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Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

-ss-...5 session was the passage on miro
reading of the concurrent resolution sub
hitting to the qualified electors Of the
State a constitutional amendment pro.
viding for a prohibition being included
In the organic law. The vote on the
measure was 75 TO rs, or the requisite
twO-thirds of those voting. The point
was forcibly made that II would require
two-thirds of all the members elect, but
this had no effect in changing the sup
port of the measure
A morton to- Reconsider. which wa.
made. will delay sending tito the Sen.
ate. ~. ~
The House also passed bill provid.
ing for the exclusion of all men holding
any official or salaried position in the
State from membership on boards of
trustees of educational or eleemosynary
institutions. ~.
A bin was also passed fixing the per
diem and mileage of members of the
board of trustees of the State Insane
Hospital. reducing the per diem from
IS to 80 and expenses, and the com.
pensation of the, secretary from 5000
to $3.50 a year.
} The House tackled the general appro.
priation bill, which was the signal for
some lively scrimmaging, but without
making much reduction. This was passed
before the night session had adjourned
but will have to be perfected before
tAe roll is called.
The Senate tonight passed the crop
pest determination bill, a measure that
has been pending for some time, designed
TO promote horticulture, and a much
needed measure. also bill to prescribe
and restrict the duties of district at
torneys, and prevent their accepting re-
tanners from public service corporations
through their associates in law prac
ftre
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
FORTY-SEvENTH DAY.

The House of Representatives devoted
the four hours session today to the con
sideration of three appropriation bills.
The aggregate of the three measures is
upward of $1,1OO,0OO.
One of the features of the Industrial
and Institute and College bill was the
adoption of a rider STIMULATING that at
the end of the present scholastic year
the trustees arc to reduce the salary of
the president of the college by thou
sand dollars year, and the salaries of
heads of departments and professors are
also to be scaled.
In line with this action in the House
was the adoption by the Senate of the
House resolution, expressing the sense
Of the Legislature in regard to the re-
duction of these salaries, the vote in the
| Senate being 81 to IS, or about the same
| proportion as that in the House
The Senate passed the Vicksburg Con.
federate annex appropriation bill, but
voted down the bill providing for as.
sistance toward the old ladies' home
establishment, in the sum of $4,000
While a majority were for the bill, the
requisite two-thirds could not be Sc
cured.
The Senate also passed House bill
which created some discussion at the
time of its consideration, providing fol-
payment by the State of $500 to Attor
neys Stone and Sivley, of Oxford. foi
prosecuting the slayers of late Sheriff
A. NJ. Pong of Pamela.
Another bill of some interest, that
providing for the better handling of cot
ton In transit by railroads along the
lines Endorsed by the Southern Associa
ton, was taken up and passed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
A NATIONAL DISGRACE.
Child Labor Permitted In the District
of Columbia.

Child Labor Permitted In the District
of Columbia. 81
Senator Dolllver. chairman of the
committee on education and labor, is
preparing TO push through congress a
bill prohibiting child labor in the Dis
trict Of Columbia. At present there Is
no legislation on the subject That
such law has not been passed long
ego is q standing disgrace to the capl-
tai Of the nation. Most of the state
laws on the subject are nothing to
boast Of. but in a majority of the
states there Is at least some legIsla-
ton. 1t remains for the Capital city.
the one place directly under the con-
troll Of congress. to he devoid Of law
to prohibit this barbarism against chill
dren.
In his recent excoriation OF America,
G. Bernard Shaw jeers at our child
labor and mentions the fact that In
Lancashire. England. 1t was abolished
a hundred years ago, Tho best way to
escape such criticism is not to deserve
1t.
The American people might well
awaken to the fact that our child la
Dor conditions are a reproach. They
are utterly out Of keeping WITH the adj
vancement. the liberty and the human
itarian ideas Of the nation. They are
at enmity with our public school sys-
TEN and constitutes an injustice to
adult labor They dwarf the children.
mind and body! and cut down the
rightful wages Of toll.
Inasmuch. as the District of Column
bia Is governed directly by congress 1t
Is or should be. an example to the re-
mainder of the country. A child labor
law there would aid the effort toward
similar legislation every where. 1t is
to be hoped not only that Senator Dol
liver will succeed in his effort. but
that his bill will be followed by m
tional child labor law. Such an act can
be made effective despite the dictum
Of a house committee that attempted
to usurp the prerogatives OF the SUI
preme court and to pass on Its coDsti-
tutionality In advance. - New York
American. r
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
PENDING LABOR BILLS.
Important Measures That Congress
viii Be Asked to Pass.

