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"HERE SNAIL THE PRESS, THE PROFESSOR BANNER, DRAWED BY INCURRENCE AND UNBRISED BY GAIN" ESTABLISHELD 1862 Espousal by Distinguished Editor of the Cause of the Republican Candidate a Significant Campaign ORIGINAL WILSON BOOSTER He Takes This Action Not Because He Is the Victim of Ingratitude But Because Wilson Stands for Wilson First and Col. Harvey Cannot Assist in the Betrayal of His Country for the Gratification of Personal Amusement—A Democrat's Patriotic Stand. The avowal of the cause of Mr. Hughes by Colonel George Harvey is one of the distinct features of the present campaign. It would be significant in itself that a man of his prestige, who had always trained with the Democratic party, had espoused the cause of the Republican candidate. But in Mr. Harvey's case the significance is very much greater, as well as the importance of the event. He has been not only a Democrat, but a Wilson Democrat. Moreover, he was the first man of prominence to advocate the election of Woodrow Wilson as President, and for many years one of the closest friends and advisers of the present occupant of the White House. Mr. Harvey not only proposed Mr. Wilson for the Presidency, but as early as 1910 interested United States Senator Smith, a Democratic leader of New Jersey, in Mr. Wilson, and this resulted in the Wilson nomination and election as Governor of New Jersey. Mr. Harvey not only comes out for Mr. Hughes, but gives very intelligent reasons for his action in the current number of his "North American Review." In his judgment there are two vital questions to be answered before election. One is, which of the two great parties at this molecular juncture in our progress as a nation is the better equipped and the more likely to render the highest public service? The other is, which of the two designated leaders is the more certain to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States? Such仁仁 issue as the Democrats claim, that Mr. Wilson has kept us out of war and therefore is entitled to re-election, is brushed aside as something that has no proper place in the mind of the voter of this year. In Mr. Harvey's judgment, only the most insane partisan would venture to sug- gest a possibility of Mr. Wilson or Mr. Hughes inciting or inviting war with any European or Asiatic Power, and therefore there is no false issue between them on this question. There are three elements that are involved in the answer to these two questions, those of military and industrial preparedness, government by and for the people and national honor and opportunity. So far as all of these are concerned, the answer is the same. Mr. Hughes is the man who should be chosen from each and every standpoint—both as the representative of the Republican party and as an individual. The best interests of the country are to be served by his election. Mr. Harvey calls attention to the fact that the utter absence of self-seeking on the part of M. Hughes throughout his entire career, confirms the belief that he does, in fact, from the very nature of his being, stand for "America first." On the other hand, no less surely and most disappointingly, happenings of the past two years culminating in the betrayal of his country for the gratification of personal ambition, prove incontestably that Mr. Wilson stands for Wilson first. 'That is Mr. Varvey's opinion. In this judgment there is no need to seek a conclusion. It finds itself. The summing up of the situation is that upon the clearly marked issues as between the candidates, there is no reason why any professed Republican, any thoughtful Pro- Department of Archives NE SHALL THE PRE 1802. WAR e Pi HALL PIE PRESS, THE PROPL 2. MARTINSBURG, give sive or any principled Democrat should not, and every reason why every patriotic Republican should vote for Mr. Bushs for President Such advice from such a source should make a deep impression upon the american electorate. It certainly is not given through any prejudice against Mr. Wilson, for its author would naturally be predisposed in favor of the President. Nor does it come from any lack of knowledge of Mr. Wilson's methods and intent. The inhiliry of the two men has been too useless and too close to admit of any lack of knowledge on Mr. Harvey's part. The man who, as Mr. Wilson's friend, first started the movement for him for President, now, after a test of Mr. Wilson in the White House, advises the American people to vote for Mr. Hughes. There should be no hesitancy on the part of the voters to follow this advice. FINNEGAN'S PHILOSOPHY. "Yes sir. He's like the patrarchs. Which iv them? All iv them. He unites the Civil Service Rock and refreshin' jobs gushes foothrth for thursty but dishurvin' Dimmycrats. He blows on a horn an' ivrythin' fails for ut. If the people call him iver so soft, Little Samuel had no quicker ear. An' for encryficin' what's dear to his heart, Abraham had nawthin' on him. Sure he is Dimocricy's shield an' exceedin' great reward. "Tis his Presbytaryan bringin' up, I'm thinkin'. Furst he adopts a policy; thin he thries to justify it, thin he sanctifies it wid a phrase, while a choir iv Deshurvin Dimmmycrats sings a hymn. An' there ye are. Justification, Adoption an' Sankty-fesshun. "The choir met great harmony when Jim Smith, George Harvey an' Billy Brine was all in ut. But wan be wan their vices cracked an' they passed out by the life ly the great davist Harvey wint back to editin' an' Bill Dring wint in search iv the Howley Kale. McCombs was curned, because him an' Billy McAdoo evident sing a duet, an' Oscar Underwood was week on Tariff ragtime. But Wudthrow dicoated them all. Wid fwhat say ye? Wid the Order iv the Double Cross. O—ho. I mind well the time at the Manhattan Club, whin he kissed Brine an' kicked Harvey wid wan motion. Now the choir has what Wudthrow calls 'the vital stuffs iv life.' Stone an' McAdoo; Danylels an' Jim Ham Lewis, wid Redfield for the high falsetto, Wudthrow sits wid his hands crossed while the stuffs slings songs iv praise, 6n' Col. House winds the Viethola. "Wudthrow is fond Iv music, but Colonel House himself is the quiet man. Faith av he danced a Clog on a Washblier ye'd niver hear a sound. "Well, wan night in August the Colonel come tiptoein' In through the basement dure. "How's the game, Colonel?' says Wudthrow. 'So-so,' the Colonel says, 'Ye might round up a few more votes,' says he, scratchin' his ear wid an absent air. " 'Ain't I got the full dinner-pall's? axes Wudthrow, anxious like. 'All I forgot the first two year and a half,' says House pleasantly. 'Ain't I kep' 'em out o' war? axes Wudthrow, 'Part o' the time,' says House, rubbin' his left shin wid the felt-slipper on his right foot. 'Ain't my voice our greatest liquid asset? axes Wilson earnestly. 'It's some voice,' says House, but a lot if suckers can't tell a asset from an 'blility,' the Colonel says. " 'K'what are ye drivein' at? says a Hoon, four flushing a little. " 'Are ye watebhin' the strike? says House. 'Half' a millyum votes might be useful,' says House, tptoein' out through the dure, an' closin' ut behind him. Woll. Sir, he left Wudthrow sunk in profound midtashun. At last he spakes, 'I hear,' he says, in a low sweet tone 'that vice' by the people, which is to rue as the vice of a Carnegie Penshun.' 'Oh,' he says, thrillin' in ivy nerve, 'must I indade sacryfeice wan more idol,' says he, 'on the altar iv me Countrry!" says Wudthrow. "Was not the Wan Turn Flank,' he says; 'an' the Sugar Tax,' he says; 'an' --- Pioneer the 'hariff for Rev-noo,' he says; 'un all me friends, beside,' says he, 'sixte teen pretty good Mexican Policies— was not all thim enough? he axes in agony. 