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Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Paw Is Poor

No one who understands the situa-
ton need wonder that the government
finds it extremely difficult-in fact,
impossible-to Leep the army and navy
recruited up to the full complement of
officers and men provided by law and
required by the service. Particularly
is this true of the army.-Oakland
Enquirer.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18

Prosecuting Attorney Woolwine's de-
cision that druggists must not sell
malt will make the dry districts of Los
Angeles drier than ever. Various drug
stores were oases for the thirsty
because they sold malt, on Sundays as
well as week days. This alleged tenn
perance beverage is more intoxicating
than beer.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Are We Civilized?

I ong the unaccountable myriads of
living creatures that swim in earth's
oceans, there is no civilization. The
dominion belongs to the swift, the
strong, the ferocious. Among the wild
beasts of the desert or the wilderness
the overcomer is the ruler A state of
barbarism is one where the law of the
ocean and of the jungle prevails. The
big. the strong, the able, is the ruler of
the small. the weak and the helpless
San Jose Mercury.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18

Officers of the Democratic club are
determined to stamp out gambling, no
matter under what specious name it
may be disguised. If it should become
evident that a measure less heroic and
thorough will be disregarded, the club
management may propose the adoption
of rule forbidding card playing of all
kinds, whether for pastime or money.
They will thus avoid even the appear
ance of evil
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18

DR.. Robert Koch, the German scien-
tist, has to leave Chicago in order to
escape the urgent hospitality of that
village. We advise him to come to Los
Angeles. Here our hospitality is more
than equal to that os any eastern city,
but less bizarre and boisterous and
more suited to men os scholarly refine
mont
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
COLOR SONG: RED

Ask the poppies who I am,
Ask ruby for my name,
Ask the crimson waves that flow
Past the silent House Of Shame.
Ask the blood that stains the snow
Beg a rose to ope her mouth,
Where she swoons all drugged by me
On the bosom of the south.
Ask the scarlet birds that fly
Tinted shadows through the dusk.
Ask a woman's painted lips,
Velvet petals dewed with musk
Ask the sunset ere 1t dies
Once my secret name to tell,
Ask a devil, ask a saint,
Ask of God and ask Of Hell.
Sullivan, in Appletons Magazine
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
State Press Echoes
Likewise the Shinale

The Sacramento Union points out that
if the trees are all chopped down in the
next fifty years the old fashioned wood
shed where our parents used to paddle
us will have to go too.-Bakerstield
EchO.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18

Governor Hoke Smiths Georgia con-
stituents are too impulsively generous.
1t is all very well to hand man a
lemon, but when he is bombarded
with the fruit, as Smith was, he may
think the hospitality too lavish Some
officials manage to tumble into the
soup. 1t is evident the once-popular
Hoke is in the lemonade
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18

Giving trading stamps at the church
door to induce people to go to church
is new thing in church matters, yet
this method is being resorted to in
some churches in Colorado and in at
least one chufch in Oakland.-Tulare
Advance.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Huqe old China

The extent of the yellow peril can
be appreciated when it is considered
that the total area of China. with its
dependencies is 4,234,91O square miles,
and an estimated population of $685.
$50 00.-Oakland Enquirer.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
THE CITY HUNTER

There was a city man and he had little
gun
And his bullets were made of lead;
He saw by the brook domestcated duck
And he shot 1t right thro' the head.
A little calf he saw and he shot away It's
jaw,
And pretty little colt stood near,
So he shot the little colt. and he gave
Jolt
With buckshot load in her ear.
He shot little pig and turkey on twig
And a dozen laying hens, more or less,
And an old blind mare: and he said he
didn't care.
And he had perfect right, guess.
Newark News.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Hobson's Choice

Two monster battleships Wen build.
For such is congress- voice;
The destiny of the nation hlled
BY taking Hobson's choice.
Grass Valley Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Won't BE Lonely

The Taft delegates from California
will find plenty of other delegates of the
same mind when they reach Chicago
San Diego Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18

Some of the fleet decorations and
nautical scenic effects in downtown
show windows prove that as city of
art, artists and ingenuity Los Angeles
is unrivale1
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Larue Woodpile

our forests may be depleted, but the
stock of presidential timber seems to be
as large as eVer.-FreSno Herald.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Not on Your Lifel

The United States is again to be con-
fronted, it seems, with the problem OF
annexing or protecting" an alien peo-
pie. 1t is limited it would be proper
thing for the United States to establish
a protectorate and preserve order
among the colored people in Hayti.-
Fresno Republican.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Rest for the WearX

1t is said that Prince de Sagan and
his Anna will soon be wed near Paris.
1t is to be hoped so. The dear public
would so enjoy a rest from the whole
=? - - 1! Gould family.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Ask the Referee

