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The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-04-09

The question of local option either in
regard to the question of what shall be
done with the liquor traffic. or any other
question which interests either a large or
small number of people, has been about
as much befuddled as any question be-
fore the public.
The question of rights as to certain
division of state for governmental DUR
poses or OF territory seeking admission
to the Union as a state, does not de-
pend upon the speculation of the powers
that be as to whether the legislative acts
OF that division will conform to the pre-
conceived notion of that power as to
morality or policy in every respect or
not. Under certain conditions BODY of
citizens of specified locality have a
right to ask the higher power for the
privilege to organize and operate city
or village government, and by such or
SANITATION or charter the said political
body is granted certain police powers
and certain duties imposed, and in this
or any other state such organizations
are not required to pledge themselves to
make or not make certain police regula-
tons save in such restrictions as require
said body not to make regulations which
infringe the general laws of the state or
Its constitution. In a state like Ohio
and most of our states where the laws
either license the liquor traffic or impose
special tax upon it, it is certainly far
fetched proposition that there is any
thing immoral in granting such police
powers either to village or county.
Every city and village in Ohio has the
right under their charters to prohibit
the liquor traffic in their corporation and
many of the villages have done so, but
the legislature has not or will not hest
tate to grant such charters on account
of that fact, nor do l think any sane
Prohibitionist will raise that question in
such case
The objection to local option because
the results of the business. cannot
be. confined to such localities" is
unreasonable and illogical. The results
of the business cannot be confined in a
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-04-09

was anything but a tanatlcal temperance
body. An appeal to the home life, the
charter, with its inhibition, was granted.
Several other academies were chartered
at this same session of the assembly,
most of them obtaining the same restric-
tive charters as Mooresville, the proto-
type. During the following years many
other schools were chartered, most of
them prohibiting the saloon within a
radius of one or two miles SO far as it
now appears, such charters were obtain
ed with little difficulty. The war wreck
age had included practically all the
schools of the South; military life had
spread generalization; the vultures were
brooding over all. The crossroads
doggery was everywhere in the land.
Most children had to pass near one or
more of such institutions on their way
to school The doggery added much to
the turbulence and danger of those
seething days. Every rational father
wished to minimize those perils in the
path of his children as much as posi-
gument could be presented to the pater-
nal heart; the measure was quite pop
ular
Before the reconstruction" and
iron-clad- period had yet expired,
this writer, still mere youth, was
chosen president of Beech Grove Col
lege post-bellum institution of Middle
Tennessee; and it devolved upon him to
prepare the charter for the school to
be asked for from the legislature. No
ticing that other schools had contented
themselves with charters prohibitory for
one, or. at most, for two miles around
their buildings, he concluded to hazard
a four-mile clause in the new instru-
ment and so formulated 1.-THE first
-four mile" law ever asked of the Ten
nessee assembly. The honorables were
evidently astonished at the audacity of
that boy UP at Beech Grove. He was
asking for a little too much. A warm
debate followed, but the cons were
rather too many for the pros, and they
finally succeeded in cutting the -four
miles" down to the regulation two-mile
limit, thus depriving this scribe of the
credit of writing the first -four mile
law" enacted by the Tennessee legisla-
ture. 1t required seventeen years yet
for public opinion to grow to the four
mile statute
In 1887 the year the state Prohibi-
ton amendment failed, the four-mile
act was carried, still having the school
for its basis, and prohibited the saloon
within four miles of school, save in
an incorporated town. The crossroads
doegery then had to go.
Those two forms of Prohibition
sought for in 1887 afford a strong pres
entation of the relative forces Of the
menm versus the tnnm and sum argu-
ments The four-mile applies to me
and mine; the state law refers rather
to the other fellow, and isn't my especial
concern. Many a political and busi-
ness argument could be bolstered TIP
against state law which would not
come between the voter and his child
on the way to the school.
Selfish" you say. True But the
self argument is a strong factor in Pro-
hibition struggles. as it is elsewhere.
Local option counties and towns very
commonly go wet in state contest.
Still it is, "Me and my wife; my son
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-04-09
LOCAL OPTION
"A Plea. A Protest and an Argument
BY GEORGE L. CASE

L.
Editorial upon this will be found ON Pages and
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
uo R,ood Relatives

dubuque, Ia, Aug. Senator S:mHAGi Adj.
non was Sc completed at meeting Ts1stiV to
f rr,endt. He is not survived d,a by Pin in
relatives relatives The Allison ,t nome SrIends Of
charge charge Allison The house is eraped
:, sen raoprning and fairly filled with
On The body of the aged fenator
- nrepared for burial 1t viii lay In
state.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
L:Iavnrlna Tohneeo.

