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The advocate., 1895-08-21
A Chance to Make Money.

II seems strange that people will not Inn
prove their opportunities; they oil want 10
get rich, but have not enterprise 10 succeed.
believe any man or woman can clear $40
a day in the Dish Washer business, 40 10 10
just booming nOWj but not one in 500 haS
push enough 10 enter the Asld and reap The
harvest. have been In the business over q
year, and have cleared over $40 day, with
out oanvassing any. have examined oil
the Dish Washers, but none equal the Oil
max. Address the Climax Manufacturing
Co., Columbus, o, and they will you how
to proceed, and you can do well In city
or country, as every family Wants q CHI
max Dish Washer. When We know Of op-
portunities like this, l think IL our duty TO
inform Others, as this is q chance for oil 20
make money honestly and easily.
A RRADER.
The advocate., 1895-08-21


country in pursuance Of provision of
the constitution, affirmed by Chief
Justice Marshall and never before de-
MED by any court or Judge, why, chat
was q horse of another color and ut.
terly inadmlsssble under the same
constitution. The plain, unsOphistl-
Gated citizen may we'll wonder at the
mysterious ways of justice that enable
the courts to find a law for the prOtec-
tiOn Of corporate property even whore
congress has never provided ~, while
the same court can override and over
rule law for the taxation Of property
even when congress has plainly and
specifically enacted it.
The following, from an old though
progressive lawyer, expresses my Opin-
ions Of our independent Judiciary
better than l could express It myself,
and | therefore copy them for the ben
eft of your readers:
The life or good behavior tenure was Ham.
iltOn's idea. and In paper in the FedeEAllst
will be found his advocacy OF such tenure he-
cause 1t had worked well In England But
there the kings had habit OF removing judges
when they did not reflect their win. In thss
country the people take the place Of che king,
and we want them elective so they viii re-
fleet the win OF the sovereign. True, the ps0.
pie may change their minds so do che courts
as now constituted, and It is infinitely safer
to trust 65 million people than 10 is TO lPuss
nine judges.
Butspeaking OF the inCOme.tSx, | was much
impressed with the remark Of Justice Jack
SON, that since there were doubts about che
cOnstitutionAlity OF the law, that doubt should
bs resolved in favor Of the statute. The con-
trary Is the practice Whenever a doubt
arises Il is determined against the people, aud
1t Is this largely which is preclpltatlng crl-
sis.
We need a change In the judicial trend 0f
decisions This is the last department %
move toward progress. An American court
held the odious stamp act legal and advised
obedience; the judiciary solemnly sent poor,
helpless women to death for the impossible
crime Of wltchcrait the judges held ship
money In Hampden's time TO be just and
righteous contribution to the kings Golfers;
courts upheld the extortlOn that preceded the
resolution judicial tribunals tortured CALL
leo lighted the fires that burned Christians
at the stake and pressed the poisoned cups 10
the lips Of Socrates. A judicial tribunal con-
signed Jesus Christ to the cross, and judicial
tribunals, not because they are corrupt be-
cause they are human, and represent the SEN
timent and thought that places them on tho
bench, viii always represent the idea don't
nsnt at the time OF their accession. New
ideas must have new judges to expound and
enforce them. The good time Is coming, too J.
English sscendency is doomed in American
politics. 'As Lincoln said: "This nation under
God shall have . new birth Of freedom and
government OF the people, for the people, by
the people shall not perish from she earth"
Judge Shiras has done more than any
other Judge since the foundation Of the
government to awaken the people to
the undemocrstic and un-American
character Of the highest court Of the
nation. And the court joined him In
building better than they intended.
No MONARCHICAL SYSTEM.
The advocate., 1895-08-21
viii We Learn From History

