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Prof.L O Wilson REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES FOR STATE OFFICES IN WEST VIRGINIA H.R. SINWKEY SENATOR OF CALIFORNIA HOWARD SUTHERLAND FOR U.S. SENATOR JUDGE TRAE E. ROBINGON FOR GOVERNOR JAMES H. STEWART COMMISSIONER FOR AGRICULTURE JOHN G. DARST FOR AUDITOR The "HERE HI ESTABLISHED 1882. CAMPAIGN COMMENT "We will win in a walk," says Republican State Chairman Joseph Helt Baines. Hallelujah, Joe! Watch out for the Watson-Cornwell leaders at the voting precinct. They are going to try to buy the governorship as they bought a Democratic Legislature in 1911. Wobbly Woodrow came very near catching you, Mr. Laboring Man, with his fake eight-hour deal, didn't he? Bryan came near doing the same thing to you in 1896, too, didn't he? What you saw thruch both lakes in time, didn't you? Sure you did. Judge Robinson has surely come up strong in the homestretch and will win in a romp. Boss Watson's bipollinus, preterile to be liking Recumbentians, who long decided to vote for Wilson and Cornwell, will not be able to fool many. That is an old work-out campaign skim game, but the Watson-Cornwell campaign is nothing else except a skim game from start to finish. Vote for Hughes and Fairbanks. Col. John T. McGrew will shed no tears when the returns roll in and Consolidated Coal Combine Cornwall is whipped to a trazzle again. Look out for the Old Campaign Roorback. It will be along about the eleventh hour. Steady, you Republican boys, scaudy! Keep your heads and vote your party ticket straight from top to bottom. Then go home and get out the old reliable tion of yours and tune it up for the celebration over a great Republican victory. There isn't a chance of Hughes not carrying West Virginia. Not a chance! Did you ever stop to figure what the size of Howard Sutherland's majority over Gold Hill Bill Chilton is liable to be? Every Republican in the State is going to vote for him, and durnear half of the Democrats. There are so many Democrats waiting with a knife or a gun for the Chilton-MacCorkle outfit that Sutherland's majority is likely to be close to 40,000. Ask the loud-mouth stranger claiming to be a Republican, who is going to vote the Democratic ticket, who is paying him—the National Democratic Committee or the Watson-Cornwell boodlons at Fairmont. Hughes will wipe up Wilson in West Virginia like a mop. As a stumper, Consolidated Cornwell is the greatest failure of the State campaign, because he made himself so conspicuous. Vote for Judge Ira E. Robinson for Governor. Judge Robinson has got Ross Watson's candidate on the run for the tall timber of political oblivion. Hundreds of Democrats will soon be giving thanks to the good sense of a great majority of voters that their party will be rid of Cornwell gubernatorial candidacies. And everybody else will join in with them. The Republican party is cheerfully losing a number of former Democrats who turned Republicans for the offices they could get. Let all Republican brethren arise and sing Old Hundred. The laboring men of the State know one thing—they know that Judge Robinson's official record proves him their friend, while John Cornwell's record as a State Senator, as a corporation lawyer, as an adjunction editor, and as a political tool of C. W. Watson, proves beyond any question of doubt that Cornwell has been and is still the enemy of organized labor. The custom seems to be to take straw votes in pool rooms, barber shops and hotel lobbies. They don't go to the farms whence comes the supply of straw for this peculiar form of balloting. And yet the farmers of B. 100 and 100 are equal iff 100 = 100 http://www.opensource.org/ the United State decide who is to occupy the White House, and in West Virginia, who is to be a tenant of the Governor's mansion. Well, the farmers will do their voting in the regular way November 7th, and that means Hughes at Washington and Judge Robinson at Charleston during the ensuing four years. Vote for Howard Sutherland for United States Senator. As in the greenback, populist and free silver campaigns, the unthinking man who thought he was going to get something for nothing by the enactment of a law by Congress, the laboring man has returned to a calm and intelligent state of reasoning on the Adamow law and now understands it to be the fake which it really is. It was nothing but the usual Wendow Wilson "spread of molasse" to catch votes. The best definition for Watsonism is what sherman said war was. The decent, incorruptible voters of the state are eagerly looking forward to the opportunity November 7 will afford them to pay up the Field Dust Twins for the cities they committed at the Legislature of 