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Die Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., SuÌˆd=Dakota) 18??-19??, 1910-09-22

freie S9iffabrt, mar erreitt. 9lber
oamtt tparen Die Groberungen i'm Sit=
ben nod ni6t ab9eibloiien. 9enn i'm
Sabre 1888 begaun Der sweite Siirtens
trie9. llno oiesmal ftnoen mir bic ruiz
lil6e 9lrmee gefiibrt bon ben 9roBten
6eloberrn &ublanos, Suporon uno
potiomtin. 9lm 6. 9esember 1888 er=
ititrmte Yotiomtiu na6 ie6smonatlt=
der Sela9erung bic itarte 8ren3feItun9
StI6atOw, wOourd bic Ma6t Der 5iira
tel am idwarSen Wteere 9ebro6en mar.
llno ua6oem ale 6eitungen am ibpars
gen uno aiDtpi6en Meere nab einanoer
ben Ruhen in bic Sdnoe gefallen, uuo
SuworOp ben %. Seember 1870 aud
Die 6etuu9 Ssmatl eritiirmt bate, was
rem bic Silrten 9e5puu9en i'm 6rieoen
BON SaIip ben 9. Sanuar 1892, oas
@ebiet BON Sti6atom bis al ben Snie=
lter an &uBlano abjutreten. Sann Tam
nod in Dem 6rieoen bon Yutareit 1912
oas beutt9e Seharabten bis al ben
6luB Yrut an &ublano. Seit lener
3eit 1T Die 3iirtei uur nod Der ytrante
Mann", Der Iein armielt9es Saietu nur
nod friltet bon ben 9rOoiamen, Die bon
Der oiplomatti9en Safel Der europdi=
i6en @roBmd6te fallen. llno bod bat
Oieier rtrante Mann" nod oas 9rOBte
Seiligtbum Der @briitenbeit. Seruialem
nit ben beili8eu Stdoten, in ieinen
Sduoen, uno niemano BON ben 6riitli=
6en Wtddten 9iebt iid bic Miibe, oiez
fem 8rGuel Der 8erpiiltun9 Elm @noe
gu MAIDEN.
Sesbalb 1T au6 allerorts lln9liif,
llnfrieOe, GmpOrung uno 8OttlOligteit,
neil man oas Seilise nidt beilis be-
banoelt.
POtlomttn mar Der Sauptbelo IN ote=
len fur &ublano sliitli6 9efiibrten
&riegeu. 9lber 9Otiomttn mar ni6t nur
Elm Selo i'm &riese, ipnoern aud elmer
Der erIten GulturtrG9er oes Is Sabr=
banoerts. Die 8rinoung pieler Stdote
in SiioruBlano iino iein gDert. 60
muroe Gberion 1879, Mariupol l778,
SebaitOpol 1888, Setaterinoslap l787,
ytitOlaiep 1889, StraspOl 1893 uno
bic &0ni9in Der Siiofdote, SoeKa 1894,
9egriinOet. 9lud fir bic 8iiienidaften
mar POtiomtin Elm eifriger 6Oroerer.
Nuf leine 9lnre9un9 purDe our4 ben
lltas bonn 4. September 1884 in Se=
taterinOslaw cine uniperiitdt ge9riin=
bet, es waren l6on A PrOfeh hOren oOrt=
bin beitimmt. 9lber als na6ber Elm
neuer Siirtentrte9 auSbra6, nuroe oas
prOiett Der neuen untperlitdt fallen 9e=
laHen. Gbenio bate Potjomtin in Wi=
tOtpta (beim- beutigen gtitolaietp) am
Bug i'm Sabre 1870 eine glferbaui6ule
9e9riinOet, bic aber, tpie es i6eInt, na6
ieinem 3Oos 1871 ipieosr sinsin9. Sn
einem Sefebl POtiomtins bonn IA. Stunt
1890 an ben @ouperneur bon Setateri=
nOslaw beiBt es: vGs iOllen in alien
&rOnsaniieolunaen uno auf ben 2dnoe=
reien Der @utsbeiber am Meeresuier,
uno Don @bOrtiB bis an ben gusliman
@einber9e an9elest peroen unter Der
9lufiidt Der YrofeHoren uno 9loiuntten
Der llniOerIitdt BON Setaterinoslatp.
Sic &ebieblinse ioQ man bonn 9on
nebmen, i'm Sale oes Mansels aber
aus Der &rim unb Woloau.
Die Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., SuÌˆd=Dakota) 18??-19??, 1910-09-22
Nus Dem Sercian.

