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The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-11
ANOTHER CASE IN POINT
What Mckenzie, Tennessee, Has Elk
perienced as Results of No
Saloon Policy

The Nashville TenneSsean in an edi-
torial recites the results of nine years
of local Prohibition in Mckenzie, Tenn.
1t says:
Despite the dismal prophecies of va
cant houses, decreased property values
and business stagnation, the result has
been just the opposite. Property values
have increased so percent, fourteen bust
ness houses have been erected and sixty
nine residences built. Merchants agree
that business is better and collecting
easier. A waterworks system has been
installed, streets have been graveed and
graded, concrete sidewalks laid in half
the business sections, and two modern
cotton ginning plants, large warehouse
and $4,000 public school building have
been put up. The Mckenzie Home Tel
ephone company is putting in a plant,
the three banks report four times as
much on deposit as nine years ago.
"As to arrests and crime generally,
the record shows that there were in
three years with saloons, ninety-six
more arrests than in nine years without
saloons, and that while there were over
a dozen murders in Mckenzie in twenty
years prior to the doing away with sa-
looms, there has not been one in the past
nine years.
can interesting item of progress
among the negroes is noted in the fact
that thirty-four colored people have
bought homes since the saloons went
out"
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-11
A Good Templar Reception

The Good Templars of New York city
and vicinity held public reception in
honor of the international officers and
delegates and visitors en- route to the
international Supreme Lodge at Wash
ington, on the evening of May 80. The
reception was held in the Metropolitan
Temple The chairman of the meeting
was Grand Chief Templar Lefhngwell.
DR.. Chas. H. Mead and the Rev. Mon
tague Shipn2an, assistant pastor of the
Temple, delivered addresses of welcome,
and responses were made by Interna-
tional Chief Templar Edward Wavrin-
sky of Stockholm, Joseph Mains, past
international chief templar of Birming-
ham, Eng, Colonel B. F. Parker, inter-
national secretary, and George F. Cot
terill, national grand templar of Seattle.
Representatives were present from In
dia, Australia and almost every country
of Europe.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-11
Personal Liberty
From the Chattanooga Star.]

From the Chattanooga Star.l
The personal liberty plea that is now
being worked so assiduously by the
liquor gang is about the most hypo-
critical of all that have ever been put
forth in that interest.
Who loses his liberty so quickly and
completely as the one who drinks? Who
becomes so veritable slave to appe-
tite and passion as the victim of the
liquor traffic? Who suffers so thorough
a change from noble manhood to AFFECT
debasement and cringing servitude to
all that is low and vile as the one that
INDUCES his personal liberty" most in
drink?
This is the kind of personal liberty"
that the liquor traffic would perpetuate,
and yet it is one of the most fiendish,
the most hellish in its enslaving power
that ever cursed the sons Of man.
There's no darker tyranny, no fouler
wrong that can be inflicted on man.
kind, and it is freedom from these evils
and a thousand others of similar ma
ture that Prohibition promises to long
suffering people, Which liberty is
preferable2
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-11

clamor and the politicians, as soon as they
became convinced that such course could be
followed with safety, began to play into the
hands of the liquor interests. Under the
leadership of A. B. Cummins, who is now the
Republican governor of Iowa, faction of the
Republican party joined with the Democrats
and elected governor the notorious anti
Prohibitionist, Horace Boes II refutes the
story of the treason of the Prohibtionists to
the Prohibition principle to note that in that
year only thirteen hundred men voted the
Prohibition ticket. All the rest of the Pro-
hibitionsts of Iowa supported the Republican
candidate, and two years later in 1891, when
Boies reelected against Republican op-
ponent who was squarely committed to Prohi
biton, only 915 men voted the Prohibition
ticket.
All this time it needs to be remembered
that outside pressure was being brought to
bear upon the politicians of Iowa. Their fell
low partizans in national politics kept it before
their minds that the devotion of the Republican
party to Prohibition in the state of Iowa was con-
sidered a reflection upon their Republicanism.
Particularly Senator Allison, who at that time
had Presidential aspirations, was worked upon
with this idea, and in the fall of 1891, at
dinner party at the home of Senator Catch,
what known as the Gatch-Alson plot was
entered into, to repeal the prohibitory law and
enact a high-license statute. This was at
tempted in the winter of 1892, but failed. But
the attempt met with so little resentment at
the hands of the people of Iowa that the Re-
publican party became convinced that it could
hold the moral element of the state without
loyalty to the Prohibition law. The result was
the adoption of resolution in the Republican
convention of 1898, declaring that "Prohibi
tonism is not test of Republicanism. In
that year the Republicans returned to power,
Frank B. Jackson being elected governor, and
Immediately proceeded not to repeal the Prohi-
bition law, which they did not dare do, but to
enact the so-called mulct law by the terms of
which, in effect, the payment of fine or mulct
in advance becomes bar to prosecution under
the Prohibition law and makes the state prac-
tcally high-license state.
Into the results of this action, in detail, there
is not here space to go. Sufficient is it to say
that the saloon took possession again of a
large part of the state, some of the counties
keeping it out by a species of local option
provision, the courts were again busy, the
jails we're again full, the population of the
states prison at once began to grow, and in
the rebel counties to this day the regulative
provisions of the mulct law have been scorned
and deied as the Prohibition law was formerly
defed.
This is valuable and instructive piece of
history, not for the people of Iowa alone, but
for the careful study of the nation.
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-11

