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West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Death of John Il. Cough.
Young Man, Make Your Record
Clean" the Last Words of the
Great Temperance Orator.

No more will the gifted Cough
sway the multitudes with his
matchless eloquence on the sub
lime themes OF Temperance and
Prohibition.
The ending of his life was as
tragic as was the beginning of his
Temperance career.
While addressing an audience in
DR.. Murphy's Church, Philadel-
phia, in his usual vivid and i'm
pressive style, he was relating an
anecdote about two authors he
had known, and after supplement-
ing it by saying that every man
was an author and made a daily
record that eternity could not erase,
he stepped forward, saying with
unusual force, Il have seven years
in the record of my own life when
l was held in the iron grasp
of incompetence, that l would
give the world to blot
out but / can not" And then
with an impressive gesture he
said with startling emphasis,
"Noung man, make yo'r record
cLead"
With these burning last words,
the tongue was paralyzed, and the
orator fell in the arms of friends,
who rushed to support him. After
lingering in Inconsistencies for
two days, in the house of friend,
where he was taken, the great
Temperance Orator quietly passed
to his reward, but his burning
words will continue to do battle
against the arch enemy of Home
and Country.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

in and present TEMPERANCE, with
all her graces of Beauty, Health,
Happiness, and all that is lovely
and good, to every mem Der of every
household il the State.
And may we not confidently ask
that friends of the common cause
in every county, will now, in cele-
bration of it's "Wooden Wedding"
make special efforts to find these
open doors to the homes of the peo-
pie, that the FREEMAN may come
in with its good news, good cheer
and God speed" in the ways of
Temperance, Peace, Prosperity and
Happiness?
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Their Works DO Follow Them.

The death of John B. Cough re.
moves one of the most prominent
Temperance workers of the age,
Mr.. Cough never ran for office on
the Prohibition ticket, we believe,
and so far as we can learn, never
voted a Prohibition ticket, but tor
all that he was a Temperance
worker whose deeds will live after
him.-Stote Journal.
The Journal in the above short
paragraph makes a pitiful exhl'
bition of its petulant spirit of envy
and hatred for Prohibitionists.
1t couldn't even attend the
funeral of great Temperance
leader without basely marring It's
eulogies for the dead hero, with
covert insinuations against his best
living friends. That Mr.. Cough
was Prohibitionist of the straight
est and bravest sect, he left his
life work as testimony.
Whether he ever ran for ONCE
we know not. If he had been
candidate, and it had been to his
discredit and disgrace, as the Jour-
nal intimates, then what OF Grant,
Garfield, Blaine and the rest OF 1ne
Journals worshipped heroesY
And whether Mr.. Cough ever
voted Prohibition ticket, we kno"
not; but We do know, that lof
more than forty busy years ne mas
been, heroically fighting the miSe.,
able, murderous liquor traffic, WHICH
the Journal during its natural lile
thus far, has been advertising ah0
so commencing.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

of political and official ethics in
communities where the saloon
curse has hitherto prevailed. There
needs to be more sympathy with
the Home and Society and less
favor shown to habitual and per-
sistent law-breakers. Saloon ethics
should give place to Home ethics
and lawless liquor-sellers should
be put on a level with other per-
sistent violators of law.
This sickly, sentimental sympa-
thy expressed by public journals
and cials, is the key to all our
liquor traffic lawlessness.
When the public press and pub
lie officials put away this Supply
ing, paralyzing and demoralizing
code of "saloon ethics" and adopt
a code in harmony with common
sense, good order and reverence for
law; then will the peace and the
protection of Society be secured
without the aid and expense of
special detective work.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
The Liquor Traffic Commission