Nearly all tobaccos are doctored In
various ways in order to suit the tastes
of different consumers. Each manu-
facturer-even in Havana has his own
secret methods, handed down from IA
Their TO son. which are regarded as per-
fectly legitimate and necessary in the
preparation of the soothing weed. Salt
meter IS added TO the tobacco to make
n burn well. licorice, honey, molasses
and maple sugar to give sweetness to
n for the special benefit Of chewers
and rum to make it keep well and pre-
serve its properties. Nearly every
plant which will afford perfume is
used In the preparation Of what are
known as fancy tobaccos. But It is
not true, as some suppose, that opium
and deleterious drugs are employed,
save in a few brands Of imported
and Egyptian cigarettes
Among the ilavors used are coffee, tea,
valerian, lemon, orange, geranlum,
,assafras, thyme, anise, mint and Gin
1amon. Gum and glycerln are occa-
,ionally employed to bind the tobacco
,articles so that they shall not crumble
nto dust. The various ingredients are
made into kind of sauce. into which
he tobacco leaves are dipped or with
Yhlch they are sprlnkled. - London
nswers.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
Tho Proper Adjective.

At the close of revival service In
Philadelphia the minister of the church
went down the aisle, according to his
custom, to greet the strangers in the
congregation. Il don't think you are
a. member of our church." said he to
one as he warmly shook his hand.
j'No, sir" replied the stranger. "Well,
you will not think me unduly curious II
j ask to what denomination you be-
longT asked the minister. 81 sup
pose" responded the other, I'm really
what you might call submerged Pres
byterian." "A submerged Presbyte-
rian" exclaimed the minister II
should be glad If you would explain"
well, l was brought up a Presbyte-
rian, my wife is Methodist, my eldest
daughter is Baptist, my son is the or.
ganist at a Unitarian church, my Sec
ond daughter sings in an Episcopal
choir, and my youngest goes to q Con-
Sunday school" But"
said the minister. aghast, you con-
tribute doubtless to some church, p
Eyes; contribute to all of Them" was
the answer. That's what submerges
me-"
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
AlRsHlP EXPLoDEs.
During Storm II Is Supposed TO
Have Been Lightning Struck.

During Storm II Is Supposed "a
Have Been Lightning Struck.
Stuttgart, Aug. 5.-The Zellepin air.
ship caught fire during a thunder
storm Wednesday afternoon and ex-
ploded. 1t is supposed to have been
struck by lightning. 1t is said to have
been completely ruined Several per
sons are reported injured Count Zele-
pin Ia safe.
The storm blew up Unexpectedly
A fierce gust of wind tore the balloon
from It's anchorage and drove It in a
southwesterly direction for some fifty
yards. Here the rear end Of the great
febrio dropped and smoke and flames
soon burst out from one end to the
other. Then In a few seconds came
the explosion, and a great column OF
flame shot upward. This was follow
ed by a crashing down to earth OF the
motor and frames that had been at
tached to the under side of the air
ship. Several bystanders were knock
ed down
Two causes conspired to make II
necessary to land the airship at Ech'
rdingen-overheatin OF piston box
OF forward motor and escape OF con-
siderable gas, owing to the fact that
the count took the alrship to height
of about 5000 feet.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
Due TO Defective Motor.

Friederichshafen Aug. 5.-Thou
sands of people who waited from day
break for the return of County Zelle'
pins airship from its record-breaking
voyage was greatly disappointed when
It became known shortly after ten
o'clock "Wednesday the airship had
been compelled to go down at Echter'
dingen. A special train took three
carloads OF gas to Echterdingen.
Twenty carloads are required to I'LL
the giant balloon.
From a reliable source the informa'
ton is obtained a defective motor
was really responsible for the landing.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
FOLLOWS FERN|Fs FATE.
Michel Devastated by the Pitt.
less Flames.
BLAZE COMESDOWN HILL.
For Three Days Did the Inhabitants of
the Town Fight Valiantly to Check
the Onward March of Conflsgration
and Had 10 Give Up.