Witte 9lu9uit! Spute bid, mein lie=
Der 2anowirt, oaB ou NIT osineu Srei9=
arbeiten fertig wirit, es tit bobe 3sit,
osnn Der Serbit itebt bereits Dor ber
Sire.
Sm SerbIt slbt es aaerlei su tun:
6artoiieln, Mais, Saittan uno @in=
Die Eureka post. (Eureka, McPherson Co., SuÌˆd=Dakota) 18??-19??, 1910-09-22

2sbrer unO anbere &OrrsipOns
nenten aus &ublanh, ,pslde re.
selmabis an Oie ,Yot" Seri6te
einienoen. erbaltsn oieiss Slatt
tufenfrei juseianbt.
Die 9tesaftiou.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-10

profit the laboring man to stake every
thing upon the hope OF small gainf
is he justified. with the odds frequently
against him, in risking his family, his
happiness and his savings? Gradually
but surely the chances OF success Tor
the striker are becoming reduced. IN
the flve-year period ending in the pros
porous year of 1905 statistics showed
that lie won his point In 49.5s OF the
strikes he undertook; but In later
years, as the labor world has become
enlarged, his percentage of victories
has, In typical state, dwindled to 24.7.
A few years hence. when capital IS
perhaps more strongly cntrenched his
hopes may be still smaller.
or course, where there is great
moral principle involved. loss, poverty
and unemployment will readily be
sacrificed by any man who has red
blood in his veins. But this is not
always the case. Frequently the issue
is a minor one, the bone of contention
is hardly worth the gnawing. 1t is
this class OF strikes which organized
labor should put down. The others. the
world must endure as yet, although
knowing that war is always destruc-
ton.
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Voice Of the People.
Virginia.. Great Colleges.

Editor of The Times Dispatch:
iSir,--ln the morning pape1 ! luau
ed on to their third reading Is BIZ, as
fn,lows. 'ro recommend the University
If Virginia TO the Carnegie Foundation
for the advancement of teaching
Nearby, in your columns, read.
"william and Mary College will prob
ably be put on the Carnegia Founda-
ton for the advancement of teach,
ing. a bin to that effect has passed
the House, and yesterday afternoon
received the unanimous assent OF une
ton and Education. legislative en-.
abling act Is necessary in the case OF
state institutions"
am busy woman. and do not
paper, or to inform myself in other
ways as to what bills are pending be-
fore House or Senate. had heard,
rasually, and some time ago, that
liam liam and Mary upon the Carnegie
Foundation, but did not know that
the matter had come up before the
Gsnsra MsT5smby and tha nGM TerhtE
Hence it is that which follows comes
as a belated utterancc--a futile ut
tcrance, I know. in any case, and now
a belated one.
As a citizen of Virginia. and in my
capacity as an lndivldual, not repre-.
ScnllNS 'duS VI
but speaking solely Of my own inner
motion, ! wish TO enter a protest. !
speak from the standpoint OF the So
biologist.
How is society to night AGAINST sw Son
lien fortunes? BY the social TABOO
When gold cannot buy mems approval,
much gold will become useless TO rs
owner, lie will find that much sold
ny It's dead weight has crushed OUT
mems approval. When swollen lot
tunes can buy nothing worth havinS
men Will cease to desire them. Thell
energies will turn to the accumula
ton of a truer wealth, a wealth M
attended by sighs and tears and tEe
hum OF toiling slaves, IA wealth agalhSt
which no taboo will over be issue, y
is coming TO that--the social taboo
against q mass OF gold SO enormous
THAT IT cannot possibly, in any eauita-
blc sense. have been earned. It you
Will observe clpsely. YOU Will see &
number of indications that the cur
rent Is running that way. Great are
the uses Of the tabooi eSoommunica-
ton Is a mower that will make the
boldest quail; favorable opinion is as
necessary to man as Is oxygen. Is It
not contamination devoutly to be
| desired-tnat this accumulation al
swollen fortunes should cease? Is IL
not, on all hands agreed that thei
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actual or prospective presence among
us is. perhaps. the most crying evil
OF our time? Is not public opinion. set
steadily and strongly against this evil.
the most rational, the most certain, the
most hopeful, way of Graduating the
veritabie upas tree which now over
shadows us? Is it not so: Have we
not to convince the holders of all these
goldpieces that their position is non
social, non ethical. condemned by the
opinion of their fellowmen?
Is not this the acknowledged task
of thinkers, writer's. political econo-
mists. sociologists, preachers and edu-
fight the side from which you have
taken a retaining fee? Are UNIVERSE
ties going to blue pencil their chairs
of sociology? If they do not. they
are going to hear some unpleasant
truths ii they do--then. indeed. has
Plutus shackled them.
In rejecting upon the system there
is no need to reflect upon this particu-
lar benefactor. Mr.. Carnegie is. per-
sonally. a kindly. ingenious. good :
hearted man. But the system is vi
cious. 1t is the prolific parent of very
subtle corruptions. When religion and
education stand as its patrons-and
just so long as they take the gold
they do so stand--it makes the fight
cation, for religion pure and indebted,
very much harder. For IL puts the
university and the church in the camp
of plutocracy.
The university OF Virginia, William
and Mary. Dear and venerable names!
/ would not have them in that camp
/ would not have them mcrcenarics OF
the predatory rich.
MARY JOHNSTON.
Richmond. February 9.
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that societies be formed In every coup-
try In time OF peace to prepare sup
plies and train nurses for use In tiinc
of war. His proposal was taken ups
by the Gnnevan Society of Public IT'LL
ity which, called tho Geneva Confer
ence of October, 1863. This conference
agreed on Il general convention"
which did not organize the Red Cross
Societies that made them possible.
Fourteen nations ratified this con-
vention and soon established the Red
Cross in their respective countries. Tho
regulation of these societieS depends
upon the country In whichi they arc
located
3 According to the best authorities.
Arthur was put to death by the imrle-
diatc orders of John, IL not by his
own hand. The tradition that his eyes
were first put out and that he was
abandoned to die Is now generally
discreditcd. Shakespeare used the his
tory of the incident with free hand.
:. These counties are too numerous
to be listed here. They comprise all OF
the counties from Orange north and
south to the Blue Ridge.
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IOST-Si.OOO,GOO.

