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The midland journal., 1911-05-12

The spectacle of an officer at the Anna
polls naval academy objecting to the
presence OF young lady at an academy
dance on the heinous charge that she
was nurse, is an exhibition of snobbery
that shows the calihre of the officer.
Several members of Congress protested tc
the Secretary Of the Navy, who ordered
an apology made the young woman Re.
preventative corbly, of Indiana, is among
those who are not satisfied to let the
matter drop here, but insists that the
Secretary of Navy shall make it known
to every one whom it may concern at
Annapolis that woman's woman even
though she does earn her living through
toll.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

The country win suspend judgment
while the courts deal with the charges
against the labor leaders McNamara,
McNamara and McManigal. The crime
committed was most heinous one-too
horrible to impute to any one without
positive proof. No punishment is too
severe for men who resort to such crimes,
but the public will sympathise with the
members of the unions in assuming the
accused innocent until they are shown to
be guilty; and in condemning the resort
to kidnapping of the accused. If the
evidence should show the accused really
guilty the unions will be as quick to con-
denim them as the outside world will be.
for organized labor has no greater enemy
than the man who resorts to violence.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

Governor.

The AntiSaloon League announces
that il intends If necessary to take a
hand in the campaign for Governor. In
statement just issued the League says:
1T will do no good to elect legisla-
ture which will pass the local option bill
| if we permit the liquor interests to elect
a Governor who will veto it. The legis-
lature can be changed in two years but if
the liquor traffic gets the Governor it
means four years delay.
THE League does not ask either party
to declare against the saloons, but earnest
lly appeals to the leaders OF both parties
to cooperate with it in preventing bitter
and wholly unnecessary fight on the local
option question this fall by nominating
men who will delcare in favor Of hand
ing the liquor question back to the
people for decision
"The League has no candidate in either
party and is not trying to dictate either
nomination, and If the Democratic party
uominates good man who is satisfactory
on this question the League will not
oppose him. But Of those candidates al
ready mentioned it will especially oppose
Col. Buchanan Schley, because in the
recent Washington County campaign he
stood for the saloons when the question
was voted upon, and by standing for the
repeal of the Washington County law
took away from the people of his home
county the right to vote at all. 1t will
also oppose Gen. Murry Vandiver, the
Democratic State Chairman, who for two
sessions has used his personal and official
influence to defeat the local option bill.
"The League has spent four years and
l$75. 900 building an organization in pre-
paration for this years fight. and the
contest will become increasingly bitter
until the local option bill is passed =
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

~
Congressman Kent, insurgent repub1i
can. from California. who defeated stands
pat Duncan McKinlay last fall, used the
following in his successful campaign:
Duncan makes it clear to me
That what Illose gain, you see;
And on snch things as clothes and shoes
! seem to gain but really lose
Thus if.I buy my socks too low,
They'll still be higher he says so,
And shoes though they were high last
Fall
Were really low shoes after ALL
If pay less for shoes
Or hats, the maker has to lose.
And if he loses, then you see, u
He charges up the loss TO me.
Now. when have TO pay him more,
He reckons profit to his store
And Duncan finds share for me
In all of this prosperity
The speeches shed radiant light
Upon the theme and make it bright;
/ merely read them DER and DER
To find more's less and less is more.
In buying hat or coat or~vest,
Dear's cheap. and cheap is dear at best,
Highs low, lows high, far's near, near's
far,
Whites black, blacks white--and there
you are.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

Victor Berger, of Milwaukee. the
socialist member of Congress. introduced
a resolution to abolish the United States
Senate and take from the courts authority
to invalidate legislation of the House Of
Representatives. The resolution is pro
posed as an amendment to the constitu-
tion, which, if petitioned for by FIVE per
cent. of the voters in each state, shall be
submitted TO general referendnm.
Berger declares the Senate. which has
long been the stumbling block to pro-
gressive legislation, has run its course,
and will eventually be compelled to yield
to the popular demand for its reforma-
tion or be abolished.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

