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Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-16
POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS
PROMISE BIG RESULTS

WASHINGTON, d. c., Feb. 10
If the postal savings bank system
OF the United States keeps up the
pace 1t set in January, it will out
strip that of Great Britain in its
most successful year, 1908. Ac-
cording to an announcement made
by Postmaster General Hitchcock,
yesterday, the reports for January
show that the deposits for the
month will amount to about $780,
600 There are forty-eight Offices
in operation so that the average
is about $1,000. If this average
is maintained the years total will
be about $750,OOO.
large majority of the deposit
tors in January were foreign born
and many of them were in the habit
of sending their savings abroad,
The system, therefore, will di-
minish the outflow from the United
States of such funds The plan
of giving certificates of deposit in
stead of pass-books has proved very
satisfactory.
Postmaster General Hitchcock will
ask congress for $1,000, 900 addi-
tional with which to extend the
system.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-16

All kinds of ruling and binding
at the Bonanza
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-16
FROM COAST TO COAST
COACHING TRIP

Paul A. Sorg, who defeated Alfred
G. Vanderbilt in record time in
the ten-mile coaching race at the
New York National Horse show
Last fall, has announced his inten-
ton to dispose of a big stable of
show horses and drive from New
York to San Francisco with a
coacn and four He will start from
New York on April /, on what will
be the longest and most difficult
coaching trip yet attempted by an
amateur or professional four-in-hand
whip.
The 3G00-mile run from the At
lantic to the Pacific is to be carried
out on scale uneXampled in the
annals of the road with an equip
ment of rs horses, two coaches, 40
men and two special cars for trans
portation of paraphernalia
The route of the New York Cen
u a. oau Will ne lolloWeu cloSe-
ly as far as Chicago, and the teams
used each day will be shipped ahead
by rail in the special cars to await
the coming of the coach and to
rest in the interval.
The stages are to be twelve
miles, and at the end of each stage
the horse-keepers will be posted
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-16

that the Ely district is fast attain
ing fame as one of the noted cop
per camps of the country
Deducting the amounts that were
expended in extraction, transporta-
ton and reduction, the net yield
of the Nevada Consolidated will
amount to $661,85154
On this basis, that corporation
has paid into the assessors office
$11,199.33 as bullion tax on its
net production for the last three
months of 1910.
The report of the company Of
iicials indicates a material increase
in production over the record for
the third quarter.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-16

with a fresh team ready to whirl
the "old sport as Mr.. Sorg's road
coach is called, over the turnpike
to the next relay station.
One of the special cars will car
ry an extra coach to be used in
case of a breakdown and a black
smith will go along to shoe the
horses and make any needed repairs
to the coaches.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-16
PRIZE FIGHT PICTURES
CAUSE CIVIC TROUBLE

WESTERLY, r. l., Feb 16.-Be-
cause moving pictures of prize
fight were exhibited in Westerly last
week by permission of the common
council, the towns two police COM
missioners, William Culley and Hor-
ace e. Burdick, have rendered their
designations on tn eground that their
efforts to protect the morals of the
community have not met with the
support of the city fathers.
The council recently held a spe-
cial session and in spite of the pro
tests of clergymen and others, voted
four to two to allow the pictures
to be shown.
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-16
ELY PRODUCES MORE
THAN TWO MILLIONS

Ely has again struck her gait
With a gross output of $2,503,9
by the Nevada Consolidated Copper
company for the quarter ending De-
cember 81, 1910, the results show
Tonopah daily bonanza. [volume] (Tonopah, Nev.) 1906-1929, 1911-02-16
NOTICE E. & A. M.