strikers and employers are sadly
uniting the cost in New York The
use of the shirtwaist workers, which
lguished when the tedium Of picket
overcame the zeal of the girls
shionable sympathizers, is nov ad-
TIED to be lost, 1t is only question
a few days before the terms of COM
ornise will be arranged and the girls
ii return TO work. But while they
2 awaiting the burr Of the spools and
air of the machines, figures have been
implied showing what the strike cost
q workers and their employers. The
sole totals just s4,ooo,ooo, to say
thing of the want, suffering and
sxiety produced by the strike The
Tempt 10 secure a slight increase in
ilscs cost more than the net increase
s,uld amount TO in more than three
sars.
The loss Of these girls and Of their
sses adds but another to the srea,
Btal lost in the war of labor Fol
very lockout and for every strike
ere is dead economic loss that the
ture cannot and, win not pay. For
ferry hour lost from work some one
ID or poor. loses money which al
9 industry Of future years win no
cover rhe $4,000 strikers who lief
cir places in 1909 lost IN the neigh
srheoa Of sse,0Oo,ooO TO the world
q The nine local unsuccessful strike
Magsacllusetta during 1907 COS
sa52.797- And tlie worst feature 9
csc iosses is tisnt they lall not o
ose who could best afford them, BIT
|85on wage Gamers whose liy!ngs az
|leept away, whose savings are cate
b, and whose only assets are effect'
XIV wiped out
I'm the face Of these losses. Is 4
lsrlke worth while? Does II real
81 VII q
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Mr.. po,,cIl.x Views.