Important Measures That Congress
Viii Be Asked to Pass.
The present session of congress will
be busy time for the Legislative COM
mittee of the American Federation of
Labor. Many matters of interest to, Is,
Dor will come up during the session,
and there are at least two bills which
the federation will make. a. special eff
fort to have passed this winter.
The two are the Pearre anti-injunc-
ton bill and the Gardner eight hour
bill. Both of these I,As were before
the last congress, BIT We're never
reached for final action. They have
been reintroduced. and active work to
secure their passage has already been
begun by the legislative committee of
the fedora ton. rEfsS
The Pearre bill prohibits injunctions
I'm labor disputes unless necessary to
prevent ''irreparabie, injury to proper
ty or to a property right of the party
asking the application" The bill also
seeks to restrict the meaning of the
word '"conspiracy" so that it will not
apply to agreements between laboring
men concerning the terms or condi-
lions of employment of labor $50
/. The Gardner bill is intended to limit
to- eight hours the daily service of me-
chanics and laborers employed upon
work done for the United States or any
territory or the District of Columbia.
This bill was fayorably reported by
the labor committee of the house las'
session. but nothing more came Of it.
stuck in the following text: Sec
ond Epistle of John, verse fifth =
"And now | beseech thee, lady, not
as though Iwrote new command
|ment unto thee, but that which we
had from the beginning, that we
love one another She returned
it,pointing to,the second chapter of
Ruth, verse tenth Then she fell
on her face and bowed herself to
the ground, and said unto him,
"Why have l found grace in thine
eyes, that thou shouldst take know
ledge of me, seeing that am a
stranger" He returned to the
book, pointing to the thirteenth
verse of the Third Epistle of John
Having many things to write
unto you'll would not trust with
paper and ink, but ] trust to come
unto you, and speak face to face,
HA
and our joy may be full From
the above interview a. marriage
took place the following week.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
Mississippi
Legislature

House.

A report wsss presented from the Judi
CARY committee with recommendations
relative to several bills. There was q
favorable report on the bill to define
and punish as misdemeanor the obtain
ing of propeEty under false pretenses,
also on the twin bills changing the time
of chansery court terms for Pearl River
and Franklin counties.
A bill which had been i'm committee
some time and reported favorably as
that providing for the correction of a
slight defect in the act creating Lamar
county in 1904, which could not be done
except by an act, which bill. was taken
up and passed.
The committee on eleemosynary in
stitutions. reported favorably on the bill
for the support and maintenance of the
State Charity Hospital at vicksburg, as
was alse the bill to appropriate money
to the Confederate veterans annex. rec.
ommending further reference to the
committee on appropriations.
The bill for the relief of the tax as
SCISSORS of the counties of Hancock,
Jones, Lamar. Tallahatchie, Tippah and
| Webster, providing for the appropria-
tions, were made, was called up and
passed. i,
0 Senate.
The only Senate measure which
brought on any discussion was the An
derson bill providing for the actual ex-
penses of the judges, chancellors and
district attorneys. 4 storm of protest
at the unconstitutionality of the propo-
sition enlivened the proceedings. ,
The local and private committee gave
a hearing to the men who are inter
ested in the formation. for or against,
the new county to,be called George. :
This new county movement in the
Senate is an effort TO perfect what has
been defeated in the House, as the
George county bill was defeated in that
branch days ago. IT is in the Senate,
too, that bill has been introduced by
Mr.. Bilbo, senator from the Fourth, to
create a. county in the northern half of
Harrison, using the same territory that
was included In the Second Court dis
triet, the net establishing which has
been repealed by the House.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
LABOR BRIEFS.

