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The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-01-28
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n AcK of the commonplace events in N the everyday life of downtown ,A> tragedies often are hidden. The end of things around which there once were rosy promises.
 People do not look for romance or trag- edy in the comings and goings of moving vans. They are too common. A great big van drew up to the door of big building tn the great money street of America one day, and a lot of huskies got out, went ur stairs and busied themselves taking ur rugs, hauling out desks, chairs, tables, filing cases and the multitude of other furnishings of a well appointed office.
 Nobody but a gray haired man and a few clerks paid any attention to 1t. It did mot take the huskies long to strip tha, big office as clean as a bone and leave it bare and gaunt.
 When the last load was removed the gray haired man shook hands with the clerks, bade them goodby, took a last look at the bare walls and then walked down stairs. As he neared the door he saw that his name was being taken from the direc- tory of the building. He stopped long enough to watch the man until his task was completed. Then he lit a cigar,
 
 way and turned north.
 No one who looked at his erect form, his clear eye, his resolute beating would think for a moment that his brightest prospects had been shattered and that he had fallen in the battle of dollars.
 The closing of the door of that big van meant the end of fight with James E. Duke president of the Tobacco Trust, in which Henry Denlow Mad come out sec ond best. MT. Denlow had no tears tc she'd He was not that kind of a fighter His struggle with Mr. Duke had been q clean, straight one-a fight to a finish Neither man asked for quarter. If Den low had won he fgurativeiy would have hung MT. Dukes scalp among his tro- phies. Not having succeeded, as a natural result Mir Denlows scalp had been added to Mir. Dukes large collection.
 Strange careers have some of the men who go to smash in these great industrial conflicts. Denlow had perhaps as many adventures as any of them. He was O, the east and of the west. In Columbia university, from which he was graduated
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contains hundreds of millions of gallons. and it is fed by a wild mountainous re- zion where the water is pure.
 The mosquitoes are being cleaned out of Manila and otherwhere. The canals have been dredged and the meats filled up, and parks have taken their places. New hospitals have been built, and this is so in most of the cities, not only for the Christians. but for the wild men as we'll We have doctors connected with the leading tribes. and the savages in- stead of making sacrifices to pacify the spirits of disease, are now coming in for castor oil, liver pills and surgical treat, ment.
 A Campaign of Health Education
 A campaign of health instruction has been undertaken, and doctors are going about with lantern slide lectures showing the danger of disease and how to pre- vent it. Hygiene is taught in the public schools. There are training schools for nurses, and a hospital for the insane, which now has 800 inmates
 There has been great fight against cholera, and the rats have been slaugh- tered to wipe out the bubonic plague The bone piles of the cemeteries have been taken away and the dead are now buried according to law
 \ The islands have anti-tuberculosis society, which is waging a war against consumption. This institution has the aid of the government and it will estab- fish tubeosis camps and will teach tho people how to take care of such patients The bureau of agriculture on the islands proposes to kill all animals which have tuberculosis, and quarantine has been instituted against the importation of diseased cattle from Australia.
 great deal has been said about the health of Americans in the Philippines. Uncle Sam is keeping track of that mat ter and the death rate is now less than six to the thousand which Is mol one- half as high as that of our best American cities.
 The Leper Colony F Tn connection with health I must tell you what they are doing with lepers. There are now two or three thousand of them in the islands, and the most of these have been gathered into a colony situated at Culion. This is little island. which is beautiful, healthy and fertile. The colony governs itself. eeeting It's own officers and making its own munic- ipal laws It has a president, council. and a police--all of whom Ware lepcrs. It has a leper band and leper schools filled with leper scholars. Some of these lepers are now being treated by the Xray, and not few have been cured.
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whether the same could be said of the provincial courts. It is difficult to get good judges. The old Spanish judiciary was corrupt and the American judges did not understand the languages or dialects. They were not familiar with the local laws. On the other hand, the Filipino judges were not familiar with our ideas of equity. There was distrust on the part of the people and the gov ernment I am told that this has passed away, and that the Fillpinos are attaining high rank as judges. Out of 29 judgshipS b are held by Filipnos.
 The laws are enforced by the police, and the papers of the justices and the courts are served by them. There is now a police force in every town and this is so even of the colony of lepers which has it's own government. For some years after we took hold of the islands the policing was done by our army. There were brigands everywhere, and almost every bamboo clump hid a bandit. The towns had to be protected from invasion, and every public road was guarded by soldiers. As it is now. the provinces and municipalities protect them selves with their own police and the aid of the eonstabulary.
 Uncle Sans Police Courts
 But l want to tell you something about this constabulary. as the government po- lice force is called. It is the development and improvement of the old guardia ciyie of the Spanish. It now consists of about 5000 men who are scattered all over the islands acting as advisers and aids to the local police, as the protectors of the roads and as. the guards of the wild men, There is a detachment of this police in or near every tribe. and its officer is a
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part of the community where it Is sta toned. He guards it from thieves. He is ever on the lookout for disease, and hunts up the stolen animals and quar- antines the sick ones.
 The constabulary has completely wiped out brigandage. The records show it has captured ,000 bandits, and killed more than 400o. It has retaken about 10000 stolen animals and returned them to their owners
 This government force consists largely of natives. being made up of fighting men from all parts of the Philippine Islands. Some of the men are Moros, some lgorrotes. some Visayans and some Maccabeebes and others. All have been trained by the soldiers, and we have a training school at Baguio where they fighters and are proud of their positions.
 The Reform of the Prisons
 Since we took possession of the Philip pines we have brought about some of the greatest prison reforms of the world. Take Biibid, which was once about the most horrible penitentiary of the far east. It's prisoners were fiogged, and the only mode of execution was by the garrote. a machine which broke the neck of the victim, or rather screwed the head back until the neck cracked.
 That institution is now one of the finest prisons under the American flag. and one of the largest of the world. The buildings have been remade, and the institution IS now laid out. like the spokes of wheel, with a town in the center. There is a great wall around it, and upon this are 12 guard towers, in six of which stand American soldiers armed with Gatiing guns, shotguns and revolvers. In me
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A great deal of Uncle Sam's work has had to do with the health of the Philip pires. The islands are being cleaned up and the cities worked over Manila has new sewers which cost about two million
 dollars. and 1t has a water supply brought in from the head waters of the Mariguina river. which are held back by dam 60 feet high. The reservoir there
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25

