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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-15
WHAT PUBLISHERS
ARE Up AGAINST

The following recently appeared
in the Des Moines Capitol
Editor Fay, of Lyons, Iowa,
has been called to Washington
CITY because his subscription list is
not 50 we'll paid up as the law re-
quires. He will have to explain
to the government officials why he
has not compelled his subscribers
to pay up according to the postal
rules. An inspector had visited
him two months previously and
his list was said to be pretty thor
oughly paid up, but evidently it
was not sufficiently so. 1t seems
a little tough that the country edl-
tors have to be hauled up before
the government under the charge
of violating Federal laws just be-
cause they do not cternallV keep
dunnng their subscribers foi the
small sum they owe on subscrip-
tons: but it is like the end of the
world, no one knows when it COM
eth. and no editor knows what day
the inspector may pop III and ask
to see his list. And if too many
subscribers are behind on their pa
per it means trouble with the gov
eminent 1t puts an editor III
such shape that he is compelled to
force his collections unless he has
an unusually prompt paying list OF
subscribers
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-15

least of two evils.
This has for its foundation,
shifting sand. If all civil govern
ment is based on antedating prin-
ciples of right and wrong, on what
principle may we base a decision
to do evil be it the lesser or great
er evil? The idea that an evil is a
necessity, is fallaciOus. Webster
SAYS that a necessity is that which
must be and can not be otherwise.
To contend that it is necessity
for one to choose an evil, is to con
tend that God has established a law
commanding every normal mind
Thou shalt be right and then.
contradict himself by making it
necessary to do wrong.
Judge Wood of Seattle, when of
floating as mayor of that city,
made study of the sociological
conditions and decided that re-
StriCted district was a necessity in
that town. Today, Judge Wood,
after studying results declares a
gainst the establishing of such a
district, and is one of the foremost
advocates of its abolishmcnt The
doctrine of the necessity of evil is
contrary to mans physiology and
psychology.
I've are told that il is better
to compel prostitutes to live in one
district than to permit them to live
in any part of the city. All such
propositions have for their tounda
ton the same fallacy as the ncCcs-
sitv of choosing the least of two
evils.
All rights being equal, it is IL
surpation of authority, always at
tempted with danger, to dictate
where any person shall live. Any
person in this city has the same
right to elect where they Will make
their home as YOU and | have.
An investigating committee in
Seattle reported 1000 women to be
connected with the restricted dis
trict, and only about 200 were liv-
ing within the limits of the district
No Just law can determine per
SONS residence in any part of a city.
5.-We are told that it is the
segregation of criminals who have
surrendered their rights on account
of their crimes. y
But the crime of which they are
guilty is an impossible one without
an accomplicc. If become an ac
CO1nplicc with another panty i'll
stealing, the law does not condemn
the one and regard the other as in
nocent. Here is where it is time
for some one to tell us by what
fundamental principle of law that
woman becomes a criminal in the
act of prostitution, and the man,
accomplice, returns to his home
innocent of any crime
1--WE are told that we Il ave a
right to remove a nuisance. Sure.
But what right have we to take a
nuisance away from our part of the
town and place it III another sec
ton thereof? Haven't the decent
people living south of Third street
and west of Main just as much
right to be undisturbed by nui-
sance of sin as we have?
5.-Our city has administered to
it the anesthesia, that here they
are under control, otherwise they
could not be controlled.
An example or two may assist
us in determining the fallacy of
this statement. When one of our
saloon keepers violate the law, our
government closes doors, and if
thought necessary, revOkes license.
They have the saloon keeper under
control that far at least. When
Our prostitutes violate the liquor
law every day, our government
does what? Who is in control now!
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-15

