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"HERE SHALL THE PRESS, THE PEOPLE'S NIGHTS MAINTAIN, UNAWED BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" The Pioneer ESTABLISHED 1882 EX-GOVERNOR A. B. WHITE'S CANDIDACY WARMLY INDORSED BY PRESS Extract From Interview With Ex-Governor Albert B. White. "My platform has always been and will be that of the Republican Party, which has been and always will be based on two essential fundamental principles—Justice and Fidelity. "I am not, and have not been, the candidate of any faction but preempted by ambition to serve the people of the state in the high office of United States Senator and assured from all sections that I can render the party great service in helping to weld it into a solid phalanx to meet the enemy in the future. I became a candidate and shall remain free from ill-feeling and factions."—Wheeling Intelligencer, Feb. 11. "WHITE, HARMONY, ABILITY AND WIN." M. EX-GOVERNOR ALBERT B. WHITE NEWSPAPER COMMENT IN BRIEF NEWSPAPER COMMENT IN BRIEF, "That the former Governor is eminently qualified as a man of the right calibre to receive the high honor to which he aspires will not be disputed by any one who knows of his past public service. "Parkersburgers, knowing the former Governor as a man in the prime of life, a citizen of integrity and the highest ideals, an official whose past record justifies his aspiration to the highest honor at the disposal of the people of this state, can hardly fail to commend him to other citizens of the commonwealth as a man worthy of being United States Senator from West Virginia."—Parkersburg News. "Governor White's frank and clear-cut statement will be welcomed by thousands of friends and admirers all over West Virginia. It is probable that no other man in the State has a greater personal following than Governor White. As Governor'of West Virginia, Mr. White rendered conspicuous service to the entire people of this state, and since his retirement from the Governor's office he has been a leader of intelligent and progressive thought."—Wheeling Intelligencer "Mr. White is known most widely through the record he made when he was the chief executive of this state. In the four years beginning in 1901 he made a record for the advocacy of constructive legislation that is well remembered."—Huntington Herald Dispatch. "Governor White is capable, a student of political questions, a man of rare educational attainments and would make indeed a worthy representative should he be the favored one to represent the people of West Virginia in the Senate of the United States."—Charleston Post. "He" (Mr. White) "has served the people as governor, and no man can successfully deny that he made a good one and that the people's interests were not always of the first consideration. That he is able, well equipped, prepared by education and experience to represent the state with honor none will deny."—Bluefield Telegraph. "He" (Mr. White) is every inch a Republican and a campaigner worthy of the steel of any opponent."—Fairmont West Virginian. "Governor A. B. White's name is synonymous with ability, honesty and integrity. He has been tried and not found wanting. He has been trusted and always kept the faith."—Pt Pleasant Gazette. "He made a fine Governor and his qualifications for the office he aspires to are good."—Philippi Republican "Mr. White represents no faction but is a true and loyal Republican his ability is such that he will command the respect of his associate and it is not too much to predict that he will become one of the leading men of the nation, as he is now one of the leading men of his state."—Putnam Leader. "He (Mr. White) passes current everywhere for a plain, straightforward man—sturdy as an oak, sympathetic as a mother—the sort of a man you would turn to when you want a hard task done. He is truly senatorial timber."—Preston Republican. Albert B. White is a worthy aspirant for this great office."—Tyler County News. "He (Mr. White) stands 'ace high' with Republicans in this section."—Times-Record (Spencer). "Well, if he (Mr. White) enters the list he will be a hard man to trim, and if nominated would certainly make the Democratic fur fly." Independent (Weston). "We know that Gov. White belongs to no faction. We wish to remark that in our humble judgment, A. B. White is the best equipped man in West Virginia for the U. S. Senatorship. Stand by White!"—Pleasants County Leader. "Ex-Governor White is one of the pathfinders of the Republican party in West Virginia. In this section of the state he is certain to have great strength in the primary election."—Mountain Echo (Keyser). "West Virginia never had a better Governor than A. B. White."—Ceredo Advance. "West Virginia never had a better nor abler governor; he is true senatorial calibre in all respects."