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Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30
SATURDAY, NOV. 80, 1907
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CAMPAIGN CANARDS.

The last vail of the booze bunch is
in perfect harmony with the well
known principles of the leaders of the
so-called "Citizens" party, and shows
the desperate straits to which these
people have been reduced. They hold
the issue of the local saloon organ till
after the Tribune is printed and then
come out, at the eleventh hour, with a
great expose" that on its face shows
its falsity, and stamps anew the I'M
fairness and lack of justice and hon
esty on the part of the whiskey gang.
Every bill for printing was audited
and pronounced correct by City Clerk
Walters before it was paid, and if
there was error in any bill he should
have seen it, and not have waited till
the last minute to try and defeat an
opponent in an unfair manner.
But the reason for this action is as
apparent as its unfairness. The sa-
loonites hope by introducing personal
fight into the campaign at the last
minute, to becloud the real issue, and
so fool some voter into voting as he
might not otherwise have voted.
But the fact remains that the saloon
is the real question, and last hour
canards are not going to save the
booze bunch from the defeat that they
have foreseen for weeks.
The issue is plain-if the candidates
of the Law Enforcement party win at
Tuesdays election, T. 2locn nd its
baleful influence will GO from Pullman;
if that party is defeated, the saloon
and booze rule and strife and conten-
ton will remain.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30
PULLMAN'S VANISHING FUNDS,

The condition of the current expense
fund is the proper index by which to
judge how we'll the city prospered
under the financial stewardship of the
present administration. This is the
fund from which the running expenses
of the city are paid, and upon which
drafts must be made for such contin-
gent expenses as are necessary to keen
UP the machine" and to protect The
policy under which the administration
is conducted.
Such funds as park, sewer, macad-
amizing and other special funds are
levied upon certain described districts.
for specified purposes, and are paid for
only by the residents of such districts,
and should not enter into a summing
up of finances wherein the entire city
is interested. 1t is likewise unfair to
the council to hold it entirely respon-
sible for such indebtedness as was
Inherited from former administra-
tions, but the council must be held re-
sponsible for its stewardship of the
"current expense" fund.
On Jan. lst, 1906, the current ex-
pense fund warrants then outstanding
and unpaid amounted to only 1851. O4,
this condition being shown by the Off
cial statement as published in the
Herald on Jan. 9th. by authority OF
the council.
The last statement of the city treas,
urer, read in open council on the even.
ing of the 7th of the present month,
showed that the fund was on that dat,
over drawn $34s9. So.
But meantime the city had consum
mated the sale of its electric ligh
system TO NJ. J. Shields. receiving
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30

$4,000 therefor, and after paying off
the indebtedness against the system,
had transferred the balance, S3713.60,
to the current expense fund, the trans
fer being made on May Sd of the pres
ent year. Thus the current expense
fund not only shows deficit of S2S08. =
Sd of its own, but it has likewise
swallowed up the electric light plant,
having run behind since Jan. l, 1906,
total of $6522. 20. and there is still
left month of the present admins
tration!
Where has this money all gone?
Not into the water system, for that
is conducted from the water fund,
made up for the revenue of the sys-
tenn; not into sidewalks or macadam
or sewer, for these are paid for by the
abutting and benefited property; not
into the city park, for that was paid
for by special levy; not on bond in
terest or on the inherited indebtedness,
for they also are cared for by special
tax levy. True, the few cross walks
and the paved quadrangles were paid
for from this fund, but they represent
only small part of the whole expen-
diture of the fund.
But we forget the Especial services"
of Attorney Kimball, which were paid
from this fund. And then there came
$3.50 to Hanna and Hanna, and $50 to
Student Dow, for trying to save the
gerrymander case; and divers and
sundry expenses in the Mathews alley
case and the poll tax case, and so on,
ad infnitum.
Citizen, study these figures for
yourself; the current expense fund,
since Jan. LIST, 1906, has expended
S6522. 20 in addition to what has come
into it through saloon license, tax
levy, ETC., including the balance from !
the sale of the light system. There
has been a constant drain upon it to
protect the saloon and the saloon party.
Is the saloon worth the price?
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30
TUESDAYS ELECTION.

