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The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1911-12-02

conversipg in low, whispered
tones.
What they said-what person
al:confessions they made to each
other; in those gloomy hours of
the early evening, they alone
know.
But when they had done, they
went to bed, and. slept soundly
through the night,
And all through the silent
watches, a Gordon of stalwart
men lounged outside the. county
jail They had. suspicious bulges
in their clothes, and they closely
scrutinized every passer-by.
When the sun rose today, other
men. took their places. They were
sworn deputies assigned by
Sheriff Billy Hammell to see that
nothing ultoward took.place.
Not that there is any great fear
of trouble. But-Hanl1nell says
he3is geingto take every precau-
ton.
There is apparently little bit
terness here. But there are hun
dreds of men who openly de-
clare the brothers have betrayed
the cause of labor.
Who say the McNamaras.
knowing themselves for murder
>efs, have played upon the credul-
ity of the men and women of the
country who earn their bread by
the sweat of their brows, to get
the money for their defense.
The two prisoners, who have
been supported by thousands of
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1911-12-02

against whom the violence was.
directed.
Clarence barrow looks like a.
man who has lost his cause,
Half an hour after the McNa-'
maras had pleaded guilty to dyn7
amiting and murder, the cores
pendent of the Day Book tramp
ed through the side. streets of
Los Angeles with the labor att
torney.
barrow had fed from his office
to. escape the flood of questions
which were pouring in upon him
by telegraph from all'parts of the
country. He was asked point
blank why he took the case of the
guilty McNamaras.
"All l. expect" he replied, SIS
that my best friends will under
stand why The chances are TIE
world Will not understand.
when I went into this case
last March I could look ahead to
this very moment and see what
was before me.
''All l wanted to do was to save
the lives Of the Mcnamara broth
ers. Say what you please about
them, they thought they were
taking the only course left to win
their fight in Los Angeles They
were not murderers at heart.
They were destroyers of prop
erty.
James Mcnamara didn't in
tend to kill anybody. His dyna--
mite broke the gas mains. And
that's the plight | found him in.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
INCOME TAX AMENDMENT.

The Legislatures of eighteen States
have now taken action upon the pro-
posed amendment to the Constitution of
the United States, to empower Con-
gress ito lay and collect taxes upon in
comes, from whatever source derived,
without apportionment among the sew
eral States, and without regard to any
census or enumeration. Twelve of
them, those of Alabama, Georgia, Illi-
nois, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi,
Oklahoma, Oregon, South Carolina,
Texas, Ohio and Kansas, voted for rati-
fcation, and six, those of Louisiana.
Massachusetts,, New York, Rhode ISL
and, Virginia and Vermont, voted
against ratification. The amendment
was submitted by Congress in July,
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
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The readers of this paper ill be- pleased
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Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
GOssrnnsat Pays vsn Poorly.

The history of the railway mail bust
ness is interesting for two salient feat
ures-the great increase in the service
rendered the government and the people
oy the railroads, and the corresponding
decrease in pay. 1t seems hard to re-
Siize that the government should set
the example of poor pay for services
rendered, yet this is fact when il
comes to the postoffice department Door
~ paying the railroads for the great
service they give. For instance. in
1SO'' the railroads received $40. 759. 96O
Tor carrying the mails. The year fol-
io"ing' Notwithstanding the fact of an
increase ID volume amounting TO 81. 9s3.
ooo, the railroads received decrease of
d. oO2, 5S2 less than the previous wear.
ana Tor last year the report of ire Post
master General shows that the revenne
OF the department land consequently
the volume of mail handledO increased
S4O, 54S, 652 over that of 1907. but not
one cent of increase in payment to the
railroads for the hauling and furnishing
Oh cars for distribution of the vast in
crease In amount of mail carried, over
twenty-five per cent, and producing az
stated, over S4O,000,O 600 of revenue. in
tact, the railroads were actually paid
sooz, TOO less in 1910 than in 1907.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
Good Roads.

A recent press dispatch sent out from
New York says:
The executive committee of the
Union Pacific and Southern Pacific
lines voted TO complete the double
tracking of the lines from the Mis-
souri, river - San Francisco. and
they voted to double-trsck the Ore
gon short line. The total distance
is l,673 miles, the cost of improve
ment aggregates SIS, 900, 900. and is
distributed over a period of five
years.
One of the objections that has been
raised against bond issue in TazeweII
has been that it would be impossible To
build more than about ten miles a wear
OF new road If the Southern Pacific
can build l,67S miles of road at an ex-
pense of SIS, 900, 600 in five wears in a
country that is, for the most part. a
desert or almost impossible mountains
there is no doubt but, should bond ia
sue carry, that Tazewell can build its
two hundred miles of road within the
same period. In fact, they should be
built in three
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
How Japan Prepared 10 Lick Russia,

