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The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06
hi Honor Of Miss Wood.

Miss Laura Williams win entertain
a number of friends at luncheon on
Saturday at the Tavern in honor Of
Miss Margaret Wood, of Charleston.
Miss Wood is en- route home from
visit with friends in Morgantown.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06
Miss Hawker Entertaining.

Miss Florence Hawker is entertain
ing the Jenny Wren Club this after
noon at her home on Locust avenue.
The occasion is Miss F1orence's birth
day anniversary and the entertainment
is in celebration of the event,
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06
PooIroom Perman entity cIosed.

wELLsBURG, w. Va, March 6. =
Judge Frank W. Nesblt has given his
decision in the Virginia Station pool
room case, permanently en1oining the
defendants. George Erich and others
of Pittsburg, from operating their
turf exchange in Brooke county, w. v,
In his opinion he holds his court has
jurisdiction to restrain nuisance.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06

The Altar Guild of Christ Church
viii have a market tomorrow morn
ing at Mrs. s. F. Nuzum's grocery
The sale will open at $3.50 o'clock and
a quantity OF good things to eat will
be on sale.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06
7
Mill nlve Entertalnment.

The Faithful circle Of King Daugh-
tiers Of the First Baptist Church plans
to give a musical and literary pro-
gramme at date TO be announced in
a few days. A good programme is be
ing arranged.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06
G. a. r. Ladies to Meet.

The Ladies of the G. A. r. Meade
Circle No. 49, will hold the regular
monthly meeting on Saturday after
noon at half after two O'Clock, in Mus
graves hall, This will be an import
ant meeting and good attendance is
urged.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06
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nj THE SALOONS Benefit
OUR CITY?

making the second ofense felony,
and with an aroused public sentiment
behind these laws no one need suspect
that the enforcement of temperance
laws will be the same thing in the
next ten years 1t has been in the past
ten.
While it is fresh news and avoida-
BILE to all interested readers, We call
the attention OF Fairmont voters to
two articles in the Washington Post
of Wednesday, March 8. The one
headed:
NO DRINK, LESS CRIME.
Georgia More orderly since Advent of
Prohibltion-WOmen safer from
Assault Than Ever Before.
The other headed:
BOON TO BLACK MEN.
Booker T. Washington Rejoices over
ProhIhition-obIect Lesson in At
Ianta-Not One Negro in the Jail
There cited as an Instance Of the
Widespread Effect of the Revolution
In south-Leadsr.. of Blacks Says
Abolition of Bar Rooms Almost
Equals That Of Slavery.
Still we noticed in the saloon adv.
article in the morning paper that pro
hlbition in Georgia and the south was
not near the success it was the first
of this week. when the Mononaah
Glass Works had "Iost Thousands of
dollars of conditional orders in the
south on account Of the SUCCESS OF
PROHIBITION"
q regard it as great advantage for
Harvard University, or any other uni
verslty. to be situated in a no-hcense
city, where saloons are not seen in the
public streets, and where the sale of
beers, wines, and distilled liquors at
retail, to be drunk on the premises, is
illegal. Students, however, reap no
special advantage which the entire
community does not enjoy. The abb
sence of the saloon is highly advant-
aeeous to the whole population = men,
women and chtIdren.-Charles W. Ell
lot, President Harvard University.
"The friends OF the saloon keepers
denounce their opponents for not
treating the saloon business like any
other. The best answer to this is that
the business is not like any other bus
mess, and that the action of the saloon
keepers themselves conclusively prove
this to be the case 1t tends to pro-
duce criminality in the population at
large and law breaking among the sa-
loon keepers themselves. When the
liquor men are allowed to do as they
wish, they are sure to debaueh not
only the body social, but the body po-.
lItical also."-Theodore Roosevelt,
ANTI LICENSE EXECUTIVE COM
MlTTEE. ADV.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06

batel. directs that the "soul shall
be returned to the God who gave it"
and the body Consigned to the earth
whence it came. The real and per-
sonal property is divided among his
widow and three children.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06

Attorney John L. Hatfield was in
this city to-day.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06
TRIES TO DISPOSE
OF SOUL AND BODY.