Vancouver, B. c., Aug. 5.-For three
days the people of Michel fought for
their homes with death at the door
They were beaten at the game.
The city the second in size
in the devasted district of East
kootenai, started to burn in real
earnest at dusk Tuesday
From light eastern breeze, which
turned to a gale from the west at 8
o'clock in the afternoon, the city was
doomed The blaze came sweeping
down the hill. At the edge of town
100000 feet of mine timbers owned by
coal company caught fire. -Four load
ed railroad cars standing on side
track were consumed. Two Canadian
Pacific locomotives we're hitched on
to the train to carry the fire fighters
away to the west to safety. BY the
time the train left for the west the fire
was spreading all over the yards.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
Found Dead on Gallery.

Fort Worth. Aug SIS. II. Wealth.
ington, aged sixty-two years, was
found dead by his wife on the gal.
lery of their home. Heart disease Is
believed the cause.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
Wrecked by Cloudburst.

Bisbee, Ariz. Aug. 5.-The postof-
flee and all business houses and Of
fices on one side of Main street for
distance of 200 yards were wrecked
by a cloudburst which swept down
from the mountainside a mass OF mud
and rocks. The damage is estimated
at 100000. Postmaster Cassidy,
Sheriff White and eighteen girl clerks
in the postoffice narrowly escaped
when the flood, almost without warn
ing, struck the building and filled IL
with water SIX feet deep. Thousands
upon thousands of tons of rock ana
dirt were washed into the streets
which were piled from five to twenty
'eet high with debris.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
sREvITIEs suNcHEp.

Four men died at Chicago Tuesday
from being overheated.
As guests OF the Dallas News 20t
newsboys were given picnic.
Another oil well has been brought
In in the Brownwood. Tex. field.
A poultry show will be held at
Greenville. Tex. Aug. 26, 81 and 2S.
A fine oil well has been brought
In at Petrolia, Clay county, Texas.
All departments of the Santa Fe
railway at Cleburne, Tex, are working
full time
An elaborate exhibit OF bees Will
be made at the State Fair OF Texas at
Dallas this fall.
Dallas Is to have an automobile
club. II will inaugurate a movement
for better roads.
A commercial club has been organ
lied at Mount Pleasant. Tex, with
membership of sixty.
Professor II. Sstill has been elected
principal of the Sam Houston norailI
school at Huntsville, Tex.
Cardinal Gotti says no American
question will come up before the prop
uganda at Rome. soon to be helu'
Japanese steamship owners nave
been advised that export rates a,e
not to be charged by American r"'i
roads.
]. e. winston. a graduate OF tnv
University of Virginia. will M we
chair of history in Austin con'7'
Sherman. Tex.
A thief entered a Dallas fruit , store
and stole a cash register containing
$50 He was so closely pursued .hf
he dropped 1t. The thief had no ume
to rob the register.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
Pythlans Parade.

Boston, Aug. 5.-The principal
event on the programme OF tns
Knights Of Pythias convention Weu
nesday was the great parade OF suDor
dinate lodges and Pythian Sisters sisters
While not such a military spec'ac,e
as was presented by the uniform il.
numerous floats and other features Is
made the pageant more interes'is "
the general bubble.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
Mitchell Granted Bail.

Houston, Aug. 81. l.. Mitchell,
millionaire jeweler, who recently shot
and killed a one-legged hack driver
at Laporte. was released on $4,000
bail. Less than a week ago bail was
refused by Judge Ashe Of the Eleventh
district court. Judge Gillespie grant
ed bail on ground that additional evil
dence had been discovered.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
Wishes Books Retained.