* TONOPAH LODGE, NO 2S,
X n +. & A. NJ, will hold a
" stated m m II II a n
tFriday) evening at 1880 O'Clock at
Butler Hall Work in third
degree. All members are re-
quested to attend. Visiting breth-
ern cordially invited to be present.
BY order of the w. M.
H. c. SCHMIDT, Secretary.
Did you try the merchants lunch
at the Frisco Cafe? 35c 2-7-tf
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-09-11
RUMSELLERS FOR REPEAL.
Palermo Man Who Was in Portland
Fight When Prohibition Amendment
Was Adopted.
Editor Kennebec Journal:

Editor Kennebec Journal:
l note in the last installment of
literature sent cut from the Rum
Trust statement that the rum
sellers will vote No with the friends
of prohibition on Sept II, ana that
they voted for the amendment when
it was adopted, that this was the
fact in Portland, and calls attention
to a supposed case in that city.
What proof do they bring? NONE.
AS usual they allege certain things
hut as in all other cases bring no
proof In this instance, way back in
the shadows somewhere. there is
supposed TO be a self-confessed Grim
NAL of 20 years standing to prove the
assertion.
Now what are the facts? I lived in
Portland ut that time. was a merA-
Der OF Il reform cleb that worked IN
connection with the w. C. r. L. FOR
the amendment. | visited every po l.
ing place in the city; the conditions
as ] saw them We're like this, | found
"A group of the purest ladies of the
city at each place with ice water.
flowers and white ribbon bows FOR
all who would vote for the amend
ment. On the outskirts of the crowd
We're the ward heelers, the rurtselIers
and the pimps, all getting in their
work to defeat the amendment and
this was the condition at every poll
ing place in the city I and every living
person who helped in that great fight
for righteousness. know that the
statement that the rumseller worked
and voted for the amendment in
Portland is a LIE AS matter OF
fact rum was free for all who would
vote against the amendment and this
was known of all men in Portl and at
that time. The voters attention
should be called to one other phase
of this question: Much is said about
the liquor shipped into the State in
small packages of one gallon or less
and in the country towns the pro-
hibitory. law is condemned for this
condition.
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where it would do some good instead
of standing idle.
4 don't wonder the liquor interests
want the prohibitory law repealed. 1t
keeps an immense sum of money out
Of their Golfers and eurtails their pro-
fit and lessons the number of new
recruits among their patrons. | re-
Gently met a gentleman from Ken
lucky who told ME that all their corn
was made into whisbey. but that now
several distilleries were closed because
they could not sell al their product;
and that while the liquor men claimed
to sell more In prohibition states now
than they did before that law was
passed. such talk was only for the pur-
pose of having the law repealed.
I'm the southeastern part OF Kansas
are several mines and many foreigners
are employed In them. Recently it was
brought to the attention of our gov
ernor that liquor was being sold in that
locality. He and the attorney general
investigated and after securing evidence
had the sheriff make several raids and
take the liquor captured to the court
house for safe keeping until the court
should order it destroyed. Soon after
that the governor asked the supreme
court 20 remove the sheriff from office,
charging that liquor was sold by the
sheriff's deputies while in his posses
sien and that a eertain wealthy man.
who had been sentenced to jail. had
served the sentence by proxy After
TIE proper hearing the supreme court
removed the sheriff. Now the governor
mas asked the removal of the county
attorney on the grounds that he has
received morthIy pay from the liquor
interests to protect any who might be
arrested for selling liquor, and that
he had hired the attorney to defend
the arrested man while he prosecuted.
If these charges are substantiated in
court the county attorney will be re-
moved and undoubtedly dfsbarred. The
last legislature appropriated $4,000 for
a school of mines, to be established in
that county so as to have access to
the mines and to be conducted in con-
nection with the state university. The
board who We're appointed to have the
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THE SOUTH WATCHING.
What a Backward Step BY Maine
Would Mean to the World.