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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25
WALL STREET JOURNAL TELLS WHY ERNEST LISTER SHOULD Be ELECTED

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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25

dub Hypocriticai members of Con,
gross, afraid to tell the truth, buliied
by few old maids and ignorant pro-
libitionists, have abolished the can
teen. They are responsible for the
drunkenness in the old soldiers homes,
iGr the vile dens that spring up around
every fort, for the ruin of thousands
of young soldiers, for the greatly in
creased desertiOns from the army.
About some things it is not popular
to tell the truth. But about every
thing it is desirable to tell the truth.
And the truth about the prohibition
movement, in which minority seek
to control a majority, is as follows:
prohibition has increased the
amount of whisky drinking in the
United States.
prohibition has increased the
amount of drunkenness in the United
States.
prohibition has succeeded in lnJur-
ing the sale of harmless drinks.
prohibition means more drunken
ness. and those that are really and sin
Cerely opposed to drunkenness and to
excessive whisky drinking should be
the honest and open opponents OF mis-
taken prohibition and its mistaken
friends.
Our civilization is due largely to
the fact that the races upon which it is
built-the Greek, the Roman, the
French and German-have been tenn
rcrate users of alcohol. They have
taken stimulants in the harmless form.
"YolI cannot make man temperate
by legislation.
Education, better conditions, great
err comforts, moral persuasiOn-thOse
are the forces that diminish drunken
ness, that cure the habits that destroy.
prohibition has simply made OF the
beer drinker a whisky drinker.
prohibition III every state where
futile and often insincere effort has
been made to enforce it has been a
curse and a direct cause of drunken
ness"
Is that what YOU want in Olympia?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25
ARE THESE NEWSPAPERS.

Monday night Olympia had as its
guests one of the United States sena-
tors from Washington, a man who
has two years more to serve, and also
the man who has represented the Sec
ond district in Congress for one term
and has reasonable prospects of sue
ceeding himself.
The afternoon reprint" edition Of
the Perkins press for Monday failed
to mention the fact that the city was
entertaining these distinguished men.
The morning excuse" edition of tues
day deliberately misrepresented AMI
nisquoted the speech made the nient
before by the senator.
Are these newspapers?
II is plain to see that they are not,
that they are nothing more than po-
itical shysters, kept" press. prosti-
tUted to the INSCRIPTIONS political am
billions Of their owner. wilfully sup
pressing the news and deliberately col
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25
POINDEXTER MISREPRESENTS
WILSON.

