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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-04-25

1, Here's a WidoW-a good woman
a kind and intelligent mother. She
has four little children to support.
The most she can earn won't do it.
She starves herself to feed them. She
falls sick. Poverty has caused dis
ease. Her income stops. The chill
dren lack Tor food. Disease has
caused more poverty. Doctors would
call such a process "the vicious
circle"
2. Henry is a not overly ambitious
husband. One day he loses his JOB.
He hunts a while In vain. Even
when he worked steadily he and his
family of five lived from hand to
mouth, because it's impossible for
family man who earns $500 a week
to live nowadays anywhere else than
on the poverty line. When his hand
stopped for those few days, mouths
BEGAN to suffer. Because he lacks
spirit he gives up. He deserts his
family. He takes to the broad high
wav. beas-which he finds easier than
working for a Iiving-and becomes
Hungry Hank, the hobo. Pretty soon
he is thief as well. Poverty the
cause of crime. Back home his worse
I than widowed wife and worse than
orphaned children are starving.
Crime, the cause of poverty. That wi
cious circle" again.
8. Mary is just a working girl
One day she feels sick, but she sticks
to, her work because she must hold
her lob, being the sole support OF an
invalid mother and little sister. Seri-
Gus Illness results from this over
work. While she lies on her sick bed
in that miserable tenement home she
hears the it'll esister crying for
bread. After she RECEIVERS she finds
another girl feeding her machine. A.
ter fruitIess search for work, utterly
ter and disheartened, she takes to the
"easlest way" Pc verify has bred
disease, disease more poverty, and
this poverty, vice. That malicious
circle still.
q. There's yet another circle. Pow
ertv makes for suIIen or violent but
ever deep discentent-THIs MAY
swell INTO A GREAT WAVE OF
SOCIAL UNREsT-This will mean
sisruuted business, restricted credit,
shut shops, unemployment, laWless-
ness-and the upshot is that poverty
may clutch even you In your comfort
able<home and make you one OF IT'S
very own.
awe didn't Imagine the first three
cases. They are the daily happen
inus In hundreds Of homes. What's
the remedy3"
The foregoing sounds like an ex-
tract from the speech or writings OF
one of the most radical OF radicals.
Rut II Is not. It is only a part Of an
anneal for money issued by an emf
nently respectable organization, the
Associated Charities of Cincinnati.
Although the membership and man
agaamnt Of this organization consists
mainlx Of ultra conservatives who
are staunch upholders Of all the IN
,a,,itous laws and Institutions that
cause poverty. about eeyrything that
radicals have to say concerning ex-
Istsne conditions Is unconsciously ad-
-,sfses Il the circular containing this
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-04-25

appeal. 1t admits that poverty IS
the cause of disease, vice and crime.
1t warns the upholders of existing
wrongs that if they fail to keep up
charitable work there may come "a
great wave of social unrest" Radicals
have long been trying to show these
same facts to others. What better
argument cam be quoted by those who
are working to remove the cause OF
poverty, than this charitable appeal
to show why they ought not contrib
ute a penny toward the support OF
any charitable organization. Here is
a frank admission that if charity stops
there will come "a great wave OF So
cial unrest" Then let those who do
not think there is any cause for such
a wave bear the expense Of keeping
it away. If they don't want to stand.
the expense then let them take the
consequences. If they can stand
revolution the rest of us surely can.
Having described existing condi-
lions, the charity organization asks
"what is the remedy?" It suggests
some of it's own peculiar kind. For
the case of the widowed mother I'M
able to properly support her children,
it suggests charitable pension, just
enough to fill the gap between her
earnings and what the association
figures to be the very least neces-
sary to support her little ones and
herself. The suggestion sounds nice
if one does not stop to weigh and
analyze it. But one need but begin
to do that to see that it is but am
other form of system Of gratuities,
like the tipping of. walters or Pull
man porters. AS is well known that
practice has not increased the In
come Of walters or porters. 1t has
only reduced wages. The real Dene-
ficiary of tips is the employer VINO
is enabled to reduce his pay roll by
their approximate amount. Tipping
widowed mothers must have the same
results as tipping walters. But even
~ II does not, would not the widowed
mother in such a case feel tempted
to be a little less energetic about her
work or in trying to get or hold a
ioh at all? Is she going to get bare
living regardless of what work viii
hiring her and cannot possibly get
more than that, what harm will there
be in being unemployed? Or would
there not be a temptation to pretend
to be unemployed, draw the full al
Iowance from the charities and sur
reptitiously earn some money in ad-
dition? 1t is impossible to relieve an
evil. leaving the cause untouched,
without breeding other evils.
For the unemployed man driven to
yagrancy- and crime and for the girl
driven to the easiest way" the char
inv organization advocates trained
welfare worker who knows how ITO
get at the cause of distress, to form
Mate a plan, to carry out the plan
by enlisting the cooperation of 9TH
ar agencies, employers and legal ma
chiuery If need be, and by restoring
he man and girl to selfrespect and
Inst Why trained social worker
should be needed to get at the cause
# the distress when the circular of
.he Associated Charities plainly
,tates that poverty 4 the cduse. does
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-04-25


