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The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1912-04-18
Underwood
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The Democrats of the House have
reason to be proud of their floor lead
er, Chairman Underwood, of the WAYS
and Means Committee. Mr.. Underwood
has given ample evidence of the pos
session of the qualities of mind essen
tial TO the position. He has also dem
onstrated most conclusively that he is
man who cannot be cajoled or bull
lied from the course he considers right.
In the debate over the Canadian rec
iproclty bill former Speaker Cannon
made the bluff that the steel trust IA
vOrs the enactment ot me measure.
Mr.. Underwood called tne bluff very
effectively by producing a telegram
from his home district saying that the
United States Steel Corporation has
stopped work on important mills there.
giving as their reason that Underwood
stood in Congress advocating the tariff
reductions on steel included in this bill.
hr. Underwood added that two years
ago the steel trust opposed his election
because Of the tariff views and threat
ened TO turu him out of Congress if
he voted for reductions on steel duties.
l voted for them just the same" he
stated, and they failed in their efforts
to turn me out of Congress-"
Underwood is every inch a man, and
the people have more respect for one
such as he than for a whole battalion
of corporatiOn-controlled standpatters-
The OcGIG Daily Bonner, Florida, April
., 1911.
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a Voice
From Virginia

All of the avowed aspirants are
men of distinction and merit, but my
individual opinion is that the party has
an opportunity to make a magnificent
selection by choosing for its standard
bearer in 1912 the wise, well-balanced
and thoroughly equipped Albanian,
Hon. Oscar Underwood.
"Mr. Underwood's record in states.
manship is a good enough guarantee
Of his fitness for the White House.
He measures up to all the requirements
of the exalted position. He is fearless
and broad-minded, and there is nothing
of the demagogue in his composition.
Some will cavil at his Southern origin
and raise the oft-repeated cry that no
Southerner can be elected to the presi-
dency. This bugaboo is raised in spite
of the fact that all the leading papers
of the North and South and all writer's
of any note have declared time and
again that sectional feeling and preju-
dice, based on the war of '6l-o5, have
died out completely.
"lf that be true is there any longer
any valid reason against going to the
South for a candidate? If Mr.. Under
woods personality and public service
render him peculiarly available should
the matter of location bar him from the
nomination? The idea is absurd"
Hon. A. c. Broxton, of Richmond, Va
in The Baltimore Sun, January, 1912.
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Committee, Mr.. Underwood has shown
himself TO be the right man in the right
place What advances are made Ivy the
party in 1912 will be due largely to him.
lie knows tariff in all its schedule
wndings, as man knows the Railways
OF his own house. He has wisdom. He
has temper and spirit, but is neither
unreasonable nor vindictive. have
talth IN the tariff thoroughness of Mr..
Underwood. If l owned the revenues
OF the Government, ] shouldn't hesitate
to employ him as night-watchman.-
Alfred Henry Lewis, in the CosmOboI-
.td"' January, 1912
=
Mr.. Underwood is faithful in his
friendships. To those whom he casually
meets, he is affable, albeit non-com-
initial, keeping his own counsel. He is
never rude nor hard; never violent.
even with blood foes. For the stranger
within his gates his air is gentle and
frank. he is easy to see, and, speaking
generally, has been ever careful to keep
himself within the reach of all. News
paper folk, sent to Mr.. Underwood by
some stress of duty, never fail to like
him He has his dignity, but there is
no reserve. He maintains no distances
between himself and them. He answers
question with round readiness, or
says plainly that he can't answer it and
tells why. He expedites the business in
hand, and will even anticipate the pur-
pose of ones coming. and put questions
to himself.-Alfred Henry Lewis, in the
Cosmopolitan, New York, January, 1912.
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Mr.. UNDERWOOD

Meanwhile Mr.. Underwood has a
work to do in Washington for which he
has revealed remarkable aptitude 1t
is not too much to say that the existing
harmony among the Democratic mem
bers OF the House, and the ability they
showed at the last session to work to-
gether, are largely due TO his skillful
leadership. He proposes to resume the
task of tariff revision at the point where
it was interrupted by the President
vetoes.-The Providence Or. L. JoTr-
nal, December 2, 1911.
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This New Leader
From Alabama