Sherman. Tex, Aug. 81. c. Pyle
.uperlntendent OF the Sherman public
schools left for Austin to interview
the state board Of education in an ef
fort TO keep the books now in use in
the sherman schools. The cost Of an
entire change is so great that many
natrons will be compelled to keep
their children out Of school II the
change Is made.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06

chicago. Aug. 5.-wllli@ snnn BeI ; So =
pos PSs'O check in the driveway o Oeneai II
the Fe eoorintendent Day. The cneeS
to su llponabie through the Merchants anus,
I'oan and Trust cO%psn and a bank
% CO@panS was sent for ,s sso tSe rel
Becker IS Is many nan thanks and ~ O''t
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
man.s contain Fees Inoreased.

Fort worth. Aug 5.-The Texas
sberiffs convention passed resolu'
tion asking the Thirty'lirst legisla'
ture TO Increase certain fees because
~ additional expense since the last
ieg,slature's laws became effective.
The association will also ask the leg.
Islature TO amend the anti-pass law in
order that sherlffs may receive trans.
from the state.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
Kills Cows,

baltimore. Aug. 5.-Near Ehis city
two cows we're killed by lightning.
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
pi,ohsd Battle Fought.

Harlan, Ky. Aug. ga pitched he'd Oa az
tie was fought at Howards S'1 p,I,o a
Lavman. John Blanton was killed a0n,
sherman phantom shot in an arm
Stokely Osborn mortally ,ao Wand and a
Lee Russell seriously woun ont Known
young man whose name Is sr nOt S out Of
t d,SO sr S1S election held last sa'uru''
Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1908-08-06
sunnosed lncendIarY.

Temple. Tex, Aug Sire of sup.
posed incendiary wholly destroyed
the Second Baptist church, negro,
and two negro residences here We'd
nesday morning, inflicting a loss of
$4,000. partially insured.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-16
ACCEPTS TRlPP's CHALLENGE
FOR DEBATE AT Ell MONTE

Ell MONTE. Sept. 14.-[Editor Her
add: In todays Herald notice Mr..
Tripp of San Gabriel challenges any
body to debate. He made the same
bluff at Ell Monte last week. and since
we Socialists have been after the
chairman OF the Bryan-Kern club here
to arrange for Mr.. Tripp and some So
cialist to debate. That chairman re-
fuses to do so. But now Mr.. Trip is
so spelling for fight that he pub
fishes a challenge in The Herald and
under the circumstances here at Ell
Monte.
We hope the Democrats here will
not think hard OF the Socialists If they
call Mr.. Trip. SO here goes. Mr.. Trip,
we will as a branch local of the Social
list party accept your challenge to de-
bate in Ell Monte on the question: Re-
solved. that the interest of the work.
tnEman would be more conserved by
the election of Bryan than the election
| of Debs. And we will represent our
party with Mr.. Holston of Los An
geles or Mr.. Riddle of Los Angeles OF
any one of q dozen others who are
ready and willing to debate. Set youE
date in Ell Monte and we will pay for
the hall, advertise the meeting, pay all
expenses pertaining thereto, leaving
you to bear only the expense OF coming
down and getting a good political
whipping. A. =. SMELL
Secretary Ell Monte Local.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-16
PROTESTS AoAlNsT WISHING
LIFE FOR FEMALE VANITY

Los ANGELES, Sept. 14.---[Editor
Herald: So many interesting Ques-
tions are discussed in your Letter Box
that / hesitate about suggesting an ad-
dition to their number. But it seems
20 me that there is one subject that
needed lead on, and that would work
hand in hand with the excellent sport
ing sheet 1t runs.
Like many others / have been pro-
foundly impressed with the series OF
articles that Emerson Hough has been
running in the Saturday Evening Post
the latest of which is My Ladys
Rugs"
He has shown conclusively how COM
merce, dominated chiefly by the de-
mands of women, is killing off the AMI
NAL life of this world, that my lady
may have feathers on her hat, skins on
her back and rugs at her feet.
It> seems useless to appeal to the
women, and, paradoxical as It may APP
pear, am Of the opinion that the only
class that is likely to do anything In
the matter is the genuine sportsmen;
those who in their wandertngs have
learned to love the hill and the forest
and the stream, and who kill, not for
ostentation but as needs demand.
Emerson Hough truly says that "all
our civilization is based on cruelty and
heedlessness of pain, from sweatshop
to mountainside," and that lone may,
in moderation, go so far as to say that,
before woman is accorded the suffrage,
she should be ready to prove herself
less elemental and barbarous, more
thoughtful and kindly than she was
before Rome fell"
These articles by Hough necessarily
connect themselves with the tremen-
dous series entitled mo. 9O09," that
appeared recently in. the same periodi-
cal, showing how unspeakably cruel and
stupid is our treatment of prisoners.
They are all piece of the same cloth;
"our civilization is based on cruelty
and heedlessness of PAIN" inflicted on
the weak.
1t is useless appealing to the weak
and unimaginative. but there is strong
class that is alive to the ruin OF life
that Is going ON, in answer to the de-
mands Of commerce. If such a move
ment could be started It would quickly
spread to include our treatment of the
weak and helpless Of our own species.
I. b. WALTON.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-16
DEADLY WEAPONS,

