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Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
ABOUT PROFESSIONAL MEN
Editor Free Speech:

Editor Free Speech:
In the Kanawna county situation
we can see nothing but glory for the
soealled professional man, or men,
Webb and Houston. The real protes-
sional men, professional organizer
and erstwhile business man and edi-
tor, Brown and Boswelp, the defeated
professionals are now seeking to save
their faces by singing mud at one Of
the most valient fighters the Social
ist movement has produced anywhere.
The only thing unprofessional about
these professionals is their &C
tons. They profess to be sticklers
for principle" then tear to very tat
tiers the one policy we recognize above
any other-majori ruleg In Kama
VIVA county the majority has said
that the minority shall not say what
shall and shall not be. They have
spoken, and since it has set itself
against these two professionals" they
set up a noice about principle"
whatever that is. We have not had
an explanation more than to hear a
continuous repetition of the word
principle, principle"
1t were time that we understood
that principle" does not consist Of
obstructing the way of progress in the
Socialist movement; that principle
does not consist in going against the
wishes of those the professionals"
profess to be for. Nor does it mean
disruption of the party, with an at
tempt to drag down everything that
has been accomplished by the ma
jority. It is rather a matter Of good
principle to give an accused comrade
an opportunity to defend his posi-
ton.
No aspersions cast at State Secre-
tary Houston will establish princi-
Die. He is too clean fighter to- be
hurt by insinuations and caprice
His record in the Socialist movement
has been above reproach with those
chat wish to go ahead and develop a
glorious growth for the working class
political party. Comrade Houston is
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as much a working class man as the
self-appointed guardians OF the "prin-
ciples" OF our state constitution. He
is more fayoraibly known with the
comrades of this state than either Of
his maligners and they can do nothing
more by insinuation and attack further
than to bring reproach upon them
selves
We judge people by their works as
rmuch' as any way, and the work Of
the efficient State Secretary is Of the
kind that speaks volumes to his
credit. We deny that either the pro-
fessional organizer or the editor of
the Labor Argus can show as clean a
record for the Socialist movement.
We affirm that expressions from an
editor protesting to be Socialist in
which he threatens to '"turn the pa
per against the ticket if Webb is not
taken off are truly professional"
and the threat of the other "profes-
siohal' to mot run on the same ticket
with webb" also looks professional"
Three or four men in the Socialist
party in Kanawha county are going a
long way toward disrupting the party
in that county whether or not they
understand it. It is to be hoped that
the matter will be confined to the
limits of the county in which they
have set themselves up as dictators
of the law of the party and interpre-
ters of the constitution. They, like
the nine wise guys" at Washington.
will some time understand that there
are other things that operate outside
Of their scope or 14sion and that the
whole Socialist movement is not in
Kanawha county-the movement is
outside.
E. H. K1NTZER.
Clarksburg, W. Va.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
rs RE SPEECH'
81 J EVERYBODY5 OPINION.
TIE POLITICIANS

J. Elm Grove, June 3, 1912.
Editor Free Speech Department:
near sir:-It would be laughable
,nore 1t not so serious, to see the
o,iticians line up on a question of
.oform that better this chance for
.ott There are many well disposed
noodle believe Prohibition means re-
,orm One half of the liquor sold
doos more good than harms7 Many a
fomlv never saw a happy day until
tbo Old Man hit the cup and then he
onpns his heart and hand, and a gen.
oraI good time is had. Any good
government can be used to suit Prohi-
bition. Doctor A. S. Grimm prescrib-
Cd prohibition in an article he wrote
tOr The cure of the dry rot of society.
pioht here will l prove that no law
will prohibit.
Take the curse the doctor wrote
about There's is five laws in this
ctate one with the death penitentiary
attached, and yet he admits the re
result of license prostitution under
our capitalist system is threatening
TO enter every home. If all the energy
and money spent on Billy Sundays
meetings and prohibition were used to
promote Socialism, you could get re-
form, not only spamotic, but in all
things. Just stop and think, 5000
people went down the saw dust trail
one-ifth of Wheeling's population, and
vet the saloon is doing business at
the old stand. The Open shop man IS
as busy as ever. You can see the
work people walk home from work or
hanging 10 street car, and | am safe
in saying the doctors have not lost
any Of their trade in these, as Shakes
peare says, in tricking the fire, the
weather being cold.
The reformer wishes to save the
willing man who drinks to excess, by
law, and fiji our penitentiary by men
who will sell liquor to make a dollar
under the capitalist system against
the law.
! wish to ask the Masons: Are you
going to.Note prohibition and fill your
prisons with competitive labor; or
vote the Socialist ticket and empty
them. Don't be hypnotized to vote out
the saloon and allow the grafters to
get a special privilege on selling booze.
Vote out the whole cursed thing, the
life taker. the virtue taker, the inter-
est taker and tool taker, and be a free
man by voting the Socialist ticket.
Yours for Socialism, i
SUBSCRIBER.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20
MORE ABOUT HIGH SCHOOL

