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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27
"Not II License, hut n Tax,

Editor OF The Times Dispatch:
elr,-Referring to your inquiry as
to why the United States licensed the
sale sale Of liquor in territory, in which 1,
IN what are known as dry" communi-
ties, desire to set forth the relation
or the Federal revenue laws to the
business of manufacturing or selling
liquor.
The United States government does
not license the manufacture or sale Of
liquor. The Federal revenue laws de-
clare not that a person may manufac-
but that il he engages in such business
ne must pay the tax TO Illustrate
this difference between granting a
license and requiring the. payment OF
tax when certain business Is Gu
gagged In, | may state that n person
may engage in the liquor business ard
not pay the special tax due under the
internal revenue laws until some days
or weeks after starting this business.
; and yet (unless he is peddler of
return aud pay the tax are imposed
upon him II he makes return and pays
the tax within the calendar month in
which his liability began.
the license tax cases e WALL. 462)
.Eeid that the special tax stamp Is not
a license. but merely a receipt for the
tax; and that it puts the United States
uhucr no obligation Whatever 10 inc
holder beyond assuring him against
prosecution under the special tax laws
Section 32i3, Revised Statutes, reads
as follows:
THE payment Of any tax imposed
by the Internal revenue laws 1or car,
rying on any trade or business shnll
not be held to exempt any person IRON
any penalty or punishment PROVIDED by
the laws OF any state for CARRYING on
the same within such State, or IN any
manner to authorize the commence.
ment or continuance OF such trade o. o.
business contrary to the laws OF sucn
State or in places prohibited by mun y,
cipal law; nor shall the payment OF
any such tax be held to proh|nit. any
state from placing duty or taS ~
the same trade or business TOT state
or other purposes" 1,
\ This statute shows clearly that lt u. i
intended that the internal revenue "a 4,
shall not interfere with any laws o. 9,
regulations of the State III resafu ~
any business.
The. Federal laws on the subject o.
manufacture and sale OF liquors, co'i
corning which inquiry Is made. are
wholly tax or revenue laws, the ques :
ton of regulating. or prohlnis.almns, i, !. !
business being wholly a nlatter, for pn .n1
state to decide upon. The lh!elMdi
Revenue Department makes no y, q Y,
ries as to the character OF person an y
his itness to engage In the Rho4esa1s
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GooDNATURED GIBEs.
ssyY7HAT can a blind partisan see?'

eeVVT HAT can blind partisan see?" de
w mands contemporary. Well, a!
rule. he can see the pie counter
ard chance to land a few choice cuts Il
his side Observation-Disclosures Post.
Ralsull is no nero bandlt--he belongs tc
the predatory rich" class.-Washingtoi
Times.
Mr.. Hartman shows opposition to stay
in business until another President shall
be Observation-Disclosures Record.
Let us give Banker Morse. of New York
credit for one thing. He is not a grumb.
Inns pcsslmst-Chicaso Record Herald.
Mr.. Roosevelt will succeed himself Mr.. Law.
Roosevelt and assails the Intelligence of the
people of the United States. but also fails
to consider the chances that Mr.. Roosevelt,
mas spontaneously combust from righteous
wrath between now and the convention
Louisville CoIrier-Journal.
BY remaining under ground for the mex,
six or eight weeks the grounding may wit.
ness some very interesting politics.-St
Louis Post-Dispatch.
Chancellor Days opinions are now 50
thoroughly understood that 1t will be diri-
cult for him to occasion any further sur.
prise--Washngton Star.
Another Du Pont mill has blown up. IT
may turn out TO be a self-pust!ng trust
after all.-Indanapolis News.
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PROHIBITION THAT DON'T PRO-
1iIDTT.