Christian" age that a great army of
men are required to PERVERT JUS
TICE by their illegal quibb1ing" about
"precidents" and "techniQualities.
So called Justice" as dished out by
the capitalistic courts is certainly a
farce. If you have money enough to
grease the machinery of trickery the
lawyers win putt you through without
injuring a hair of your head-they
don't want your hair-if they did you
would be bald headed when you got
through. If you are poor. however,
you are pretty apt to get soaked.
even when you are absolutely guiltless.
No one but an idiot, or someone con-
nected with the law making and LAW
BREAKING machinery, will have the
audacity to maintain that leases at
the bar" are settled on the basis of
Right and Wrong; though this is
always a pretext, it is just another
part of the sham.
Gases at the bar" are settled in
accordance with Law" hence the
business of the lawyer" and Law is
A MATTER OF COURT DECISIONS
and presidents and previous rulings,
and interpretations, and shicanery and
trivyery ) and-most anything BUT
JUSTICE.
Once BAD PRECEDENT becomes es-
tablished it is henceforth GOOD law
just as good as any other PRECEDENT
and darn sight better for the pur-
pose of the tricksters and shysters
who twist and istort and make black
appear white and green yellow.
Even the jury system is a farce.
Sometimes months are psent in find
ing IL men who DON'T KNOW ANY
THING after they have been
found they haven't any right TO use
what little knowledge they do possess
THAT has escaped being discovered
when they were "cross-examined."
For mind you-the jury is NOT TO
DECIDE THE CASE ON ITS MERITS
or on their own judgment of the
fright and wrong in the matter, but on
the LAW-as instructed by the Judge.
Oh, l tell you, brethren, this law max
ing machinery is CREATOR the master
class. ~
In spite of the fact that neither the
lawyers or the judges understand the
Law" that it is a great fabrication
of contradictions and a cunningly
woven net of deceipt, still it is very
exact science"-there is no guess
work about tits just question OF
who has the price to pay for it. And
still the people sleep!
Recently on the vaudeville stage the
Ass saw an old time public school re-
produced. 1t was really funny. Some
time, he hopes in the not distant
future, he will see the Capitalistic
Court in vaudeville. It will be
Ihowling farce. Perhaps some day our
present lawyers and judges will in
this way be able to make an honest
living.
When that glorious time comes we
will make. a huge bonfire of all their
Iold rubbish of precedents and pervert-
ed Justice. clean the slate and put real
JUSTICE on the throne AND WITH
NO BANDAGE ON HER EYES
EITHER. If the fool people ever get
sense enough to dc. this, the ASS will
take all the responsibility.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-04-25


