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The Washington times., 1911-05-03

consideration Of the problem by Engi-
ueer Commissioner Judson and Freder-
lex T.. Siddons, the committees legal
counsel and former member of the
Roosevelt Homes Commission.
All persons interested in or affected
by the opening Of minor streets through
the alley slums will be invited to attend
the hearing. Mr.. Si6dons will appear
for the Monday Evening Club. Speak
ing Of the. alley situation today. Mr..
Siddons said:
Judson and myself and approved by
the housing committee Of the Monday
Evening Club Is the most practical and
expeditions that has yet been proposed
for ridding the city of its alley slums.
feel certain it would be impossible to
get through Congress a bill requiring
the Government to meet half of this
expense, as II meets half the ordinary
expense of District government. AS /
feel very strongly the necessity Of
cial levy upon the assessable property
of the District. The tax would be small
and would not be burden to anybody;
In a few years 1t would enable US to
eradicate the alley slums.'
Opposition Expected.
1t is anticipated that the hearing will
develop opposition to the new plan on
the ground that it is a departure from
the haIf-and-half principle of taxation.
On this point, Mr.. Siddons said:
II Is merely applying to the alley
blocks the system of street extension
mat mas latterly been applied to all sec
tions where streets have <ren opened
In the latter case the adjacent prop
erty pays all the expense. In the alley
plan. part Of the expense would be
spread over the whole District AS the
whole District will be benefited, / think
the plan Is reasona ble."
The Commissioners have not vet ia
ken position either in favor OF or against
the new scheme
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
Meeting Tonight.

The Association of Oldest Inha abitants,
District OF Columbia. will hold its regu-
lar monthly meeting at room No. 2, Cor
coran building, Fifteenth and F. streets
northwest. at 7:50 o'clock tonight.
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
OFFER NEW PLAN
FOR ELIMINATION
Of ALLEY SLUhS
Public Hearing to Be Given
Scheme by the Com
miSSionerS.

Elimination of the alley slums OF
Washington has received another boost.
AS result Of discussion Of alley plans
between the housing committee of the
Monday Evening Club and the District
Commissioners, q public hearing is 10
be held by the Commissioners in the
board room at the District Building,
probably within a few days.
At the hearing the new scheme for
opening minor streets through the
blocks containing alley slums will be
presented. That scheme is this:
For Congress to pass bill authoriz-
ing the Commissioners 10 open the
minor streets and providing that the
damages and expense thereof, if any,
shall be paid from a fund to be created
by a small special levy upon all the
real estate and Improvements OF the
Mist frift
The Washington times., 1911-05-03
Method Approved.

At a special meeting Of the housing
committee of the Monday Evening Club
this method Of eliminating the alley
slums was approved. It grew out Of
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-25
"RoYAl PRESENCE AppRovEs9
lawiessness Encouraged by Using It
as Argument for Repeal.
Togus. Me.

Everywhere there is much liquor law
lessness for the sake of making money.
but keen observers have noted that there
Is also much of il whose chief motive
seems TO be 10 furnish arguments TO good
but weak men also use lawlessness as an
argument for repeating whatever laws
are strenuously resisted. These tifnid
souls want peace at any price and SO tho
liquor dealers are encouraged to increase
their own lawIessness to strengthen the
arguments of the men who are DESTROYS
of restricting the liquor traffic without
any unpleasantness aaait
Back of the bartenders are the brewers
who are the real owners of the saloons,
and as these lords of the liquor trust see
that both under local option and state
prohibition they can win pious allies who
will make ii their chief argument, "Pro-
hibtion can't be enforced If they put up
stiff flight, they provide all the law
lessness that is needed for the sake OF
argument" No matter IL the fines eat
up the profits for the present; no matter
if the bartender must draw his salary ia
Jail; they can afford the lawlessness so
long as it will help them to kill all, pro-
hibitory and restrictive laws through its
effect upon respectable men who plan to
conjure the liquor traffic by craven sur
render.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-08-25
Augusta, Aug. "A.
Has Lived in License States.