one of the mysteries to the ordinary
citizen is why the United States gov
eminent gives t'liconses" to persons to
sell liquor in territory in which, by the
laws of the state, the sale of liquor is
forbidden. Tor many years we have
heard that in the prohibition State OF
Maine liquor is sold with freedom and
under United States authority, as we
We're Informed and believed. We pub
fish in another column communion
tton from United States revenue Off
Ger, which explains this seeming
anomaly. / appears that tho United
States does not license anybody to
sell liquor. Tho Federal laws declare
that a person may manufacture or sell
liquor IL he pays the tax, but IL he en-
cages in such business he must pay
the tax. The Federal view has no
reference to license, but to tax and
the collection of revenue,
The state law, on the contrary.
seeming to consider the moral and
social effects OF the trade, investigates
the character of the dealer and grants
a license or not according to the jude-
ment of the State authorities. The
United States goes along and requires
anybody who does the business TO pay
a tax, and, therefore. collects that tax
regardless of whether the State allows
the trade or not. The state, on the
other hand, making ayowal of not re-
garding tax as much as ii regards
morals, falls in many cases, as we have
discovered, to regard either by pro-
hibiting the sale of liquor without
license or tax. II is one of the re-
proaches to the whole theory of pro-
hipition that 1t does not always pro-
hibit; that it sometimes merely drives
from observation. control and the
payment Of revenue traffic In mean
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WOMEN AND STREET cans.

We salute the gallantry of John n
Pickel. OF St. Louis. but confess to
doubts as to his thorough comprehen-
sion of minor legal technicalities
Captain Pickel. who was formerly a
night chief of police, appears in the
calcium now as defender of Cypress
ed ladies.
The captain rode down town on a
street car the other day and noticed.
to his great indignation, number of
ladies hanging on 20 straps, including
feeble grandmother of eighty years
or upwards. Twenty men occupied
comfortable seats and miserably saved
their faces, SO to say, by hiding them
in newspapers. The captain, who bears
name suggestive of heat and tart
ress, grew rosy with rage. He re-
paired at once to his Office and fell to
work upon a bill which would change
ell that
This bill is going to be introduced in
the municipal Assembly before long.
ii will require "all men in street cars
TIC remain standing till every woman
is seated" under penalty of a stiff
fine.
We fear that the aroused chivalry
of Pickel has led him to approach a
large subject in rather a thoughtless
manner. Morally, socially, Officially.
his point is magnificent, but legally
it is impossible. The law declines
to contemplate II. The bench would
knock it into a cooked hat In the
unfeeling eye of the statute books.
man and woman are equal beinrs.
| However much every true man would
agree with gallant Pickel as to the
superior consideration due to a certain
sex, that legal fiction stands, and impas-
sable barrier in the forward march of
refinement. Discrimination between the
SEXES is impossible. st. Louis ladies
must go on scrambling for seats on
the old style catch-as -catch-can plan,
or the cqual-rights- all doctrine be-
comes farce. Pickel is brave and
admirable man, but he is no match
for the Constitution of the United
States.
There is only one way under heaven
of guaranteeing street car seats to wo-
men, and that is by cultivating, to
have and to hold, a race Of courteous,
kindly and considerate men. Wherever
men exhibit the manners and customs
of hogs, there will women always hang
helplessly upon straps, and no law can
pluck them off. BY way of prepara-
ton for a different propaganda, better
calculated for success. Captain Plckel
Is herewith invited to visit Richmond
at his leisure, where no women ever
stand on street cars unless there are
more of them on given car than
there are seats.
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Financial barometer.

Editor Of The s-Dispatch:
Sir,-Cigars and theatres are not in
IT with corns as financial barometers.
When business gets brisk and Jobs are
hunters and men the hunted. then
corns get busy and the retail shoe
merchant is informed every day by the
purchaser that his fleet are tender
and can't stand coarse Shoes" Tight
shoes are Q. X, provided they arc light
and stylish, but brogans are utterly
neglected and allowed to rest in Gin
nocuous desuetude" until hard times
cure corns and tender feet, and the
neglected brogan again becomes king
on the merchants shelves.
Dublin, Va, Feb. 81. 1908.
j. M. WEISER. s
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Editor of The Times-Dispatch:
Sir,-The list OF names of those TO
whom license to sell Intoxicating Ii
quors in your city has been granted.
as published in The Times Dispatch OF
Saturday. is interesting. 1t would APP
pear to an outsider that all nationali-
ties on the face of the globe are rep
resented, and very few to the manor
born. VIII some one kindly analyze the
list and tell us how many holders NJ
licenses arc of American parentage?
The writer cannot find more than
SO out of the 145 whose names sound
like our own people. The foreign elo-
ment appear to monopolize the traffic
which ruins SO many Of our American
boys, soul and body.
GEORGE HAWXHURST,
Falls Church, Va, Feb. "a, 1908.
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Respectfully.
w. III. CHAPMAN
Day Nurseries.