VNAOVAAhSo1 w. 49, O'0AAN - AOA@'
Editor Free Speech Department.:
In your last weeks issue there was
an article from a very narrow mind
ed person, condemning the school
board Tor arranging the High school
commencement exercises for the Col
umbia Club auditorium. The writer
proved himself most bitter and
fanatical Catholic, and frothed al
the thought of public school service
being held in a building owned by an
organization whose members are
Catholics. He wanted to know how
the school board dared to do such a
thing.
knowing nothing whatever Of the
matter, I imagine that the school
board found the High School auditor
ium too small for the exercises and
were compelled to select some pri
vately owned auditorium. AS all the
theatres Of the city are at present in
use, and the Columbia Club auditor
ium was the only auditorium avail
able that is larger than the High
school auditorium, suppose that this
was the reason it was selected.
i do not know whether the members
of the school board are Catholics OF
not. If they are, then it was quite
natural that. they should get this one
service for the Catholic institution
inasmuch. as the Catholics all pay their
school taxes, the same as non-Catho
lies, and this was their only chance tc
get a little back for all the taxes thai
they pay. If the yare not Catholics
then / am indeed glad that they are
not AFFLICTED with such prejudices as
are shown to be the nature of the
writer of last weeks article, preju
dices which show that his spirit had
not come along with progress, but
really belongs back in the dark ages
only want to say one thing more
that am not Catholic.
Yours for religious freedom,
P. J. B.
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REFORM
y Elm Grove, May 2s. 1912.
To the Editor of the Free Speech De

n otoFe' May 20, 1872.
To the Editor of the Free Speech De.
partment:
Dear Sir:-By a close study of re.
form by well meaning people under
the capitalist system often prove the
reverse. If the amount of energy and
money expended on the Sunday meet.
ings and on this prohibition campaign
were used to spread Socialism, they
would get reform that would be last.
ing and good.
Prohibition votes out the saloon and
fills the penitentiafy; the court rec
ords show now 500 arrests for boot
Logging in the first district of w. Va.
There are too many people willing to
risk their liberty for the dollar.
In an article written by A. S. Grimm
M. D., in this prohibition campaign he
prescribed the amendment as a cure
for the dry rot of society. / will prove
by that curse that law does not pro
hibit. We have five laws in this
state, one with the. death penalty at
tached and the doctor admits it threat
ems ever home and the laws do not
stop its ravishes course.
Talk about Socialism and free love.
1t amt in the same class as capitalism
and license prostitution. They claim
5000 went down the saw dust trail
Just think, one-ffth of Wheelings
population and yet the saloon is do
ing business at the old stand. The
doctor is not losing his old trade, and
the open shop man is as busy as ever
You can see the work people walking
home or hanging to a strap in the
car after the days work
Adopt prohibition and fill your penal
institutions; adopt Socialism and
empty them.
You must change conditions to re-
form. The Fort Henry club will drink
spirits stuff, regardless of the laws.
One half of the drink sold is not
harmful, but the other half, confess,
it raises the lid.
Come with me, brother; do not be
deceived by false lights on the shore.
Too long have we been tricked in
politics, voted for bread and got
stone. Read the Socialist platform
and vote for your own and your
neighbours interest and reform in all
things.
%
AN EXPLANATION.
Editor Majority:
Dear Sir:-Having made short
talk at the cemetery on Decoration
Day, it seems from the inquiries /.
Wheeling majority. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1907-192?, 1912-06-20

