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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1911-01-06

lose connections at Cordele for
4 for all points East. and at
|ATexas points and the Southwest
further information apply to
Small, T. P. A., Savannah
kannah, Ca; c. B. Ryan, G.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
The rs. G." Leaquers.

1t is significant that the local option
forces held their borning at the State
House. 1t is just as significant that
the no-license folk seem never to have
expected a welcome at the State
House. Both organizations are non
partisan but did you notice who were
here to christen Self Government
League" ship and send her down the
ways? Glance down the list and see
how many you recognize as likely to
disagree with the liquor interest af-
fliation of the present administration.
OF course the publicity agent of the
Brewers Assn was present, an Incl
dent which, initself, is indicative of
real self government"-und the
support and encouragement of the
liquor trust
Really there is nothing like being
governed" by an institution that has
plenty of money to put into the gov
eminent,
After numerous "whereases" this in
tant self government league resolved:
THAT we will do all in our power to
accomplish the annulment of constitu-
tional prohibition and will heartily
endorse legislation enacted for honest
regulation and control of the liquor
traffic.
journal readers may thus see who
are opposing the law. by preserving
the list published In Thursday morn
ing paper. 1t may be worth while
In the fight to come, if it is kept at
hand
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
Don't Make Us LAUGH!

The kennebec Journal endeavors to
Keep up the delusion that the farmers
as class are opposed to the Canadian
reciprocity agreement, although the
humbug of that claim, and the means
oy which 1t was bolstered up. have
been thoroughly exposed Apparently
this organ of the timber land owners
and lumber interests thinks that A.
humbug we'll stuck to. though exposed.
Is better than nothing. But even the
readers or the kennebec Journal who
40 not confine their newspaper reading
exclusively to the columns of that or
gan of the lumber interests. are not
TO be deceived. They now know. as the
washington Star (Rep9 puts it, 1.-THE
real character and extent of that
much advertised agricultural revolt. .
that 1t was an artificial racket sup
ported by other than agricultural in
terests and conducted I'm the main
by professional promoters. portland
Argus
Perhaps the Argus could tell WHY
Senator Johnson was absent when the
vote on reciprocity" was taken in the
finance committee. Maybe the Argus
thinks the KennebeC Journal "deIudedp
nm We are modest and will guess
That he has heard from home. as did
the Democratic Legislature of Maine.
which the Kennebec Journal, perhaps,
infected with it's delusion.
Yes. indeed. "the humbug" has been
thoroughly exposed"-by the Argus
and Dan Macs paper And of course
everyone believes the declaration so
unsteady intoned by Portland's fam
Gus 'stringed instrument of Egyptian
origin. in preference to their own
knowledge and Judgment.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
Beyond Human Power?
Collier for June.)


H. President Taft is the kind of q man
who needs TO have both sides OF
question presented adequately 10 him
in order TO do his best work. IL he
had from the start been surrounded
by an equal number of able men from
the two great divisions of society. the
Standpatters and the Liberals, he
would have made a remarkably sue
cessful President As we have already
pointed out, his arbitration treaty. his
self-control about Mexico his reci-
procity treaty, which is valuable in
spite of being in some respects unsat-
isfactory, and his appointments of
Messrs. Fisher and Stmson, have done
much to diminish the force of the OPP
position to him. That opposition is
reasonable. 1t is based on courage and
deep democratic philosophy. The only
way for the President to meet 1t Is to
go further himself in the direction of
popular sympathy and stiff opposition
to Illicit demands of special interests.
We have one thing in mind which we
fully realize would require very ex-
ceptional moral strength. We refer
to the appointment of Louis D. Brand ,
els to the next vacancy In the Cabinet.
Mr.. Brandeis has power. definite
ness, and originality in dealing with
economic problems which deserves the
name of genius With him added To
Messrs Fisher and Stimson the Presi
dent could not fail to realize the lib
eral or progressive side OF every uues
ton which should arise. Abraham
Lincoln used to make point of read
ing especially those papers which
criticized him severely. and he put
into his Cabinet and kept there men
who had been his active opponents
He selected for his great Secretary OF
War lawyer who had once bitterly
wounded his feelings fsit8
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16