—Tyler County Star. "It has been the pleasure of the editor of the Recorder to 'fight, bleed and die' in the ranks of the Republican party alongside of Gov. White since 1882. During this long time we have no recollection of an act of his that we thought deserved criticism." —McDowell Recorder. "He made an able Governor, is a worthy and scholarly citizen, and commands a wide influence in the State." —Sentinel (Princeton). "His (Mr. White's) strongest support will come from those who best remember him as our chief executive." —Ravenswood News. "When he (Mr. White) gets to going right he will give all candidates an imitation of a man 'who is running for office and is going to be elected.'"—St. Albans Herald. "It is safe to say he (Mr. White) would serve the people with no less conspicuous ability as a member of the upper house of Congress than as chief executive."—Wyoming Citizen. "Even the Democrats in Mason are figuring on supporting him (Mr. White)."—Mason Republican. "Ex-Governor White is a strong man, and in the main, his political career has been markedly free from stage play and demoguery."—Doddridge County Republican. "He (Mr. White) made a good governor and would no doubt represent creditably the state in the upper house of the national legislature."—Post (Berkeley Springs). "He (Mr. White) has many friends here who will be pleased of an opportunity to help him to victory."—Preston News. "It is a very strong document from (Mr. White) a mighty able contender for the honor sought."—Kanawha News (Elizabeth). "He (Mr. White) will have a large following in Raleigh County as well as throughout this section of the state."—Raleigh Herald. "Governor White is going to be a very strong candidate before the people."—Weston Free Press. "All who know him admire him for his honesty and integrity."—Ritchie Gazette. "Mr. White is too well known by the people of our community to receive an introduction at our hands."—Nicholas Republican. "It is universally recognized that he (Mr. White) is a strong candidate and if nominated, he will be elected and will make a fine senator."—Ritchie Standard. "Mr. White's candidacy has met with great favor over the state."—Sbinston News. "This surprise was brought about not by any lack of qualification of the ex-Governor for this responsible position."—Leroy (West Union). "Everybody in West Virginia knows of Governor White."—Pioneer Press (Martinsburg). "Should the party honor him with the nomination it would make no mistake."—Glenville Pathfinder. "In the conduct of which office he (Mr. White) displayed those traits of character that marked him as one of the state's leading men."—Grant County Press. "His announcement as a matter of fact means his (Mr. White's) nomination and election, to the U. S. Senate." —Marlinton Journal. "Could we reveal the qualities of head and heart possessed by him (Mr. White)—let the public know him as we have been privileged to know him—he would be elected to the United States Senate by such an overwhelming majority as would sweep him off his feet."—Braxton Central "He (Mr. White) has always been a true Republican who has never been identified with any faction or class."—Jackson Herald. "Mr. White has always been a man of the people. You will find him firm, sincere, conscientious. He will likely be U. S. Senator."—Clay Messenger. "Very few people have had their name used so extensively throughout the state coupled as has always been his (Mr. White's) with words of praise for honesty, qualification and moral courage to back up what he advocates and believes to be right."—Lincoln Republican. THEY SAW THE GHOST. Easy to Recognize the Woman Who Had Haunted the Place. "A certain lady and her family," says Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff in his "Diary." "bired a place in Scotland which was haunted by the ghost of a woman, who was to be seen constantly at night wandering through the rooms and passages. When the family arrived the lady was much struck with the place and said, 'I must have been here before, for I know this place so well, only there ought to be two rooms here, and there is only one.' "The agent replied that within a few weeks the owner had caused a partition to be taken down and made the two rooms into one. Still the lady was puzzled at her knowledge of the place till she remembered that it was a house she used to go to in her dreams. "Well, some time passed, and the agent was up at the house again, when the lady complained that one part of the contract had not been fulfilled. They had hired a house and a ghost for the summer, and no ghost had she seen. "The agent replied: 'Of course not, because you, madam, are the ghost. We recognized you the moment we saw you.'" "I don't like the way this hotel is run!" carped a peevish young travelling salesman. "Neither do I." replied the landlord of Prunytown tavern, "but I've got to entertain all the fools that come along as well as the sensible people."