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MONDAY EVENING. MARCH 28
A WHOLESOME SIGN
THERE could be no more certain
Indication of the growth of the
city along substantial lines than
the fact that the demand for
houses to rent Is far beyond the sup
ply. While this condition is embarrass
ing and annoying to the home-seeker
»nd doubtless is temporarily retarding
the city's progress, it is nevertheless
a wholesome sigu. There is nothing so
discouraging to city development as a
host of "to let" cards decorating the
front doors of empty houses, indicat
ing either a shrinkage of population or
an "over-built" condition that is al
most as bad.
Following the great building boom
of a few years back, that sent the
city's built-up section far out over
what had been unbroken fields both
In the West End and Allison Hill dis
tricts, real estate men and financiers
feared that over-zealous contractors
might have gone beyond the imme
diate needs of the community. If this
was true at any time the condition is
of the past. At present the town needs
more than anything else four or five
hundred, houses to rent from J2O to
J3O a month, and not a few to rent for
less.
It must be remembered that the
Cumberland Valley Railroad is about
to cause the vacation of several blocks
of dwellings along Mulberry street,
that the Pennsylvania railroad con
templates the demolition of as many
more, that the State will continue to
tear out the Eighth ward districts that
are to be given over to the Capitol
Park extension and that in Steelton
the Pennsylvania Steel Company is
removing the houses of a whole voting
precinct on the West Side. The peo
ple occupying these buildings must be
boused, so it would appear that the
builder may anticipate a bufty and
prosperous Spring and summer.
With all the Inspiration and direc
tion emanating from the 'White House,
!*vhose occupant has undertaken to
insurp the functions of all departments
«if the government, it is not surprising
(that the Wilson choice for Governor of
Pennsylvania should indicate his pur
pose to change the rules of the Legis
lature and do a few more stunts usually
left to the legislative bodies them
selves.
SUPPOSE HE SHOULD RETIRE
AS a we quote two sentences
from an editorial in thu Read
ing News. You have doubtless
often heard expressions of the
bind:
Penrose refuses to see the hand
writing on the wall. His only hope
for saving thu face of his party Is
by getting out of the race and re
tiring into a discredited oblivion.
Let ub waive for tho moment the
Question whether Senator Penrose de
serves "discredited oblivion" and let
tis see how much hard common sense
there is in this argument. Lot us sup
pose that Senator Penrose were to
refuse to be a candidate foi re-election.
Would our opponents in the Flinn
camp and the Palmer camp be willing
to admit that "bostism" in the Repub
lican party had been annihilated over
night? Would they generously pro.
claim to the people of Pennsylvania
that "Penroseism" was at last a thing
of the past and that it now mattered
very little whether the Keystone State
Bent a Republican or a Democrat or a
Progressive to Washington?
Merely to ask the question answers
it. It is perfectly apparent that if
Mr. Penrose were to retire from the
race the opponents of Republicanism
who have built up a machine of offense
designed expressly to attack Senator
Penrose woulfl decline to allow their
elaborately prepared plan of campaign
to be interfered with in this way.
The very next morning after Senator
Penrose had announced his retirement
we would bo Informed by a certain
class of papers that the Republic in
party had acknowledged its defeat be
fore the first gun was fired. We would
likewise be informed that the retire
ment of Senator Penrose was merely a
subterfuge to fool the people and that
the remaining candidates on the ticket
"were masks for the "boss" who still
skulked behind the breastworks.
There arc. three for
TJnlted States senator before the voters
of the Republican party. One of them
la Senator Penrose, another is ex-Mayor
-CUmiiilck. of Scranton, arid the thiro
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MONDAY EVENING.
is Congressman Alney. There is no
way under the sun in which Senator
Penrose or anyone else can prevent
you as a free and independent Repub
lican from voting for Mr. Dimmlck or
Mr. Alney if you prefer either of them
to Senator Penrose. The State-wldo
primary, taking the nominations of
United States senator out of the Legis
lature und placing them In the hands
of the voters directly, was passed for
the special purpose of preventing any
boss or clique from forcing down the
throats of the electorate any candidate
not acceptable to the people at largo.