+ Z.
This class of papers has patted
Senator La Toilette on the back until
it is calloused. because he has op-
posed the interests" but now that he
has taken a stand against the greatest
injustice of a generation. he is de-
nounced as a scoundrel in the service
of trust.
1t is too bad for Senator La Toilette
to lose the friendship of such papers.
The same editorial makes this
idiotic assertion:
THE cause of Reciprocity touches
the quick of peoples lives. 1t reaches
to bare cupboards and promises an
easing of the economic strain in
million households. 1t is not the kind
of a measure that lends itself lightly
to the game of party factions.
President Taft himself, in advocat-
ing his pet scheme. said that it was
not likely to make any material diff
ference in the cost of living. And if
it would. pray where is the reduction
coming from if not out of the lives of
the producers?
Would not Senator La Toilette and
Senator Root look well turning back
at the beck of such an organ?
While Senator Johnson of Maine.
did not have the moral courage to defy
his national party leaders and vote
against the measure in committee. he
could not vote for it and lodged.
La Toilette did not dodge and we
glory in his spunk
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
For the Davies Bill.
cortland Press.1

tiortland PreSS.)
1t is significant that the president of
the Maine branch of the American
Federation of Labor should have TAX
en- such a pronounced stand for the
Davies primary election bill as Presi-
dent Beals took in his report at the
annual convention in Bangor. 1t fore
shadows the position of organized la
Dor on the question. Indeed there has
been little doubt of that position
any more than there has been of the
position of the farmers organization.
With the Grange for the bill, with the
Federation of Labor for It, and with
the Direct Primary league directing
and energizing the movement it is
evident that there is to be no lack of
support. Mr.. Beals' discussion shows
that the labor leaders have a correct
appreciation of the situation and are
alive to 1t. and that they thoroughly
understand the difference between the
Davies bill and its rival. the Pennell
bill and it may be added that the
same Is true of the politicians. The
Pencil bill is the bill of the politicians.
and the Davies bill is the bill of the
people. The former applies the princi-
pie of direct popular nomination only
to few of the offices. that is, to gov
ernor and members of Congress, with
an advisory vote on nominations of
United States Senators, but omits the
county and legislative nominations.
which are nearest to the people. The
effect is to leave these offices under
the caucus and convention nominating
system as now, and in the control of
the political managers. And this is
Just what the political managers want
and are aiming at and what the Pen
nell bill is calculated to do. They de-
sire to manipulate the nomination of
sheriffs, county attorneys and Iegisla-
tors. Furthermore, as President
Beals claims, the machinery of the
Pennell bill to carry it's provisions into
effect lis Inadequate and cumbersome,
and in my judgment will not work
satisfactorily" On the other hand. the
Davies bill is not open to these criti-
cisms. 1t embraces all the offices
and 1t remedies the faults of the other.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
War and Local Option.

Editor Kennebec Journal:
Local option was tried in the South
local option to keep slaves.
The people of the North believed
that all men should be free and equal.
They founded their belief upon their
understanding of Gods laws as ex-
pressed in the Bible and upon their
country's laws as written in the Con-
stltution of the United States. to
which country their forefathers came
IN order to form more perfect
union. establish justice (Which they
We're denied elsewhere). insure do
mestive tranquility. provide for the
common defense (Which they con-
stfued included the defense of the
slaVes), promote the general welfare
'Whlch they believed also included
the welfare of the negro). and secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves
and our posterity'"
The Southern people considered the
negroes their property-they had
bought and paid for them. or their
ancestors had bought and paid for
.hem or their slaves ancestors-and
the people of the South believed il
was nobody's business but their own
whether or not they had slaves or how
they treated those slaves.
The Northern people believed that
lhe freeing of the slaves would be
Tor the honor of God and for the
hoilor OF the Union, and felt that they
would themselves dishonor God $
laws, and their country and them
serves, If they permitted the slaves II
remain In bondage. They recognized,
what the South did not so thoroughly
recognize. that Christ came to
preach deliverance to the captives
to set at liberty them that
are bruised" as well as to free them
from all sin. Both the North and the
oouth overlooked what John the Bap-
'ist taught soldiers, as part of the
preparation for the Saviours coming,
DO violence to no man"
The negro slave was the first LABOR
fRoBLEM our Union had to cope
WIN and the Union soldiers met ii
with the voluntary offering of Their
ives as sacrifice, knowing we'll that
'ireater love hath no man than this
mat man lay down his life for his
friends The Union soldiers went t.
the front in order to afford the Negro
fewer hours of labor. better wages
| equal rights. an opportunity to make
MS nome as pure, as happy, and his
children as intelligent and well edu.
Gated as the white man himself was
enabled to do for his. and that the
oiaek man and his wife and children
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
LaFoIIette, and tho Dodgers.

