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The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
BANK BOOK is FAVORITE
Wife of Ebert Hubbard Declares
That Without 1t She Would
Lose Her Self Respect-Every
Woman Shold Love Economic
independence She Says.

NEW YORK, Oct. 31.-Some or
thodox notions anent the financial
physical dependence of wives upon
husbands, ran afoul of the intellec-
tual slapstick of Alice Hubbard. the
talented wife of Fra Elbertus. the
other day when she was asked what
was her favorite book. She bluntly
answered, MY bank book"
without my bank book 1 cannot
retain any self respect" she said.
land human being is poor indeed
who cannot keep his self-respect.
Part with anything before that. Now
my bank book stands for economic
independence. Every woman should
have her economic independence.
MY bank book is my divine right.
I mean by that that l have earned
the money that my bank book rep
resents, and my earning ability is in
one sense a measure of my power.
1t means that 1 am not a pauper. not
beggar, and it means that I do not
need to be a liar. 1t means in one
sense that l am not asking anybody
for anything, that I am Independent.
and that 1 do not have to sell my
conscience, my opinion, my integrity
in any way to pay for bread or cake
or warmth or shelter.
"In this twentieth century ] be-
| lieve that women have lost much Of
the strength that was theirs $50 years
ago. and not only in intellect, but IL,
general development. One hundred
and fifty years ago woman trained
for her business in life. Her bust
| ness in life was only one, and limited
pitifully. but it was not so limited as
the business Of the girl who has only
one business today.
"She has no time for hysteria, ner-
vous prostration, hospital experience
or social requirements such as the
twentieth century knows. In other
words, she had a business of her
own. There was no need of inter-
ference from her husband, and it
was very foolish man who interfer-
ed. Years ago a girls business was
to prepare to direct and care for a
household and to do it methodically
and WELL She prepared the flax and
wool for spinning. She spun. she
wove, she knitted. She made her
own garments and more. She made
her own household table linen, bed
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02

If we make our civilization perma-
nent we must protect ourselves from
the forces that injure that civiliZa-
ton. No man. nor aggregation of
men, have a right to injure the So
cial organism of which they from a
part. We conceive that the follow
ing principles are necessary to the
permanence of any civilization. First.
every member of society should con-
tribute something that is good for
society. Whoever does not is sup
ported by the members who do con-
tribute good Second. no one has a
right to injure the society of which
he forms a part. 1t was on this prin-
ciple that the supreme court of the
United States based it's decision
against the liquor interests of Kan
sas. who sued the state for damage
to their property on account of the
passage of the prohibitory liquor law
of that state. The court said, 1.-THE
agents of the people cannot barter
away the public health. CIR the public
morals. The people themselves can
not do it. Governments were consti-
tuted to conserve these interests. and
cannot barter them away"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
TRIBUTE TO OCTOBER

In the great northwest where In
dian summer reigns until late in the
autumn, fair days and sunshine are
expected. The following tribute to
October which appeared in the
Spokesman Review seems to be APP
p~opos in the Yakima valley.
October, to the thought of the Gales
in the Highlands Of Scotlands, bears
the name of Content" and is the
month Of contentment, May and June
are the months when springs new
birth of nature holds forth the prom
IT, and potency of flower and fruit to
crown the land with beauty. July
and August are summers opportunity
for nature to redeem that pledge, and
maize and wheat. apple. grape and
peach store the seasons fiery sun
shine and work their subtle resplend-
ent with the dying glories of the wan
ing year. is the month of splendid con-
summation.
October is autumn's month of maj
esty. Midway between the tropiC
splendors of summer and the polar
glories of winter. it stands in the We
netian magnificense of Titian's and
Tintoretto's matrons and clasps hands
with supurb July and pallid January.
With May it is one of the seasonal
glories that are peculiar to the tenn
perate zones. The tropics have no
such month as our northern October.
They have the name but not the
thing.
Its tingling morns and crisp ewes
lie the air, and this becomes nature 5
elixir of life that exhilarates one as
if it were sparkling, cool champagne
with beaded bubbles winking Ger the
brim." The day fills the blue urn of
the skies with kindly fire. The sun
warmed Moons have the genial fervor
of summer without the fierceness and
fever of it's heats From September
October inherits the coronal of beauty
glowing leaf and flaming brush and
cleaning fruit-and it causes the fairy
gold and gems and jewels of the in
herited crown to shine with redoubled
luster.
Mother Earth rests from her labors,
content with natures munificence and
bounty to men. The blue haze of burn
ing leaves and stubble tells that the
farmer is preparing for winter. But
the social life of men renews its ac-
tivties in mill and mart and school,
in art and law and literature and the
church. AS the chill days of murk
November near, shadowing October s
latter end with their pail, the human
activities of every sphere of the
worlds work clinch their grip upon
US and draw us back from the blest
fellowship with boon nature.
What a divine fellowship it Isl Ma
ture, the mighty mother of us all,
never betrays the heart that loves her,
When the blue heavens bend down
over the earth in mellow glory and
flood the world with warm and tend
er light, as they did all last week,
they breathe a benediction on the
troubled spirit that wakens praise.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
INVITE DEAD MAN TO PLEAD.