1914. Vote for Houston Golf Young for Secretary of State. The Watson-Cornwall Headlers are scared, and give doubt if their immensesshift can just Consolidated John actions. The decent and honest way is always the best way. That has been Judge Johnson's way in this campaign, and the swing of the voters to rise in the closing weeks is indicative that they like that way. Vote for John Sherman Darst for Auditor. Republican nominee for Press. UNBRIBED BY GAIN 1916 VOL. 35 NO. 35. "I HATE BOSSISM UNDER ANY CUISE" —Judge Ira E. Robinson. Replying to an insulting remark about him printed in a Democratic paper at Huntington, Judge Ira E. Robinson, before a cheering crowd of 4,000 people, said: "I may be shriveled up in physique, but I am not shriveled up in principle. When any man accuses me of being led by a ring in the nose he is only judging me by his own standards. No man on earth of men can rule me by force, by wealth or any other power against the interest of the people of my native State. I have always been opposed to machine domination or invisible government In any form, and I propose, as Governor of West Virginia to see to it that our State government is not American government, whether labeled Watsonism or what not. It may have no part in West Virginia. I am proud of a heritage of thought and independence from my plain old father that makes me to hate bossism under any name." Vote for Hon. E. T. England for Attorney General. ARE YOU CURIOUS? Here Is One Way to Find Out What Watsonism Means. The people of Belfington, W. Va., are discussing the interruptions made by Melton Shaffer, a local Democrat, at the close of Governor Hatfield's speech the other night, when Mr. Shaffer tugged exceptions to the Governor's reference to the Watson reign in Marion County. "Are you a laboring man?" asked the Governor. "Yes, sir." "A union man?" "I'll wager ten thousand dollars against a doughnut that if you go into Marion County and discuss unionism with your brothers there, you will be hit in the head by some thug within twenty four hours, and if you resent the assault you will be sent to jail for six months or probably a year, and you will appeal to me, your Governor, for a pardon." After the meeting Mr. Shaffer shook hands with the Governor. When it comes to celebrated "petrayals," the betrayal of Colonel John T. McGraw by Consolidated Cornwell still easily ranks first. Supreme Court of Appeals SALVIO WILLIAM N. MILLER Vote for Judge W. N. Miller and Judge Harold A. Ritz for State Court of Appeals. LOOK! STOP! THINK! If the average voter in West Virginia will stop long enough to divest himself of his prejudices and view the known facts in the case with judicial impartiality, he will very quickly be convinced that one of the greatest conspiracies ever hatched by corrupt politicians and corporations to gain control of the State government that has ever been known—and there have been several such conspiracies since 1904—is the one at the head of which is Clarence W. Watson to place his pliant tool, Cornwell, in the Governor's office at Charleston. If any voter he too dense to understand what is going on, what this open partnership between crooked Democrats and Republicans means, or is too blinded by partisan bias to concede it, the time will come, and it will come without much delay, if this Watson-Cornwell Vinson conspiracy succeeds, when he will regret the vote he cast to place his liberties in the hands of as rotten a gang as ever throttled the good government of a people. Reports from Marion County are to the effect that the people there are going to rebuke Watsonism at the polls. Hurrah for Hughes, 'Rah for Robinson! Both are winners now. Sentiment throughout the country has swung to Hughes with tremendous force within the past week. It is plainly noticeable in West Virginia. Entered in Post Office, at Martins burg, W. Va., as Second Class Matter j. Cifford, Editor and Proprietor Drawei 869, and Bell 'Phone 60K Martinsburg, W. Va. SATURDAY, NOV. 4, 1916 HUGHES AND FAIRBANKS. Dewey, son of the late John H. Fox, was a visitor in our city this week in his fine automobile. The bulk and body of Republicans and Progressives are united on Charles Evans Hughes and it means victory. The Treasury of the United States is practically bankrupt and a million dollars daily are being spent. The sanest and best preparedness for this country is the election of Charles Evans Hughes on the 7 of November 1916. You may whoop and, holler alp you choose over the straw vote, we will be satisfied on the 7 of November with the wheat vote. November 7, the American people are going to condemn Wilson and his administration. It's played on the harp of hypocrisy and deceived