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The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1911-11-10

We present readers the photograph of the Honorable
NJ Rice democratic representative from the Foryh Sena
orial District in the last House Of Representatives. Mr. Rice
lawyer who practically forced by his friends into the
last campaign in order that the dry element of his district
minority member of their persuasion the Legislature
Mr. Rice is strong and forcefu character absolutely fearless
in his convictions He made of the strong speeches the
floor of the the day that County Option Bill
up for debate On other occasions he took the opportunity it
presented itself to remind his fellow Of the nquy of the
liquor traffic Mr. Rice is busy lawyer and hestates to make
the the sacrifice that to his business
but the people of Fulton County should insist on retaining him
at the state capitol as their minority representative
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1911-11-10
Resolutions of the Illinois
Baptist State Assoc
citation


Resolved, That deplore the way many men occupying
high places under show disposition to pander
truce the liquor traffic, and urge people mark
all such officials and far possible time and opportunity
Affords labor to eliminate them from the management and
control of state affairs; and be it further
Resolved That we commend the work of the Illinois Anti
Saloon League urge people to their hearty coopera
ton and support And that W. p Throgmoron, T. Kerr
and G. W. Danbury be representatives the board OF
directors of the same
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1911-11-10
Election Returns

Early returns Of the wet and dry fight down in the state
victory for the dys The complete returns will be published
next week. but the daily press of the morning after reports the
following:
Jacksonville dry by 1885, Goconda, dry by 1885, Hamburg
dry by So Hardin dry by Mt Carmel dry by 1922 Taula
dry by 49, Meredosa dry by 81 Couerve dry by 81 Jones'
boro dry by 1917 Chanderve dry by So Naples dry by 49,
Athens wet by 40 U wet by % Mounds wet by $780, Mound
City, wet by S72 Redwood wet by Is Grand CHAIN wet by
10 Petersburg wet by S. Campve wet by Carter wet by
The Illinois issue. (Chicago, Ill. ;) 1906-1912, 1911-11-10
THE ILLINOIS ISSUE

Postmasters and Mail Carriers
their great zeal sell their wet goods agents for breweries
and dsers have been many mportunng pomasters
and mail carriers to become their agents to the extent at least
of furnishing them Of prospective customers taking
ders customers published just two weeks ago
copy of such letter sent to postmaster in Illinois, Our
friends will be pleased to know that the United States Govern
has taken notice Of this the part of the liquor
men to build up their trade through government officials
We have Just following from legislative
superintendent at Washington Mr. S. b. Nicholson, which is
sefexpanatory:
THE ANTI-SALooN LEAGUE AMERICA.
LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT,
3O-31 Bliss Building Washington, D. G.
November 3, 1911.
DEAR BROTHER EDITOR:
The October issue of the United States Official Postal
Guide orders of interest the temperance public
first is under date of September S6, 1911 and fol-
lows:
"Posmasters in states where the sale of intoxicating liquors
is illegal cautioned against soliciting permitting employees
of their offices to solicit business for liquor Dealers
No postmaster poofce employee should give infonna
ton to liquor dealers others for the of obtaining
missions money orders issued Attention directed to Sec
ton 224, Postal Laws and Regulations"
The following notice has been issued from the Bureau of the
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Hon. P v DeGraw
'It has to the attention of the department. that rural
instances have offered act representatives
in their communities of liquor houses for commission upon
business secured Under Section SO of the Rural Delivery In
ructons strictly prohibited from such and
violation Of the regulations this particular renders carrier
liable disciplinary action removal Postmastes
enioned that carriers derec in the particular
mentioned"
Every friend of temperance will be rejoiced that the post
office department has taken this action While there has been
law by which posmasr and rural free delivery carriers
authorized to receive solicit orders for intoxicating liquors.
yet has been practice in of the dry states for
Of the postoce officials to agents in ordering
have file office letters which have been sent from liquor
firms certain posmasters making propositions to pay these
officials certain percentage all liquors ordered through them
or as result names furnished by them These official
ders will help materially in protecting dry communities from
the ravage liquor traffic S. E. NICHOLSON
Election Returns
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