Editor Kennebec Journal: ts#@
l have been in your State about tnree
months but have lived In license states
LOT over 10 years. ] never thought OF the
great contrast effected by those few
words in the fundamental law of your
state until during my three months stay
anu my incidental visits 10 your city and
otheF cities | have come through In ar
irving mere. How approvingly | miss the
Saiooh! what calamity to everything
sooo would the failure to retain prohibi-
ton in your constitution,
nave peeh a member of the Soldiers
iiome III Virginia, where, after crossing
bridge of a narrow lagoon. YOU are la
the street of a little city lined with sa-
looms, thronged with boozers who are
spending the sacred funds given them bv
grateful country for what degrades and
brutalizes them, until what was at some,
time noblest of beings. a patriot. becomes
beast And yet / have talked with men
who have said they dared not 20 to a
refuge where drink was SO easily obtained
and yet ridicule aud talk disapprovingly
of the Maine prohibitive law. One ex-
claimed one morning upon rising. I'D
drink a pint this morning If Il were not
so much trouble to get it, and yet the
same person talks antagonstic to every
thing that hinders 1t being easily obtain
able by anybody. assure you the alb
sence of open conspicuous advertised sa-
looms and bar rooms is d pronounced
differentiatlng feature of the cities and
villages of Maine and the defeat of the
prohibitive feature of your constitution
would be a calamity TO your state TO the
cause of abstinence and to the whole
country. 1 suppose we are not voters on
this question but. l would vote with all
my heart to retain prohibition
IL.
Togus. Me.
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for example, the idea advanced
that moral temperance rcformatory
work ceased with the enactment OF
the prohibitory law, Legal and
moral effort have gone hand in
hand and never since the days of
the Washingtonian Reform has
there been such widespread effort
to educate the rising generation to
touch not, taste not, handle not"
the deadly foe of mankind. In
stead of abusing and sneering at
one OF the noblest women of the
age (Mrs. Stevens the DR.. would
do we'll to take a day off and in
quire into the colossal educational
work being carried on by that
superb society. the W. C. I. L.
He would surely cease talking such
stuff as the foregoing. 1t surely
does him no credit
None but the veriest idiot, not 70
say fanatic" ever dreamed that
any law would unnihilate the drink
traffic, or by legislation reform the
habits of the incorporate drinker.
That is not its scope at all.
The DIS effusion reads SO much
like the Argus Waterville Sentinel
editorials in the present campaign,
they hardly need refutation. A
tissue of Misrepresentation from
\ te Il. not one of which will stand
the test of scrutiny.
The Dr. declaration as to what
he stands for" reveals conclusive
ly his animus. He is with the
Waterville bunch. Annul consti-
tutional prohibition-then license
via local option, enabling the IL
quor interests TO enter Maine for
traffic, IAN open market" as it
We're. Not that he loves the grog-
shop overInueh, but that he is
welded to mis- IDOLS" the party
which caters to the grog-shop vote
and which has before now support
ed the genial DIR. as its COMPRESSION
al candidate.
The DIR. should know-deesn't
he?-that there are no statutory
laws" in the constitution. and that
if they were. prohibition is no
more ''sumptuary" than would be
such restrictive clause dennucia-
tory of gambling, eounterfeiting.
houses Of prostitution. Read the
Constitution. Dr., Some better
wayi" There are only two-license
or prohibition. Choose yet
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Now You See II; Now You Don't.

Here is another false and foolish
argument by a Rum Trust organ, in
futile attempt to convince the farmers
that they are being overtaxed because
of the prohibition law. 1t goes on 10
tell how the county tax has been in
creased in recent years because of
fees and per diems to officers for en-
forcing the prohibition law, and says
the farmers have TO pay for this en-
sorcement. Probably in its next
breath this same organ will declare to
the farmers that there is no attempt
being made to enforce the law. That
would be fair sample of the consist
ency with which they handle the sub
Ject
We presume that most farmers
would as soon have their taxes in
creased by the expenses of enforcing
law as to have them increased by
the expenses of officers in making ar
rests of drunken and disorderly per-
sons. in prosecutions of criminals
made so by licensed liquor traffic, and
the board of such as are arrested for
misdemeanors and crime.
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What a "Yes" Vote Means.

