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The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-23

The Exponent is actually getting
friendly. 1t used to be the Den
ham-Highland ring" with it. Now,
It says "the so-caIIed Denham-
Highland ring" After while it Will
declare that no ring ever existed.
why all this wisdom so suddenly?
Has it been so long teething?
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-23

Brykn's newspaper says ''back to
the people" He fails to add that
his own state went back. The Re
pub1fcans swept It at the recent
election.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-23

Judge Moss for Congress! That
Is a winning slogan for the RepublI-
cans of the Fourth district.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-23

q Samuel montgomery for con-
Rressman-at-large would certainly
-show,..the public what Samuel can
do. He IS a good runner and a
good fellow. too.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-23

az. Judge Moss Is given the nomi-
nation in tile Fourth district for
Congress, he will send john Hamil-
ton back to the place In Calhoun
county, where moss grows.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-23
EVenine Echo.

TO the attentive eye each moment
OF the year has its own beauty and
"a the same field 1t behoIds every
hour a picture which was never
seen before. and which shall never
be seen again.-EMERsoN. =
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-23
Special Display and. Sale
OF Ne1v-AH Wool And
Worsted Dress Goods
soc Yard.
5Oc Yard.
mIDAY. NoVEAEBER 24th.

d I've have Just received large 81 iprnent q
new winter dress goods thatswil be d1spla g
for yoIIr selection Friday Many pieces were
purchased BY us at liberal concession IN price,
Of which we offer you the benefit.
All the popular colors in all-wool sarges'
staple colors and delicate shades IN all WOOL pa
tiste for evening gowns, the popular manlllsIl
cloths and novelty fabrics for Suits and Skirts,
shepherds plaids, English wersteds and nome
spuns.
The largest and most varied line OF dress
fabrics we have ever shown at the pr1ce-SOc
yard.
The daily telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1901-1926, 1911-11-23
POWER
all their powers to the officials

C,onrrnuen rrnm paEe
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19

melody for go-sIowing Your battle-cry has
sunk into the courtier purr.
And you have deserted-iust as the %
scoundrels did, on March Is, 1909!
You have gone over to old Joe Cannon,
just as Lon Livingston did In fact, you
have done more for that old Hessian of the
Interests than Livingston was able to do.
Old Lon could only get one traitor at
time. Ions help came in driblets
I've got you another Georgia vote, Joe"
''Thats good, Lon
That was how it was in 1909: but in 1911,
after the elections, you, Champ Clark, led
nearly ALL the Democrats over to Cannon
You threw the mantle of approval over the
% deserters, by following their example.
You, the official Democratic leader, ordered
the entire Democratic force to the support
of the stsndpat Republicans, and all but a
handful obeyed you.
Houe you no fear that the common people
mag resort to some Of TIE METHODS
THAT WE'RE EMPLOYED AGAINST
TORIES, By orr Revolutionary ancestors?
The same hot blood is in our veins, Old
Hoss; and we are rapidly reaching the con-
clusion that we have been throwing tufts Of
grass, long enough
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19

greater price on HARWOVY than on
DUTY. You not only forgave those scoun-
drels, but you virtually asked their constitu-
ents to do the same thing. You made gen
eral effort to save them ALL and you made
special effort to save Pussy foot Howard.
In spite of you, Old Mister Peepul and I
got" your pet, Howard; and, also, the lech
erous old political prostitute, Lon Livingston.
But your support enabled Gordon Lee,
Calico Charley, and Pompous Bill BrantIey
to escape, for the time. (IVeW get them, be-
fore ace quit.)
Now, Sir, you are going from bad, to
worse Since the election, yo~'ce changed
yOur time.
The Powers-that-b be have summoned you to
New York, and have Toasted you sumptu-
ously. You have been wined and dined by
the representatives of the Trusts and other
Wall-streeters. You have been led up on the
mountain, as it were. Consequently, YOU are
not the same Champ Clark who beloved so
virtuously for lower tariffs. You no longer
roar over the wrongs inflicted upon O. M.
Peepul, Esq.
You are now a conservative of the most
pacific sort. Your once raucous bruit against
Special Privilege, is become a haut-boy
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19
le Tariff Again And the People Should Bring