4" 3 HAVE received assurances that
| w our remarks regarding failure
to prohibit the general sale of
revolvers have been well taken. If we
of the United States could see ourselves
as others see us we would discover that
we were regarded as citizens of a
country in which human life. and espe-
cially official life, is not safe, on ac-
count of the prevalence of the revolver
habit.
1t is SO easy to wound or kill with
hearted man who would be afraid to
face an enemy in open fight sometimes
arms himself with a revolver, and, al
though he would not dare to strike,
shoots. 1t is such strong and sug-
gestive incentive to crime that we are
certain IT, the deadly weapon, rather
than the miserable creatures who have
obeyed 1t and used it, is responsible
for the thousands upon thousands Of
murders which have been committed
with revolvers in the land of freedom
and of the ready gun. No citizen with
sense of the congruous will become
excited or enthusiastic over move
ments to abolish what is believed by
many to be a crime-producing traffic
in liquor until crime-suggesting and
crime-committing and inherently GRIM
inal traffic in small, easily concealed
firearms is prohibited.
In some matters America is slow to
learn and slow to act. One would have
thought the assassination of presi-
dent would have produced such a
strong sentiment against the manufac-
ture and sale of revolvers that the
traffic would have been ended. All
kinds of small deadly weapons are
manufactured and sold in the United
States, in spite of the fact that three
presidents lie IN untimely graves. the
victims of murderers, and in spite of
another fact, generally overlooked, that
the murder of three presidents has
established, as 1t were, wicked prsce-
dent which may convey suggestion to
mind criminally receptive. Owing to
the common manufacture and prac-
tically unrestricted sale in the United
States of revolvers and other small,
easily carried and concealed deadly
weapons the life Of the president is
not as safe as that OF any European
prime minister or of any European
ruler excepting perhaps the czar.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-09-16
French Student Describes
Origin OF Common Vegetables

nHE potato, which was already cul-
tivated in America when the con-
n tinent was discovered, is spon-
taneous in Chile. It was introduced to
Europe in 1880 and 1856 by the Span
iards, and almost at the same time by
the English, who brought it from Vir-
ginia. where IL had appeared about
1850. The sweet potato and the Jeru-
salem artichoke are also supposed 20
come from America.
Satisfy is found in wild stats In
Greece, Dalmatia, Italy and Algeria.
According to oliver de Seres, 1t has
been cultivated in the south OF France
since the sixteenth century.
Turnips and radishes came originally
from Central Europe. The beet root
and the beet, which have been greatly
improved by cultivation, are considered
as the same species by botanists. The
beet, only the stalk of which is eaten,
grows wild in the Mediterranean
islands, Persia and Babylonia.
Garlic, onions, shalots and leeks have
long been cultivated in almost all
countries and their origin is very un-
certain. That of the scalliou is better
known. 1t grows Spontaneously in ST.
IBERIA. One finds chives in wild state
throughout the northern hemisphere.
The radish, greatly modified by cul-
tivation, probably had its origin in the
temperate zone. but from what wild
species 1t Is derived is not exactly
known.
The lettuce appears to be derived
from the endive, which is found wild
In temperate and Southern Europe, In
the Canaries, Algeria, Abyssinia and
temperate western Asia.
Wild succory is spontaneous through