Before another issue of the Herald
the people will have decided whether
they want saloons in Pullman or not.
The Herald has no personal interest in
the matter other than any citizen or
institution that has the welfare of
Pullman at heart. This paper has
stood for what it considered for the
best interests of the town since its
first publication in November. 1888.
1t has seen Pullman grow from a viii
lage of 300 inhabitants, and expects
to see it grow to city of 0.000, and
that before many years. The pros
perity of the business interests of the
town means financial benefit to the
Herald, and vice versa. The Herald
is convinced beyond any doubt that if
the saloons are voted out and kept out
that the town will grow as it never
grew before and that all lines of bust
ness will be very materially benefited.
We have given our reasons for this
belief and will now briefly reiterate
them.
We have stated that there are not
ten men in Pullman today, who came
here because there were three saloons
in Pullman. This cannot be success
fully contradicted. There is not $1,000
per annum of trade attracted to Pull
man by reason the the three saloons
which would not come without the sa-
loons-we doubt if there Is any.
The money that is paid for saloon
licenses is not a gain to the city as it
was all here before it was paid over
to the city, so that it is only trans
fer from one pocket to the other, with
the exception, perhaps. that the man
who does not own any property but
patronizes the saloons is made to pay
part of the taxes of those who do own
property. and this he does at the ex-
pense of his wife and children.
The saloons exercise bad influence
on the city administration and the de.
sire to get license money causes the
city to do many things which otherwise
would not be tolerated and to expenC
money which would otherwise be saved
and forces into city affairs both so
e'aiiy and politically an element o,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30
REGISTRATION AS AN INDEX
OF PROGRESS.

Oakesdale is always referred to by
the local claw enforcement forces
as being a model, progressive town.
That town is "dry." The registration
there last year was 292. This year it
is 275. That is progressic i. eh?-
Local Saloon Organ.
At Colfax, the registration in 1906
was 700. This year it is 176. Colfax
is "wet" town, having II saloons.
Is the registration argument in favor
of the "wet" or the "dry" town?
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30

In a number of instances during the
past year the city council. through the
city clerk, has ordered job printing
and advertising from the local saloon
organ, for which it has paid rates in
excess of regular commercial rates, or
rates made by reputable publishers for
like service. In the most recent in
stance the organ was allowed $40 for
advertising, for which reasonable
rate, such as the Herald would have
charged, would have been not to exceed
S.. The official paper, the Tribune,
made a charge of $50 for identically
the same service. If it is true, then.
that the saloon organ charged more
than it should have charged, it must
stand convicted of graft, and the odium
must fall on the clerk who incurred,
audited and o.k.'d bill of this ma
ture. The Herald is not in position
to state that the city clerk profted
through graft of this nature. but it is
prepared to say that it twould be mighty
good business policy for the citizens
to dispense with the services of a clerk
who is given to errors" of this kind.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30

