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The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04

The Senatorial deadlock was
declared off last Friday when ex-
Governor w. O. Bradley received
the number of votes necessary
to elect him. Four of the bolt
ing Democrats voted for Mr..
Bradley, andsthus ended one of
the warmest contests that has
been on the political checker
board for a long time, in the
State. So far as we are able to
see the Republicans have but lit
tie grounds for rejoicing, for
while the aforesaid gentleman is
a man ofsbrilliant mind, yet he is
not credited as a moralist. His
living and kreputation does not
measure up to the high standard
advocated by tn e anti-Saloon
League that has been hoodwink-
ed and led far from the realiza-
ton of its cherished dreams.
That he will ably represent the
State is not questioned by us,
and if hisspartysEis elated over
this browning freak of political
maneuvering, it matters not a
whit. The fight is over and the
Democratic nominee defeated
by Democratici deserters. Mr..
Beckham wassentitled to the sup
port of every Democratic repre-
sentative, but he tell by the way.
That the party is now freer and
stronger to go against the COM
mon foe, we do not doubt, for
every man. responsible for it's or
ganization has fallen beneath the
power of disapproval. Reorgan-
ization can not now be avoided
and no political rings are in ev-
idence. There is nothing now to
obstruct a progressive, united
movementzand bring the party
back to itsyold standing, and the
State to its proud position of
years gone by. We have no
tears to shedssover this defeat, as
tears would not change the con-
ditions, and while our sympathy
is withsthe mansswho falls under
broken party instructions, we
charge it up, not to our party,
but to the four boiling Dem
ocrats, whose. purpose seems to
be to take care of rum, gin and
brandy.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04

The Chairman of the Republi-
can Committees of the Eleventh
district will meet in Corbin next
Saturday for the purpose of fix
ing the time and'manner for NOM
mating candidate for Congress.
Hon. d. G. Edwards. the present
Representative, is the only open
candidate at this time. When
the timessandsmanner of nominal
ing has been fixed, other aspir-
ants, it is said, will enter the
contest.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04
STOCK ITEMS.

F1nis Baker and son, Sella, passed
through here last Friday enroute for
Sparksville where they had bought two
mules from Corbin & Rowe for s2s5-
Dirigo cor.
5. J. Wilson bought S shoats from,
Sam Judd for SIS; G. A. Blakemar
bought a mule from Cody Brakeman for
$125; S. Dawson sold a cow r. =
Perkins for So. Thurlow cor "
On the farm of Mr.. A. T. Sheriff.,
iast Saturday morning a eve dropped
four eve lambs. lpeo
W. 1. Mitchell bought cattle here last
week as follows: 2 head of q. n Pon Do
pleweil for $45; cow of John W;1eor
Tor SIG; l heifer of M. A. Bernard I' fn,.
$3.50; steers and heifers of w q
5ernard tor SO; l steer and / heifer Of
Mark Coffey for sA. -Eller cor.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04

The health of our neighborhood
is very bad at this writing.
Mr.. Geo. r. Redman is doing
a fine business selling goods and
tending to the new post Office.
He is a fine salesman, and all his
customers love to trade with him.
Mrs. C. C. Gentry died on the
18th day of February. She was
a victim of consumption.
Mrs Docia Conover was shop
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04

Col. John H. Ward, a native of
Greensburg. aslawyer Of ability,
died at Norton: Infrmary, Louis
vile, the city of his home, last
week. He was " years old, and
had accumulated a large estate.
During thesC Civil War he served
in the Federal army, command
ing a regiment.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04

Christian county has suffered
greatly at the hands of night
riders. Last Wednesday night
they burned the residence of
Bruce Grigory, a farmer, one
mile from Hopkinsville.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04

The Unit Bill, its provisions
.aking in the whole State, passed
the House last Thursday, the
vote being rs to IA.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04

Gov. Wilson's late message to
the Legislature urges that body
to take speedy action against the
night riders.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04
WE'D, MARCH 4, 1908.