The truth is, that the Japanese from
camp-followers to commander-in chief
were prepared for war and the Russians
were not. From the day that Russia.
aided by France and Germany, forced
Japan to cede back to China some of
the fruits of her victory over the Chi
nese, from that hour Japan nursed and
fed fat her ranking grudge and bided
her time as deliberately as a tiger wait
ing to spring. While was in Japan an
Engllshman told me that Immediately
after Russia forced Japan to give her
vlctor's spoils, he was amazed bv the
tremendous interest in the military
drills in all the Japanese schools. and
when he asked what it meant, there was
one frank answer: 1--WE are getting
ready to lick Russia
1t should also be observed that when
the war came on the Japanese were not
only IN state of preparedness so far as
battleships and army drill and munitions
OF war were concerned, but they were
also prepared in the vital matter of
proper medical attendance. ''When
your American soldiers went with Shaft
er into Cuba, the army was utterly
without a proper medical corps and
equipment, and the death-rate was dis
gracefully high, but the first Japanese
who fell in crossing the Yalu were taken
at once to the best of Japanese sur-
geons and cared for in the most an
proved military hospitals" So said a
frank Scotchman to me, and in the light
OF the official statistics could say moth
ing In palliation of the unpleasant allu-
sion to America. When the war with
Russia ended, Baron Takaki, surgeon
general Of the Japanese army, boosted
that whereas in the Spanish
war fourteen men died from prevent
able diseases to one man killed on the
field of BATTLE" the Japanese had lost
only one man from disease to eyerv
four from bullets. CharacteristicaIly.
the Japanese had not worked out any of
the principles Of medical science, sani-
tation, and hygiene which enabled them
to make this remarkable record. but
they showed their usual facility in tax
ing the white mans inventions and get
ting as much or more-more in this case
--out of them than he gets himself.
The Japanese record showing in such
amazing fashion what a wisely directed
health organization may accomplish, is
worth remembering not only in connec
ton with plans for military efficiency,
but also in connection with plans for
public health work in the South. Every
state should spend Ave times as much
for this work as at present.-Clarence
Poe, in Raleigh IN. c. Progressive
Farmer.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
Life SaYad at Deaths Door.

81 never felt so near the grave /"
writes w. r. Patterson, of Wellington.
Tex, as when frightful cough and
lung trauble pulled me down to 100 lbs.
IN spite of doctors treatment for two
years. My father, mother and two sis-
tiers died of consumption, and that / am
alive today is due solely to DR.. Kings
New Discovery, which completely cured
me. Now weigh 1877 pounds and have
been well and strong for years." Quick.
safe, sure, its the best remedy on earth
for coughs, colds, lagrippe, asthma.
Group, and all throat and lung troubles.
Soc and $1.0O. Trial bottle free. Guar
anteed by John e. Jackson.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
THE sOuIE's INDUSTRIAL AwaStSlEs.

twenty years or so ago when William
All en- White leaped into fame on the
strength of single editorial, What's
the matter with Kansas the farmers
of that State were poverty-stricken,
over-burdeneG with mortgages. and
without a great deal of hope for better
conditions. Nowadays the Kansas farm
er oppressed with a mortgage is the ex-
ception; they have money in the bank;
they ride around in automobiles and not
a few have electric lights in house and
barns. Full crops do not entirely ex-
plain the difference. The Kansas farm
er has walked up to the possibilities of
farming as profession as compared
with its possibilities as an operation and
having awakened has been exceedingly
busy applying his knowledge.
What has already happened in Kansas
is in process of happening in this sec
ton. Before the war the South was
pretty exclusively agricultural, but the
J single crop and the peculiar labor sys-
tenn were antagonistic to the new ideas.
After the war for a number of wears
the South remained exclusively agri-
cultural, but the havoc wrought by the
struggle entailed such poverty that lit
tie effort could be spared from the ard
uous necessity of keeping soul and body
together. Less than a quarter of a
century ago the South began to expert
ence an industrial awakening such as It
had never known and this has prospered
so marvelously that the section has be-
gun to be spoken of as largely indus
J trial.
This Technology overlooks many
stubborn facts. Scarcely to be oyeres-
timated is the value of her industries to
the South, and there is room for many
more, but agricultural she is and agri-
cultural must she in the main continue.
If we do not improve our opportunities
along agricultural lines our progress in
the way of new industries will profit us
little. This is the reason why every
body is interested in the farmer. Pros
perity as a general proposition must be
measured by his advance; unless he is
enlightened and aggressive the entire
community will feel the clog on the
wheels. Diversifcation Of crops, i'm
proved methods, intensive farming,
good rural schools, good rural roads are
topics of vital interest to the city dwell
er although he may sometimes forget
that fact. Upon the energy of our
farmers rests, in the ultimate analysis.
the future Of the South.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