A yellow journal severely arraigns
Senator LaFollette for his course on
the reciprocity question. 1t calls at
tention to the moral confusion of
politics when LaFollete. Root. Smoot,
Bailey and Gailinger are found stand
ing together against the reciprocity"
bill. 1t says:
1T was a spectacle of bewilderment
that scene in the Senate Finance
Committee room-when you turned
away from the most urgent popular
cause of a generation and voted for
the Root amendment-to spite the
President
You, Mr.. La Toilette, have in the
past seemed always to stand up for
the public You have struck telling
blows at the corruption of Senators,
and have rebuked with unsparing
tongue that low subservience to priv
ate interests which is the shame of
the Senate in these times.
You have taken the lead i'm bring
ing the Lorimer scandal into the light
of day.
Ut III t1is matter Oh the R0Ot con-
spiracy for the defeat of Reciprocity
you know, and the people know. that
you are putting yourself in the service
of the Lumber Trust and the allied
interests that have created and sus-
tanned that same Lorimer You see
and everybody sees, that you are in
the company of Senators who are far
from the people, and to whom grea,
public enemies are familiar friends,
THE people cannot believe that yot
are venai. But how can they helr
believing that you have been temptet
to football the public welfare for tn,
hope of winning a political game?"
1t certainly must have been be
wildering" to that class of paper
which have been daily proclaimin
the Overwhelming sentiment for thi
most urgent popular cause" Per
haps Senator La Toilette took note O
those who are nov attempting to bull
doze this measure through, while the
loudly proclaim their loyalty to tn
administration They love the Pres
dent very dearly at this stage of tn
game,
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
What They Paid For7
tBelfast Republican Journal.)

'BeildSt Republlcan JournaI)
The Portland Press reports that
Portland was never so wide open, that
a perfect carnival of beer drinking pre-
walls on certain streets and that the
police and sheriffs pay nc attention.
mot only are there more saloons now
in operation than Portland has ever
known to be in existence but other
places are being fitted up to be opened
as saloons. The places which are be-
ing made ready for business are in
many cases most pretentious, with
plate glass windows, steel ceilings and
costly furnishings" The Press saws
further: 1.-THE most singular thing
about this condition is that the people
of Portland. the business men and
others, do not seem at all concerned
because there is one law on the statute
books which is being openly Violated"
Evidently the brewers are getting what
they paid for last September.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
The Sun Courses" the Tariff

Out of town for day or two we
missed copy of the Lewiston Sun and
the diatribe aimed at us by it's free
trade editor. A friend calls attention
to the challenge to name one tax in
the list of protective taxes that is a
benefit to Maine
That is too easy, Brother Wood. and
We'll be generous and make it easy
for y9a. We know your tariff tenden-
eles and how you like to spring your
grasp of free trade detail on the nub-
lie, so will let you make your own Sc
lection. Do you catch the point? We
are making the assertion that everv
one of them was well calculated for
| Names benefit and that calculations
| nave been fulfilled.
| If any tariff is a Course to Maine e
go ahead and pick out your tax and
iambaste it, But let us hint to Won
mat every biff is boomerang in these
days IN Maine, for the people have hat
a pretty good dose of your doctrine
| and twas bitter
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16