It is up to the voters, and the advo
i catcs of an open primary must stand
convicted of insincerity unless they
face the issue of determining in the
primary who shall be the candidates
/or these Important offices. We have
been told over and over again that the
old system of convention nominations
and elections by the Legislature was
an imposition and disgrace. Now let
us give the new system a fair trial,
not countenancing interference by
bosses of any party. Otherwise the
primary is a farce.
Berry now tells his open-mouthea
hearers that there are two Democrats
in Pennsylvania for every Republican.
He says the Progressives "have not
found it out yet," but that they are
Democrats.
"BUCK" MIXNIS
T'HCRE is sadness among the large
force of Federal employes in
this city and in a wide circle
outside those immediately asso
ciated with him in their daily employ
ment. "Buck" Minnis is dead and
when his big heart ceased to beat the
light of a cheerful, friendly and loyal
personality was extinguished; but
those who kne * the big letter carrier
will not forget In the years to come
his optimism, his sympathy with his
fellow men, his cheerful acceptance
of the unpleasant things of life, his
cordial greetings as he went up and
.down in the performance of his daily
duties.
Everybody love*d "Buck" and they
loved him because they couldn't help
It. He was the sort of man to invite
friendship and to hold it and the
world Is a lot better because of the
big letter carrier's sojourn here.
One of the surcharged orators of the
reorganized Democracy declared the
other day that time is reckoned in Har
rlsburg by the McCormick mayoralty
administration "Just as in the old days
they reckoned time as after the flood."
O temporal O, mores!
WILSON AND FAIlt PLAY
PRESIDENT WILSON, addressing
a gathering 3f newspaper men in
Washington on Friday evening,
begged for fair play on the part
of the press. The President implied,
if he did not say so in so many words,
that the newspapers had not been
treating him fairly.
The trouble Is not with the press of
the country—it is with the viewpoint
of Mr. Wilson himself. Everybody
who does not happen to agree in every
respect with the autocrat of the White
House "is subject to suspicion if not
open accusation. Anybody in or out
of the Democratic party who does not
bow absolutely to the wishes of the
administration is charged with being
unfair to the President.
President Wilson must remember
that he is a minority President. He
does not represent the views of a ma
jority of tl.e people of the United
States. He is the product of a divi
sion in the Republican party. His
tariff views will be repudiated at the
next elections. His Mexican policy—
If he may be said to have one—ls
ridiculed even by members of his own
party. When he has been right in the
legislation he has urged upon Congress
he has been supported by Republicans
as well as Democrats. When ho has
used the White House in an attempt
to dictate the policies of sovereign
States in an effort to build up a Demo
cratic machine for his own re-election,
he has been censured. He has been
treated fairly if ever man in the White
House • has been treated fairly.
Republican newspapers have praised
him when he has done anything
worthy of praise and they have con
sistently refrained from the methods
of the Democratic character assassins
who have gone to any length to be
smirch the reputations of Republicans
in the Presidential chair.
There is just one sentence in tho
speech of Friday night that requires
explanation: "If I could disguise my
self and not get caught, then I might
go out and meet some of you gentle
men and tell you what I really think?"
Is it possible, after all this outward
show and pretense of frankness on
the part of the administration that the
President has not been telling us what
lie really thinks? If he is so anxious
for fair play he might at least let the
newspapers know how he expects them
to £o about it.
So far as trade with the United
States Is concerned, the outlook Is
for a very material Increase over
the past calendar year. It Is inter
esting to note that up to and In
cluding February 14, wfilcli Is
exactly half of the first quarter, the
value of exports declared at Bir
mingham alone was 3576,209, an
Increase of $172,558 over the simi
lar period of 1913. The number of
Invoices was 109 greater, an In
crease of 28% per cent. There are
a number of new shippers and firms
that shipped many years ago, but
who had lost their American busi
ness, who show signs of renewing
their American connections. —Daily
Consular and Trade Reports.