EDITOR ADvOCATE:-An irrepressi-
bic conflict is impending. All over the
world, and especially in our own United
States, the signs of the times point
toward revolution. Everywhere the
men and women who work with Drawn
or brain for daily bread find the strug-
gle for existence growing each day
more and more unequal, and each day
as they look into the future the pros
pect becomes darker.
One who observes and thinks is
dumbfOunded with amazement at the
awful condition of the working people
to-day. Nor is the degree of astOnish-
ment at the indifference shown by the
more fortunate and prosperous classes
as to the welfare of all greatly less. AS
Dickens, in the opening chapter of ga
Tale of Two Cities" burlesques the
divergent opinions of the different
classes at the beginning of the French
revolution, even so now we have those
on the one or the other side of the great
questions of the day who as hotly con-
tend as did the people in those turbu-
lent days one hundred and twenty
years ago that 'It is the best of times,
it is the worst of times; it is the age Of
wisdom, it is the age of foOlishness; it
is the epoch of belief, it is the epoch of
incredulity; it is the season of light, it
is the season of darkness; it is the
springtime of hope, it is the winter of
despair; we have everything before us,
we have nothing before us; we are all
going direct to heaven, we are all going
direct the other way" And carrying
the similitude little further-quoting
again from the same Writer-We find
that "The period was so far like the
present period that some of its noisiest
authorities insisted on its being re-
ceiVed, for good or for evil, in the
superlatiVe degree of comparison onlyw
It is so to-day. In the face of the fact
that there are thousands of people los
ing their homes through our perniciOus
system which allows private ownership
in unlimited amounts-of land; in
the face of the fact that millions of
men are idle; in the face of the fact
that hundreds of thousands if not mil
lions more are even now trsmping;
Notwithstanding the fact that deaths
from actual want and suicides caused
by want occur by scores every day, and
eVictions in numbers unknown in Ire
land are of yearly record, yet there are
not wanting to-day many, very many,
men and women who, because they
have plenty, sit back in their luxurious
homes and comp!scently exclsim: ''It
is the best of timesp And their senti-
ments are echoed by another large
clasS-that class of persons who, not
being able or capable of accumulating
great wealth, find pleasure in tosdying
to the "upper ten;" these, too, because
they are either so careless, prejudiced
or conservative" will not inVes-
tigate, but are content to echo at is
the best Of timesI' even when, in many
The advocate., 1895-08-21
The Farclcal and che Traglcal 10 JudlclOul
Decision.

4 -~A-
Decision.
EDITOR ADvoCATE:-The recent de
cision of our highest court of law
turning, as it did, on the judgment o
one Of the members of the court who's
mind was evidently in a wsbbling con
ditiOn, illustrates the farcicsl aspect O.
the case, but calls attention to thu
more calamitOus results that hsv,
flown from a judicial system entirel,
independent of the people-the grea
source of power in this country sn(
for whose benefit all governments arr
established and ruin.
In the matter alluded to, the coun
try had employed and paid nine sol
emn-vissged and black,gowned gentle
men to sit on the case and evolve the
law as applicable to it. But it turned
out that the whole case depended or
the opinion of only one Of their mum
ber for its decision; and he had re
Gently pronounced judgment directly
opposite to that which he finally
gave, and was evidently not very
decided any way. And thus 9
provision of the constitution which
had stood the test of a hundred year
unquestioned and undisputed was null
lifted by one man who had no Very
clear impression about it. The result
is, that sacred instrument becomes q
thing Of India rubber, and our funds
mental law, instead of being an unde
Waiting barrier which says "thus fal
and no farther" becomes q most &C
cOmmOdating license to WhOmsoeVeI
seeks its protection or advantage. To
day 1t is one thing, tomorrow another
according to the whim of happy. 60
easy or corrupt judge. For a hundred
years it read one way, and Judge Shirsl
80 held in the very case at bar. Nov
it reads another, as dictated by the
condition of the head or stomach 0i
the same judge. Hereafter 1t may
read differently, dependent on the
whim of some other weak and unde
cided member of the court. Hitherto
1t has been supposed to be necessary tC
90 through a long and complicated
process to alter the constitution, but
the court has discovered shorter cut
and evolved q new and spedier way Oi
changing 1t, and that, too, without Rnl
amendment Of the instrument in thu
meantime.
Next the court proceeds to adjudi
tcate the Debs case. Compare the die
tstOr decisions In the two cases. Ii
the first, the court, by splitting hairs
held that congress had no power to tai
the wealth Of the country. In thu
Debs case, it ruled that congress die
have land had conferred on the courts
power to punish individuals and whole
communities without any express con
stitutional provision to that effect, but
in virtue Of implied authority. Debs
offense was against the corporate
wealth Of the country, and the court
stretched the law to cover his case BY
implication. But when congress laid
tax on the corporate wealth Of the
The advocate., 1895-08-21