—Judge. Press. BY INFLUENCE AND UNBRIBED FEBRUARY 26, 1916. ANCE AND UNBRIBED BY GAIN" JRY 26, 1916. VOL. 34 Judge Ira E. Robinson OF TAYLOR CUNNTY. Candidate publican Nor Governor didate For the ican Nomination overnor of W. Va. 7 Candidate For the Republican Nomination For Governor of W. Va. To the People of West Virginia: As is generally known, I am a candidate for the Republican nomination for Governor of West Virginia, at the primary on June 6th. I respectfully solicit the vote of every citizen who believes in those sound policies of statesmanship for which the Republican party is preeminent. In view of my public career, it seems needless to say that no individual, faction, or interest is sponsor for my candidacy. I am a candidate at the insistence of good and worthy citizens in every quarter of the state, whose call I deemed it a duty to answer. It is gratifying that I have the support of men regardless of their former affiliations. I stand for efficient public service, through a reunited party, and have "charity for all, entangling alliances with none." If nominated and elected Governor, as I have the faith that I shall be, it will be my endeavor at all times to promote the fair name of my native state, and impartially and deliberately to administer its affairs as the representative of all the people. I shall demand economy my without parsimony, and pregress without radicalism. As far as in me lies, I shall insist upon full return for every dollar of the state's money expended. I think my past record vouches the fact that I shall be firm in my BY GAIN" VOL. 34 NO. 51 For the Remination For of W. Va. own conclusions, after respectful and mature consideration of the opinions of others. At all times I shall seek the right, recognizing that he serves his party best who served his country best. Many good policies have in recent years been put into the statutes of our state by the beneficent mind of the Republican party. Permit me to say that beyond the perfecting of the laws we now have, I am not of opinion that we at present need extensive new legislation. What we need now is active and businesslike co-operation for the uplift of West Virginia; for the development of her resources; for the realization of her needs. Good faith among men is itself law. I have made no promises to retain anybody now in office, nor to appoint anybody who is out. My conception of our state government is greater than a view that it is a mere organization for the distribution of patronage. In this mere incident to government, I shall demand above all else absolute efficiency. As a candidate for the nomination my platform is the simple code of truth and honor which I learned in a plain farm house among our hills years ago; as the nominee of the Republican party, my platform will be that made by the party in convention assembled; as Governor of West Virginia, my platform will be the Constitution of the State and the laws made by the people in pursuance thereof. Requesting the thoughtful consideration of every voter, I am Respectfully, Ira E. Robinson. Grafton, West Virginia. February 14, 1916. --- The Pioneer press Devoted to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humanity. RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION: 1 year ..... $1.50 6 months ..... 75c. 3 months ..... 40c. Pay for all advertisements is due in advance unless advertising is run by yearly contract, in which case the advertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c Reduced Rates to Clubs. Send for Sample Copies. Entered in Post Office at Martinsburg, W. Va. as Second Class Mattor. J R. Clifford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawer 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K. Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY FEBRUARY 26.1916 The finest tandem West Virginia ever hitched up in politics—Ex Governor White and Judge Robinson; both scholars and statesmen; honest and loyal, truthful and friendly. West Virginia wants one for Governor, and the other for the United States Senate. The preparation for war to defend this country's honor and safety is no more essential than is the necessity for law abiding citizens to be allowed to carry revolvers. Thugs, thieves and murderers carry them, while law-abiding citizens refrain which gives the class above assurance to attack and rob. It ought to be allowed upon the affidavits of six reputable citizens as to any one's good name for peace and quiet. Added to our own toughs hundreds are coming here as spies and this country's dangerous foes. Bishop Alexander Walters of New York city, was the guest of the Pioneer Press force last week. He looks well, and is full of tussle for the rights of his people. He is a high-toned leader of men, and should head a National organization for the very much needed opposition to the rapid growing of all kinds of wrongs inflicted upon colored people. Washington should never have been allowed to get control of the Afro-American Council. Start up something Bishop, thousands will follow you. We believed in 1912 