baltimore recently, as God's punishment for the sins of the whites in that city, and cited a case when one bad people. When the Fugitive Hungarian leaders of 1848, fleeing for their lives flung themselves on the honor of Turkey, the Turks who were alien in race, religion and ideals, not only protected them, but fought for them bravely and well. They defied Russia and Austria, rather than hand over to them the fugitives whose blood these powers demanded. Among these fugitives was Louis Kossuth, the great Hungarian leader, Unless the Turd's right hand has lost its counting we are strongly inclined to the view that the love of its place on the map of Europe is a very remote contingency. We are watching developments in Turkey with interest and waiting to hear of the occupation of Constantinople by the Allied forces. Continued from first page. age pensioner will get five dollars per day the same as the young man who is well and at work. The sick man owns his interest in the industries and land just as much as the well man, and the old man just as much as the young man. Hence they are entitled to the same pay. If the well man has his health and strength and the use of the different members of his body, he can thank God for it. It is not through any power of his own. He will get sick or disabled sometime and die too. If he lives long enough he will also get old. When God created the earth and the funnels thereof, he created it for the sick man as well as for the well man and for the old man as well as for the young man. The one has a God given right to the same pay as the other, hence under Socialism the well man, the sick man and the old man will share alike with regard to money paid for labor sickness and old age pension. Old age pensions will be paid on account of inability to do active labor for services already rendered to the Commonwealth, and on account of the interest which the pensioner possesses in the industries and resources of the Nation. At a certain age established by law a man or woman can quit now, if they choose, and take it easy the rest of their life. They will have done enough for the Commonwealth, their salaries will go on as before they quit work. The only persons who will suffer under Socialism are those who are eligible to do the work of the Nation and will not do it. There is nothing impossible about this. When we consider the great natural resources of this Nation, the caring for the sick and aged according to this plan becomes an easy matter. The great State tax of Texas alone can feed cloze and ebolter every man woman and child in the United States, to say nothing of the other 47 states. There will always be plenty of young man and women to do the work of the Nation Under Socialism we will have Government employment offices. It will be up to the Government to see that every person who desires to work, can get work at their profession or trade, or whatever they can do at Union wages prescribed by law which will be sufficient to keep themselves and families in all the comforts of life. Under Socialism a young man need not be afraid to get married less he will be unable to keep his wife, because he will know that the Government will be compelled to find him employment at living wages. Hence he will not only know but realize that he is a free and independent American citizen and in a position to demand his rights. He will not be dependent upon Mr. H. C. Frick, Mr. Andrew Carnegie or any one else for a job. Mr. poor man do you not of the best and richest women soon thereafter consecrated her life and her means to the up life of the colored people the world over, and wound up by saying: "the late Senator Gorman who had deceived and gotten Negro votes, turned and legislated against them most bitterly, and was taken from earth, and others would be." His prophecy has included his own kith and kin in the person of I-idor Rayner, and may it go on till peace and many love prevail everywhere. The Irishman praised America, but wanted Englishmen to share the worst love possible. We shook hands as we parted—the Irishman getting off at Paw Paw, the Jew going to Pittsburgh and the writer to Romney. Europe vs. Turkey Some of the great and lesser journeys of Europe and America appear to be in a conspiracy to blacken the character of the Turkish people by systematically misrepresenting them, and their motives: The unanimity of the English speaking press in its crusade of viluperation of the Turks suggests an ulterior motive. But what this motive is, opinions differ. The Turks are regarded as anAutistic people and it is the purpose of Europe to drive them back into Africa—if they can. The struggle now in progress has for its chief object the possession of certain territory long occupied by Turkey, which the Allied powers now arrayed against it, and secretly backed by some of the stronger European powers wish to possess and divide among themselves. Constantinople is one of the bones of contention between the Allies, and the reason it has not been occupied by any one of them as has been threatened for a month past is due to their suspicion of each other, the fear of precipitating a world war, and uncertainty as to the character of the reception they will meet with at the hands of the Turks, who seem to be the least agitated about the contemplated taking of the ancient city. We do not believe that Constantinople will be occupied by the Allies or their accomplices—the governments that are egging them on. It may be taken, but we seriously doubt it and if it is the Turks will live up to the name applied to him by the grasping nations now harassing them—Terrible Turk—and the event will be remembered as long as human memory endures. That the Turks are labelled; that their character is misrepresented we have not the elightest doubt. The same tactics which the press of America have, and are still employing to discredit Haiti, the false and vicious and venal standards of the people of this Negro republic which for over one hundred years has maintained its autonomy and withstood the shafts of its enemies both in Europe and America, are being employed by the European press to injure the Turks, and thus prepare the way for the looting of Turkey in