THE NATIONAL pRoH1B1T1oN1sr

tention may be called to a few facts.
In 1889 ffty-four prosecuting attorneys
of the state testified that their counties
were absolutely free from the saloon.
The officials of seventy-three counties
in the same year reported a decrease in
crime and criminal proceedings under
the Prohibition law, varying from TWEEN
ty to sixty percent. Railroad officials
testified that not one barrel of whisky
went into Iowa at that time, where
formerly carload had been imported.
Judge Harvey of Leon, judge of the
third district of the state, is on record
with carefully prepared document
showing that criminal expenses under
the prohibitory law in the counties of
his district decreased more than fifty
percent. The population of the states
prison of Iowa decreased markedly dur
ing the Prohibition years, and what was
more significant, began at once to in
crease when the government of the
state came into the hands of the rebels
who nullified the prohibitory law
The one detailed statement which
may be added here is that of the Hon.
E. H. Conger, then representing the
state of Iowa in Congress and since
that time widely known to the world
as United States minister in China dur
ing the Boxer Instruction In 1890
Mr.. Conger made a public statement in
which he said:
In my home city, Des Moines, the popula-
ton has doubled under it (Prohibition), prop
erty, has continually appreciated and consid.
cradle majority of citizens are delighted
with the operation of the law and would
strenuously and bitterly oppose its repeal.
In certain railroad town with which 1
very familiar, when operating the license sys-
tenn, it was with the greatest difficulty that
merchants secured payment of their accounts
at payday, but under Prohibition the cases of
non-payment are rare indeed, and merchants
easily collect the entire bills from these rail-
road employees. . Prohibition does pro-
hibit drunkenness and crime, but it does not
prohibit or retard prosperity and growth.
1t, of course, is we'll known that there were
certain sections of the state of Iowa where
the law was not we'll enforced all of the time.
1t may be well remarked that in those same
sections of the state Iowa's present liquor law
has never been we'll enforced although no
clamor has ever been heard over that fact
from the people who were so shocked at the
failure of the enforcement of the prohibitory
law. Even Governor Larrabee does not seem
to have had the moral courage to bring his
power as state executive to bear upon the rebel
river counties. 1t resulted, of course, in the
shipping of liquor from these counties through
out the whole state, in addition to the ship
ments which came from other parts of the coun-
try. Some of the time liquor, manufactured
in rebellion against the law in the river coun-
ties, shipped across the Mississippi river
into Illinois, and then shipped back into Iowa
under the protection of the federal interstate
commerce laws. In these counties, of course,
the clamor for the repeal of the Prohibition
law was always strong. The would-be liquor
dealers in other parts of the state joined the
The national prohibitionist. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1907-1911, 1908-06-11

"When the liquor traffic has paid its
debts to the state and to its citizens and
to humanity, it will have nothing left
with which to fight anything"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
CHAMBERS WORK
MORE ACTIVE NOW
Business People Cooperate in Eff
fort to Increase It's
Usefulness.