what line Of the Constitution does President
Taft draw his authority for signing bills for
extra wages and reasonable profits for my
line of business?
The only purpose for which duties can be
collected at the Custom house is that of rails
ing revenues to pay the expenses of the
Government The Protective principle is
utterly abhorrent to our fundamental law,
vet Mr.. Taft serenelv assumes that the Con-
stitutiOn empowers the Government to legis-
late ''extra wages" into the hands of certain
bread-winners, and reasonable profits" into
the pockets of certain capitalists. The very
fact that he does this, in an official message.
is the best evidence of how far he is from
base
The Supreme Court of the United States
claims and exercises, the right to set aside
acts of Congress that are unconstitutional; [
have always wondered why no one has ever
brought test case against the abominable
protective tariffs I am told that the reason
is that the preamble carried in such bills in
varlably deSignates them as "bills to raise
revenue" The name given to a bill in the
preamble is no estoppel to a legal investga-
ton of the character of the bill itself If
Congress should appropriate forty million
dollars for rivers and harbors, and should call
it a revenue bill, would that fix the legal ma
trre Of the bill? Obviously not
The court would have a perfect right to
examine the Payne-Aldrich bill to determine
whether it is intended to raise revenue or
was meant to protect American industry. The
character of the schedules, the mani pulation
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19
O. Test Case

course is the best Judge. Now, in order to
carry out this lovely program, which prom
ises such felicity to the comparatively small
number of workmen engaged in the protected
industries and to guarantee reasonable" pro
fits to the comparatively few capitalists, who
enjoy the vast advantages of the proposed leg
islatiOn the foreigner must be charged, at
the Custom-house, a license fee before he can
enter our market, which license fee he, of
course adds to the price of his goods.
As you have already learned, the fact
that the forei gner has to mark up HIS
goods, gives the American a chance
to mark HIS up, too, and inasmuch
as he sells at least five times as great
quantity of his own goods as the foreigner
can dispose of, under Tariff disadvantages,
the American manufacturer gets five times as
much out Of the law-made situation as the
Government gets at the Custom-houses
It has already been explained to you, how
that addition to the price which the Custom
house duty caused to be made, follows the
goods to the last purchaser; therefore you
will see that the cool proposition is to take
from the great mass of unprotected laborers,
farmers, merchants, lawyers, doctors, preach
ers-in fact, the great unprivileged masses
THAT EXTRA MONEY which is to pay
those alleged extra wages and those alleged
reasonable profits.
Now, let us 90 back bit: from what
source does Congress derive the power for
enacting any such legislation as that? From
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19

lively few men who MUST be presumed to
have read the Constitution. There can be no
doubt that he has listened, time and again,
to arguments involving constitutional ques-
tions yet if you have to Judge him by his
official utterances as Chief Magistrate of the
Confederacy. you would say he was utterly
ignorant Of the Supreme Law of the land.
DO you remember his language? It was, in
substance, that the Tariff should be so made
as to equalize the cost of production in this
country and abroad; and admit of such
wages as to maintain what he CLAIMED to
be the higher standard of living of American
workmen; and then, finally, to allow the
manufacturers a reasonable profit on their in
vestment.
To put this in different language, which
will explain his meaning more clearly, it Is
claimed that manufactured articles can be
produced more cheaply in foreign countries
than in our own, therefore, the American
manufacturer, keenly alive to the welfare of
his workmen, and eager to pay him the best of
wages in order that he may live in that per-
feet comfort which is so universal with our
working GLASSES, must be permitted to pay
higher wages than prevail in other coun-
tries. After having provided first, for
the absolute comfort of the wage-earner,
the American manufacturer should be al
lowed a reasonable profit, of which he, of
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19

e11@19 level best to save those infamous De
serters who richly deserved to have had their
internal heads blown off. They had gone
over to the stand-pat Republicans; and had
given old Joe Cannon the aid which made it
possible for him to retain the power to pack
committees, and thus jam the damnabe new
tariff through the House.
By reason of this base desertion and be-
trayal of their constituents, these bzach-
hearted sc0andrezs made 1t easy for the Trusts
to add enormously to the cost Of H0ing. Just
how many good citizens have been ruined by
the new law-just how many have been
driven to crime or suicide by it-God alone
knows. But the daily record of suffering and
of starvation and of deaths from despair, is
enough to sadden the heart of Satan, him
self.
But you, Champ Clark, had no indigna-
ton, divine or otherwise, against those De
serters. After your first explosion of anger,
you allowed them to rest in peace.
You set party a6o0e principle, and set q
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19

EFT us now examine the statement made
by President Taft in his last message
to Congress. By profession he was
lawyer, and he served many years on
the Bench as a Federal Judge; con-
senuentlV he is one of the cOmDara-
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19
Fl WORD TO YOU, CHAMP cLARr!