WASHINGTON, Pa, March 6.-The
will OF A. M, Russell, late of Hickory.
this county, which has just been pro-
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06

FALSELY Accused"
At Electric Theater to-day and satur-
day.
The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1908-03-06

James A. Meredith, who
looking after his interests n q
ton district for several days
ed today.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12
AN INCREASE IN IMPORTS.

nv ANf1AA1@A1G ~ 49,
The bureau OF statistics at Washing
ton report a marked increase In i'm
ported merchandise for the months OF
August and September, the first en-
couraging showing in that direction
since the Industrial panic which began
to be felt in October Of last year. Thu
imports in August exceeded in many
Articles the imports for August, 1901,
while the imports for September ag-
g~regated $59,166,034, or within
SO, 900, 900 of as much as the record
for September, 1907.
The significant feature of the rec
ord lies in the fact hat the increase
for both months lie shown in materials
to be used in the manufactures. There
were increases in manila, goat skins,
hides, India rubber and raw silk, all
needed to supply the demands of the
mills which are resuming normal ac-
%tivities after a long period of depres-
sion. This fact furnishes the most
welcome assurance of a speedy return
to normal business and Industrial con-
ditions. Imports are the first to show
the effects of depression. The heavily
taxed luxuries are dropped from the
list at the first call for business and
industrial ~retrenchment, and the es-
sentials are the last to show effects of
so-called hard times. There is still a
shortage in imports Of diamonds, man
ufactured fineries and articles that
come under the head of luxuries, but
the goods needed for the operation of
the mills and factories are being i'm
ported in large quantities. 1t is evil
dence that the American consumers
are prosperous. The returns from the
splendid crop yields have given Amer
leans the ~wherewithal to supply their
needs and many of their luxuries, thus
creating a demand that the factories
have been compelled to recognize and
supply. The difference between i'm
ports of today n a year ago is small
and customs experts think the imports
will soon be equal to pre-panic times.
The Treasury department is already
feeling the effects of the new tide OF
business and the September deficit fell
below estimated figures. The deficit
at the end of September, the closing
month of the first quarter of the fiscal
year, was $33, 61O,764, and the recent
increases in imports hold a promise
that the years deficit may be much
less than had been anticipated. The
Treasury department has a large free
working balance deposited in the ma.
tional banks and it is expected now
that the increase of customs revenues
will be sufficient to enable the treas
ury officials to leave these deposits
thus making no disturbance of the
money market by the demands of the
business revival that is certain to be
come general after the presidential
election.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12
A Real Danger to the Country

financial disturbances and suspensions. BY
his management Of the Treasury depart.
ment the credit OF the country might be
impaired and financial panics precipltated,
The mere knowledge that the public
finances were in control OF a man who be-
lieves in the silver standard and Is opposed
to the gold standard might be sufficient
to cause a run on the treasury for redemp'
tion OF the governments obligations In
gold, and IL gold was refused Il would a,
once go to a premium. BY the selection OF
judges of the supreme. court Il Is possible
for a president to change the constitution,
as was done when the supreme court de.
cided that congress had the power to make
paper money legal tender for debt. It Is
true that the presidents appointments
must be confirmed by the senate. But the
rejection of nominations to cabinet places
would be most unusual, and by his vast
patronage and the eagerness Of senators
for places the president is able to exert a
powerful influence upon senators. Indeed,
Mr.. Bryan has said that 1t would be pos
sible by the action OF the house OF repre-.
sentatives and by the pressure OF popular
clamor to force the senate 20 carry out his
program.
Thu people of the United States are not
looking for a president who must be tied 50
that he can do no harm. Even II It were
certain. which Il Is not, that as president
he could not get upon the statute books
his naturalization theories OF government
ownership OF railroads and government
limitation upon peoples business and the
taxing Of one man to pay another mans
debt, the mere fact that a man holds to
and advances or entertalns any such
theories Of government would make him
dangerous as president, To fill that great
office a man OF sound Judgment. correct
theories of government, a correct under
standing of the constitutional limitations
upon federal power is needed. It IL not sut-
ficient that the president can or would do
no harm. He Is elected to do good, to faith
fully and impartially execute the laws and
80 administer his great office that the prog
ress and welfare, the peace and prosperity
of the people may be assured.
No man should vote for Mr.. Bryan with
the idea that he could not carry out his
theories. Once In the White House he
would move heaven aud earth to Marry
them out, ana the probability is that until
the inevitable popular reaction came, which
might not occur for several years, the
country and not he would be tied hand and
foot, and immense industrial suffering and
loss would be inflicted.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12
THE BANK At MONTE CARLO