'But 'will purge me Heart Ivy ivry personal 'ought,' says he, startin' for bed. An' before he retires he takes a Heart Purge iv his own invinshun the way it'll wurk while he sleeps. I dinnaw f'what the purge is. 'Tis a secret. "In the morn he was puzzled. He wanted a gr-eat sacrytise of a pur- rinele, dear to his heart, but he'd used most iv thim already, an' he felt that this was no time for second hand or slightly damaged sacrytises. So he seeks for House- 'Colonel,' says he, 'If'what purinele dyr think wud he be' acceptable sacrytise in this grreat mord imarginey?' he axes anxiously. "Whisper,' says the Colonel. And he said wan ward in Wudthrow's car, and failed silently away through the dure. "For wan instant Wudthrow stud spe沸ound. Thin he burst into a whootp 'The 'Kam in the Bushes,' cries he wild tears iv jy. "Twas an impressive ceremony within the scurefise was solemn-ised at the Capitol. "The prockession starred I'em the White House wild the Prisidint walkin' ahead carryin' the Ram in wan hand an' a box iv Safety-First matches in th' other. He was followed by a coon bearin' four gold pans, and belold came four Union Chiefs ridin' on milk white steeds followed be a group iv Railroad Prisidints, Stock Holders, Farmers, Shippers and Conshumers, loaded wid chains. After a short sermon to Congress on 'Purgin' the Heart,' the Prisidint laid the Ram on th' after, an' impressively stabbed it wid the four gold pens while the choir gang Holy, Holy, Holy. The Prisidint handed the gold pens to the four chiefs wid a bow; Jim Ham lit the wood an' wiped up the blood, an' the sacryfise was complete. "What was the Ram? say ye. T was a pet baste Wudthrow used to graze in the White House lawn. T was the idol it his heart. He named it Arbitrashun. It was the Ram, an' all the people was the goat." Mr. Wilson has become so thoroughly neutral that he looks with grave suspicion on the American contention in any international dispute. RELATES EVIL OF WOMEN'S DRY LAW Former Citizen of That State Says It Has a Real Liquor Question "The Chicago Tribune contains an article of Mr. William Tinlon, which we quote in full as being brief and to the point: "J. M. Burley writes The Tribune that Lewiston, Me., has very little drunkenness. I wish Mr. Burley could make a personal investigation of conditions in Lewiston and as a result thereof he would find very little about conditions in Lewiston to indorse. "I moved my family from Lewiston four years ago. For twenty years I resided in central Maine, and if there is a whisky question anywhere on earth it will be found in that state." Governor Cobb of Maine, who during his term of office endeavored to give the people of Maine what they voted for (prohibition), significantly sold after his experience, with prohibition; "if I, for the moral, social, and economic welfare of the young people of my state, had to choose between prohibition—such prohibition as I found it possible to enforce—and free rum, I would stand firmly for handling whiskey over the counties of my stores as freely, as I do sugar." Professional Caution Burglar (that acquitted, to his lawyer)—I will drop in soon and see you. Lawyer—Very good, but in the daytime, please—Boston Transcript. Press. OCTOBER 21, 1916. VO CITIZEN DRINK TOPEKA (KA Ed. Bennet Never Tasted Real Yet His Was a Drunkar Nickname of J CITIZEN DRINKS "JICK" IN TOPEKA (KAN.) AND DIES Ed. Bennet Never Tasted Real Liquor In This Prohibition State, Yet His Was a Drunkard's Death—"Jick" is the Nickname of Jamaica Ginger The Kansas City (Mo.) Post, in the following story from Topeka, illustrates one of the effects of prohibition. They'll bury Ed Bennet in the potter's field today. The funeral will be in the police station. Ed Bennet died a drunkard's death, but he never tasted ordinary liquor. He was a trivial or "Jick." "Jick" is the police triangular or Jamaica ginger. There are many friends of "Jick" in the town. sold Harvey Parsons, chief of police. The supreme court has held that Jamaica ginger is an "old fashioned romance," and may be sold in Kansas. The police say it contains 90 per cent alcohol. Drug stores keep gallons of it on hand in 15-cent bottles. A 15-cent bottle will insure a drunk. "Jick" and horses were all Ed Bennet loved. Once he was a railroad switchman. He quit the railroad for the circus. He cared for and drove horses in a town. Then he became When the cortege shirtn, the body six men will shuffle along, behind the pine-box coffin. 'They' the pulbebearns, also are friends of "Jick." They will not wear white gowns and carry themselves with pride. They are broken and sent. "It will be an example for others to see those broken men, all victims of "Jick," burying another victim." ANOTHER "DRY" TOWN "WET" The prohibitionists are trying to vote the saloons out, thinking thereby to make people stop drinking by force. In view of this let us see what prohibition is. Does it mean temperance? The answer to that question can be found in Highland county and in the city of Greendfield, O., which had prohibition forced on it. Inspectors of the state liquor license commission have made an investigation there and they were astounded at the scale on which bootlegging is carried on in that little city of 5,000 souls. When these inspectors departed from the city, they carried with them more than 100 all-davids charging illegal saloons of liquor against 38 residents. Prohibition in Greenfield has not brought temperance; but on the other hand the vicious practice of bootlegging, secret drinking with excesses that go beyond those of public drinking and a great mass of law violators. Every one of these conditions is worse than the open and regulated saloon. Our prohibition friends cannot deny my assertions, for the daily newspapers make the announcement that the members of the state liquor license commission are making ready to certify the 38 people and the 38 pieces of property where they are in business to the state auditor for the imposition of the $1,000 Dow Liquor tax. It will be a sorry day should Ohio go dry. A. J. WILSE. Columbus, September 25. WITH THE SE THE MUSEUM OF THE PHARAOSE Wine is an indispensable adjunct of the soldiers in the European War. Prohibition has obtained no foothold among the one-hundred-per-cent men who are braving Death every day. This picture shows the officers' mess in the Serbian camp on the Eastern front. Wine is an indispensable adjunct of the soldiers in the European War. Prohibition has obtained no foothold among the one-hundred-per-cent men who are braving Death every day. This picture shows the officers' mess in the Serbian camp on the Eastern front. Editor Ohio State Journal: BY GAIN" L. 35 NO. 33. KS "JICK" IN N.) AND DIES Liquor In This Prohibition State, His Death—"Jick" is the Jamaica Ginger and Harvey Parsons, chief of police. The supreme court has held that Jamalen ginger is an "old fashioned romance," and may be sold in Kansas. The police say it contains 90 per cent alcohol. Drug stores keep gallons of it on hand in 15-cent bottles. A 15-cent bottle will insure a drunk. "Jick," and horses were all Ed Bennet loved. Once he was a railroad switchman. He quit the railroad for the circus. He cared for and drove 15 horses in a team. Then he began to drink "Jick." Since he hasn't worked. He slept in the barn and ate with police prison orca. Sunday in a drunken stupor he climbed on a table to sleep. He tossed restlessly under the influence of the "Hick" and rolled to the floor. His head struck on the concrete