Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-03-30

and instead of turning out money.
medals will be minted. which will
be sold as souvenirs. In conver-
sation the other day with one of
the highest officials of the St. Louis
Exposition. he gave me some infor-
nation that every one should know
who contemplates visit To the
Worlds Fair. AN impression
prevails" said he, that there NAV
be lack of accommodations at
reasonable prices for the atten-
dance which promises to break all
exposition precedents. Not only
will there be sufficient room for all
who come, but the rates will be
more reasonable, think, than at
any previous exposition. Under
contract, the exposition controls
the rates of the hotel of z. 300 rooms
within the grounds. known as the
Inside Inn
The exposition has furnished
free sites and other inducements
TO several additional hotels under
agreements which regulate the
rates of such hotels. The proprie-
tors of the leading hotels have
signed written guarantees that
their rates will not be increased
during the Worlds Fair period.
from April 80 To December 1.
1904"
There was a scene enacted in
the room of the House Judiciary
Committee the other day that
showed conclusively to what base
uses is the Christian religion put.
and that tore the veil completely
from the face of brszen hypocrisy
masquerading in the name of re-
form.
The bill under consideration bv
the committee was the So-called
Hepburn-Dollivcr bill, a bill to give
the police power in each state
wherein prohibition exists the
power, under the interstate com
merce act, 10 seize any liquor of
any kind in original packages.
that may come into the state and
consigned TO any point therein.
In other words, these states ask
the Congress to do for them what
their own police power and state
laws are pOwerleSS To do for them.
They hide behind the Interstate
Commerce act and Interfere with
states rights 10y asking the strong
arm OF the national government To
reach in and enforce law which
they cannot enforce. This bill has
been persistently touted by the
Rev. Wilbur f. Crafts. who calls
himself the legislative Superinten-
dent of some sort of a reform lea
que, and by the Rev. DR.. Dinwid-
die, of the anti-saloon league.
They have flooded the country
with all sorts of stuff sent out from
here under the franked envelopes
of different members of Congress.
all of them Republicans except one,
in their advocacy of this bill. there
by violating the law 10y the viola
ton of the franking privilege
which allows nothing TO go out in a
franked envelope except n part of
the Congressional Record or a pub
lie document.
They have in this manner robbed
the government out of hundreds
of thousands of dollars in postage
and have done it with the assistance
of Republican members of Congress
who have furnished them with
millions of franked envelopes, also
printed at government expense,
No one knew anything of this FRAUD
being practised on the people ano
the government and the bill was
getting along swimmingly Will
every likelihood that it would b,
reported favorably and passed the
House, when the vigilant agent o.
associated brewers of the country
in the person of Major Duncan b
Harrison, threw n bomb into theiI
camp mt this hearing i'm the shape
of the proof of the foregoing, anC
it simply ripped the sawdust on
of the bill and let it down into it,
little tomb. Major Harrison no
only produced the envelopes
dozens of them, containing tn,
nonfrankable matter, but he pro
duced the affidavits from the per
sons receiving the envelope tina
they found in it exactly what ]
contained on inspection 10y mem
berS of the committee He sim