Editor of The Times-D lspatch.
Sir,-1 was much interested in the
communication published several days
ago from your Danville correspondent,
something of the discouragements or
trying to reach. for their own good,
the class of people she refers to, and
also some of the blessed results of that
work successfully accomplished. / VEN
ture to offer suggestion, which hope
may be helpful. There are several
causes for the difficulty of reaching
this class OF people, one is total
ter things. due to absolute ignorance
about those things. Another cause is
an innate suspicion of the well-dressed
well-fed people who are trying to IN
troduce new things into their starved
Knowledge of the favored classes,
whose lives are as different as If they
came from another planet. is confined
ployers who from their point of view,
get as much work as possible from
them, and give as little money as pos
sible in return. 1t is impossible for
the laborer TO understand that any
thing offered by the class to which
his employer belongs has no mercen-
airy motive back of 1t.
Another cause, sometimes, but not
always. a factor. is purely American
one-the feeling which all Americans
have, or try to believe that they have,
that all men are eQual--a feeling OF
resentment toward anything which ap-
pears to them to be a condensation.
In order to overcome all these diff
ficulties. it Is necessary to disarm preju-
dice and patiently teach desire for
better things-cleanliness, healthful-
ness, godliness.
The best way I know Of where real
social settlement work is impossible. is
to employ a deaconess. whose work
shall include not only the care. of the
children brought to the day nursery,
but also the making of herself friend
of the children and their mothers in
their homes.
This is the day of specialists. and the
training a deaconess receives makes
her specialist in the art of friend
ship. Her life. her dress. disarms
prejudice. If she is different from the
different from the society woman. She
Dan apply the help one gives to the
need of the other without offense. She
can be all things to all men," The
ladies who support this beautiful and
needful work should keep in the back
ground until the deaconcss shall have
established herself the peoples
friend; and they can give valuable
personal aid, If they wish.
a kindergarten in connection with
a day nursery increases its value ten
fold. Here children who are too young
for school and too old for the nur-
pies of love for what is clean and beau
tiful. and seed can be sown which Will
bring forth fruit-perhaps hundred
fold. Yours truly.
Bedford City, Va, February II, 130S.
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or retail liquor business or concerning
the local conditions and laws, but Is
concerned officially only with whethe,
person Is engaged III business on
which there Is an internal revenue
tax. and. II so, that the tax Is paid. a
person Is, of course, none the less liza
bic to the tax II he is conducting such
"A business In violation of the STATE
laws.
As it is the special business of rev.
enue ofhcers to look for violations OF
me internal revenue laws they are
moro active in this work and more
successful in discovering cases of the
paid the tax than are the State ofii
GERS in general, and to avoid being
caught and subjected to the penalties
imposed by the Federal laws for fail
ure to pay tax these violators of the
State laws come forward and pay the
ment. For failure to pay the special
tax required of liquor dealers a per-
son engaging in this business Is liable
70 penalty of 80 per cent of the tax
due, and also to fine and Imprisonment
1 may add that section 3240 OF the
provides that an alphabetical list of
the names OF all persons who have
paid special tax shall be kept conspicu-
ously In the office of each collector OF
internal revenue for public inspection,
which shall state the time, place and
been paid. Further than this, 1t Is
now provided by a Federal statute
(Act of June 81, 1860 that collectors
snail furnish to prosecuting officers Of
state, county or municipality on re-
quest certified copies of any portion Of
this record.
w TT CHAPMAN
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JUDGE MANN's POSITION.