News to indulge too often in crit
icism, and not to do so at all ex-
cept when it appears that good
may result. The truth is that it
had rather plant a flower than to
pluck one, prefers to praise rath-
er than censure, and to point out
the good instead of the bad, but
it's course leads through the I'M
pleasant as truly as through the
pleasing paths Of life, and in
both instances, in it's own way,
it tries to perform it's duty. 1t
IS not pleasant to hold up the
tendencies too bad in any of the
channels that tend to unsettle
business and picture the dark
OmenS of the near future, but
talk will not restore prosperity,
or wipe the pangs Of hunger and
fear from the thousands already
out of employment and penni-
less. 1t takes a change in the
policy that produced 1t, and the
sooner thisssis realized the sooner
the conditions will change. Dis
carding thes@cause of the panic
and present business stagnation,
the people will find that the
trouble-lis not yet over. The
Presidentsand his associates can
not escape a large share in the
responsibility, and his inclination
to direct the whole universe
seemsstosbe one of the trouble
some features that will probably
lead to worse conditions in indus
trial shrinkage and it's train of
woes that follow. The shrinkage
in railroad receipts is forcing the
companies to cut the wages of
their employees, and while this
is a condition: clearly justified
by theirgreports, yet the Pres
ident is busying himself in an in
vestigation to see if the L. & N.
Company is giving equitable
tr e TIM n TITO Its employees.
This act, thisssss position of the
President tends to bring resist
ance from the many employed,
and possibly plunging this coun-
try into the.sdeepest and most
fearful labor.troubles ever known
in the historylof railroading. If
a strike is averted it will be by
the wise andsscool heads that con-
troll the org a nj "a tions. Mr..
Roosevelt Ecourse certainly is
not in keeping with the best in
terest of the country, the en-
ployer or employee. It's encour-
aging resistance by organized la
Dor unions to conditions over
which the railroad companies
can not control. When receipts
fall below expenses a reduction
is inevitable, and the reports of
the L. &sN., have reached that
stag e.stNo reasonable man
would want more for his time
than it is producing results for
his employer, whether it be a
corporation or an individual, but
with Presidential stimulation
with the big stick policy over
railroads ostensibly in the inter-
est of employees, it tends to make
the reasonable unreasonable, to
spur up antagonism and produce
fearful results. Mr.. Roosevelt.
while doing many good things,
spoils them all with the bad.
Watch the President and see if
this is true.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04

l have lot of mems and boys long
Ulster overcoats that amclosing out
at cost. If w. Z. Walker.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04
ping at Roy the 18th.


Mr.. James Order, who is
eighty-four years old, carries the
mail from Ozark to Roy. Three
cheers for uncle Jim.
Miss Effie Conover is talking
of visiting Texas in the near flu
ture.
We had very nice snow the
9th. It looked like Winter all
right enough.
Mr.. Elmor Bryant, w. T. Col
Inns and Tom Order will leave
for Illinois the End day of March.
Our roads are almost impassa-
BILE at this time.
Mr.. Henry Royse was in Co.
lumbia last week.
Mrs. Docia Conover visited her
mother, near Este, last Saturday
and Sunday.
Squire S. P. Sullivan and
daughter, Miss Lizzie, spent
Thursday at Columbia.
The Adair County news. [volume] (Columbia, Ky.) 1897-1987, 1908-03-04

WANTED:-A good hand. Apply 8
Columbia Hotel.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19
PEONAGE

TOHN D. ROCKEFELLER, JR., is
indignant because a newspaper
- with a reputation for irresponsi-
hility and sensationalism accused him
of "peonage." Apparently he lays too
much stress on the meaning of the
word. Why, almost every citizen of
the United States who is working for
wages which are arbitrarily fixed for
him, conditioned by the phrase take
the job at my terms or starve," is vir-
tually in a condition of peonage. Every
now and then some of our radical
friends raise howl about wage slav-
cry" but the wage payers do not arrest
the audiences which applaud the term
or the representatives. of the newspa-
pers which print it.
John D. junior is a weak and blum
dering politician, or else he has been
fooled by some enterprising counselor
eager for a big fee, because Rockefel-
ler's alleged peonage-the system of
hiring cheap labor for the Corn Prod
ucts Refining company's plants not
any worse or better than the system Of
hiring gangs of men practiced by rail-
roads and other large employers of Ia
Dor. Everything of course depends on
the point of view. 1t might be said a
large proportion of the population of
the United States is in a condition of
peonage, because it must work for an
other and smaller portion of the popu-
lation or be starved by that other and
smaller portion of the population.
Sir John Lubbock said peonage exists
among the ants, and he was greatly
excited, because he declared it demon
strated that they possessed almost hui
man intelligence! Young Rockefeller
should inform himself on the subject
before he makes up his mind he is
libeled by the assertion that the system
with which he is connected and for
which he and his relatives are partly
responsible furnishes demonstration in
the United States of what in a less
verbally squeamish country would un-
doubtedly be called "peonage"
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19
DIRECT PRIMARIES

