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The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
THE PEOPLES FORUM


Editor of The Virgtnian
Sir,-To who is entirely disnte rested, save TO
right prevail and JLs8tce done. IL appears from
reports that another farcical fraNesfy on
justice been enacted in the police court OF Rich
rpud in tho of the Gornrnnnv eah against the
editor of The Idea Tor publishing alleged ohscene
matter in his pamphlet. ~
The chief argument against the editor by the
prosecuting that youths who might read
aud conditions pictured the being permitted
exist in defiance OF the law by this Same prosecuting
attorney and other officers who sworn to uphold
and execute the law and that Justice In done.
Does Mr.. Minetree Folkes think moment that
the majority Of boys with normal minds do not
know and have not known about the Red Light Dis
trict street. and other Immoral localities long
before Mr.. Yoder and The Idea appeared In kich-
monde 1t Is Riehmend's shame that these places
do exist especially when there Is n law on the
statute books prohibiting immoral houses and the
chief of police admits he does not enforce the statute
inst them and has been instructed to DO so
by the police commissioners.
There 10 breach Of the peace and tha public
is offended. crime Is committed and no ono
Is indicted by grand jury for permitting immoral
houses TO continue in midst, But thS moment
the editor OF The Idea calls attention OF the
public to these houses and the reinforcement OF
the law against them and demands that the law be
either enforced repealed he has committed o
serious crime arrested, hauled into court nned
sentenced to jail and required tn give bond to Keep
the peace towards all citizens OF the state, This Is
plain instance of "strainng at gnat and swallow
ing q camel
It Is evident to my mind that Mr.. Yoder ~ moro
''-'"'1 Go 'A'' $50" JUSTICE
G.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
Measuring Men.

These be the best times that the world ever
knew and we not Of those who sigh and say
that the old times were better. Yet the world is
still measuring men by the size of their purse
rather than by their merit. When the world
asks what horse is worth it means to ask what
is its intrinsic value. But when it asks what ii
man is worth, the reply is in dollars and cents.
Secondarily, man is valued by his abilities.
Can he form trust Can he scoop railroad /?
Can he corner the cotton maret? Can he con-
troll the vote of his districts Can he kill lion
or make speech in FrenchF
That may be all right from the world IS point
of view, but the Bible rule of measuring man
by what he is. by his character rather than by his
possessions, or even by his accomplishments, by
the inward grace, rather than by the outward
sign, by his substance rather than by the shadow
that he casts, seems to us to be the better way.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
Our State Contemporaries
How 10 Tell Fisl,'s .lgc
Richmond. Va, May g.

Professor w. A. Herdman, of Liverpool University,
has told his class how to tell the OF nsh. Tho
lines the scales of the herring lines of annual
growth. The number of lines on the bones are am
other indication.
The ordinary man not professor would have to
carry around microscope IL he went searching TOR
the fsh's age but anyone easily approximate
the age of oyster the farmer can his ox's by
the rings its horns Every year the oyster grows
q bill shell edge at Its mouth There appears
side the other of the shell ring or rough
ridge, where the growth out from the old
and by counting these the approximate age OF the
btvalve be computed. We have seen shells which
indicate oyster forty years old. But praise be to
the Virginia oyster. he is just paatabe. luscious
and tender at thirty. or forty at three-Virgnia
Citizen.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

pebpiy slope Of embankment which fell away
from the door of their priton full thirty feet.
oh. dear, that horrible odor.. sighed the girl. :
cunningham struck a match 4T,.e empty
which snyefoped the air ike oathsome sufrocating
blanket.
How ever explain ~ she lamented
cunningham saw his opening and rusiCd in.
There's only one thing to do he remarked in an
married." = NJ -
"Mnat?' syivla's voice rose to high note Of as
constituent.
rs II 80 distastefui you" he asked affecting a
GOODNESS he did not feel. Then. reseattng himself
and taking the bandaged hands.
a have been trying for two years to muster the
courage to propose to you. You must have seen how
hard hit am
You never said anything"
m saying II now: and--you--carc q little donss
you, Sylvia? It's the best way
Sylvia neither answered shrank from his en-
brace - -
i have no idea Of where this train Is aktnS Us. Ia
continaed but We shall come to a before long
mats certain. Ministers and licenses are easily
and neither OF us are minor After we're married
We will come back and tell Prexy all about it. He'll
stand for 1t. think: he's fine fellow. finished
stoutiy
Sylvia began to cry. silently ut first then little
harder
We shall lose diplomas ] ust know" she
soobed smuggling her cheek against his pocksr
IN rather comfortable manner. nevertheless
what Is u piece of old Eheepskn anyway" he chal.
ienged, compared with our having each other."
II don't know, Mr.. Cunningham" very TREMENDOUSLY.
Call me Tom dear J.
Tom more tremuiously sNi--then. with ner.
vous gggle. dear"
The locomotive. having drunk its fill now pounded
on with loud. triumphant toots and ronorous pufys
of exultaton bearing It's biisu cargo into the golden
unknown.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
4 Drunkarfi,s Luck.