One of the rum press advertisements
tsads:
"a YES VOTE MEANS:
"A vote for Names Prosperity
"a vote against Nulliication
~ vote fer the rule of the people.
"a vote against Sturgis Laws.
"a vote against Double Expense for
Counties
"a vote against the present Illegal Rum
Traffic.
"a vote for Honesty and for Deceney,
--rHEREFORE-VOTE YES
And here is the way it looks to US
4 Yes vote means,
A vote for Names disgrace.
A vote against moral progress
A vote for the rule of the Rum
Trust.
4 vote against control of criminals
A vote against reduced taxes for
support of criminals, insane and paup-
acs.
A vote against any suppression OF
the rum traffic.
A vote for dishonesty and indecency.
THEREFORE, VOTE NO.
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The Plea of prunka rd's Wives.

Editor Kennebec journal:
Mingled with the signing of your pines
today are many voices of your daughters.
10. State of Maine. Listeni This Is what
they are saying:
I'VE are the drunkard's wives, the
mothers of drunkards children. If on
September IL we could vote with pens
dipped in our hearts blood we would
write NO.
NO. YOU shall not tempt the fierce or
half conquered appetites of those dear TO
US, with the licensed saloons that reach
out TO take every dollar that should buy
our children's bread. You shall not send
their father home drunken brute,
curse instead of blessing to those whom
he should protect.
"Shall our children go cold and hungry
because they are his children-a drunk
ards children-yes, drunkards D. IL by
YOUR vote ON September IL you bind him
with chains he has not the strength to
break. rob him of that for which his
little ones must suffer, rob him of his
manhood. his honor, and then jeer at him
as he falls into the gutter-periiaps there
at last to dean accused victim of
your licensed rumshops. Must our children
go uneducated? Must they be deprived
of all that makes life worth the living?
Must they be looked down upon. scoffed
at, because they are drunkard's children?
Must some of our precious little ones by
and by, follow their fathers into the IL
censed saloons, and from there on to the
drunkard,s grave? God Forbid
Dear native State, you surely have a
larger number of voters who on
September ii will stand for the puri-
ty of the home, the upbuilding of
society, the honor of your own fair name.
than of those who would by licensing
and so increasing the sale of rum in
every town within your borders, increase
crime and pauperism on every hand, and
cause you, o Maine, to be the object OF
derision by some. of pity by others, and
make you forever a stumbling block to
the cause of temperance"
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at fostoiiiee SQUARE, Monday night II
framed IN living Words the idea OF
e.oaaehce given by Daniel Webster.
ne costly ornaments of words the
STUDIED contrivances of speech. shock
ana disgust men when vital rights arc
concerned Action, Action. Ac+ior,
are the qualities Which move the so,,1
never were truths and facts. min ,n,1
point, marshalled more maiestical,,, -.
more inspiring. y
All this from woman from c.aor,u;.
whose father BY the attractive re.
oil saloon or saloons so wasted hi,
substance In riotous living that she
WAS deprived of the sacred right %
Childhood to receive an education
woman from Georgia, A state -
whom Daniel Webster addressed thesn
words: Hold on, my friends. To Tho
constitution and the government as-
taeiished under it," And the sano
webster in the same state, in the YER,
town of Macon, near the date of Tho
aloVe, addressed ,etter to Mark A
Cooper of that city containing thesa
words. which same words are repeated
IN this manner: Men more import
ant than things-Men are more i'm
portant than things" Beneath tho
"hoie contention heaves this eternal
truth Parties are taking a new align
meht and the South is leading in a
royal good manner
why 90 some people in Maine con-
detah their own State in fact, if not
in verse"
why dc the same people boast of
the great saloon victory in the huge
state of Texas?
Napoleon once declared after a
doubtful victory; "0ne more such vie
tory would ruin my army" The
model saloon papers of the West
proclaim the same conclusion.
JONATHAN p. C1LLEY.
T,ocklaud Me tng 80
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Has This Woman Ch,idr,n?