Editor Kennebec Journal:
Down in the Southern states, the
home of my adoption, all eyes are
turned toward Maine. and prayers are
rising from thousands of honest hearts
that Maine may be delivered from the
enemy who is seeking 10 beguile and
destroy her, Praying that Maine may
still be true to her motto, Il lead;
that truly she may lead, as she has III
the past. in the great battle with in
temperance and the power of the liz
uor traffic.
In the South the race question. which
las been its gravest problem since a
race of men were set free with no
preparation for their liberty, is being
easily and quickly solved by Prohihi-
ton. Under a license system, with
temptation always before them, the
condition of the black man was pitt
able indeed. In spite of attempts at
education and missionary werE among
them they were sinking by thousands
into drunkards' graves. and the gen
Grafton that was growing up To take
their place, Incapable of self-restraint.
was worse instead of better
Today all is changed. True, the ne
gro viii manage to get his occasional
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vote intelligently on the question when
1t came again before the people.
/ have visited saloons in licensed
and local-option states, at all hours of
day and night, and I make the state
ment here that the saloon as I have
seen it has no respect for law or or
der or decency. and that prohibition Is
Infinitely better than either license or
-ocal-option.
In licensed states the Sunday laws
are broken, liquor is sold to minors
even to children; also to drunkards,
and the hours of closing, established
b. he cities and towns in many in
stances are stretched by the saloon
Keepers to suit themselves.
What is the remedy for all these Of
fences? There is not a license law in
any state which is not more outrage
ously violated than the prohibition law
is in Maine. / have been in every city
in Maine. lived in one, and / will say
that | have seen more drunkenness in
one licensed city not larger than Wa
terville than / ever saw In the State of
Maine all my life
IL YOU repeal the law because some
men violate 1t, you will have to re-
peal every other law. Do you abolish
the Jail because it is full? Adopt free
trade because men and women SNUG
gle" Demolish the mint because bad
men counterfeit the currency? Where
are you going to stop? Does any one
say that we cannot enforce law OF
our own making? Then we are not
fit for self government, and are IN
competent to make our own laws.
Bonforts Wine and Spirit Circular.
Feb. rs, 1911, says: THE trade is very
much interested in tho fact that Maine
is to vote on the repeal of prohibition
in September, because it is thought
that the overthrow of prohibition in
Maine would have a tremendous moral
effect throughout the country. The
| fight in Maine offers tremendous pos
sibilities to the trade, and they should
mot be neglected"-a perfectly frank
statement.
THE fight in Maine offers tremen-
| dous possibilities to the trade. and they
should not be neglected" Isn't this a
practical admission even by the liquor
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V 18th a legal backing and In league with
vicious politics it is worse than under
prohibition.
In Chicago. with its thousands OF
lcgaIlzed saloons, there are also thou-
sands Of dives" and places selling ille-
sally Without city license. The same is
true Of st. Louis. the same Is true of
New York and all license cities. II
there We're licensed saloons in Port
land, Biddeford, or Bangor. there
would also be any number of dives"
doing business at the same time. In a
license city of Massachusetts in one
year when there were 227 licensed
places doing business, there We're 23s
illegal splaces. kitchen bar rooms. etc.
doing business also, right along with
the licensed saloons and the police
making little or no effort to stop them.
! know this FOR a fact. Let nobody in
Maine he deceived into thinking there
will be- no Illegal dives and pocket
peddiinE in our State if we have the
licensed saloon. We now have the ille-
gal business: then. we shall have both.
In the same license city of Massa-
chnsetts referred to. liquor was being
SOU W WHICH anu W ny lnt n
censed saloons in defiance of law.
Why Because of connivance of the
rolice. 1t would be the same in Maine.
Does any intelligent man in Maine sup
pose that with the graft to be gotten
cut of the licensed saloon the police
in Maine are going to be paragons Of
virtue and not shut their eyes to vio-
lations. when there is something in
it," the same as they do elsewhere? In
the license states the saloon is ain pol
tiles" and in league with politicians To
the utmost extent. It's in the nature
al the business | have i'm my possess
sion two bags or pockets" captured
from women in a Massachusetts Ii
cense city used for pocket peddlmg
right under the legalized saloon. |
saw again If the reverend gentleman
referred to was correctly quoted by
the Biddeford Record he evidently is
not Informed sufficiently about how Ii
cense works. 't'3
He was also quoted as saving. The
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interests that prohibition does prohi-

