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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-16
This Brewer in Trouble

you are aware that among your sup
porters were many of the harlots of
the city and hundreds of equity,
bumble-footed, blear-eyed bummers.
Men and women you have assisted to
degrade and demoralize; and who in
their AFFECT slavery cannot discern
you have been their ruin.
"Not so with me. With no distilled
damnation coursing in my veins, | can
look on you intelligently, and with
no desire to worship at the Golden
Calf you have set up in Auckland, SO
have now given you my views on the
folly of nation or community plac-
ing in any public position any manu-
facturer of crime, sickness, social
misery and pauperism. If you think
have done you any injustice, our col
umns are open free for any reply you
may deem it prudent to make"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-16

blights, diseases, lies, abuse and crime
1t made bad debts, and sooner or later
created paupersm, filth and rage
wherever it went. 1t turned good
citizens into tramps and thieves and
made business of seducting and de-
bauching innocent boys and girls.
The brewery needed a Jail, police
court, poor house, lunatic asylum and
Waterman. Not even twenty shoe fac
tories would ever need any one of
these where there is no brewery nor
grog shop.
From official figures we learn that
there are in the United States, I,845
breweries with $4,000 employees If
converted into factories they would
probably give employment to ten
times as many persons and would
pay annually in wages about $2So,ooo,-
900 to the $28,ooo,oo now paid by the
breweries.
The liquor traffic restricts indus
try and brings poverty. Prohibition
promotes business and brings pros
perity WHICH WILL YOU
H lave p Selected.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-16

this important piece of wreckage, and
IN order to be real manly, to approach,
for the time being, his allured concep-
ton of ideal manhood, he enters the
saloon. There he takes drink against
the warning of the sense of shame.
and heeds not the warning. He is in
PRODUCED to the bunch" and hailed
as one of them. When he leaves the
den he probably sneaks out the back
door and resolves never to return. But
the next time less teasing is needed in
order to lead him on. Day after day
the arms of vice are wrapped tighter
and tighter about the boy. A longing
tor the gay crowd draws him, taste
tor intoxicating liquors is formed
The boy becomes drunkard, and the
sense of moral feeling is lost. He
travels onward-into darkness and
wretchedncss, stumbles and falls, step
after step, SO that in time he lands
in the poorhouse, asylum or prison.
where once more he meets men like
his fellow-members of that "gav
crowd" This time, however, they do
not meet to have one of their gay old
times, but to share the misery, the
fruit grown from the seeds sown in
that saloon few years back. Should
he escape entering any of these miser
able places he continues in his down.
ward path of evil and wretchedness
and, finally, while yet at an age when
he should have been in the prime of
his life, sinks into a drunkard's grave.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-16
The Lure of the Saloon

One of the most alluring attractions
is the saloon. This monster, the most
dreadful and horrible enemy of man
kind has his agents in all parts of the
world in shape of reckless pieces of HUI
mainly, Picture to yourself the young
boy who goes down town. and is met
by one of these who approaches him
as a so-called friend, slaps him on the
shoulder, addresses him, young man"
and finally asks him to go in and
"have one" The innocent boy, being
enticed by shoulder slaps and fine
compliments will be very apt to admire
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-16

By some hook or crook brewer
has been elected to the parliament of
New Zealand. That country has
strong public sentiment against the
liquor traffic and it is certain the path
way of this brewer will be full of
rocks. Public opinion in New Zeal
and is not in sympathy with the brew
cry business. The editor of the
Auckland Free Press in an open letter
to this brewer, who will hold down a
seat in parliament, assails him vigor
ously, as the following indicates:
"As the outcome of your actions,
vice and immortality are. rampant
among both races. In past days men
lured ships to destruction by false
lights. You connive at your tools,
robbing, poisoning and numbering
hundreds of men, who, but for your
internal decoctions, would be leading
sober lives.
"You are one of the chief agents in
filling our gaols and lunatic asylums,
yet you pose as Liberal in politics,
while you follow the profession of
devil. With such characteristics you
should not be allowed to fill any office
in village, town, city or state, and If
Justice was done you the verdict would
be the conhscation of all your i'll
gotten wealth and Imprisonment for
the remainder of your life.
"I have no hesitation in saying that
a grave stigma rests upon the people
of this Dominion when any publican
or brewer is selected as lawmaker,
and a similar stigma rests upon the
people of Auckland East who voted to
place you in parliament. I suppose
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1912-08-16

Forty-one prominent Massachusetts
business houses have agreed to en-
ploy no one under eighteen who
smokes cigarettes.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-05
PORTION OF LAFOLLETTE'S CHICAGO SPEECH NEWS
PAPERS WITHHELD