What do wo care about the loss of
homo' wages represented in this in
crease of imported goods? Think how
we are profiting by the reduction in
the high cost of living which Is every
where apparent! Hooray for free
trade!
British worsted fabrics exported
in January totaled nearly 10,000,-
000 yards, an Increase of one and
four-fifths million yaros/Over Jan
uary, 1913. Shipments t<ythe United
States were four and orte-flfth mil
lion yards, an Increase of two and
four-fifths million yards. Dally
Consular and Trade Reports,
Are your clothes any cheaper'' Not
yet. But the money that would have
been paid to American wage earners
for manufacturing that two and l'our-
Yifths million yards of goods at homo
under a protective tariff lias gone
abroad.
ieveniD6' cbdf
Every one of the tifty or sixty nomi
nating petitions filed at the depart
ment of the Secretary of the Com
monwealth in advance of the May pri
mary contains from ten to a couple of
hundred names more than the law re
quires and if reports are correct some
of those to be filed will be immense
affuirs, beating the lO.OOU-name affairs
of the 1912 campaign and the gigantic
Vare petitions In that historic cam
paign, which broke the record. Pe
titions have been taken out by the
hundreds and some of them have been
distributed by the thousand. The State
supplies petitions as fjir as necessary,
but the requests for 500 and 1,000
blank petitions for nominations which
do not require ten have been filled
only as far as che supply on hand per
mitted. Some of the candidates had
their own papers printed with their
names printed thereon and that means
that somo huge bundles will be tiled.
Every candidate files a petition with a
safe margin above the requirements of
the law. but beyond that it is a matter
of pride, apparently, and messages re
ceived on the "Hill" from men who
are candidates or who are running
campaigns Indicate that there will be
big petitions filed to attest popularity
of the candidate. Experience here has
shown that men who file big petitions
regard the sine as something in their
favor, as they consider a man signing
a nominating petition more or less
bound to the support of the candidate,
and the petitions have in some cases
been a battle roll of aspirants for
nominations. Hence the man with tno
largest petition considers that he Is in
the best shape, although men who
filed big petitions two years ago found
that the signing of a petition was ap
parently not regarded as an obligation
to vote that way. Some of the petitions
filed are works of penmanship, but on
most the name, occupation, residence
and aspirations of a candidate are
typewritten. The requirement of the
date of signing is followed as carefully
as the residence statement and tho
affidavits required by the act of 1913
have been found In order on every
petition submitted thus far. It is ex
pected that there will be a tremendous
rush of petitions in the week before
April 21, when the time for filing ex
pires.
Judging from letters written to men
active in Harrisburg fire companies,
the greatest interest is being mani
fested throughout the eastern counties
and some of the central in the meeting
of the State convention of the firemen
in this city in the Fall. Some of the
counties in the southern and south
eastern portions will have representa
tives of every company and dozens of
the companies will send men to take
part In the demonstration. The fire
men have not met here for well nigh
thirty years and are looking forward
to enjoying the hospitality of the city
and of seeing the Capitol.
Just Speaking about the Capitol, it
is worth while to note that not only
have many members of fire companies
In the State never seen the Capitol,
but there are thousands of people not
many miles away from us who have
never beheld its beauties. Not long
ago a prominent business man of
Philadelphia had to come here on
some matters and confessed that he
had been in a dozen States and seen
most of their capitols, but that he had
never seen that of his own imperial
commonwealth. This man remarked
that there were probably hundreds of
men as well situated as he who had
never been to Harrisburg to see the
Capitol yet "who knew every hotel in
Atlantic City and were up on the best
theaters in New York and could tell a
lot about Boston, Baltimore and Wash
ington.