A bill in Congress for the crea-
ton of com mission to investigate
the Liquor Traffic provides that
the members shall not all be
Prohibitlonists.
It strikes US that it would also
be good plan to make sure that
they shall not all be whisky men.
Such a commission, in order to do
the most good, ought to have
enough conscientious men in it to
insure a thorough investigation
and an honest report of the results,
whatever they might be. In add.
ton, it ought to contain enough
out-and, out whisky men to bring
in a straight whisky minority re-
port.
With the question of deciding
between two such reports before
the House, the Sergeant-at-Arms
would need a whole regiment of the
Federal army to get an average
Congressman anywhere within a
radius of one hundred miles Of
Washington City.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
WEDNESDAY, FEB. "a, 1886,
THE FREEMAN
Wants 1000 Names.
See advertisement on last page.
OUR WOODEN WEDDING.
The Freeman Five Years Old.

Our confidential secretary at
our elbow, "puts in" abruptly-"O,
you've got that all wrong; the
FREEMAN never had any soeddimg
you mean, the FREEMAN's Fifth
Birthday Anniversary!'
Well; private secretaries may
sometimes know pretty much ev-
erything, but in this case, one is
wrong. The FREEMAN had both a
Birthday and Wedding Day, and
both events occurred on the same
day, in February, 1881.
On the day of the FREEMAN's
birth it was married to Miss Tenn
perance, and from that day to this
has Loyalty and faithfully labored
to support, defend and protect her
hopes, interests and lofty aspira-
lions. During all these FIVE years,
the FREEMAN has gone up and
down the country, proclaiming the
virtues of its bet-othed and demand
ing the Prohibition Of her sworn
enemy,the Liquor Traffic, that she
might be protected and secure, and
he free to establish her happy sway
in all the homes of our little Noun
tain State.
In all these blustery days and
years, the FREEMAN has boldly
and fearlessly stood up in the face
of misrepresen tation, denunciation,
Islander, libel, threats and every
form of opposition, growing out of
partisan hate and malignancy.
Against all these it has dared to
stand, and still stands.
Many homes, where the FREEMAN
was formerly welcomed with hearty
good cheer, have rudely shut their
doors in its face, because, forsooth,
in the changing tides Of the Pro-
Inhibition storm, the particular old
party, idolized by the inmates of
these homes, happened to suffer
harm in the raging political ele-
,ments. This has been the case,
alike with Democratic and Repub-
lican homes. But where one door
has been shut, another has been
opened, and now the Macedonian
cry is coming from all over the
State, "Come oyer and help u.s."
And SO, on this Fifth Anniversa-
~ of the FREEMAN's birth and be-
trothel to the cause of Temperance
and Prohibition, it comes proclaim
ing good cheer and bright prospects
for the future. And the Wooden
Wedding" present it especial ly
asks and Graves, is an open door to
the homes and hearts of the people
of West Virginia. It wants to come
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Germany Goes into the Saloon
Business.
Bismarck the Presiding Gen;a,,s

The policy of Bismarck has 81.
ways been to rule or ruin Ger.
many; and now, in maxim,
the liquor traffic govern
ment monopoly, he seems to h.
veering around towards ruin, pu,s
and simple, If the Prime Minista,
of Germany has no better bushes.
to engage in than the liquor trade
he would do well to emigrats IL
this country and take a Job of
Wheeling dirt on the Ohio Rive,
Railroad.
While thus employed, he nigh,
not seem so important in the eyes
of the world as he does at present
but he could solace himself with
the thought that he was engaged
in an infinitely more useful and
respectable occupation,
His experiment, however, will
serve one good purpose; it will
furnish some doubling Thomases
with an actual illustration of the
truth that government whisky
will make a man beastly drunk,
just as surely as any other brand,
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
Torch and Dynamite.
In the Desperate Struggle bet'0een the
Home and the Saloon.