Farmers in the vicinity of some of
the aviation grounds in the country are
complaining that the noise of ascending
and descending biplanes and monoplanes
causes their horses and mules to fall in
terror to the ground, while their cows
have acquired stiff necks through con-
slant gazing heavenward at the ma
chimes. The effect. if any, upon hogs
is not recorded, neither have any re-
turns come in about the poultry. If
the effect upon horses and cattle is such
as described, and if airships and other
aerial devices have come to stay, as
now seems likely, the animals In time
will get used to them just as they got
used to railroad engines, threshing en-
gines, and automobiles.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
NAMING THE FARM,

Give the farm a name and keep the
farm up to the name. A name gives
distinction, it is an expression of honest
pride, it shows an interest In the place.
1t means something more than so many
acres of brown earth, a dwelling and
barns. 1t means a place that one feels
is in best sense the home of himself and
his family. Sentiment gathers around
it and crystsllizes so that at last the
owner does not so much ask in declining
years, How much can get for my
farm?" but, "Who is going to succeed
me on it," And that means much, for
it means a deepening and strengthening
of home ties and those of locality, all of
which is greatly needed in our Ameri-
can rural life.
But for practical reasons as well as
sentimental it is wise to bestow name
upon the farm. No self-respecting man
would give good name to his farm and
then not keep the farm in good condi-
ton. The sense of pride and of the fit
ness of things would impel the farmer
and his family to do their best. That
would mean better cultivation, house
and barns painted, fences in good re-
pair, better stock and better crops, and
a more attractive appearance within
and without the dwelling.
There is scarcely q farm, however
situated, but some approprite name
may be given it. The landscape,
spring, clump of trees, position, his
toric associations are among the many
things that may suggest the name.
And always remember this that it is
with the farmer more than with anyone
else, rests the solution of the problem
of arresting the drift citywards. An
attractive home, home that has q dis
Effectiveness about it goes a long way
towards the solution.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

negotiated with Canada is responsive to
the demand to reduce the cost of living
If that treaty is adopted by Congress
and is ratified by Canada, will it accom-
plish much in the direction intended?
This is an uncertain question.
There are several very intelligent
reasons for believing that there will
never be any material reduction in the
cost of living in the United States, ex-
cept it be brought about by some great
financial crisis or terrible commercial
calamity. The vast accumulated wealth
that has been gathered, and that is still
being produced in unlimited volume,
must necessarially tend to keep the es-
sentisl necessaries of life high-priced.
This accumulated wealth is not possess
ed alone by the manufacturer and nom
producing consumer, but a very large
part of it is held by the men who pro
duce the food products. The farmers
have grown so intelligent and indepen-
dent financially that they can take care
of themselves; and they can certainly,
with the assistance of the great COM
bines that buy and sell the farm pro-
ducts, regulate prices to suit themselves
1t looks to US like the only true solution
will be to cease trying to eurtail the
price of living by forcing reduction in
the price of food-stuffs and put the
wage earners-the consumers-in a po-
sition to meet the increased cost of liv-
ing. This can be done by advancing the
wages of those who work by the day
and the salaries of all salaried men.
Let the regulation be upward and not
downward The farmer who now re-
ceives such splendid prices for his pro-
ducts will hardly complain when he has
to pay higher for what he buys as q
necessary result of the advance made in
wages and salaries.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
WILL THERE Be REDUCTION?

The high or increased cost of living
played an important part in the nation
al campaign last year. The Democrats
used it to the full advantage in making
their attacks upon the protective policy
Of the Republican party. Their appeals
were made largely to the agricultural
classes, and, strange to say, these ap-
peals found. serious lodgment, though
the farmers were the chief benefciaries
of the increased cost of living. They
had never before in the history of the
country received such remuneratiye
prices for their products. The reci-
procity treaty which President Taft has
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

When Davis Elkins was appointed to
the United States Senate from West
Virginia last month, to succeed his
father, the late Stephen B. Elkins, the
newspapers recalled that Henry G.
Davis, his grandfather, had also been a
Senator, and some of them intimated
that this was the first time that there
had been three Senators in a family.
They forgot the Bayards of Delaware.
Thomas F. Baysrd was preceded in the
Senate by both his father and his uncle,
and these brothers ere preceded by
their father, making four Senators in
three generations. The record of the
Harrison family for public service is
still more remarkable. Benjamin Har-
rison was delegate to the Continental
Congress and Governor of Virginia.
His son, William Henry, was President.
His son, John Scott, was member of
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
IMPROVE THE SCHOOLS.