National Guardsmen in this city are
making some tests with the landscape
targets which are coming into general
use Just now and which are destined
to be Important factors in the rifle
work of the State militia. These tar
gets are small affairs of cardboard
with bits of country shown. There
are somo which show the ordinary
type of cultivated countryside with
windmills and big trees standing out.
Where it catches tlio men is to be told
to sight for a house or clump of tree*.
As a whole the target presents a wide
stretch of country and there is noth
ing better to test out the men than the
observation of details.
An immense quantity of snow re
mains along roads and in ravines
within a few miles of the city's bor
ders and people who have been out l'or
automobile spins have been astonished
at the amount of snow that has es
caped the rays of the sun In the last
ten days. These banks of snow indi
cate how great the fall must have
been because the snow has gone from
fields. Some of the gullies along the
Paxton creek valley are still full 01
snow and along the mountains there
are many places where the hand of
winter was laid heavily and where it
will take warm weather to clear out
The snow, say farmers, will cause the
earth to be full of water and to assure
good Mow from springs, while tho
ground will be well watered for Spring.
kW6LL'KnO Wn-P6GPI RT)
—Ex-Congressman D. F. Lafean
may be a candidate again in the York-
Adams district.
—Mayor Frank B. McClain, of Lan
caster, has been sick.
—Judge A. T. Searle, of Honesdale,
Is very proud of an orchard on one of
his farms which he has developed.
—President Nathaniel Ewing, of the
Public Service Commission, is reported
to be improving In health.
iPOUTiCAbsipefciafriyg
—From all accounts President Wil
son has reason to worry over his slate
for Pennsylvania Democrats. Like
wise In Illinois. 7n Tennessee they
bumped him.
—Bull Moosers seem to be wary of
Democratic snares with sugar on the
outside.
—Chester mikeryans have formed
a club to boost the Philadelphlan.
—Dr. Brumbaugh's letter appears
to have won people all over the State
regardless of party.
—Congressman Donahoe and the
tariff are having a wrestling match.
—Mr. Ainey seems to think Mr.
Dimmick and Mr. Penrose ought to
quit.
—No, George Dimeling will hardly
serve on the Clearfield reception com
mittee for McCormick.
—The Old Guard and the Boy Scouts
are having a nice row in Allegheny
and Brennen appears to be well pleas
ed with the outlook.
—The Anti-Saloon League has en
lorsed Dimmick. Its list is getting
long.
—H. B. Saussanu 1, a lawyer, will
give the now Palmer-McCormick Boy
Scouts a talk on the registration law
to-night. Ho is also a candidate.
—lt is currently reported that the
irumbaugh letter doe.' not please ma
chinists at the Democratic windmill.
—lt's going to take more than
watchful waiting to get the Jersey slate
through for Pennsylvania Democrats.
WILL'S AN ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT
[From the Fayetto (111.) Democrat.]
The saxophone, an instrument that
few can get any real muslo'out of, was
played to perfection by the three ladles.
I especially Miss Stella, who played her
I Instrument and accompanied herself on
(lie piano, something rarely seen. Wo
: heard Will Rltter say that the saxo
phone playing was fine, and ho belns a
member of the band ought lo give Ills
4 expression some weight.
HAFRISBURG TELEGRAPH
BULL MOOSERS ABE
GOING IT ALONE
Dershem Will Not Get Any Help
From Them, But Will Be Fought
Good and Hard
McCORMICK ON THE WING
Going Up to Elk County to Add to
the Joy of the Nation
This Spring
Bull Moosers of the Seventeenth
congressional district have declined to
fall for the scheme of friends of Con
gressman Frank L. Dershem, of the
Lewlsburg Democrat, who is in
trouble, and instead of endorsing him
as the machinists had hoped will run
their OWB candidate. It Is probable
that George W. Wagenseller, who
achieved fame when the Roosevelt
electors met here, will be boomed as
the Washington party candidate. He
is understood to have the blessing and
consent of State Chairman A. Nevin
Detrich.