Editor Kennebec Journal:
How shall We characterize those
men who say. in effect: We realize
that existing saloons create evils
which cannot be tolerated. We see
around us misery and poverty and
suffering and crime traceable to it.
We know that if men did not have
liquor to drink they would not drink
it. Therefore we recommend as the
best method of suppressing these
evils the establishment of saloons
throughout the entire State. This
will lessen the evil"
Gigantic intellects such logicians
must have. must they not
There was a dear old lady who was
said to have the same power of argu-
ment. She claimed to have bought
eggs at twenty cents dozen (of
course this was long ago and her
children would today receive a higher
price for them) and sold these eggs
at eighteen cents Dozen And
when asked how she could afford to
sell at Is cents when she paid 20 for
them. she replied Because | sell so
many of Them
This is the same style of reasoning
used by those who would substitute
local option for prohibition. They
gravely state that excessive liquor
drinking is deplorable. that it ruins
mems lives. etc, and then they say
the only way to prevent this and
lessen the amount of drinking is to
open hundreds of saloons instead of
trying to close up those which exist
in defiance of the law.
Then they add. to convince us of
their irreproachable ability to direct
rightly our opinions and votes in
September. you cannot stop crime,
and you should therefore abolish your
laws-take them off your books, and
let the liquor dealers and their friends
control children's morals and exercise
unlimited authority over your domes~
tic tranquility"
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
Friday, June 16, 1911.
Falsehood is never so success
full as when she bats her hook
with truth.-Colton.
Anything but Law.

~ cannot think how any man can vote
against it (prohibitory law), and call
himself temperance man, an advocate
of constitutional prohibition is quoted as
saving. This is confusing prohibition
with temperance, or rather making thehi
SYNONYMOUS terms. The pronibltory law
does not mean temperance, IT does not
even mean practical prohibition. rms
fact is demonstrated by the admission OF
a prohibitionist authority that drunken.
ness has greatly increased IN a period 0,
n wears In this State. And TINS peflou
was during constitutional prohibition.
1t is the effort of the friends or that syS-
TEN to make it synonymous WIN tempe.
ance-but the facts are against 1T orr
land Argus.
There is one advantage to the public
I'm the present battle for and against
the prohibitory law-it has forced
Democracy to show its true colors as
the rum party. Its leaders and organs
have banked their chances of success
in the next election on the belief, or,
rather. the hope that majority oil
the voters of Maine want rum. They
tell YOU IL is a non partisan move
ment: that all parties want free rum
that everybody but few ''cranks and
paid prohibitionists" is opposed to
law that restraints the liquor traffic.
and that the only party of half CEN
fury that has had the courage to come
out and tell the truth is the present
Plaisted -Pattangall- Singleton Liquor
Trust regime. They not only admit
but they boast that their constructive
legislation of last winter was rum
destructive legislation was rum legis-
lation.
They tell the people that prohibition
does not prohibit. and they prove the
contention by a demonstration in the
largest city of the State. They tell
you that local option is better than
State wide prohibition. and they prove
it By pointing to dry localities where
officials remember their oaths of Of
fee. They are not arguing for Ii
cense, because that is the goal at
which they are aiming.
the difference between prohibition
and temperance. The Portland Argus
says they should not be confused. The
Argus favors some other method" of
controlling the liquor business, yet no
one ever heard of local option or Ii
eense being confused with temperance.
The Argus is marvel in the line of
discovering authorities" who disagree
with their class on great moral ques
tons. The Argus could find great
religious authorities who do not read
the Bible or believe in God. We
have no doubt the Argus prohibition
list authority" is safe in declaring that
drunkenness has increased in Portland
in the last 13 weeks.
The friends of prohibition are not so
optimistic as to hope for synonymy
in prohibition" and Temperance" yet
awhile. with all the liquor interests
fighting the law. but they do contend
(and are proving every day. that pro-
hibition is nearer temperance than
anything that the Argus or any other
worker against temperance would sub
stitute for it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16