The Interstate Commerce Commission
has fiually determined to investigate the
express companies, These concerns have
been rolling in wealth for years. realized
from the extortionate rates charged for
service and it ought not be difficult mat
ter for the Commission to secure abun-
dant evidence if it really wants it, In
addition to its regular dividend of 20 per
cent, the Adams Express Co. has paid
extra dividends ranging as high as 200
per cent. Having its paid representatives
in Congress the express companies have
blocked all legislation for years, that
would have tendency TO prevent their
robbing the people by the amazingly high
rates they have been permitted by the
Government to collect from the people
But there is time coming after all these
years when the people wiilhave their say,
as these Congressional express represen,
Natives are having their places filled BY
nien who have not sold themselves to the
big corporations.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12
Do Ghosts Haunt swampsp

No, never. It's foolish to fear a
fancied evil, when there are real
and deadly perils to guard against
in swamps and marshes, bayous,
and lowlands. These are the
malaria germs that cause ague,
chills and fever, weakness, aches in
the bones and muscles and may
induce deadly typhoid. But
Electric Bitters destroys and casts
out these vicious germs from the
blood. ''Three bottles drove all
the malaria from my system, y
wrote VIM. Fretwell, of Lucama,
N. O., .'and I've had fine health
ever since. " Use this safe, sure
remedy. Only SOC at Eli T. Reyn-
olds.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

The income tax amendment to the con
stitution. which was plank in the last
Democratic national platfrom, has now
been ratified by thirty states. To insure
its acceptance thirty-6ve states are
necessary. Only four states Louisiana,
New Hampshire, Rhode Island and West
Virginia declared themselves in
the negative. This leaves twelve states
from which to secure the necessary FIVE
votes to make the amendment part ol
the constitution. An income tax is
practically assured. When it is fully
adopted another of the great measures
started by the Democrats years ago will
have been accomplished.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12
The Country Newspaper.

"a country newspaper man has
to treat everything from the time
Noah experienced the rise of high
waters up to the minute, and he
generally has about minute to do
it. He must laugh with you, be
must cry with you, and look
pleasant when everyone else is
belittling the town and community
and to do this he is not given the
time to retire to his own apart
ments where books and data are at
his command, but he must take his
chances with the general run of
things during the day. He is ex-
pected to whoop it up for every
thing.
"Yon have every now and then
a person who will bring you an
article and ask that it be published,
but when you ask that they sign
their name they will side step in
four or five different languages,
cough slightly and finally wind up
by saying they could not do that
because it would hurt their bust
ness. 1t don't make any difference
about the newspaper mans bust
ness. i have often wondered how
many friends some people would
have if they had to reduce their
utterances to writing every day..
that the people might study them.
'sOn the other hand you would
be surprised at the number of men
in every community that refuse to
take a stand on public policy.
They are trimmers for business
reasons. The newspaper man has
the opportunity to know them
better than any other business man
in town. The newspaper is ex-
pected to advocate this or that if it
has to do with the npbnilding Of
the town or community no matter
who is for or against it. OF course
there are some jelly fishes in the
newspaper business the same as
every other, but take my word for
it, they ,are:not running much of a
newspaper. want to ask you if|
you do not have more respect for
the newspaper or the man that
takes stand, even if he be against
you, than you do for one of those
wishy washy things that is trying
to please everybodyq
"The average community is not
on the square with the newspaper.
They expect everything from it and
give nothing in return. If the
newspaper would say as mean
things about the town and people
and keep persistently at it as some
people do, there would be mob
formed in less than 48 hours an
the editor would either be hung or
ridden out of town on a rail -
Exchange
The midland journal., 1911-05-12
Spring Arithmetic.

It was the busy hour of a.
When from city hardware store
Emerged gentleman who bore
hoe.
spake,
wheelbarrow.
From thence our hero promptly went
Into seed establishment
And for these things his money spent:
peck of bulbs,
lob lot of shrubs,
quart Of assorted seeds.
He has garden under way
And if he's fairly lucky. say.
He'll have about the last of May
squash vine,
egg plant.
radish.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

Another thing we
are keeping in this
line this year is
Flower-B Bed Guard.
It has poultry wire
"beaten to a frazzle. =
# you don't believe
it. let us prove 1t to
you. 1t makes the
n cate st. stro nge st,
most effective, guard
for flowers that you
could imagine. ano
it's not high in price
either. AS the cut
shows. it has sharp
prongs to push into
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

may not paralyze a home so com
pletely as a mothers long illness.
But DIR. Kings New Life Pills are
splendid remedy for women.
"They gave me wonderful benefit
in constipation and female trouble''
wrote Mrs. M. O. Dunlap, OF
Leadill, Tenn. If ailing, try them.
26c at Eli T. Reynolds.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12
Let's Have q Little Talk
ABOUT
LAWN FENCE AND FLOWER BED GUARD.


