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Arizona republican., 1907-09-25
MEASUREMENTS OF RE-
PUBLICAN.

No other paper in Arizona would
permit an examination of its circula-
ton by the Association OF American
Advertisers representative when he
visited the territory last April. No in
formation was obtainable from either
Of the other two daily newspapers
published in Phoenix, although the
representative of the Association of
American Advertisers spent the better
part Of a day endeavoring to secure
such information. The inference is OBJ
vioUs. Newspapers without circulation
hava no information for either exam
ine:s or advertisers. Buyers of space
in such mediums simply invest in a
pig in a poke.'-Arizona Republican in
Circular.
This is an absolute and unvarnish-
ed misstatement for The Arizona Ga
zette permitted full and complete eX-
animation Of it's circulation by the
representative Of the Association of
American Advertisers referred to by
the Republican. The statement of The
Republican to the contrary has not a
shadow of truth in it.
Furthermore the Gazette at the
present time is carrying the advertis-
ing of Lydia Pinkham, Postum Ger
cal and Grape Nuts, Chamberlain
Medicine Company. etc, which, ac-
cording to The Republican itself. do
not use space in newspapers whose
circulation is not satisfactory.
THE map of. portion of the city
published by The Republican. in which
is given what purports to be the num-
har Of ral ha 10
not true. 1t was not true when it was
printed last spring, and it is even less
true now. II is simply another mis-
statement Of The Republican TO injure
a competitor. obtain business and raise
its rates. The Gazette has the data to
prove the incorrectness of this map
and it viii be shown to any person
calling at this office.
Now let us consider the statement
Of The Republican as to is own cir
Culation. 1t claims a circulation OF
6.236 and produces a certificate from
the Association of American Advertis-
crs and states that "3s per cent of the
circulation is within the city (Phoe-
nix. % per cent in the suburbs ITEM
pc. Mesa and the Rural Free Delivery.
% per cent to agents Coutside towns),
Il per cent is by mail (all over Ari-
ZOna)
According to these figures. working
ont the percentages. it should have a
circulation in Phoenix of ... 3. 1916
In Tempe, Mesa and the r. F.
ID of ...... -. go. .... 1872
To agents (outside towns) of. .. / $40
BY mail, all over Arizona. of -. LOSS
Making the total ...........6,2S $50
Arizona republican., 1907-09-25

"'City SO per cent Total circula-
ton suburbs, % per cent. Agents, %
per cent. Mail II per cent
TT will be noted that the total is the
same as published by The Republican
in its circular (6,236) and that the per-
cottages are the same, but il will also
be noticed that the report states that
it is a repo.s of circulation (of The
Arizona Republican from october first
1906. TO April first. 1900 as given TO a
special agent. Not as found, but as
giveni Note that
Now let us consider a few remark
able phases of these figures, Mr.. Bus
inessman. and then make up your
mind whether the truth is in The Re-
publican.
From these figures The Republican
claims a circulation in Phoenix of
1876. In Phoenix in the last general
election there were cast 1918 votes.
Does it look reasonable that The Re-
publican would have a city circulation
of 1876 and only 1918 votes were cast?
Is it likely it would have ass more
subscribers than there are voters.
when many of those voters were resi-
of them MeNicans. and of a class who
do not subscribe to papers. Is it
reasonable, Mr.. Businessman?
Again: They claim a circulation in
Tempe. Mesa and the Rural Free De-
livery of 1872. vet in the Circulation in
Detail they claim 40 in Mesa and
Cos i'm Tempe. a total OF 1405. This
would make their circulation on the
Rural Free Delivers routes amount to
the sum of - subscribers, yet they
have told you they had 4Sl subscribe
ers on the Rural Free Delivery routes.
Here alone there is a discrepancy OF
asa
Again they claim Cos in Tempe.
There Were S57 votes cast in Tempe at
the last election. Does it look reason
able that they would have 30S more
subscribers than there were voters.
especially when a hundred Mexicans
voted at Tempe?
Arizona republican., 1907-09-25