We see that some of the farm
ers in this county are fighting
Johnson grass. Very few pco-
pie know anything about tho
great damage that has been done
by Johnson grass in the west,
where, for years, the country
was undevcloped for farming,
md thousands of acres were us
I'd for grazing and pasture.
Many years ago, in those sec
tionS, Johnson grass was actual
ly planted for this purpose, be
cause it required no future care,
was well nigh impossible to kill,
and when once started, was there
forever. But it is a great plant
to spread, and in some parts Of
Texas, thousands of acres of
some of the best land in the
United States is rendered abso-
lutely worthless, for when once
the land becomes thoroughly sod
ded, there is no redemption. But
it spreads from this land to other
land. So. when Oklahoma be-
came a state, one of the very
first state laws passed was one
against the spread of Johnson
grass. and it is a very strict law,
inDosinp a fine of $50 on any per.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

1t is said that the members of
the Missouri Dental Association
are going to change their code of
advertising and that they are ar
ranging to publish an advertise.
ment to the effect that people
should 90 to u dentist before
their teeth decay. 1t is also said
that no rebuke will be adminiS-
tered if dentists go into the lc.
gitimate advertising field, as the
next meeting expects to form
new rules. This will go Il long
ways towards causing people to
have their teeth treated before it
is too late.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

1t is right for every business
man to use all honorable means
to increase his trade, but when a
merchant, printer or any other
business man begins to decry
his competitor and his stock, it
is an evidence of weakness and
will act as a boomerang. In our
opinion, the best thing in the
world to do, is to sail in on your
own merits, and let your com
petitor ditto"
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

The intention of repeating the
ordinance imposing license on
photographers was in order to
lessen the expenses of running
or operating a permanent gal
lery, that our city might have Il
first class studio, and not to
throw the city open to all kinds
of travelling fakirS and button
machines, to set up and operate
upon the streets. All men of
this class are merely leecheS,
trying to make a living without
work. They are not photogra-
pliers in any sense of the word,
and money spent for their worth
less stuff is worse than thrown
away; besides, they are an injury
to photography and bring it into
disrepute. The city should pass
an ordinance imposing good,
stiff license upon all such busi-
ness, and go just little further
and pass an ordinance making
the license so high that peddlers,
street hawkers and medicine
men could not afford to pay it
We do not need this class of peo
pie, and nearly every city is pas,
sing ordinances that successful
ly keep them away. 1t is nothing
but right to protect the people
from being humbugged.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

Last week we told the public
that some of the new ordinances,
the concrete sidewalk ordinance
and the dog tax ordinance, would
likely be published this week.
But we We're mistaken, as the
matter was neglected at the last
meeting. Heretofore it has been
customary for the city clerk to
have ordinances of IA certain MA.
ture published as soon as passed,
without waiting for orders from
the board, and in this way the
people We're kept posted, but the
present clerk was, or is not al
lowed that privilege. So far
as we know only one member OF
the board has objected to the or,
dinances being published.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

1t is getting time that our
legislature should pass more
stringent laws to govern money
lenders and money sharks, to
protect poor people who borrow
small amounts. The small bor-
rover pays all the way from l.
to 100 per cent, and in the end is
usually worse off than before he
borrowed. The law should pro.
tect the poor from such methods.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29
Subscribe for the Hayti Herald.
Warning---Woo Cemetery.

This is to- warn the public that thcr,
arc no free lots in WoodIawn crmc.
terry. 1t is the property of Il. G..
Sandidge, Granite, Okla, and AIN
his agent. Any one who has buried
there without permission or who know
themselves to owe for lots, should call
at this office at once and settle foI
same and get receipts and deeds, as
record. must bc kept of all lots and
burial,. Attend to this at oic'.
VIM. YORK, Agent.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

W. f. Miller, the man who
started the Southeast Missouri
Republican at Kennett and after
wards removed it to Senath, has
left the country, and his creditors
are trying to sell the plant.
This calls to to mind the fact that
many Hayti people, democrats
and republicans alike, who never
spent a cent with the Herald ,
patronized the Republican.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