1t IS generally understood that the
majority report in the Rhea lnyestlga-
ton vas wholly, or in large part,
drafted by Judge W. II. Mann, the SEN
ator from Nottoway. Furthermore, it
was announced in the Joint Assembly
on Tuesday night that he had been
seiected by the signers Of the report
70 answer all arguments against it
ana conclude the debate
II viii be remembered that in the
nrst meeting Of The Joint Assembly tc
consider the appointment Of Judge Rhea
10 position on the state Corporation
Commission charges were made siml,
Lar ia those formulated by Senator
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III,


"What was the voice." asked Edith
rapidly.
II never heard that tale BEFORE" said
Rupert, in wonder.
1T is not one to be proud Of" Mrs.
Helmont said, but for the voice, my
lady, my father could never surely ac-
count. Some held that 1t was one of
the gypsy folk with whom the bit OF
commend land that was being taken
away had long been a favoritc spot,
and some held that it was no mortal
man that spoke; but my father never
knew. Only this much is certain, that
neither to himself nor to Sir Wilfred
did death come at the appointed age.
or In peacefcl shape. Both died before
they reached the three score years and
ten. My father was killed by fall
from a haystack, which he was put
ting up in the Black Pit meadow; and
Sir Wilfred-" She stopped her speech
at this point and looked at her visitors
with troubled eyes.
"And Sir Wilfred was drowned"
said Rupere encouraging. 'as any
other man is likely to be who puts out
to sea in cookie shell when the
weather is rough
80 tits said, so tbs said" answered
the dame hurriedly, and in manner
that expressed no conviction.
s1t''WIy SuEclSB ALL trIASiilOhl, ~ IS
not you that can believe the nonsense
tale that Sir Wilfred hurled himself
into the Pit. and that no still haunts
the spot. waiting to drag others down
to share his fate?"
"Your Honor knows best doubt
not" said Mrs. Helmont evasively, and
plainly anxious to, escape from the
subject, shut let 1T be as it WILL Sir
Wilfred died a wild death, end he was
the OXton who brought the curse into
the family. He it was that sunk the
Black Pit, and he came to his end by
drowning, whether it was in the sea
or whether 1t was elsewhere. Not one
of his descendants, but has touched
the curse in his own time, and not one
of them has covered the span of life
allotted to man, or has died in other
than strange fashion. The good
God grant, Sir Rupert that you shall
he spared; and It may be that He will
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Rhymes for To-Day

MAN.
7 u has triumphcd over creation.
Fl He has forced his will on TIL
a brutes,
lie has fought 10 his man!
domination,
He has won his plain right to thu
fruits.
He has mastered over the ocean,
He has subjugated the air.
He has plumbed the dark secrets oil
motion
Till they drive him along anywhere
He has tunneled under the rivers,
He has fitted over the hill
OH see how the good Lord delivers
All the natural laws to MS VIII!
lie has bound the electric wave over
TO speed him along on his way,
He has talked to a wire in Dover
And his answer came back from
Cathay.
He has braved the dread lightning and
thunder.
He has charged upon peril with joy
oh, he has done many wonder
Ere he claimed the round world Tor
his toy.
He's half-god-with those shall you
find him!
With those be his splendid deeds
sung!--
But he's ne'er trained a woman to
mind him,
Or taught her to hold her blank
tongue II. 5. II.
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Voice Of the People.

The Tlmes-Dispatch will print
signed letters on all questions which
relate to the public welfare. Such
articles should not exceed in length
100 words, except under exceptional
circumstances, should be signed
with the full name OF the writer,
and should bear his or her address.
The nnmc Of the writer Will he
withheld II desired.
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HOW TO CALL TrMEs-p1sPATcH.

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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27

Few Democrats who could not posi-
bly, be nominated have failed to elicit
hearty bunch of testimonials from the
Now York World
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27

Lese majestic Is hearing Mr. Roose,
Welt say distinctly that he desires Taf
as the next President, and then going
and electing Charley Hughes.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27

One difference between John Temple
Graves present job and his old one
Is that In the old one he had small
identity of his own.
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MERELY JOKING.
HuttcrnillS,

(Which is the cow that gives the but
tcrmilk?" innocently asked tho young lady
from the city. who was inspecting the nero
With a critical eye.
Don't make yourself ridiculous" said the
young lady who had been in the country be-
fore and knew thing or two. GOATS give
ermilk."--Springheld Journal.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27

Bryan may be, as the Baltimore
American declares. IAN easy. man to
beat but we feel called upon to add
that the Democratic party has never
noticed it.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27

The Denver convention hall will
seat 1850 people--or, to put it in an
other way, 12,49o and the Ioke Smith
boom.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27