Anna Gould is going to be a June
bride, a dispatch says. When are they
designated December brides, il ever?-
Bakersfield Californian.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Changes

Church: Don't you notice change in our
winters?"
Gotham: Sure! Coal sooms to be much
higher l'-Yonkers Statesman
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Reneflts of smoklna

Bacon: do you think smoking is inju-
rious ?"
Egbert; ION the contrary, ! think II i'm
proves hams"-Yonkers Statesman.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Assassination

We often hear people say that they
do not care for games, shows or sem
sational novels, but 1t helps to kill
time. 1t is too valuable an article to
kill-WhitJier News.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
Friendly Suggestion

Emperor Menelik is said to be in fin
ancial straits. He should send over a
few princes to the United States, and
grab a few milliOnairesses before the
supply gives out.-Sacraniento Union.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
More

A mans fool friends cause him al
most as much trouble as his wise en-
emies.-San Luis Obispo Tribune.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18
BusjnessIike ReliQion

Sacramento Bee.
Los Angeles herald., 1908-04-18

Tomorrow-The Last of the shoguns
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

This paper is waiting the record
which shall prove the proud boast
of his admirers that Governor john
son is any great shakes as an execu-
tive officer of the state. He has had
four years of it, and backed by a
legislature that raised his pay and
gave him free hand and results
ought to be showing up. If a farm
er in this county set himself up to
be the best one in the world every
neighbor would insist on seeing
the crops or herds that made the
claim good. A great statesman
ought to have bumper crop of &C
complishments but it really looks as
though Johnson's wouldn't go five
bushels to the acre or grade better
than rejected.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

1t would be mistake to vote for
Jacobson and also vote to send a
member to St. Paul to check and
thwart anything of value he may
seek to obtain next winter for the
people of the state. The Republi-
cans gave johnson everything he
asked for, but you may just as well
conclude that Jacobson will receive
no support from the party of Nc
Dermott, Keefe and johnson.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

In a national way Joe Cam on
seems to be the main issue. Wher-
ever a Republican wants to break
into Congress over the west he
pitches into the corn fed statesman
from Illinois and pledges himself to
oppose his being Speaker any more.
Whereverssa Democrat is in training
he cusses Cannon and discussed the
relations between Joe and his oppo-
nent. In this state both Tawney and
Bede are targets within and with
out their party on the Cannon issue.
Down in the Second district the
schoolmaster' friends are stating
that Nc. doesn't love Joe any longer
and that, if elected, he will not play
in the speakers back yard. Lets
see! Two years is long ago and we
don't live in the Second and won't
until the next apportionment, when
we expect to mix with it again, but
we seem to remember that before
the primary that year great point
was made that Mac had the conf
dence and friendship of Uncle Joe
and the steering committee and
could do immensely more than any
fellow who did not know the charmed
circle about the speakers chair
That it would be quite an awful
thing for the seekers for plums anc
public buildings if the "deestrict'
lost the value of that intimate &C.
quaintance and devoted love that
Cannon and Mac had for each other
Too bad that it sizzled then to die
out now.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16
Concerning Women.

Branch No. % of the National
Association Of Letter Carriers (St.
Paul, Mimi, has endorsed woman
suffrage. Letter carriers, officially
and unofficially. almost always favor
woman suffrage. probably because
they come into close contact with
the homes and realize the industry
and devotion of the home-makers.
The women of France who are the
cutters of precious stones get about
S1.80 a day. This is the highest
wage paid to women of that country
while the lowest wage, so cents, is
paid to dressmakers. There are
IA, 100000 adult women in France
and they are just beginning to real
ize their need of political enfranch-
isement from an industrial stand
point.
| Rev. Anna Howard Shaw is spend
ing her summer in Geneva. Switzer-
land. She will return in time to
preside at the National Convention
of Woman's Suffragists at Buffalo,
Oct. 18th. Carrie Chapman Gait,
president of the international Wo-
man Suffrage Alliance, will spend
September and October speaking in
Holland and Denmark.
The inconsistencies of the logical
sex that governs us are often truly
illuminating. A little while ago a
woman in Chicago was arrested and
fined for wearing trousers while she
was earning an honest living as a
hod-carrier in which useful service
she found bifurcated garment most
convenient. On the other hand,
there is a new ruling in the general
department relating to mail carriers
in which it is held that when women
are employed in that capacity they
must wear trousers. Such arbitrary
decisions in both instances upon So
Der thinking are unjust and unrea-
sonable.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