White i'll % state of INVESTIGATION asst Friday night.
stephen Thrston had raost remarkable escape from,
death lie was found Saturday morning at the bot
re- cavcl-in shaft of the Arminus mine, In
Louisa county, waist deep in mud and water ana
one hundred and forty feet from the top OF the
shaft where walking when he fell Stag
zertug in the darkness Thufston stepped Into the
open shaft, his drop being distance of sixty
feet when he struck upon ledge and from there
continued falling. broken at intervals. until the
entire distance of the fall being lao feet He was
badly bruised his left hip and angle and right wrist
beng spraned None his bones. however, were
broken.-CTifton Forge Review.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
EDITO RIAL
The Prohibition Fight.

III Len G. Brnughtnn of Atlanta, looks l
/ the result of the election in Alabama WI
fious fears for prohibition. but he is not 81
ised.
81 have recently travelled consider
I ably in the State, said he in recent
Interview. and it was clearly seen that
Y the liquor interests and the railroads
we're joining forces and flooding the
STATE with money.
ND 1t means for Alabama that she has
rctraced her steps and Is going from
i civilization, sobriety and the control OF
4 her own affairs to open saloons In the
cities, barbarism and the monopoly Of
& railroads and other incorporate inter
ests. To-day is the blacklist day III
Alabama s history. The devils in hell
n and around Wall street are holding
jubilee at Alabama expense.
Her condition has been fine under
prohibition. A passing stranger could
easily see even in Montgomery, Selma
and Birmingham greatly improved
moral and ethical conditions. Bur God
pity her next step.
The election in Alabama is warn
ing to Georgia. What the liquor inter
eSts. the railroads and the other cor
porations have done in alabama, they
are now preparing TO do i'll Georgia at
y the next election. These two great
monopolies are at present in Georgia
with hands joined aud purses open to
win the next election in favor OF the
So-called local option, which is only,
B In fact, the open saloon, and also to re-
store TO the railroads their lost power.
IT will take great fight to prevent
them from winning God wants every
decent man in Georgia to do his duty
4 Today
The Atlanta Constitution takes q more CT
rvAtive and more hopeful view. II says Il
6ile it was inevitable that the pendulnm shol
ing slowly backward toward adjustment,
0nld not cause undue surprise or misgiving
among even the elements int
merely pledged 10 progress in the whisk
sfic.
For. explains our contemporary, sit {
Ars certain that open barrons viii mex
#MKh ~ &Alhudihh- dS ~ iS thhaiis W. VAN "a
IN barrooms viii never return to Georgia. :
The liquor traffic is a power. 1t is great
zEtry, giving employment. such as it is,
my men and there are millions Of dollars
1ytpdein it. All this. to say nothing of the ma
IRONS who for one reason or another are {
I'D to prohibition. 1t is difficult task
rrthruw such an establishment and it canr
done in day or year The prohibit
rces expect and must expect reverses. u
~ have made wondrous progress and are st
Ak they will conquer in the end
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

A well informed Southern newspaper says
that it may be true that some of the fruit crops
are irreparaby injured, hut that it is absurd to
claim that cotton and corn are rreparably DAM
aged when thee is still plenty of time to re-
plant. IT is a strange thing, but true, that the
famer is ehonic pessimist. II nature were as
pessimistic as the tillers of the soil she would
never recuperate.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
Carnegie's Money.