millions. Mr. Wilson has never been America's choice. He was a slip-in President on a minority vote of one million three hundred thousand voters. Out side of humanity, which should be the main issue in this campaign, tariff, the laboring classes protection takes preeminence and should. The voters need not get alarmed over the lavish boastings of Wilson's certain election. Didn't they say as much about how Mai. e was going? Whatever way Maine has always gone, hasn't the country gone? The Underwood tariff bill retained duties on cotton goods, rice, tobacco, Angora goat hair &c., all Southern products, and placed twenty agricultural products, all produced in the North on the free list. A vote at Princeton University to test who should be president Wilson or Hughes, a hundred and thirty-eight majority out of 1300 students, was given to Mr. Hughes. Hard on Wilson, its former president. A dollar to a doughnut, Wilson can't carry his own state. In making the grouped pictures of the state candidates it looks like the American Press Association tried to go in mourning for both parties. Don't fail or forget to see to it that you are registered, or if you have moved from your former voting place, get a transfer, and be ready wholeheartedly to vote for Hughes and Robinson and all true and tried Republicans on the ticket, Nov. 7th next. The Republican Platform of 1916, says: "We declare that we believe in and will enforce the protection of every American citizen in all his rights assured to him by the constitution, by treaties, and the laws of nations, at home and abroad." A vote for Judge Robinson means peace and protection for every colord man woman and child in this state. it means no segregation; no jim Crowism, no disfranchising; it means a college education in this state for our girls and boys. Vote for our next governor, Ira E. Robinson. Sifted down to a focus, our boasted prosperity is a bloody curse. For were it not for Europe's beastly war, there never has been a panic in this country that would equal what we would have, and if Mr. Wilson stays in what we are sure to have when that bloody struggle ends. To elect a Southern Congressman only 7,745 votes are needed; to elect a Northern or Western democrat or republican requires an average of 39,305 votes. South Carolina's total vote was 33,414, but it sent 7 men to Congress. What do you think of it? Seven men go to Congress on less votes than it takes to send one man in the North or West. The Chicago News has withdrawn its support from President Wilson. That will more than offset Elliot's and Edison's influence, added to which we also are proud to note that Mr. Hughes gets the support of Hon. Daniel Willard, and Col. George Harvey,"the original Wilson man." --- America wants a republican House and Senate. To have both filled with men whose stock in trade is devilish legislation against "niggers," is a curse. Added to it, fully eighty-seven men of the south who are in Congress, when if the Constitution was obeyed, that many colored men would be there. They are robbers of human rights, that they have sworn to defend, then trample them under their feet. Ex-President Elliot is not a safe man to advise others, and neither is Edison. Not long ago the latter was for Roosevelt and against Wilson, and Elliot is always on the wrong side of the right question. It was so when he went South, it was so when he adroitly drew the color line at Harvard and it's so now in his advocacy of Wilson. Ignore them both, and vote for Hughes. Our good friend and able editor, John Mitchell, Jr., has been indicted for obscenity. We read it and declare you are right and did no wrong. Your exposition was a strong lever under low morals for a higher elevation for the good of all concerned. We have been through the same ordeal and came out a stronger man, and that is what you will do. CAN YOU ANSWER THESE? Questions Which Every West Virginian Should Ask Himself and His Neighbors. There are a number of vital questions arising in the minds of the voters of West Virginia right now which no partisan Democratic newspaper, no paid Democratic spellbinder, no boodled ex-Democrat making his second or third bolt from one side to another and anxious to proclaim in the public prints his latest switch, and no Democratic candidate now pleading for office dare discuss above a whisper, even if then. And we may as well include in this array of interesting political talent, National Committeeman Clarence Wallet Watson himself. Among these questions, the following rank high in importance: These are just a few of many questions of a similar kind which Republican speakers, Republican writers, and Republicans everywhere have been asking themselves and