ed to know who it did not jump
on to the opposition harder. The
Gazette does not intend to make a
personal attack on candidates. 1t
will endeavor to say nothing against
any one politically that is not war
ranted5by the facts. The editor likes
Governor johnson as a man and a
lecturer and is willing to say so. He
does not think he has made such a
success of his office as to entitle him
another term and has tried to show
the reasons for his belief. On the
legislative situation this paper will
not attack the personal standing of
the Democratic nominee. 1t will
admit that as private citizen anc a
business man he is worthy of esteem.
1t does not admire his political rec
ord and will from time to time point
out it is open to objection. If this
is tame our issues will not be lively.
There will be no mud throwing from
this side to please anybody. If the
truth makes anyone squirm that will
be his misfortune and not our fault.
And further, if at any time we make
any statement that is not warranted
by the facts this paper will correct
it at once.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

didates over and vote for the best
man, even though he never asks you
to do it.
And after you have made up your
mind that it is unreasonable and I'M
wise to vote for any candidate for
no better reason than he has seen
you and the others haven't, do lit
tie missionary work with your neigh
bors until a sentiment is worked up
that the fellow who leaves home and
businesssto galIop over the country
may be just the worst man to vote
for, and you will have made the
primary less of a farce than you
know it now to be. It's come to
stay, and now turn in and help to
make-it a real deliberative choice OF
fitness for public position to be
nominated at one.
And finally don't assume that be-
cause some other fellow beat you
out by few or even quite number
of votes, it shows that you are I'M
popular, for it doesn't do anything
of the sort. The reasons leading one
to favor one candidate over another
are often but slight and the voter is
often forced to and does vote for
one friend against another he likes
lust as well. Keep a stiff upper lip
and you will be the winner in losing.
You know more about the county
and it's people than you could have
known by living in it fifty years
without running for office; you have
met hundreds of fellows you liked,
even if some of them did promise to
vote for you and also for the other
fellow too, and you know it is one OF
the best counties in the state and g
mighty good one to live in without
any "oficial pap"
You have the right to keep your
ambition and run again and you
have the right to quit the game fol
good and people will respect yor
either way, but no one cares much
for the squealer and kicker. Ane
the topper who skips out and in ha'
no hold on anybody. Hence smile
and look pleasant and take YOU
medicine like man.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16
than rejected.

We were wondering what line of
attack the Denis would have against
the Republican nominee. We have
heard that he is to be charged as an
enemy to education. The charge
must be true as he introduced and
fought for the bill to give to the
child of the poor free text books.
This is proof positive and ought to
array against him every laboring
vote and the school-ma ans of the
state.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

Free Silver, Free Trade, Govern
ment Ownership, Imperialism, by
turns have been sacred issues of
William Jennings Bryan within the
last twelve years. Every blessed
one of them are consigned to the
rubbish heap in this campaign. A
sacred principle ought to wear bet
for
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16
Vote 1t Down.
Communicate

Communicated.
A few days ago a young man OF
Oskaloosa committed suicide IN the
streets of that city, while intoxicat-
ed. The father Of the young man
sent letter to, the pastor of the
Methodist church in which he laid
the charge of his sons death at the
door of the church. The letter said
the church people of this county are
responsible for my sons death, he
having an uncomfortable appetite
for liquor, which was the cause of
his death. Had the church people
exercised their authority by ballot,
and had not given their consent for
| LIQUOR to be sold here, his death
would not have occurred DR.. Allen
read the letter to his people on Sun
day morning, and made an appeal
for funds to fight the saloon. In re-
Spouse the church arose and pleeged
over their signatures more than
1000 for the work.
The alcoholic liquor traffic is a de-
stroyer of life Probably every
reader of these lines can of his own
personal knowledge remember in
cidents where the saloon has caused
the death of one or two persons.
Not only the inebriate who has
shuffled off this mortal coil through
the agony of tremens or disease
which his weakened organism was
unable to throw off, but also TRACE
dies too numerous, terrible and yet
common to warrant enumeration.
1t is nothing short of imbecility to
hope to settle the liquor problem by
going to the vendor of the liquor
poison with moral suasion, showing
him the evil that comes from his
business, the death and destruction
that follow in it's train. and plead
with him in the name of humanity
to give his business up. 1t may
settle the saloon business for an IN
dividual saloonkeeper, but as he,
penitent and repenting, vacates his
location, another embarks in the
same place. The business must be
voted down, outlawed, banished by
the government.
Before | entered upon my official
duties as governor, while | was a
strong temperance man, was in no
sense of the word a prohibitionist,
1 believing that a state prohibition
law was of doubtful utility. But
after year as chief executive | am
an intense prohibitionist, having
been made so by the mothers, wives
and children who have come to my
office for the purpose, of securing
pardons or stay of execution for
their sons, husbands, fathers in
many instances for murders COM
mitted, in nearly all cases while UNI
der the influence of whiskey. Coy
ernor C. C. Conner of Alabama.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

The public knows the candidates
selected at the secluded county con-
vention at Sanborn but does not
know what, if any, declaration of
principles that party made. Per-
haps the party has no principles and
and so kept shady.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

Despite the handicap of being a
presidential son-in-law, Nick Long
worth has said good thing when he
stated that Taft was running on his
record and Bryan away from his.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16
KEEP YOUR TEMPER DOM GET SORE.

