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The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
December &c, 1907

writer has actually influenced the same num-
Der of men to form definite purpose to
vote the Prohibition ticket.
The suggestion is one that the busiest
most hurried man in the party can hardly
fail to observe It strikes us like a blow
Why, If one man can accomplish results like
this, can we not have such results multiplied
by 10000?
We soberly, thoughtfully and earnestly
protest that, in our judgment, it would be
perfectly feasible for the men who read this
paper, before the month of January, 1908,
has passed, to secure the actual signatures of
at least 900 men to promise to vote the
Prohibition ticket, and that, too, without
cumbersome organization, without appreci-
able expense, but with tremendous effect.
If the first number of this paper in the
month of February could make the statement
that almost 100000 men had, in six weeks
time, promised to vote the Prohibition ticket
next fall, we will guarantee that the short
month Of February would double that num-
Der, and, before the national convention at
Columbus should sit, million men would
be under promise to vote for the candidates
who will be nominated there
And what would that mean? We mate
rally "miss our reckonings'' if that would
not mean the starting Of landslide that
would bury the saloon and saloon politics
and saloon parties "deeply down" and for
ever, on a certain swift-coming day in No
vember.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
cERTAINTIEs AND UNCERTAINTIES

According to the press reports from va
rious parts Of the country, one, calling him
self "the Rev. WILLIAM T HoMPsoN" and
naming Dunedin, New Zealand, as his
'hailing port" and posing as the official rep
resentative of the government of that coun-
try, is going up and down asserting that
"after months Of investigation" he has dis
covered that there is "more drunkenness in
Prohibition towns in the United States than
in license towns"
Mr.. THOMPSON, by whatever alias he
should properly be known, is developing rap
idly. His first appearance before the Amer
lean people was in Wilmington, Delaware,
during the recent no-license campaign there,
where he was simply ''Mr. THOMPSON who
had investigated the conditions in Portland,
Name, and was aching for chance to de-
bate with somebody upon the Prohibition
question land forgot all about his anxiety
in that direction as soon as Prohibition
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26

champion appeared. Whether he has or has
not claim to the titled of "Rev.", and wheth.
er he comes or does not come from New
Zealand, we do not know. There are other
things concerning him which are in obscur-
ity. For example, we are not sure that he
has qualified on the old frontier description,
ga liar and horse thief" but we are very
sure concerning his ultimate destination. A
volume of unimpeachable veracity asserts
that all Of certain guild shall have their
part in certain lake of peculiarly unpleas-
ant characteristics.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
GRANT ON THE cANTEEN

General FRED D. GRANT, before an audi
ence gathered at Civic Federation dinner
in New York city, has again taken pains to
put himself on record as in favor Of the can
teen, emphasizing his remarks in that direc-
ton by the assertion that he is himself
total abstainer and would be glad to see the
liquor traffic abolished.
We are willing to give General GRANT the
benefit of the doubt, so far as his honesty in
his advocacy of the canteen is concerned, but
neither upon that question itself nor upon
his ability to render competent verdict
upon the question, is there any ground for
doubt. The beer-selling canteen had long
and exhaustive trial in the United States
army; it proved itself to be an agency for
disorder, drunkenness and crime. Until it
gained position of political influence it
was always opposed by the best officers of
the army Today its most vociferous cham
pions are either men who have had slight ex-
perience in military affairs Qike General
GRANT) or men whose personal habits are
such as to naturally align them upon the side
of official beer-selling. AS against the views
of man like General DAGGETT, the opinion
of man of General GRANTS limited expert
ence counts for very little. And General
DAGGErr does not stand alone; with him
stand-or did stand while they lived such
men as HOWARD and WHEELER and LUDLOW
and HENRY and MILES, men whose military
experience was real, and had covered long
years of active service.
Not only is this true, but the representa-
tons upon the basis Of which General GRANT
and the men who are associated with him in
the pro-canteen movement, make their plea
for the restoration Of official beer-selling,
have been again and again proved false. The
army is better off today for the absence of
the canteen, and would be still better off,
if the officers who are wasting their time
clamoring for the re-establishment of the
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
THE BREWERS REFORM