Deliberate Misrepresentation OF a
presidential candidate is not becoming
United States senator, no matter
what party he may belong to. The
People are presumed to impose some
confidence in senator and they are
entitled to expect from him enough
confidence IN them that he will tell
them the truth.
Senator Miles Poindexter did not
grant this confidence to the $50 people
of Olympia who attended the Pro-
gressive rally at the Olympia theater
last Monday night. His speech was
characterized not only by wilful mis-
representation of Democratic candi-
dates but of Republicans as well. He
deliberately twisted and distorted the
statements of candidates and the posi-
lions of the different parties on ma
tional issues, imposing on the faith
the people are presumed to have in
rant the withdrawal of that faith.
His most glaring Misrepresentation
was in his statement of the relative
positions of the Democratic and Pro
eressive parties on the trust question.
Adopting the old, sneaking method of
quoting one sentence from speaker s
discussion of a subject, he asserted
that Governor Wilson had said that he,
# elected president, would not inter
fere with the states in the handling of
the trust problem. The senator then
proceeded to state that the difference
between the Democratic and Progress
sive parties on this issue was the diff
ference between the federal and states
rights theories.
That is not true.
The distinction, as Louis D. Bran
deis, one of the foremost authorities
on the subject, has pointed out, is
this: The Democratic party would
regulate competition and destroy mo-
nopoly, the Progressive party would
recognize monopoly and the trust as
necessary parts of modern civilization
and legalize them as such.
| Taking up this subject, expounded
by Mr.. Brandeis through its columns,
Golfers Weekly, one of the Progress.
sive magazines of the country and or
dinarily supporter of the Third par.
| ty, has taken direct issue with it and
has fought its trust program, favoring
the Democratic plan Of regulating com
petition and destroying monopoly
through federal ldlCs.
In one of its first editorials on the
subject, reprinted in THE WASHINGTON
STANDARD for September Is. Golfers
Weekly said in part:
| Shall we have regulated competition
or regulated monopoly? That is the
most important question of this cam.
raign, not even excepting the tariff
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25
CONSERVE HUMANITY FIRST.

Much wilful and baseless misrepre-
sentati0n has been circulated recently
by several of the INSCRIPTIONS news
papers of Washington regarding Gov
ernor Woodrow Wilson's attitude to-
wards labor. That it is wholly with
out foundation, that it is nothing
more than deliberate lying by these
papers in a vain effort to gain their
own selfish ends, is apparent to any
one who has followed Governor Will
cons career, his acts as New Jerseys
governor and his speeches during his
presidential campaign.
We are publishing in another part OF
this weeks issue an editorial from
Golfers Weekly on Wilson's Humane
Record" 1t il well worth your read
ing. Just at present we want to call
your attention TO the following extract
from a speech delivered by the Demo
cratic presidential candidate in St.
Paul, Mimi, September Is.
Discussing the relation of mankind
to industry, he said:
"Why is 1t we conserve our natural
resources II we could by a sort OF
magic of industry transmute them
into the wealth of the world? And
who transmutes them into that wealth
If not the skill and the touch of the
great bodies of men who 60 daily to
their toll and who constitute the great
body of the American people?
what l am interested in is having
the government of the. United States
more concerned about human rights
than about property rights.
Property ia an instrument OF hui
manity; humanity isn't an instrument
of property. And yet when you see
men riding their great industries as
II they were driving a car of Jugger-
naut, not looking to see what multi
tudes PROSTATE themselves before the
car and lose their lives in the crush
ing effect of their industry, you won
der how long men are going to be per.
mitted to think more of their ma
chinery than they think of their men.
did you never think that men are
cheap and machinery Is dear; and
many q superintendent will be dis
missed for over-driving delicate ma
chine who wouldn't be dismissed for
over-driving an over-worked man?
You can discard your man-and re-
place him; there are others ready;
but you cannot without great cost dis
card your machine and put in new
one. You are not looking upon your
men as the essential and vital foun-
dation part of your whole business.
Il say, therefore, that property, as
compared with humanity, as COM
pared with the vital red blood in the
American people, must take second
place, not first, and that we must see
to it that there is no over-crowding,
no bad sanitation, no unnecessary
spread of avOidable diseases, that wom-
en- are not driven to impossible tasks
and children are not permitted to
spend their energy before it is fit to be
spent; that all the hope of the race
must be preserved, and that men must
be preserved according to their indi-
vidual needs and not according to the
programs Of industry merely.
What is the use of having industry
If we die producing it? If we die in
trying to feed ourselves, why should
we feed ourselves?"
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25

nrirg It when forced to print It. They
are merely the mouthpiece through
which one mining camp politician Is
trying 10 cram his disgraceful meth
DDS and political debauchery down the
threats oil the residents OF Olympia.
How much longer will the residents
Of Olympia fall Tor his game?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25
Did Fish back Lief
HoOrncco Clinnar