T YOU don't want to catch the very
devil, when you return to Missouri,
you'd better mind what you are doing.
Last year, you butted in on the
Georgia campaign; and you did your
level best to save those infamous De
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1911-01-19

CONCLUDED ON PAGE NINE. J
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16

Is it true that self-preservation is
the first law of nature?' Listen to
this from the St. Paul Rural Weekly:
A fearful storm swept the Dakota
prairies the other day. Two Yank-
ton Indian women, each with a baby
In her arms, were caught in it far
from human habitations. What did
they do? Took off their blankets.
wrapped the babies in them, crooned
them to sleep. and lay down and
froze to death. The babies were
found alive and well.
No, the sordid law of self-preser-
walton is not the first law of nature.
There is another and higher one
the law of love. And it rules even
in the breast of the untutored saw
age"
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16
EDITORIAL.
Misery.

Misery.
Matter for publication in The
Mirror is almost exclusively contrib
uted by the inmates of the prison
although contributions from the out
side world are solicited. Under the
general caption, Psalms from Yellow
Creek, signed F. E. H., an original
poem on When Tetrazzini Sung was
printed in the issue of January s."
The above is taken from the Show
World, a high class theatrical publ
cation of Chicago The aforemen-
toned poem was also reproduced
and commented on in the St. Paul
Dispatch. Mr.. F. E. II. is an orig
inal and able writer and produces
some very readable stuff, both hui
morous and otherwise.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16
Don't Wait.

If you have friend worth loving,
Love him. Yes and let him know
That you love him ere life's evening
Tinge his brow with sunset glow.
Why should good words ne'er be said
Of friend until he's dead?
If you hear a song that thrills you
Sung by any child of song,
Praise it. Do not let the singer
Wait deserved praises long.
Why should one who thrills your
heart,
Lack the JOY you may impart?
If you hear prayer that moves you
By it's humble pleading tone,
Join it. Do not let the seeker
Bow before his God alone.
Why should not your brother share
The strength of two or three in
prayer?
If you see the heart tears falling
From a brothers weeping eyes,
Share them. And by kindly sharing
Own your kinship with the skies.
Why should any one be glad
When brothers heart is sad?
If silvery smile goes ripping
Through the sunshine on his face,
Share it. IT'S the wise man s saying
For both grief and joy place.
There's health and goodness in the
mirth
In which the honest laugh has
birth.
If your work is made more easy
BY friendly helping hand,
Say SO. Speak out brave and truly,
Ere the darkness wells the land.
Should a brother workman dear
Falter for word of cheer?
Scatter thus your seeds of kindness,
All enriching as you GO
Leave them. Trust the Harvest
Giver,
He will make each seed to grow.
Sc, until it's happy end,
Your life shall never lack friend.
George Steoe7as.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16

WHEN a man of Mr.. Kauffman's
-calibre states a proposition that nine
out of ten men are straight and that
the large odds against the crooked
man cannot be overcome, the men
here should let this idea sink deep
into their brain and by recognizing
the fact that they cannot beat the
game turn about and travel with the
great majority.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16

The inmates of the state prison,
at Saltwater, Mimi, publish a week
ly newspaper which they call The
Mirror, with the explanatory cap
ton, The Mirror of Mirth. The
sheet subscribes. to the motto, 1t is
Never Too Dark to Smile. These
few statements tell their own story
in view of the fact that the paper
comes from an institution which is
commonly held to be a true hand
maiden of the everlasting bugaboo,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16

The dust is being shaken off the
dictionaries in search of "reciproc-
ity." At the time when the musical
comedy Mikado was all the rage,
two Frenchmen from Limerick
fought a dual on the correct pro-
nunciation; the survivor waved his
hand in the air saying, Il win;
It's Mica door,
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16

WELL, it's about time to COM
mence thinking about a name for
the new state, if Minnesota is to be
divided.
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16
TO SUBCRIBERS

blank the right signifies that subscription
accompanying subscription blank
immedi
MIRROR!
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16