discord, which is detrimental to the
growth of the town and its business
interests.
That the saloons take out of Pull
man annually for stock at least $4,000,
which otherwise would be expended
for food, clothing, furniture and other
necessaries of life.
That Pullman is an educational CEN
ter, and honored with the greatest ed
vocational institution on the Coast,
owes it as a duty to the parents of
those who do now and will in the flu
ture send their boys to this institution,
to remove from them the evil environ
ment of the saloons.
That our future growth depends on
our being able to attract to Pullman
those who desire to build homes so as
to educate their children at the college,
and such people, instead of being at
, tracted. are repealed from coming here
| by reason of the saloons That many
would come here and build if we could
advertise the fact that Pullman was
city of homes. and had no saloons.
These reasons must strike every
thinking person to be unanswerable
and the fact is that they can neither
be answered nor successfully denied.
Against these facts stands the bare,
bold assertion, backed by neither rea-
son nor logic, that if the saloons are
abolished the town will die.
Does the saloon enable a man to buy
more drygoods, groceries, buggies or
other merchandise? Does it enable
man to build home? Does it enable
him to do more business? Does it
enable him to pay his debts? Does it
enable him to educate his children?
Isn't it a fact that it retards all of
this? Now candidly does the doing of
these things kill a town and the re-
tarding of them promote its interests? |
True, there will be less noise, less
buster and idiotic Dragging because
of the feeling of intoxication. Less
life among the "boozers,
but who is there that has any concep-
ton of life in its true condition that
wants these things for himself or to
see them in others?
From a financial standpoint, there
IS no question of the benefits that will
accrue by voting out the saloon.
AS to the moral side; there is no
sane man who can justify the saloon
from this standpoint
Why then should any man vote for
the saloon IN PullmanE Lay aside all
your prejudices, consider the question
calmly and fairly. and then ask yourself
what reason there is for voting for the
saloon. v hen you have answered this
then vote next Tuesday as your con-
science and better judgment may die
tate.
If every man who has any respect
for his judgment, as for himself and
family, will ask himself this question
and then vote as his better reason will
answer, the saloons will be voted out
next Tuesday by an overwhelming ma
iOrtv.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30

A merchant has very little business
sense that will vote for an institu-
ton which takes money from the man
who would spend it with him, if such
institution did not exist.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30

A saloon license is a scheme by
which the wage Garner is made to pay
o ut part of his hard earned wages,
part of the tax that should be paid
from property.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30

No student who has legal right to
vote in Pullman should be bluffed out
by the loud mouthed sh cutters for the
booze bunch.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30

The candidates are recommended to
go to the chicken dinner and get
square next Tuesday, for about half of
them will be served with crow for sup
Der.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30

There are not ten men in Pullman
who would vote for the saloon if the
saloons did not pay license.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1907-11-30

A saloon license is bride to the
public, to make it tolerate that which
otherwise would not exist.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18

you"
 A pause. then in strained voice: But I've given him an appointment at nine tomorrow"
 Put him off till noon. I'll be there at II. lts-imperative. That last word with an accent I did not like to use, but knew how to use and when.
 Another pause, then: Very well. Harvey. But we must be careful about him. De Milt has told you how dangerous he is, hasn't he?"
 "Yes-how dangerous he tried to be-" was about to add that Good rich was fool to permit any one to go to such a man as Scarborough with such proposition; but I be- thought me of Burbank's acute moral sensitiveness and how 1t would be rasped by the implication of his op- ponent's moral superiority. We're past the last danger, James. That's all. Sleep sound. Good night"
 Good night, old man." was his re- ply in his poses tone for affection. But I could imagine him posing there in his night shirt, the anger against me snapping in his eyes. On the train the next morning, De Milt, who had evidently been doing little thinking. said: q hope you won't let it out to Cousin James that told you Goodrich was coming to see him."
 Certainly not" replied. not los ing the opportunity to win over to myself one so near to my political ward, I'm deeply obliged to you for telling me" And presently I went on: By the way, has anything been done for you for your brilliant work at Saint X?" .. .....-.. ...--...-.
 "Oh, that's all right" he said, T guess Cousin Jamesll look after me unless he forgets about it." Cousin James" has always had the habit of taking favors for granted unless re- ward was pressed for; and since he had become presidential candidate, he was inclining more than ever to look on favor done him as high privilege which was its own re- ward.
 I made no immediate reply to De Milt; but just before we reached the capital, gave him a cheque for $5.- GOO. "A little expression of gratitude from the party" said I. Your re- ward will come later" From that hour he was mine, for he knew now by personal experience that "the boys" were right in calling me apprecia- tive.
 It is better to ignore a debt than to pay with words.
 (To be continued.J
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18
(To be contfnued.J
LONDON USES MUCH WATER.
Enough In One Year to Float tho
 Navies of the World.