Il T is late in the day to argue for or
against direct primaries or to dis
n cuss the question of the success of
the system. What is the use of vast
ing time over debating this system
when every schoolboy knows it has
been successful wherever introduced,
and that in some parts of the United
States it has been yielding excellent re-
suits for many years? Some people
write about the direct primary as if it
were a startling and shocking innova-
ton, which might shake the United
States, destroy business, give the eoun-
try to the radicals, and dethrone the
reason of the conservatives.
1t certainly would have a most un-
mistakable and arfsimmediate effect on
politics. The push" would be pushed
over the precipice and into the abyss
.of innocuous oblivion by the people
and Americanisrn would be substituted
in American governmental processes
for the anarchy-suggestin disorder
which marks electoral methods. Gov
ernment should be of the people, for
the people and by the people. Candi-
dates should b. nominated by the peo-
ple. The day will come when an en-
iightened public win not be content tc
accept organization nominees and ma
chine-made candidates, and will lnsisi
on nominating popularity and electine
fairly men to guard legislative inter
ests.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19
HERALp,s CHRISTMAS

n UBLIC INTEREST in The Herald's
Christmas festivity for boys and
4 girls is a satisfactory and con-
vincing proof of The Herald's big cir
culation and influence. It is q satisfac-
tory and convincing proof of the pros
perity of Los Angeles. It is also a
satisfactory and convincing proof of the
kind heartedness of the men and
women whose business ability makes
Los Angeles the most thriving, pro-
gressive and prosperous city on the
west coast.
The entire membership of the Produce
exchange is now enlisted in the good
cause, and the membership list contains
the names Of many leading business
men of Los Angeles. Business leaders
in other lines of industry are also in
terested in the festivity, and the Christ
mas spirit animates Los Angeles.
The Christmas spirit is akin to that
which says: Boost Los Angeles, and
don't be afraid to say good words for
your neighbor. Added prosperity for
one will mean added prosperity for all"
Readers all over the United States will
read accounts of the Christmas fes-
tivity which is being prepared for the
children by the generosity Of the busi-
ness community, under the stewardship
of Los Angeles Herald. The Christmas
dinner and entertainment will be held
Simpson auditorium and the citizens
Of Los Angeles will find there the most
heart warming and inspiring festivity
in all California.
The Herald thanks all who have made
contributions or subscriptions and in
answer to the question we still some-
times hear-"Well. but what do you
want? What can we send ?'-we reply,
"Send whatever you feel like sending,
and If your gift would be obviously in
appropriate, If. for instance, you are an
architect and could not very well send
a house and lot, send a subscription
which will purchase or help purchase
something which can be used"
For instance, shoes are needed, and
of this the frosty weather should be
sharp reminder. Think of the poor
little boys and girls of Los Angeles
who have to go out barefooted on these
mornings, when there is
a skim of ice on pools of water,
and 1t looks as ~ Santa Claus were
making a desperate effort to give our
land of sunshine something distinctly
a genuine, old fashioned
"the kind for which mother
used to dress the tree" back home, |
when the sleighbells were jingling and
the roses bloomed on the cheeks and
noses of the hardy eastern lasses.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19
POLISH MOROCCO WORKERS
FOUND SLAIN IN DELAWARE
Brother of One of Victims Finds Mutt
lated Bodies in 5ed-Chil-
dren Sleep Near, Un-
harmed

WILMINGTON, Del, Dec. 1S-Wi-
cent? Floriezik, a Polish morocco work
er, and his wife were slain by an un-
known assassin at their home early
today.
Their lifeless bodies were found in
separate beds today by Alexander Flor
iezik aged is, a brother of the mur-
dered man and lodger at the house,
who is detained pending an investiga-
tion.
Alexander told the police when he
went home late last night he was un-
able to gain admittance. He went to
the house this morning and was
shocked at finding the bodies. He said
the two young children had not been
molested.
An infant was in crib between the
beds occupied by the parents.
Both of the victims had been hacked
about the face with a hatchet The
murder is thought to have been COM
mitted for revenge.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19
BODY GARBAGE CANS WORSE
THAN ALLEY KIND FOR DISEASE