interests that prohibition does prohi-
bit?
Yet with their hypocrisy they say
that there is just as much liquor drank
in Maine as ever there was in the old
days. If so, why do they want to do
away with prohibition?
The saloon is a criminal. It's wrongs
upon humanity have been written in
blood. 1t has been proven time and
time again that where the saloon -four
ishes, all other business languishes.
% we want the sale of those things
that destroy life2
God forefend that We should legal
lie such an Infamous business in
Maine, partnership it's crimes, share its
profits with the public treasury, and
make il as lawful and respectable as
the church where We worship God, Tie
school where we educate our youth
and the home that shelters wife and
children.-Leroy r, Flye In Ellsworth
American.
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drink of corn whiskcy. as the poor
laborer in the North gets his liquor,
by secret and persistent effort. But
in the little town I call my home.
where the negroes outnumber the
whites nearly two to one, we have
an orderly, prosperous community-a
town that hardly pays in police fees
twenty dollars a year, town In which,
under license law. it would be unsafe
for a woman to walk abroad alone at
any hour. but where now at any hour
OF day or night we have no fear.
Over in their own section the col
ored people have their schools and
churches, and men are supporting them
and bringing up their families, we'll
clothed, we'll fed, and with a chance
10 become good citizens. though their
skins are black. Give them but one
saloon in their Jim town and their
churches. their schools, and their
homes would be doomed.
Yes, the South has followed Maine
when she led in this good work, and
the blessing it has brought to her no
one can over-estimate. Shall Maine
falter now when all the world has
honored her and so many of the states
have profited by her example? Shall
SHE sell her birthright, the rich inner
itance of purity and manhood, OF
Christian homes and prosperous, hap
py lives for such mess of pottage
as is offered her in return? Shall she
place the means of ruin before the
eyes of her laboring men in such form
that while at first ii may appeal to
them as but a passing pleasure. it will
warm Itself, a viper on the hearth,
till home and family all are sacrificed?
Shall she give the boy who daily
walks to school, a glded den TO gaze
upon and, seeing older men indulge,
boy-like he thinks to be a man by inn
itating them? Where will his young
ambition be. where all his plans for
college and the high ideals he has
learned to cherish? No, they may not
sell to youths at the bar; that may be
specified in the law. But they win
contrive to GET THE LIQUOR TO
THE BOY, FOR THE BOY THEY
MUST HAVE to secure their future
business.
And the aliens, who have come to
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OUR LETTER BOX.
CONTINUED from Page slx.)

too frequently believed here in Maine
TO be true, is5ass a. matter of fact, alb
solutelys 70 lstas So false as To appear
ridiculous to any man who actually
knows how license really works in the
license states. But there are many.
many people here In Maine who do not
know. who have not been in position
10 know. who have made no study of
the question. Ii the licensed saloon
gets into Maine they Will learn to their
sorrow,
The real fact Is, that pocket ped
ding, Kitchen bar rooms. and low
dives exist and do a thEiving business
In the license cities of other states,
just the same as they do here in
Maine. I have lived and done bust
ness three years. in Chicago. have
been in that city when there was a
veritabie reign of terror existing and
when the local papers were demand
Ing OF tile police department the clos
ing UP or the Illegal dives as we'll as
some ,Of The legal onese that were the
cause of tht. Vice and crime that was
flooding. the city, making il dangerous
for decent people to be on the streets
the workings OF the licensed saloon
end Or its twin vice, the house of i'll
fameiswith which II is In league, and
which, it systematically fosters and
feeds with the aid and abettlng of the
police and corrupt politicians.
The Kitchen bar-room, pocket ped
ding. the low dive. are not confined to
prohibition = they are not the pro-
ducts.,s OF prohibition in that sense. II
Is true they exist under prohibition:
they also exist, III worse degree. under
license They are the products of
vicious politics and the liquor traffic
whether legalized or Illegal. of disre-
gard Tor law. and they will exist here
in Maine just As long as vicious poll
tics exist and just as long as liquor is
sold, under whatever plan it may be
done. whether lieense or prohibition.
Z he difference is that under the saloon
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System of Discrimination?