But this new leader from Alabama.
with nothing meteoric or iridescent
about him; who has forged steadily
ahead during sixteen years of congress
slonal service, and who has proved him
self equal to every emergency in the acid
test OF debate on the floor Of the House:
cool, imperturbable, resourceful, sure of
himself at all times; profoundly learned
on the great tariff issue he stands for:
whose impressive personality is reveal
ing itself III stronger lines every day
as the searchlight of the press plavs
upon it-he is the Man of Destiny for
the Democratic party in this year 1912.
And as the campaign for the nomination
progresses, Mr.. Underwood's superior
availability viii come out with increas-
ing ClearneSs, and the Democratic masses
OF the South will catch the inspiration
Of the great fact that a Southern man
from the heart of Dixie is at last in line
Tor the presidency after all these weary
years OF waiting. When that psycho-
logical moment arrives-in the national
convention or before ia very nearly
solid South, fused to white heat under
the enthusiasm of a genuine Southern
presidential candidacy, will take Oscar
Underwood on its shoulders, sweep away
ali the well laid plans of machine politics
and rush him right TO the goal, a winner
by sheer force of an overwhelming sense
of simple justice to the South. AT
least, that's the way we want it.-The
SH1vdnee (Fla.) Democrat, December,
1911.
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Underwood Among
1912 ROssibTIiSfeg

The threatened breakdown Of Ma
jority Leader Underwood, as a result of
long hours of hard work on the tariff
in the Ways and Means Committee, put
many Democrat in q nervous state OF
mind. There developed suddenly a full
appreciation OF the worth of the Ala
bama Congressman as a leader. For
Mr.. Underwood to become disabled or
10 be removed from the scene OF his
usefulness at this critical time would be
like pulling q corner post out from
under a platform on which was heaped
most of the political treasures of the
party, Democrats quite generally are
willing to admit.
Credit Tor the achievements of the
Democratic House bearing the stamp of
constructive craftsmanship is given
readily to the majority leader. Due to
his success as a legislative manager-his
ability in most tests 10 keep the House
Democracy united-and the fact that
Civil War wounds have been allowed TO
heal because of the scarcity of public
men of the type of Senator Hepburn,
of Idaho, Southerner is being Sc
riouSly considered North and South as
presidential material. The Underwood
for-President movement has been at
tracing volunteer workers steadily
since last spring, when the newly-in-
stalled Democratic House assumed its
responsibilities. An Underwood boom
for the Democratic nomination for
President put on long trousers at the
beginning of this. the national campaign
year.-Austin Cunningham, in the San
AMtOniO Express, January 5, 1912
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a Southern Presi-
Dental Possibility

In the mention of Oscar w. Under
wood, of Alabama, for the Democratic
Presidential nomination resides a good
deal more than suggestion that we
nave got too far away from the Civil
War era to regard a statesman as nee
esSarily unavailable" because he comes
from a commonwealth that was a mem
Der of the Southern Confederacy.
OF the men now before the country
as possible or probable Democratic
candidates for the Presidency, Under
wood is certainly one of the strongest.
He has had a fine training in Congress,
and is in himself q man of natural force
and large capacity for work-and work
ers are what we want in executive posi-
tions. lie has been a member of the
House of Representatives for some ff-
teen years, and has risen by force of
merit, and nothing but merit, to a posi-
ton which made it inevitable that he
should be Chairman of the Committee
on Ways and Means when the Demo
Gratis came into control of the popular
Branch of the Government. He has the
youth, the environment, the enthusiasm,
the courage, the political sagacity, and
the statesmanly qualities fully to justify
mis- consideration in connection with the
Presidential nomination.
Mr.. Underwood is a conservative man,
who is capable of entertaining pro-
gressive ideals and at the, same time OF
realizing fully the duty and the ne
cessity for conserving substantial inter
ests Of the community. The Democratic
party might go farther and do vastly
worse than if it should nominate him
as its standard-bearer of 1ol2.-Mnn-
sey'S MdgasiHe, January 1912
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CHAIRMAN UNDERWOOD

Chairman Underwood has once more
given proof of that levelness of head
and clearness of purpose which have
characterized his leadership from the
beginning. He has fatty refused to
countenance any coquetting with the La
Toilette idea on the wool bill. Whether
viewed as a mere announcement of
program or as a bill that it is desired
and expected actually to get enacted into
law, the La Toilette proposition does
not meet the needs of the situation
The NeSV York Post, August 2, 1911.
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HEARS MUCH POLITICAL TALK