The New York Mall has decided that
the feminine of paragrapher is para
grain" VIII the gang stand for
that?
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27

Can q whale scream?" demands tho
Brooklyn Eagle, Well, IL 1t comes 70
that. can an ice-cream?
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GJbe 0imfgs , Dispatfh
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

Business oriee.........ote e, Main street.
Washington Bureau. 326-7 Munsey Building
Manchester Bureau. Hull street.
Petersburg Bureau. .... 40 n. Sycamore st.
1iynchburg BureatI...........2i5 Eighth st.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27

Personally, we consider Hall Game.
new derisiye epithet, "a hoddy doddy,'
ABOUT the best thing he ever wrote,
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WHY DON'T YOU.
TRY THE RITTERS.

and let II prove conclusiyely it's Won
derful ability to cure stomach. Liver,
M l!,y or Bowel disorderss You'll be
Try 1t sooner, Thousnnda of others
nave been cured during the past 81
years. therefore get a bottle OF the
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27

We suppose they call q newspaper
an organ when 1t Is run by crank,
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-02-27
A misunderstanding.

Manila mother-In.law had stayed SO
often with her daughter as to cause a quar-
rel with the husband. and one day. when
she again came to stay. she found her
daughter in tears on the doorstep.
| II suppose George has left you," she
shifted.
''Yes"-sob.
Then there's woman In the casc?" she
asked, her eyes lighting UP eSpectanty.
.'Yes"-sob.
Who Is it," she demanded.
"You'--sob.
"Gracious!" exclaimed the mother-in law
II am I never gave him any encour-
aeement"-The PHILIPPINE Gossip.
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Nothing In IT.

'Now. Tommy said Mrs Bull, II want
you to be good while I'm out.
| .'1ll be good for Nickel" replied Tom
my.
Tommy" she said 81 want you to re-
member that you cannot be of mine
unless you are good for nothing. Louis
Vile Courer-Journal.
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BY MAIL one s!S Three One
POSTAGE PAID Year Mos. Mos. Mo.
Daily with sunday. 5000 $500 $50 .55
Daily without sunday 800 ZOO LOO 80
sunday edition only. 200 100 80 20
Weekly wednesday, LOO 80 20 -.
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You can now go. from New York to
Jersey City by tunnel, but what is
the use?
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HOSTETTER'S
STOMACH BITTERS

to-day. It cures Poor Appetite, Head
acne, Fiatulency, Dyspepsia, Iudigcs-
tton, Colds, Grippe aud KidRey Ills.
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Rather Tedious.

Caller: do You think the doctor is go
Ing to help you. Mr.. Jones?"
Jones: He may, IL only follow his
orders. He told me to drink hot water
thirty minutes before every meal. but 1t is
hard work to drink hot water for thirty
MISUNDERSTANDING Observer.
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BY Times-Dispatch Carrier Delivery Scr
vleu in Richmond tand supurbs,, Manches-
trr and Petersburg
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An INJURY,

Bedford City, Va, February p, l!
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show mercy, II you can find wisdom,
greater than that of your forbears, and
leave the evil thing alone. SO, and
OILY So may tho cnain bo broken.
"Oh, Rupert, you will break tho
champ ''t'
my darling, will try"
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II saw the branches OF the trees
Bend down thy touch to meet;
The clover-blossoms in the grass,
Riae LID To kiss thy feet2'
Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1908-06-04
a Remarka bile Blast.

One of the methods Of quarrying
granite is TO dislodge q huge sheet
from the surface Of the formation
through the medium Of o powder
mine. A large perpendicular shaft
is first blasted to depth ofabout 80
feet. At the bottom OF this and radi-
ating horizontally. like the spokes OF
a huge wheel, long holes are drilled.
The extremities of these holes are
then shot with light charges of dyna-
mite In order 70 create chambers
large enough to receive large quaint
ties of black powder. This takes
weeks of ever.increasing charges.
Then the final charge is loaded.
The now huge chambers ut the ex
tremities OF the spokes are packed
with hundreds Of pounds of powder,
numerous electric wirse attached,
and the whole mine tamped with fine
material. A mighty roar and rumble
in the bowels of the earth and she
huge sheet is detached from the
ledge.