Whether the Indiana democracy,
which Is seeking to prevent the return
of Albert j. Beveridge to the United
States senate, is abreast of the times
or hopelessly out of date may be
Judged by the fact that the committee
in charge of the campaign of John w.
Kern, the candidate against Beveridge.
recently addressed letter to John p.
Altgeld, former governor of Illinois
inviting him to come to Indiana and
make a few speeches for Kern. Every
progressive voter in Indiana was
aware that John p. Altgeld had been
dead several years, but somehow this
loss to the nation had not fixed itself
in the memory of the Kern democrats.
They only remembered that he was n
powerful orator who in the old days
classed himself as a democrat. They
needed help and they called upon him
as a democrat, unmindful of the fact
that he had always opposed the inter-
ests against which Beveridge is now
lighting.
or course. it is always idle to specu-
late on what a man would have done
II he had lived to face new conditions.
Still, it is safe to assume that John =.
Altgeld would have ignored an appeal
to advocate the retirement of Bev-
eridge and the elevation of a Kern.
Among the many fine things said by
Altgeld in the days when he fought
to put manhood above money was the
following:
Every age has produced millions
of strong and industrious men who
knew no higher good than the dollar,
who coined their lives in sordid gold
who gave no thought to blessing the
world or lifting up humanity; men
who owned ships and palaces and the
riches of the earth, who gilded mean
ness with splendor and then sunk in
to oblivion. Posterity erected nc
statue to their memory, and there
was not a pen in the universe that
would even preserve a letter in their
names"
John p. Atgeld was one of the pio-
4, neers of the insurgent movement that
working in both the big parties, has
produced q Folk in Missouri and a
Beveridge in Indiana. Even if one
forgives the busy special interest
politicians along the Wabash for for
getting that he had passed from earth
one cannot understand the intellectual
density which inspired the message
inviting him to espouse the cause of a
man who, while a candidate for vice
president of the United States, made
his campaign tours on railway passes
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02

linen, blankets, portieres and rugs. If
she had then.
''She was not considered eligible
to marriage unless she had these
practical and valuable accomplish
ments. She developed character
when she was preparing and filling
her box and chest.
To-day there is telephone service
everywhere. She can call up the jan
itor the grocer, the dry goods store
the dressmaker, the milliner, all her
friends and enemies, and-the infor-
nation bureau. All of this does not
give exercise to body. brain or spirit
and discomfort and misery find easy
Judgment with her. Every woman
should have something to do. This
is her eternal salvation as wife and
mother. If | could have but one
book in the world 1 would prefer a
bank book, and when I have this
book ! can get all the other books
that | need. Then l shall find SER
mons in stones, books in the running
brooks and good in everything"
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
CLARENCE BARROW.