3, Orchestra Hall was crowded
with about 5000 people eager TO
hear Senator LaFollette fay the
interests that practically rule the
country to suit themselves, with
out a thought or a care of how it
will effect the people.
He showed how the business of
the nation was divided into four
branches. There was the trans
portation business, meaning the
steam roads; there was the bust
ness conduced under franchises,
like the gas, electric light and
street railway facilities in our cit
les; there was the business listed
on the stock market in Wall
street as "industrials," like the
United States Steel Corporation
and the big manufacturing con-
Germs; and the financial business
run by the banks, trust compan-
les and insurance companies.
He took up the railroads and
showed that there are today six
systems in the United States, and
that these six systems are con-
trolled by eight men.
La Toilette told how he had
studied the directory of directors
of the corporations of the land,
finally coming to the discovery
that ninety-six men could control
all the important business in the
United States.
He then said that Ex-senator
Chauncey Depew, teller of after
dinner speeches, appeared seven
ty-four times as a member of diff
ferent boards of directors.
The day book. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1911-1917, 1912-01-05

important men, and later he re-
duced even this number down to
two, Standard Oil and Morgan.
It is conceded that La Toilette
sees the three per cent of the ma
ton that now controls practically
all of the wealth of the nation.
He says that he is fighting this
three per cent.
The people who could not at
tend and were dependent upon
the newspapers for information
as to what the senator said, did
not get some of the best things
that were sprung notwithstand-
ing that in the making of his
statement La Toilette turned to
the press table and told the re-
porter to get it down and get it
right.
He said that amy man or set
of men, any trust, corporation or
combination that combined to re-
strain trade are doing nothing
more nor less than committing
treason to the country"
At this point he stopped and
turned to the press table. saying:
Get this down. All newspapers
that supported such combina-
tions were no better than the
combinations, and like them are
traitors to their country and
should have the support accorded
them confined to those whom
they serve"
Are department stores combin-
atoms? If they are that may be
the reason for the general news
paper silence on this portion of
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
PaIsol.. 80, sedt 10 C.rI


Through the agency OF canuy ,lirh
had been dipped in poison, an unidca
titled enemy sought the lie of Miss
Isabel Sparkes, soprano solai,t al
Christ church, tie leading Episcopal
congregation Of Cincinnati. o. L j., al
this church that President Tar usual j
worships when in The city.
Miss Spar.es a @ tmee piece OF the
candy and became very i'll. Her il T.
was saved by the prompt -nliniz--a
lions of the family ply sician Miss
Sparkes sister also p1r.o-k Of a pie, r.
OF the candy and was made ill.,
1t was several weeks ago that " ss
Sparkes re, aived the candy. CITY end
federal detectives have been end cav
oring to o. an clue to the ideut ty
OF the criminal
Miss Spackes has recovered. but @
is in cons an lear that some enemy
might take other means OF injurne
her. It is pointed out that the aim OF
the sender Of the candy might have
been the permanent injury OF the girl s
vocal organs through inducing lock-
jaw. as the drug mas hat tendency.
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
Rridenroom.to.se Dead.

David Pollock. ,hf,y-nte Years Old
was found dead in bed at his home
in Norristown, Pa, with the room ful
of gas.
Coroner Neville, after an investiga
tionti said he is convinced that Pol
locks death was accidental He found
that the victim had removed a dror
lamp from the gas pipe in his room
several days ago and had taken it to
40 East Elm street, his new home. pur
chased by his wife-to-be, and being
furnished by them preparatory to the r
wedding this week
An ordinary burner was placed On
the pipe The coroner found that the
valve turned readily. and it is posi-.
bic that as Pollock turned off the gas
a touch Of his finger opened the valve
again accidentally.
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
Yennmsn Fire on citizens.

Four burglars blew open the post
office safe at B.rlsboro. near Read
ing, Pa, and esce ed without securing
any plumber. after a despera e battle
with citizens, VINO were armed with
shOtguns
Mrs. E. . Mohr who lives nearby,
was awakened By d crash OF glass,
and her husband on going downstairs,
heard a loud explosion. Neigbors
were summoned with glns, and as
they assembled four men leaned form
the postofice window and ran away.
The citizens opened fire ana the
yeggmen returned ihe fire with reyol-
vers till every resident in the borough
had been awakened by the rattle Of
the conflict
Harvey Brinley the postmaster, is
i'll with typhoid fever, and the office
was in charge Of two girls.
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25