"They claim 740 subscribers in Mesa
and there were but 800 votes cast
there. Is it likely they have 1913 more
subscribers than there are voters?
Does it look reasonable?
in Wickenburg they claim 213 sub
scribers. There were 81 votes cast in
Wickenburg. Is it likely they have
122 more subscribers than there are
voters?
In Buckeye they claim 104 sub
scribers and there were but 80 votes
cast there. In Glendale they claim a
circulation of 223 subscribers and
there were but 81 votes cast.
In Lehi they claim As subscribers
and there were but % votes cast.
'The Circulation in Detail states
they are sending 2s2 papers to Nichols.
and, the postoffice officials of Phoe-
nix say There is no such postoffice in
Arizona
"They claim 1874 subscribers in
Bouse. where there are very few peo-
pie; in fact there is only a section
house and a saloon and not over %
inhabitants.
AT Prescott they claim 242 sub
scribers, yet the agent for THE Repub-
lican in Prescott is delivering but AZ
papers and about eight are going
through the mail Do these facts, Mr..
Businessman, open your eyes?
Again, in their table of percent
ages The Republican states that % per
cent of their circulation goes to agents.
This would mean 1870 copies II the
figures given are correct. This does
not include Tempe or Mesa, as they
are placed in the suburbs The Re
publican has been sending 25 papers TO
the Amos news stand in Los Angeles
and AZ papers to the agent at Pres
colt, probably few papers to San
Diego, a few TO Long Beach, and few
to the news agents going out of Phoe-
nix. This would leave 1880 papers at
least, unaccounted for. Think of it,
Arizona republican., 1907-09-25

The Evening Outcast which calls
ititself The Arizona Gazette, seems to
be evincing a desire to break into the
advertising and subscription fields.
This is a commendable ambition for
a practical newspaper, but il seems
a little presumptuous on the part of
the Outcast, which appears TO be
doomed TO be a tI-ro always. a source
IF entertainment to itself, and like the
village jackass, contributor to the
gayety OF the community.
In furtheranoe Of its i'll advised and
immature invasion OF the actual news
paper field, the Outcast yesterday pro-
mulgated a remarkable document, ad-
vertising the circulation of The Re-
publican. having according to its
silent admission, none Of its own. The
circular was evidently believed by
the Outcast TO be the proper thing,
since The Republican had recently is
sued one on the same subject of cir
culation. The Outcast is a faithful
and foolish imitator Of what it con-
strues TO be the conventions Of news
paperdom. Here it is:
The Republican recently furnished
the business men of Phoenix with a
circular in which certain claims were
made as TO its own circulation. 1t went
further, however, and made state
ments concerning The Arizona Gazette
TO which we especially desire to call
your attention These statements were
not true, and therefore we deem il our
duty in justice not only to ourselves,
but to you as business men. TO call
your attention to the misstatements
and to show wherein they are untrue.
We will also point out a few facts in
reference to the claims of The Repub-
-fican as TO its circulation which may
be of value to you as advertisers.
In addressing you thus we desire to
state that in the management of The
Gazette We have made it a point to
mind our own business and what
success has come to us has not been
through any effort 10 pull our COM
petitor down, but we feel Justified in
defending ourselves against misstate-
ments made with the hope of injuring
TrC
Arizona republican., 1907-09-25
RAMsEYs STATIONS SOLD.