discussing with their friends and neighbors. These are questions which many a Democrat, who loves his State and his party as it used to be more than he does the Watsonized organization of his party as it now is, is seriously turning over in his mind. But no Democratic spellbinder has referred to them in his speeches. None dare do so. It is absolutely certain that in his series of letters asking young voters to vote to turn over their State government to him and his colleagues, to others to loan their automobiles on election day in behalf of his political schemes, to contribute of their meager means to help fasten his brand of indefensible and "invisible government" on themselves and their kin, and on their fellow citizens, National Committeeman Watson has in no way referred to the vital issues, which come home with startling directness to every family hearthstone in West Virginia, raised by the foregoing list of extremely perfinent questions. It is equally certain that he will not in any subsequent communications he may address to the voters in whatever form they may be issued. The same is true of his candidate for Governor, Cornwell.Continued on page Isn't John J. Cornwell the handpicked candidate and the political tool of C. W. Watson? Isn't he the choice of all of the Watson corporate interests, and a number of other big ones in sympathy with his scheme to secure control of the government of West Virginia? Isn't he the choice of all the big lobbyists, well known to the people of the State as employees of "an invisible government," who besiege every session of the Legislature, "set up" legislative candidates in advance of regular campaigns, and have had a part in every corruption which has dirtied the pages of our legislative history? Isn't Cornwell opposed to organized labor, and doesn't his official record as a State Senator, and his writings as an editor for years up to the very time his latest candidacy was announced, prove it unmistakably? Isn't C. W. Watson, whose control and absolute domination over him, catalogued as the worst and most successful opponent of unionism in West Virginia, entirely satisfied that Cornwell's record of many years as a fighter against union labor, and as a man who always and invariably takes "the Wall Street view," will continue in the future to think the same way and to act in accord with that line of thought? Isn't that one of many reasons which has secured for Cornwell the honor he sought from the Democratic party, and the support of Watson and certain predatory interests, not to mention the corrupt lobbyists, for his present candidacy? Isn't the government of the State of West Virginia threatened with Watsonization, and doesn't our political history from the legislative session of 1911 prove to us beyond all doubt that Watsonism and corruption are one and the same thing? Did not every Democratic newspaper in the State, every single one except three, namely, Senator Chilton's Gazette, O. S. McKinney's Times, and the late Charles Taney's Register, condemn Watsonism in 1911 in terms such as no Republican foe of it has ever exceeded, because they denounced it to the limit of a condemnatory vocabulary? Has Watsonism undergone any change since 1911 which would make it any the less odious to a people who are zealous in protecting their liberties? On the contrary, hasn't it grown as a menace since then as disclosed by it reaching out and completely dominating the organization of the Democratic party which is now entirely servile to it? Did it not dethrone an honored leader of many years like Col. John T. McGraw. take the high party place and honor which he held for its own chief apostle, kick out Lewis as chairman and substitute the pliable "Pussyfoot" Shaver, gather up the headquarters with one swoop of its ever-grasping maw and ship them to Fairmont in its private car over night? Doesn't this, and many other things well known to a public whose mind is alive to passing events, prove the absolute and unquestioned domination of Watsonism over the Democratic party organization, and many of the voters in the ranks of that party, but by no means all of them? And hasn't all that within the party it has so speedily throttled and so successfully corrupted, prove what many are contending now, that the election of the thoroughly and indubitably Watsonized Cornwell, who bears the Consolidated brand and rides to his meetings to voice his demagogic pleas for the votes of "the common people" he now so fervently professes to represent and befriend, on the passes of a railroad corporation he was up till very recently, if not now, a political legal agent for, will dethrone Watsonism in the governor's office at Charleston and the