and are confirmed in our belief in 1916 that the once glorious Republican party ignored its duty and that it was absolutely necessary that the saner element should spank it. It was done and well done, and now that the vast majority of those who had gone after false gods are willing to pull together again, let us all rejoice as the shepherd did when he found the lost sheep in the desert. Let us make it in this year of our Lord, 1916, a Lincoln and Grant family reunion. It seems to us that some of our good meaning men are making a mistake in stirring up the Brownsville affair. There are so many things of so much more importance to us as a people than that. It was wrong. So was the way our beloved Foraker was treated, but it is human to err, divine to forgive. We have always laid the base of the blame on William Howard Taft, and the picture that revives it, proves it. True this country has many fair-minded men but not one who in public life has been truer and done more for us than Theodore Roosevelt, and no one can be elected President of the United States who will treat us better than Mr. Roosevelt. --- The Wheeling Register on Washington's birthday had a cut of George Washington representing him as father of this country, with a baby boy in his arms. This boy represented the size of the youthful Uncle Sam. Close by Washington the boy youngster in his arms, stands our Uncle Sam of today like an elephant's bladder blown to danger of bursting--the most inflated picture we ever saw. Take whiskey and Negro hatred out of the old chap, and he'll look normal, and wisdom may interpose to keep him out of war. Hon. Guy Warder of Grafton, former law partner of Judge Ira E. Robinson, circulated among his many friends here last week with a smile of perfect confidence of an overwhelming victory for Mr. Robinson as governor of this state. Cardinal Gibbons, the renowned prelate, in Wednesday's American gives prohibition a hard blow, and he's right. He is a temperate man and has opposed the use of whisky all his life, but declares that this fanatical warfare to wipe it out, makes liars, hypocrites and destroys personal liberty. The tongue, he says talks too much, has and forever will cause murder, horrors and sorrows of all kinds. Can it be stopped? And he should have included race hatred that does ten times more harm than whiskey ever has or ever will, and it is a thousand times more hateful in God's sight than whiskey. Whiskey in comparison to emotional, sensational and hell-fire preachers and their devilish religion is the lowest and worst thing a human creature can do. Better that children were murdered when born than be brought up to be made hypocrites by the vast army of our pulpit, ignorant money blood suckers. Their stock in trade is women and money. Two in this town are examples of what America is cursed with. One ruined a woman, and on trial read the Bible to sustain his dirty deed, and since then confessed in public that was his weakness. Another got between a hard working husband and his wife, and when the poor woman began to grieve over her conduct the preacher said: "Kneel down and let us pray over it," and they did. Such infernal destroyers of womanhood and the Pannell class should be tarred and feathered, sterilized and made live among hogs, where there would be no use for the $36 by graft he got from the poorest of toilers and all for hot air. IF YOUR TOWN HAS GONE DRY, CHEER UP, FAL, AND DON'T SIGH (Take a hint from the Hoboken Observer.) In a recent issue the Hoboken (N. J.) Observer states: "A Jersey City reader of the Hudson Observer, to aid a friend in Colorado, has requested a recipe for brewing beer at home. Colorado has gone dry and the friend there misses the beer which he has been accustomed to taking with his evening meal. This indicates that home brewing will become as common in Colorado as it is in other states that have voted dry. Absolute prohibition is impossible. The dram shops may be closed, but this only leads to clandestine sale in the 'speak-easies' and the home manufacture of dandelion wine, peach brandy, apple jack, etc., which can be produced with little trouble. "It is far better to continue the licensed saloons under restrictions for then the traffic can be kept under control and within bounds. Prohibition will produce a nation of home distillers and brewers and increased drunkenness, and the national, state and city governments will be deprived of a large revenue." J. C. T. Nairman HARMON ENTERS RaceForcongress MAKES CLEAR HIS POSITION ON POLITICAL AFFAIRS IN OPEN LETTER TO VOTERS LETTER TO VOTERS. To the Voters of the Second Congressional District: Having determined to enter the race for the Republican nomination for Congress in this district, I deem it my duty to state in a general way my views in regard to political affairs. I believe in the principles of the Republican party as expounded by that great American, Abraham Lincoln, and if