1T LIS apparent already from the re-
construction of the Chamber OF Com.
merce and the cooperative spirit in
the community, not only In indorsIng
this feature, but in providing the in
stitution with adequate means to put
1t upon substantial financial basis,
that the activity and results OF the fu-
ture will far exceed those of the past"
said member Of the board OF direct
crs yesterday.
The chambers work in connection
with several important measures be-
fore the General Assembly has been
productive of satisfactory results.
Through the increased force OF the
chamber careful and constant study
OF the opportunities for development
and improvement Will be made a spe-
cial feature OF the work. The big
conventions which will meet here in
the spring will enable the organiza-
ton to point out intelligently the ad-
vantages of Richmond as a convention
city, the idea being to make this a
natural centre for such gatherings in
order that the number may be in
creased,
The American Cotton Manufacturers
Association, the American Hardware
| Association, the National Surgical Az
ISOLATION. and the National Conference
| of Charities. which will meet here, will
se-ve TO advertise Richmond.
Special attention has been given by
the chamber to the recommendation
that the forestry and mineral display,
w.iich was SO instructive and SO gem
orally admired at the Jamestown Ex-
position. be permanently exhibited in
this city. AT the same time the cham
Der Is using Its good offices in aiding
the government to find suitable post
office quarters.
Business Manager Dabney's campaign
Tor new members and financial assist
ance Is meeting with much success.
The enthusiasm of the business people
has been more gratifying than the most
ardent workers had been led to ex-
pect.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
MURDERED PRIEST.
Body OF Father Leo Placed in st. Bonn
Nenture-ThOusnndSP aha the Bier

fNSS the Bier.
PATERSON. N. j., March Item
thousand persons to-day looked upon
the face OF Rev. Father Leo Heinrichs.
5. Q. II. NJ, at st. tBonaventure's Mon
astery. In which the murdered priest
was for years the pastor. The body
lay in state from noon until II O'Clock
tonight and during the nine hours
an al nnbroken procession of mourners
passed the bier. So great was the
throng that detail of fifty police
was required to maintain the forma-
lions OF two lines that extended for
blocks. Through succession Of snow,
sieet and transforms outside the pa
rlshioners stood for hours patiently
waiting their turns. There was no
untoward demonstration. Because of
falling health Father Leo was trans
ferred last September to Denver,
where, at the chancel rail Of st. Eliza
beth'st Church last Sunday. he was shot
and Killed by the avowed anarchist
knownsas Giuseppe ALA.
The funeral Will be held tomorrow
msorniins. when solemn requiem mass
Will be sung by Rev. Father Edward
Blecke, assisted by the forty or more
monks and lay brothers in st. Bona
ventures Monastery. Bishop John j.
OConnor. of the Roman Catholic Do
cese OF Newark. and a number of other
high church dignitaries will be present
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
PUTNAM's PHALANX
Hartford Military Organization Cele-
hrates ItH Elftleth Aunixcrsarx.

Hartford Military Organization Cele-
brates Its Fiftieth Anniversary.
The Putnam Ehalanx n military or
ganization of Hartford, Conn, which
has several times visited Richmond,
held it's golden anniversary on Wash
ington's Birthday and has spent the
past week In celebrating, with target
shooting, reunions and banquets. the
completion of its fftieth year. At the
annual business meeting Major James
p. Allen was elected commandant of
the Phalanx.
Lieutenant Sidney z. Clarke. the his
torian OF the battalion, read an ex-
tended report of the doings of the
organization during the year past, much
of which was taken up with dcscrip
ton of the trip to the Jamestown Ex-
position by way of Gettysburg and
Washington city
The PhalanA was at the exposition
on Connecticut Day. October 18th. when.
as escort for Governor Woodruff, 1t
was reviewed by Governor Swanson.
The historian concludes his account of
the trip as follows:
mo State ever extended q more cor
dial welcome to sister States men
in arms than does Virginia, and no
military organization can give ampler
proof Of this Virginia spirit than can
the Putnam Phalanx"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
.CHEVAL|ER KICKS
ABOUT PIE LAW
Hears That Legislature May Re-
quire -Four Instead of Five
Trade Slices Hereafter.