known
We hope what will o you.
the place. off,
much nice fence around it reputation keeping
Then it isn't expensive either If tits properly will last lifetime
roll
that much will off whatever gives good
idea about how locks Let before
day. Tomorrow be late
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

the ground. thereby
doing away wildwood
which is bound to rot
in time. Don't get
your wife's everlast-
ing displeasure by
m owing down her
flowers, when you can
protect them for 50
little mo n ey. We
want you to see this
wire. If you go away,
disappointed. we will
be surprised. Were
busy, but not too busy
to give you our best
attention.
The midland journal., 1911-05-12

The judiciary committee of the senate
has favorably reported the resolution
providing for the direct election of United
Satates senators. All the democratic
senators present and three progressive re-
publicans voted for the resolution.
The Washington times., 1911-05-04

school and other public gardens, and
my generation of experience has been
that 1t is useless to improve a front
yard unless three-foot fence incloses
it l have counted thirty-three classes
OF biped and quadruped which devastate
front yards. My list starts with the
postman and policeman, and ends with
the dog who buries bones ad infinitum
The list includes milkmen, bakers, gro
cerymen, horses, cows, chickens, the
families of the neighbors whose front
yards are deserts, that of the more dis
tant citizen whose children need posies
for teacher. or something to use
stick on, but not the drunk who seeks
a bed of roses on his way home. He
is the thirty-fourth.
In far Northern city (where, by the
way, they have a curfew law) my
brother can grow his flowers and vege-
tables in plain view and easy reach of
the pavement, and unmolested. In
Washington, however. We have lib
erty." and plenty of it. especially with
the property of others. and must there
fore live with shotgun across the lap
or inside fortification if we would en-
joy the raising of flowers or an un-
tracked lawn. w. E. A.
The Washington times., 1911-05-04
SAYS BRADY'S CIGARETTES
MAY EXPLAIN MUCH
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
DIR. Cyrus Townsend Brady advertises
himself as opposed to equal suffrage.
His argument is as freakish and silly
as the rliIe-wide hat and the hobble
skirt. Fools wear these and fools talk
as he does. Woman is a female,
therefore she should not vote. Man Is
Cf noted divine" Isn't there some
mild way to kill of these "divines' and
give room for reason? If the masses
would cease to throw their money to
them and seek useful entertainment,
the silencing of such idiocy and the
Improvement of mental conditions at
large would come. A celebrated au-
thor" indeed! Celebrated for nothing
that will live-dTiftwood is the name
for it. In his books on the Indian wars
of the later time he did a good service
by obtaining personal letters from
actors in scenes; these constitute about
the only value of his writings, and are
not his. / have seen in the public print
that he Is a cigarette smoker. II true,
1t explains to me Brady's defects. There
are unspeakable men as well as un-
speakable women. Bnt what has this
melancholy fact to do with the impor-
tant fact of equal suffrage? My wife
has not only exercised her "god-given
heritage of rearing five children and
doing it well. but she now attends the
polls regularly since her enfranchise-
ment, and believe she casts a more in
teIligent ballot than the NOTED divine,''
DR.. Brady, is capable Of doing.
sPARTACUS
The Washington times., 1911-05-04
SAYS HIS CRITIC SHOWS
UNCONSCIOUS HUMOR
To the Editor of THE TINES:

To the Editor of THE TINES:
MIR. Crowley's mental confusion helps
n ore than 1t hurts Socialism. He says I
am personal; but he does not say I
quoted him incorrectly when he wrote
in favor of superstition of religion" Z"
an affection of his mind painfully plain.
He admits my affirmations; even cites
the Denver platform TO confirm my posi-
ton; then charges that the plank in
the platform is a lie. and attempts to
support his ipse dixit with two quota
tions touching the question, both of
phich are unofficial, irresponsible and
unrecognized, expressing the prejudices
of the authors and not the sentiments
of the party. AS a Socialist am bound
by my platform, not by what two
strangers have said about 1t. When
Mr.. Crowley plunges hrs climax into a
paradox he is unconsciously facetious.
He quotes: 1.-The Socialist party is
primarily an economic and political
movement. 1t is not concerned with
matters of religious belief" Then he
permits his disgruntled delegate, who
confesses that he did not get in the
convention what he wanted as a relig-
ious declar alton, to say that this plank
was incorporated in the Socialist plat
form against overwhelming opposition -
Surely an opposition that was over
whelrning could have kept 1t out. But
Mr.. Crowley is more bitter than logical.
Two hundred words are Inadequate
against 9 writer who Is allowed 800;
The Washington times., 1911-05-04
WANTS BERGER'S DISTRICT
TO USE THE "RECALL'
To the Editor of THE TIMES:

To the Editor Of THE TIMES:
Berger go Braghr' or words to that
effect. Long have we waited for a
Moses to lead US out of bondage and
the wildernessI We who have all along
thought we knew something about gov
ernment now see our mistake We SIM
ply do not know how TO fasten the safe
ty pin of its swaddling clothes But now
comes the man, who by his position as
as alderman of Booseopolis, has de-
monstrated the perfection of his ideas
of government.
We should have been able to have
foreseen this, had we but stopped one
instant to consider the great freedom
and progressiveness of civil liberty Mr..
Berger enjoyed before he came to this
country. He should have made his ad-
vent in America conditional upon our
first setting up the proper form Of
government, but it's too late now. We
may be Reubes, but we draw the line
at betting good hard money after we
see the pea does not happen to be un-
der either shell.
Mr.. Berger might make a beginning
with his propaganda though by SUBJ
mitting the recall to his own district
This Is one of the mildest of his tart
runs, and If there is one burg In this
benighted land with a valid excuse for
trying even such an innovation it is
that town Of Milwaukee.
JOHN S. SHARP.
The Washington times., 1911-05-04
BRIBERY BECOMES POSITIVE
LY BAD FORM.

1t is only few years since a dis
tinguished American public man cyni
cally referred to bribery as a "conven
tional crime" 1t was-and is-but i
is getting to be mighty bad form whel
you are caught at it, and, what is still
more exasperating to enterprising gen
tlemen with conventional" morals, il
is getting to be almost dangerous.
There are two statutes which have
most intimate concern with public
morality, that are almost dead letter.
on the statute books of this country
State and Federal. One is directed
against perjury, the other against
bribery.
When men are brought to realize
that he who holds up his hand and
lifts up his voice before God in pledge
that he will tell the truth, and who
then lies, is at least in danger of jail
there will be more honesty. Men
nowadays have more fear of jai! than
of hell. The laws should accommodate
themselves to conditions. The peni.
tentiary can be made exceedingly con,
crete and effective as a preventive of
perjury, even if the fear of divine
wrath has departed from n.any hearts.
Bribery and perjury ale very init
mately related. The public official
who receives a bribe necessarily per-
jures himself, for he is sworn to ad-
minister his office hon 'stly. Defense
against bribery charges is commonly a
fabric of Perjured inventions. Bribers,
bribe- takers, and peri Irers should all
be treated alike.
Compare the things that have lately
developed in connection with the Lori
mer case, with the testimony taken
last year before the grand and peulI
juries, and one must be shocked at
realization of how matter r-of-fact an
affair perjury has been in connection
with that affair. Turn to the develop
ing scandal in the Chic Legislature,
and he will be just as forcefully i'm
pressed that only a similar carnival in
perjury can save many men from dis
grace and prison.
One in every four members of the
Ohio Legislature is accused of taking
bribes, and near a score have been in
dicted. The Adams county affair is
fresh in mind, and if recollection is
not inaccurate, leading citizen of
Cincinnati is still fighting with the
weapons of technicality against trial
for perjury. Ohio is giving us a fine
demonstration of the benefits possible
when these laws are taken seriously.
If the whole nation would take them
likewise, we would have less occasion
for lamentations about decadent public
morals.
The Washington times., 1911-05-04
PROTESTS AGAINST HIGH
AVERAGE OF RENTS
To the Editor OF THE TIMES

