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The Detroit times., 1914-11-20
The Voter Responsible.

10 the EuttOT " Inc itWes.
There was only one correct solution
of your puzzle: Seven Keys TO Bald.
pate" All other solutions" were nc
solutions at oil. So there Is only one
solution OF the puzzles that your ed
itorial Of the sixteenth puts up to the
people: How TO get rid Of saloon and
brewery control and political gang
domination"
To find that correct solution, 1t Is
necessary to ascertain how the saloon
and the brewery obtain their control
over the peopleoof this great" Free :
imperial republic. With your first
puzzle solved. the other can be quick
ly disposed Of Let me repeat "the
shorter catechism" upon this subject.
Q-By what authority does the
liquor trafic exist?
A--By the authority OF law--muni-
cipai. state and national
Q-Who makes those laws?
A--The government--or rather two
OF the three branches of the govern
ment The legislative with the ap-
.proval OF the executive.
Q-But who Is the government In
this country?
A-The political party that Is In
power. is the government
Q-Then the political party In pow
er is responsible for the existence Of
the liquor traffic?
Ayes, because II has the neces-
sary power to outlaw the traffic. Fail
ing to use that power, II becomes re-
Q-What is a political party com.
posed Of?
A-Voters.
Q-who then is primarily RESPONSE
BILE for the existence of the liquor
traffic and its results?
A-The voters who vote with par
ty that places the sanction OF law upon
the liquor traffic.
Q-Can you illustrate that?
Ayes, every man who voted the
Democratic ticket in 1912 Is respon-
sible for the present tariff law and for
its results, whether said results be
good or bad. Each voter did all he
could to bring about said results.
men responsible for any wrong doing?
men responsible for any drong doing?
A--No, we can only hold the individ-
ual man responsible. III mob were
To lynch a man on our streets, we
could not punish the mob. We must
punish the individuals that composed
the mob.
Q-Upon whom then must respon-
sibility for the existence of the liquor
traffic and Its consequences rest?
A-Upon the voter who votes for a
party which he knows. II placed In
power viii license the liquor traffic.
Now, II there is weak link In that
chain of reasoning. please point IL out.
Having located responsibility for the
existence and the results OF the drink
traffic, we know now to whom we must
appeal IL we want to destroy the polit.
ical power Of this traffic. For, let IL
be remembered, that the political pow
er OF this traffic will never be destroy
ed until the traffic itself is destroyed.
There are not enough bad men In
America to keep the liquor traffic in
existence: Il must secure the aid OF
a great number Of good men. notice
that Editor Schermerhorn declares
that the church IL responsible for the
existence OF the liquor traffic. heard
The Detroit times., 1914-11-20
d. A. C. CLUBHOUSE
TO BE READY APRIL 1

That the members OF the ID. A. O..
will be celebrating the opening OF
their beautiful new club house on Mad
ison-ave. before April Of next year,
is the opinion just expressed by G. 8.
Neal, factory manager of the Acme
White Lead & Color works. Mr.. Neal
was formerly OF the Thompson-Star-
rett Co., or New York, and superin-
tended the building OF the HOFFMAN
house and several other sky-scrapers
OF New York city. After careful in
spection OF the new ID. A. G. building.
Mr.. Neal gave II as his opinion that
the club will be able to occupy its
new building at least by April 1, ana
possibly, two weeks earlier.
The Detroit times., 1914-11-20

NORA.
Nora, whom we would describe az
some GIRL, had been forced out upon
the world by a cruel father and APP
piled for a position with the Asbestos
Fire insurance company, which she
got
81 insist" said the slign-y gray
manager, who was widower, shat In
this office the one subject az all times
shall be fire insurance. IL want those
ISOLATED with me- he said, ito
think fire insurance: dream fire In
surance; talk fire Insurance, and talk
nothing but fire Insurance"
To which Nora assented. Time went
on and one day the office manager
awoke to the fact that something was
The Detroit times., 1914-11-20
Let the People Rule---And Write