nominated and elected to Congress you can depend upon me doing all in my power to put those policies in force in the National Government. That means, of course, that I believe in a protective tariff, to the end that we may have the greatest industrial development, thus giving the most employment to labor and general business prosperity. Preparedness. Just now by far the most important question before our people is the move for "preparedness." It has been the policy of our government for many years past to gradually increase our army and navy, and we have been spending millions upon millions of dollars annually for that purpose. Moreover, our policy has been one of peace with all nations, and much effort has been made by our government to bring about arbitration of international difficulties, and many treaties have been made looking to this end. And, in addition to this, many of the wisest statesmen of the world have been engaged in a move for the disarmament of all nations, to the end that the nations of the earth be freed from the enormous annual expenditures of money for the army and navy and that the burden of national debts be lessened. Up until the beginning of the present European war we felt secure as against all other nations—that we had made sufficient preparation. But now when all the other great nations of the earth—the strongest nations of the earth, the only nations which might be in a position to give us battle at all, have been engaged in the destruction of each other's navies, armies and war equipment, and after they have fought almost to the point of exhaustion, and are so burdened down with debt that the next ten generations can not pay the debt, we suddenly become alarmed about war preparedness. Why all this sudden alarm? In the year 1915 there was spent over $214,000,000 on our army and navy, and now it is proposed to further increase this expense, although the expenditures to run our government now amount to about $800,000,000 annually. How Prepare for War Without Money? As we understand it, there is a constantly growing deficit in the revenues as compared with our expenditures, although we have a war tax in time of peace, producing about $52,000,000 annually. The Congress at this very time is casting about for wars and means to raise revenue with which to pay our usual government expenditures. Hence, if we are to have greater war preparation, where are we to get the money with which to do it? It can not be done without money, and money for government expenses can only be raised from taxes direct or indirect. Favors Reasonable Preparation I stand for necessary preparation; that is, defensive preparation, not preparation for aggression. But let us be very sure we need preparation before we go to spending billions of dollars for more preparation, when there is no nation at this time or will be in the next fifty years in a condition to give us battle, and especially when we have not the money with which to make more preparation without further burdening our people with special taxes. Blood Money This nation from the beginning of the European war has been selling unlimited amounts of arms and munitions of war to the belligerent nations. As a result, a large number of munition plants have been blown up and so great has been the feeling against us that we have been almost on the verge of war with Germany and Austria more than once. Aside from the losses sustained by the explosions and the hard feeling engendered which will remain for many years, it can be said that our people have made hundreds of millions of dollars. But is this not "blood money?" And by furnishing arms and munitions, are we not making ourselves a party to the destruction of human life? And is it not morally wrong? And who wants blood money? Had our government placed an embargo on the sale of arms and munitions in the beginning of the war I believe the war would now be over. Moreover, there would not have been such a feeling against us as may pre- cipitate us in a war later. And had we taken that course, I do not believe we would now be hearing such a "hue and cry" for war preparation. It looks like we sowed to the wind and will reap the whirl wind. Restrictive Legislation. It has been said by one of our greatest statesmen that that country is best governed which is the least governed, This means, in effect, that we can have too much restrictive legislation for the welfare of the country, so much so that business will be hampered, and business men will naturally become uneasy and hesitate about going into business, or, if in business, will be very timid about continuing in it. This has been well illustrated in the past two years. No man is going to invest his money in business enterprises of any kind unless he sees a reasonable opportunity to make a profit from the investment. And when business is hampered, the first to feel the effects is the laboring man whose living depends upon the skill