Schrank Wants Bullet That Hit T. r.
John Schrank, who attempted TO kill
Theodore Roosevelt in Milwaukee on
Monday night, is as much unruffled
as ever.
1t was intimated that the reason for
having the prisoners bail increased
from $500 to $4,000 was the result
OF a plan of certain moving picture
men to have him released and placed
under heavy guard long enough to OBJ
tain a series of picture films. District
Attorney label said all efforts In this
direction would avail nothing
For the first time since he was In
carcerated Schrank asked hom Colonel
Roosevelt was. When told ais cOndi-
ton was favorable, Schrank asked
where the colonel had been shot and
if the bullet had been found.
"The bullet belongs to me-" said the
prisoner. Il have made my will and
bequeathed the bullet to the New York
Historical society, with a request thas
it be placed on exhibition in the TO.
tunda Of the state capitol at Albany.
My property in New York I have will.
ed to my mother in GERMANY"
When asked again is he was sorry
for having shot the colonel, Schrank
said he was not; that he considered he /
had done only his duty.
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
KENT ANNUAL
S. S. CONVENTION

Tha rineteenth annual convention OF
.ha Kenf Conntv Sunday School Assocla-
t,nn .m u,as held in the Methodist Episcopal
%Snrch ~ AT Camden " eduesday, Oct. TO-
Those assisting III the coDVeHlion " "a
cluded Miss Florence BURKE ol S:' SeuIuHn'
and Mrs A + Faulkner, OF AagnOi,ia, nJi
the former speaker presenting nat
camden Expects from the ConNentiOh;
the Bible in the school was tng SUD
iact of an address by the Kew. II ,. JOlh-
Ian. of Dover, followed with conference,
"Training the Workers OF tomorrow,
the first sub division, Iralhlhg Ihe
Tsschers." being taken by Miss Edna
EweIl: second, Training the Ofhcers'
Thomas Irons, and third, training the
Members" by Mrs Ella Benson
Foundation StOnts, was the suolect
of a most interesting talk by Mrs Mary
Foster Bryner. .h.uauoa
Message. from the field by the hundred
..cretarIrs was a pleasing feature OF the
morniug session, which showed the work
/ ueiug done throughout the county.
Al the afternoon session many inter-
ost,ny snhiacts were discussed, including
MISSIONARY Teaching" by Mrs. -. w.
u eddel Dover; "The Intermediates,
by the Rev. Thomas Getz Hill, Smyrna;
'.Their characteristics, by Miss Halket,
Wilmington: "Keepjng Them ia the sun
day School, by the Rev. Mr.. Hill, and
methods of Organization, by the Rev.
George w Bounds.
the Flock and the Fold, by Mrs.
Mary Bryner Foster, was another inter
esting address OF the convention. Il round
table followed.
The report of hundred secretaries was
given by the State Secretary Miss Edna
q Barker, of Milford
Prior to the afternoon adjournment tae
following officers were elected: President,
George G. Herring, FELTON,; Vice President,
B. F. B. Woodall, Milford; Recording
Secretary, Mrs. Carrie G Ritter, Dover
Corresponding Secretary and Treasurer,
Prof Howard r Moore, Of Frederica;
Cborister. " alter 0 Hoffecker, Smyrna.
Executive Committee-Prof Wesley
Webb. Dover: James p Pierce, Milford;
L. NJ Price, Smyrna; K. ) Ferguson, OF
Dover: Jefferson l.. Cooper, Cheswo d.
Departmental Workers r Elementary.
Mrs Alice Wix, Harrington; Home, Miss
Jennie Mcintosh, Camden; Teacher Train
ing, Mrs q G Herring, FELTON,; Temper
ance, Mrs G. j. Meredith, Felton,; Mis-
sionarv, Mrs Clara V. Wharton, Hous-
ton; Adult Glass, Prof NJ. L. HydOrn,
Secondary Division, Rev 7.
q. Hill, Smyrna.
Hundred Secretaries-Duck Creek, Miss
Mary Warner, Smyrna East Dover, Mrs.
Herman c Taylor, Dover; KentOn, S.
Brady Cooper, Cheswold; Little Creek.
Mrs Jennie Jarmsn, Leipsic; Milford,
DR. G. W Reid, Mispillion, Ir Wing
Legates, Harrington; North Murder.
xiii, Joseph Barbour, Woodside; South
Prof Howard r. Moore, of
West Dover Mrs A. B Har-
.lson, Dover
Members of State Executive Commit
ee-Prof Wesley Webb, of Dover, one
,ear; /. NJ. Price, of Smyrna, two years;
4. W. Carrow, of Frederica. three years
The committee on resolutions urged
.reater missionary work. stronger tenn
,erance work and such action that will
ause the more emphatic enforcement of
be Local Option Laws in the two lower
ouuties Of the State The resolution al
0 favored an Anti Cigarette law.
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
Eiancee Killed bv EnpIosion.