his check and gets all the good or
bad things his heart desires. He gets
adulation, professional skill, wine and
women, paragraphs in the newspa-
pers and the disposal of political
places.
Under such conditions, it is only
natural that money has become the
root of all evil. Wealth being the
greatest social power, it naturally
is the worst of all temptations. Our
present economic system creates
grafters, criminals. thieves and pros
titutes.
Parties Act From seIf-Interest.
These conditions are before our
eyes in spite of all that is said by
the capitalist press and the capital
list politician.
And what remedy can the old par
ties bring to the people?
Parties, like individuals, act from
motives of self-interest.
Now both of the old parties are
owned by the capitalists. This is a
fact, not even denied by the more
honest leaders of both Republican and
Democratic parties.
And what can you do about it?
There Is only one party in the field
standing for the "neW idea" There is
onl yone party representing in the
political field the necessary outcome
70 fthe evolution in the economic field.
That is the Social-Democratic party.
The Social-D Ocratic party stands
squarely upon the principles of inter
national Socialism. It relies wholly
upon education and upon the devel-
opment of Industrial forces. Both of
these factors make for Socialism.
A Peaceful Revolution.
The Social-Democratic party, while
it is revolutionary in its final aim,
is none the less distinctly evolution
airy and constructive in its method.
Social reforms of all kinds are
welcomed by the Social Democrats
for many reasons n
In the first place, by reforms we
can stop the increasing pauperization,
and consequently also the enervation
Of the masses of the people. If real
reforms are seriously taken up and
carried out with determination, they
may even lift the masses to a con-
siderable extent.
But, the main reason for our IA
voring them is because such reforms
if logically carried out, offer the pos
sibiIity Of a peaceful, lawful and or
derby transformation of society.
SociaI-Democracy is Constructive.
The Social-Democratic party is the
only true reform party in existence.
We agitate for the organization of
1.-The masses. And organization ev-
erywhere means order. We educate,
we enMghten, we reason, we disci-
pine. And, therefore, besides order,
we bring also law, reason, discipline,
and progress.
It is therefore absolutely false to
represent our Social-Democracy as
merely destructive, as intending to
overthrow and annihilate society, as
an appeal to the brute passions of the
masses.
Just the opposite is true.
Our Social-Democracy wants to
maintain our culture and civilization,
and bring it to higher level.
Our party wants to guard this ma
ton from destruction. r.
We appeal to the best in every man,
to the public spirit of the citizen, to
his love of wife and children.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-04-25

senger bearers to labor, labor win
regard it with mistrsut. The church
is either for the people or against
them, and the people have q right to
Judge BY appearances.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-04-25
:: The Lawyers and The Courts $:

BY G. H. Lockwood Editor ~rhs Prophet and the ASS"
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-12-23
ELKS TO CELEBRATE.
Will Have Entertainment At Their
Home From 2 to IL P. NJ. =
on Christmas Day.

Cambridge Lodge, No. 1872, B.Ps
o. E., will have "open house" at
their home at the corner of High
and Locust streets on Christmas
Day, between the hours of and II
p. m. All Elks, their families and
friends, are invited to visit the
home sometime within these hours
and participate in the Christmas fes-
tivities.
Cambridge Lodge of Elks has
been organized but a few months.
but already. in this short time, has
made wonderful progress, having
purchased the fine mansion at the
corner of High and Locust streets
and furnished 1t In an up-to-date
manner, and is making a steady
increase in membership. They have
recently installed a handsome bill
lizard table and several other limo
vations to make time pass pleasant
ly within it's walYee~ The home Is
now in full holiday attire, holly,
evergreens, ETC., everywhere re-
minding constantly that this is tie
glorious season of "Peace on Earth,
Good Will Toward Man" ~
The Christmas entertainment OF
the Elks will doubtless be an en-
joyable affair, and will be largely
attended.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-12-23

1t must be matter OF deep cna-
grin to Cole Blease that the latest
general negro lynching takes place
in Alabama rather than in South
Carolina.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-12-23
Additional Local News

Mr.. Harry Mears, of Pocomoke Dis
spending a few days in e mbridge
with friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Upshur Den
mis-, of Baltimore, are the guests OF
their sister and brother, Miss Mar
garet Craig and Mr.. Grason Craig,
Church street. q
Mr.. sCrompton Kerr, who is q.
student at Swarthmore College, is!
spending the holidays with his pas
rents, Mr.. and Mrs. Josiah L. Kerr,
Oakley street.
Frances 1. Dorman, the fifteen
months-old child of Mr.. and Mrs. j.
C. DormaE, died yesterday morning!
at o'clock. The funeral was held
from the home of her parents, Race
and Muir streets, this afternoon. The
remains were inferred in the Cam3
bridge Cemetery.
Never before in the history or
CamDr1QSe nave 81 uohy PSSFN>l
been seen on the streets during the
period of Christmas shopping; all
day Friday, Saturday and today ths
streets have simply been throngeq
with men, women and children, fill
ed with the Christmas spirit, who
were looking here and there fol
| the gifts with which to express 70
relatives and friends their messagf
of good cheer.
Following the usual custom, thu
lB., C. & A. boat from Baltimora
got aground yesterday morning q
Easton and remained stuck until y
o'clock, when it got off. to renal,
free only a few moments, and thes
returned to its position in the mud
as the result of which it did no
reach Cambridge until half-past 81
yesterday evening. The boat While
is due to leave Cambridge at moor
en- route for Baltimore, also arrive
in Cambridge little over 6 houf
| lot
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-12-23
BOAT AGROUND.
Schooner VIM. Oliver Aground
In Draw and Stops Traffic For
~. A Short Time.