have received since, that i have got
to do with it as the boy did with his
picture he had drawn. Fearing it
should not be knewn what it wss in
tended for, he wrote under it.: "This
is a horse" So with your consent, l
will try and explain what it was /
said or intended to say.
j said, if it is true as all G. A. r.
men believe and teach that: "Etern-
al viligence is the price of liberty"
we owe debt for what liberty we
have so great we can never pay it.
For if there is little of anything in
this country, it is vigilence in things
political. There is no question as to
the Vigilence Of the old soldier
in his endeavor to keep up military
patriotism. but aside from that, they
citizen. It is not enough that we be
willing to take up arms at the call of
the president to repel an invading
or threatening foe, this a minor duty
compared with guarding against our
foes within. Our greatest danger lies
in over-confidence in those we elect to
make laws and execute them.
The principles underlying the strug-
gle for our independence as expressed
in the Declaration of independence
are the most sublime ever expressed
by a people up to that time, and if
vigilently adhered to as government,
could not well be improved upon:
'"The right of the governed to make
and execute their own laws"
But then as ever, there were those
who had no faith in the ability Of the
so-cal1ed common people to govern
themselves, and sought with might
and main to deny to them an equal
right to political power with what
they termed the higher and more ad-
-vanced class. And not being sble to
carry their point directly, without
precipitating a rebellion, it was
thought to do this indirectly
by the institution of the Senate and
the veto power in the hands of the
president
With the growing changes in the
production and distrl6utioD of the&na-
tons product, conditions and interests
spray up undreamed of and unprovid-
ed for by the constitution. These
new conditions and interests became
so gigantic as to become a menace
to our original liberties. So powerful
have these interests over which, ac-
cording to former president, the
constitution has no Jurisdiction, that
during the past twenty years not
federal judge has been appointed
without their consent. And invariably
they have been attorneys of their en-
ploy, if not the heads of those corpora
lions, and in many instances their
moral characters could scarcely have
been worse.
With such men upon the bench as
judges, pronouncing every law in the
least conflicting with their interests,
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AN EXPLANATION

AN EXPLANATION
Editor Majority:
Dear Sir:-Having made a short
talk at the cemetery on Decoration
Day, it seems from the inquiries l
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20
PENDLEToN DRUG CO. Cor. Main and Court St.
PANAMA CANAL COMMITTEE REPORTS THE
HOUSE BILL FOR CONTROL OF BIG DITCH

Washington, d. C.-After weeks of
prolonged hearings, at which the rep
resentatives of the railroad interests
of the United States. the steamship
owners and the commercial interests
of the country were given free rein
in presenting their views on the ques-
ton, the Interoecanic canals commit
tee, of which Senator Brandegee of
Connecticut is chairman, has reported
the house bill for the control and
government of the Panama canal,
with number of important amend
ments.
The amendments made by the sem
ate committee change the scope of
the house bill in number of partic-
ulars, especially with reference to
the character of the government of
the canal zone. The house bill places
the government of the strip" in the
hands of a governor with the presi-
dent empowered to appoint all Off
cials. The senate bill vests the gov
ernment of the zone in a commission
of three persons with right of ap-
pointment resting in the commission.
The senate committee changed the
house bill so as to prevent fluctuation
in rates of toll Once these rates
have been prescribed by the president
they cannot be changed until after six
months notice by presidential proc
lamation. The bill also provides that
no toll shall be levied on vessels of
American registry in the foreign trade
if the owners of such vessels agree
to their use by the government in
time of war or other public emer-
gency on payment of fair actual val
ue.
The senate bill as reported also
took a "fall' out of the section pro-
hibiting railroad-owned steamships
from operating through the canal,
amending the house bill by provid-
ing that no ship owned. chartered,
operated or controlled by a railroad
or in which any railroad had any in
terest whatever through any holding
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20
MOVEMENTS OF
PILOT ROCK CITIZENS
Especial Correspondence


Pilot Rock, Ore, June 2O.-Mr'
Carl Ris returned home with his
bride from Portland Monday morn
ing.
Among those who attended the cir
Gus Friday were "Jinks" Jaques' AL
bert Kennison and Earl Pickering.
Miss Delta Morse is the guest Of
Mis- Hazel Belts for a few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. Douglas Belts return
ed home Monday morning from Port
land where they attended the rose
festival.
Miss Grace Hinkle spent Tuesday
evening in Pendleton.
Mrs. Andy Rust was passenger
on the Tuesday evening local for
pendlet6n.
DR.. Iieuallen and wife, Ruth Roy
er and Emery Knots autoed down to
Pendleton Sunday afternoon return
ing home in the evening.
The Messrs Lon Etter, Adam Lin
sner, Earl Pickering and Marvin Roy
attended the ball game Sunday at
Pendleton.
Miss Elsie McReynolds was a Wis
itor at the county seat last Satur-
day.
NJ. d. Orange and Ed Westgate
spent Saturday evening in Pendleton.
John Sylvester spent Tuesday eve
ming in Pendleton.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Whitaker OF
Nye spent Sunday at the home Of
Mrs. Thomas Jaques.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20