It has been calculated that If a cis- tern covering $50 acres and 345 feet high could be constructed and the wa ter supply of London for one year turned into it, the warships of all the worlds navies could ride at an- chor there. The figures are given by Tit.Bits. It adds: If we now dig a canal 100 feet wide across Europe. from the extreme north to the south, and empty our cistern into it. We shall find that the water in our canal, which is 2.400 miles long, will rise to uni form height of ten feet. Every drop of 1t is consumed by the inhabitants of Greater London within year, while each man, woman and child living to-day throughout the world could draw 50 gallons from it without exhausting It's contents. The mains through which these hundreds of mill lions of tons of water flow for the use of London are almost long enough to stretch a quarter of the way around the earth at the equator. while it would take a locomotive, travelling at the rate of 60 miles an hour. more than four days and nights to race from one end of them to the other.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18
Dolnq Ills Best.

The retirement of Col. Matthias, the man who led the Gordon Highlanders when they stormed the heights of Dargai some years ago, recalls a curl ous story of how he came to join that famous regiment The gallant colonel is not a Scotsman, but a Welshman, and 1t was owing to a slip of the pen that he joined the renowned Seventy fifth regiment q was intended" he says. "to go into the old Ninety-1fth regiment. but nine and seven are very much alike, and by slip of the pen I was gazetted to the Seventy fifth" A story is told concerning Col. Matthias when he was leading the fa- nous charge at Dargai. "Stiff climb. eh. Mackie?" he said, breathlessly 10 the color sergeant by his side. I'm not so young as I was. you know" Never mind. sir" the sergeant re- piled. we're going verra strong for an aul mon."-Tit-Bits.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18

born what he calls gentleman and who, at 45, sold himself for the hon :ors" of high office. And once, after he had shaken hands with that boss, he looked at me, furtively made wry face, and wiped his hand with his pocket handkerchief!
 ; The other part of our work of prep aration - getting the Wall street whales in condition for the "fat-fry- ing"-was also finished. The Wall street Roebuck and adventured was in a state of quake from fear of the election of the scourge of God" as our subsidized socialist and extreme radical papers had dub bed Scarborough-and what invalu- able campaign material their praise of him did make us!
 Roebuck and l went from office to office among the great of commerce. industry and finance. We were re- ceived with politeness everywhere. But not penny could we get Every where the same answer: We can. not see our way to contributing just yet. But If you will call early next week-say Monday or Tuesday" four or five days away-"well let you know what we can do." The most ardent eagerness to placate us, to keep us in good humor; but not a .cent-until Monday or Tuesday.
 ! When I heard Monday or Tues day" for the third time my suspi- cions were aroused. When l heard it the fifth time, I understood. Wall street was negotiating with the other side, and would know the result by Monday, or at the latest Tuesday.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18

fooled or fooled with. If he's elect ed hell carry out his programme. sen- ate or no senate-and no matter what scares you people cook up in the stock market" To this they made 10 answer beyond delicately polite insinuations about being tired of pay ing for that which was theirs of right. I did not argue; it is never necessary to puncture the pretenses of men of affairs with a view 10 saving them from falling into the er- TOT of forgetting that whatever right may mean on Sunday. on week days it means that which a nan can compel
 returned tO Fredonia and sent Woodruff east 10 direct a campaign of calamity bowling in the eastern press. for the benefit of New York. Boston and Philadelphia captains of tnaastry.- At the end Of len days I recalled him. and sent RJebuCk 10 wall street 10 confirm :he fears and alarms wcodruEs campsign had aroused. And in the west l was laying ont the money had been able to collect from the leading men of Minnesota. Illinois. Ohio and west ern PennsyIrausa-eHcegt a quarter cf a million from Howard Of New York. to whom we gave the vice pres iseatisI nonlirsfiCn for that sun and sboat hzif a million more given by several eastern men. to whom Ue prnmisei cabinet oEces and posts sh-uzd I put all this money not far from two usIIiozs. into car cam pziga of efuczrsOa- and into these inroaring eesszz1iOns upO1 Burbznk st kfs rural retrezt
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18