bishop of the Methodist church say
the same thing. These good men.
then, are the bulwark Of the liquor
traffic Without their aid, the trafic
would soon be killed. They vote with
the bad men to place in power a
political party that will keep the
license law and the internal revenue
law upon the statute books OF state
and nation"
Let us get these good men to see
their responsibility for the appal-
ing consequences OF the drink traffic
and they will quit voting with the
bad men to KEEP the drink traffic
alive. Abraham Lincoln once said:
"All we want is that those who be-
lieve human slavery to be wrong to
quit voting with those who believe 1t
to be right"
WIN. A. BRUBAKER.
Datroif Nov IL 1914
The Detroit times., 1914-11-20
. ~ w W. n DIV JffkE1Fs
Detroit, Nov. Is, 1914.
Mrs. Galley viii Resign.


To the Editor of The Times:
In reply to an article published in
the press of Detroit. under the name
OF Jessie b. Mcdonald. chairman for
Wayne county. OF the Women Tax
payers League OF Michigan. l wish
to state that Mrs. Mcdonald Is labor
ing under a very wrong conception OF
my basic principle for wishing to
establish nonpartisan party In the
state, which would work In every pos
sible way to bring about just econ
omy to the taxpayers who support the
state OF Michigan.
l First and above all things, found
ed this organization in the hope OF
petitioning the legislature to provide
a board Of administration for Michi-
gan such as is in use in all other
progressive states in the Union, In
justice To their taxpayers.
This would mean doing away with
the county agent, whose salary now
amounts to 80 per day except Sun
days.
Under the board OF administration.
conditions in our state institutions
would be properly Investigated. and
the feeble-minded people, who are
now inmates OF our reformatories,
having been tried and retired at the
expense OF the taxpayers, would be
permanently detained and not allowed
to return to their respective communi-
ties to reproduce over and over again
their kind and further prosecute the
taxpayers.
The officers OF a board OF admin
istration would cost the state ap-
proximately $4,000 per year and save
the taxpayers thousands OF dollars
by decreasing. il not stopping entire
". this propagation of feeble-minded
persons.
The taxpayers are now supporting
hundreds OF illegitimate children In
our state orphan school at Coldwater,
and hundreds of feeble-minded at La
peer-the offspring of feeble-minded
degenerates.
In founding the Women Taxpayers
league | did not consider for one mo-
ment, their right to ballot; neither did
consider their religion or nation
atty.
I desired only to get hundreds OF
names of tax-paying women to 60 TO
our legislators. asking for new laws.
have endeavored to support the
newly elected officers of this league,
submitting to their militant methods
of threatening to serve an Injunction
The Detroit times., 1914-11-20

on our canvassers and threatening to
hold up the sale of our city bonds
until on reflection, have decided. be
cause they have radically deviated
from the constitution. must resign.
FLORENCE l.. GALLEY.
Detroit. Nov. 10, 1914.
The Detroit times., 1914-11-20
IS GIVING US A CHANCE;
LET'S GIVE BUSINESS A CHANCE!

The United States peace powers the globe
time principal competitors in the markets the
world engaged in a costly and demOralizing
The industries the old world crippled because the workers and
the PRODUCERS batlefeds, killing and dying
IS Great is the opportunity of the United States
Great the possibilities of the United States.
greater still will this opportunity become and greater still these
Possibilities become, borne mind by all concerned that in ddi
on peace with OTHER nations the United States must be
~ peace with ITSELF
history country calls loudly forget
eur quares and in the
% betof North responded the predcamen Of its
foe cottonpo by buying BALE shoulder
shoulder together harmony and interest to
make most Of our grand
The cloud that far enough has golden lining
For the nation particularly for the nation with it
ell, the shines through.
only forget war; busi
country right get with the Opt
president the view Of those who feared this
president that all Of interests in safe hands
indications every side that business picking
that business itself shares the optimism Of the president
The workers going back to the steel mills
The steel industry is most accurate barometer.
It is the first to feel business depression
the feel respond improved conditions
This pretty good time for to mind that most the
things people wanted done big business have been done it, and for
everybody stand back and how the thing to work out
words business while business to be had.
woodrow Wilson country pre
dent elected would punh business but would
correct it and set it free.
he said that he found business practices that
fsir he would make them right and fair
declared that would merely business
honorable equitable basis and would insist that dhnorabe methods
- adjusted a business policy of live and let live.
The people him president his program the stamp Of
their approval.
Some his promises have been written into law big business real
tenacy President Wilson his
White that before his other
promises viii have written into law
commendab of this big business that it displays willingness
- accept these laws and give them fair trial
regional instance has been entered into with
spirit disposition give opportunity to make good
about il its house order and what
getting should exhibit the spirit toward business
and give business chance to make good.
has had sacrifice while the of reausment
has going but has done uncomplaningly.
There isn't thing agitation this time years
mist epse change made in the majority congress
3 the laws
tariff by time viii have had fair TRIAL
election win decide beyond question how the
people feel about that law
and the election best be devoted to
making O a golden opportunity.
This regrettabe and all that of making
Without bemish immediate profits be
for taking.
them the rightful guerdon of gainfu peace
Let's forget about and let's forget talk about both
home and abroad.
Lets business and let's permit the get
down to business while mind
nothing wrangle wrangng anyway only
drown the knock of opportunity at the door,
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09