We see it published that the
Southeast Missouri Telephone
Co. has sold to the Kansas City
Missouri Bell System. If this
is fact we may look for more
phones to be placed with farm
ers, which will be "A great conven
ience. There is hardly anything
more convenient for country peo-
pie than good telephone service.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

The recent rains have redeem
ed many parts of the country
from "a crop failure, or from ii
serious shortage. The rains
seem to be general, from New
Mexico east, and will hold up
our unusually large amount of
home supply and surplus.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

Alabama coal for sale all the time
and promptly delivered to any part
of the city. Terms positively CASH
on delivery THE coal is not mine
run, but good, screened coal. Haytt
Storage. Chas. Morgan, Mgr 50ti.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

We can see no reason why it
takes so long to collect cost from
the circuit court. 1t seems that
as soon as a case is compromised
or settled in court the cost
should be Immediately payable,
and that the court records should
show the amount of cost due.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

YOC will notice that your name is
printed on the paper or wrapper and
and that the date of your suhscrip-
tion is given. Please bear this in
mind. and when your time is out ia.
vor Us with "a prompt renewal
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

Out west another feminine
jury has disagreed. All were
unmarried and the defendant
was on trial for breach of prom
Use. Possibly the girls wanted
to give him another chance.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29
Delinquent Taxes.

All taxes are now due the City of
Havti. ANA unless paid at once, legal
proceedings will he brought without
further notice to collect same. The
city does not desire to put any one to
cost or bother, nut these taxes must
be collected. and must We paid at
once. q. y. Dewey, EE-OMciO Col
lector. June Is, 1911.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

Mrs. ]. T.. (Ed) Adams has the
agency for the book: Fighting the
Traffic in Young Girls, or War on the
White Slave Trade" This is a book
that should he read by every mother
and father, and 10y every person who
has and feels an interest IN humanity.
When they call on YOU to get your
order. you should at least inspect il
and read few pages. 32-tf
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

The Hayti Herald makes no re-
duction rates on Subscription or
upon advertising, offers no prem
iumS, and has no schemes. This
is made necessary by the reason
that the paper is worth every
cent we ask for it, and our advcr-
tising space is worth dollar for
dollar. The fact is, we earn more
than we get. and can see no good
reason to undertake to give Sosc-
thing for nothing. We have Il
good list of subscribers and ad-
vertiserS, and we treat them all
alike.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29

II you don't see it in the Herald it
is because you did not tell us.
The Hayti herald. (Hayti, Mo.) 1908-1922, 1911-06-29
ADVERTISING RATES

Only one-halt Of the front
page rau be Used for advertising.
Special position not guaranteed
for small ads.
Copy for ads should come to
us from Thursday to Monday.
We print one page at a time, and
must have ads early to arrange
for space. Remember this.
Two changes a m0nth is the
most that Will be allowed on
contract.
w Weekly changes can only bc
accepted a weekly rates.
Oar rates are carefully schc-
dulcd, and must he adhered to.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09

lheSe damdDIe conuluons have ex
1steo under a republican government.
the democrats now have the power 10
pass bill aboIishing this curse. bu,
they are not going to do anything tc
hurt- their bosses the coal barons.
ihey can't see the brutality and peo-
mage because they don't want to see
1t, Trey are only the tools of the mas.
ters and will do their bidding. They
may pass a bill legalizIng the guards
and putting them under bond but tina.
went help the miners any. The guards
are not needed and are only retained
to brow beat the miners into humbly
sbmi:ting to be robbed by a heartless
corporation. And you call this a civil
l1zed country? We call it disgrace
to our state and an outrage on it's
manhood. Men, If you want freedom
YOU must free yourselves and the
easiest way to do that Is with your
ballot. If you were to elect class con-
scious men to office In Kanawha coun.
ty these guards would clear out be
tween suns and these highland pirates
the coal barons would lick salt out cf
your hands. they would be so tame
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09
The United
States Senators