We have no sympathy or word
of approval for the use of the torch
and dynamite in THISTLE and-death
struggle between the Home and
Saloon. While a resort to such
methods is unfortunate, under any
possible circumstances, yet 1t
must not be forgotten that in all
bitter struggles, where such ex-
treme measures are used, pathy
will always be against the assall-
ants and aggressors in the conflicts.
IT'S true, and pity tits, tits true,
that in a very few instances, brok-
en- hearted, exasperated women,
and sometimes men, in their des-
peration to save their already
wounded home wards from these
whisky pirates, have blown up
liquor dens with gunpowder and
dynamite, but wherever such case
has been known, it has been after
every plea and prayer every effort,
moral, social and legal, had been
exhausted and failed to bring pro-
lection to the imperiled and per-
ishing home. While on the other
side, whenever the torch and dyn.
amita is used, it is to intercept the
progress of Temperance reform and
to resist the legitimate course and
force of law.
The country has witnessed an
instance of each sort, during the
week past in the great whisky-cur-
sed State of Ohio, where the con-
fict between the Home and the
Saloon is perhaps as bitter, desper-
ate and exasperating, as in any
State in the Urion.
A Saloon-keeper came into the
sober and peaceful town of Farming
ton, 0. The people plead, begged,
tried to buy, appealed to law; but
all in vain. The Saloon went right
on in its work of ruin and death,
the proprietor impudently defying
all law and the will of the COM
munity.
One night last week, the Saloon
was blown into atoms by dynamite
and the only clew was a delicate
footprint of a lady found in the vi
entity. About the same time Fran
els Murphy was holding immense
Temperance meetings in the Rink
in Mansfield, o. To break up the
meetings, the Rink was burned by
the whisky men.
While both crimes are 70 be alike
condemned by all good, law-abiding
citizens, yet the heart sympathies
are not bridled or guided by tongue
or pen, and will go out to the heart
broken and oppressed, in even the
most desperate measures in their
struggles for relief and freedom
from cruelty and wrong.
These instances of resort to vio-
lence, the torch, dynamite, &C., are
becoming more and more frequent,
and but serve to show how near
the life and death struggle between
the Home and Saloon is reaching
its final climax of savage despera.
ton, that must come before this
arch-enemy of all that is good and
true is finally overthrown.
Clarksburg is now collecting a
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

ONE FREEMAN FOR Two-Remem-
Der, any friend can get the FREE
MAN now for year, 6 months, 4
months or 2 months, by sending
US two subscribers with the money
for same length of time. Take
subscriptions at 123 cents a month.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

If either of the old parties in
West Virginia be for the Home, let
it stand forth and say it. "They
that are not for US are against us."
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

The Virginia Democracy in Con-
vention declared for Local Option,
to appease the Temperance voters,
The Legislature has just kicked
Local Option under the table to
please the liquor men. Such is
Temperance" in the old parties.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

Marion County starts the ball
for compact, thorough organiza-
ton. Now let all the other counties
fall into line and give the ball a
"boost."
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

Organized ORGANIZED! Prohibi-
tionists, Fall into Line! Now is
the time for general advance up
on the enemy.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

The true Prohibitionist, is for
the man or party that is for Prohi-
bition.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

The Prohibition "buzz saw" is
beginning to make the dust fly in
West Virginia.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24
SALOON ETHICS.
The Key to Liquor Traffic La,olessness.