IN an explosion as the Macungie
furnace. near Allentown. Pa, was be
ing put into blast ag.er FIVE years OF
idleEess. Miss Katie Conrad, a specta
tor, was Instantly killed as she wa.
standing beside her fancee. Ira High
A number OF others were iaj ared, but
ncne seriously
The accident. one Of the most ex.
-traUrdiuaTy IN furnace hlslory is
ascribed to foul air which accumulated
in the pipes and chambers during the
years of idleneas
To put it into blast the furnace was
equipped with a Kent stove. something
like huge bake oven. from which an
eighteeninch gas main ran to the
main stack This main was propped
up by two huge beams. four by five
inches and twenty feet long.
Several hundred persons were pres
ent when the furnacemen. under the
direction Of General Superintendent
Milton o. Knauss, started the new
blast engine. The gas blew out the
eighteen-inCh wall OF the Kent stove
The wall fell against the pr0ns. one OF
which, sweeping heavily in its down
ward course, struck Miss Conrad on
The head, dashing out her brains.
Her party included her parents. Mr.
and Mrs. Nathan Conrad. and her four
brothers and sisters. The entire fam
lily was covered with bricks and dust
Miss Conrad was thirty-three years
old and was TO have been married this
fall She was a popular woman. and
the whole Of Macungie is in mourning
The loss is $4,000 and may reach
$4,000
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
FREED OF MURDER,
TRIES TO WE'D GIRL
Jury Find HaCFarIand Not
Guilty Of Wif3'S Death.
WERE REFUSED A LICENSE
Florence Bromley, the Woman In
the Case Fails to Produce Divorce
Decree When Applying.

Allison NJ. MacFarand was acquit-
ted in court at Newark, n. j., of the
murder Of his wife, Evelyn, whom he
found dead in bed year ago.
Death was caused by cyanide OF po-
tassium and MacFarland was charged
with having substituted the poison for
a headache solution that his wife was
in the habit of taking.
On his first trial MacFarland was
found guilty of murder in the first
degree, but the verdict was set aside
and new trial ordered.
The verdict had no sooner been an
nounced than MacFarland rushed to
the office of his counsel. met there
Florence Bromley, his infatuation for
whom was attributed a motive for the
alleged crime. and hastened with her
to the city hall to make application
fer a marriage license. The license
was refused because Miss Bromley
did not have with her a copy of the
divorce decree which separated her
from her first husband. and the pair
then drove away with the word that
they would postpone their wedding to
some other date.
Both MacFarland and Miss Bromley
were overjoyed at the turn their af
fairs had taken. When the acquitted /
man entered the law Office of Frank .
McDermitt his counsel. be embraced +
and kissed the writer of the sensa-
tional Bunny" letters To a number
of reporters he said:
'T am going to marry this young
woman as soon as can get license.
As long as the newspapers are filled
with the accounts might just as well
have all the publicity at once When
we are wed We will decide where we
viii spend our future. Prosecutor Mott
suicide by means of cir
evidence"
In the license clerks Office. when
She was asked to show copy Of the
lecree she said that John A. DAVIS. Jr.
Vt Hunterdon county. N. J.. was her
irst husband. that he got a divorce on
he ground Of desertion and that she
lever had received a copy OF the doc
lment She told the reporters that 4
DAVIS has since married her cousin.
This ELECTED the remark from Mac
7arland that DAVIS must like the fam
ly. Then they drove away from the
ity hal rapidly.
The jury deliberated on the evidence
gainst MacFarland for i've hours
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
ALLIES MARCH ON
TURKISH FORTS
Have Cleared The Way to
Three Big Towns.
GBEEKS ARE G1MBARDING
Balkan Forces Are Fighting Their
Way to Objective Points In Enemy's
Territory.