Los ANGELES, Dec. 1S.-GEditor
Herald: Your plan to fight tubercu-
losis is less than half the story. When
we realize that the garbage cans in the
center of our bodies are more danger
Gus than those in the rear OF our
houses we will have learned the i'm
portant part of the lesson on SANTA
tion. When will the public be aroused
to the fact that what we eat ana
drink is of the highest importance?
There is no hope for the medical trust
to be led into this truth, they must
be forced into it by public opinion.
In the search for deadly" germs and
antitoxins the M, DIS have lost sight
of simple, natural methods of living.
They go on stuffing an overWOrked,
rebellious stomach which needs only
rest and a few simple foods to put 1t
into shape to clean out the fermenting,
foul smelling garbage can in the CEN
ter of the body. By the use of proper
cure baths and exposure Of the skin
to sunlight and air the cleansing pro-
cess and cure is made more sure and
speedy; then by just d sufficient guam
tity of simple foods, mainly uncooked,
the body need not become encumbered
again. Tuberculosis is a final stage in
universal eneumbrance of the body
with morbid matter and is an attempt
on the part of the lungs Gn cases of
pulmonary tuberculosis) to throw off
solid or mi-solid effluvia when their
function is to expel only volatile pol
sons. Outraged nature thus tries to
rid the system of loads of effete mat
ter through the lungs, which should
have been expelled through the skin,
bowels and kidneys.
If the legislature can be induced to
make an appropriation for the physi-
clans who use a sane and simple diet,
no drugs or tuberculin along with good
things used by M. DIS we will make
tuberculosis past history. Let the
state establish two small sanitariums,
equally well located and equipped, one
to be conducted by doctors using nat
ural methods and the other by the M.
DIS. This would demonstrate which
is the more efficacious and be highly
to the people.
GORDON G. IVES, D. o.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19
WELCOME LEAGUE

TOR business as well as moral rea-
sons the organization of Busi-
Il ness Mems Anti-Race Track Gam
bling league will be welcomed by all
who have at heart the best interests of
Los Angeles and Southern California.
Gambling injuries business not only
by tempting young men and inducing
them to commit business Irregularities
and even crimes, but by introducing into
the economic world an equilibrium-dis-
turbing condition of unknown and prac-
tically immeasurable potency for evil.
To offset this deleterious quantity
there is nothing in the way of social or
other advantage which may be pleaded.
Race track gambling is utterly indie
fensible. 1t cannot make a convincing
or even plausible answer to the numer-
Gus accusations which are hurled at 1t
by the responsible and careful members
of the community, and by the mothers,
wives and sweethearts whose wishes in
this as well as in other matters should
be respected. If we cannot allow
women to vote we should at any rate
treat with respectful consideration their
expressed opinions on any subjects
which may be affected by the votes of
the franchised class, and women who
are home-makers and ome-gracers are
practically unanimous In their desire to
have gambling banished from the state
of California. To persist in maintain
ing this nuisance which they detest is
far from chivalrous. We believe a ma
jority of voters and all the women will
support the league.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19
GAMBLING

TN RESPONSE to the best public
opinion the supervisors have adopt
\ ed an ordinance prohibiting pool
rooms throughout Los Angeles county.
The ordinance makes it a misdemeanor
punishable by $500 fine or six months
Imprisonment in the county Jail, to con-
duct in the county poolrooms or places
where betting or the business of laying
wagers on races is carried on. Selling
pools or making books on races or
other contests is also prohibited. Every
person, whether agent or principal, is
forbidden to engage in such business.
Property owners or agents will be held
responsible for permitting business of
the prohibited description to be carried
on within their premises. The leasing
of wires for poolroom purposes or the
transmission Of poolroom messages over
wires is also forbidden. The state and
the communities in the state should be
harmonious agents of good in the anti
gambling movement. Call it -"crusade"
If you will. 1t is possible to Danish
gambling from the state. By this ban
ishment it is possible to restore peace
and comfort to many homes, to safe
guard many families, to give many a
child a better chance in life, to make
many a woman happier. Why should
there be any more hesitation over
stamping out gambling than there is
over stamping out smallpox? A moral
disease is surely as bad as a physical
disease, and even as a physical disease
marks the body, moral disease marks
the character. We could easily stop
the ravages Of moral plaques We
could easily prevent many poor Great
ures from being marked for life
morally. The anti-gambling movement
in Southern California is fairly be-
gun. There must be no abatement of
zeal until the state is redeemed from
this disgrace. And one form of
gambling is as bad as another We
are not discriminating against any par
ticular manifestation of the disease.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19
SUGGESTS REVOLUTION IN
CONVENTIONAL MORAL CODE