Clarence DarroW has come and
gone. His lecture was a masterpiece
of truth, error. sal caSm and humor.
When he talked about the inequit-
able distribution of labor he was
right. When he assumes that the
saloon is in any sense a remedy for
such inequitable distribution, he is
wrong. When he assumes that the
rich are made so, largely by Unequal
tiles of distribution, he is right. II
he assumes that the liquor trust js
not a monopoly that ODDS in fostering
this inequitable system. he Is wrong
When he says that the laborer should
have the product of his toll he Is
right.
If he thinks that labor can carry
the army Of manufacturers and sell
ers of liquors who are not produc
tive laborers, and still get the full
product of their TOLL he is wrong. He
heaps ridicule upon preachers. who
with all their weakness and errors OF
Judgment, spend their lives for the
good of others, some of them getting
less for a years labor than Darrow
probably gets for single night
When he pleads for the working man
who only gets 81 per day he is right
If he supposes that rich brewers are
going to pay him $500 per night to
sustain the saloon, without making
the poor pay it in drinks he is wrong.
barrow claims to be n socialist
We can show that he is an anarchist.
This does not prove that anarchy is
wrong, but Darrows plea is not the
plea of the socialist. The socialists
believe that Whatever the people
should have in order to live, should
be in the hands of the people, OAR
row believes the same. and thus far
they are together. The socialists be-
lieve in The abolition of all needless
and reproductive toll" They be-
lieve this, in order that the produce
tive laborers may have the product
of their toll. For this reason the So
cialist local in North Yakima ex-
pressed itself in it's platform against
the saloon.
barrow is defending the saloon,
which places the saloon as burden
upon the backs of the laborers. So
Cialists believe in the doctrine THAT
society of which he forms part They
believe that individual interest 5
should be made to subserve the in
terests of the society of which indi-
vidual units are aggregates. Darrow
emphasizes individualism. His plea
for personal liberty" Is the plea OF
the individualists. not of the social
Stir.
This individualism is the plea of
the anarchist, the principal plank IN
the philosophy OF anarchy. We do not
care to take up the fight between the
socialist and the anarchist. They are
doubtless able to fight their own bat
ties; but we desire to emphasize That
they stand at the antipodes of each
other: and that the plea of the saloon
for personal liberty" is the plea for
the privilege of injuring society. W c
do not claim that saloon advocates
generally know this, but Clarence
barrow knows it.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
WHAT ABOUT 1T?

II your son becomes a drunkard
will that help busciness? If so. whose
business will it help
If your brother becomes a drunk
ard will that help business?
If your father becomes a drunkard
will that help business?
If a whole community made up OF
fathers, brothers and sons become
drunkards, will it help the com
munity? If so how will it help and
who will it help?
They say, "If you pass liquor laws
you cannot enforce them"
If that is true, then we have Law
defyers, law registers, law haters, ant
that means that we have anarchists
Have we come to anarchy?
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
GOOD NIGHT! HERE'S SOME
THING THAT WORKS WHILE
YOU SLEEP

Hark! The old lever movement
clock. tariff-taxed 81 and 40 per cent
added on it's import value. strikes the
hour of bedtime.
Pa knocks the ashes out of his
pipe. taxed so cents a gross and
rs per cent additional, and kicking
his REPRESENTATIVE taxed shoes,
wends his weary way to the do
mains of Sunderland.
Seated on a willow chair, taxed As
per cent, he sleepily removes his tie
and collar, which are thrown over d
dresser, taxed 35 per cent, and places
his 17-jewel watch, taxed So, and an
additional 25 per cent, on the table,
taxed 95 per cent; he turns down the
light of a pretty glass lamp. taxed so
per cent. and settles down into pair
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02

One of the principal points in the
campaign for or against the saloon
has been overlooked. That point is.
that the temperance forces are not
trying to determine what a man
shall Gator what he shall drink. They
are trying to determine what shall be
sold as matter Of business. To IL
lustrate. there is no law against a
man eating tainted meat. If he wishes
to do so. There is a law that pro-
hibits the sale of tainted meat. Do
you see the difference ? If a mans
calf dies of tuberculosis. there is no
law to prevent his eating all his Stom-
ach will take; but there is law
that prevents his selling to others. If
a man wants to drink whisky, or
beer, or slop. there is no law to pre-
vent it: and in so far as we know,
there is no one clamoring for such a
law. The clamor is for a law that
prevents the sale
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02