legislative halls of the State Capitol? Would not this, for one thing, crush the hopes of thousands of miners in West Virginia who have been fighting for, praying for, and hoping for the time when they can organize themselves and secure for themselves and their families the justice which results from collective bargaining on the part of employees with their employers, corporate and individual? Would not Watsonism use the military force, if necessary, from Charleston, as it directs armed forcefrom Fairmont, to crush and stamp out the last vocal vestige of unionism in mining regions, railroad yards, along street car lines, and in big manufacturing establishments? Isn't Watsonism now, as Editor Albert Sidney Johnston said in 1911 in his Monroe Watchman, a Democratic journal, it was dependent on "the sheer brute force of money" for its success? Did it not in 1911, at Charleston, as Col. Thomas H. Dennis, the veteran and universally esteemed editor of the Democratic Greenbrier Independent, said in that year it did, bring about a session of the Legislature which was "a saturnalia of debauchery?" And is there any guarantee that it would not permanently establish that condition at Charleston should it succeed in its present scheme to get control of the State government on November 7th? READ WHAT'S IN STORE FOR COLORED MEN AND WOMEN IN WEST-VISGINIA. Bluefield, W. Va., Oct. 30.—’The sbtter clement of negroes in South- arn West Virginia, who ask nothing more than to be left alone to their own political reasoning, are much perturbed over the campaign which bas been quietly waged to gain votes by the Democrats at the ex- pens- of the colored citizens. .. It became known here several days ago that a gumshoe campaign of “Jim Crow promises has been in progress, and in one instance it Was learued that a letter received by former Senator D. BE. French, the other day from a political friend in Huntington, promises support by the Democratic legislature if one be electe , and ty John J. Cornwell, if he be elected to the governorship, of “Jim Crow’? measures, such as were defeated in former sessions cf the legislature. A copy of the let- ter: Huntington, W. Va., October 27. 1916 HON. D. E. FRENCH, Bluefield, W. Va. My Dear Senator: It is an united Democracy that faces the opposition November 7th. We cannot afford to make a misstep. You may letit be known among your friends that in the event of the election of Hon. John Cornwell and a Democratic Jegislature, that we will take pleasure in the passage of aJim Crow measure that will be in accoad with the wishes of you sou:h erners who abhor the present cond:- tions, but who have no redress so Jong as the Republicans are in power. The negro is too dominant in our political affairs. OFf course you need not indcate the source of your information ii: this connection nor let it be know: among theenemy what we have i: view. Yours for Democratic Success. HERBERT SUPPLE. It issaid John J. Cornwell when statesenator said: ‘If I were the governor of the state of West Vir- ginia as Tam ore of her humble sons, I would place an army at the eastern and southern gates of this state, and I would welcome the biack invaders with bloody hands to inhospitable graves.” If he said it any and every Negro who votes for him ought to be cowhided. Let his “‘speckle face coon" speak out. , After November 7 Boss Watson will be found at iis residcuee on Fifth ave- nue, New York City. And John Corn- well, at Rowney, will still no doubt still have his name on the Consolidat- ed and 3, 6 O. payroll as “policy at- torney.” The Waise-Coonvel bunch at Fairs mont are (vdeie off Chilton, and the Chilion-MacCor te bunea at Charleston are Gading of Com. ell. Goed luck to aH you merry geniemen! Well, anywhere. when Consolidated Cornweil tears the news of hia de- feat. he can travel back home to Rom ney on his 3. & O. and Pullman passes. Vote for William S. Johnson—"Pis- tol Bili"—for State Treasurer, , inkin Cag rece ’ EASY RiDiNG FOR THE BOSS) PET “CORNWELL RIDES ON RAILKOAD PASSES” Sure he does, isn't he the Railroad Candidate? And don't the railroads want con- trol of the Public Service Commission so that their taxcs will be reduced? And don't they want 2 ian of their own selection appointed State Tax Commissioner? And don't they want to cripple the Compensation Department, the iabor- ing man's free insurance? And don’t they want—but, what's the uso? .. > bape “ Every West Virginian with a erals of horse sense knows what they are after. ANSWER THESE, MR. VOTER Do YOU get ten hours pay for eight hours’ work? Can YOU afford to pay the bill the railroad brotherhoods are Imposing en the public? Do YOU believe that Woedrow WII- son had the right to ask yeu to pay It? Wouldn't YOU rather have seen a strike prevented by LAW than by a SURRENDER that will take dellars from YOUR pockets every time YOU go to the market or the grocery; every time YOU deal with any man who re- ceives by freight the geods HE has to sell? Do YOU believe the rallroads will pay $1,000,000 yearly wage Increase and not ask YOU to pay the bill?