This is to certify that 1 have sold
90 Jno. W. Block and E. F. Van Kirk,
stations. Russell Nc, trotting horse,
and Rimbault, the Percheron stallion,
and all outstanding bills will be pay
able to f. r. Van Kirk at John T.
Dunlap's office, or to Jno. W. Block
at Metropolitan stables.
II. o. RAMSEY.
Arizona republican., 1907-09-25
1t Finds Itself fntang|ed In a Maze of Cir
CuIdtiOn Figures
I a Bewidering Jumbling of Them 1t Neglects
to Inform the Public That 1t Has Any Circulation
OF It's own

Now. by CHANGING at the copy Of
the certificate of the Association Of
American Advertisers, which The Re
publican sent with its circular. YOU
will notice at the bottom in parenthe
ses. the following: For details of eX-
animation see report issued with this
certificate
That report, the Gazette is advis-
ed, and it can be verified by an ex-
animation OF the original ia possession
of The Republican. is as follows:
Report Of circulation of The Ari-
IONA Republican from october first,
1906. to April first, 1907. as given to Il
special agent. who in return reports to
foreign advertisers:
Paid subscribers go. 80. 49,. 5,94l
Unpaid subscribers $50. -. -. 2s5
Arizona republican., 1907-09-25

1t may at least be said for the
pianola and the phonagraph that they
never practice.-Atchison Globe.
Arizona republican., 1907-09-25

There is usually woman in the
case-and too often she is the wrong
one.-Chicago News.
Arizona republican., 1907-09-25

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Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-14

a cent? Surely any one not entirely
insane should have saved the price of
the fare for her children. "Unwritten
law" indeed There is a weak and
foolish fop in New York who has
kept the press busy for half year
guessing whether he will plead in de-
tense of cowardlyi murder. when he
slipped up and shot a brilliant man Of
brains and achievement in the back,
this same "unwritten law" or simply
emotional insanity.
Now. have we not had about enough
of this "unwritten law" nonsense?
Who will be the next man or woman
to shoot someone in the back or belly,
and plead the "unwritten law?
say and you know that had it not
been for the noisy and foolish fop
in the Tombs with his plea about the
"unwritten law" this poor woman out
of the far west would be at home TO-
day with her children and her victim
on his feet about his business.
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-14
FOR UNWRITTEN LAW
Dean Of the Washington College of
Law Defines II as the Right to De-
fend the Integrity of Family Life
BY ELLEN SPENCER MUssEY.

BY ELLEN SPENCER MUssEY.
Dean OF the Washington College Of Law.
The unwritten law might be de.
fined to be right to defend the integ.
rity of family life against all invasion
and invaders. While the family has
no distinct legal entity apart from the
persons who compose it, yet, in the
interest of society, the law holds the
more intimate family relations as
sacred and not to be inquired into by
a court Of justice. II is on this ground
that communications between husband
and wife are privileged, and they can.
not testify as to confidential communi-
cations made by one TO the other
during the marriage.
Marriage is a civil institution as
well as a contract. and II should be a
religious sacrament. Law cannot
make or unmake the true marriage
relation, but so far as the relation
concerns society and the state. it must
control it.
The Family as a Unit.
Inc law IeEdIuh carefully all prOn-
erty rights. II deals promptly with
the trespasser and the thief. and en-.
forces contracts. The murderer. the
embezzler, the perjurer. have Justice
melted out to them as enemies of the
commonwealth.
But the law does not deal with the
family as a unit Every student of
sociology knows that the homes of the
commonwealth are its real corner
stones. but the law does not so recog-
nize it. It is the one institution stin
left TO the defense of the head OF the
family. In the very nature Of things,
there is always a woman in the case.
If the crime is against her personally,
n she be over the age Of 16. what
remedy does the law give her?
A young woman went into a city to
support herself unwarned, inexperi-
enced: her faith and her affections
found an unworthy object Too late,
she found the man was already mar
ried, and in a wild moment she shot
him fatally. II the man had boldly
Palestine daily herald. [volume] (Palestine, Tex.) 1902-1949, 1907-01-14
BY JOAQUIN MILLER.