Organized women workers 10 the .cl-
gar making and tobacco industry Of
Germany number l9.338 .,,;l.sz; -. i.
It IL said that the payroll In Salem
(Mass.) shoe factories. totals S2oO0Q q.
week, or 100000 assyeaF.,.,:.,, So,
The forty-Afst annual Convention Of,
the BricklayeFs and Maseps' Enterua
tional union win open In Detroit Nom
dag, Jan. Is. - 49,,
The future home OF the Interna,,
tion Union Of Farmers will be In
Chicago. 1t viii be known as the IN,
ternational Equity Union and Coop
erative Exchange, 1t Is proposed ~ :
have all existing unions Of farmers
affiliate with the new central body.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

A young gentleman happening to
sit in church in a pew adjoining
one in which sat a young lady for
whom he conceived a sudden and
violent passion was DESTROYS of en-
tering into courtship on the spot;
but the place not suiting formal
declaration the exigency of the
case suggested the following plan :
He politely handed his fair neigh
Dor Bible fopen) with pin
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

Following the lines laid down By the
American Federation. az I.abor At .its,
recent Norfolk convention. thu. Central
Federated union of New York Is form
Ing a building trades department. Ths
main object Of this new move III or !;
ganization is to strengthen the nnEonsei
Of the building trades and to bring all i
such unions into closer tonch with one !,
another ST.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
F0RTY-STxTH Day.

Both houses returned to the duties
imposed upon the membership by the
constitution today. and while somewhat
tagged and jaded after the carnival dis
sipation of yesterday and last night
some. progress was made. The house
was in session in the forenoon, while the
Senate did not take up its work until
the afternoon.
The most consnic'tons feature of the
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

Comfort and Cheerfulness In Tone
Should Be It's Keynote.
The day Of the gloomy library, like
that Of the gloomy dining room, has
quite gone by. In fact, many people
now make living rooms of their IL
braries, for the long rows of bright
colored books make a very cheerful
decoration.
The illustration shows q room where
the bookshelves only reach trifle over
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

Let union men remember that every
time they purchase the antiunion ar
ticie they are contributing to, the dis
placement Of the union manufactures,
the union workman and ultimately to
the extinction of the labeled or union
article entirely.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

The man who never makes mis-
takes misses a good many splendid
chances to learn something.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

When a man begins by saying
ITO tell you the TRUTH you may
be pretty sure he is going to tell a
lie.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

Some people think it a mystery
that notwithstanding good advice
their boys grow up to be wild and
reckless young men. If these boys
were taught from infancy that
home was the proper place for them
after dark, rather than prowling
around the streets annoying well
and sick people alike, much of this
mystery might be explained, and
young men with better moral char
acter and more intelligent minds
would be the result. No parent
need expect pure morals in a boy
that prowls the streets at night,
even If he does go to Sunday
school.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

1t costs more for dull merchant
to brush the dust off his goods than
it would to advertise and sell them.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

The oldest apple tree in the coun-
ry is on the old Sanish place,
Wehersfield. Mass, and was plan
ted in 1888.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

"Our next issue, wrote the ed
itor of an exchange, will be exceed
ingly interesting, as it will contain
the names of allour delinquent sub
scribers. But when the time came
10 send out the next issue. it was
discovered that there were no de-
linquent subscribers. They had all
paid up! In a time when you
think not we propose to test the
efficacy of the above. $685.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
Public Service and Politics.