and his skull was fractured. "MODEL DRY COUNTRY" Says the Houston (Texas) Freeman: For many years prohibition speakers throughout the country have pointed to White county, Illinois, as a "model prohibition country." White county was held up as an example for other counties to emulate. Now comes the Illinois state board of health with a report on conditions in White county that has shocked all of the drys in the Middle West. Complaints reached the board of health that tuberculosis had reached the proportion of an epidemic in White county and an officer was sent to that section to investigate. The report of the representative of the board of health shows that not only is tuberculosis alarmingly prevalent in White county, but there are other contagious and infectious diseases; that the moral tone of the county is at a low ebb; that the inhabitants are deficient in education; that many families related by blood have intermarried; that the crop of imbeciles and cripples is large; that blind tigers are numerous; that the health of many of the women has been wrecked by indiscriminate use of patent medicines and other nostrums; and that radical stops are necessary by the health authorities to reform conditions. White county has lost the "white ribbon" and there is grief in the Anti-Saloon League camp. ERBIAN ARMY Devote to the Moral, Religious and Financial Development of Humility. HATES OF SUBSCRIPTION a year ..... 21 50 b months ..... 10c. c months ..... 40c. e for all advertisements in the in fance unless advertising is on by early contract, in which case the ad- vertiser pays every three months. Advertising 1 inch one time 75c. Standing ..... 50c Reduced Rates to Clubs. Send or Sample Copies. Entered in Post Office at Martins- burg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter. W. Stofford, Editor and Proprietor. Drawn 869, and Boll 'Phone 60K, Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1916 HUGHES AND FAIRBAKS. March 4th 1917, must witness the return of a vast majority of Republicans and christian Democrats in Congress. "Were I governor of this State, as I am its son, I would place an army at the Eastern and Southern gates and with hands red with human blood, send Negro invaders into inhospitable graves." George Burns endorsed it. West Virginia is going. Republic can by a majority anywhere, from forty to sixty thousands. And the man, in looks and thought who recalls the endeared name of Lincoln,—Judge Robinson will be our next Governor. Rally around our standard bearer, boys. If gossip has voiced the truth, we have renewed respect for Rev. Dr. F. F. Martin, of the Dualley Baptist Church. Men who will stand up for every right of manhood have our esteem and can get our support. Cowards are never respected. Brave men are. God give us more of the latter to crush out the former. It is as essential that Charles E. Hughes be elected president in November next, as it was that Abraham Lincoln was to be at the beginning of the war of the rebellion. Lincoln's election broke the fetters off of 4,000,000 slaves, and Hughes' election will emancipate more than 10,000,000 political slaves. We insist on all of our patrons to carefully read Wilson's bad feeling and treatment of the colored people during the past nearly four years. The Pioneer Press has no more respect for a person who opposes the use of whiskey and practices prejudice against colored people, than it has for a consummate church hypocrite. The use of whiskey to any extent, is mild in God's sight compared to the white man's hatred to his dark skinned brother. "He who says he loves God and hates his brother is a liar, and the truth is not in him." Better settle with your darker skinned brother here, than to have the sentence pronounced on you at the bar of God: "Depart, I know you not." Your hatred is our "burden," and you alone can remove it. Will you do it now, or suffer through all eternity? Law abiding citizens must be governed by what is legally right, or fight for the right. Had not the Supreme Court of the United States decided that the Potomac River belonged to Maryland, and that the boundary between West Virginia and Maryland is low water mark of our state, the middle of the Potomac River would be the boundary line. It has so decided and as law abiding citizens we must so too abide. Is it not true of the Atlantic Ocean? Then, until international law declares Europe owns all of the Atlantic Ocean, are not depredations on this side of the half violations of international law? If that be logically true, has Germany done enough to cause a declaration of war? No man owns his sidewalk, but can't he have disturbing and fighting parties arrested for fighting in front of it? In a speech by a certain, U. S. Senator, the following remark was made: "The niggers are a menace to the South." Another declared: "Our women are not safe in their homes nor on the highways." If they meant what they said, why is it when Northern and Western men are busy getting them, the whites of the South are so enraged that they are trying to keep them, and have gone so far as to threaten and try to arrest those white men who have gotten thousands to leave there and work for them. The industrial agents of the Pennsylvania railroad, if threats be made good, are to be arrested. If they are a menace and rapists, why do they want to keep them? It evidently puts a point blank lie on the whole of it. They are neither a menace nor rapists. The charges were made to embitter the North and West against them and as an excuse for the South's brutality to them. Sizing up the terrible European war but one conclusion can be reached. That the world's wisdom tempered by religion(?) has only added combustion to confusion. That the obedience to this religion has made men misrderers instead of brothers, beloved, goes deep enough into this all absorbing problem, to prove that it is not the religion of the Babe of Bethlehem. After his birth, life and death to look over the seas of time and see this devilish age, no wonder He promised to come again, for there is more work for Him, to do now than there was then. Moloch seems to have declared war the universe over. Because of the strife, hatred of man for man, the craze for riches at any cost, won by any and the most wicked tricks and games, it may be best that the vast majority of the living be heathenish—God only knows. "Peace, peace, there is no peace." You might as well argue with two vicious, fighting bull dogs to stop. To stop it, one side must strike, a heart-breaking blow—nothing else can do it. As the world is rolling on what has God and humanity to lose if but a handful be left to tell the story and preserve history? Man was created to be his brother's keeper, not his killer. Headed In Every Direction. Mr. Wilson says his mind is progressive, but those who try to follow its progress can never tell the direction it is taking. It is just as likely to be progressing backward as forward.—Hartford Courant. The President is deceived if he believes that the history he has written is not more praiseworthy than that which he has made. President Wilson signed the Philippine bill as moving picture cameras clicked. There is one man who is not afraid to have his mistakes recorded! THE NEGRO UNDER WILSON Elimination, Segregation and Humiliation Followed False Promises Made by Wilson to Leaders of the Race in 1912 Campaign. SIX PROPOSED CRIMES AGAINST OUR PEOPLE. Republican Doctrine "The black man is entitled to his chance. He is entitled * * * to an opportunity to prove by his works what is in him, and he is entitled to the rewards which his character and industry may deserve. "In this land the door of opportunity must be wide open to our citizens. We want neither slaves nor serfs, nor any body of citizens permanently below the standards which must be maintained for the preservation of the Republic."