A woman, good or bad, shot a man,
good or bad, in his hotel in our ma
tional capital, the other day. She
stands, she says, "intrenched behind
the 'unwritten law" She claims to
have chased this man from Utah to
Washington and shot him to death
In his hotel, because he refused to
that she has twice been made a
mother; that one of the children bears
his name
We have, up to date, been pretty
tolerant of the woman who takes a
babe on one arm and a pistol in the
other hand and pursues a man to his
death But when there are two chill
dren, as in this case, one may well
ponder bit before he gives her the
tears and tenderness so generously
given to the guileless, misguided girl.
Like Highwayman's Act.
A woman cannot well come into
court with a family of children and
plead seduction and betrayal, as a
girl too often does, and have the SYM
patty of both men and women. This
woman's statement is that she asked
the man either to marry her or give
her money to support her children. He
said NO; / will not" and with that
she shot him to death, or, at least, did
her best to kill him on the spot.
Briefly and bluntly she shot him down
in his hotel for refusing to give her
money. The difference between this
act and that of the ordinary burglar
or highwayman is not very distinct.
Her declaration that the world will
see the justification Of her act is as
the declaration of an insane woman.
And this must be, as you will see, is,
her only excuse; and it will be pleaded
SO soon as a lawyer can be found to
take care &c her, her only defense.
Yet there ill be many ready to say
l~served MIN Just right" will say it
without waiting to hear one single
word of the other side. Sitting at a
table to-day, some one read the WON
ans statement, wherein she supple
mented the story of the attempted
murder with the assertion that she
had not one cent" Whereupon
beautiful lady of more than ordinary
culture and knowledge of the world
was moved to tears and sighed: mot
one cent; think of it," But hardened
man, a husband and father with
family of daughters, sighed from the
other end of the table: "Ah, my dear,
there are others who have not a cent.
If we are to allow all those who have
not cent to set out and chase those
down who happen to have cent or
two where will that sort of plea lead
us?"
Victims Morals Irrelevant.
AS said before, as to whether this
man is a good or bad man, high or
low, rich or poor, or whether the
woman is either, neither, or all of
these, does not figure at all in this
dismal and pitiful case. Can woman
leave her children behind her and
chase a man thousands of miles, and
then when she murders him put as her
last excuse the fact that she has not
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threatened her life, IL she had re
treated to the wall to elude him, il
would have been a case of justifiable
homicide. But his crime against her
was a more atrocious one than muir
der. 1t took away her good name. the
love and affections of her friends and
relations. her future. her faith in and
respect for herself-and her trust in
God and man.
Written in the Mothers Heart.
And. again, the man takes, under
the unrighteous laws OF certain states.
his child away from its mother. Which
Law comes first-that written in the
statute books or that written in the
heart Of every mother by the pangs of
childbirth? So sure as she lives, that
mother will obey the unwritten law,
and the child she will have. 1t is only
ten years since there was taken from
our statute book the law that a man
could by will give his unborn child to
whom he pleased. without reference
to the paramount claim. by affection
and suffering of it's mother
A member of the bar in the one
state in the union where there are no
divorce laws once told me that in his
state they had no serious trouble as
to domestic infelicities. IF a man
abuses my sister he knows whom he
has to deal with" In this case the
unwritten law seemed to be preferred
to the statute law. which sewers the
marriage bond on adequate grounds
well proven. suggested to the gen.
tleman that all women were not SO
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son of a prominent politician of the
time, and our minister to Mexico:
This for the wronged member of
congress:
Blood on his hands,
a stain on his bed:
Pity them all
Living and dead.
And this is for the handsome and
dashing betrayer:
Billows of sod
Swell DER his breast
Pleading with Cod
There let him rest
Sentiment is noble and inspiring.
| have no use for either man or WON.
an without deep and sincere sentiment
and sympathy in all things. But you
search the Bible in vain for anything
like this 'unwritten law" disease.
There are those who tell you that you
can find anything you want to find in