of business. When his job is gone, his living is gone. And when he can not get money with which to buy, the man from whom he buys must suffer, and, as a consequence, we all suffer more or less. Therefore, our legislation should be directed toward the encouragement of business rather than to retard or cramp it. The main reason why the protective tariff legislation of this country has brought good business conditions is because of its encouragement to business, rather than cramping it. And while encouraging business the protective tariff had the effect to produce sufficient revenue, together with our internal revenue, to pay the expenses of our government, except in war time, without resorting to stamp taxes on notes, bonds, deeds, telephone and telegraph messages, etc. Honesty in Politics. I believe we should be as honest in politics as we are in business or religious affairs. This means that I have great contempt for any man who will jump upon some popular wave to carry him into office, when he knows there is no sound foundation for the move. When posing as leaders of the people, we should stand like mountains against every unsound doctrine. And when we know a proposition is wrong, we should not be afraid to speak out for fear of losing or missing some office or position. And it is very reprehensible in a candidate for office to promise numerous people positions, knowing at the very time he can not fulfill the promise to all of them, thus putting them to expense and trouble and causing great disappointment. Graft. There be many who seem to think it not wrong to rob the public treasury. They consider themselves honest, and yet participate in plundering the public treasury, and actually go to church and look sanctimonious. But, let's see! Are they honest? The money in the public treasury comes from taxes collected either directly or indirectly from the people, and the man who votes the public moneys for improper purposes is a grafter, just as much so as if he would steal from an individual. And I had just as well add here that the Congressman who takes the view that the only duties of his high office are to hand out offices and vote appropriations of the public money has a poor conception of the place he holds. Economy in Government In this age of personal and governmental extravagance, it takes a strong personality to resist the temptation of extravagance, especially in making appropriations of the public money. My view is, that a man should be as careful about appropriating the public moneys as he is about his business affairs. Our taxes are quite high enough and our expenses of government are increasing enormously, and our people are complaining under the burden, and the public moneys should only be appropriated where real public good is to be accomplished. Any other course is nothing but grafe and dishonesty. No needless or useless offices should be created, nor unreasonable salaries be granted. What has been said, will give some idea of what I think about our public affairs. I hope to see every voter in the district before the primary, but whether I get to see them or not, I want each (Continued to first col. 3rd Page.) and all of them to treat this as a personal appeal to them for their support, assuring them that if I am elected to Congress they shall have my very best service. Thanking each and all in advance for any favors shown me in my race for Congress, I am. Most respectfully, J. W. HARMAN. Parsons, W. Va., Jan. 29, 1916. THEY SAW THE GHOST. Easy to Recognize the Woman Who Had Haunted the Place. "A certain lady and her family," says Sir Mountstuart Grant-Duff in his "Diary," "billed a place in Scotland which was haunted by the ghost of a woman, who was to be seen constantly at night wandering through the rooms and passages. When the family arrived the lady was much struck with the place and said, 'I must have been here before, for I know this place so well, only there ought to be two rooms here, and there is only one.'" "The recent replied that within a few weeks the owner had caused a partition to be taken down and made the two rooms into one. Still the lady was puzzled at her knowledge of the place till she remembered that it was a house she used to go to in her dreams. "Well, some time passed, and the agent was up at the house again, when the lady complained that one part of the contract had not been fulfilled. They had hired a house and a ghost for the summer, and no ghost had she seen. "The agent replied: 'Of course not, because you, madam, are the ghost. We recognized you the moment we saw you.'" Rev. C. E. Queen of inches ten Va. was in the city last week on business. Mr. John W. Drew of Johnson town, Jefferson Co. spent the day in Martinsburg, Tuesday Washington ton'sbirthday. 