The public service should be divorced
from politics. No government office should
be used to control the results of any cleo
ton whatsoever, whether 1t is an cleo
ton for state or federal officers or a pIi-
mary held for the purpose of electing
delegates to a nominating convention. No
officeholder belonging to a dominant party
should act In any way which would cause
: q scandal or create friction in any office
IL the person belonged to the party in OPP
position. Under the spoils system the
theory Is that politics belong especially
to the officeholders. Under the merit sys-
tenn. the theory Is that politics belong to
the people and that the people are quite
capable of managing their own affairs
without interference and dictation on the
part of those whom they have chosen to
serve the whole public in merely admin
istrative positions.
Who do you think expressed these
admirable views-the late George Will
liam Curtis, the original and most eff
fective civil service reformer in the
United States, or William Dudley
FOulke, the present head of the civil
service reform movement in this cOun-
try? Not a bit. 1t was Theodore
Roosevelt, who at the time was a
member of the civil service commits
sion. How curious the contrast be-
tween his utteranceS as reformer and
his actions today as president The
secretary Of war, his candidate for the
presidency, has not in three months
been in his office ten days Though a
public servant, he has neglected his
duties to pursue politics. The first as
sistant postmaster general was allow
ed TO travel through the south for po-
litical purposes and on his return
handed in a nominal resignation in or
der to conduct the Taft campaign.
Few Officeholders belonging to the
Roosevelt party are today doing any
thing except work to get delegates to
Chicago who will carry out the Roose-
Welt programme, whether it means the
nomination of Taft or a carefully
planned stampede to Roosevelt. Never
has the power of patronage been used
so unblushingly for political purposes
as 1t has under this former civil serv-
ice refermer. Will it pay politically
Don't forget that in 1892 Benjamin
Harrison secured his denomination for
the presidency by compelling federal
officeholders to deliver delegations from
their states. He was overwhelmingly
defeated. The history of that election
may be instructive to the president
and his protege, the absentee secretary
Of war.
Washington. D. C.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
student. though unofficial. of NAVY

student, though unofficial, of navy
affairs, have at last attracted the at
tention Of the senate committee ON ma
val expenditures.
Perhaps 1t Ia not for the civilian to
pass judgment on the ships of the
United States navy. All he has to do
is to pay the taxes which defray its
cost, an expenditure which this year
will exceed $120, 100000. But, after all,
the civilian has a right to listen to the
criticisms of experts, and these criti-
cisms are not at all favorable to the
present form Of naval organization
Even though the American people are
Of VIGOROUSLY short memory, they may
remember when the steel works of the
eminent philanthropist, Mr.. Carnegie,
we're discovered to be selling armor
plate full of blowholes to the navy,
There was an cutlery, but the armor
plate scandal has been buried under a
deluge of Carnegie libraries. Now
comes the scandal of the submarines
and following quickly upon it the ties.
timony Of a responsible navy officer
that the speed of the ships shown on
their tests is never equaled by % pei
cent In actual service when they have
coal and ammunition on board.
The criticisms of the ammunition
hOists and the danger Of explosion in
turrets are sufficiently well known to
need no repetition here. OF course the
danger of explosion In a floating steel
tank half filed with the most power.
full explosives ever known Is not to be
lightly estimated or possibly guarded
against. To my mind, rather anus
ing incident of the first senatorial in.
Quiry into the naval situation was
when Senator Hale solemnly asked an
officer on the stand whether the dan
ger Of turret explosions, like those in
the Georgia and the Indiana, was moi
due to "the mania for rapid firing
The witness mildly replied that he
could hardly regard the endeavor fol
rapid firing and accurate aim as q
mania.
This investigation is not going to
PAV'C TIC AAOAASoH navy uhHoAtAJ vi
the pride and the confidence with
which the people regard 1t. 1t is likely
to prove, however, that the organiza'
ton of the navy department, the stay
at home men and the desk men and the
civilians who let contracts, is honey
combed with Incidence, ineff1ciency and
graft. But even If it does show 1t. that
condition will never be corrected unit
there is complete change in the poll
tics of the administration.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

The highest pure love for chill
dren snot found in the parent who
uses liquor, tobacco, profane and
vulgar language, and thus sets, ex-
amples that debase, demoralize and
destroy, as they are taken up and
followed.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

We want your dollar; you want the
Isws. Lets trade.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

If the man who tolls fourteen
hours a eeday, wears overalls and
checkered shirt, and his wife
wears poor quality of calico, how
does it happen that the fellow
who never works at all wears
broadcloth -and his wife wears
seal skin?
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13