On the other hand, we have the ever
increasing army of men and women
who toll in field, shop and factory;
who, seeing the product of their labor
converted into a golden stream and
flowing with steady current into the
strong boxes of those who "toil not,
neither do they spin," are growing
each day more and more refractory,
and as a natural result of q theory of
government which enables those who
have the power to control both supply
and demand by limiting output and
cOrnering money to rob them of the
fruits of their labor, we hear from them
the cry, at is the worst of timeRI"
What lesson should we learn when
we see around us such conditions as
those which now confront us, and
which we find, on examining history,
fundamentally been the forerunners of
revolutionP Will it be the part of wis
dom for us to sit quietly and hope that
the sound, common sense of the Amer
lean people will solve the problems ?
Verify people lose their common sense
when they can see nothing in the future
but serVitude for themselves and their
children. Besides this, Rll does not
depend any more on the "American.
This "cheap labor" which our great
" "law-sbiding" manufacturers and
mine operators have brought over to
take the places which belong to honest
American laborers was born and nur-
tured under conditions which have
been for centuries making the red
handed Malta, the communist and all
of the other dangerous elements which
to-day threaten civilization; and they
hG0e not forgotten the use Of the knife
and the bomb.
But revolution does not necessarily
mean violence. In these last days of
the nineteenth century, after mankind
has had so much schooling under the
great Teacher who gave to us the doc
trine of the fstherhood of God and the
brotherhood of man, love for our spe-
cies ought to enable us to settle all diff
ferences peaceably; and were it not for
few other qualities, such as aVarice,
ambition and such acquired vices, we
would be able to do so. If the earnest
desire to do right can once become the
dominating force on the part of ma
jority of the people, before we lose the
right to the ballot, sll will be well. On
the other hand, if men and women
continue to rest on their fancied secur-
ity, it will not be long until those whose
motto is "the people be damned" will
lay on the last straw. If the sovereign
voters of America allow that time to
come, then he will be most secure who
can "flee to the mountains" and he
hsppiest who has found rest in the
grave.
Macsulsy says: "The violence Of
revolutions is generally proportioned to
the degree of the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
which have produced them" History
teaches that this is a correct principle,
and we miss our opportunity to prevent
a bloody upheaVsl each time we wink
at the wrongs allowed by government
and in a spirit or conservatism cry out,
"Whatever is, is right" Think Of the
report of men being reduced to such
n4nn iAn AhnA Ahnrr mn .urilliur. 20 nnN
The advocate., 1895-08-21

Coins Financial School, Tale OF Two
NsSioup, or any other Of the Harvey
pamphlets free With each dollar sub.
soription 10 ths ADVOCATE.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-13

to bear than it's predecessors, yet in tina
sixth month of its term it is fiat on its
back without a cent to the credit Of
some of its departments. There has
not only been an utter lack Of business
methods from the start in its handling
of the citv's expenses, but it has been
going along in the dark on the basis
of last years estimates-the estimates
of the despised Democratic Council
and in its reckless extravaganza allow
ing everybody practically everything
asked for. and in some instances more.
Past Councils have been forced to eX-
ercise economy. This Cornell has not
only made no attempt whatever to
economize but has waited for six
months before even attempting to hg-
ure ont where it stands financially. APP
narentlv il has no idea of economy and
not the faintest conception of business
methods. A large part Of the time a
ouorum has been absent and it has
been unable to transact any business
whatever. while its expenditures so far
have been far more reckless than
those of the preceding Council
whose methods it was going to re
form so bravely, but which it has been
compeued to adopt and follow blindly
as far as its limited business ability has
enabled it to do so. The natural result
is that five months after its Inaugural
ton the city treasury is bankrupt.
And the utterly reckless and dis
honest Dartisan organ of the Republic
cans in Council, knowingthis, asitmust
if if knows anything, has the supreme
imDndence 70 say: "All of it is due to
the loose business methods OF past
Councils" Not an iota of it is due to
mast Councils. but every bit of it to the
worse than loose business methods oil
the Council of 1895. This is sufficiently
evidenced by the fact that, in their ell
forts to fool the voters regarding the
responsibility and necessity for the
proposed loan, neither the leaders nor
their organ use the same arguments
or the same figures, or appear to have
any clear idea on the subject. They
only know that they have no money
and that they want to borrow some
and threaten the people Of Wheeling
that they will shut off the street lights
if the proposed loan is defeated! 1t is
vote us the loan or carry lantern!
This is a reform" Council with a
vengeance.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-13