In an editorial entitled brewers and Low
Saloons" which The National Prohibition
ist purposes to place in full before its readers
at an early date the Daily News of Chicago
makes this significant statement:
"The brewers stated repentance will last just
as long as he finds it necessary to his business to
be repentant"
That sentence indicates clear vision of
the exact truth regarding the cutlery for
reform raised by the various liquor organ
izations of the country, and so widely cir
culated by the public press. The liquor bust
ness has met with no change of heart; the
drink devil is the same unclean, untamable
brute that he always has been. It simply
has been discovered by the greed that uses
the drink appetite as a means of robbery
that the continuance of the chance to rob
depends upon at least an apparent and tenn
porary change in the way of doing bust
ness.
The brewer (and the same remark applies
to the distiller) is interested in the retail
liquor business just as the foundry owner is
interested in the hardware store. 1t is the
place where his output is distributed. Close
it and, to all intents and purposes, you stop
his business The liquor manufacturer would
choose to have the liquor business go on
as it has been going on, wide open, doing the
greatest possible amount of damage, not
because he desires the damage done, but be-
cause that is the most profitable way of
doing business for him. But. he would
rather change the character of the retail
business and make less money than to have
it stopped entirely and make no money at all.
He specially is willing to talk about change
and to pretend change, if by SO doing he
can allay the public indignation, and come
back to old methods after the storm has
blown over
There remains but one thing to do-secure
the legal entry of judgment upon the peoples
verdict against the drink business and put it
in execution at once. The convicted felon,
after his kind, will doubtless patter forth
prayers and promises all the way to the
gallows, but it is too late. We can not even
hear them. The clamor from the heaven
crying blood of his victims is too loud
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26
THE NATIONAL PRoH1B1T1oN1sr

government saloon would devote their atten-
ton to the real welfare of the service and the
performance of the duties of the positions
which they hold.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26

Human nature is at eternal war with Prohibi-
ton Human freedom should not and will not
endure 1.-THE Louisville CoMr;er-Joxrmol.
highly enlightened sentiment to which every
thug and bum, every bawd and rake, every anar-
chist and traitor in the world will gladly sub.
scribe.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26

Investigation will reveal the fact that there
are good many hypocrites behind this Prohi6s-
ton movement-Adolphms Busch, Brewer.
Oh, put quotation marks on that! Bishop Pot,
ter said the same thing ten years ago.
What would be the condition of the com.
munity if those sections of the liquor tax law
which prohibit the sale of intoxicants in saloons
between the hours of midnight on Saturdays
and o'clock in the mornings of Mondays should
be enforced by the police of this town?-The
Nezv York SUM-
That's easy Sober
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1907-12-26

So long as so many of my fellow citizens be-
heve that they have right to make and drink
forbid them by law and to compel them by force
to desist-The Req. DR.. Edwards (of Milavankee).
But when the burglar climbed into the good
Doctors bedroom window to carry out his belief
in his rights, what did the good Doctor do then
If public sentiment in, and the proper authori-
ties Of the city of Milwaukee believe that the
closing of saloons in the city between IL 80 or
1 o'clock and or o'clock a. m. will aid in
protecting and raising the standard of morals in
the city and will have tendency to bring about
the discontinuance of any such places [dives] in
the city, the brewers of Milwaukee as such, have
objection to the passage of any such ordi-
nance-MiloOaMkee Brewers association in Reso-
luton, Dec. II, 1907.
If public sentiment in and the proper authori-
ties of Milwaukee believe that business can't
go on here longer, unless we will make some
changes in methods we're willing to do any
old thing for the sake of the chance to go on
Pickpockets of Milwaukee, in Resolution, Dec 90,
1907
Prohibition seems to be making headway but
we don't see that the Prohibition party benefits
thereby. In the whole country there are only four
Prohibitionists in Office, and they are members OF
legslatures.-The Chicago Journal
1t is written in the Book of the Wisdom of Josh
Billings that it is BETTER not to know so many
things than to know many things that amt so'
If the Journal wants to take the trouble it can
find three Prohbitonists in the legislature of its
own state, three in Minnesota, one each in the ex-
piring legislatures of Connecticut and Massa-
chusetts; 500 minor officials in various states
and number of fusionists who have gone in on
Prohibition votes.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18

That organized labor is likely ono
day to play a part in this country
which will surprise old party managers
is the opinion of the London Outlook.
This paper holds that, while the posi-
ton of labor with respect to politics in
this country resembles that in Great
Britain in some particulars, in others 1t
is widely different. To quote:
The party game in the United States
has hitherto been the party game be-
tween the two historic parties with an
exclusiveness which we can scarcely
dream of in Great Britain. No Irish par
ty, no third or fourth or fifth party, has
hitherto had any standing in the indt-
vidualistic free fight in politics in the
United States. For over century the
two recognized parties have ruled and or
ganized the SAFE completely in their
own way that they have in all the pres
idential elections held during that time
obtained s5 per cent of the votes cast.
Cne can soc The kind of opportunity
which presents itself under the party sys-
tenn to labor leader of the true type of
genius in the United States in these days
of development toward the solidarity of
labor. 1t will be remembered that this
exclusive rule Of the two traditional par
most unregulated phases-legalized indi-
vidualism, as it was called in these col
urrns recently--run wild and apparently
now uncontrolled in the public interest.
If labor is coming to feel that 1t has no
part or lot in the indiyidualsm of the
old fashioned liberalism of the mill own
ers of Great Britain, how much more
must 1t feel it in the country of gigantic
combines the country In which there Is
no national sovereign power in which the
ultimate secret of politics is that prop
erty in the last resort does as 1t pleases!
All this points to a development which Is
bound to come in the United States and
which is probably destined to influence
profoundly the character of the political
party struggle "a.
The Outlook points out that in spite
of the prosperous times for labor in
this country membership of trades I'M
ions has steadily and rapidly increased,
and labor organization on national
lines is also increasing rapidly. Any
interruption of the existing prosperity
it concludes, will undoubtedly lead to
the development Of a consciousness of
national solidarity on the part Of labor
never before experienced. Then Ia
Dor I'm the United States will probably
discover its man." labor leader of
the required type, when democraces
are moved by large and simple ideas
which appeal TO the imagination
through q blend of passion and rea-
SON"
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18
The Hand That Keeps House.