The person who achieved fame and
dollars some years ago by announcing
himself in song as THE Man Who
Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo" is
open to prosecution for obtaining
money under false %pretenses, If the
statute of limitations has not run in
his case. He didn't do It, for 1t has
just been demonstrated that the bank
cannot be broken. The earl of Ross
Ign, a peer of England, who has a. rep
type, has been trying for years to put
the Monte Carlo bank into the hands
of receivers and has just become con-
vinced that he cannot do it, although
he has invented all kinds of Systems"
that worked out well in theory.
In order to test the latest system
Lord Rosslyn and Sir Hiram Maxim,
the mathematician. rugged up a rou-
lette wheel in London and played with
synthetic money, Sir Maxim taking the
bankers place with Rosslyn in his ac-
customed role of the sucker with a
system" Luck and the wheel ran in
Rosslyn's favor for a little while and
at one time he was SIC, 900 in stage
money to the good and convinced, az
ever winner at a gaming table is, thai
he would soon be able to capture al
the banks money. Then luck changed
Rosslyn went broke and his system
went to the discard.
Rosslyn's experience is not new ant
no proht will come of it. No system
has been devised to beat any regularly
established gambling game. The per
centage is always in favor OF tn,
house" and the patron who stays b,
the game long enough will go broke
however much fortune may smile Of
him at times. The player may viii
occasionally by luck. The house win
in the end on a certainty.
The Rosslyn-Maxim test has serve,
to once more call attention to Mont
Carlo, the one sore spot on the face O
the earth where gambling is Above
to flourish without let or hindranc
and is really the chief industry Of tn
place. This picture OF the place /
furnished in a recent letter fror
Monte Carlo to the Paris Figaro:
There is a sight reduction in the numbe
! OF suicides for the current week. or N
seven unhappy ones whom the bandits {
Monte Carlo rave hurr ed to their deaf
after first ~robbing them four have hange
, themselves In the garden and ope Ia
banged himself in his room at the Hot
> de Paris. This last one was cut dow
5 nearly dead and taken to the hosp tai
Monaco. where he Is being cared for in Il
greatest secrecy. A woman also poisont
herself at Monaco only a. few steps fro
I the museum that was rated TO his oW
glory by Albert I SIM another, a your
! man. 20 years old. shot himself dead {
Monday evening at 3 O'Clock on one OF II
benches fronting the great staircase of u
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12
THE SWEpEs AND THE BANKS.

The Bees correspondent, Mr.. N. H.
johnson, has fairly routed the World
Herald from its absurd position in re-
gard to the attitude of the Swedes in
America toward American banks. The
assertion that the Swedes sent their
money back to Sweden for deposit and
safe keeping because of distrust of the
banking institutions in their new home
is one of the most ridiculous PROPOSE
tions yet put forth. But readers of
the World-Herald are accustomed to
having it set up all sorts of preposter-
Gus props to bolster its political
projects.
In Mr.. Johnson's second letter is set
forth very %cogently the conditions and
the cause thereof. The World-Herald
undertook to answer his first letter by
quoting Postmaster General Meyers
statement in regard to the amoun of
money invested in foreign postal or
ders. Mr. Johnson shows that very
Swedes or Germans, but that 1t is al
most wholly due to the habit of labor
ers from southern Europe, coming to
this country not for the purpose of be-
coming citizens, but to secure such
share of its prosperity as they may and
return as soon as possible to their
homes across the sea. The Scandi-
%navian and German immigrants have
invariably come to the United States
for the purpose of becoming citizens
and building up their homes. Their
patriotism has never been called into
question. They have not forgotten
nor are they likely to forget, the faith
erland, but no thought of that is ever
allowed to interfere with their duties
as American citizens, or their reveren-
tial love for their adopted country,
This has been proven again and again.
and it is not only ridiculous, but de-
liberately unfair inc unjust, to charge
that these citizens have so little faith
in the institutions of their home coun,
try that they SEM their surplus money
to foreign lands for safety.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12