The Intelligencer devotes much OF
the space which it doesn't use up in
blackguarding the Register, in de-
nouncing the "loose business methods, -
the financial imbecility' and stu
pidity" OF the "last Democratic Coun-
ell"
Here again is where the Intelligencer
10 long on ignorance and short on mem
ory. When it hits at the last Coun-
ellis financial work it hits at its own
marty and one of the foremost Republic
can leaders in the city. The Finance
Committee of the last Council stood
four Democrats to four Republicans
with MIR. James P. Maxwell, Republi-
can. who is thoroughly versed in city
finances. as Chairman, in which posi-
ton he did practically all the work OF
the Committee.
When the Intelligencer next feels ike
descanting on the financial imbecil-
itv" of the last Council, in it's daily
array Of falsehoods regarding the
mighty deficiency" alleged to have
been left by that body, it should bear
this fact in mind.
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edness and starting out afresh, and No
wants to borrow a cool million. regard
less Of the fact that the city could not
borrow a million dollars even though II
did not owe a cent Mr.. H. c. Rich
ards. Of the First Branch, presents a
bran new set Of figures making total
Indebtedness Of $4,000" which is a
considerable come-down from the low
est Of the others. And so on. The be-
wildered public is left to take its
choice. They are all agreed on one
thing. however, and that is that they
want to borrow money.
Now. when these Republican finan-
ciers start out with the intention Of
bamboozliug the public why, in the
name Of nationality, don't they get to-
gether and adopt a set Of figures that
they can all agree on. and not launch
out i'm this reckless fashion, each fell
low conuadicting and giving the lie to
an the others. The sorry spectacle is
a complete give-away Of the fact that
neither Council nor its organ knows
where they are sat-"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-13

Incidentally it might interest the public, in
this connection, to nave the Register state
fbe amount OF its own bill for printing ana
advertising. left unpaid by the Democratic
Council. but which it expects the present
Council to pay out OF this years appropria-
lions. Perhaps the Register will consent TO
have Council apply some of the trimming
+ advocates to that bill.-Intelligencer.
Whatever the amount Of that bill
may be, the Register can guarantee
that it will not be half the amount of
the bill the Intelligencer will collect
from the present Council, which there
will be no trouble about paying, either,
if the Intelligencer and its party leaders
can bamboozle the people into permit
ting them to borrow money to fill up
the hole their reckless extravaganza
and lack of business ability have dug
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-13

If the present Council did not add
wrong-headed stubbornness TO It's other
Shortcomings it would yield TO the
popular demand that the city return
once more to full control of the natural
monopoly Of lighting and sell electri-
city to consumers as it does gas, and
thus at the same time insure beyond
question the necessary three-hfths vote
for its proposed bond issue by includ-
ing in the ordinance am additional bond
issue for that purpose But, no, the
narrow and ignorant parusans of this
remarkable Council have evidently
come to regard opposition TO this popu-
lar demand as fixed Republican, pol
icy. This notion evidently has become
firmly wedged somewhere in the COun-
cilmanic head. probably because the
Register has been the only consistent
advocate OF the plan from the begin
ming; though the Intelligencer and its
party In former Councils have warmly
and with equal steadiness favored the
same plan until, for certain partisan
reasons. in connection with the late
State Senatorial election. our neighbor
was compelled to change its tune and
stuldfy itself. a task which it has never
been difficult for the Intelligencer TO
accomplish, since it never considers
public interests when they conflict with
the interests of it's party
So, this Council will ask the people
to sanction a bond issue which, with
little economy. would be unnecessary
in order to cover up it's own incompe-
teucy and extravaganza. III this Coun-
ell shall be permitted 10 borrow money
rather than forced TO economic. there
will be a precedent for every Council
I'm the future TO be lavish In eXpendi-
ture and TO pile up the city debt.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-13
AprcTURE OF ADDICKs.