company, stockholders or directors, in
common or otherwise, shuld be per-
mitted to enter or pass through the
Panama canal if engaged In the coast
wise trade between United States
ports. 1t permits ships of American
registry however owned or controlled
to operate through the canal in the
transoceanic trade to or from Orien-
tai or European countries between
ports of the United States and inter-
mediate foreign ports, which is a
"sop" to the Pacific mail steamship
company, but the committee safe
guarded the movement by inserting an
additional restriction to protect coast
wise traffic by requiring that a rail-
road-owned ship passing through the
canal must have at least so per cent
of it's cargo destined to a transocean
port.
Senator Charles E. Townsend of
Michigan, a member of the Inter-
oceanic canals committee, whose
name is attached to much wise legis-
lation affecting railroad rates and an
authority upon transportation ques-
tions, speaking of the bill to regulate
the government of the "big ditch"
said:
"The Panama canal was construct
ed. for two purposes, first. as a mill
tary defence, and second, for the ben
efits of commerce.
water has always been considered
as the most effective means for reg
ulating rates of transportation that
could be employed. 1t has afforded
an effective check upon exorbitant
railroad rates Water transportation
through the canal, if kept free and
unrestricted, will exert a restraining
influence, not only upon transconti-
mental railroad rates but upon rail-
road rates to the most interior parts
of the country.
at stands to reason that the rail-
roads are not going to work against
their own interests and if they are
permitted to own and operate boats
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20

through the canal, such operation and
control will tend to reduce water COM
petition in order to benefit railroad
transportation.
1--WE are attempting to regulate
railroad rates and the best way in my
judgment to prevent exorbitant rates
through monopoly is to prohibit rail-
road-owned boats passing through
khe canal. The senate bill does this
under limitations
1T is known as a matter of history
that railroads have used their steam
ships not only to prevent competi-
ton but to destroy competitors
This new enterprise should be
kept free from all probability of mo-
nopoly. My judgment is that the
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20
CATTLE FIGURES
LOWER ONCE MORE
(From Wednesdays Journal)

The weaker feeling in the cattle
trade has resulted in another slight
reduction in values and the lower
prices are now in effect
While there were no cattle arrivals
today, the big showing of yesterday
amply filled the wants of killers at
this time. There was a rather bear
ish sentiment among killers who are
making strong efforts to put the
market down, although the same in
terests elsewhere are paying record
quotations.
The announcement of the forma-
tion of a company to supply cattlemen
with feeder stock is likely to be the
most important that the trade has
known for some time. Frank W.
Burke. who is president and general
manager Of the new company, which
will have its offices in the stock
wards says that he expects thereby
20 build up a cattle business.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20
DAILY EAST OREGoNIAN PENDLETON OREGON
Stop That Catarrhal Cold!
us Dangerous. Breathe away by soothing anisepc VapOr

Are you constantly sneezing, cough
ing, hawking and splitting during the
winter months?
This may not be serious now but
remember that If IL is neglected it
will become chronic catarrh and then
you are in danger Of bronchitis, pneu-
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To he safe you must stop that cold
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HOW?
Just few drops OF Mentholyptus IN
n dish of hot water. Breathe in the
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tom of the lungs. The catarrhal cold
loosens up and disappears.
This Mentholyptus vapor kills the
disease germs, cleanses out the pass
ages OF the head. throat and lungs,
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20

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days work. II you miss II you feel
uncomfortable and cannot put vim in
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20

house bill, so far as the canal is con-
cerned, is better calculated to preserve
a free and open waterway than the
bill reported by the senate commit
tee"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20
H|!ealtEflyNBa
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20

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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20

applying Chamberlain's Liniment and
observing the directions with each
bottle. For sale by all dealers.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20

A sprained ankle may as a rule be
cured in from three to four days by
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20
AT THE OREGON THEATRE

Harry Bulger, surrounded by an
exceptionally large company of musi-
cal comedy stars, will be the strong
attraction at the Oregon next Friday
night. Harry Bulger is not unknown
to local amusement seekers, as his
phenomenal hit as "Bluejay" in
Woodland" is still fresh in our me-
mories. In The Flirting Princess"
Bulger is said to be at his best. The
large supporting company includes
Eileen Sheridan, Dale Fuller, Helen
Darling. Harry Dickinson, Lewis
Cunningham, Irwin Hardy and the
"girliest girl" chorus yet seen.
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1t does not cure the trouble and
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applications removes the cause, thus
performing a permanent cure. Price
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by A. C. Koeppen & Bros.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-06-20

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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-01-08
As Well First as Last.

We are prepared to stick to
what we said last week about the
repair of local State" roads.
The muddle in which the State
Highway Com m ssion Fl n d s
itself cannot be cleared in time
for that body to do very much
for the outlying districts very
soon. If the users of these
roads desire any degree of COM
fort while travelling they will be
compelled to pair the roads
themselves. Volunteer repair
gangs are doing this very thing
in other states. They set a day
when all meet and work the
road, or else each fixes up the
road through his own land, and
in this way no one is imposed
upon, as all are equally benefited.
All the idea needs to start it is
for some gritty citizen to set the
example for his slower neighbor.
May as well do it first as last.