—From speech of Governor Hughes delivered at Carnegie Hall, New York, January 17, 1908. "The Nation has appreciated the valor and patriotism of the black men of the United States. They not only fought in Cuba, but in the Philippines, and they are still carrying the flag as the symbol of liberty and hope to an oppressed people."—Hon. William McKinley. "Whenever called upon, the Negro has never failed to make sacrifices for this, the only country he has, and the only flag he loves. When we regard the history of the forty years through which the colored man of this country has been obliged to struggle, the progress which he has made, material and educational, is wonderful."—Hon. Wm. H. Taft. "I do not believe that any man needs to apologize to any people at any place or at any time for standing for the open door of opportunity to the colored boy and the colored girl. I shall oppose all discriminations that attempt to hinder any race in its efforts to better itself."—Simeon D. Fess, in Congressional Record, April 24, 1916. (By Henry Lincoln Johnson, former Recorder of, Deeds in District of Columbia.) Ever since Washington City has been the Capital of the nation, even during the slavery period, colored men have served acceptably in the Government departments. They have held positions varying in rank and importance from the humble positions of unskilled librorer, messenger, and the like, to high-class clerkships, and even prominent official positions, such as Assistant Attorney-General, Collector of Internal Revenue, New York; Register of the United States Treasury, Recorder of Deeds in the District of Columbia, Auditor of the Navy, etc. The ordinary visitor can wander about the city of Washington and find old colored men and women in their 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's who heretofore, at some period in their lives (for the most part under Republican Administrations) have been working for the United States Government, and have faithfully performed their duty under Civil Service, in times of peace, even as loyally as many of them have served under the "Stars and Stripes" in times of war. For years and years the negro has worked in friendship and with efficiency alongside of his white brother in the various Government departments, and no political party, prior to the advent of President Wootrow Wilson, the "breaker of precedents," has ever attempted to separate the negro in the department service. Even under Grover Ciever and's Administration the negro was considered a part of official Washington, and proved himself to be a competent and dependable American. Some of the old pictures and records in General Andrew Jackson's time show negro slaves as messengers, and even negro clerks on the Government payroll. Fair Play Association. But when President Wilson was inaugurated a well organized effort was made to change all this, and the persistent aim of the Democratic party has been to eliminate and humiliate the negro. The Senators and Representatives from the South were besieged by thousands of their Democratic constituents, who swarmed to the Capital City in search of Government jobs, and who (regardless of Civil Service rule) demanded that negro employees be removed to make Democratic Doctrine "We stuffed ballot boxes, we shot Negroes; we are not ashamed of it."—Senator Ben Tillman, in U. S. Senate speech. "I favor, and, if elected, will urge with all my power the elimination of the Negro from politics."—Hoke Smith, Governor of Georgia (now U. S. Senator). "The white men of the South are determined that the Negro will and shall be disfranchised everywhere it is necessary."—Wm. Jennings Bryan, at New York, 1908. "The Democratic Party is the white man's party in this country, in the North as well as South."—Edward S. Taylor, Member of Congress from Ohio. "This is our country, as it was the country of our fathers. The country of the white man, not the home of the mongrel."—Frank Clark, Member of Congress from Florida. "The separation of the races is one of benefit, but the demonstration of the superiority of the white man over the Negro is a greater thing. There is nothing which shows it more conclusively than the compelling of Negroes to ride in cars marked for their especial use."—H. D. Wilson, Author of the Louisiana "Jim Crow" car law. "I am opposed to taxing my people in Georgia to give all sorts of hifalutin curley-cues in the way of education to a crowd of Washington NIGGERS that is of no benefit to them. That is what I am opposed to."—W. S. Howard, in Congressional Record, April 24, 1916 place for white Democrats. To bring about this without provoking too great an upheaval of public sentiment, a secret organization known as "The Democratic Fair Play Association," was formed and actually incorporated in the office of the Recorder of Deeds in the District of Columbia, and such noted opponents of the negro race as Senator Hoke Smith, of Georgia; Senator Vardanan, of Mississippi; Senator Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, and other Democrats (including even President Wilson himself, were made "honorary members" of this so-called "Fair Play Association." The object of this association was to get most of the negroes dismissed from the Gov- ment service, in order to make way for white Democrats, and furthermore, to reduce the few negroes remaining to menial service and humiliating working conditions. But before this scheme was fully consummated the "New York Evening Post" (edited by Mr. Oswald Garrison Villard, grandson of William Lloyd Garrison, the immortal friend of the negro); the "Washington (D. C.) Herald," and others, learned of the real object of this Democratic Association and exposed its nefarious plans in detail—in fact, to such an extent that it caused the disintegration of the whole propaganda. It was not only the idea of this Democratic crowd to segregate the negroes in the Government Service at Washington, but, as plainly will be seen by Democratic bills recently introduced in Congress, it was their avowed purpose to "Jim Crow" the negroes of Washington City, both as regards separate street car accommodations and special sections of the Nation's Capital in which they were to be permitted to live. Never before in the history of our government have negro clerks and other employees been segregated solely because of their race and color, as has been the case under President Wilson's Administration. President Woodrow Wilson is, and should be held responsible, for the policies put into effect throughout the various departments in Washington by members of his Cabinet, and the brazen and determined effort on the part of some of the members of his "official family" to ruthlessly dismiss, discredit, humiliate, and segregate negro employees is not only reprehensible in the extreme, but makes President Wilson himself responsible therefor. The negro race will never forgive Mr. Wilson, Mr. McAdoo, John Skelton Williams, Mr. Burleson and others for this unwonted and unwarranted insult to their self-respect, their intelligence, their loyalty and their American manhood. Elimination. So far as the negro is concerned, elimination begins as soon as he makes out an application to enter a Civil Service competitive examination. The applicant, is required to give the name of the school or