might he protected from insult, degre-
dation and physical bondage. And the
North Won OUT. for God Wa sseon
their side and they We're fighting not
seltishly for gain. hut nobly for tho
fulfillment of what they believed to be
Gods desire for men to enjoy freedom
and equality, and His right,-even
though their own lives were part of
the price which the South (not Cod
demanded. in exchange for what the
Southerners deemed their own chat
tells rather than Gods children"
That was the Spirit of 81
The heroes of the North fought for
the unity of good throughout the en-
tire country. They would not permit
any section of the Union to fall below
the highest standard II was possible
to attain. They did not sefishly de-
sire more prosperity than others had
or greater advantages than others
possessed. hut We're willing to sacrifice
their lives to raise others up to their
level and opportunities as far as la
in their power to do so.
What do the local option people de-
sire? They want to substitute a law
that will legalize crime of all kinds
wherever the people desire to have H.
ouor sold. and to give the liquor deal
ers monopoly of the fortunes, health.
labor. character. honor, life and souls
of all whom they are able to subsidize
through perverted appetite, a de-
sire TO become good fellows" las they
term those who drink, or any other
motive,-into becoming what they call
patrons and customers" but every
clear-eyed. pure minded. lean-hearted
man has the intellect to see is the
worst form of slavery
NJ. j.
II
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
A Queen With Nothing to Arbitrate.

IN. Y. World.)
Statesmen may confer over treaties
of arhitrations, but If the Queen of
England, as was elegantly said in
New York a few days ago. "slaps your
wife.s face. what is there to do but
load the gun and grind the sword?
1t appears that Her Majesty of
Great Britain and Ireland has figura-
tivelv slapped the faces of several
American wives. and the worst of it is
that she threatens others. On the Sub
ject OF Divorces she has opinions not
only. but convictions. She will not
receive them. She refuses to arbitrate.
Thus the very crisis which every lover
of peace has been dreading is seen
to he at hand.
In this country a wife is wife no
matter by what method, direct or cir
cuitous, she may have been obtained
If anybody slaps her face 1t means
war. Unhappily a good many Ameri-
can wives of the sort that seek royal
favor have had more experience with
parsons than with undertakers. They
are not wanted at court. Unhappily
again. the affront is aimed only at
the United States, for there Is no
favored nation. Divorced women else
where do not at once aspire to the
highest social circles of London
President Taft and Foreign Secretary
Grey have about agreed that questions
of honor can be arbitrated. What will
they do with the more difficult prob
lens of marriage, etiquette and-fem-
ininity?
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-06-16
Editorial Comment
You Want to Live Long, Eat Lac
tic Ice Cream.
Spokesman Review
cream is a prolonger OF life

Ice cream is a prolonger of life
This is the startling new discovery
announced by an Iowa expert Of agri-
culture.
The summer girl-than whom the
young man wants no higher authority
has long known and proclaimed the
virtues and Joys of ice cream, The
doctors almost 20 years ago recon-
mended it as first food for the en-
feebed digestion of convaleseents from
such wasting diseases as typhoid.
Now MetChnikoff, the chemist, and
Mortensen, the expert as to foods,
find that Tactic ice cream. or lacto is
the ambrosia for the making of Me.
thuselahs.
Metchnikoft claims that old age re-
suits from the absorption of toxins
or germ poisons into the blood. These
may be driven from the body by drink
ing sour milk. Drink enough sour
milk. as Bulgarian peasants do, and
you can live to an enjoyable old age
unattainable otherwise
Unluckily, Americans do not desire
old age by the buttermilk route. The
Tactic acid that is fatal to the mi
crobe of old age must be introduced
into the American by other ways.
Enter Mortensen of Iowa's expert
mental station. With the divination of
genius perfectly in touch with its tima
he bethought him of the most cher.
ished dainty of America-even of the
ice cream cone. He would embalm the
Tactic germs in ice cream, sugaring
the pill and hurting neither the health
of the germs of lonPeVity NOR fhe
flavor of our loved ice cream.
He. then. for the soda fountain of
Tactic ice cream For a dime you can
buy dose of Tactic youth. At the
same time that YOU purchase an in
stalment of long life you may also
have the satisfaction of knowing that
laete can not be adulterated with gela-
tin, gum or starch.