The working people are now getting
what they don't want because they
voted for it, When you vote for what
you don't want you usually get more
of it than you bargained for.
When the working people and union
men voted for our present legislature
they were voting for w. z. Chiffon
and C. w. Watson for U. S. Senate
and Gov. MacCorkle for State Senate.
All of these men are either corpora
ton lawyers or the head CT the cor
rorations. Mr.. Watson is making;
good for his interest, he knows what
he wants and what his fellow para.
sites want, he knew that-th ship sub
sidy bill was to the interest of the
big interests, so he very gracefully
This ship subsidy bill provides that
the people will be taxed to build
J. P. Morgan and his interests a lot
OF steam boat lines, but what does
G.. w. Watson care for the dear peo-
pie? Mr. Chiffon will deliver the
goods to his masters when he gets
in the Senate. Gov. MacCorkle Is de.
livering the goods in the state senate
He introduced bill in the senate II
enacted would exempt the corporations
from paying taxes. This just demon
strates the fact that these men elec.
ted by you are the servile tools of the
corporations and are nothing more
than trust hirelings, always listening
for their masters voice and always
ready to obey. Take look into our
legislative hall, what kind of men dc
You find them? A bunch OF corpora
ton lawyers, peanut politicians and
shysters, playing cheap politics and
selling the peoples suffrage to the
highest bidder. These are the men
you allowed to steal your confidence
last fall. These are the men you
trusted and these are the traitors who
are betraying your trust If they had
their dues they would be adorn1ne
the super-heated halls of hell instead
of incumbering the legislative halls
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09

their servile TOOLS the officials and
courts of Fayette to acquit the detec-
tive which was done regardless of the
evidence against him. At that AL e..
feltz was the head Of the agency
stationed at Fhurmond and had for
his lieutenant another ex-convict,. BOB
Burnwell, who hau served fifteen
years OF a life sentence for the. mur-
der IN Fayette county Of Isaac Rad
ford. The guards in Kanawha county
and ait Dorothy in Raleigh county
bears about the same reputation as
those in Fayette. These thugs ar.
kept for the sole purpose of keeping
the miners in these sections from org.
anizing as no guards are needed in
the organized field and these same
miners are forced to pay these guards
dollar a month and this amount
is held out of their pay. On Cabin
Creek and over at Dorothy we are
told they have a system of peonage
that would put Mexico to shame The
Greeks are brought in with the prom
ise of good wages and their trans.
portation is paid by the coal operators
which costs about $50 head These
men are put to work S1.O0 a day and
are forced to live out of the company
stores, are charged double prices for
everything and not allowed as long as
they are in debt to the coal company
to leave. They are not paid enough
to live on and get out OF debt, that is
they way they hold them Indefinitely.
Armed guards march tn en- to the coal
bank in the morning and stand guard
until they come out in the evening
and then march them back to their
shanties where they are herded and
guarded like so many cattle and beat
and brutally treated on the slightest
provocation. All this in a free coun-
try!
In the land Of the free and the
home of the brave" would it not be
more appropriate to say, in the land
of the free booters and the home of
! the slave?
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09

Ihey are intelligent men who realize
the necessity OF Iapor organizing DC.
fore they can expect 70 cope wirn
organized Capital and the spirit or
anionism has taken hold OF cheese true.
blue sons Of toll and they are standing
together like comrades. Mr.. Ke;Iy
wanted these men to work in a place
that was a veritable hell eight ana
nine hours day and it was more
than flesh and blood could stand. 60
to one Of these bit-drawers and ask
him to show you his arms where they
nave been burnt nutil they are a
solid scar from their elbows to the
wrist, from the hot iron and chemicals
These men ask only for the right to
belong to an economic union, can you
see any reason my dear reader why
Mr.. Kelly should deprive them OF
these rights? Mr.. Kelly is despot
and knows where there is union there
Is strength. and he knows that IL his
men are organized he can not dolnI-
neer over them and drive them beyond
their powers of endurance. To-day
Kelly is grinding human being into
ever so many axes ana when the men
refuse to be. ground into axes for
Kelly's profit then he refuses to ;et
them work but from the solid front
the hit-drawers are presenting to the
enemy he will have to come across
this time. The signs OF the times are
a. %
good, the workers are beginning to
wake up and it won't be long before
they will realize that they can rim
the Industries themselves and get the
whole product of their labor instead
of giving four fifths of it to the mas
ter class and only retaining one fifth
for themselves.
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09
The Coal BaronS Control
the State Officials
And Maintains Guard System in
Order to Hold the Workers
in a State of Peonage