fall of that nation, and yet they
scarcely equaled some of the orgies
of our own day. Worshipers be-
fore Venus and Bacchus conld have
experienced no greater abandon,
than some gatherings experience III
some of our recognized houses of
shame.
Could Nero, Caligula and Gaze
sar, with Cleopatra, return to this
earth life, possessing the same a
abandonment of body and soul as in
former days they would find them
selves outranked in the art of wo-
man seduction.
In this l am not comparing an
cient cities with modern cities, but
ancient vice vii h modern vice; and
the fact that it is here is the stuff
cient cause for us to be interested
in reference to the relation, that
we as a municipality. sustain to-
ward it,
FUNDAMENTAL. PRINCIPLES
All great questions have been
settled upon a few fundamental
principals of law. One of the
greatest mistakes made today by
individuals and corporations, alike;
is the disregard for the fundament-
al principles and the universally
of law.
By law were the great hills a
bout our city, the blue canopy a
bove us, and the fertile valley be
meath Our feet, formed. God gov
erns the falling stone and the crys
tai snowflake by the same law.
The beast of the field and the fowl
of the air are each guided by the
law of instincts. Man governs his
great engines by the law of the
steel rail and the Hanged wheel.
Soft wood may be veneered cop
per may be plated with gold,
but when you want the rose with
all of its beauty and fragrant odor,
you must feed the roots. Life is
made beautiful from within. and
not from without. Laws are in
exorable, and when Ellensburg
wants an enlarging type of man
mood and womanhood, one must
secure the same in harmony with
law. 1t is impossible otherwise.
THE BEGINNING OF CIVIL
GOVERNMENT
Standard law writer's start with
man in a state of nature. This
antedates civil government. We
can easily think of man without
civil law, but you can not think of
man without law. Should we dis
cover a continent on which the
feet of man have never yet pressed,
and should a colony of citizens go
there to found for themselves
homes, you can think of them
leaving all forms and customs of
civil law behind, but you can not
for one moment think but what
they would be under law, when
they landed on the new continent.
Each individual would demand
equal and just rights. Conduct
under such circumstances, would
be governed by what we call the
law of moral obligation. In such
condition, if every individual would
live in perfect conformity to this
moral law, there would be no need
of civil law. But we are men, not
angels. This something more than
moral law is necessary, not because
of the weakness of the law, but be-
cause of the errors made by man.
Civil law was never added to the
moral law to either restrict or ell
lar: e mans rights, but simply to
ma e the enforcement of known
right to be possible.
from this we have one of the
grr t fundament principals of all
ci>i law, viz: That right and
wrong ante. date civil law and are
not creators thereof. Right and
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-15

Commentaries on the Laws of ur-
isprudenCe of England and Amer
lea SAYS, The moral law is the e.
tcrnal and indestruCtible sense OF
justice and right, written by God
on the living tables of the human
heart. The moral law holds do
minion, by Divine ordination over
all, from which escape or evasion
is impossible
In Neb. 81 the court said:
Written constitutions sanCtlfy
and confirm great great principles,
but the latter are prior in existence
to the former.
Chief Justice John Marshall says,
The mere act of insttuting a
state government adopts, without
reducing them to writing, those
general. legal principals necessary
to secure the safety and authority
of the state as a body polite and
to preserve the constituent mem
bers in peace, safety, health and
morality, and these general, I'M
written, legal principles constitute
the common law.
1t thus becomes clear to every
thoughtful mind, that i'll the estab-
lishment of municipality, under
meath of all civil, law that may be
devised, there rests, unchanglng
and memorable, the moral or COM
mon law the eternal sense of JUS
tice and right. and escape therefrom
is neither possible or desirable.
For this reason, all municipalities
require of officers that they solemn
ly swear to support the principles
announced in the constitution. But
our supreme courts declare that
constitutions announce and con
firm great principles in existence
before the constitution. To sup
port the constitution, therefore. is
to legislate, judge and execute in
harmony with the eternal principles
of justice and right. This is not
unchanging as God 5 law, it is God 5
law, and binding upon every intel
ligent being By Divine authority.
Our charging type OF manhood
must come in harmony with that
law, or come not at all.
With this fundamental principle
of law before us, lew questions
are in order:
1.-Under this eternal sense of
Justice and right on which all Just
civil law is based. what have we as
municipality to establish a civil
conduct, suffering, permitting and
practically licensing prostitution,
one of. if not the greatest known
evilo Let this question be answer
ed by the law and not by sentiment
based uDOn vitiated custom and
practice.
2.-Recognizing that all rights
are by nature equal, and that civil
law neither increases or diminishes
the same. upon what eternal prlncl-
pie, what sense of justice and right
is the foundation of our municipal
government. requiring OF ten sa-
looms that each secure license fo.
selling liquors, and recurring 81
500 for the same, and yet permit
houses of prostitution aud certain
other organizations in Our city to
sell liquor without any license at all
Who will rise to answer
3.-All rights being equal, on
what fundamental principle of JUS
ticc and right does Our municipal
government refuse to allow saloon
keepers to sell liquor on Sundays
and certain hours of the night, and
yet knowingly permit prostitutes to
sell on Sundays and all hours of the
night
4.-Would our ten saloons be
willing for an eleventh man to es-
tablish a saloon and be granted the
privilege of selling liquor by gov
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The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-15
MUNICIPAL RULE
AND M|SRULE