Just before Chevalier Louie Rocchio.
cloli, the Duca D'Richnond, was ready
to close hts delicatesscn shop yester-
day morning. somebody drifted In with
startling information. Louie gasped
when he heard IT.
They tell me-" he said u moment la.
ter to a reporter. who lined up against
the counter, that the Legislature has
before 1t a bill to require all dealers
TO cut pies into four slices instead Of
rye. What tell you think Of that7
What right has the Legislature to In
terfere with the rights OF cltizens7
They don't know nothings Why, here
am. cutting my pies into two chunks,
for the accommodation OF the trade,
with no profits In sight. and me watt
ing to get back to Italy for the week
end. Some OF these others cut them
into i've. During the Horse Show they
cut EN- into six, but all the while I
gave each man a half for nickel
Whatever Louie Marchetti and Robert
Thurman Aulbert does IL no funeral
OF mine, and could have given pies
away. II that one t'ousand dollar check
hadn't come back with nothing doing
stamped upon its features To lose THE
tonsand and then have 'em tell me
to cut cut slower, is, going some,
Well, what's the use? In Italy, you
can give a baker 81 for pie, and he
will hand you hatful of change. Be-
sides. IL they pass that law L don't
believe 1t will be confirmed"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
APPALLED, by
NO|SELESS GUN
Inventor OF Silent Fifearm Fears
the Damage 1t Will
Work.

HARTFORD, CONN. March with
the news OF HIS invention Of q noise
loss firearm spreading around the
world, Hiram Percy Maxim, son .. OF
the inventor Of the na .I,aa gun, n ida
Coincidence q stricken III the presence of
this monstrous child Of brain.
..rhe simple truth is that am al,
IL am fully conscious Of the awful pos
sibiitIes or this gun and my conscience
Is not at all easy OH the. subject. II IT
could be taken hold OF by the gov
restricted to the government, 1t might
not be so bad. But / know and you
know that is impossible under the cir
eumstances. and Il regret that there
already being taken of my idea by
those for whom 1t was never Intended.
Ills face was grave. In advance Of
everybody else he has seen the far
reaching effect of his device.
Suggests AwYul Results.
1t Possesses" said Mr.. Maxim, "all
those attributes which proven. any no.
tice or alarm when the gun is fired
Ard," he added, when you can dis
charge bullet with practically tho
same velocity and accuracy as with
the old gun, and do 1t silently. 1t IS
evident that you have very danger
GUS possibility"
Maxim. with evident sincerity and con-
corn, admits them-are that the armies
OF the United States may at some flu
ture time be overwhelmed by this gun.
devised by an American citizen. and
that the wepaon may fall into the
hands OF the criminal classes, with all
the terrifying possibilities of Its per-
feet adaptability to the art OF private
assassination.
II feel the tremendous responsibility
OF this" he said. II don't feel at all
justified in having invented this gun.
II didn't sit down to manufacture a
gun at all. A long time ago / left fire.
arms behind me and engaged In the au-
tomobiie business. In common with
many others. was seeking means of
nuffling the reports OF gas engines on
automobiles.
I located the seat of the trouble 4:
the piston OF the engine. and when I
arrived at the solution OF the problem
the idea flashed across my mind that
IT,, could do that with an engine
could also do it with gun.
Couldn't Help Divu:g1nE 1t.
after that couldn't help It," he re-
sumed. pathetically. II have the I'M
fortunate inventive streak. and It was
Just as natural for me TO work out. the
me to eat and sleep. I suppose might
have kept the thing to myself and new
err have breathed 1t to a. living soul
taken 1t to my grave with me; but do
YOU think man is developed yet to the
point where that Is possible? And.
then, wouldn't some one else evantu-
ally have developed tho idea? It was
bound TO come.
1T is not a perfectly noisless af-
fair; that is TO say, there is a slight
Kissing sound perceptible few yards
away, perhaps. For instance, Harry
Thaw would have found the gun of no
use to him In shooting Stanford White
on the roof garden IL he had wanted
to conceal the crime.
The rustling OF the leaves in the
.rees or the noise OF passing wagons
would completely drown the sound of
The gun. You would not even know
~-Lat had killed the victim until an
examination was made
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
CUSTOMS FOLK WORRY OVER
CARGO MONKEYS AND FISH