Miss Adams no doubt startled the
grave Municipality leaguers when she
told them at their recent conven-
ton that municipal government is sim
ply housekeeping on large SCALE"
Men in public life get heroic over their
tasks and hold their qualifications to
be far and away superior to those OF
the common run of mortals. At the
proper time they groan over their bur
dens and again throw bouquets at
themselves on account of their achieve
ments in municipal statecraft. To be
told bluntly that it is all only matter
of housekeeping, something they sup
pose their wives and daughters get
amusement from or turn over to hired
hands, is blow in the solar pleXus OF
their conceit.
The claims of women to political con-
sideration because of an abstract right
or on account of the new industrial
position of women have not been eff
fective in procuring the suffrage for
the sex throughout the Union. Miss
Adams presents third argument
when she insists that women can at
tend to many civic duties quite as well
as and even better than men. Clean
streets, health, smoke suppression, san
tary inspection, sweatshop reform and
hundred other things involve the
application of the peculiar kind Of tai
ent that makes success of housekeep-
ing. Almost universally in this coun-
try men throw up their hands when
called to book about prevailing bad
conditions in public life. Every big
city In the land has been and still Is
scandalzed by civic rottenness. For
city fathers to lay the fault on some
other fellows shoulders is a plain adj
mission of weakness and inability to
keep house In the we'll ordered house
hold everybody is kept straight and
every detail looked after. And 1t takes
a woman of more than ordinary talent
to organize and control such house
hold. Nature and civilization combined
have produced women equal to the oc-
casion, legions of them, and so men
must look to their ways, for it may
turn out that the hand with the cum
ming to boss the house will be called
In to boss the whole town.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18

Recently an Italian countess visiting
this country gave to the press novel
reason why American girls want to
marry foreigners. Heretofore it has
been believed that titles had weighty
influence in the vast majority of cases,
but the countess insists that this is not
so. American girls, she says, choose
foreign husbands simply because of
the superior culture of European men.
This sort of talk may set American
young men inquiring as to the particu-
lar faults of the homemade brand of
culture 1t has been supposed hitherto
that American frankness, honesty and
genuine manliness would outweigh any
mere veneer of studied politeness or
the superficialities that come with edu-
cation in a foreign capital. But of
course this visiting countess knows,
or thinks she knows, what constitutes
real culture. Doubtless the noble
Count Boni de Castellane would an
swer to her ideal.
1T tne countess WOulu prove ner as
sertlon that American girls marry for
eigners simply for the brand of cul-
ture they receive let her bring over
number of Europeans who have cul-
ture, but no titles. Let them be put on
the market and advertised as bargains
in European culture and see how many
of them will be married in year. If
European fortune hunters had to de-
pend solely on their culture to contract
rich alliances there would be very lit
tie American money going abroad to
patch up decayed European estates. 1t
is the title that attracts certain Ameri-
can heiresses, a large proportion of
whom rue the day they surrendered
hand and fortune for It.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18
Landing a Balloon DeeentIy.


Tearing the roofs of buildings IRON
over peoples heads and smotherlng
Them under showers of bricks and dust
as has happened very recently IN pal
loon experiments. is not dignitied nor
decent way of bringing an airshlp TO
harbor. Until aeronauts have master
I'd the art of descending with dignity,
fomposure and absolute control of their
craft reasonable nervousness over
and remonstrance against visitations
from the upper air will be entertained
nv the dwelers in threatened neighbor-
hoods. 1t is one thing to engage In
scientific experiments in the hope that
the problem of aerial transit may be
solved. and it is another thing to fly
amuck among the upper stories Of
peaceful country dwellings.
IT must be granted that in this age
of sports and contests balloons and
airships are certain to bring about
aerial racing. From the popular point
of view race in the upper air has
distinct advantage over an automobile
or other surface motor contests. Once
fairly on his course the aerial navigator
has no fear of running into or over
anybody But the man of science VIII
get hungry or sick or tired or his ma
chine will give out, compelling him TO
alight sooner than expected. Some
times the thing starts downward, and
there is no holding it. More time,
thought and care should be given to
this matter of safe and, on the part OF
the flying machine at least, sane" de-
scent. The man in the float may be
happy at the prospect of landing any
how, but his heart interest in the out
come can be no greater than that OF
the startled folk who hear the Crap
pling iron grating along the roof and
have to step lively to get out Of the
way of falling bricks.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18
Rnrns, Pot Of Gold.