LONG BEACH, Dec. 13.-[Editor
Herald: There is a vast amount OF
good in the world. There is a deal OF
evil. The good is in individual men
and women. The evil in institutions
organizations, isms, etid, The poor old
wrangling world of trade, politics, So
ciety and theology has slipped its moral
moorings. 1t has lost its power to dis
criminate between what Is right and
what Is wrong. 1t has set up wooden
images in the market place, in the
pulpit. in society, in every spot where
human thought or human activity finds
a field of action, and demands that we
fall down and worship these idols, CIV
ing men no alternative but to go to
quad or hell.
Convention has taken the place of
conscience, and there is no cure for our
malady in church or In socialism or in
Immanuelism or Eddyism.
We talk about purity. We don't
know what it is. Our portraiture of II
is caricature. We would not know ii
if we met 1t on the street. It's an un-
known quantity, except in the persons
of some shriveled and disappointed old
maids here and there.
We need q revolution in our teaching
of morals. We need to cut "conven-
tionalism" from our books, from our
journals, our thinking and our teach
ing.
We need a discovery of what is right,
intrinsically right, and what is wrong
then force it into our study and our
lives. We shall make mistakes, but
our present way is all a mistake, and
our patent remedies are an attempt tc
stay Niagara with a mop. Byron
touches the sore when he proclaims:
Truth a gem that loves the deep
And all things weighed in customs falses
scale.
Opinion an omnlpotence, whose veil man
ties the earth with darkness until righ
and wrong accidents and men grow
pale
bright,
Their free thoughts crimes. and earth hav,
too much light.
SENEX,
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19
EDUCATION

nIHASF observe the ballot now be-
ing printed for The Herald'S
4 Aiaskan-Yukon-P Pacific voting con
test is limited by a stated date. 80
turn to the page on which the an
nouncement is made, fill in the name
of the school teacher of your choice on
the coupon. send it to the Los Angeles
Herald office and do it now"
Citizens can show their appreciation
of the school teachers and the excel
lent school system of California by
casting ballots for the teachers, twelve
of whom will make the trip to the
great Alaska Yukon Pacific exposi l.
tion to be held at Seattle, Wash, June
to October Is, 1909. Six will be
chosen from Los Angeles counay'
three from the city of Los Angeles
and three from the county at large
outside the city, and one in each in
stance will be chosen from San Ber-
nardino, Orange, Santa Barbara, Riv-
erside. Kern and Ventura counties.
We have talked in these columns
about the educational advantage Of
this tour. Now let us be patriot1cally
mercenary. Let us refer to the adver-
tising this tour will give the educational
system of Southern California. If you
have been a reader of this news
paper for a few months past you have
undoubtedly seen the statement made
that Southern California, whatever
else it may become or may not be-
come, will most undoubtedly be the
literary. musical, art and EDUCA-
TIONAL center of the United States.
This will be its destiny because all his
tory shows arts, science, literature and
education flourish in climates like that
which we enjoy. Italy, like Califor-
MIA, was the home of the grape,
but it produced scholarship as well as
Falernian wine, and the literati of the
old world for years made Italy their
headquarters. The drift of the literati
of the new world is to Southern Cali
fornia. Here the muses. will abide.
Here education will be the foremost,
as It is today from many points of
view the most important of the in
dustries of Southern California. The
tour will advertise this fact to
all the world.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-12-19

International complications have fol-
lowed less important events than the
wrecking of Sarabia's plant at Tucson,
Arizona. An investigation of the af-
fair may lead to disclosures fraught
with serious consequences. 1t is high
time for a reassertion of the principle
that America is a refuge for the poll
tically oppressed of all nations. 1t looks
as If American prestige had been weak
ened by the unwarranted detention of
the Mexican patriots in Los Angeles
and elsewhere.