A correspondent who has been some
time in Delaware, and who gives
picturesque account of the political con-
dition in that little commonwealth,
draws the following pen picture Of the
most talked about and probably the
most abused man, justly or not, in the
State:
A very extraordinary man IS John Ed
ward Addic<s He has made $lO,OJOoOJ IN
twelve years and has the money now hoI
to speak Of what he has MADE III tle va
of money that he hasn't got nov. III
physique he is tall neither slim nor sloul,
very erect in his bearing. HIS FEATURES
are not handsome and there are many
crows feet about his eyes, ana yel ne n is
both ali attractive and young loon III Il'3
face He is always faulueSSly BIooileu
and Theoretically dressed. lie Always
looks cool and unhurried. Nhen ne
speaks he leans deferenually forward anu
fixes a pair of deep, beautlIul plue eyes
upon his interlOcutOr. and the low iacne
utterance habitual TO him makes even
commonplaces from his lips important.
His chief characteristics are gehial YET
dignifed affability and an extraordinary
personal magnetism when Wouid make
one like him in mistrustful way.
Chancellor Wolcott, the great Demo-
cratic lawyer Of the State Is reported
as saying of Mr.. Addicks in this re-
spect:
He is most extraordinary. I disapprove
of his methods his policy and his record,
and yet I am not surprised at the influence
he has welded. His personal magnetism
is wonderful. Everybody likes Addlcks
personally. And the more you ike him
the more you mistrust him.
Our citizens are generously meet
ing stricken Cameron's cry for aid.
Wheeling knows what it is to be in dis
tress and in need of assistance, and is
quick with her sympathy and substan-
tial aid. There is use for more than
has been given. Keep your heart and
your purse open.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-13
EvEKY - FoR HlMsELF.

The distracted organ on Fourteenth
street aud the equally distracted Re
publican leaders in Council are in the
pret,iest kind Of a stew over their en-
deavors to bamboozle the public mind
in regard to the proposed bond issue.
They an rush into print at once, every
fellow with his own set Of figures. esti-
mating the deficiency. and every fellow
differing widely from every other fell
low.
A comparison Of the totals Of these
various estimates made for the public
benefit is as funny as the excuses for
the present Councils gross and reck-
less extravaganza are varied and
ridiculous. For instance, the organ
places the deficiency which it says
should have been paid by the last Coun-
ell. at S54.29g15. Chairman Robinson
Of the Finance Committee i'm an inter
view, carefully figures out the def
cheney 10 De "a grand total Of SlO9.-
646.56r which. I'm the same breath II,
says, may, with economy. be paid with
a $4,000 loan. although this statement
is preceded by the other positive an
nOuncement that "al the estimates thai
il is possible TO scale we have scaled
In other words, the deficiency is Slo9..
$1,000. and can't Dee scaled another cent
SET $4,000 Will cover it, Truly. IA,
new Finance chairman is a financial
phenomenon. surprising even the In
telhgencer artist Mr. James p. Max
well. President Of the Second Branch
shrewdly declines to try his fist at an
estimate but believes in "borrowius
enough to pay all outstanding indebt
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-13
aNorHERPHAsE OF HYPNoTIsM

y III
AS DR.. Parkhurst shrewdly pointed
out in a sermon recently, we have
heard much Of hypnotism as an incen-
tive to do evil but rarely as an infiu-
ence for good. A remarkable murder
case at Anderson, Ind, however, has
come to notice in which the hypnotic
test has apparently been the means of
punishing a criminal and establishing
the truth.
1t appears that one George Hires
was tried. convicted and ultimately
sentenced to thirteen years in the
penitentiary for the murder of Will
liam Foust, on July 5, last He was
convicted chiefly on the testimony of a
woman named Mrs. Maggie Bolton, but
after the trial she stated that her tes-
timony was false, and that she her
self had done the deed. To arrive at
the truth and in the interests Of jus
tice. permission was granted to a doc
tor to hypnotic the woman, who is
upon her death bed. In the presence
Of Official witnesses, the dispatches
state. DR.. Callen soon had the woman
in the hypnotic state Mrs. Bolton
spoke in a clear, loud voice, though
heretofore. on account of her weak
ness she was scarcely able to whisper.
She said the shot that killed Foust
was fired by Hires. Her statement
that she had done the deed was ex-
torted from her by Hires, who said the
authorities suspected her son. She