The schooner William Oliver Capt.
John Nield, this morning got
aground while attempting to- pass
through the draw of the bridge, and
threatened for short time to com
pell the abandonment of traffic
across the bridge for an hour ur
more. The Oliver is heavily laden
with coal for tthsee Cambridge Wafer
S ss:s'~and on account of the low tide
prevailing al the time. aaaala -11r
get through the bridge. Fortunate
IL. for those who have to travel ov-,
err the bridge. the vessel was pulled
off without much difficulty. and tael
draw was turned on.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-12-23
FOR MOTHER

Cut Glass, China, Trunks,
Suit Cases, Lace Curtains,
Conf ,rts, Blankets, Towels,
Couch Covers. Table Linen,
Hani Bags, Han 'kerchiefs
Bed Room Slippers, Kid
Gloves, Aprons.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-12-23
ENCAMPMENT ELECTS.
Officers For Ensuing Term Elect.
ed Friday Night.

At the regular meeting of Cam
bridge Encampment, No. 5, I. o. O.
F., Friday evening, the following
officers were elected to serve for
the term beginning in January:
Chief Patriarch. E. Finley.
High Priest-Edwin r. Mobray.
Senior Warden-Granville Lei
Compile.
Recording Scribe-E. Earl Hearn.
Financial Scribe-T. Harry Hop
kins.
Treasurer-Thos. H. Medford.
Trustees-T. H. Medford, Edwin
Dashiell and Clement G.. Rogers.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-12-23
Leads Them All.

Mr.. r. B. Mills, who lives a.
Woolford, this county, has, so fai
as we have heard, killed the lafg
est hog of the season, the age Pc
ing taken into consideration. Mr.
Mills recently killed a 14-months1or
pig which weighed 410 pounds.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-12-23
Church Locals

The Christmas entertainment
at Antioch Church will be held on
Thursday evening, Dec. 26,at 7-So
O'Clock. A very interesting pro
gram has been prepared and a cor
dial invitation Is extended to the
public to be present.
The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1912-12-23

In giving we'll known mates
such as Keen Kutter, Clauss, WRst
enhoim, lines OF knives. scissors
carvers, ETC., one has the knowAag
that they are getting the best tn
market affords. For sale by In
Hubbard Hdw. Co.-Adv. 20-4tf-
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-01
Closing Day Exercises at Long Society
 School-Various Items.

The Long Society school closed Fri day for the spring vacation.
 Edward Case is principal of the se- nior room. Mrs. Lima Spalding has charge of the intermediate room and Miss Annie F. Pukallus of the primary room.
 The following programme was suc- cessfuily given;
 Spring Song primary room; April Wishes, Mary Church. Margaret Me Gill, Alice Conrad The Coming of the Birds, by ten children of the primary room, The Song of the Bluebird, pri mary room; An Easter Basket, Mil dred Peckham: The Garden, Edna Miner; March and April, by eight children; The Robins Song, Esther Olsson; An April Day, by ten children o1 intermediate room: The Bluebird concert recitation: Legend of the Pus- sy Willow, Herbert Anderson; See saw game. Sarah McGin; Little Baby Pussy Fats. Harold Evans; Snowdrops and Crocuses, song, intermediate room; a reading selection, James Fra ser; piano solo, Esther Anderson; Billy'S Easter Eggs, Kenneth Gibson; piano solo, Alice McGill; song, Will jam Evans.
 The perfect in attendance for the term are as follows:
 Primary room-Alice Conrad, Got fred Johnson, Elvina Levander, Fred Peterson.
 Intermediate - Herbert Anderson, Herbert Bentley, Harold Evans, Mil dred Ericsson, George McNally, Sarah McGll, Edmond Olsson, Arthur Ols- son, Arthur PrOdell, Matilda Peterson, Charles Peterson, Joseph McNeely.
 Senlor-Albert Dilwerth, William Evans, Kenneth Gibson, John Haden, Samuel MCGill, Jane Peterson.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-01
Supreme Court Docket Breaks Record
Largest Ever This District There being 21 Cases of Which 20 Will be Argued This Next Term-Wil Require Two Weeks Session