Robert Burns, the sweet singer Of
Scotland, didn't bury a pot Of gold I'M
der his humble Ayrshire cottage to be
stumbled on by his descendants. He
lived poor and died poor But he tuck
ed away his noble thoughts in writ
ing. In the end the most OF them got
into print Verses written to be seen
by all who might chance upon them
and letters intended for private read
ing were scattered all over Scotland.
England and the continent This was
Burns pot of gold Must thought be
lettered and sold for bread" asks
despairing American poet Burns
gave his thoughts to the winds and
went without bread.
Recently ]. P. Morgan paid $4,000
duties to bring two volumes of the
gathered manuscripts of Burns into
America. leaving it to be supposed that
they were valued at $4,000 in Europe
and are to be held at $4,000 here.
That much gold would have constitut-
ed the second generation of Burnses
millionaires and the poet himself
multimillionaire as fortunes are reck-
oned today But it is said that per-
haps 100000 was expended in the long
search for these treasures, SO first and
last Burns souvenirs have been a ver-
table mine for the enrichment Of for
tunate holders and discoveries. Scot
land feels like a defrauded heir about
the transfer of so much of her posses
sions to America. Doubtless the poet
would have preferred thatsthey remain
in the land where they were written
and be held as too sacred ever to be
mixed up with the dollar mark.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18
Under the Hudson by Rail.

So many stupendous engineering and
construction projects have occupied
public attention recently that little
thought has been given outside of cir
cles directly interested to the railway
tunnel under the North river which is
soon to connect Jersey City with New
York. The completion of the tubes for
the track marks one important phase
Of the enterprise.
This tunnel work has been exceed
ingly difficult, but every obstacle gave
way before engineering skill. Serious
accidents have occurred, but none Of
sufficient Importance to halt progress
for any length of time. Much yet re-
mains to be done in establishing the
tubes on a solid foundation and fitting
them for service, and the great station
In New York Is unfinished, but the
problem of direct and safe transit I'M
der the river has been solved. Inside
Of year and half western passen-
gers will ride into and out of the heart
Of New York city without the annoy
Ing changes TO ferryboat and street
car service to bring them where they
wish to CO.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18

1t Is alleged by contributor to
Science that Smithsons bequest to the
people of the United States ''for the
increase and diffusion of knowledge"
is being diverted at present to other
purposes Says the writer:
The institution has gradually ceased to
conform to the founders intentions. Con-
gress has been called upon to furnish
money and has responded most literally.
A national museum has been developed
a new 100000 building is now going up
for the same; a geological garden and an
astrophyscal observatory have been es-
tablished finally, costly experiments on
flying machines have been provided for
by congress-aIl under the management
of the secretary of the Smithsonian insti-
tuition, who is not an officer of the nation,
but elected as executive officer of the
Smthson trust and paid exclusively from
the Smithson fund.
Visitors to the Smithsonian have been
puzzled at learning that the national
scientific institutions adjoining the in
stitute developed at the cost of the
government are under the management
Of the chief executive of the institute.
The writer in Science declares that
both the Smithsonian and the national
institutions have thus been crippled.
He believes that the government
should administer its own institutions.
each being placed under "a specialist
in the line represented by each one of
these different national institutions"
the exclusive labor of carrying out the
founders will.
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18
ERNEST FORBES
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If you know yourself to be indebted
to The Echo for past due subscription.
and it will be taken for granted that il
YOU are behind you know it, we shall
esteem ii great favor if you will re-
nit One dollar is not much to each
subscriber, but if fifty or
seventy-five who are behind would pay
up you can readily see what it will
mean TO us The Echo. 36f
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18

Poor Anna Gould! Also poor Con
3uelo Vanderbilt! II is melancholy
coincidence that the crisis in the do
nestle unhappiness Of each Of them
should cone ut about the same time
after ten years OF unhappiness and
that they should both be found to be
the victims Of much the sane sort of
treatment. Apparently there isn't
much to choose between some British
dukes and s9,Ne F"epoh counts
The Leavenworth echo. [volume] (Leavenworth, Wash.) 1904-current, 1907-01-18

No sooner is one social problem solv-
ed than another crops out. A recent
law on child labor cuts boys and girls
off the list of telegraph messengers
after p. m. in New York city, and
stalwart young men have tackled the
work for the "tips" they get out of it.
degrading manhood.