college he attended, and to furnish other data calculated to disclose his racial identity, including the color of his eyes and hair; and, for fear that these racial distinctions may be misleading, the Civil Service applicant in recent years, under the Democratic Administration, has been required to enclose his photograph with his examination papers, which photograph is kept on file for future use. There is no dodging the fact that the required details as to his physical appearance, etc., are but stepping stones or "helpful hints" leading to an exact knowledge of the racial status of the Civil Service applicant. To keep from arousing the suspicion of the negro, applicants are told that the photograph is necessary to identify an appointee and to prevent "substitution." This ingenius (?) though infamously unfair method of barring intelligent Americans of color from appointment to Civil Service positions is an original idea and the unpatented invention of the Democratic Party; indeed, it is directly in line with disfranchisement laws and other forms of discrimination against the negro so noticeable in almost every State over which Democrats have control. Now, when the Postoffice or any other department needs a clerk, a stenographer, a typewriter, a letter carrier, or any other subordinate, they make a call upon Mr. Mellhenny, of Louisiana, President of the United States Civil Service Commission, who sends to the department in question the names and photographs of three successful applicants who have passed the Civil Service examination. If they are all undesirable for any reason, or "persona non grata" because of their race and color, the Civil Service Commission sends three more. Thus, the appointing power under the present Democratic Administration need only look at the photographs submitted to reasonably insure the elimination of any intelligent negro applicants who may have successfully passed the Civil Service examination. Segregation. Not only has the Democratic Party practically closed the Civil Service "door of hope" to the negro, but during the past three and one-half years of the present Democratic Administration, there has been more segregation—or separation of colored from white employees—in the Executive Departments at Washington than in all of the 127 years of our Government's history, including the Cleveland Administration. Take, for example, the Postoffice Department, and its adjunct, the office of the Auditor for the Postoffice Department, whose outrageous and un-American policy of segregating Government employees according to color is closely imitated in many of the other departments. The present Democratic Administration found nearly two hundred colored employees in these two offices, with salaries ranging from $1,800 down, practically all of whom had been appointed or promoted under a Republican regime. Now there are less than one hundred, with anything like a decent salary for the efficient services they perform. Every colored clerk in the office of the Auditor for the Postoffice Department has been reduced except two. Negro clerks in the Postoffice Department under Postmaster Burleson, of Texas, have had "hard sledding," scores of them have been reduced in rank and practically forced to accept lower pay as skilled and unskilled laborers; some have been dismissed outright; all have vanished save one, and, in line with Democratic precedent, he has been "segregated" beyond visibility! In the Postoffice Department the colored employees have been assigned to obscure quarters, hidden away as it were in some remote section of the office or building, and when the department had many visitors, the chiefs and lesser satellites would see to it that the colored contingent was kept close to work, and on one occasion many of the employees of the Postoffice Department—national meeting of postmasters in Washington City, 1915—were actually locked in, manifestly for the purpose of impressing certain visitors that they were in an office free from negroes. These colored clerks and employees have been given to understand that there are too many of them there, even though their former numbers have been radically reduced, and that they had better be glad to remain on the payroll in any position and at any salary under a Democratic Administration. They are discriminated against in everything as relates to class of work, conveniences Continued on page 3. service of this kind Notwithstanding that they take on hundreds of clerks every year, they always endeavor to keep the colored man or woman out. They contrived a unique and very effective plan to get rid of the many colored clerks of the Postoffice and City Postoffice who had neither been dismissed, demoted nor segregated under former Republican Administrations. They did this by transferring the colored clerks, eight or ten at a time, to a certain branch office, and after they were there awhile, suddenly the branch office would be abolished, and, of course, these colored employees were no longer needed. Then within a very short time the Civil Service Commission was called upon to furnish additional clerks, and new men who were certified (not negroes) were given the places of those faithful Americans of color who were ruthlessly railroaded out of their hard-earned positions. There are twenty-three (23) former clerks in the office of the Auditor for the Postoffice Department who have been "declassified" and are now serving as messengers, skilled laborers, etc., in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. For more than fifty years the colored clerks and employees of the Government departments have been working side by side in perfect harmony and good will, but during the past three and a half years of Democratic control, this policy of "segregation" for which the Democratic Party ever stands sponsor in State and Nation, has produced more ill will and discontent, more race friction and race prejudice among white and colored employees of the Government than have ever obtained in the history of the departmental service. Negro Encouragement and Opportunity. The Republican Party believes in the political equality of men without reference to race or nationality, and this belief it has supported by the most costly and sanguinary war in our national history. The Democratic Party believes in restricting the privilege of citizenship to a particular class, and has written its opinions into the statutes, constitutions and practices of nearly every Southern State where that party is dominant. The Republican Party believes in the doctrine so tersely expressed by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, "All men up rather than some men down," and it has always encouraged the colored citizen in his efforts and ambition to rise higher in the scale of civilization. The Democratic Party would deny to the negro the incentive to high aspirations, and boasts through its representatives of a purpose to exclude colored men from any voice in the control of both local and national affairs, and, in so doing, has undermined representative government to the extent that a single white Democratic vote in every Southern State, with the exception of Tennessee and Kentucky, is equal to four votes cast in every other State of the Union. The negro's opportunity under Republican control is strikingly shown by the fact that in every State that is Democratic the statute books are covered with disfranchisement laws, labor contract laws, Jim Crow laws, segregation laws and other forms of discriminatory legislation based on race and color, while in every State