Siam has resumed the production of
cotton. several years ago a leading in
duStry
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09
No Session Needed.
(Bcilows Falls Times )

The conveuing of the Vermont leg
Islaturc in extra session by the gop
ernor is calamity from which the
taxpayers should pray for delivery.
Ne nave burdens and sorTovs enough
Who are the most persistent advu-
Gates Of an extra session. SO far as
sc have been able to ascertain they
are connected directly or indirectly
with the state i judicial department
and the meat ia the cOcoanut is the
election or appointment of a few su-
prone court judges. II the legislature
convenes the judges Will be elected;
if not they viii be appointed by the
governor. If the judges are elected
the present judges hope to continue;
if they are appointed, new judges, or
one or two new ones may wear the
ermine Why all this worry and enX-
iety about continuing in Office one or
two judges! Have the services Of the
present judges been of such value to
the state that the state can afford to
pay the cost of an extra session rath
er than run the risk Of their not all
being rc-appointed! We think not
| With constantly mounting court ex-
peuscs the champions of the judicial
| department as ut present oulcefed
and conducted champion further and
unnecessary expense with poor grace.
Why worry about what the gov
crnor may DO in the matter Of ap-
pointments. His appointments have
been uniformly good and his selection
OF a chief justice has been especially
commended. Vermont had better trust
to the governor s judgment and hang
onto the $4,000 that an extra session
would cost.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09
Member of the Associated press.
TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1914.
ADJUSTABLE CONVERSATION

\ new system Of fixing the price
which the government snail pay tho
railroads for carrying the mails is
proposed in a bill introduced in Con-
eress last week. Radical changes from.
the present system are suggested The |
plan of basiug the charge on quadren-
NAL weighing OF the mails would bc
abolished, and the railroads would re
ceivc credit contcmporaneous with the
performance OF service. Compensation
would be charged ON the basis oil
sIace-car or parts of q authoriz
ed by the government. The postmaster
general would call for the space the
postal service seemed to require, end
the railroads would make their charge
Cor an the space SO authorized, whether
it was filed or not Such q system. ii
is argued by the joint committee which
formulated the proposed plan, VIII j."
fairer Lasis Of paying the railroads
for their service and it will also he
more satisfactory to the governments
Under the present system, the gov
eminent is paying the carriers on the
basis of Weighings made in 1912 before
The parcel post service was inaugural
ed. In addition to whatever increases
in the regular mail have developed in
| the two years, the railroads are com
PEELED to bear the enormously increased
traffic of the parcel post, with no com
] 80 II
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09
Beware Diseased Potatoes.

On account of the recent discovery
of violations of the Maine quarantine
regulations, all purchasers of Maine
seed potatoes are warned to have their
stock examined by the state expert. if
possible, before planting, the New
York Sun states. Inscriptions ship
pers, it is stated, have been sending
diseased potatoes into New York. Bos-
ton and other points, where certifi-
Gates of inspection have been fraud
ulently attached to the bags While
in general the Maine authorities have
endcavored to see that none but sound
potatoes left the state, certain inspec-
tors have been negligent and have GER
tilted diseased stock. The United
States department of agriculture has.
therefore, advised buyers to disregard
all certificates issued hitherto. 1t will
be a costly mistake for any farmer or
gardener to plant diseased potatoes.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09
Why a Referendum?
Rutland lIerald.)