Editor of The Times Dispatch:
sir,-To the d!spassionate reader.
your article on The Popular Election OF
the -Anti-Saloon League" OF February
A. Is unsound, undemocratic and unfair
You refer to the Anti Saloon League
as though 1t We're some private cor
poration, and not of the people, for
the people and by the people.
You err in comparing the liquor
business with the great educational
and public questions of the day. when
1t is universally and legally recognized
as only n legalized privilege. having no
inherent right.
Again you show yourself. inconsistent
and unfair by the view you TAX. OF
the proposed action of the Legislature,
in which YOU acknowledge. though
threef ourths of the State is under dry
regime, and you recognize their viii Is
nulIihed by the remaining one fourth.
yet the threc-fourths should not rule.
but submit to be butchered. Such logic
would not become dog fight"
Again, while the people have entrtist-
ed the lawmaking to representative
body, yet our representatives have re-
peatedly and for various causes re-
ferrcd matters back TO the direct vote
OF the people in districts, counties,
towns and cities. Why. then. should It
be considered so great departure, il
1t should be found. desirable for a
state issue on great moral and eco
nonlical question?
While the writer does not consider
there Is any fairness In the comparison
of the saloon with schools or health
laws, yet he has SUFFICIENT confidence
in the common sense of The Times
Dispatch TO believe that II three
,, fourths of the State advocated Il
measure which was for the protection
and Well being of the entire State, The
rimes-Dispatch would not regard such
effort as undesirable unreasonable,
Iprepostcrous and ridiculous, but would
advocate such a measure either by en-.
/ e m mr. ~
people. 1t appears a clear case of par
| tisan interest, in which you fear that
| the Legislature might grant the mere
privilege to vote on great moral. So
the clear wish of the majority that
II should be eliminated. and required
for their own protection, and that
YOU fear the Anti-Saloon League might
the electorate of Virginia. Your mean
ing is clear. You stand on the wet
side. else you would be using your
talent and the columns of your paper
TO induce legislation to prevent the
| one-fourth multiplying the Will OF the
lthrce-fourths.
You say for a small fraction of the
voters. "the Legislature need not ab-
| dicate,' but when was this ever done
! IN local option. or when was it ever
proposed for the Legislature to re-
spond to so feeble a cry from 50
Of tho more intelligent and RESPONSE
Bile of the citizens make petition for
that. which is vital to the Common
wealth. isn't 1t a sign that there is a
crying need-and for any Legislature
TO- turn a deaf ear, isn't it supreme
Ifolly? You say rightly that for ono
community tofforce the sale Of liuuor
81, on another is insoSent and intolerable.
4 This is the avowed business OF the IL
nuor traffic, and it has by this very
tact. II for no other cause, forfeited its
4 right to exist. Il, III. POWELL,
{ Union level, February g.
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Liquor nnd prohibition,

Editor Of The TimeS-D!spatch.
Sir.--I am a regular reader of your
papers published. but no temperance
man can agree with you in the stand
you take on the liquor question.
noticed a few days ago that You put
"Drunkards in Dry Town." in quot
ing some remarks made by one of our
representatives. Now, | would like to
ask you a few questions: Did you
ever imagine that II town, county
or even State, was voted dry, and all
not Can any law be made or Off
GERS appointed that will be able to
keep an old whiskey-soaked topper
from getting drunk when he can set
the liquor? or course not. As a rule,
1t takes months and years of indulg-
once and evil associations to make a
confirmed drunkard, and when he gets
the habit fixed upon him the only
way he can stop is by his own con-
sent, backed up by strong will power.
1t is a rare thing. that one OF these
ever reforms, especially when open bar
rooms arc kept around him to tempt
him to break his resolution.
Now. IL 1t takes years to make q
drunkard, how can you expect to re-
form him in DAY, or a month, on
even a year, especially II the tempta-.
ton is kent before him? y town Of
1t leaves AGO. many Of whom got work
in every manner possible to furnish
whiskey to all that they can persuade
to drink. They work day and night
at this nefarious business. and If one
lis caught. the devil and all his mps
| flock to his rescue and spend their
Hast cent to save him from tho penalty
of the law Neither drunkenness nor
! the sale of liquor can be stopped. in
| a, day. IT takes time to educate these
lpeople and teach them decency and
| sobrety
am living in "A dry town, where the
| saloons were closed nearly year ago
and can see great improvement over
| former conditions, and any one else
can see 1t who wishes to do so, and
] want to say right here. that as q
closing OF, barrooms does not lessen
the sale Of whlskey lnd reduce drunk
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THE LIQUOR TRAFFIC AND OUR
PRINCIPLES OF GOVERNMENTS.