On Saturday appeals to the supreme court of errors were perfected in the cases of Connecticut College for Wom- en vS. Harriet B. Alexander and Con necticut College for Women vs. H. E. and Frank J. Alexander, which concern the condemnation of land for the col lege site in New London. These make 21 cases for the April term of the su- preme court which opens here April 30.
 Clerk George F. Parsons has put in much hard work preparing the cases for the session, the number being the largest ever in the county The work has been assuming tangible form in the past three weeks and he has now issued the printed records in 15 of the cases, while three more of them are nearly ready for printing and will be issued this week. The two cases per- fected Saturday have been handed to the printer and the printed records thereof will probably be issued in a week. making 20 cases printed and ready for argument. The remaining case of the 21 will not be ready for printing in time to be distributed eor a hearing at this term, because under the rules relating to printing and dis tributing records if the record is not distributed at least two weeks before the opening day of the term that in it. self is a cause for continuance until the next term. The last day on which a record can be distributed within two weeks before the opening of the term would be April 16. This case will not be ready for printing till some time subsequent to that date. This is the largest docket that has ever been known in this county. The usual mum Der of cases on the docket for one term has been three to six, and eight has previously been cOnSidered a large docket This is larger than they have as a rule in the five counties of the First district at Hartford. If all cases are fully argued it will consume about two weeks It has been a matter of great surprise that there is such a large number of appeals this term, not only to judges and members of the bar, but people generally conversant with court matters. It was freely predicted when only F to 15 cases were expect ed that the clerk would not be able to prepare so many and have them print ed. and even if he could prepare them the printer couldn't handle the busi- ness. Nevertheless it has been done. To all who inquired as to how many cases would be printed the clerk all ways said he was going to print all that came, and he has done as he said.
 In the printing of these cases is in cluded from 1000 to 2,500 pages of stenographers' transcript.
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-01
rendered various selections with mark edly fine effect.
ROOM FOR TESTAMENT
 IN MEMS POCKETS
Pastor Wright Makes Suggestion to Class st Central Baptist Church.

Before the mems Bible class at the Central Baptist Sunday school on Sunday the teacher, Rev P. c. Wright, the pastor of the church. brought up the subject of the pocket testament league. having samples of a consider able variety of assignments of pocket size to show the men and asking that they give consideration to enlisting in the plan of the league This is for each member to carry a pocket testa- ment constantly and to read at least one char ter every day.
 Rev. Mir. Wright told his class that hundreds of thousands of men all over the country were enlisted in the league and that it's advocates believed in its value because what a man is is de- termined by what is in his mind and through the league it's members were daily having the word of GCd placed in their minGs, which could not fail of having influence upon their lives As men mad from Is to 20 pockets in their clothes 1t was suggested that a place in one ought to be found for the testa- ment.
 The pastor presented the matter merely as a suggestion to be taken up voluntarily without any pledge. The class displayed interest in the plan and spent time after the lesson in locking at the samples of testa- ments
Norwich bulletin., 1912-04-01
BACKUS HOSPITAL ADDITION
 WILL BE OPENED TUESDAY
Executive Board Extends Invitation to Public to View It Between and 5 in the Afternoon.

The new building at the Backus hes pital will be opened to the public Tues day afternoon from ? to 3 o'clock, states Supt. Frederick Symington. and the executive board of the hospital eX- tends a cordial invitation to the public to inspect the addition during those hours.
 The addition has been under way fer some time, but is not entirely finished, having the regulation hospital furnish ings for all the three floors. The eX- terior of the building is similar to the main building. On the first floor are rooms for the internes. There is a new children's ward on the second floor and on the third floor are five rooms for the maternity section. The addition in it's equipment is thoroughly up to date, everything required being installed. It makes a valuable addition to the instl- tuition and something Norwich can be proud of.
 The opening of the addition comes just after the 18th anniversary of Fred erick Symington as superintendent of the institution, he having passed that mark on Sunday. during which time he has given conscientious service to the hospital.