The second, in a series of dis
cussions delivered by A. L. Grim,
nastor of the Christian church, FL
lensburg:
Helen Keller, under title of I
Must Speak" in the Ladies Home
Journal Of Jan. 1909, says in part;
False delicacy and prudery must
give place to precise information
and common-sense. 1t is high
time to abolish falsehood and let
the truth come in. Out with the
cowardice which shuts its eyes to
the immortality that causes disease
and human suffering
desire to make this statement
Of Helen Keller's my own, and as
far as possible, in this address, to
make my statements conform to
the evident truths therein announ-
ced. Add to the above statement
the significant words of our towns
man, Mr.. P. H. w. Ross, before a
large audience in the theatre this
afternoon, viz; The one object
for which Ellensburg seeks, and
the one thing for which she should
be noted, is her charging type of
her manhood and womenhood, and
it will be impossible for me to bet
ter declare my purpose.
Recently, from the platform,
Rev. Sharp truly and forcefully
said: Before we can act intelli-
gently as citizens we must be in
formed"
One Of the great philosophers
said: If we knew all things we
would make no mistakes, " and Mr..
James in his psychology teaches
that if we understood all things
there would be but one science.
The sad truth about the whole mat
ter is, that we neither know nor
understand all things and hence
make mistakes. For this reason
lhave sought information and not
criticism. No one has heard me
speak unkindly of our city, nor yet
Of her officers.
Dwellers upon the high seas,
search not only for safe path, but
when hidden rocks are found near
the frequented paths, light houses
are placed above the same and
maintained at great cost, in order
TO secure greater safety. Shall
dweller upon the high sea of life,
in the Twentieth century, and in
Ellensbnrg, be called Jaeger"
OF the town and of her officers. be-
cause he indicates dangers upon
which more than one ship of state
have gone down to rise no more?
1t 50, then I meekly submit, bnt
will continue to point out dangers.
Let me ask you to carefully distin-
gulsh between the social evil and
take the relation Of the municipality
toward social and kindred evils.
Inc latter, not the former is my
SUBJECT. So many have asked
Don't you know, Mr.. Grim, that
the social evil has been in existance
ourlng the ages, and that it will
eon''nue to be here when we are
gomez OF course l know that.
Does any one think that would be
Interested concerning the relation
F" Tue government toward a non
entity?
SOMETHING OF IT'S MAGNITUDE
Know not that it is in existence,
out know that the seduction of
women has become an art and
science, having more efficient grad
'a'eS tnan any of the arts and
* sciences of fife. No more svstema-
.z'd branch of work is known to-
oay IMAM that of the WHITE
SLAVE TRAFFIC, and every seq
sa'ea district OF vice becomes
recruiting station thereto. Not a
'a'e IN the Union but what is
tOl1Cho1 l.
The Ellensburg dawn. [volume] (Ellensburg, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1910-12-15