classified as Republican, without exception, there is not a single law which strikes hope from the black man's heart, nor has any such discouraging law ever been proposed by Republicans. "Wilson Words" vs. "Wilson Deeds." When Woodrow Wilson was inaugurated as President, he found twenty-five or more distinguished colored men from all sections of the country holding office by appointment of the Republican President and confirmed by a Republican Senate. During his campaign for the high office it was generally understood, and, according to reliable information, it was actually promised, that all of those Presidential appointments held by colored men would be filled by other colored men, and quite a number of credulous negroes acted on this faith. Those were "Wilson's words." After his election all of these colored men were dismissed and white men, without one exception, were appointed in their places. Among the numerous particulars in which his preaching has differed from his practice, President Wilson can point to his record in the matter of race discrimination. In his speech at Independence Hall, Philadelphia, July 4, 1914, President Wilson said that we make no difference between one race and another, and that we (Democrats) did not set up any barriers against any particular people. On other occasions, particularly while he was a candidate for the Presidency, he gave assurances that he would not discriminate against colored citizens of the United States. Notwithstanding these assurances of support of the principle of equality before the law and in governmental affairs, great discrimination has been practiced not only in the departments over which the President has control, but also in appointments that are made by the President himself. Under Republican administrations the policy was pursued of appointing a colored man to fill a vacancy created by the resignation, death or expiration of term of a man of that race. This policy was reversed by the Democratic Administration, and the following colored persons have been succeeded by white men: William H. Lewis, Assistant Attorney-General, $5,000. J. C. Napier, Register of the Treasury, $4,000. Charles W. Anderson, Collector of Internal Revenue, New York, $4,500. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Recorder of Deeds, $4,000. Ralph W. Tyler, Auditor for the Navy Department, $4,000. Joseph E. Lee, Collector of Internal Revenue, Jacksonville, Fla., $4,500. N. W. Alexander, Register of the Land Office, $2,500. J. E. Bush, Receiver of Public Moneys, Little Rock, Ark., $2,500. Charles A. Cottrell, Collector of Internal Revenue, Honolulu, $4,500. T. V. McAllister, Receiver of Public Moneys, Jackson, Mass., $2,500. General Robert Small, Collector of Port, Beaufort, S. C., $1,500. James A. Cobb, Special Asst. District Attorney, Washington, D. C., $2,000. Whitfield McKinlay, Collector of Customs, Georgetown, D. C., $3,700. W. D. Johnson, Special Agent Agricultural Department, $1,500. James N. Alexander, Deputy Collector, Los Angeles, $1,600. P. B. S. Pinchback, Inspector (New York), $2,000. S. Laing Williams, Asst. District Attorney, Chicago, $2,000. William C. Matthews, Asst. Dist. Attorney, Boston, $1,600. Mrs. N. P. Booze, Postmistress, Mt. Bayou, Miss., $1,800. William L. Jonee, Postmaster, Boley, Oklahoma, $1,300. L. J. Price, Postmaster, South Atlanta, Georgia, $—. E. R. Belcher, Deputy Collector, Brunswick, Georgia, $1,000. George A. Reed, Postmaster, Beaufort, South Carolina, $1,800. Isalah J. McCottrie, Collector of Customs, Georgetown, South Carolina, $600. Edward A. Burrill, Vice and Deputy Clerk, St. Etienne, France, $1,000. Numerous other instances can be cited where colored men and women, regularly employed under Republican administrations, have been summarily dismissed by the Democrates, notably in the United States Pension Office, the Washington City Postoffice, the Government Printing Office, the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and throughout the departmental service. And, indeed, the whole record of the Democratic Party shows but two negro appointments made by President Wilson and confirmed by the Democratic Senate. Specific Contrast of the Two Parties. President Taft had signally honored the negro race in the appointment of William H. Lewis, Esq., of Boston, Massachusetts, as Assistant Attorney-General of the United States, whose parents were formerly slaves. President Wilson made it one of his first concerns to remove Mr. William H. Lewis and installed a white man in his place. Under Republican administrations we had great negro leaders, such as Senator Bruce, Judson W. Lyons, Esq., J. C. Napier and Dr. W. T. Vernon as Registers of the Treasury. Under the present Democratic Administration two Indians have been appointed "Register of the Treasury," namely Gabe E. Parker and Houston B. Teehee. President Wilson later appoints Gabe E. Parker, the Indian, as Commissioner of Indian Affairs, but removes Henry W. Furniss, a negro, as Minister to Hayti, a negro Republic, and sends a white man there. Under President Wilson's policy even an Indian must be first in Indian affairs, but no negro must be first in negro affairs. This fact is notably illustrated in the case of Hayti just cited. The first step in segregation in Washington, upon the advent of the Wilson Administration, was the isolation of the white and colored help at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing at lunch hour, followed up by other forms of racial discrimination. The employees did not petition for this change from fifty years of uninterrupted peace and harmony. It was imposed on them by the White House. Under Republican administrations we have had John R. Lynch and Ralph W. Tyler as Auditors under the Treasury Department. The Democratic Administration has given us a white man to fill the position formerly held by colored men. Under Republican administrations we had Frederick Douglass, Henry P. Cheatham, John C. Dancy and Henry Lincoln Johnson as Recorders of Deeds for the District of Columbia, and even President Grover Cleveland gave us James M. Trotter and C. H. J. Taylor to serve in that office. But Mr. Wilson, contrary to the precedent of decades, puts a white man in this place. ```markdown ``` When the last Immigration Law was put upon the statute books by a Democratic Congress two years ago, the monstrous proposition was made by Representative Aswell, Democrat, from Louisiana, not only to return all American negroes to Africa, but even to cut them out as aliens from coming into this country, and in this regard to class them with Asiatic and other so-called "undesirable people." Governor Hughes visit to Detroit opened the presidential campaign of 1916, and if we may forecast the events that are to follow by the emens of Monday we would prognosticate an intensely warm, vivid and humanly interesting period in the next few months. Setting aside the ausepices of meteorological conditions in this provision of the future—although they are approved by numerous professional augure and by a host of commanality as well—we base this prophecy on the characteristics of the candidate whose too brief stay with us has been enjoyed by all with whom he came into contact. The misguided individuals who have been expecting Charles E. Hughes would prove to be a cold proposition and therefore easy to beat are in for a check that will make them think they have been hit by an uninsulated trolley wire. There is nothing cold about Mr. Hughes, Detroit has learned. He is about as intensely human a piece of humanity as ever captured the hearts of a