The trend of modern educational ad-
vance is towards the elimination of the
little one-room, one-teacher rural school
so familiar in the early biographies of
many great Americans. Good work has
been and can be done under such condi-
tons, but it has been discovered that in
education as in other lines, combination
and consolidation pay large dividends.
In many states, particularly in the CEN
trial west, the county educational ad-
thorities have done away with the iso-
lated schools entirely, substituting for
them smaller number of carefully To-
Gated big schools.
Naturally the obstacle which looms
largest in the face of this advance is the
question of getting the pupils to the
schools, the average distance under the
new plan being of course much greater
than under the old. To meet this diff
Guilty many counties have inaugurated
wagon service which makes a regular
schedule every morning to pick up the
scholars and carry them to school and
one every afternoon to return them to
their homes. 1t might be supposed that
such an enterprise would be prohibitive-
ly expensive but actual experience has
shown in very many instances that the
cost is more than saved by the greater
economy resulting from the consolida-
ted school.
The United States bureau of educa-
ton has been investigating this move
ment and find much in it to commend.
Summing up few of the advantages
to be derived from consolidation, bull
letin issued by the department declares:
IAN incentive is given to make perma-
nent improvements, to beautify the
school grounds, secure modern sanitition
and provide ample school room equip
ment. The large number of children
assembled at a centrally located school
makes possible graded classes and bet
ter division of the school day. Studies
can be introduced which require special
equipment and specially trained teach
ers, such as agriculture, home econom-
les, manual training and music-advan-
tages almost unattainable in small dis
trict schools. These centrally located
Countrywide schools, too, form conve-
nient social centers for communities;
local interests and activities affiliate
with the schools SO that public use is
made of their commodious
class-rooms and auditoriums. Encour-
agement is given to the growth of liter
airy and debating societies, social and
agricultural clubs, grange meetings,
reading circles, athletic and other COM
petitions among pupils and entertain
nents of various kinds
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

We notice that the Roanoke Times is
no longer calling the attention of the
people of the Ninth district to the DO
litical situation in West Virginia as an
example. West Virginia has been re-
deemed (0 by the Democrats, but our
Roanoke contemporary does not seem to
be pleased with the manner in which
the Democrats have utilized the re-
demption.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
ASTHMA = GATARRH CURED
Expert Medical Scientists Announce Start
ling Results Obtained by SenuIne.

New York-Thousands are taking ad-
vantage OF the generous offer made nv
Inc Woodworth Co, Dept. o. 116I
broadway, New York City, requesting
an experimental package of Senpine
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FEVER, bronchitis and Catarrh. which
IS mailed free of charge to all who write
Tor 1t. 1t is curing thousands of the
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ference how long you have been suffer
ing or how severe the climatic condi-
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II you nave experimental with other
cure do not be discouraged but send for
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discovered by a Professor of Vienna
University. and is being recommended
by thousands.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

When our forefathers cut off their
pigtails and discarded wigs it simply
meant a change in fashion towards a
greater simplicity of dress. There was
no religious or political significance
about it. But the Chinese who every
where are being shorn of their queues to
the great profit of the barber, are act
ing under orders from their emperor.
This surrender of an ancient custom "a
a matter of state policy is another sign
that China is gradually giving up her
old conservatism and adopting modern
ideas in both government and social
usages.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

the House of Representatives for four
years His son, Benjamin, was Presi-
dent one term and candidate for re-
election. And his son, Russell Benia-
mln' was an officer in the Spanish War.
The Adams family, with two Presidents
and a minister to England in three sue
ceeding generations, is also note worthy
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

Congress and State Legislatures may
well heed the old Greek saying, Learn
to do things by doing them," which is
much the same as, 1.-THE way to resume
is to resume" from the lips of former
distinguished American. Generally the
greater part of a session, is spent in
talk and in adjournments on every pre-
tense, and then at the last few bills
are rushed through. At the best the
amount of talk is generally out of all
proportion with the work accomplished.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

The side that loses an election or
which fails to pass q measure can al.
ways console itself with the reflection
that nothing is settled until it is set
tied right
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16
Wife Got Tip Top Advice.

My wife wanted me to take our how
TO the doctor to cure an ugly boil, .
writes d. Frankel, of Stroud, Okla. '.I
said put Bucklen's Arnica SaIve on II ;
She did so, and it cured the boil in a
short time" Quickest healer of burns
scalds, cuts, corns, bruises, sprains'
sWelilngs, Beat pile cure on earth
Try It. Only 25c at Jackson's drug
store. ~s
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

1t is not the length of ones life that
counts, but the manner of it. Some
people live more and do more good in
forty years than others do in eighty.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

There are people who can recite glibly
the ten commandments without an error
who manage to break one or more of
them every day and think nothing of it.
Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1911-02-16

The world cannot be made better by
apathy, nor even by good wishes. If
progress is to be made it must Re
through wise persistent action.