be carried out-if they will not
work, neither shall they eat! But
with no chance Of second genera
ton.
And there is another class of
whom | must speak. but / do SO
with fear and trembling. / refer to
the wild and gross women who live
upon our streets, and whose convic-
tons number anything between 20
and 400. Look! during the year
1906, 933 women, each of whom had
served more than ten imprisonments,
were once more in Holloway Gaol.
Some hundreds of them had been
in that gaol more than twenty times
each! Many Of them were known
personally to me, for / have seen
them drunk. / have seen them sober.
But whether sober or drunk, they
are slaves of gross, oyermastering
passion, elemental in its intensity;
to them nothing else matters. The
state dubs t b m inebriates, and
treats them as such. I can almost
laugh at the irony of it, for drink is
but an incident, an effect; the cause
lies deeper, much deeper; down three
generations some germs have come
and found an abiding place in them,
bearing frnition in their terrible and
hopeless lives. Is prison place
for them? / trow not! Is one month.
two months, or six months detention
of any avail? Ask the prison au-
thorities or consult the records, and
you will get your answer. Do the
claims of humanity ask for no con-
sideration? Has science nothing to
say upon the matter? Are we to 90
on forever tinkering with vital
question by giving such women an
endless succession of short imprison-
ments, which only serve the purpose
OF renewing their health and length
ening their days. that their lives
may be devoted to the most fearful
purposes to which any human will
can be subjected. But when all
these unfortunate classes are proper
" cared for, we shall still require
prisons; but they must be specialized
prisons, and our officials must De
properly qualified and equipped for
their work.
The science Of healing must play
a more important part; the doctor
must be student of mental as we'll
as physical diseases.
When the days of short imprison-
ments are ended we shall probably
have receiving prison" to which
the offenders will be sent on conyic-
ton for observation" and classic
cation" and thence drafted to differ
ent prisons suitable to their age,
condition and ability. A plan of
this description would bring the du-
ties of governors, doctors, chaplains
|
and warders within the sphere Of
possibility, for, failing this, strive as
they may and do, we ask them to
perform the impossible.
But in the prisons of the future,
specialized as they will be, classif-
cation will have to play an impor-
tant part, and classification will no
longer be governed by the number
of convictions youth or adult has
received, but by the real character.
temperament and ability Of the.
prisoner.
And in the prisons there will be.
work demanding the use of muscle.
and fingers, opportunities for the
use of brains, and some chance for
the emotions of the heart to have
play. Consider for moment the
nan undergoing five years. SEN
tence. 1t is one of deadening rou-
tine; with mechanical gertrude his
actions are controlled and ordered:
the same food in amount and lind
The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1911-02-16

A.es>A o0SA acnGicuCu, W IucHI
nothing else mattered.
At the instigation of the Howard
Association, Mr.. Gladstone added a
clause to the Probation Act empow-
erlng courts OF summary jurisdiction
to order restitution for goods or
money stolen up to the value of 10
pounds. But magistrates do not put
thls clause in force; yet such clause
is not only just but merciful.
Given, then, reasonable time for
the payment of fines, thorough ap-
plication of the Probation Act and
establishment of compulsory but
limited restitution given these. half
our prisons may be closed. Quite
recently the governor of larse
London prison declared that one
quarter of the daily average of his
prisoners ought not to be in prison
at all. believe his statement to be
below, not beyond, the truth. We
can easily see that, if our prison
population were reduced by one
halt, great reforms would naturally
follow IN prison administration.
Practically there would be the same
amount OF work to do in prison, for
the various government departments
would still require the commodities
that prison labor supplies. Prisons
would then become hives of industry
instead OF castles of Incidence. and
prisoners would, Of course, be given
much larger financial interest in
the work done. Under such condi-
tons prisons, too, would naturally
become pathological and psycholog-
ical observatories. With proper men
and proper time to make the obser-
vatlons, prisoners would reveal to
us some of the dark wonders Incl
dent to the strange mixture Of hu-
manity we thoughtlessly dub cirimi-
nal,
When that happy day comes, we
shall be ableto differentiate between
crime and disease; we shall no longer
punish men for their Affections. but
we shall treat them as patients in
places other than prisons.
Look for moment attthat grow
ing, ever-growing army of people.
the feeble-minded and irresponsibles,
who are perpetually hailed to prison,
and to whose ranks 400 are added
every year. From prison to the
streets, from the streets to the police
station. from the station to the police
court, and from thence to prisons.
forms tt e vicious circle of their
hopeless lives.
Certified as unfit for prison dis
cipline," yet everlastingly in prison;
not tit for liberty, vet constantly
thrust into liberty; homeless. hope
less, friendless, battered from pillar
to post, eyesores to humanity, they
tread the vicious circle.
Oh! | protest that the very con-
temptation of this thing makes me
sick and ill, for know SO many Of
the striker, wretched beings. And
we call them habitual criminals be-
cause they commit certain actions
that we call crime, the nature and
quality of which they are not able to
appreciate.
some day we shall pity them and
care for them and give them, under
control, as much childlike happiness
as they can appreciate, such work as
they can do, with simple comforts
and controlling discipline; but no
useless liberty, no opportunities of
perpetuating their kind. no more of
the vicious circle, and no more
prison.
And the tramps and the loafers,
too, must be taken in hand, and not
with a gloved hand, either. For
prison is no place for them: the