crowd, and the more people in the United States he meets between now and November the more vets will be cast for him. As a campaigner he is a revelation. He likes his fellow beings, and they like him because they see he likes them. President Wilson mourns because 75 per cent. of the Mexican people were disfranchised and had no voice in their government, but does not regret that as large a per cent. of negroes in America have no franchise or voice in American state affairs. Clearly the contrast shows an unmistakable blas against the negro on the part of President Wilson. Sympathy for disfranchised Mexican bandits, but no sympathy for disfranchised negro patriots And what his personality begins his remarkable powers of intellect and utterance finish. He drives his points home with tremendous force. What he says sticks. There are thousands of Americans today who can retell every step in the arguments he made eight years ago on the Bryan trust policy, yet in 1908 Mr. Hughes was not especially a prominent figure and there was no particular reason why his address more than others should have remained clearly in the memory except the gift of the man to send his own thoughts so deep into the brains of others. They are clear in his own mind first, undoubtedly. He knows precisely what he wants to say because he has reasoned it out before he speaks it out. Probably that has something to do with the ease with which he conveys his meaning. But it is a very rare quality he possesses in his ability to master subjects so thoroughly as to make the most abstruse simple to himself and his hearers. It is a quality eminently desirable in a political candidate. It is infinitely more to be desired in the president of a great country like the United States. Note These Democratic Measures. The real attitude of the Democratic Party toward the negro is best found in the laws that they have enacted and proposed. Bills have been introduced by Democrats in Congress without number looking to the following discriminations against the negro vis- Detroit's impression of Charles E. Hughes is all favorable. The thousands of people who have studied him at close range are convinced that if he is elected president next November he will be a great president, one of the greatest this nation has known, worthy to stand in history with George Washington and Abraham Lincoln, a custodian of the republic's fate to whom that fate may confidently be intrusted. If that conviction is shared by the people of other states whom he is still to meet the outcome of his swing around the great American circle cannot fail to be propitious for him.—Detroit Free Press. 1. To repeal the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments. (H. J. Res. 32, 33, 40, 107, etc.). 2. To repeal Section 5509 of the Revised Statutes, now Section 19 of the Penal Code, which punishes as crime conspiracy of two or more persons to injure, oppress, threaten or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States. (H. R. 13853, etc.). 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R. 13, Dec. 6, 1915; H. R. 274, Dec. 6, 1916, etc.). 4. Providing for segregation in the Governmental Service. (H. R. 13772, February 23, 1913; H. R. 5968, June 10, 1913; H. R. 11, December 6, 1915; H. R. 539, December 6, 1915; H. R. 5797, December 15, 1915.). 5. To require all transportation companies, firms and persons within the District of Columbia to provide separate accommodations for the white and negro races and to prescribe punishments and penalties for violating its provisions. (H. R. 12, December 6, 1915.). 6. To forbid the appointment of any negro soldier as a commissioned or non-commissioned officer, either in the Army or the Navy of the United States. (H. R. 12840, March 7, 1916, etc.). Secretary Daniels, however, has the function of being one of the greatest arguments the Republicans have had. The salary part of the rural credit has already begun. ANSWER: EIGHT HOURS, NOT EIGHT YEARS. [Special Dispatch to the New York Herald.] Bar Harbor, Me., Monday. To the Editor of the Herald: Maine's answer to Wilson: "Eight hours, but not eight years."—A Former Progressive. 2 Mme. L. C. Parrish Hair Culturing Scaip Treatment THE MAYOR OF BROOKLYN Largest Mail Order House of its kind in America. America. All kinds of Toilet Articles for sale. Human Hair Goods of the finest quality. Our Hair Food and Skin. Food never fail. If the trouble is with the hair, scalp or skin, we have the remedy. We guarantee a remedy to make hair grow on bald spots and bare temples. Send 10a. for a sample and catalogue. Send for our terms to agents. Address Mme. L. C. PARRISH, 95 Camden Street, Boston, Mass. Slip a few Prince Albert smokes into your system! You've heard many an earful about the Prince Albert patented process that cuts out bite and parch and lets you smoke your fill without a comeback! Stake your bank roll that USE OF LIQUOR STILL INCREASES Internal Revenue Report Shows Gain of $10,000,000 In Tax Receipts From Nation The latest figures showing enormous increases in the internal revenue on whiskey, beer and tobacco in the United States are certain to make the Anti-Saloon League and the prohibition exhorters unhappy. These official figures show tremendous increases in receipts from spirits during August, 1916, and an increase of practically $10,000,000.00 in internal revenue receipts for the first two months of the present fiscal year over the same period in 1915. The figures for September have not yet been sent out from Washington. This is only one more official proof of the fact that prohibition has not diminished the output of spirits in the United States, as is constantly being claimed by the Anti-Saloon League. The following is a special dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer from Washington, D. C. Treasury Department officials are surprised over the enormous increases in internal revenue on whiskey, beer and tobacco. The receipts from spirits during August, 1916, were $12,643,595.49, as against $9,927,613.97 during August, 1915. Receipts from tobacco were $8,902,253.61, as against $7,237,409.26 for August, 1915. Receipts from fermented liquors were $10,748,262.40 during August, 1916, as against $8,639,712.30 during August, 1915. Although the fiscal year is yet young, having begun on July 1, the internal revenue receipts since the fiscal year started already show an increase of $9,939,659.19 over the receipts for the same period last year PROBABLY KEEPING SILENT ON BET. [Philadelphia Press]. Doesn't it seem lonely without a word from dear Mr. Bryan for such a long time? Where do you suppose he could have got to? regret! You'll feel like your smoke past has been wasted and will be sorry you cannot back up for a fresh start. THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION EVE WOULDN'T HAVE CARED. [Louisville Courier-Journal.] Red flannel underwear is doomed because of the cost of dyestuffs. Too bad, when the quality of the dry territory, whisky, is bad and the cost of camphor is high and the season for rheumatism is near. Still, the military "tank" is no new thing. Read what Plutarch has to say about Alexander's capacity for wipes. GIVE HIM TEN YEARS: "Billy Sunday will give Boston ten weeks of his time." And Boston will naturally be anxious to do something handsome for Billy in return for such a munificent gift. WOW! [New York Telegraph.] wow! It is said that William J. Bryan has no talent for music and never could master any instrument. How about the mouth organ? A PROHIBITION STATE. Senator Henry F. Ashurst of Arizona relates that an eastern tourist