The guard system and the peonage
as practiced by the coal barons OF
West Virginia are black spots on civil.
ization.
We read with horror Of the peonage
and brutality Of the Mexican pluto
cracy bIt we can't see the evils that
exist right in our midst. The Bald.
win detective agency furnishes the
coal operator with ex-convicts anil
criminals of the most vicious and
brutal type at so much mead. The
most Of these men are Jail birds as
the records Of the various counties
will show. 1t seems that one OF the
qualifications to get a position with
and from all appearance the detective
agency has been instrumental in Sc
c-ing pardon for these men as they
have Joined the Baldwin agency as
soon as they were released by the
authorities. These men are commits.
stoned bv the governor of the state
which goes to show that our highest
state executive is but puppet and
IS dictated to by the railroads and
mining corporations.
In Fayette county some time ago
the head Of the Baldwin Agency OF
that county was indicted and tried
for the robbery of Bob Wick, the pay.
master and from the evidence given
at this trial was guilty of the charge
but the coal barons of Fayette needed
the Baldwin thugs to keep the miners
in subjugation, SO the Baldwin Agency
brought their influence to bear on the
ccal barons who in turn instructed
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09

of sovereign people. The present
Legislature was elected by the un,a:.
mems vote. Now tell me why ,"u
belong to a union. pay dues then vote
scab ticket? If you are going 10
scab on election day why not scab the
other 364 days in the year. And to
think that some of the so-called labor
lenders and union officials endorsed
this crowd of dealers in wage slaves,
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09
PORTO RIcANs SAY U. S.
OUT-GRAFTS SPAIN
Olmstead Bill Plans To Take From
The Islanders Their Lands And
Liberties

Washington, D. c., Feb. S.-Porto
Ricans are making a great outcry
against the pracLIcal aUoiItlon OF All
political liberty in the islands as pro-
posed in the Olmstead bill, measure
which plans to give the islanders even
less elf-government than they pcs.
sessed under Spain.
BY the Olmstead bill President Taf,
is given the power to appoint the gov
ernor, to appoint eight out of thirteen
members of the Senate and finally, to
guarantee a monopoly of all business
enterprises falling into the right hands
the measure provides that ali rail
road, street railway, telegraph ami
telephone franchises must be approved
by the President of the United States
before they can become operative.
Also. all of the municipal judges shall
be appointed by the governor the
Presidents appointee-and by these
means a cornplet Taft Empire estab
lished in Porto Rico
Louis Nunoz Rivera. resident com
missioner of Porto Rico at Washing.
ton, has this to say of the black out
look for his countrymen:
.'The Foraker act, which is now the
law of the island, provides tha. the
ownership Of land by corporations
(Continued On page three)
The labor argus. [volume] (Charleston, W. Va.) 1906-1915, 1911-02-09

CONTINUED on page four.)
Arizona republican., 1911-01-11

years under a contract with the sisters
has taken the output of the convent
That is Mr. Bake on his annual trips
to Mexico has personally selected from
the best of the output.
For years the Big Curio store has
been recognized in the southwest as
the headquarters Tor Mexican drawn
work For that matter it might have
been recognized as the headquarters
for the whole country for nowhere else
has such a stock been carried The
usually large supply was contracted for
last summer before the present closing
out sale was contemplated
But the consignment was received,
and now it is going at closing out
prices-at cost. Never again will this
handsome product of the skilled needle
woman be bought for such prices as il
is now being sacrificed at Balke's
Big Curio store.
Arizona republican., 1911-01-11
MEXICAN DRAWN WORK
WAS NEVER So CHEAP
The Sacrifice Now in Progress at
Balke's Big curio Store.

There is nothing more beautiful as
a product of the needleworkers art
than Mexican drawn work. There are
lOther kinds of drawn work, but there
lis none like the Mexican. There are
different kinds of Mexican drawn work
but there is no other like that made by
the sisters of the convent of Guadala-
jara.
That statement leads up to Balkes
Big Curio store, which for several