IS. Because it furnishes "CIub
Rooms" where young men and boys,
who are permitted in a saloon do
congregate and drink all the liquor
they can force down.
10 Because it strikes down pros
perity and at the same time increases
i'ftemperance, disorder, immortality
and disrespect for law.
30. Because the saloon is all and
more than the worst that has been
said and is a constant menace to
the home. the church and the state.
Therefore, be it known to all men
that the saloon sis a threat against
the commercial, social and moral
welfare of every community"
Yours for a clean city,
f. c. WHITNEY.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02

The voters of Yakima county will
not fail to realize the necessity of
sending republicans to the legislature
this year. There will be some import
ant legislation on hand during the
coming session. Take, for instance,
the endorsement of the high line
ditch. A move is on foot to bring
that about. With a republican ma
jority in the legislature, as will be
the case. what could a handful of
democrats accomplish toward such an
achievement, no matter what their
qualifications otherwise? They would
be absolutely powerless. Central
Washington has no more command
ing problem than internal develop
ment, and voters will realize imme-
diately the necessity of keeping this
development to the fore. Every i'm
petus given development. means dol
lars in your packet. The men that
Yakima must send to Olympia are
Frank j. Allen. Walker Moren and
C. w. Chamberlain.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02

Charges which have been made by
the democrats against j. w. Day,
candidate for the Office of sheriff, can
not concern Mr.. Days record as an
efficient officer or cast any reflection
on his private life. AS deputy under
the administration of Sheriff Lancas-
ter, he has been the business head of
the office absolutely dependable and
conscientious in the performance of
his duty. 1t is not possible to make
good the charge of extravaganza un-
der the present administration, on
the basis of comparison with other
administrations. Prisoners are now
being fed for eleven cents whereas
the county formerly paid twenty. In
view of some stories circulated, these
few words of commentator are writ
ten in behalf of Mr.. Day.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02

Is anarchy the best we can do after
more than a century of struggle for
law, order, justice and freedom?
Remember, we do not assert that
the law cannot be enforced; the sa-
loon men assert it. But il their as;
sertions are true, they take the posi-
ton of criminals and anarchists. They
are convicted by their own arguments
Now do the civil citizens of this town
want to turn the government of this
city, over to that kind of men? II
they do, they need not expect any
thing but graft, and crime and con
troll by our worst men.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
AN EDITORIAL BY NOAH WEIR.
STEER

I'm truth our country cannot sus-
tain the present consumption of wood
for another century to come. We
must either reduce the annual con-
sumption within the limits of the an
nual growth or that time will arrive
when we must search the bowels Of
the earth for fuel
The first object that requires at
tention is to nourish and increase the
growth of the trees for fuel and tim
Der. Every farm should contain a
tract of land. covered with trees. the
annual growth of which should H.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
WHAT ABOUT FRONT STREET

Those who listened to Clarence OAR
rows speech on Personal Liberty at
the Yakima theatre Wednesday even
ing were treated to a very entertain
ing and clever discourse. Although
almost i'll enough to be in bed, Mr..
Darrow lived up to his reputation as
an orator and entertainer, and no
one regardless of his own opinions
on the subject at issue, could help
but share in the good humor with
which the speaker presented his ar
guments. The effort was worthy of
Clarence barrow and that is saying a
great deal.
However, it is doubtful If anyone
who listened to Mr.. barrow, came
away from the opera house with a
much clearer idea of the issue which
faces North Yakima. He was just
as clever in lodging the arguments
of the temperance cause which can
not be answered as he was in reduc-
ing to the absurd those argum ents
which can be answered, Because GER
tain people choose to devote them
selves to the cause of temperance
rather than to trades unions or So
cialism or the tuberculosis fight, is
not an argument against the temp
What the people of this community
want to know is, how to deal with
the effects of twenty-four saloons
when under any condition of morals of
good government half that number
would be ample from standpoint of
straight regulation, and just that num-
Der too many from the standpoint of
the common good. Mr.. Darrow says
that real students of political econo-
my do not advocate the abolition of
the saloon as a cure for poverty. Per-
haps it will not cure poverty, but all
the same, il the money expended in
saloons to the absolute detriment of
men and their morals. was not 50
spent, the community would be better
off. Mr.. barrow says that men might
spend their money for moving pic-'
ture entertainments or something
worse. But even Mr.. barrow ad-
mits that it would be difficult to find
anything worse" than booze to eX-
cess. And it must be admitted after
n survey of Front street. that North
Yakima has booze to excess. Mr..
barrow did not tell us what we are to
do about it.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
Editor Herald