PHILADELPHIA, PA, March L.
Somewhere on the Atlantic Ocean the
Hamburger liner Armenia is
heading for Philadelphia, and her as
sorted cargo Is making the custom
house officials sit up at night and pon-
most complicated problems ever super
imposed upon government employe by
a tariff law.
That liner is carrying an aquarium
and a menagerie that would have made
Barnum envious. In the hold OF the
Armenia are tanks containing 5000
rare fish gathered from many points
n the Orient, from ceylon and the
eight gorillas, an assortment OF the
most energetic balloons that could be
found in SIX weeks hunt In East IN
more than 800 sl<ylarks. 700 linnets,
thirty Roman pigeons and whole
school of goldfish.
The Philadelphian who has the great
est Interest In this show is Ernest. G..
Vahle. OF 80 Market street, some Of
whose goods are on board. The GUS
toms officers have. appealed to Mr.
Vahle for some method of Determining
how to arrive at the amount of duty
on the fish. 1t is easy to gauge what
should be paid upon a haboon, but the
oldest angler in the enploye of the
Federal government in this city is non
plussed on the fish equation, for each
TO pick out 5000 lsh and weigh them
one at u time IS the task that makes
the custom house gasp. yet duty must
be collected by the pound, and 1t must
be actual weight, not the estimate, OF
avoirdupois that the man who catches
the fish puts upon his specimens. tut
so delicate are these Oriental hsh that
they will die if kept ont OF water only
a short time. Altogether customs ofli-
clals declare that 1t Is a pretty Kettle
OF fish: and that is what the importer
SAYS. also I'd.
Fish by tho ton have been imported
into this country but they have usual-
ly been for public auunria and no duty
was collected, hut IL one of these high
priced fish, which looks Ike Y rain
how. dies from handling, lthengoNern-
ment must make good the loss. And
this is another reason some sleep tsI
being lost.
There arc no Sorillas grown in the
United states aud although there Is
no competition in the gorilla trade the
sinainn rnust helm supuort the govern
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02
[specIal to The Times.plspa,ch. l

special 10 Inc llnleS- Dispatch tE
WASHINGTON D. c.. March 1.-The
Committee on the Judiciary of the
House will in all probability report a
resolution declaring that Congress has
the constitutional right to legislate
for the conservation of@the natural re-
sources of the country in the interest
of navigation. 1t is stated that the
resolution may be reported within tho
next week or ten days, just as soon
as the committee can formally formu-
late its opinion and reduce 1t to a reso-
luton embodying the legal points 1t
will involve
It Il is practically certain that the
resolution will not directly touch upon
the Appalachian or the White Noun
tain forest reserve project. leaving
them practically as they stand to-day
pending before the Committee on Agr-
culture. 1t Is understood that the
Judiciary Committee does not feel
called upon to decide whether either
OF the particular projects is constitu-
tional.
The members incline to the belief
that they have been called upon solely
to decide whether the principle In
volved is subject upon which Con-
gress has the constitutional right ia
legislate.
However, In case the Judiciary Com
mlttee decides that Congress has a,,-
sthority under the Constitution to con-
serve the natural resources the opln-
ion will undoubtedly strengthen the
chances of the forest reserve projects
The foresters claim the preservation
of the Appalachian and White Noun
tain reserves Is absolutely essential To
navigation. and II they can establish
this contention the biggest obstacle In
the way OF the movement will be ell
minated. ss "
T. The proposition to include the Nat.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-03-02

The Georgia Southern and Florida
Railroad petitioned the commission to
allow 1t to ignore the law for short
time, until conditions could be- adjusted
to meet 1t. The commission refused
the petition. 1t is taken that this de-
cision will be followed In the case en-.
bracing practically all the roads.
1t is probable that an exception will
be made in the case of the Seaboard
Air Line and other roads in the hands
of receivers.
The railroads are perhaps to blame
that the decision of the commission
is to be against us, or that we are III
this distressing condition." said the
general counsel OF one of the Southern
roads to-day. When the law limiting
to nine the hours of service of telegra-
piers employed In the movement OF
trains was passed. the country was in
such a prosperous condition that we
did not take the trouble to oppose the
Legislation, 1t Is possible that had we
come here and presented our case fully
to Congress, we would have been
spared This additional legislative bur
den.
II think there is little doubt" he
continued, that the commission will
hold that law which has been enacted
by Congress after duo and full DELHI
GRAFTON cannot be set aside because of
commercial conditions which may arise
in the meantime. or because of the
threat of such conditions"