The Bull Moossers of the district,
which is the home of Detrich, will
name complete legislative candidates
no matter how small the army may
be. In Perry, W. C. Lebo, New Bloom-
Held, Is being put forward, and in
Snyder, J. F. Woodruff will be boosted.
Detrich has candidates which h« will
uncover in Franklin and Fulton coun
ties, but he is having trouble to find
them in Cumberland.
The Harris burg Washington party
men will have a meeting at their Mar
ket street headquarters to-night to or
ganize a city commit
tee and will plan their
Bull Moosers activities for the cam
\\ ill Form a paign. Most of the
Committee members of the county
committee are backing
Dr. ,T. H. Kreider for
the congressional nomination and If
there is any effort on the part of
friends of Charles E. Landis to go
after that dubious prize it has not
shown up. The Bull Moosers will
nave George L. Reed for one of their
legislative candidates and might be
willing to let Landis run for member
too If he la good. In the county
Lenker and Martin have things
sewed up.
Vance C. MoCormick, candidate for
the Democratic nomination for Gov
ernor, will go into "the enemy's coun
try" this week, as he
plans to invade Elk
county, the stronghold McOormlek
of Senator J. K. P. Hall, Going Up to
one of the men he has Elk County
so sharply attacked. The
former mayor will leave
to-day and spend to-morrow in Clear
field county, where there Is strong
opposition to him, and then go into
Elk and Cameron oil Wednesday, fol
lowing up with tours to McKean, War
ren and Erie counties.
MoCormick is planning a series of
visits to southern counties in April,
the arrangements being now under
way. He will be here on April 14,
when the Democratic State committee
meets, but whether any effort will be
made to endorse him or not is not un
covered. If it is attempted there will
be a big row. President Wilson Is said
to be watching the developments very
closely and not to be a bit pleased at
the doubtful outcome.
Elated over the rousing receptions
tendered to him on his tour of the
western and central counties, Senator
Penrose, who is per
sonally campaigning
Penrose Is the State in the inter-
Going Out On ests of his candidacy
Trail Again for re-election, said
yesterday that ho
would go Wednesday
to Lock Haven. From Lock Haven
he will follow an itinerary which
will bring him before many Repub
licans in that section of Pennsylvania.
He will prob&bly 'return to Philadel
phia late this week.
Representative D. B. Ainey, of Mont
rose, who Is opposing Senator Boies
Penrose for the Republican senatorial
nomination, in a statement given out
last night answers queries relative to
rumors o£ his withdrawal from the
contest in view of the fact that J. Ben
jamin Dlmmick, of Scranton, the other
Republican opposing Senator Penrose,
is but dividing the opposition to Pen
rose. Mr. Ainey says Pennsylvania
Republicans, in his opinion, are deter
mined to return a Republican to the
Senate. He is planning for a campaign
tour that will take him into every sec
tion of the State, and will wage an
active campaign against both Penrose
and Dimmlck. On March 26 he will
speak at Dußois and on March 29 at
Troy. He expects to announce other
dates within a week.
The Philadelphia Inquirer says to
day on a subject of local interest:
"Palmer-MeCormick boomers who have
been led to believe that
Secretary of the Navy
JosephusS. Daniels would DuiiMs to
interest himself in the Keep Out
cause of their chieftains of the Row
by speaking at a JefCer
sunlan dinner to be held
in Harrisburg on April 13 learned
otherwise yesterday.
"After his arrival here yesterday for
the purpose of taking part in the cere
monies attending the launching of tho
dreadnought Oklahoma to-day Secre
tary Daniels took occasion to remark
that under no circumstances would he
discuss factional fights.
" 'lf it is my pleasure to speak in
Pennsylvania at any time,' he said, 'I
may speak of Democratic policies, but
never factional polities'."