Editor Herald
Inasmuch as / am a candidate for
councilman at large. which / think
is an office of great Importance, I
think that the citizens and taxpayers
of North Yakima have a right to
know something of what my policy
will be if elected. 1t will be my
aim to treat all questions that may
come up for the consideration of the
council fairly and impartially. l be-
lieve in handling the city's finances
as economically as the proper de-
velopment of the city will warrant.
I believe in giving all questions a
fair and impartial consideration and
in all questions it will be my aim to
deal fairly, and if elected l will try
to be a councilman at large in fact
as well as in name, and to give each
and every ward an equal considera-
ton as far as improvements are
concerned and | strongly favor d
strict enforcement of the law in
every particular.
Yours for good government,
j. NJ. BROWN,
Candidate for Councilman at large.
The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-11-02
Nineteen Reasons Why Not.

Editor Herald
In your advertising columns Of
Yesterday appeared a series of mine
teen reasons why prohibition should
be beaten" The series is compre.
hensive and carefully elaborated anG
SO nearly perfect that one is asham
ed to suggest a blemish. And ye
the author seems to have lost hi.
key word in the confusion of the
moment. If he will permit the sub
stitution of this key word for pro.
hibition' the harmony will be found
complete and we shall have the fol
lowing:
nineteen Reasons Why the Saloon
Should Be Beaten"
l. Because it is contrary to the
fundamental principles of personal
liberty and self government.
2. Because it undermines strength
and manhood and self-control and
promotes drunkenness and lust and
crime.
3. Because it checks the develop
ment Of free. liberal, progressive
civilization and degrades to a bond
age worse than the black slave ever
suffered.
4. Because it brings material dis
aster to North Yakima and reduces
the moral integrity of many Of its cit
izens.
S. Because it deprives a large num-
Der Of salaried persons and wage
earners Of the means Of support and
brings cruel hardship upon them.
their wives and children or those de-
pendent upon them.
8. Because 1t ruins many shop
keep RS and tradesmen
Z. Because it forces heavy losses
and ruinous sacrifices upon property
owners and home owners.
s. Because it gives nothing in re-
turn for what it destroys.
3. Because it depreciates proper
ty values and increases tax burdens.
10. Because it's advocates have
never given evidence of the ability
or disposition necessary to maintain
good government where they have
been in control.
H. Because it robs many families
of their support and vacates their
homes for rent"
u. Because 1t has been setting
back the population and growth and
progress of North Yakima for TWEEN
ty-five years and more.
13. Because it has changed great
sections of the growing metropolis
of central Washington into a condi-
ton far worse than death.
IA. Because it does not check in
temperance vice and crime hut on
the contrary. increases them and ag-
gravates the evils of the LIQUOR traf-
Ia Because the saloon and per
sonal liberty are neither identical
terms nor common causes. They
have no connection with each other
and we protest against linking them
together in the effort to force DAM
aging license laws upon North Yak
Anna
l6. Because it repudiates the folly
Of the regulating" system and de-
prives North Yakima of all legiti-
mate means of repudiating and SUI
pressing the liquor traffic.
II. Because the unlicensed. law
less underground den, blind tiger
and lootlegger. are sheltered by and
thrive under the prevailing system of
the So-called licensed. regulated. or
DERBY saloon"