— YOU and YOUR grocer and YOUR cbal dealer? Isn't the cost of living HIGH enough? When Mr. Wilson asked YOU to Pay 400,000 railroad trainmen ten hours wages for elght hours werk, don’t YOU think he asked too much? Suppose HE does get their votes— will he get YOURS—or will Charles Evans Hughes, whe was the People’s Governor of New York for four years and NEVER PLAYED POLITICS at the expense of any man's packetbeok, get YOUR vote? Vote for “Farmer Jim” Stewart for Commissioner of Agriculture. COL. BOB LILLY DEFENDS FAMILY One John R. Lilly, writing ina Hunt- ington Democratic paper, proceeded to deliver the entire Lilly family over to the Democratic party. To read what he said one would conclude that he Was a Republican. It didn’t take long for Robert C. Lilly to disabuse the public mind as to that. Robert C. Lilly is a brother of General A. A. lilly, and a staunch Republican who is supporting the entire Republican ticket. He let it be known’ that the Republican wing of the family are not boliers, but straight Republicans, this yea* and all other years, and he let it be known further that John C. Lilly is a Democrat and always has been. That is just it. When you.find « man who claims te be “delivering” Republican voters over to the Demo- cratic party, you will find upon inves. ligation that he is a narrow-minded, partisan Democrat who is prebably being paid for what he ia doing. Vote for Morris P. Shawkey for Superintendent of Free Schools. “WATSON APPEALS FOR LABOR VOTES” Why not send the famous “Watsen wrecking crew” after them? Ask any United Mine Worker who ever at- tempted to talk unionism in Watson's coal fields—providing he got out of the hospital alive. erie se ce OH YOU JOSEPHUAl This is a free advertisement for “Life,” tssue of September 14: If you want to find a reflection ef your own inward opinion of the pres- ent amiable, inconsequential and be- fuddling Secretary of the Navy, bere ‘tls; for “Life” dedicates an entire {s- sue to our own officious, omniscient, ontological, oleaginous, obligarehical Sir Joe-sea-fuss! Incompeten-Sea. Inefficien-Sea. Idiosyncra-Sea, Inadequa-Sea. Delinquen-Sea. {mpermanen- Sea. hypocri-Sea. Also, with a mind to the juice that has made our State and Navy Depart. ments famous, “Life” proposes this toast: “Grape Nuts! Bryan and Daniels!" ic Jacet! = EDITORIAL COMMENTS. % If you had two dollars to invest would you trust {t to the business sagacity of Josephus Daniels? Then, why let him handle the millions that are to be spent on the new navy? Judging by the signs of War Depart. ment activity the Administration 1a cunningly arranging to bring the militiamen home just in time to euablo them to vote for Mr. Hughes. A train of thought on a one-track mind has to be composed of shuttle cars, Three years ago Woodrow Wilson was explaining that bard times were psychological, but he isn't trying to squirm out of responsibility for the Present prosperity, President Wilson's speech of accept. ance could have been phrased even more succinctly in the graphic words of Boss Tweed, “What are you going ‘to do about it7" Tt applies with equal force to all other supporters of the odious doctrine of Wat- | sonism, whether they have been paid with pelf, official preferment or glittering promises; whether they be party bolters, ex-Democrats returning to their: first party love, mislead innocents, fools, or just plain grafters ranging in class from grand to petty political larcenists. These are questions that strike them dumb; from which they run to cover and seek a safe hiding. i Bul there are, thank Almighty God! enough honest, decent and self-respecting people who do not belong to the various groups specifically referred to, who have settled these questions for themselves, and their dependents; for their freedom rights and liberties; and they have settled them right. : They will cast their votes for Judge Ira E. Robinson and the entire Republican State ticket. _ Vat ne We see by the Interviews with the Mexican commissioners that the cam palzn slexnn thiv year in the Sonore bandit belt Is “Thank God for Wood row Wilson.” Mr. Wilson's eulogy of Lincoln at Uodgenville was morg Iterary but les: siucere than the one he pronounced upon himself at Shadow Lawn. The new half dollars will have an olive. brunch on one side and on the other an eugle, in full fight. Wilson money. 