the Bible. And, true, you can find
many strange things. You can find
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fortunate as to have brothers. but
the reply was that seldom was there
case in which there was no male
relative. and that he believed that
were such a case to arise of gross
abuse, there was always to be found
in the community a man who would
protect the woman and her rights.
Two Noted Tragedies.
Who that reads the recent trial OF
Gillette for the murder of his victim
can forget the GOODNESS with which he
claimed he said: Tell your father;
IL you don't, l will" There comes q
mental picture Of that father and
what swift vengeance he would have
melted out to the destroyer of his
child. Was Gillette such a degen-
crate that to him the unwritten law
had no meaning, or was he merely
talking for effect?
The unwritten law which says Ven
geance is mine" is no excuse for the
disgraceful broils Of the degenerate
man and woman who find their only
pleasure in dissipation. The man who
despoils innocence himself-who gives
his name and his protection to a wom-
an whose life has been Ike unto his
own. is not in any sense the defender
of what the home stands for. His
sense of moral obligation for himself
is too blunted to at him, to Judge
of the transgressions of another He
is himself an outlaw when judged by
the standards Of common morality.
His propensity to shoot is the re-
suit Of a heated brain, or the lack Of
brains.
No woman, no man. is safe with
such a creature at large.
Let us add to the unwritten law an
other section: Let there be no inu-
endos against the chastity Of woman.
but only straightforward statements
with page and verse" and the viola
lor Of this law shall be placarded:
This person took away the good
name of another without cause" and
walk the streets in shame.
In the heart of every man. there
dwells first. absolute faith in his moth
err That is his birthright, and in pro-
portion to his faith in and affection
for his mother will be his faith in
and affection for his wife. On that
foundation is built his attitude to his
offspring. The true son, the true
husband. the real father. in all these
relations. owes to the home a clean
standard Of living He should never
invite into that home q man who does
not himself respect virtue. The man
who is a despoiler Of virtue in one
instance is an unsafe guest and friend.
How much more so. when license is
his rule of conduct.
Protect my innocence or fall into
the trap that is laid for me-"
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Shot and killed former Senator Arthur
BrozUH of Utah In Washington hotel for
refusing TO marry her. Held on murder
charge.
Killed Dr.. Thomas Butler at Monticello,
Mss, for boastine of alleged relations
EUih her. Found guilty of rianSlauehter.
Killed Dr.. BENJAMIN Harris of Chicago in
Lo7yyer's office because he says pfcfh71
evrecked his home IN Amigo, Wis. Case
pending.
Tried on charge of numbering William T.
Nien1an of Chicago in Empire hotel. Me
man had promised TO marry her. Was
acquitted.
Killed Stanford White IN NezD York Roof
Garden Theatre, alleging White had
ruined his Tuife, EbeBn Nesbh Than.
Murder trial pending.
Tried and acquitted of Killing Caesar
Young, booknake,, in = CAB IN NezD
York. Had HUed 9uhh Young, 9uho Das
married.
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almost anything. But I defy you TO
find anything like this "unwritten
law" in all the lessons. laws. precepts
and examples to be found between
the lids of the Book of Books. | con.
fine you let us live by the sacred
decalogue. There is all the law. Ac
cept the sermon on the mount. the
holy lesson OF our Savior. who prayed,
Forgive us, as we forgive others"
"Unwritten Law" Is New.
II may be well enough for those
who care to entertain any sort of pa
thence with the "unwritten law" plea
to understand distinctly that it is en-
tirely of mushroom growth and char
acter. Think of Draco or Lycurgus
entertaining such absurdities. You
will see nothing of the sort even
limited at in Justinian's code. Coke
upon Littleton, no commentator. an
cient or modern, ever mentioned any
thing Of the sort. The law was the
law, that was all. Blackstone was a
brave, bright poet, a sentimentalist
as well as mighty expounder of the
law. But surely he would have
laughed in the face of any advocate
who might have dared to talk to him
Of the "unwritten law" There is
literally nothing of the sort outside of
America, and there is really nothing
of the sort here except a sort of sub
terfuge for law, used by demagogues.
And the sin of it all is the misleading
of silly people who mock at the laws
that have cost so much toll and are
costing so much to maintain them