Founders Day the University Of Virginia was
observed this year because Andrew Carnegie coul1
not conveniently attend and Senator Eihu Root FOUND
another more compelling engagement. OF course It
Is easy to understand why Carnegie was the par
tcuar occasion that is calculted TO loosen
purse strings and throw wide the money-bags OF
those who seek ny the of limitess gold to climb
the pedostals upon which stand the matchless
minds of the truly great in lifc-Norfolk Ledger
IlADatch.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

Because wealthy men connected with the Car
negie Steel Company could not support must
cal organization the Carnegie Free Library Band,
of Pittsburg, has passed ont of existence rs an
organization. This teaches that brass com
bine is more easily dissolved than steel com
h;ne
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

fore. The question Is now being asked,
What effect will this haYes Will capi=
tai come into the State if the Governor
controls the courts and condemns those
who do not do his biddingf Tennes-
see has been known throughout the
world as conservative State, All,
both corporations and individuals, have
secured justice in its courts The at
tempt to make the highest court part
of the political machine has thus nat
urally caused such revolt as has never
before been witnessed in the State. The
question is, Shall the people save Ten
nessee from one man domination or
shall they submit to the rule of King
Patterson? Men who differed in the
struggle of 1905 on State wide pro
hbition and local option to-day are
standing shoulder to shoulder for the
protection of the courts of Tennessee.
A political machine when well "oiled'' vii
run long time, even when there are obstruc
tions in it's wheels But Governor Patterson
will learn. if he has not already learned tina
there are limitations even to powerful polit
ical machine He will also learn that tn
greatest power after all is the people, and tina
when the machine becomes unbearable it vii
be smashed. The time to smash the Patterso
machine seems to have arrived.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

Legree for a We may rejoice In the social
honors heaped upon wandering Ulysses be proud
of the way he carries himself; applaud him when
he speaks by the card and to the purpose, but re-
tarn him to the White House There Is treason
to institutions In tho very thought--Louis-
vile Courier ournal.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
Carolina Progress.

The Piedmont section and western North Carolina
generally Just in high glee over the pros
pect cheap and abundant electric current Tor light
an power purposes result OF renewed activity
by the Southern Power Company The company is
already developing an enormous amount OF electricity
North Carolina IL In the presence OF the
ira nsmission lines experiencing the throb OF new
life. In addition the Southern Power Company
present equipment the capitalists composing 1t are
reaching out into the high mountain country with
the purpose of obtaining control Of dozen or more
small waterpowers that he utilized az a reserve
for their plants Iurther down among the
foot hills. The Dukes. who prominent in the
company's affairs have secured options on 20 or 10
thousand in the Sapphire country ana nave
also acquired the noted Toxaway hotel and vicinity
Kinston Free Press
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

Columbia has elected her commissioners and
the commission form of government--the Des
Moines plan-will soon be in force. Columbia S
experiment will be watched with peculiar in
terest by other Southern cities.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

Compliments to President VIM. III. Palmer of
the Consolidated Bank. and congratulations to
the bank He combines the qualifications of
the tinancier with the qualities of the gentle
man III exact proportions.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

The Chamber of Commerce has decided to
sell its home in the interest Of development. That
IS another evidence Of the progress Of both Rich
mond and its enterprising commercial body.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
Iun For the Editors.

Wilmington is going give the North Carolina
Press Association a royal at It's approaching
ennua convention The board OF aldermen, unsoi-
cited appropriated $500 Tor entertainment VIII.
mngton always toes the marie In welcoming and
entertaining guests.--Charlotte Observer.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
Carolina Comment
The Courts and the Trusts

The Star yesterday morning carried "A dispatch
from Washington, giving synopses of decisions or
the United States supreme court we'll calculated to
convince the that they making a hopeless
fight against public sentiment and making futile
efforts overthrow laws FOR their regulation and
suppression, If need be.
The supreme courts affirmation OF decree of the
supreme court Mississippi makes II plain that
combination shall he entered into that VIII re-
strain trade by preventing petition; that com.
binc which viii result in monopoly cannot stand
That should make 1t useless Tor any further COM
binatons and conspiracies to seek the overthrow OF
the law by some technically that astute lawyers
might think Will have Its weight with the court OF
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

s. Nothing ia the history of the State
has 50 aroused the people AS has the
Attempt TO coerce the courts and make
them an asset of political machine
s. sleniinaied by one man And not only
has il awake ned parts men who hope
q for continued party supremacy In the
State. but also business men. The press
0f the nation has for the past Few weeks
q been eriticising the Governor Of Ten
nessee for abusing the pardoning pow
WI Thus has caused many Of the busi-
mss men Of the State 10 take notice of
rs aiznirs Is they have never done be-
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