To the Editor OF THE TIMES:
I write in the interest of the poor
house renters-those that can't af-
ford TO own their homes, but have to
hustle to get the rent in time to keep
shelter over their heads-no rent,
no home.
The cost of food has decreased and a
dollar has a better show. Your paper
has sure got 'em on the go. Now. for
the real estate agents, give them a
body blow. In the past few years they
have showed up the rents till we al
most have to shed tears and our
minds are filled with fears that our
grasping landlords will order US to
move because we haven't the dough
to pay. 1t is very, very tough and we
have nearly had enough of the rob-
bers bold and rough who treat us
like a lot of slaves and not even as
good as that, so stir them up. Show
them up, blow them up, and keep It
up. What our cry should be Greater
Washington, the city of cheap rents
and happy homes. a fair profit to the
, landlord, but not confiscation of all
the poor man can earn. Rent, food,
and shelter are the most neces-
sary articles and should be cheap to
the poor. ONE OF THEM.
The Washington times., 1911-05-04
NASHVILLE SETS EXAMPLE
FOR WASHINGTON.

Nashville, Tenn, has just set an
example that Washington-and many
other cities of the country-would find
it worth while to consider. The ex-
ample is offered in telegraphic COM
munication which Commissioner Ru-
dolph received last week from the
Nashville Industrial Bureau, a civic or
ganization. Here it is:
We have s15O,OOO to advertise Nash
vile. We want bright youths under
eighteen to tell US how to spend 1t. One
hundred dollars will be given for the
best plan submitted by May 20. Please
communicate this to the boys and girls
Of your city.
The example is not found in the ac-
tion of the people of Nashville in
seeking ways and means to advertise
their city. 1t is found in the fact that
SO great sum as $l5O,OOO has been
raised for advertising purposes. Stop
a minute and think what that means.
Nashville has population of 0,364,
according to the census of 1910. That's
small number of people to produce
an advertising fund of $l5O,0O0; the
contribution would amount to $I.S6
each if exactly divided among the in
habitants, yet the people of Nashville
have raised it. And now they are 60
ing, to spend it.
Fortunately, Washington doesn't
need to advertise. 1t must do other
things, however, if it is to become the
city which its citizens hope to see it
become. To do those things-for in
stance, to build a convention hall-it
must dig down into its jeans and
produce real money.
Such spirie as the citizens of Nash
vile display is the spirit that builds
cities. Without it cities stand still or
progress slowly and uncertainty. We
need more of that spirit in Washing
ton.
The Washington times., 1911-05-04
IFPULOUE WERE THE WEAPON
OF WAR.

Captain" Jack Mosby, son OF the
Confederate guerrilla leader, has estab'
lished to the satisfaction of any rea,
sonable man the fact that he was not
killed by Diaz's soldiers in Lower Cali,
fornia. There was an earnestness IN
his eye and a sincerity in his voice, as
he argued the matter in the office OF
The Washington Times, which left nc
shade of suspicion upon his alibi. The
medical certificate he carried with him
was based on a thorough physical ex-
animation, and should not be lightly
impugned.
Incidentally, he threw out ta sug-
gestion which is worthy of more than
passing consideration. He explained
that the only Mexican ambush that
ever got him was made out of pulque,
and added: "If they would fight with
pulque down there, instead of guns,
they would have the whole country de-
populated in three months" Even by
so slight a token Captain" Mosby
shows that he knows his Mexico-and
its pulque. Those who have dallied
with it are unanimous in their testi-
mony that it is mere liquid form of
gun cotton. The saki OF the Japs, the
vodka of the bearded Russians, even
the heady koumiss of the fierce Tartar
tribes, are but weak and watery re-
freshments compared to it. The very
bouquet of it breeds a street brawl, and
glass of it foments a revolution.
The man who is foolish enough to say,
"a little more of the same," does so
with his hand on his hip pocket and
an exclamation between a curse and
a prayer.
If hostilities in the disturbed repub-
lie should reach point. where pulque
bouts replaced the tented fields the
slaughter would, indeed, be swift and
certain. The Red Cross, with an am
bulance of aromatic spirits for every
victim, would be too late to meet the
emergency. At the end of three
months-aye, in a month-the revolu-
tion would be at an end, but table
lands of Mexico, where the combatants
had met, would look like Verestcha-
gems battle pictures of desolation.
Captain" Mosby has shown himself
strategist worthy of his ancestry,
but it is hoped he will not urge his
appalling plan of determination.