gain we see the country having
double standard of morals. Poly
gamv was right in Utah and wrong
in every other state Under such
circumstances, peace is unknown.
1t is contrary to establish princi-
pies Of all Just government, to
make polvgamy right in one state
and wrong in another If it was
right in Utah, it was right also i'll
Washington, and if it was wrong
III Vermont where Senator Ed
munds lived, then it was wrong i'll
Utah, and no majorities could
change the matter.
Certainly, Utah claimed a major
itv, and said, YOU cant prohibit it
and YOU can't make the people
moral by law. But Uncle Sam
was now thoroughly i'll sympathy
with the Lincoln idea, and said:
Polygamv is wrong, therefore ii
must die. ~
Then came the question, can it
be enforced? Here we may learn
a lesson how to make men moral
by law. Uncle Sam said we will
not leave this question to be en-
forced by those opposed to the law.
That is one sensible decision that
we ought to regard. SO Uncle Sam
went to Maine for a L. S. Attor-
ney and to California for L. 5.
marshall. The time came to CON
vene court. John Smith was
charged with living with twelve
wives, contrary to the law A jury
was ordered. The first set of men
summoned for that purpose were
all gentiles, and all opposed to
polygamv. The attorney for Mr..
Smith objected. Other men were
summoned, but each set was gen
tiles and all opposed 20 polygamy.
Result-Johl Smith and 800 others
were sent behind the bars for VIC
latine the law. That is the way to
enforce law. Place it i'll the hands
of men wanting it enforced. No
trouble at all, Utah asked for adj
mission into the Union. Uncle Sam
asked if they were willing to be
governed by a single standard, and
i'll the enabling act provided for
that question to be answced in no
uncertain way.
In the constitution of Utah we
have this interesting fact
Art. |. Polygomv is forever
| forbidden in Utah.
Art. II. Art. 1t shall never be
repealed.
This nation could not be at peace
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-04
| Wants WANTS

LoST-Plain gold band r ing on
south side C. J. Croninger's residence,
w. Delaware ST. Reward. Return to
Chieftain office. 166-tf
WANTED--White girl for general
house work. Mrs, D. M Marrs.
FOR RENT south rooms in mod.
ern house 800 S. Smith. 1869
FOR SALE-Building now occupied
by the Excelsior laundry. possession
given about Dec, 1st. This building
has $500 feet of floor space and is in
good condition. 1853. 8
FOR SALE OR TRADE Half inter-
est in drug store at Tulsa, Okla, that
will invoice about $4,000, See B. u.
Capps at Vinita Abstract Co. 167-tf
FOR SALE = Good lot 5Ox21O on
North Sixth street Mars addition.
Call at Purdy's shoe shop. tt
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-04
"The Man Of the Hour.

THE Man of the Hour" which VIII
be presented at the Auditorium No
vember II, is the basis of a fresh ex
position, that our copyright, as it ap
plies to play, Is joke. When the
play was written, George Broadhurst
the author, promptly went through the
process Of copyrighting It. This pro.
cess is more laboriods than expensive
for the fee is only 800. sent to the
librarian of congress. The theory is
that nobody else may employ the title;
the fact that million other plays Of
similar title may be copyrighted in
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-04

the time it takes to write out the form
and the receipt for the dollar. In the
course OF time the producers got a
warming from a Philadeiphian that
they were using his title and that he
would enioin them. As this was their
seventh warning of the kind. with the
seventh threat Of injunction. they did
not worry. but they did send an extra
5000 to the librarian of congress, and
asked that he make a search" to as
certain If the title had ever before been
used. Further, they requested a list
of al title that might be regarded as
colorado variant" and of those that
conveyed the same general idea as the
Broadhurst title. Here is the cata-
logue of title received in reply:
The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1910-11-04