The farmer is stronger than
the monopolist. Though the far
mer is stronger than the monopolist.
the monopolist manages him for
his own purpose. He puts a
bride, called loyalty to party, in
his mouth, a saddle on his back,
and rides him where he wills. He
puts harness made of prejudice on
the farmer, and by making speech-
es to him; and giving him plenty
of taffy, induces him to walk and
draw monopolist carriage. 4
The farmer does much hard work.
but the money gained by the far
mers work the monopolist appropri-
ates to himself. The farmer has be-
come poor and lives roughly on a
motgaged farm, and eats plain food
from delf and tin plates, and sleeps
on a straw bed. The, farmer is
very useful to the monopolist.
Moral: Those who do not use their
brains for themselve must use their
muscles for somebody else. =
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

Who weeps with you when you
are sad, and laughs when you
are glad, and smiles with you when
you are mad-the editor. Who
has to be both kind and wise and
never (hardly ever lies, and when
ne does creates surprise-the ed
ltor. Who owns a heart as well
as cheek, possessed of spirit proud
yet meek, and lives on forty cents
week-the editor.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

If rich man gives you employ
ment snarl at him; if he has no
work for you snap at him; if he
pays no attention to you bite him.
If poor man works for you swear
at him; if he does not, be discour-
teous to him; if he asks you for
work, offer him nickle; if he re-
fuses to work for you for lower
wages than he can afford use your
influence to keep him from work.
ing for any one else.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

The mule is stronger than the
man. Though the mule is stronger
than the man the man manages the
mule for his own purposes. He
puts bride on him, and a saddle,
and rides on his back. He puts har-
ness made of leather on the mule
and speaking to him and giving
him plenty of ticks, he induces him
to walk and pull wagon while the
man gets into the wagon and rides.
The mule does much hard work,
but all the money gained by the
mules hard work the man appropia-
ties to himself. The mule lives
roughly, is fed in a trough and
sleeps on the ground on a little
straw. The man eats at a table
and sleeps in a warm bed. The
mule is useful animal to man.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

Say your town is the worst place
in all christendom; has meaner
people overreaching business men,
conniving neighbors, in fact, see no
good in it, and speak no good of it
and you'll have a chance to grum-
bic, growl and swear to your hearts
content, while better and more con-
sistent men will get the rewards of
the faithful and the plums of life.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13
The Navy and lts Cost.

The most important news story
which has gone out of Washington
during this session Of congress was
That OF the correspondent Of the New
York world whe secured from Repre-
sentative Liley Of Connecticut his
charges against what has become to
be known as the submarine boat lobby.
The efforts made to suppress an. In
vestigation of the matters involved in
Mr.. Liiiey's statement have been per-
sfstenf, but no longer seem likely to
be effective. An investigation will be
held, and the country will finally dis
cover what Is the influence that leads
the United States government to pur-
chase submarine boats of doubtful
utiiify which within one year of serr-
Gee cost half az much for repairs MS
they dfd to build.
Furthermore, the charges made by
Mr.. Reutcrdahl. the marine artist and
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

Tony Nelson, a young man ~ years
old, has brought suit against w. b.
Swain, county convict contractor Of
Washington county, for alleged severe
corporal punishment while serving a
sentence on Swain's farm. Nelson al
leges that Swain held him day over
the order OF his release and that he
was severely beaten by the overseer.
For this he sues for o., 900 damages.
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

Gov. Noel announces the appoint
ment of Hon. George A. Mclean of
Mont gomcry "oun'y to succeed Judge
1T. Dunn Of EuporW, rs circuit judge
of the Fifth district, whose .cpin or
pires June l. 1908
Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1908-03-13

A bill is pending in, the legislature
authorizing an increase OF the proper
ty-holding limit of corporations TO
$4,000. 900. The present statutory limi;
IS s2,00o, 900, and Two years ago an ef-
fort was madc 10 have the limit In
creased To $4,000, 900, but it was I'm
<ucc SSful.