The Key to Liquor Traffic La0lessness
At the late term of the Harrison
county circuit court, several hund-
red indictments were found against
citizens of Clarksburg for selling
liquors. The evidence was furnish
cd by J. W. Haggerty, detective"
known in Weston especially to our
saloon-keepers. Representing him
self as friendly to the saloon men,
he obtained drinks at almost every
bar in the place; and being regard
ed, as he is, as regular drinker,
his treachery was not suspected.
For little bit of a reward this
man has forfeited all claims to that
honor which should exist between
men, and proved himself to be a
mercenary informer in the COM
munity which had honored him
with its confidence. We believe
in detective work, when the object
is to hunt down criminal and
bring him to justice; but to basely
betray a friend is treachery. The
people of Clarsburg, as we'll as those
of w eston, have always been friend
~ to Haggerty, but we suppose
both towns will excuse him here
after Weston Democrat.
The above remarkable editorial
sets forth explicitly the code of"Sa-
loon Ethics" that so largely obtains
in every whisky-cursed town, and
furnishes the key to the lawless-
ness that prevails in every such
unfortunate community.
We shall not now discuss the
moral questions involved in detec-
tive work in general, nor consider
in particular the special work of
Mr.. Haggerty in Clarksburg.
1t is of the spirit, of the purport
and effect Of such public deliver
ances as the above that we want
to speak at present.
And first whence cometh this
code of "saloon ethics" and who is
this advocate and defender? The
Weston Democrat, "public educa
tor and "moulder of public opin.
ion and morals"
The Democrat speaks of sour sa
loon-keepers" in Weston, a no-licenss
town, in a no-license county.
Now, if Weston has saloons, they
are there in violation of law, anc
if the Democrat knows of saloons
in Weston, it is its duty to expose
them and have the saloon-keepers
prosecuted. If it is opposed tt
detective work, let it insist thai
Weston officers shall bring lawlesl
liquor-sellers to justice, and aic
them in the good work.
Again; the Democrat says, "Wt
believe in detective work when the
object is to hunt down a criminal
&C., x "but to basely betray {
friend is treachery."
And pray, what were the Clarks
burg liquor-sellers, but constant
persistent and defiant criminals
What were they doing, month
after month and year after year bu
spreading misery, want, woe ant
death in the community, in oper
defiance of God and of the State
And when they have grown ST
bold and brazen in their outlawry
is it for them to complain of a wan
of frankness in the matter of bring
ing them to justice? And is il
for public newspapers to condone
crimes against society by denoun
cling the "treachery"of the detective
through whose agency criminals
are made to answer for their evil
deeds at the bar of justice?
There is sore need of a new cod
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

Let US have the news of all lem
perance and Prohibition Organ
cations.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

Good revival news under head of Church
and Pulpit.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

We now are sending out sample
copies to lists of names sent in.
The FREEMAN proposes to come to
a "gaipsaying" people with the
gospel of Prohibition, even though
it be rebuffed seventy times seven
times.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

The FREEMAN is five years oiu
and as lively as ever.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

Clarksburg is now collecting a
good round sum of money from her
lawbreaking whisky men, in the
shape of fines. Now let the Honor
able Mr.. McDougal come up from
Cincinnati and persuade these men
that the principle of the thing is
just the same as if they had paid
those fines st the beginning of the
year in the shape of license fee.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

ALWA vs. In Wrtttng US about sn6scrfp-
ions, alWdys giUe p. 0. at Whfsh you receive the
t.a.sy. This syiU sase as much trouble.
West Virginia freeman. (Parkersburg, W. Va.) 1881-1886, 1886-02-24

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Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-07
CARNEGIE ON THE LATE LABOR
TROUBLES.

Mr.. Andrew Carnegie, in the Forum,
points out that the recent labor agitation
was at no time so formidable as has been
generally supposed. Competent authority
estimates that at the hight of the trouble
100000 men had struck-that is, May 18th.
Three days later the number was SO, 000 and
four days thereafter only 1900. So that
the shrinkage in three days was more than
three-fourths of the greatest number 'out'
at any time Mr. Carnegie places the
highest number engaged in actual struggle
with capital at $4,000, or about one per
cent. of the total wage-winning class IN
the branches where the chief labor
troubles took place. The great South
western railroad strike involved only $500
Knights of Labor, while between 1000
and 5000 of the employees did not cease
labor The point Mr.. Carnegie makes is
that the action of the discontinued work
ingmen was based on local issues, and not
on matters involving the interests of the
working classes in general. Public SYM
pathy at the outset was with the men, be-
cause the public heart always sides with
genuine efforts of labor to better its con-
dition, but when lawlessness became fore
most public sympathy was Withdrawn and
the strikers went to the wall. As to rem
edies for similar troubles, Mr. Carnegie be-
lieves that cooperation and profit sharing
is not to be thought Of He goes so far as
to hold that they would absolutely injure
labor and depress it, by adding to business
ventures new elements Of uncertainty.
But he sees no reason why workingmen
should not, if they wish, become part own
ers in capitalized undertakings with stock
on the market. Thus there is a host
of industrial enterprises with shares
for sale as low as $50 and 500.
as small sums as laboring man
would think of investing. He points out
that it is error to suppose that each great
industrial enterprise is dominated by cap
italists. Thus he takes the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company as an example. Its
ownership is actually in 1880 share
holders, in sums from $50 up. Yet that
company employs 1891 persons, or only
few less than the number of its share
holders. All the steel rail mill enterprises
show similar condition of ownership, as
also do very many of the larger railroad
corporations. In short, Mr.. Carnegie
holds that the popular idea of 'the great
capitalist" is error, and that the pictures
the average labor orator draws of these are
mythical.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-07
MEXICAN BORDER FOLLY.