There are always people who desire
change in respect to things they are
unable to control in their own way.
Pure result cuts little figure If it hap
pens to be contrary to their own re
strieted notions. They oppose fruit
Iessly, bow grudgingly to majority
rule and place above all their petty in
diyidual prciudices and opinions, based
on nothing 50 definite as knowledge or
so reasonable rs experience.
From such sources come mostly the
infrcquent demand for referendum
on the present local option law. It's
advocates are not content to make
| their own towns dry and their own
communities Saloonless. They are not
even content to express their desires
! through the established mediums OF the
/ press or the public rostrum and ,on-
ccntratc any assembled force they may
! possess on a given locality. They de-
/ SIRE rather, to array country against
town, class against mass and preidice
| against practice in statewide cam
paien
There are actually but two reason
able criticisms of the present local or
tion law, and those are the provision
| for the appointment of liceuse commits
sioner, hv the assistant Judges of the
county court and the failure Of ''dry
towns to keep their drtnkards II
homc, az. as the statewide prohhi
tjonists would have IL, ''the failure al
the law 10 prevent Rutland from lie
bauchiug Ludlow, or Burlington ~hei
hume, or Montpelier MiddlcseN, or 81
Adams sheldon, as the ease MAY be.
The first objection is somewhat oeri
OTIS and the crmiue Of the bench ha'
not been kept so excessively clean 81
! scandal Is 10 provide any clfertjvc a.
fousc against the argument II is
provision Of tho law which The iIcrnl,
never really liked ana its operation
has given in some eases just cauSc TO
criticism and alarm. Some othc
ing board, hut surely the legislature i
fully sufficient to cope with the situa
tion without tho wasteful couductsof
state campaign
Is to the locality argument, # j
true that dry-town people may Pre-
cure liquor in adjacent wet town,
/. 1t is true that inhabitants of dr.
Vermont could purchase liquor in We
Ne~ York. Even if the entire mite
{. states were dry, there are some 30 pcl
siStent in their desires that they Nigh
J. presumably import Hquor from an
ada.
Worldwide prohibition is hardl
practical as an international affair, SIC
tie only logical outcome of the Ioea
itv argument would be to make Amer
/ ca, Europe. africa and Asia, with 4
: their island dependencies, as dry n $
bloomsbury in It's most dessicatcd Yea
Education. agitation and local re4l
Il lation have worked fairly well for
o wears. and The Herald inclines to tt
III belief that there IS no serious underF
ing prcdominance of desire for auotI
er referendum on the question, wit
all that it entails When there IL, II
= legislature should he responsive;
should grant what the people deman
but meanwhile the public should diffe
entiate with some care between Il
spasmodic agitation of the profession
" prohibitionist and the serious arg
II ment of the voter who has actual
!. given the subject q betterthanloe
consideration.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09
For vermont Agriculture.
burlington News.)