: The earthquake in Costa Ricn makes us all
the more anxious about that precious canal Of
ours across the Isthmus.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

William J. Bryan's visit Mayor Gaynor a numbey
of days led intimate politician socia friend
of the two men to yesterday.
'Gaynor was the only Democrat OF any prominence
In New York State who came Bryan In 1896.
was Justice of the court the time,
and presided at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music
meeting where Bryan spoke. Bryan always re-
membered this and in his book The FTrst Battle
mentions Gaynors course at that time.
II believe Governor Harmon is TO be e-eected in
Ohio next fall He win then be In straight line
for the Democratic nomination for president In 1912.
Governor Harmon bolted Bryan in 1886, but In
1900. Bryan's second campaign Harmon. who has
been encouragement in Cieveands cabinet presided
at Bryan meeting in Cincinnati. Since then Bryan
and Harmon have been very friendly, 20 much that
Harmon accompanied Bryan his Southern tour
early In 1905 Just few months before Bryan
nominated at Denver. Harmon early In the year
was prominently mentioned ms a prospective vice.
presidential candidate tho ticket with Bryan.
having been nominated for governor OF Ohio Gaynor
was much talked of for vice. president ut Denver.
From what knew OF Bryan, having been aseo-
ciated with him In all Of his campaigns firmly be-
lieve that IL in the Democratic national
of 1912 he must decide between Harmon Cay
nor he will favor Gaynor for the that there
has been lapse In Gaynor's loyalty TO him."--New
York Sun.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
The AIabaarla Election.

In election such held yesterday. inyoivina
the political failure or OF OF men, Il
la inevitable that there should be disappointmenta
Yet the recuperative power Of optimism 10 wonder
full, and while those who lost feel somewhat blue.
1t Will not be long before the sting at defeat will
pass they will take cheerful view OF the Mtua-
ton. In the meantime, all Will RECOGNIZES tho wisdom
and Justice OF the Democratic plan Of majority
and Will acsvs osce In the result,
Now tina the State primary IL out of the way.
Alabama faces what should be- long period o.
political calm. The State election. to be held In
November, viii interruption 70 husinesA The
result In known and there will be excite-
attending II.
energies az the people directed the develops
ment o. tho State. Alabama should move forward
never Observation-Disclosures Nws
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
Tennessee's Predicament

There seems to be genuine revolt in Tonnes
ee. against Governor Patterson. The good name
( the State is at stake and the people are
larmed.
9m recent article on that subject the
kncxyiIle Sentinel, conservative newspaper
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
Rooseve,, and Monarchisna.


need not recall the personal Quarrels and angry
collisions restless and Needless impatence of re-
straint the interference with the courts OF law the
sometime screaming which cast momentarF doubt
upon his sanity which Characterised his last four
years the White House Hut his return there would
mess only that approve and confirm them ana
authorize him to resume and continue tne same
treatment of the distempers OF which the country
complaint The notion that he ii the most demo-
Newspaper quotations the OF his real char
seter nsst eentradietea b., his whole habit and
proceeding whilst he was president. he IL py pirth
breeding and instinct parician. lie was the Hrst
TO Introduce royal customs into the White House
He is a self-wed to the last degree; bent upon
having his own way, allowing any obftrucIon-
principle, OF Law, or Of prudence-to come petween
him and his objective point HUMANITARIAN. Ger
tatnly, long humanitaranism he the cue OF tne
war be- necessary to maintain his ascendancy: a
be nevolent despot who will net hesitate to knock
down and drag out II need require. for sake of
Righteousness firmly believing the earth belongs
o the saints and that he and his the saints.
No who knows Theodore Roosevelt gain
say this picture. He who that there iE Moth
ing In putting aside the third tradition set by
Washington. followed by Jeffarson, confirmed by
Jackson which the Republican party itself refused
to astde In favor of Grant would not be disturbed
his hearth and home by earthquake. TO lift the
time limit and plac. Theodore Roosevelt back In
ONCE 10 only single door removed from lie
TENURE. The crying need iii 1919 would beeeme tht
commanding need in 1916. by 1890 the machinery
and momentum OF the personal government thus de
creed and established and perfected would be rresis
tible The American who cannot see this IL unworthy
Of freedom. lie should be deprived on the right to
lvoe and be relegated to the cotton deds with smoh
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
About Go.st,,,,