was traveling in the southwest and stopped in a particularly dry section of Arizona. "This place is the limit," he remarked, addressing a native. "I don't think there is another locality on the face of the earth that is quite so dry. Doesn't it ever rain in this section?" "Rain!" exclaimed the native. "Say, stranger, we've got bullfrogs around here over eight years old that hain't learned to swim yet." THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION HOW DRY IT IS IN KANSAS. [Salina (Kas.) Unfon.] The drought has reached the stage in this section where the fish appear at the farmhouses asking for a drink. Copyright 1918 by R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. Prince Albert patch and lets you your bank roll that RINGE ALBERT the national joy smoke like your smoke past will be sorry you cannot ert. so like it was a tip to a it's worth that in happi- to you, to every man knows what can be out of a chummy pipe or a makin's aurette with Prince Albert for packing"! THE Prince Albert tidy red tin, and in fact, every Prince Albert package, has a real message-to-you on its reverse side. You'll read: "Process Patented July 30th, 1907." That means that the United States Gov- ment has granted a patent on the process by which Prince Albert is made. And by which tongue bite and throat parch are cut out! Every- where tobacco is sold you'll find Prince Albert awaiting you in topy red bags. Set tidy red ting, Ice handome pound and half-pound tin humidors and in that clever crystal- glass humidor, with sponge - moistener top, that keeps the tobacco in such fine condition— always! THE FUNNY SIDE OF PROHIBITION A-clean-up campaign in a dry town is usually remarkable for the number of empty jugs found in the back yards WHAT DOES FRANK DRINK? [Amanda Standard.] Mr. Hanly says the Prohibitionists will poll 1,000,000 votes. Mr. Hanly chases rainbows with a grace and abandon remarkable even in a Prohibition presidential candidate OOOF! [Luke McLuke, Cincinnati Enquirer.] "The Drys are humbugs, I insist," Remarked the angry Mr. Gest; "I saw a Prohibitionist Intoxicated with success." OF COURSE NCT. [Butte (Mont.) Miner.] Nothing dry about those speeches that some of those anti-prohibitionists make. That was a noble and notably eloquent tribute to William J. Bryan that the President failed to utter in Omaha. SHE SWALLOWS CARBOLIC ACID: WHISKY SAVES HER Physicians have contended all along that whisky is a very valuable medicinal agent. This is from the Kansas City (Mo.) Post: No physician was handy when Jack Jenkins, ambulance driver for the Kansas City, Kas., police department started on an emergency call this morning. He found Mrs. Myrtie Crawford, 26 years old, 1208 Orville avenue, Kansas City, Kas., suffering from poison which she had taken in an effort to end-her life. The driver forced a half a pint of whisky down the woman's throat and rushed her down to the emergency hospital. Physicians said the whisky saved her life. She had swallowed carbolic acid because her husband, Carl Crawford, sued for divorce. STATE REPORT GIVES THE LIE TO EXTREMISTS Ohio Bureau of Vital Statistics Discredits Statement of "Drys' and Shows That Very Few Deaths Are Caused By Over-Indulgence In Liquor CARRIZAL MASSACRE Carter in New York Sun. "MY GOOD MAN, DON'T YOU EVER FORGET ANYTHING?" The Cincinnati Enquirer editorially gives the lie to those extremists who, ignoring facts, declare liquor responsible for thousands and even hundreds of thousands of deaths annually: Without any intention of entering upon a discussion of the merits of the age-long controversy over the use of alcohol as a beverage, and without seeking to establish any standard for future polemic warfare, attention is directed to the recent report of the State Bureau of Vital Statistics concerning the number of deaths in the past year from the excessive use of that spirit. It is the practice of so-called agents and lecturers of the eminently practical prohibition leagues to assert that thousands die daily from the effect of their potu- WOMAN IS HELD AS BOOTLEGGER Arrest of Boardinghouse Keeper Follows Conviction of Chauffeur * The following story of bootlegging in "dry" Seattle (Wash.) is told by the Postintelligence of that city; After having testified for Gus Johnson, a captain, at his trial on the charge of having violated the dry law, Mrs. A. Olson, proprietor of a recording house at 1531g Ninth avenue, was arrested on the same accusation. She was released on $250 bail. Johnson was convicted and fined $100 by Acting Police Judge Thomas B. MacMahon. THE ONE BEST BET. Ex-Governor Handley, the prohibition candidate for president, says he does not expect to be elected, but is building sentiment. He will probably not be disappointed in his anticipation of election results. CALIFORNIA "PEP" GETS TWO WOMEN IN TROUBLE The general disregard for law bred by the attempt to enforce prohibition, is causing the arrest of women as well as men. A special dispatch from Portland, in "dry" Oregon, to the San Francisco Chronicle, says: For serving "California pep" at so much per finger to a select trade Mrs. C. W. Montgomery, 24, and his sister, Frances Ward, 20, were arrested today. The trial lasted ten minutes. Both women were convicted of violating the prohibition law. --- tions. Indeed, Richmond Pearson Hobson reached the absurd point of asserting that more people died from drinking alcohol than were removed, altogether by the death angel. The report shows that for the year ending July 1, there were 58 deaths, according to coreers' reports, from acute alcoholism, or 42 fewer than the preceding year, while the remainder of the document shows that deaths with alcoholism as the predisposing cause were diminishing. Proponents of the liberal view of alcoholic absorption might make many interesting comparisons with these statistics. These are quoted here, however, merely as the copy of medical science to the grotesque assertions so frequently uttered to create false impressions in the minds of sympathetic people. DRY LAW MAKES TAXES SOAR Council Bluffs General Levy May Reach 120 Mills As Result of Losing Saloon Revenue A sure result of national prohibition, it is said, would be the imposing, a tax on every citizen, to replace the $325,000,000 a year now furnished federal and state governments by the liquor interests. "Dry" Iowa already is feeling this result of state prohibition. The Omaha Bee says: The city council of Council Elaffa will meet this afternoon and fix the tax levy for 1946 to be certified to the county board for collection next year. The levy will have the distinction of being the largest ever made in the history of the city, and added to a large increase in the school tax levy, with a probable increase in the county, will bring about high tide of taxation altogether unprecedented. Last year, to meet part of the deficiencies brought about by the closing of the saloons, the levy was raised to $47\frac{1}{4}$. This, with state, county and schools, raised the general levy on all city property to 105.3 mills. Just what the total levy for 1916 will be is problematical, but it looks now as if it would be at least 15 mills higher than 1915. LUKE M'LUKE SAYS: If Billy Sunday really wants to find real "Hell Holes" he should keep away from the "wet" cities and visit the towns in the prohibition states. There are 83 blind tigers in Leavenworth, Kan. There were 600 arrests for drunkenness in Topeka, Kan., last year. But Billy knows that a town that contains one brewery is a "Hell Hole," while a town that contains "83 blind tigers is an ideal community.