"In travelling through the country I
hear no end of political talk" said
James A. Braun, sales manager of the
Wyeth Chemical Company of New
York.
During the past FIVE or six weeks I
have heard Underwood very much dis
cussed as a presidential proposition. l
found in the Carolinas a great deal of
Underwood sentiment. l have been
keeping up with Underwood's record
in Congress, and I believe that his
commanding position in the Democratic
party will be appreciated by the rank
and file of the Democracy"-Age-
Herald, Birmingham, Ala, Jan 7, 1912.
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THE MANNER OF MAN HE'S

After the Southern manner, Mr.. IN
derwood is unaffectedly democratic. He
meets men as one who, respecting him
self, also respects them. He does not
wear the manner of one who expects to-
find his inferior. Still less would he
remind you OF one who fears ne may
meet his superior. Never does he pose.
nor seek to transact his dignity at the
humbling expense of another.--Alfred
Henry Lewis, in the C0sss0b sIjtan, New
York, January, 1912
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A PRACTICAL DEMOCRAT

St. Louis honors Oscar w. Under
wood for his character, for his achieve
ments and for his Democracy.
The Chairman Of the Ways and Means
Committee is practical Democrat. His
leadership in the House of Representa-
tives shows that. He possesses the
ability to enlist men of varying ideas,
plans and moods in support of desirable
and feasible objects. Men who agree
on basic principles may be involved in
bitter hostility by antagonists which in
their essence amount to little.
.
Mr.. Underwood's example as a leader
of Democrats in Congress is worthy of
emulation elsewhere. 1t makes for toll
erance. Tolerance makes for unity.
Unity makes for progress. There is no
other way to render Democracy eff
fective.
The young Democrats of ST. Louis
who persuaded Mr.. Underwood to be-
come their guest will find in his policy
as well as his principles the best hope
of party achievement and party life
The ST. LONiS Republic, October IL
1911.
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ESTIMATE OF OPPONENTS

Men like Payne and Mann declare
him to be the most resourceful an
tagonist they have found on the Demo-
cratic side A skillful parliamentarian
good speaker, holding himself always
in perfect control he is a model leader,
and his following is daily increasing
Washington Correspondence in The
EscHiHg BRlletin, Philadelphia, Pa,
Iune, 1911.
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INITIATIVE, REFERENDUM AND RECALL
DOCTRINES CONTRARY TO THE FuNDA-
MENTAL PRINCIPLES OF OUR GOVERNMENT

On address before Young Mems Democratic League of St Louis O)
National platform Of the Democratic party think that would be
when you attempt apply to the United States destroy
a is
governnent-From Knoxville Journal Tribune, Oct
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The Conserve
tive South

Not many days ago, it was suggested
in an editorial in this paper that the peo-
pie of that section of the Union that
tried half century ago to break up
the Union of the States, might possibly
turn out to be the home of a conser-
vatism thai would stand as a barrier
against Cnange In our scheme of gov
eminent that would destroy the fabric
OF the Constitution adopted by our wise
forefathers, and ratified by the States
that had fought for and achieved indie
pendence and freedom
AS evidence that such thing may be
among the possibilities a paragraph is
here quoted from a speech made by
Hon. Oscar w. Underwood, of Ala
bama, to the Young Mems Democratic
League of St. Louis:
Some Democrats want to put
the initiative and referendum
plank into the national platform
of the Democratic party
think that would be unwise.
The initiative and referendum
as a local issue is sometimes
successful. But when you at
tempt to apply it to the United
States you destroy the entire
fabric of the Constitution. We
are not true democracy. This
is representative Govern
ment."
AS the reader knows, Mr.. Underwood
is the Chairman of the Ways and Means
Committee of the House of Representa-
tives at Washington. But for the fact
that he is native and lifelong resi-
dent of the South he would stand fine
chance to be made the Democratic can
didate for President next year. Candor
compels the statement that lie is as well
qualified for the performance of the du-
ties of the great Office as any one in
his party who has been mentioned in
that connection, and it is not doubted
that if elected he would make a safe
President.-KNoEUiIIe Journal and TYib-
Hne, October "A, 1911.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-06-14
SCIENTIFIC TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT
Conducted by ROBERT B. PATTON,
Conducted by ROBERT B. PATTON, D. D.