What of this man Fishback, who
aided in Shively's defeat by such dis
honorable means and his cOwardly and
unmanly subterfuge of lie to defeat
his opponent Is he worthy of the
support of any self respecting voter?
Can any one who loves honor and ad-
mires q manly man and brave fighter
cast a ballot for so contemplate a man
as Fishback, who as juror declared
a man to be innocent and then as q
candidate deliberately tried to deceive
the people into the belief that the man
was guilty?
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25

W
Congressi"nnI-->er"n District.
James ~ Munday ....-.....,N Vancouver
Governor ....... Ernest Lister. Tacoma
lieutenant governor ..-..--......-.
Harry II. Collier. Tacoma
Secretary of state. ..........-..-.
..... George j.. Ryan, Seattle
state treasurer. Louis Gilbert, Seattle
State auditor
George X. Stephenson, Toppenish
Attorney general ..............
.... William c. Jones, Spokane
Land commissioner ..........
Albert Schooley, Chehalis
State school superintendent. .....
Mrs Mary A. Monroe, Spokane
Insurance commissioner .....
Jesse +. Murphy, Seattle
Representatives, 2sth District.
Allen White olympia
Robert A. Aver. ........ olympia
Thurston County.
Sheriff B. F. Wall
County clerk A. J. Frisch
County auditor. X. Dever
County treasurer. .Chas. L. Dufault
Prosecuting attorney John S. Lynch
Assessor. Fred Schomber
Superintendent of schools.
..B r. McClelland
County surveyor. .......L. f. Oueilette
Coroner. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. Geo. V. LYDIA
Commissioner, I'd District. ID, M. kagy
Commissioner Sd District. j. F. Brown
Justice of the peace. Robert Frost
Constable wv. d. Manner
senator, ed District.
John McReavy ................. union
Mason County.
Assessor. H. ". N'heAe"Ai
Clerk Mrs. Irene Richardson
Auditor Miss Eva L. Robinson
Treasurer. ........M. +. Knight
County attorney. r.. A. Latteron
SnerlH 49, w. IL A'iAiei'
.....J. B. Shelton, w. S. Taylor
Engineer. Jesse Wepstei
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25

(bTSdH
The testimony given before the in
vestigating committee last week by
Mr.. Sheldon, treasurer of the Repub-
lican national committee, will put a
quietus on Mr.. Roosevelt's discussion
of the campaign contributions collect
ed by his committee in 1904. Mr..
Sheldon testified that there were four
ca subscriptions Of $100,000.00 each
from Archbold Of the Standard Oil
company, Morgan, Prick and Gould.
These were in addition to the $250,0OO
raised by Hartmann After telling OF
these enormous contributions Mr..
Sheldon adds that 1871 per cent of Mr..
Roosevelt's campaign funds came from
corporations. When it Is remember
ed that these contributions are now
prohibited by a criminal law it will be
seen that nearly three-fourths Of all OF
Mr.. Roosevelt's campaign funds came
from sources that are at this time
legally blacklisted. No wonder that
Mr.. Roosevelt has not helped to secure
publicity.
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beginning of the ascendency of the
party. This is true not only of nat
ional politics but of state and county
politics as we'll. Stevens county will
poll more Democratic votes for the
head of the ticket than ever before.
The county ticket is strong and COM
posed of good men who are outside of
the so-called court house ring and who
will 60 into Office with nothing of the
undesirable to account for. In county
affairs this year the voter is not look
ing for the party but for the man;
and the succession to Office has no
appeal at this time when almost every
man has obtained the same degree Of
ability. practically barring the ques-
ton of qualification.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1912-10-25
Those "Dry-Farming" Editors.

yakima Republic, Republican,
The appointment Of Col. George Al
len of the Toppenish Review, Col.
Yancey Freeman of the Sunnyside Sun,
Col J. C. Kaynor of the Ellensburg
Record, and a number of other editors,
as delegates to the dry farming con-
gress shows that Governor Hay is an
executive who can do the right thing
at the right time without thought Of
anything but his plain duty. In the
old standpat days it was customary for
governors to appoint such men as jim
my Wiley, Ed Remy, Wallace Good
sell, ]. E. Shannon, and others too nu-
merous to mention, on such errands
rs this, giving as an excuse for so do
ing that they were practical agricul-
turists and irrigators. A better day
Las dawned, and it is now recognized
that the most practical farmer is he
who can write the best editorial. Rec.
ognition of this new school of agricul.
turists is bound to advance the inter.
ests of the industry. We hope that
their activities will not be confined to
dry farming, but that they may be in
vited to assist in all branches. Dry
farming is entirely too dry to hold the
attention of editors all the time.