works, fumes, etc. It has built 37O miles of wagon road in mountainous country and into heretofore inaccessi. ble regions. It has erected and in op-. eration 727 miles of telephones. It's own cement mill has manufactured 10000 barrels of cement, and the pur. chased amount Is 312,O0O barrels. Its own sawmills have cut 3,036.000 feet, board measure. of lumber. and 6,540.. 900 feet have been purchased. The surveying parties of the service have completed topographic surveys GOV. ering 10,970 square miles, an area greater than the combined areas of Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The transit lines had length of 18.90O linear miles. while the level lines run amount to 24,21S miles, or nearly sut fcient to go around the earth.
 The diamond drillings for dam sites and canals amount to 47,515 feet, or more than nine miles. To-day the service owns and has at work 1,154 horses and mules. It operatives nine locomotives. 223 cars, and 23 miles of railroad, 39 stationary engines and 27 steam engines. It has constructed and is operating five electric light plants. This work has been carried on with the following force: Classi- fled service, 3SO, including Washing ton office: laborers employed directly by the government, $500: laborers employed by contractors, 6,100. or . , total of 10000. The expenditures now total about $1.0OO.00O per month. The excavations of earth and rock amount to 3S,000, ,000 cubic yards. or about one fourth the estimated yardage of the Panama canal. As result of the op- erations of the reclamation service. eight new towns have been estab- lished. 100 miles of branch railroads have been constructed. and 10000 people have taken up their residence | in the desert.-C., J. Blanchard, Sta tistician. U. S. Reclamation Service.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18

eating expression on his faSs, was John Thwing, president of the Allan tic & Western system, and Senator Goodrich's brother-in-law
 De Milt could not hear what Thwing was saying, so careful was that experienced voice to reach only the ears for whom it's insinuating subtleties were intended. But he saw puzzled look come into Scarbor- ough's face, heard him say: T don't think I understand you, John."
 Thwing unconsciously raised his
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-18
CHAPTER XXI. Mostly About Money.


 went up to New York, to find con- fusion and gloom at our headquarters there.
 Senator Goodrich had subtly given the impression, not only to the work CTS but also to the newspaper men, who had given it to the public, that with his resignation the Burbank campaign had fallen to pieces. And fear you'll have some difficulty in getting any money at all downtown" said Revell, the senior senator from New York state, who envied and hated Goodrich and was therefore, if not for personal reasons, amiably dis posed toward me. They don't like our candidate"
 Naturally" said I. That's why he's running and that's why he may win"
 "Of course, he'll carry everything here in the east. The only doubt was in this state, but I had no difficulty in making a deal with the opposition machine as soon as they had sound ed Scarborough and had found that if he should win, there'd be nothing in 1t for them-nothing but trouble, l judged he must have thrown them down hard, from their being so sore. How do things look out west?"
 Bad" said I. "Our farmers and working men have had lots of idle time these last few years. They've done too much of what they call thinking"
 Then you need money?" asked Revell. heightened his sly, snug old face.
 We must have four millions, at least. And we must get it from those people down town"
 He shook his head.
 T think not" was my careless re. ply. When they wake up to the danger in. Scarborough's election. the danger to business, especially to their sort of business, they'll give me twice four millions if I ask it."
 What do you wish me to do?"
 Nothing, except look after these eastern states. We'll take care of the west, and also of raising money here for our campaign during Octo Der out there"
 "Can I be of an service to you in introducing you down town?" he asked.
 No, thank you." said I. have 6 few acquaintances there. I'm not go ing to fry any fat this trip. My fire isn't hot enough yet"
 And I did not. l merely called on two of the big bankers and four heads of industrial combinations and one controller of an ocean.to-ocear railway system. stayed very few minutes with each. just long enough to set him thinking and inquiring what the election of Scarborough would mean to him and to his clas, generally. If you'll read his speech es." said I to each, you'll see he in tends to destroy your kind of bust ness, that he regards 1t as a brigand age. He's honest. afraid of nothing and an able lawyer, and he cant be