Poor Old Journal:
So truth hurts Well, il was ever
thus: no wonder some of the pa uers
think YOU have the bellyache, You have
been complaining for so long, first one
thing and then another. Why not take
some wine for thy stomach's sake. or
u little hot whiskey, rum and inolasses
might go we'll. AS the Waterville SEN
tinel is right when il calls the prohi-
hilton fake. it is the leaders that
are spouting hot air. Why? Because
there is graft in 1t, and like every
thlng the more graft they get the
louder they huller. You pretend to
stand up for peoples rights yet you
stand pat for the Oranges and what
are you backing up? The Farmers
Trust, that's all it is; it is just as un-
scrupulous as the Rum Trust or any
of the trusts you denouuce poor
man with large family has got TO
pay the farmers price for his old
stuff at stores, and the farmers prices
go higher and higher and the poor man
has to buy because he must have DO
tatoes. etc, so he pays the farmer S
Grange or trust dues. Before the
Grange was invented by grafters the
prices were reasonable and they Mere
satisfied. yet you support this trust.
why? Well. | suppose you do get quite
a number OF subscriptions. SO it's graft
again.
l have been a reader a number OF
years to your paper, always liked IL
until YOU have been doing so much
mud singing, that / am Disguised.
I'm not Democrat as you MAJ think.
but strong Republican,: was always
one; felt very sore" last fall, but yet
l hope that September II will see a big
change and the majority of votes win
be to down this false, hypocrisy pro-
hibition law
Oh, by the way. ere the artists Ct
suppose You call them suchl perfectly
sober when they draw the cartoons
generally for Saturday Journals They
look as if they had a bind on or was
just getting over n good drunk
thought at first it was Harry Thaw
drew them.
MRS. ROBERT LORD.
Gardiner, Me. Aug. %.
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Editorial Comment
Does Law Mean What It Says?

(BridgtOn NeWS.)
Again to his credit be it said,
Gov. Plaisted doeth "the right thing
in an emergency. practically asking
the court if the law menas what it
says which directs that state official
like the secretary of state cannot also
be the printer of the election ballots.
rather "a fat take" in the nomencla-
ture of the print shop Still the stat
ute appears SO plain it seems as it
even the wayfaring man might compre-
bend it. The Waterville bunch evil
IDENTIFY want and must have all the
patronage persimmons within easy
reach. That's what we're here for F"
Let's watch and see how the court
interprets the statute.
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AS TO DIVORCES.
Some Of the Half Truths Of Rum Press
the Whole Story.

Editor kennebec journal.
learned Maine professor in an ad-
dress made the assertion that the num-
Der of divorces in this State granted for
drunkenness as the cause. had increased
about 20 times in the past 80 years. Nov
he said the great increase was on ac-
count of prohibition! find by the official
court records In Maine in the same time
That the number of divorces granted for
drunkenness has increased nearly &
times; SO We see by this that il prohibit
ton Stays its thousands. license in Mas
saehusetts Stays Its tens of thousands.
FAIR PLAY.
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Those Who Favor "Wetness" Are
Whom?