Europe—and the ultimate extinction of the Turks in the territory from which it is now desired to expel them. It is not difficult to see in the distance amidst the smoke of battle, the hands of Russia and Germany in the three cornered fight which is now attracting the attention of the civilized world. But we shall miss our guess if Turkey yields to coercion either from within or without, and should she yield we predict that the cost to Europe in blood, and treasure will stagger humanity. That the Turks are not the red handed assassins and moral degenerates they are said to be by the victorious European Christian nations now costing lots for their garments is shown by its acts of humanity in the past to come of the nations now arrayed against them. In 1847 when the famine raged in Ireland Turkey sent a ship load of provisions and a sum of money for the relief of these people. The Irish do not believe that the Turks are a think this a much better form of government than our present pull Dick, pull devilkind of government? Don't you think more brotherly love can exist under the former kind of government than that of the latter where the sick, the aged, the jobless and the children are left to the cold mercy of a baughty dominating upper class who own the earth and the tools of industry? Socialism is better for the rich as well as the poor; because a man is of an rich today and poor tomorrow unless a man who was once well to do, has died in the poor house, but under socialism a man will have nothing of this kind to fear, neither for himself, his children, or his children's children for generations to come. There will be no child labor under Socialism, children will be required to go to school and fit themselves for the duties of life until they are old enough to do the work of the Nation. In view of what I have said there will be no poor houses under Socialism. The old man will not be afraid of being kicked out by his ungrateful children and friends to die in the poor house, for he will have simple means to keep himself. He will therefore be a free, independent American citizen until he dies. What a glorious country this would be under such a government! What man with the least spark of patriotism about him would not willingly lay down his life for ench a government. 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ATTORNEY AT LAW MARTINSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA. Practices in all the Courts of W Va., the Supreme Court of Appeals and the United States Courts. THE SOCIALIST FORM OF GOVERNMENT. # Corrected to May 26th, 1912. EAST BOUND. J. R. CLIFFORD. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg W. Va., as Second Class Master Christmas is only fifteen days away, and as a consequence, children in all civilized lands are happy. Mrs. Charlotte Spears has sufficiently recovered from her recent illness to be able to bake the pies for which she is famous. Thompson and Thompson are in reality the hustlers of hustlers in the clothing line and their stock is up to date in style and shades. Much to the gratification of his many friends, Mr. James H. Levy, who has been very ill, was able to attend divine worship at the M. E Church on last Sunday morning. Follow the crowd to Fletchers West End Grocery. Everything nice and in a sanitary condition Phone 287K: P. R. Fletcher, Proprietor. Mies Margaret Johns and Mr. Masou Roman were united in marriage on Thursday night last. We wish the happy couple much success, and say to them that it can be achieved if they so elect. Mr. J. Frank Bittiscoe, and Mrs. Neunie Ross attended the Daily Rosne wedding in Baltimore, and they report a very pleasant time, as well as say that the wedding was a nice affair. There has been a week's worship at Meun Zoon M. E. Church, beginning last Sunday night, which service has been held in commemoration of the 45th anniversary of that edifice. Mrs. Mudred Fairfax has gone to Charles Town, where she will visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Thompson. In the meantime that prince of good fellows, Mr. Berkeley Fairfax, her husband, keeps "bachlor's hell" and wishes for a most speedy return of his madam. During the recent desperate illness of Mr. James H. Levy, his brother, Dr. Allen Levy, a well known practising physician of Pittsburgh, Pa., was here and rendered his afflicted relative valuable professional aid. Doctor Levy is doing well in the "Smoky City," a fact highly pleasing to his Marineland friends. Mr. William Roman died at the residence of his son Clarence, East Martin Street, on last Sunday night about half past nine o'clock. While Mr. Roman's death was a great shock to his many friends, it was not entirely unexpected, he having been sick for nearly a year. He was a remarkable old gentleman—refined, intelligent, manly and industrious. It was worth a great deal to listen to a recital by him of times preceding, during and after the Civil War. He had a style entirely his own, and it was interesting, instructive and very entertaining. We could sing praise of Mr. Roman indefinitely, but it is unnecessary, because the way he lived is a monument to him, and he needs no further commendation. Mr. Roman is survived by eleven children, namely, James, Grafton, Clarence and Mason, Martinburg; Roger, Youngstown, Ohio; William, and Mrs. Eliza Harris, Charles Town; Mrs. Marie Thompson, Berkeley Springs; Sophia, and Meedames. Fannie Wileon and Louise Triplatt, Yonkers, New York. All of the above bereaved ones of our deceased friend and their father have the deep sympathy of the Press in the great illction which they have just experienced. Mr. Roman's body was taken to Middleway Jefferson Co., his old home, where funeral services were held, Rev Samuel M. Beane, his city, officiating. In conclusion, we will say, good bye, departed friend, and may your reward be great in heaven. THE SOCIALIST FORM OF GOVERNMENT. Continued from second page. brought about? It will never be accomplished unless the people want it. They will first make known their wishes at the ballot box. When it becomes known in this manner, that the majority of the people of the Nation desire such a government, the minority will have to give way and the right of eminent