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"The defendants further represented to Mrs. Showers that the national president of the Anti-Saloon League was interested in the company and that they, because of their official position and connection with the Anti-Saloon League in Colorado, were in a very strong position to interest a good many and raise sufficient funds through the Anti-Saloon League and its officers and especially Baptist ministers of the gospel who were interested in the league. They also called to the attention of Mrs. Showers and her husband, the complaint states, the various ministers of the gospel who were interested in their company and stated that Dr. H. H. Russell, founder of the Anti-Saloon League, was made an officer of the company. MANY DIVORCES IN DRY KANSAS MANY DIVORCES IN DRY KANSAS Twenty-Five Hundred Separations Are Granted During the Past Year Under a Topeka, Kansas, date line, the St. Joseph (Mo.) 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This shows an increase of 186 prisoners in jail, and 185 divorces over a year ago. The report states that there were 925 liquor convictions, of which 147 were in Cherokee county, 101 in Shawnee county, 90 in Reno county and 61 in Sedgwick county. The number of prisoners in jail was largest in Shawnee county, where 621 were confined, according to the report. Sedgwick showed 561, Wyandotte 445, and Montgomery 444. Some of the smaller western counties report a large number of prisoners, probably due to I. W. W. trouble, the report shows. In the number of divorces granted Sedgwick county leads with 292; Wyandotte, second with 278; Shawnee, 180; Crawford, 137, and Cherokee, 103. The report shows there were 159 boys under sixteen, and 39 girls under sixteen, in jail during the year. This shows an increase of sixteen boys and fourteen girls for the year. PROHIBITION AND LIQUOR REVENUES A correspondent of the New York Sun calls attention to the fact that while internal revenue returns for the year ended June 30, 1915, showed a falling off in taxes on intoxicating liquors, they show an increase for 1916. The falling off was attributed to the growth of prohibition sentiment. The report of the commissioner for the fiscal year 1916 shows that although state-wide prohibition laws went into effect in January 1, 1916, in the states of Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Iowa, Oregon, South Carolina and Washington, with a total population of 9,000,000, there has been an increase of $23,000,000 in the taxes paid on distilled and fermented liquors. If prohibition was the cause of this decline in the receipts from liquor taxes in 1915, was the addition of 9,000,000 population to prohibition territory the cause of the increase in 1916? the correspondent inquires. Possibly industrial depression caused the falling off for 1915, and industrial prosperity brought about the increase for 1916. Who knows?— Wilmington (Del.) Every Evening No one disputes a temporary prosperity in our land today. But it is sectional in its factory aspect, abnormal in its feeworthy rush, fictitious in its essentials and perversing in its tendency. Worse: it is the gold sluiced from the river of blood, poured out by the unifying sacrifice of millions of our fellow men. God formalized that worst boast a prosperity wrought in such waste of human life. We neither relish in the prosperity of peace.—United States Senator Warren G. Harding. LAWYER SAYS AS MANY MORE PEOPLE WOULD QUIT THAT METROPOLIS IF THEY HAD TRAVELING EXPENSES, AS IT IS PRACTICALLY BANKRUPT City Spending of $2,854,263 a Year For Liquor, the Money Going to Other Utilities—Courts and Down Proposed Bond Issue, Consolidating the Baggage of $2,50 From High Citizen—Disused Plague Reigns One of the most fortunate cities in the nation has result of prohibition. It is only fourteen miles. The four diagonals (called Agor-ferard) publish the following letter: "In the case of your power of this notice appears an article over the signature of Hon. Thomas E. Kloy, of Annapton, fellating over the condition in Birmingham due to two years of prohibition. Among other expressions which he uses we find the following: 'Denequent effects of prohibition in Birmingham.' 'Birmingham is not alone, however, in enjoying better conditions under prohibition.' 