1t is really and seriously believed by
the frontier Mexicans-so the story goes,
as told by those on the Texas side-that
they can whip the United States. 1t is
amazing that such belief can be enter
tanned But the border Mexicans are an
ingnorant lot They have no true concep-
ton of liberty Government to them is
nothing if it does not boast. They have
no more idea of the future of State than
infants 1t is, perhaps, creditable for us
that they cordially hate Americans, our
progressiveness running sorely counter to
the lazy, loafng and indolent habits of the
border Mexicans. In the heart of Mexico
one sees more of activity, encounters intel
ligence, and is brought face to face with
men of genius and far-sightedness. But
they are such minority that they make
little or no impression upon the distant
border rabble. The Cutting case is de-
veloping the folly and hardihood of our
border people in Texas, and the stupidity,
ignorance and insufferable arrogance of
the Mexican frontiersmen. demonstrates
how feeble is the Mexican General Gov
eminent to control these picket lines and
in what contempt the border Mexican
holds the Federal Government of our
" sister republic" We do not want an
other slice of Mexico. Heaven forbid that
any of the border Mexican element should
be injected into our political systematic
extra session Legislatures of California
give us enough of that-but it may be-
come necessary to give the border Next
cans a thrashing. Evidently nothing short
Of a fight will satisfy the Chihuahuans.
We might well intrust the job to the
Texan borderers-if it were dignifed and
lawful to do so-and rest assured that it
would be well done. II, as is alleged, the
Mexicans ''ache for fight" and believe, in
case of a conflict, that the late Confederate
States will Join with them against the
United States, the surest and speediest way
to take the conceit out of them would be
to put small gun or two in position and
blow to dust the earth Notifications these
swarthy fools are throwing up on the Mex
lean side of the Rio Grande, and then ask
them what they are going to do about it.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-07

told that the State could not produce these
books at as low a figure as was possible to
private enterprise. But as the proof of
all things is in the test of experience, the
opponents of the new system will be COM
PEELED to abandon these lines Of assault.
For it is already demonstrated that the
State textbooks, besides being iirst-class as
to matter, will be given to the people at
vastly lower prices than those charged by
private publishers and yet recover back
the entire cost of production, compilation,
printing, engraving, binding and delivery.
We call especial attention to Section Z
of the law, published in another column,
which requires that the Boards of Super
visors of the counties shall provide re-
volving fund to enable the County School
Superintendent to purchase State text
books for resale to the people of the coun-
ties. for it is required that the State shall
be paid by the counties for the books as
delivered. The cost of delivery is in
cluded in the prices Of the volumes, and
thus a uniform sum will be charged for the
works in all parts of the State. 1t is in
cumbent upon Boards of Supervisors, in
making the tax levies for this year, to in
clude the item for this revolving fund-an
advance of money. Where this is neg
leeted, County Superintendent will find
themselves next fall in an embarrassing
situation, since the law protests against
the recognition of any requisition for the
books unless the money therefor accompa-
MES il.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1886-08-07
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