ers without farming, lsborers without labor,
freemen without freedom.
The F1fty-seoond congress had a demo-
cratic majority of las, and II Il redeemed
a single pledge, observed a single promise
kept a single command or discharged 8
single obligation made to the people OF the
United states l viii quit the stump and
retire from the canvass.
Colonel wstterson, Bourke Cochran,
"Fingy" Corners. Roger Sullivan and
other eminent democrats talked in the
same strain in 1895 and in 1900. and
they have had great difficulty In swal-
lowing their convictions and turning
to the support of Bryan in 1908 for
the sake of party regularity and the
hope of prominence in the ~reorganiza-
ton of the party which must come
after Bryan's third defeat. Senator
Gore is having a harder time Of 1t. He
is a man Of strong convictions and
does not enjoy a reversal of himself.
He will not be blamed II he loses his
voice for the rest of the campaign.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12
Fatal GIFT of Cab.

NANNFts
While sitting In Denver, watching
the convention, we Jotted down the
opinion that Mr.. Bryan's best hope
for election lay in retiring to the
bottom Of the Pacific and allow
ing not a single bubble to escape.
Since that time he has talked a great deal
about the best way of regulating trusts;
he has made a special slogan of Oklahoma
patent-medicine banking plan; he, the
visionary, has claimed to be heir to the
practical Roosevelt; he has been desper-
ately involved in an encounter with that
almost invincible politician; and he has
cast asperslons upon the integrity of
the governor of New York. Too many
bubbles have escaped. Whatever may
be thought Of the presidents taste,
In the controversy between him and Mr..
Bryan, the country, will, we imagine, feel
the difference between vague and danger
GUS theory upon the one hand and shrewd,
practical reform upon the other; between
hesltating and vacillatlng arguments and
the heavy battalions Of established fact.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12
PERSONAL t

A Yazoo City MissiSsippian Ilkens Mr..
Bryan's ceaseless talking to the man who
opened his mouth so wide to have a tooth
extracted that the dentist remarked, II
prefer TO keep my position on the out
side
Samuel @. Cosgrove, whom the repub-
licans OF the state of Washington have
put UP for the governorship this year, is
a lawyer, owns LOO acres Of farm land
and was at college with Vice President
Fairbanks.
M. and Mime. L. Gouard, who startei on
their wedding day in 1896 to walk around
the world, crossed from Dover to Calais
a few days ago. During the last twelve
years they have walked 5000 miles through
Europe, Siberia. Japan. North and South
America and North Africa.
The demands upon William III. TAFT, as
the central figure at patriotic gatherings,
are evidently not to cease at election.
Very likely they will Increase. He Is to
deliver the grafton at the dedication of
the new monument at Fort Greene, New
York, November ID, In ommemoration of
the prison martyrs of the revolution.
Miss Day, professor of home econom cs
at Missouri State university, Is te.erIed
to as an authority by the United States
Department Of Agriculture in an article
in a recent bulletin. She is given credit
for the Planning of a kitchen arrange
ment of stove, sink, table, closets, etc,
all intended to tighten the labors OF the
housewife.
More than ever impressed with the fact
that a perfectly equipped, efficient army
is the surest guarantee OF peace, Major
Paul r. Straub of the medical corps has
returned to Washington from Germany.
where he was with the Third army corps
during the maneuvers and for two weeks
witnessed the workings OF the German
medical department and especially the
sanitary company. He was impressed with
the equipment OF this branch Of the
service, which was complete In all re-
spects ana ready to take the field at a
moment $ notice.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12
BaitIrnore sun dnd. dem.D,