With each succeeding day the light
in the Democratic party in Pennsyl
vania becomes more bitter and per
sonal. Eugene C. Bonni
wMl, erstwhile leader of
the reorganization forces Bonniwell
under the Palmer-McCor- Hits Vane©
mick whip, predicted in a McCormlck
speech at Johnstown, as
reported by the. Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times, that "if Vance
McCormlck is nominated by the Demo
crats of Pennsylvania he will not be
elected Governor. He declared that
McCormick made the statement in
1000 that he would not vote for Bryan
because the latter was an anarchist,
and said he has an affidavit to produce
in proof of this. He said that the
[ State organization, under McCormick
I In 1913. betrayed Grim in the latter's
campaign for the Superior Court. He
declared that McCormick. as mayor of
Harrisburg in 1905, vetoed an ordi
nance passed by council to make the
wages of the city laborers .$1.50 per
day on the grounds that it was too
much and there were plenty of men to
be obtained at a lower price."
l-in-bAßtiia&imft-p-iPTy-
y&ARS- Aft-OfOU
[From the Telegraph, March 23, 1864]
lee Harts Rafting
Largo quantities of ice have been
floating down .the river to-day. This,
together with the declining state of the
water, has about put an end to the
rafting business for the present.
Capture* Alligator I ft
A day or two ago a darkey who was
engaged in shoveling sand from thft
river bed. succeeded 111 capturing a
genuine alligator . about four feQt in
length. v
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OPPORTUNITY
That old story of the Duke who
put a great stone in the middle of
the highroad might be used to de
scribe aptly your opportunity of
reading the Public Ledger. Every
one walked around the stone instead
of lifting it, until at length the
Duke himself rolled it aside and
showed the purse of gold beneath
it. The purse was inscribed: "For
him who lifts the stone."
The Public Ledger is for him
who can overcome the inertia of
habitand investigate what lies under
the stone of opportunity.
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A-um,e-not>sease i
She saw by the papers that a second
Carrie Nation had risen, but she hadn't
heard of any new country being: found
and where was it situated.
HOW IT KISELK
By Winn Dinger
There are some people in this town
Who know what Woodrow meant
When he told reporters how It feels
To be a President.
The Governor, Mayor and Councilinen
On Saturday did eat
With members of the Muzzle Club,
Who once a year do meet.
The muzzled took their muzzles off
As they came through the door
And then proceeded with each guest
To gently mop the floor.
The truth alone prevailed—no one
On this occasion lied;
The roasts were not confined to meats—
Moro than the eggs were fried.
And men in public office heard
Some things of which the tint
Was such that they would rather not
See any placed in print.
But, whether good or whother bad,
'Twas taken all In fun.
And everyone was sorry when
The joyous feast was done.
BOOKS «nd eft
Flu^aE
Barnabettu, by Helen K. Martin,
author of "Tillie: A Mennonite Maid,"
"The Crossways," etc.
Mrs. Henry R. Martin's earlier books
have proved 'ier the fortunate posses
sor of two very valuable literary as
sets: an unfailing gift of genuine,
spontaneous humor; und the ability to
handle dialect artistically without be
coming unintelligible. And hor vivid |
portrayal of the Pennsylvania Dutch
life and character has done for an un
familiar and singular people what Bay
ard Taylor did for the r'riends, Irving
for the Dutch, and Edward Eggloston
for the Hoosiers of the Ohio Valley.
Here is another story of these quAint
folk, the heroine a firwer-like charm
ing maiden, whose struggle for an edu
cation against many odds, her blos
soming and her finding of happiness
remind the reader delightfully of "Til
lie"—though Barnabetta has a touch of
originality and modernity that make
her a more piquant character.
The contrast of the social'and col
lege life of Mlddleton, and its reaction
on Barnabetta's simplicity, against the
narrow exacting conditions of Pennsyl
vania Dutch lire Is skilfully done: and
theri* is romance on every pagn. tor
Barnkbetta's charm wins her lovers
all along the way.