iItlNSliI.cS OI WV tIlt!S
If three-fourths eof Virginia terri
tory were wet and one-four,h dry.
and If politically formidable liquor
association demanded of the Legisla-
turc so-callcd referendum on the
question--not whether the whole state
should be wet or the whole State dry,
but simply whether the dry one-fourth
should stay dry OF be turned wet over
its own passionate objections-if such
a condition and demand arose. it is
easy to imagine how the Anh-Saloon
League would view them. Its indiS-
nant protests-entirely justified, by
tho way-would make Capitol Hill
tremble TO it's fundaments. We should
hear tho sacred right of local self
government defended, and invasion of
it denounced, with fierce confidence
| that has never come from the other
/. side. Yet, because the condition is
! reversed because the three-fourths OF
/ the state lis dry and the onc-fourth
1 wet, we find the Anti-Saloon League
| indorsing exactly ,his kind of refcren-
DUN exactly this abrogation OF local
4, self government, with an enthusiasm
that is untroubled by doubt.
II There is, of course, decided diff
ference In morals between compelling
a community to license saloons agains
its will and forbidding it to license
them when it desires to do so. But !
tho issue is viewed as a principle o
government there is no such differ
encc. If local self-goVcrnmen is II
the one case the only-dust'form of gov
onimont,sit cannot be the unjust form
in the other. Moreover, the essentia
Justice OF the An,i-Salnon Leagues
demand is badly crippled by another
any local option. machinery in Viz
ginia there would be little questioning
OF the Legislatures right TO pass 9
state prohibition law, particularly 1
IS IL were elected on The liquor issue, Blu
? there has been this local option ma
= chinerY under which most OF the Stat
y has already gone dry and the wet o
n dry issue has been sharply raised a
IT a strictly local Issue in every com
'e munity in the state. And this is VIII
N all attempts TO compare a state pro
A. hibition law with State health o
school laws fail completely to III
lc ground.
ly The local option Law was passed, W
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I.UTTDT TIC TtS-DIsVdtCH-
the 9th, on page 5, that you have
ar account of the accident to Russell
Goodwin. under subject, Chest Crushed
by Heavy Weight" You state that
Mr.. Goodwin was running car OF the
Otis Elevator Company. We beg 10
advise that this was an error, as Mr..
Goodwin was not employed by this
company, and we did not have an
elevator in that building.
Kindly correct this error and oblige,
OTIS ELEVATOR co.
12jchpnop1 Eahr,1arv q
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n,,, out that the un-
~ s''o"'o r. un,, Tho
ieNo' ,tiro,, without
''''i.'a u,.. rho merits
~, hoe, touch
OF t''es' -, r,o, stand
GU 4,,o, STOOD when
p'''o ,,.t,,naoa same n,vs-
ivy -. ,,,,ce IL the
'e's SUI oN'''s "''s ass;on MT it
.o'''''', m, e, ,o,,on for an
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red cross Societies, Etc.

Rcd Cross Societies, Etc.
l. Please tell me how Is the Red
Cross Society governed, and how 1t
originated?
2 What is the true version of Prince
Arthur's death under John Sans Terre'
of England-tre one given by Shakes
pcare in his tragedy of King John,
or the one given by some historian?
3. Pleai:e give me tho names of
the counties in Virginia that COM
pose the section known as aPiedmont.
READER.
/. The Red Cross Society had its
origin in the experiences of NJ. j. III.
Dunant, who witnessed the horrors of
the battle OF Soiferino. June -, 1853.
Three years later he published little
book entitled "Un Souvenir de Solferi-
no." IN which. after describing the mis-
cries of the battlefield, he suggests
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JAMES RIVER.

President S. r. Morgan, of the yir-
| ginia- Carolina Chemical Company. told
the Finance Committee of the Council
| that the proposal to build fine new
municipal dock on the city's Gillles
Creek frontage was the biggest ques-
ton that had confronted the people
here for years. Mr.. Morgan was not
speaking exaggeratctlly. The construc
ton OF this dock would only be a start
In tho way Of developing Richmond's
WATERPROOF freight. but it would be a
powerful start. No matter what else wa,
velop the river trade that nature intcnd-
ed her to have so long as she is crippled
by a lack Of public dock facilities The
building up of our stagnant shipping
is impossible under these conditions. At
present this city is spending some
$4,000 a year to keep clear the berth
OF the single steamship line now re-
naming to us, and 1t cannot be said
one for the city. The construction of
the proposed dock would be both the
logical first step in an enlightened pro-
| gram OF river Improvement and. as
best possible guarantee to the United
! States government that this city's in
| terest IN waterway development was
serious, permanent and aggressive.
\ ID al
blessing in her river, and Richmond,
through indifference, has all but thrown
the blessing away. She has sat still
and twiddled her thumbs while other
cities. less favorably situated have
been plugging away to build up COM
merce far in excess of her own. In
dfteen years the manufacturing and
E;obblng business of Richmond has near
. borne freight has virtually stood still
,f There is a reason for this. The aver
10 age cost OF water transportation
J. throughout the country is given a
r, about onc-sixth the average cost o
rail transportation, but water trans
l. portation on the James Is approximate
ST " as high as competing rail transpor
Sc tation Back of this deplorable state
in OF affairs there must be causes. ant
h. these causes must be susceptible O.
te removal. The building of the docl
u will begin the great work of rehabilt
/ tation. After that will come logical,
/ the deepening OF the channel and thu
= elimination of the runous curves a
City Point. When these things arr
DONE Richmond will surely come int
her own as a port, and James Rive
!. will take the part in the commercial
upbuiding of the city which 1t SHOULD
have had all these wears.