Vermont will come in for hand .
some amount yearly under the new
law (thc Smith Bever Aet) which |
provides for cooperative agricultural /
extension work between the States |
and the United States department of |
agriculture.
The act makes available for the |
next nine fiscal years an aggregated |
sum Of $23, 100000 of federal funds |
to be expended in instruction and
practical demonstrations in aoricul-
ture and home economies. To obtain
this total the states must appropri-
ate for like purposes total of $l9,-
100000, making a grand total of
FL 100000 to be expended during
the next nine fiscal years on direct
agricultural extension work. There
after the federal government is to
appropriate $4,5S0,00O annually, and
the states to take their full quota,
must appropriate 81 100000 annually,
making total Annual expenditure
for this purpose Of $S,6s0,000.
The purposes TO which the federal
funds are to be applied are defined
by the act us follows:
That cooperative agriculture ex-
tension work shall consist of the
| giving Of instruction and practical
| demonstrations in agriculture ana
| home economies to persons not attend
| irg or residents in said colleges in the
several communities, and imparting to
such persons information on said sub
! jectS through field demonstrations,
publications. and otherwise; and this
work shall be carried on in such man
ner~as may be mutually agreed on by
the secretary Of agriculture and the
state agricultural college or colleges
receiving the benefits of this act
None Of this money may be applied
to the purchase, erection, and repair
Of any building, or the purchase ano
rental Of land. or any college course
teaching or lectures in colleges, pro
netting agricultural trains, etc. Not
more than per cent of each arnua
appropriation may be used in print
ing Or the distribution Of pubhca
tions; SO that at least % per cen
must be expended in direct extension
activities.
The amount allotted to Vernon
under this law IS $4,000 for the fis
cal year 191t15: 1929 and $l4,l7
7 Tor the next two years; TlO,upO 70
each year up to l922-23; for that yea
2 a:sd thereafter Indefinitely $25,543.
The act gives each state $1,000
each year without conditions. 70 OF
tan the additional grants Vernon
would have to duplicate each year TIA
= total as given above less the baSi
$4,000.
: The state viii II course gladly ]
= is share IN order TO benefit by tn
gift Of the national government, IN
/ a forward movement al along III
line Ought 10 be the practical rcsul
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09

Rcv. Thomas Van Ness Of Boston in
an address to the Congregational
the other day, said that the
Cnitariaus should give up their lie
name and adopt the
broader term Congregational Also
he urged the Congregational denonin-
alton to abandon the narrower state
ments of faith inherited from the
fathers Ono would think Mr. Van
Ness had not read the creed adopted
by the recent National Council of
Congregational churches, as practic-
ally everything that caused the old
split has gone overheard. Just here
the Greenfield Gazette, sanguiue that
in union there is strength, adds that:
the split between these two branches
of the Congregational faith would
never have occurred on the basis Of
today S differences People are look
ing for messages Of service and faith
from the pulpit, not for doctrines
aud philosophical argument and hair
splitting The layman no more expects
to dictate every point Of his minis
Ter S creed than he expects to control
the entire belief and action Of his
congressman or his president. The
separate existence Of these two rclig
ious bodies involves an cnormou.
amount of duplicate work aud waste
effort. 1t il time to end it.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09

The Mexican situation has reached
a watchful waiting all hands.around
game The mcdiators at Niagara
Falls are watching and waiting on
Carrauza, ana the rebel chief is tax
ing the same attitude towards the
mediators, and President Wilson is
watching and waiting on the mediat-
ora, Garranza and IIaerta. while liu-
erta IS watching and waiting and un
doubt"dly hoping that ia the language
of Mr.. Nisawber something viii turn
up to help him out of the cavity IN
which he struggling
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09

A new law viii so into effect III New
Hampshire July | making it compul-
sony for the lighting of practically all
vehicles from one hour after sunset
until one hour before sunrise. The law
requires that every vehicle, excepting
rs otherwise provided, whether station
airy or in motion, on any public high
way or bridge, shall have attached to
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09

JOY riding was disastrous again in
the accident in St Johnsbury in
which machine running mt terrific
speed turned turtle and four persons
We're injured, one probably fatally.
The story of the shower of beer bot
ties and the refusal Of the iniured vo-
men to give their names leaves butt
little for imagination.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09
TO SUBSCRIBERS.

It is the aim OF the management to
secure efficient service in the delivery of
the paper each night, and It solicit5 the
cooperation of subscribers to that end
Prompt report should be gwen of each
failure to receive the paper on the morn
ing following the omission, in person, by
the cause of the error to be promptly and
accurately discovered and the proper
remedy Immediately applied. 1t is only
by this method that the publisher can Sc
cure the desired service
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09

The weather bureau holds ont but
little hope that the drouth, which is
retardihg the development Of gardens.
will be broken this week. The general
Indications for several days point to
fair hot weather, broken by occasional
local showers and thunder storms.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1914-06-09
Che 3gattlebero 3cformer

Entered in the postoffice at Brattleboro
VT. as second class matter.