12m0., 389 pages. Price $1.30 not,
postage 11 cents. Published by The
Century Co., Union Square, New Yorls,
This latest book of the versatile writer
of the Susquehannu Water Gap will be
read with special Interest by her
friends In this city.
MARCH 23,1914.
|nevp«-DißP&rcfies
*-Of-Tf)fr» CIVIL* WAR
[From the Telegraph, March 23, 1864]
Colouel Da via Kscape*
Cumberland Gap, March 22.—Lieu
tenant-Colonel Davis, of the Eleventh
Tennessee Cavalry, who was wounded
and taken prisoner on February 22, has
escaped and reached our lines in safoty.
He was treated very inhumanly while •
in the rebels' hands.
Capture Picket Bout
New York, March 23.—0n the night
of the 17th inst., a large force of rebels
approached Seabrooks, S. C., in a boat
and captured a picket boat with ilve
members of the Seventy-sixth Pennsyl
vania Regiment. They were subse
quently repulsed by the other pickets
of that regiment.
"THE HANDWRITING ON Tin:
WALL."
Under this heading the National Li
quor Dealers' Journal sounds an alarm 1
concerning the rapid growth through
out the nation of a sentiment favor
ing Nation-wide pprohibition of the
manufacture and sale of intoxicating
liquors. That Journal comments as
follows:
"The prohibition fight henceforth
will be Nation-wide and contemplates
writing into the National Constitution
a prohibition of the manufacture and
sale of alcoholic beverages. To ac
complish this result will require the
ratification of thirty-six out ol' forty
eight States of the Union. Of these,
nine are already in line through State
prohibition Mains, Kansas, North
"Dakota, Oklahoma, Mississippi, Geor
gia, Tennessee, Nortli Carolina, West
Virginia. The last five have been ad
ded within a period of six years, in
addition to these there are eighteen
States in which a major part of the
people live In territory made dry by
local option, and in which we may be
assured prohibition sentiment pre
dominates. • * 0 *
"The most influential argument
against prohibition is that It is not ef
fective, that prohibition does not pro
hibit. This is not basic or moral;
the fact of the failure to enforce Is no
argument against even expediency,
much less against the moral issue in
volved. Ultimately all questions mustl
be settled by moral standards; only in
this way can mankind bo saved from
self-effacement. Tho liquor traffic
cannot save itself by declaring that
Government is incapable of coping
with" the problem It presents; when
the people decide it must go, it will
bo banished. * • » *
"For this the liquor business is to
blame; It seems incapable of learning
any lesson of advancement or any
motive but profit. To perpetuate It
self it has formed alliances with the
slums that repel all conscientious and
patriotic citizens. It.- deliberately aids
the most corrupt political powers, and
backs with all of its resources the
most unworthy men, the most corrupt
and recreant officials. It does not aid
the purification of municipal, State or
National administration. Why? Be
cause it has to ask immunity for its
own lawlessness. • • * «
"The case of the liquor traffic is
called for adjudication by the Ameri
can people and it must be ready for
trial. Other cases may be called
I later but the one before the court can
not be postponed. » • • • There are
billions of property involved; • • • •
but when the people decide that the
truth is being told about the alcoholic
liquor trade the money value will not
count, for conscience aroused puts the
value of man above all other things."
1 EDITORIAL COMMENTI
Slip la and Out Umtea
[From the Washington Star.]
The excitement elsewhere is bo great
that admirtstratlons in Haiti may come
and go unnoted.
They're Tkldt Around Here
[From the Baltimore Sun.]
Ceil estate agents are the most un
failing of all harbingers of Spring.
He Should Wait Watch fully
JFrom the Philadelphia Press.] i
i If Governor Colquitt Isn't careful the
1 first thing he knows the administration I
J won't recognize hln> either. J
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Earth for work. Heaven »r
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another for the crown; time ft*
employment, eternity for enjOj
ment.—Guthrie.
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