the treatment OF narCOt1Sm that pa
tients, who, in pre-narcotc periods
were above suspicion as to veracity,
honesty and confluence, become under
drug addiction, unreliable in these re-
CARDS. 1t is for this reason, gathered
from large experience in such matters.
that many business men refuse abso-
lutely to employ in positions of trust,
users of alcohol, morphia, cigarettes,
and the like. The narcotic victim
loses the sense of the rights of others
and becomes unmerciful, unreasonable
and unjust. AS the observation of the
rights of others proceeds, he acquires
such exaggerated notions of his own
right that he sees no personal wrong
in permitting or even compelling his
poor, sickly wife to toll all day long
over the wash-tub that he may have
money for carousal in the neighbor-
ing saloon. SO exaggerated do his
ideas of personal rights become that,
should society in the exercise of the
right of self-protection, undertake to
regulate the evils arising from the
liquor traffic, he cries out long and
Justify about the invasion of his per
sonal liberty" With the narcotic vic
tim, liberty ceases to be social and
becomes wholly personal
Further, narcotics weaken the vol
untary powers. The will sends in
from the "vasty deeps" of volitior its
wireless messages to the body's near
est receiving-station, the nerves, and
they transmit and translate them into
muscular action. The voluntary func..
tlons generally classed, are two-excit-
ant and inhibitory: The former i'm
pels to the performance of acts seen
by the moral judgment to be good
and right; the latter interdicts the
commission of that which is similarly
seen to be wrong. In both these re-
CARDS do narcotics impair the will so
that the narcotic addict is less and less
able to perform the little good dimly
seen and to prevent the commission
OF acts dimly seen to be evil. The
inebriate finds, to his bitter expert
ence, a law within him warning against
the law within his mind so that he
cannot do the things he would Con-
crete instances of this voluntary
lesion are met with in the fight the
drinker puts up to save himself from
-
struggle, with desperate foe. on the
edge of a precipice, against fearful
odds-the Pickering of a lamp before
it goes out The victim in most sol
emn abjuration, calling on God to wit
ness, by everything sacred and holy,
swears he will never drink another
glass, but his enfeebled resolve is
swept away in the surging torrent of
an ;,,cot;o+a opJ ;,,cof;,b1a ,oDa+;+a
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Narcotics and the Moral Judgment.

tlilCS HISpdIdDlc Injury 10 the IluIldH
body needs neither argument nor il
lustration. Instances of it may be
seen on every hand. But bodily in
jury is not the whole story of the ruin
wrought by alcohol. 1t is but one
chapter. Nor is the physiological ruin
the major part of it. Its devastation
exceeds the boundaries of the physical
and invades the realm of the moral
and spiritual. This moral and mental
ruin is effected through the nervous
system. This system is intermediate
between the physical and moral ma
lures. Whatever, therefore, in any
way injuriously affects the nervous
system will injuriously affect the NOR
al nature. Alcohol is nerve poison. 1t
attacks the lipoid envelope of the
nerve fibre and cells. Under its &C
ton, the central nerve cord, or "axis
cylinder" loses its uniform regular
structure and comes to resemble a
string of beads. It's conductivity is
impaired and it's sensations are un-
reliable. Alcohol produces a degen-
erative tissue in the nutritive spaces
between the nerve fibre. 1t also inter
feres with the action of the nerve
cells-robs them of water and oxygen
and incapacitates them to take I'D the
nutrient globules floating freely in the
spaces of the connective tissue Thus
it impairs the structure and function
of the nerve fibre and starves the
nerve cells
Now it is the law of degeneration
that the most highly organized and
latest developed succumb first. Hence
it is that the nervous system, the most
highly organized portion of the hui
man body and the moral nature, the
latest developed of the human facul-
ties, are most injuriously affected by
alcohol. Since the nervous system is
so intimately related to the moral
nature, it is unthinkabe that the use
of narcotic poison such as alcohol,
which works such injury to the nerves
and nerve cells and impairs the func-
ton of the brain to the point of coma,
would leave the moral judgment in
tact. All experience shows this
scientific inference to harmonic with
observed facts. Alcohol and all mar
cotics for that matter, gradually blur
and dim moral perception to the point
of blindness. The narcotic addict
loses the sense of personal honor. He
no longes sees the dishonor in pro-
posed course of conduct as he once
saw it. AS narcotism advances, your
one time respectable citizen grows
satisfied to associate with saloon hab-
tues and to be known as Saloon
bum. He loses the sense of right and
wrong. Acts that to him once were
clearly wrong now appear less so. 1t
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-06-20
AInII.ieil.