On prohibition, vote Yes. Tell them
You propose to take this business of
liquor regulation into your own hands
and. what dryness and wetness there
Is, have 1t according to law.-Lewiston
Sun.
Yes, by all means have the wet
ness according 10 Rum Trust law
there win then be no "dryness." And
that Is the sole object of the Yessers-
more wetness. Were it not for the
desire to sell more rum and share in
the profits, there would be no constant
assault on the law. because the Rum
Trust would not buy and stimulate
cheap and INSCRIPTIONS politicians to
get control of the law.
The Rum Trust and its advocates
demand that the law be taken out of
the constitution and regulated" by
your own hands" Whose hands?
why those voting for the Rum Trust
the Tumsellers, the dive keepers, the
ward heelers the cheap politicians. the
Keepers Of resorts of evil repute the
thugs and buns of every evil corner
of city and town, the newlymade for
eign voters If their ballots can be
bought by rum or money. These are
the ones whom the Rum Trust organs
are urging to take the law into your
own hands and regulate" it.
On Thursday, one more Of the rum
sheets published that insufferable lie
alleged TO have been perpetrated by
Chicago's superintendent Of police, city
collector and city treasurer. How
promptly tHess Rum Trust owned Of
ficials of one of the worst crime
ridden cities on the globe. came to the
front in attempt to Offset the statement
Of John B. Lennon
One by enc the members of the rum
press of Maine are using the repro
duction of the alleged dispatch II
was the Sentineps turn to serve it up,
Thursday morning. and it did so Will
Characteristic disregard for truth Of
decency. The Sentinel ignores the
proof of the falsity of the alleged
statement By Chicago officials and re,
peatsdly. calls. Mrs I'D n. Stevens
ana the distinguished labor leader
liars. s.
II was a bit unfortunate for the
rum papers that Chicago liquor jour-
ri which Is disgruntled because its
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4
regular and licensed patrons are not
| protected by the police. publishes The
following:
an the state of Illinois the U. S.
government collects tax OF e, 149
persons selling by retail-while the
several municipalities throughout the
state license 1903 retail liquor deal
ers, showing that more than one-half
! Ut,t36) are illegally selling liquor by
wifuIIy violating the law regulating
the same
Thus is the modest claim of Mrs.
Stevens proven Az times over, TO say
nothing of the thousands of crime
fostering spots which have neither
state nor federal license.
The Sentiners shouting LIAR at
Mrs. Stevens is on par with the ground
it takes toward any person or thing
respectable. Mrs. Stevens may ac-
cept the congratulations of decent peo-
pie the world over, that she is assailed
BY such a sheet. 1t speaks volumes
for the good she is accomplishing
No one win expect Mrs. Stevens to
resent the libel, for some things are
protected by their own littleness. 1t
is useless TO attempt to catch louise
with q horserake.
Thursday morning we published
report from Chicago's greatest news
paper, showing the apparent ccllusion
of criminal resorts and police officials
of highest authority. Is it any Won
der that some officials of Chicago are
ready to work for the Rum Trust?
The case of the national liquor inter
ests is desperate. They are putting.
without doubt, a quarter of a million
dollars into the campaign to overthrow
the Maine law. They are doing it be-
cause they have been led by con-
politicians to believe that
the law can be repealed and the hun
dreds of thousands they are pouring
in here can be returned tenfold.
Looking at it from any angle, you
find those who favor larger sales of in
toxicants. those suspected of criminal
and those engaged in po-
litical subterfuge opposed to the law.
Why?
Looks easy enough, doesn't it? Why
are the national liquor interests pay
ing for the thousands of columns OF Ii
quor interests advertising?
Because they expect and intend to
sell more rum 10 your boys and ours.
Are you going to stay at home on
Sept. II and let rum rule by default
Or. are you going to the polls and
vote NO?
my boys may be ruined through Ii
censed liquor traffic by YOUR con-
sent, but YOUR boys never will by
Ny consent
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Rad Weed and Hay Fever.

Editor OF KennebeC Journal:
This is the hay fever season. aud
the writer wonders If the people OF
the Kennebce cities and towns could
not be persuaded to accommodate us
sufferers by cutting down or uproot-
ing the Roman wornwood or ragweed
when grows 60 plentifully in many
neglected hooks and corners. To do SO.
would be to confer the blessing of COM
fort on tortured portion of humanity.
Only z few of the plants are now in
blocin, but before the end of next week
thousands Of them will be distributing
their pernicious pollen into the air
A little prevention will earn the graft
tude of hay fever
VICTIM
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Meets Every Argument.
fphiia preSg

Clearly, succinctly and with char
acteristic avoidance of rhetorical or
namentatiop. the President meets ev-
cry argument put forward by the adj
vocates of this revolutionary proposal
to deliver over the bench TO the mob.
Those who pretend that the recall
would make our judges more .respon-
sive to the will of the majority are
answered by his statement that one
of the highest functions of the just
judge is in case of need to protect the
minority and even the individual
against the majority.
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"A Necessary Act"
philadelphia Ledger.D

Mr.. Taft has performed courage
Gus act in Yetong the statehood bill.
Courage was required because neither
Mr.. Taft nor any one else desired to
prevent New Mexico and Arizona from
entering the union of states. 1t was
a necessary act, and whether or not
Congress shall succeed i'll mastering
the necessary tWot thirds vote to over
ride the Presidents veto his action
will prove of high value.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR
IN. Y. Press.)

A small family can absorb all a
mans money just as easily as a big
one.
The most interesting thing to man
about a girl is how she can pretend he
is interesting to her.
man can come mighty near to be-
ing the ideal husband if he will just
get home regularly to meals.
The reason q woman with chuldreh
would rather lose all her teeth than
believe in heredity is their father.
Even when she is sure she couldn't
be more so, woman would rather
read about how to be beautiful than
anything else.