bhilltnoTc sun Nllus uNhisJs
In the special dispatch to the Sun from
New York yesterday. giving the New York
Hersld's estimate Of the situation in that
state, which is declared TO be distinctly
favorable to Taft, a curious mental stti-
tude is shown by some democrats who have
hitherto been opposed to Mr., Bryan. There
is," says one OF the Herald's correspond
ents, "a marked tendency on the part Of
gold democrats and Cleveland democrats.
who have been wandering in the wilderness
since 1895, to return to the fold. This is
especially true OF men who were IN politics.
They see, as the Herald has pointed out,
that with the United States senate strongly
republican for some years to come Il will
be impossible for Mr.. Bryan to get any
Of his more radical ideas enacted into law"
In other words, their argument is that the
country would run no risk by reason OF
Bryan's election because his hands would
be tied by a republican senate and he could
do no harm.
This argument. besides being fallacious in
other respects, is faulty in these two par
t~iculars:
First-If Mr.. Bryan should be elected, It
would be the result of a notable political
revolution. which would render It possible,
indeed probable. that during the last two
years OF his term the senate would be demo-
cratic, unless a strong reaction should set
In directly after his Inauguration. There
are at present thirty democratic senator's
out Of ninety-two. Nearly all OF these
thirty are from the south. and there is but
little danger OF loss. On the 4th Of March,
1911, the terms OF no less than twenty-three
republican senators terminate. II the dem
ocrats should hold their present strength
and gain seventeen OF the ~twenty-three
seats now held by republicans who will &c
out In 1911, they will nave the senate. In
case Of such a democratic tidal wave as
the election of Bryan would require It would
be entirely likely that the democrats would
gain seventeen senator's by 1911.
Second-Even with both houses of con
gress in political a~ntagonism to the presi-
dent, that official could 80 conduct his Of
flee as to be most harmful to the country
The power of the executive, without the
aid or consent of congress, is prodigious
All of the foreign relations are manage by
the president through the secretary OF state
and a weak or msladroit management
might produce untold trouble and distress.
ing complications. The president could by
the operations OF the Department of Justice
so harry and scourge the big business con
Germs Of the country as to produce violent
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12

Business Sentiment n C~ontrollins
Fnctor In the Contest.


Factor In the Contest.
Cincinnati Enquirer und. dem).
In those campaigns uS6 1884 and 1Ss2)
which brought triumph to the democrats.
in every great city OF the country business
mems associations and organizations were
from commencement to close OF the SON
tests working day and night for the success
Of the democratic leader and the demo
cratic candidate
The Influence Of those organizations was
felt not only In the cities, but the mer-
chants. the shop keepers. the manufacturer
and their employees even in the hamlets Of
the country were brought into active CO.
operation and aided in producing the re-
suits.
In this particular line OF political action
and Influence Mr.. Bryan's campaigns seem
painfully weak. One hears of business men
of more or less prominence being actively
for him, but individual effort, however well
directed, accomplishes but little as COM
pared with organized, systematic work en-
Enthusiastically performed and skillfully man.
aged.
ake the country over, that is the feeble
part OF the democratic organization, and
1t may prove, as it did in 1896, 1900 and 1904,
to be the fatal spot which II was impossible
for the democrats to protect by reason of
the overwhelming sentiment Of opposition
prevailing among those who influence and
direct business affairs. The republican
leaders played this part to perfection in
the last three campaigns, and are prepar-
ing to use the business sentiment to the
fullest extent from now to election day.
Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-12
The Safe Middle Course.

hhnSaS lily star llnd.).
Mr.. Taft takes his stand on the pro-
gressive policies of the Roosevelt admins
~tration. which has been assailed by the
Teactionaries in the rear and the radicals
in advance. He is the man who represents
progressive government, which lies be-
tween the doctrine of reaction and the
doctrine OF radicalism.
To put It another way: Cannon, by his
record as speaker, especially in the last
session Of congress. represents obstruction
Bryan, through the dangerous policies he
has advanced in the past-then repudiated
by the people, now abandoned by him and
his party-and through the new expert
ments he now proposes, represents de-
struotion.
TAFT, taking his stand on the Roosevelt,
administration, which everybody under
stands, and backed by his record
OF great, practical accomplishments,
is the foremost progressive leader
of the time and as distinguished
from the other two types, represents con,
struction.