'In view of the fact that prohibition has not injured labor conditions in Birmingham,' and 'in view of the fact that he has kept in Alabama millions of dollars that formerly went out of the state for whose sale Hipor shipments.' Mr. Kilby need not have signed himself as being from Anniston, for his card is proof enough that he knows nothing of the true conditions existing here in Birmingham. "I have been practicing law here now for a number of years, and I venture the assertion that money in the hands of the liquors is tighter and harder to get and business and professional conditions worse than ever before in the history of this city. It may be conceded that the city inspection fee on liquor materially decreased the shipments of liquor to Greater Birmingham during the time it was in force. Since this fee has been held unconstitutional by the Supreme Court and removed, the number of shipments into the district has greatly increased, and it is now estimated, based on the best obtainable record evidence, that 3,000 liquor and beer shipments are received daily at the various express and freight offices in Greater Birmingham. Liquor packages contain two quarts and average $3 in value; beer shipments contain four dozen bottles, averaging $5 in value, making the average value of each shipment of liquor and beers $4. Birmingham's Liquor BILL. Omitting Sundays, and figuring shipments for six days a week only, the amount expended daily for liquor by citizens of Greater Birmingham is $8,000; weekly, $14,000; monthly, $192,000; yearly, $2,304,000. Let it be understood that this money is paid in cash and goes out of the state of Alabama, and has no reference to expenditures for liquors and beers in Jefferson county outside of Greater Birmingham. The question is not, 'What is the matter with Birmingham?' but 'How long can Birmingham stand this drain upon the purses of her citizens?' And the money is not put back into circulation here. The result is not only the loss to the business interests of the city of this money, but also the income to the city of license fees and taxes on this traffic, amounting to over a quarter of a million dollars annually. Just sit up and take notice of existing conditions. Our commis- sioners inform us that the city is practically bankrupt. They have imposed an annual street tax of $5 per capita. They propose, and will impose, a monthly tuition fee upon every boy and girl attending the public schools of the city. They propose placing a tax or license fee on every owner of a private cow, and are considering increasing the amount of licenses on businesses and professions, generally. Tax Values Go Up. In addition to all of this, tax values on real estate are being raised to such an extent as to amount to almost confiscation. Take Third avenue, between Fifteenth and Twenty-second streets, and one can count thirty-odd vacant stores. Take Fourth avenue, between Fifteenth and Twenty-second streets, and one can count more vacant stores. Take First avenue, between Fifteenth and Twenty-second streets, and the vacant stores are still greater in number. On Twentieth street, between Avenue P. and Tutwiler Hotel, our admin thoroughfare, there are no more 50 vacant stores. Take Second avenue, between Fifteenth and Twenty-second streets, and the number of vacant stores will crowd the 100 mark. "In the Age-Herald of the 17th instant the startling information, is given that the census of school children in Greater Birmingham which has just been completed is nearly 30,000 less than the school census of two years ago, which indicates a loss of approximately 40,000 people from the population of Greater Birmingham during the last two years, and there are 40,000 more who would leave if they had money enough to get out of town. "What are the causes? Whither are we dritting? Think it over. "MATT H. MURPHY, "737 First National Bank, Birmingham Herc's Another Letter. The following is from the Baltimore Sun: To the Editor of the Evening Sun: Sir:—Just to give the friends of prohibition and the Baltimore public an idea of what prohibition does for a city. I was in Birmingham. Ala., a short time ago and these are a few of the facts I heard: The city is bankrupt; it tried another bond issue, but was so much in debt already that the courts would not allow it to go through. The city just had to have some money, so the officials sent collectors from door to door to get $2.50 from each male over 21 years, of age. Just think of a city having to collect money that way! And now some people are taking legal steps to stop this collection. In every city that is "dry" it is the same story. And the merchants in all lines will tell you they can see no benefit to business; it just holds its own as before the city went dry. Birmingham is also having an epidemic of typhoid and tuberculosis, its public hospitals filled and no money to run them with. Doctors and nurses are going unpaid. Dear people of Baltimore, make it your business to see that this never happens to our city. I am not in the liquor business, but in the manufacturing jewelry business. W. IRVING BLOOM