There is no record with the librarian
to show that any Of those plays has
ever been acted; nor did his books
show that any Of the numerous auth
ors involved had ever let go of $1,000
for the purpose Of similar search. 2
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-19
WORK "a HOURS A DAY

The busiest little things ever made
are DR.. Kings New Life Pills. Every
pill is a sugar-coated globule Of
health that changes weakness into
strength languor into energy BRAIN
fag ito metal power; curing Con-
stipation. Headache Chills Dy-
spepsia; Malaria. 25c at Tschanen
Bros.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-19
DISPOSE OF THE
S7.23 BALANCE
Amount is Placed in the
County Fund.
EXAMINER SUGGESTS ACTION
Commissioners Laugh in
Their Sleeves.
They Now Wish to Know who has
the Right To Designate into which
Fund that $500 Conscince Money
Shall BE Placed.

Monday afternoon the county COM
missioners adopted a resolution TO
place the 1923 which has been causing
so much trouble in the county treas
ury. in the county fund. This smah
sum of money has been carried along
for wears and years. No one has been
able TO discover from where 1t came
and It has simply been balance car
ried separately and showing up III
every monthly and annual report oil
both the treasurer and the auditor.
state Examiner II. b. Sage II at
present going over the books OF the
various county officials and when ex-
amining the treasurers books, he dis
covered this balance. Mr.. Sage soon
found that II would be almost an
endless task to find the source of the
81. % and determined that the result
would not justify expense. He stated
that he was of the opinion that II
had accumulated one cent at a time
and that, therefore, there was no
need for tracing it back. He determn-
ed TO recommend TO the commissioners
that the balance be wiped out and
that the amount be placed In the
county fund. Acting upon the recon-
mendation, the commissioners, Mon.
day, did away with the troublesome
1923 and hereafter no separate item
in their reports will have to be car
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-19

ents when she was but six manths old.
Thirty-eight years ago she came to
Marion, and since that time lived a
beautiful and useful life within the
city. Eleven weeks ago she was talk
en- to her bed from which she has
never arisen. In her suffering she
was always patient and considerate
of others as she was in the days OF
health.
She is mourned by husband, two
daughters, Mrs. William Purcell of
Bellefontaine Mrs Leo Voelker of
Upper Sandusky, a son William O'Con
nor of this city, Four brothers, Mau-
rice, Richard, William and James
TObin of this city and three sisters,
Mrs II. r. Griffin. Mrs. G.. f. Glaze,
of Marion and Mrs. Bryan Moloney
of Prospect Mrs. William Tobin moth
er of the deceased also survives.
Funeral services will occur at the
st. Mary's church Thursday morning
at eight O'Clock. Interment will be
made in ST. Marys cemetery.
The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1910-07-19
Wash Suits

I1eu.
In this connection there might be
noted that there Is u difference oil
opinion as to who has the authority
to stipulate into which funds certain
moneys shall be placed.
1t will be remembered that some
months ago County Treasurer. w. G
Wattripg received a $500 conscience
money from some person who has
concealed his identity. The board of
commissioners, which was then com.
posed of w. Fl. Holverstott, ]. d.
Gillespie and Daniel Setter, deter
mined to place the $500 in the pike
fund. County Auditor Allen refused to
so certify to the county treasurer,
because he held that the $500 should
be placed in the general fund Over
this the commissioners and the audi
tor got at logger heads and the re-
suit was mandamus case brought
by the commissioners, to require the
AUDITOR to place the money in the pike
tuhu' rms case Is still pending In
the common pleas court.
The commissioners are now enioying
the situation very much. They feel
that If the state examiner shouId faoI
that they are the proper ones to
say INTO which fund the 1928 shouId
he placed they are the ones to
say into which fund the. $500 con :.
science money should be placed They
reel that this is straw which
SHOWS which way the wind is blow
ing ana that they will win IN ,ho,.
contention that the money which a.
the pike fund. p'aeed In