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Address Mme. L. C. PARRISH, 95 Camden Street, Boston, Mass. KY. "DRYS" GET HARD KNOCKS SENATE BILL TO CLOSE SALOONS, DISTILLERIES AND BREWERIES PUT IN ICE BOX Second Defeat is Passage of Resolution Urging Blue Grass Members of Congress to Vote For National Prohibition Only in Event Liquor Interests are Paid For Their Property Thomas B. Cromwell, noted political correspondent, writing to the Cincinnati Enquirer from Frankfort, Ky., observes: Through efforts as poorly conceived and as ill-advised as was the injection of the state-wide prohibition question into last year's campaign for state offices, Kentucky's absolute prohibitionists and their political allies—at Frackfort frequently referred to as reactionaries, obstructionists and insurgents—this week received another crushing blow at the hands of the administration forces directed by Governor A. O. Stanley. Their first defeat came on Tuesday, when Senator W. A. Frost, leader of the prohibitionists in the General Assembly, sensing a break in a line-up he had believed immutable, arose with a motion to defer consideration when his cherished Senate Bill No. 4 was reached in the orders of the day. Put in Cold Storage. The Moses of the ultra drys sought to stave off a vote on the bill he had forced out of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments and caused to be favorably reported until February 2, but a majority of the Senators present and voting, fearful that that particular groundhog might see his shadow and duck back into his hole to obstruct remedial legislation for the remaining six weeks of the session, determined to kill the state-wide aardvark there and then. The vote against postponement was 18 to 15. The second defeat for the absolute prohibitionists came on Thursday, when a resolution calling upon the Kentucky delegation in Congress to vote for national prohibition only in the event that distillers and brewers and other owners of plants producing beer, wines and liquors are to be compensated for property destroyed or rendered useless under such an enactment was passed by a vote of 23 to 6. The resolution had been offered by Senator Huntsman on Tuesday, but in its original form it had called only upon the Congressmen to vote for national prohibition, and the compensation amendment was attached upon Senator Hite Huffaker's motion by a vote of 17 to 15. The Democratic platform promises that the county unit law shall have a fair trial and that it shall be strengthened wherever it is weak. Prohibs and Bootleggers. The bootlegger is a stimulus for the argument of the political prohibitionist, and the political prohibitionist no more wishes bootlegging suppressed than he wishes the United States government to compensate distillers and brewers for whatever property may be confiscated in the event of the coming of national prohibition. The solid men of the state who seek to have Kentucky go forward are beginning to say that it is time this political prohibition were put aside, since an unquestionable expression was made upon it in the elections and conventions of last year, and since Governor Stanley a second time has proved that a majority of the people do not want it. Natural Sequence. "The prisoner was sunk in dejection. " "What sank him?" "The fact they couldn't bail him out" --Baltimore American. Not an Ornament: "Yes. Remain in the house."—Houston Post. 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Estate Inter: ests, the City and Suburban Homes company, the National League on Ur- ban Conditions and the Property Own- ers’ Improvement corporation, | These meetings were attended by prominent citizens who have become interested in the weifare of the colored people of the city of New York. A number of model apartment houses are to be erected in Harlem as a memorial to the late E.R. L. Gould, president of the City and Sulmran Homes company, who was xo largely interested in the Phipps houses and the ‘Tuskezee and Hlampton apartinent houses in the West Sixticth street district. ‘The houses In Harlem are to be constructed with the idea in mind of correcting some of the conditions which were ex- posed by the Urban league in its re- port. Some of the facts as outlined in the report are as follows: Only 25 per cent of colored families of Harlem tive in three and four room apartments. while 71 per cent live in five and six room and £ per cent in seven and eight room apartments. These families have an “average income of $71 yearly and pay $281, or 36 per cent of their income, for rent. Of 133 apartments in the same character of houses occupied by German Jews, in neighboring districts, 69 per cent are three and four room | apartments, and these tenants pay only $207 yearly for rent from an average Aneome much larger than that received by colored people. In 62 per cent of the apartments oc: cupted by the colored families lodgers constitute 32 per cent of the total pop- ulation. ‘These lodgers are taken into homes because of the necessity to pay high rents, ‘There is a lodying popu- lation In Harlem alone of 16,000. per- sons, while