At the time this editorial is writ
ten the result of the primary is not
known and so we have no particular
person in mind. This paper will be
read when the result of the primary
election has been declared
On some of the local offices several
candidates have been working, spend
ing more money than they could af-
ford to spend and giving time that
would have brought good financial
returns had the same energy been
used to advance any private business.
It's natural, in the first heat of dis
appointment, to be angry-don't
give way to it.
The primary was meant to and
does take the nomination away from
the politicians and give it to the
people and thpl is not much use in
getting angry at everybody living in
your county, or even a majority of
them. Ed Young said at the late
state convention that he had noticed
that man was never so popular in
a convention as when he had just
beeh whipped by it.
And this is true with the people.
A great many of them, if a candi-
date does not loose his head but
keeps his temper and bows grace
fully to the verdict of the primary,
likes him better than they ever did
before. A defeat this time may be
but prelude to victory the next.
And even if you decide the game is
not worth the candle and resolve
that in the future you will let poll
tics alone as a means of making a
living land there is a lot of sense in
taking that position, for politics does
not pay) the good will and esteem of
the people with whom you are going
to live is an asset in business every
time.
And don't bolt the party because
this time they passed you by. In
the first place it doesn't pay for dis
appointed office seekers have been
boiling for fifty years while the
party keeps right on, and in the
next place, with all it's faults it is a
better party than any other to which
you might go.
1t is unfortunate to all candidates
that it is necessary to go to the ex-
pense of making so great canvass
but at present that seems to be de-
manded if one wants to be considered
You can help remedy this matter by
resolving for one that hereafter the
"glad hand" and personal visit will
help no future candidate; that as 9
citizen you will look the list of can
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

Many people suffer great deal from Kid
new and bladder troubles. During the past
few years much of this complaint has been
m ade unnecessary by the use of DeWltt's
kidney and Bladder Pills They are antisep-
tic. are highly recommended for weak back
back ache, rheumatic pains, Inflammation
of the bladder and all other annoyances due
to weak kidneys. They are sold by e. A.
Luscher. Sept
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

1t is not pitching into a fellow to
Judge him by his friends. One may
always be judged by the company
he trains with. No man is ever
much wiser or better than the aver
age of his intimate friends.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

The good people of Seaforth drove
out one game warden Of Keefe's
selection and Johnson's appointment
by getting after his game.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1908-09-16

One of our Democratic friends
told The Gazette man that our paper
was pretty tame" and rather want
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-05-13
TO MOVE BENNING
 RAGE TRACK NOW

Wa~Aia-ten. May 12.-The final ac- r:au of congress toward abolishing bet ,inZ on horse races at the BenninS track and prohibiting gambling ill the District of Columbia was taken today, when the house, under suspension Of the rules. agreed to the senate amend .neuts 70 the bill. which as introduced provided for the widening of Bennins road and the anti-gambling provision was inserted as a rider.
 The usual roll-call was avoided, Mr. Williams. of Mississippi, the minority leader. remarked that inasmuch as 1t was a meritorius measure he would not insist on roll-call
 The vote practically was unanimous.
 Latterly there was no opposition to the bill by the Washington Jockey club. which owns the Benning race course. as it is stated by one of the members of the club that it will merely move the track quarter of mile across the Maryland line, where it is stated an even better course can be procured.
Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1908-05-13
RAID SOFT DRINK
 KNOXVILLE PLACES

Knoxville. Tenn. May 12.-hnoNvl!le soft drink places were raided on or lers of Police Chief Chandler.
 This morning County Court Clerk John NJ. CuIrier. at the instigation of Revenue Agent A. s. Birdsong and J. Frank White issued distress warran. for Ike Capps soft drink place t9r license for selling whiskey, and at tached the place for the amount of license and penalty due, amounting to S2.70o. This place is incorporated, and all the fixtures Were attached. Capps' place was raided Saturday night, 140 gallons of whiskey being seized.
 Chief Chandler this morning raided the Imperial hotel bar, or the Speak easy" and the case will be tried soon It is said several. men were in the room al the time the raid was made but went out the back door. Other raids will follow