The armies of Serya, Bulgaria and
Greece continue to clear their way to
their main objective points, the Turk
tsh fortresses Of Usllup, Adrianople
and Seryio. the last Of these three a
Turkish town on the Grecian from
tier.
Greek warships have been lombard
ing the Turkish port OF Prevesa. Pre-
Vesa is situated at the entrance Of the
Gulf OF Arta, the opposite side Of
which is Greek territory
Greek armies have crossed the
Turkish frontier at two points. In
lapirus, at the western end. they have
occupied the heights Of GrimboVO,
while at the eastern end they are pur-
sHing the Turkish troops to their base
ut Seryio, where an important battle
is expected to be fought, and the TAX
ing Of which by the Greeks would
carry them appreciably nearer to the
MOnastir and Saloniki road.
The SerVian armies are probably
having the hardest fighting at the
present moment. They are operating
NV ~ GehuU anu Z AS Una anu Lul LnbL
north in the district of Novi Bazar,
and have to contend not only against
Turkish regulars, but also against the
Arnauts, who are fierce fighting AL
banian tribesmen. One of their armies
has advanced as far as the outskirts |
Of Kuananova. the principal town be-
tween the Servian frontier and Uskup. |
The Servians have secured pOsses- /
sion Of the mountain pass leading to .
Prishtina.
No news Of importance has come
from the Bulgarian frontier, and this
leads military authorities to suggest
that King Ferdinand viii not attempt
TO rush the fortress OF Adrianople. but
will mask it and move round il to the
east or the west
The reported intention Of the Bul-
garian army to sive Adrianople the go
by and to had direct for Constantine
PIE is dismissed as impracticable by
military men. The distance is the
same as that from Dalny to Mukden.
N Manchuria, which took the Japa-
lese army a year to cover
The town of Ei.k-Kilessed is still
acid by the Turks, although it was ru-
nOred that the Bulgarians had taken
he outer positions. This, however,
acks confirmation
The western Bulgarian army. like
he Servian armies. is fighting against
arge bodies of tr,besmen, assisted by
Turkish artillery, and from all ac-
cunts there has been some stiff skir-
nishing, in which the Bulgarians
ave been victorious. The warfare in
his region is Of a merciless character.
S the POnalls, or Bulgarian Mussul- /
Iau tribesnen, are religious fanatics.
The Montenegrin army apparently is
lactiye al present. &
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
Aviators In a smaah.un.

Sailing into a faIl pocket Of all
Just after they s.ar al from tle naval
academy at Annapo Nd. on a trip
to Washington. Lieu.enan;s G. H. Ell
Tyson and B. l.. Smit1, of the navy
aviation corps, mad tie most serious
smash-up which has occurred sin g
the establishment, of the flying school
there
Fortunately neither was hurt beyond
a few contusioEs ana a plunge into
the waters of tie harDor. but their
hydroaeroplane was completely demol-
ished
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
Farmer Eats HimseIf . peatl1.

John Milva, farmer, AGED sixty
five years, residing at Steuey. near
Pottsville. Pa, literally ate himself 70
death at hotel.
The meal served to him tastius
good. he continued to eat until he had
mastcated food which would make a
meal for four ordinary men \ few
minutes after gorging himself Milvs
fell over dead.
An examination by Coroner Moore
showed the rupture OF several organs
as the result of the big meal The
coroner said thar a younger man.
whose sinews We're more elastic ffii.esi1itt ffiii.esii1itt T
have survived the strain.
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
Taft Nav Go to Panama.

President Taft is complaining d
trip to Panama to inspect the canal
It is probable thar after the election
he will board a battleS1ip with Mrs
Taft and leave the country l0r two
weeks.
II the trip is undertaken it will be
50 arranged that the president will be
back in Washington i'll time to write
his annual message If the voyage can
not be arranged before December the
president may go during the Christmas
holidays.
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25

Of the eye was Indispensable, as the
famous wireless inventor was threat
ened with total blindness.
Professor Fuchs, the celebrated ocul-
list Of the University Of Vienna, was
summoned in hot haste. and he per
formed the operation, which, it is said,
was successful.
Signor Marconi stood the very pain
full operation without finching His
wife, who was very much affected;
his sister.in-law and a friend, the Mar
Quis Solari, were present dul ing the
operation. Signor Marconis condition
is satisfactory
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
"a Turks llilIed m No..

A Fl turkish troop train, which was
bound for the from. was wrecked and
200 soldiers were killed, according to
word received in Berlin from Saloniki.
Two reports were received One was
tina the train had been derailed and
rolled down an embankment, and an
other that it had been wrecked by
Bulgarian spies
Milford chronicle., 1912-10-25
Marconi May Go Sind.

Gugliemo Msrconi, the wireless in
ventor, wLo e right eye was removed
at SpeZio, I,aly, has developed alarm
ing symptoms
Marconi passed a sleeple.s night
his temperature is h.gl and he is suf-
fering the greatest pan. Profess or
Bayardi. tne Turin specialist, w@o as
sisted al the opera. len OF removin :
the right eye, WAS sumuoned IN ha g
and is no. Il en- ling MarConi
Nctwith sniing a reassuring bull e.
tin it is feared thar complications are
threatening tie other eye.