the increase in Nesro pop- ulation in New York city is about 3.000 persons a year. In an investigation by the National League on Urban Conditions amonz Negroes In an ares of about twenty three bloeks. between One Hundred and Forty-second and One Hundred and Thirty-first streets, there were 726 apartments and 443 private houses oc- cupied by Nesroes, with but 2 per cent of the total number of residents in the district of white extraction. When these houses were opencd to colored people the rents increared per month from St (0 85 per apartinent It is estimated that the total nuniher of Negroes in Harlem is about 50.000. As has been cited above, they are al ready payins rents which are exerhi- tant, compared with their limited in comes, and they cannot pay still hich er rents that would he expected if bet ter services were given in these houses The fact that the houses occupied by colored people return good revenues is shown by the return on the average assessed valuation in that district of 7 per cent net. The following example Is cited by the National Urban league as indicating that the inerease in rent oceurs when white people are succeed: ed by colored people. Twin houses in Harlem were owned by a single Jandlord and absolutely filled with white people. They were rented at from $16 to $19 per month Over the Mark. “Does he atm at reallsm in the sto- ries he writes” “He may alin at it, but he doesn’t hit within a million miles of {t. “How's that?" “The hero of Iiis last story Is a ‘spend {ore Scotchman.’ "—Louston Post. Department of Agriculture. | Before 188) the department of axtt culture was stinply a burean Before the Fiftieth congress adjourned 1 passed 4 bil making the bureau a de partment and the commissioner of ag Heultare a secretary and a member of the cabinet. grime: je BN Ne EN Sead Pee Oe me SER Gnatae Ww“ id AY Wh nae ae os POS & ot Nga fy pea) eer ree Ee ase a es (a Uf i — Le mS Q yf lf | SOAR ane Sm pe Anaad ope | F iS f Sea ss « SN “. 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Egkernl poses he EE HAGERSTOWN, MARYLAND. Py thud Ky HEH PP Lepercace’ Hcp ERR RERERCREREREREREOT a Grerepe pes ei) MOONSHINEWAR Gi IN WEST VIRGINS The following dispatch gppeared to the Charleston, West Virginia, Ga anette: | RelenUess war upon moonshiners etiom he says are operating in the mountains of Mercer county, has been declared by William Osborne, U. S. Marshall for the southern district of West Virginia, who in furtherance of ‘his purpose, has secured from the de- partment of justice at Washington permission to add more men to his force of deputies which was started today. Marshal Osborne, who led a force which captured two large stills | {n Mercer late in September, says that he has evidence that there are other stills in operation. | Following the arrest of Otis and Ar- thur McBride, young sons of Bird setside, on whose piace the largest of the captured stills was found, the moonshiners have been re- sorting to oldtime tactics, according to Marshal Osborne, who says that horses have veen killed and fences burned in retaliation of the supposed action of men suspected with furnish. ing the government with information. The two McBrides were given a preliminary hearing in Princeton Sat- urday and were bound over to the grand jury which meets in Charleston today. They are alloged to have been accomplices of their father in the operation of the still, _ i THE UNIVERSE, Our Qwn Steliar Systern and What May Ge Bovend i. In one of the iatsi conceptions of astronomers the stele universe has a diameter of 10,000 to 15,000 Light sears, with a thickness of You) to 3.000, nnd our sun has a place a httle removed from the center. Lt eiabraces 50,000. 000 to 50,000,000 stars Within (he rane of telescopie visibiliiy. with dark ena Invisible bodies Whose muster exuuet be computed So far as can bed cormined the stars are surprisinciy 1 an oin mass, the range of vii nh holins t ean Oiftyfold, but in density the vance Js from more tin twice fhat of the san to only one-millionth and fi absotote luminosity (or brightiess fren 3.090 times that of the suy fo abour one three-thonsindth, ‘The temperature Uses from near absolute zc in the nebulae to 20.900 degrees Co in certain slant hot stars It is sugecsted that our universe may be not the only one and that the small Magelanie cloud, for instanee. per haps 30,000 light years distant, may he a relatively smal! universe of abont 1,000 light years fn ameter, Another separate star system at sim. far distance is possibly, astronomers hold. the Andromeda nebula.— Newark News There Must Have Been © enirs. “Was your banquet a scons tt “Great! We couldn't have bad a big ger crowd If it had been a free feed.” —Detroit Free Press. ine Cislnune “1 think FI ge inte the real estate business.” “Looks good to son, el? “Yes; the real esinic business seems to be one in which two men can swap property and hota make money.—Louw Wsvillie Courier-Journal.