A simple but pretty wedding was
solemnized at high noon Tu SHAY
at the home of Mr.. and Mis-. s.
ID. Riggs when Miss Harriet Church
vas united in marriage TO Mr..
David Orr. Chief Justice George
I'll. Stewart of the state supreme
court performed the ceremony, us
ing the ring service of the Epis
copal church. Only relatives and
intimate friends of the bride and
groom were present The br de
was attired in pretty travelling
gown of blue serge. The rooms
were decorated with natural flow
ers. principally roses. and pre-
scented scene Of surprising beau
ty. After the ceremony wedding
feast was served to the young cou-
pie and the guests About 8
O'Clock Mr. ard Mrs Orr sur
retitiously bearded an auto and
departed for their futue home at
Nampa, where they at. once
began housekeeping in a cozy cot
tage previously furnished. Those
present at the Wedding were: Mr..
and Mrs. George F. Church, par
ents of the bride; Mr.. and Mrs.
The Emmett index. [volume] (Emmett, Idaho) 1893-1925, 1912-06-20

been watched with interest by
their host of Emmett friends. Judge
Stewart, who performed the cere-
mE1y, a. close friend Il the
family and had watched the br' de
Grown up from babyhood to young
womanhcCd. During the last two
years she has been a teacher in
the city schools ard by her sunny
d sposition and charming pc soma
ity wen the friendship of all who
gained her acquaintance. one is
an Idaho product, having been born
in Boise.N finer compliment could
be paid the groom than that be-
slowed by Mrs. George Church,
mother CT the bride, when she
told The Index with so much feel
ing that we knew she meant it.
that she knew Of no one to whom
she would rather give her daugh-
ter. in marriage than John Orr. Anc
who should know better than
mother?
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Notice of Hearing.

Office of the Board of Directors
of Emmett Irrigation District, EN-
nett, Idaho.
To the Owners of Lard Within EN-
nett Irrigation District.
Notice is hereby given that the
Board of Directors of Emmett r.
rigation District have examined the
lands in said District for the pur-
pose of making the assessment of
benefits apportionment and dis
tribution of costs, in accoT dan with
the benefits received, to each OF
the tracts and subdivisions of
land within said District as pro-
vided by law and you are here
Jy notified that. at the office of
the Board of Directors of said Dis
Crict in Emmett, Idaho, on the Sth
day of July, 1912, beginning at 10
O'Clock, A. NJ, the Board of Dir
ectors of said District will meet
for the purpose CT making such
assessment and list of airport on
ment; that such time and place
are fixed for the purpose of max
ing the assessments, maps, lists,
apportionment, and distribution of
costs Of the works CT said Dis
trict upon the lands of the said Dis.
trict, as provided by law; and
that at such time and place the
said Board of Dire, tors will pre-
coed to hear all parties interest
ested who may appear, and will
tiEue in session from day to day
until such assessment is complete.
Ely order of the Board of Dir
ecto1s OF Emmett Irrigation Dis
trict made this 18th day of June
1912.
H. HAYLOR.
Secretary.
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Died.
mother!

MIS-. Eliza Ann Patrick died
yesterday Afternoon at the home
of her son John On the south
slope. Death was due to o d age.
Thus passes away the oldest resi-
dent of the va ley. If she had
lived till Juy she would have
been 94 years of age. Mis-. Pat
rick was born in Washington, Ohio,
July 4, 1918. She was married in
1897 and was the mother of seven
children, all living, % grand hid
rem, and many great grand child
rem. Four chi dren live in the vic
Unity of Emmett Mrs. d. W.
C. Brown, Mrs. Abram Miller, Mrs.
Stegner (who is ~ years old and
John Patrick Three sons are re
sidents of Mise uri. She had
been an active woman up to five
years ago, when by fall at the
home of her daughter, Mrs. Brown.
her hip was injured; since then
she has been cripple and cen in
ed to her bed She was remark
able woman in many ways and was
greatly esteemed and admired. The
funeral was held today from
the Patrick home, Rev. Ri hard
Barrett conducting the services.