domain will prevail. The government could then say to Mr. Frick: the people of this Nation have spoken at the polls and their decision is that all your coal mines and coke ovens shall be owned by the people in common for the good of all. The government could offer him a nominal sum for it, or if need be certificate it. If trouble should arise over the government possession of these industries, etc., be it remembered that the president is the absolute commander in chief of the armies and navies of the Nation and the Governors are the commanders in chief of the militia and state constabulary and they will be prepared, if necessary to carry out the wishes of the majority by force of arms. At the present time if the State of Pennsylvania was to grant a company the right of way to run a railroad through your property, the company could simply appraise your property at a certain figure and you would be compelled to sell. You are just one person and you could not resist the Great Commonwealth and you would simply have to make the sacrifice for the good of the state. If a war was to break out between this Country and some other country and they were to call on you to go out and fight, and you should refuse for fear of having your head blown off you would be compelled to go, because this is all the country you have and you would have to sacrifice your life if need be for it. Which is the more important, your property or your life? Property is no good to a dead man. If a Nation can make you give up your life for the good of the country why cannot they make you give up your property for the good of the country? I might use other methods by which these industries might be taken over into ownership of the people but it will make this article too long. My object is to give the leading features of Socialism in a nutshell, so the reader may grasp the idea without having to read too much. It is not necessary to be a college professor to be a socialist. Methinks what I have said here should be sufficient reason for any poor man to ally himself with the Socialist party. I can see why the rich do not want the Socialist party to get into power, from the fact that they have such a fine time riding on the books of the poor. I fail, however, to see wherein the poor man's pleasure comes, unless he enjoys playing horse for the rich. Anecdotal Literature BURIED. Hid in a secluded lair, In silence dark and deep, A bull moose and a Teddy-bear Are lying fast asleep RESURRECTED. 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No answer has yet been received from Victoria, but the German emperor is hopeful that Austria will acquiesce in the hope of arbitration. No Change in Situation. No chance for the worse in the international political situation brought about by the war in the Balkans is visible except in other as the continued tension determines the ability of diplomacy to reshape a rupture. Great Britain, France and Germany all are giving counsels of moderation both at Vienna and St. Petersburg. There also is reason to believe that Great Britain has given Servia as well as Russia and France to understand that she has no interest in Servia's demand for a portfolio the Adriatic sea. She also has told them she has no intention of supporting Servia's claim by force o farms nor of aiding any other power to do so. The fact that the Austro-Hungarian consul at Přireně has arrived at Uskup, thus disposing of the reports of his murder, ought to be helpful, in the opinion of diplomats, in bringing about a general improvement of the situation. But this is offset by a report that Servian troops have occupied Durazzo, the principal Albanian port on the Adriatic. Dispatches from the Continent say that nearly 5,000,000 men are under arms in Russia, Germany and Austria, and that Servia is dispatching all her available troops to the Hungarian border to repel a possible attack from Austria. One ray of hope observed by diplomats in London was a dispatch from Paris stating that conservatives there had started a counter movement against what they term "exaggerated reports" of a possible European war. Another report was that Italy also was preparing for war. The progress of the negotiations between the delegates of Turkey and of the Balkan allies at Tehatajla is still a soiled book. In diplomatic circles in London it is stated that Turkey has presented the following as an acceptable basis for an agreement: First, no war indemnity. Second, the retention by Turkey of the territory bounded by the Maritza river, the fortress of Adrianople to be included. Third, the maintenance of the sovereignty of the sultan of Turkey in Albania. As soon as Trukey shows that she really wishes for peace, Bulgaria will, it is authoritatively declared, demonstrate her willingness to spare as much as possible Turkish susceptibilities by still further moderating her demands. In addition to not insisting on the evacuation of the Tchatalja lines in front of Constantinople by the Turkish troops and allowing the garrison of Adrianople to march out, provided guarantees are given that the troops will not engage in further hostilities, Bulgaria probably will consent to Turkey withdrawing the artillery from that fortress. In other ways also the Bulgarian government will be prepared to do everything possible to aid in establishing a permanent peace. The danger in the general situation arises not alone from the conflicting interests of Austria, Servia and other powers, but from the possibility that Turkey, following the traditional policy of profiting by the embroilment of the great powers, may adopt an irreconcilable attitude in the peace negotiations. Reports from Belgrade state that the Servian officers, who now have the upper hand, are absolutely against any compromise, and that King Peter and his cabinet, whose intimate adviser is the Russian minister, will obey their dictates. KING'S MOTHER DIES Countess of Flanders, Whose Son Rules Belgium, Victim of Pneumonia. King Albert's mother, the Countess of Flanders, Princess Marie of Belgium, is dead in Brussels. The countess had been suffering for some days from pneumonia. She was in her sixty-eighth year. 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