Before the trial of DIR. G., Is. Hyde for the MUIR
der of Mr.. Swope is Mrs. Hyde win go upon the
witness stand and tell her side OF the that 10
now being recited daily by the witnesses the
Until that time she must sit in silence
unfolding OF the prosecutions theory OF the crimes
with which her husband Is charged which
the State claims the forseit his life /.
What Mrs. Hydes feelings toward those wit
nesses some OF whom members OF
family. was illustrated yesterday by incident
brought out by the testimony OF wit
nesses When the witness left the stand Mrs. Hyde.
who had paid the closest attention the testimony,
turned to one ef her friends and said
The way these stories about Clark grow In the
telling remind me of rhyme learned when was
little girl
She then repeated it and afterward wrote II down
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06
Hearst n Martyr.

We have never been an admirer of Judge Gaynor
now mayor of New York, but from of his as.s
since he has been mayor. we had begun to think
that possibly, In. regarding him a demagogue We
had misjndged him Now, however. have less
for him than ever BY his brutal and undisni-
fed assault Hearst at the newspaper mems ban
quet In New York Saturday night he has made
martyr Of that most demoralixins person in the
newspaper world. and Afforded him opportunity
to take fresh hold. and to continue to flourish
green bay tree.
If Judge Gaynor had, in dignined way, made
statement OF the facts to the public in inter-
view signed article, and characterized Hearst'u
course a unjust and his statement untrue. the
Judge would have retained the respect OF the pub
he Assaiiing Hearst In speech At social gath
seems the height OF bad taste. And worst OF all
Judge Gaynor seems TO have been mistaken In his
facts
Thousands OF people will dislike Judge Gay
nor for having given Hearst opportunity to pose
as martyr.-Staunton Leader.
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

First some body told IL.
Then the room wouldn't hold ii,
So the busy tongues rolled IL
Till they got IL outside,
Then the crowd came across II
And never once Lost IL
But tossed 1t and tossed IL
TIL II grew long and wide.
From very small lie. SIR,
IL grew deep and high, sir,
Till 1t reached the sky, sir,
And frightened the moon
For she hid her sweet face sir:
In veil OF cloud lace, sir,
At the terrible disgrace, cir
That happened at noon.
Kansas City TimeA
The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-05-06

6r. Len Ct. Brenghtnn of Atlanta, looks up
] the result of the election in Alabama with
kious fears for prohibition, but he is not sur
The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-01-23
TWO SUITS FILED BY
NICHOLAS SCHM|TTR0TH
Jefferson Mining Company and
Wasatch- Utah Company
Defendants.

Nicholas Schmittroth fled two suits
in the district court Saturday aGninst
the Consolidated Jefferson Mining COM
pany. the Wasatch- Utah Mining com
pany and their directors to recover 95o,
b5S alleged to be the loss sustained by
him through the refusal Of the directors
of the company to permit hlm TO sell
stock which he held in the Consoll-
dated Jefferson company, and to re.
cover $6062.50 alleged to be due Tor
services rendered as manager OF inc
mine and as commission for the sale
Of stock. ,e,,oo
It is alleged that he owned 164, ,790
shares of stock in the Consolidated JET
ferson company and could have, sold 1t
for % cents per share, but that the
directors of the company refused 10
permit the transfer Of the stock, He
was finally compelled to sell hIs stock
at a lower figure to Julius koop or
Chicago, the only person the board
would permit stock to be transferred to,
and he lost thereby the sum of S39,95S'
In his second complaint he alleges
that he acted as manager Of the COM
pany from July 81, 1902. TO February
Is. 1906, and that he sold for the com,
pany some treasury stock, for all OF
which he claims the company Is IN
debted to him in the sum of S6062.50,
The Consolidated Jefferson company
was absorbed by the Wasatch- Utah conn
pany on October q, 1908.