Editor Kennebec Journal:
As election time draws near, | would
be grateful If you would above me g
little of your space. to say a final word
against the Davies primary election bill
which is Question No. on the ofhcial
ballot for Sept. IL.
yet heard of any denial of the statements
in the letters which l sent 10 various
Maine papers. beginning June last, that
the primary election is system OF dis, DIS
elimination between communities. The
ONLY answer to that statement which l
have heard from anybody is to the effect
that II makes no difference where the
officeholders come from, II only they be
method
q primary election. because II Is wholly
within the party. What more natural
division than on locality? OF three or
more candidates at party's primary,
one with "a per cent of the vote may De
nominated even though he be so obnoX-
ious 10 the other &C per cent that they
would gladly unite on some other candi-
date. Tie primary election denies them
the opportunity 50 to unite. ana mus Inc
primary election is an instrument Tor de
feating the will of the majority. This Is
not 4 suppositious case, but an illustra-
ton of common occurrences where pri-
mary elections have been established:
This feature of minority power gives
the boss in the largest town IN a county
or district the chance TO bring forward
large bunch of candidates from that town
aud get out the home vote for them. BY
doing SO. he gets rid of making conces-
sious as he has always been forced to
do under convention rule. and mas IL an IN
his own hands, with home candidates
right under his eye-and his thumb. The
chief sufferers are rural communities
whose interests are left unprotected IN
the legislature In Maine four of the 81
state senator's are from the largest towns
i'm the senatorial districts In every
STATE where senator's are nominated by
pri,naries a large majority comes from
such largest towns The same thing
happens in districts for the choice of
aiives 10 the logiSluturo. and IL
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find employment in our manufacturing
towns Give them free access to-. the
saloon. with no more capacity for re-
-straint than the negro OF the South.
How long before our towns will be The
scene of riots and MURDER?
Backed by d wholesome public sem
timent," says one advocate OF the sa-
loon. What, I would ask, is to create
this wholesome public sentiment all at
once. Is unlimited opportunity to
drink going to do it, / think the
standard of public sentiment must get
lover and lower each day under the
ru.nseller's rule, instead of becoming
more wholesome, for out Of such an
evil as the saloon no good has ever
come.
| wish that the women of Maine
could have had the right to go 10 the
polls and express their minds or this
question | care not how high in the
affairs of state their husbands and
fathers may be. 7 do not believe any
woman with sons growing up would
sanction the placing Of saloon where
they would be subject to it's influence.
care not what their politics or their
station in lie. it is not a question Of
one or the other, but a question Of
keeping the boys and the young men
and the older man who is weak and
needs our help. for NE are all our
brothers keepers, from being led to
sure damnation. I say the women of
Maine would vote, almost without ex-
ception, not to open their doors to this.
their worst enemy.
oh, men, stop and think Of the work
your fathers have done for you and
this priceless heritage they left for
your safety, ard do not dishonor their
memory by trampling it in the mire.
Take up the good work they so nobly
did; grapple with the old curse that
they so bravely fought and con-
quered, but which now raises it's head
and strives again for taa mastery.
CONQUER him as they did, and then will
Wholesome public sentiment" come TO
help keep him down, and your sons
and daughters viii receive the bless
lngs your fathers gave TO you. larger
and better for the trial through which
it has passed.
KATE H. BURLEIGH.
Xassalboro. Me. Sept. 8.
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PROHIBITION VS.. LICENSE.
More Drunkenness in Licensed City
Size of Waterviile Than In All Maine

We often hear or read of politicians
voicing their sentiments in regard to
constitutional prohibition, and We are
much inclined to wonder II it may not
be for some political ends that they
take the stand they do.
Very little Is heard from the masses
of the people, so, in this great crisis
In the moral history of the grand old
State of Maine, as one Of the masses.
write. Before another issue OF the
American, at the Ballot box must be
settled whether prohibition shall be
the policy of the State, or whether To-
cal option or license shall be made
possible.
The cry Of the Waterville Sentinel
and other organs enlisted on the SIDE
of the saloon has been: You can trust
the people of Maine" We reply: Yes,
we can trust the people of Maine, but
IN this campaign now drawing to
close. the people of Maine have not
Seen the only factors to be reckened
with. The allied liquor Interests OF
the country have been bending all thei1
energies against us. The distillers,
the wholesale and retail dealers are in
the field, and who can estimate the
thousands of dollars in money the IL
1uor and other forces sent into the
tate to overcome the friends of pro-
hihition?
l have seen for years that resubmis-
sion must come. so I have investigated
saloon conditions in licensed and local
option states, and In my own state,
that l might be prepared to talk and