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The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05

body was examined no revolver
was found and his hip pockets
were found buttoned.
The killing of Carroll, for
which Simon was placed on trial
today, occurred in a saloon last
march. After the murder Car
rolls body was placed in an au-
tomobile and left near the home
of Mrs. Mary Hagerty, whose
daughter discovered the body
Simon, who was arrested, ad-
mitted that he shot Carroll, but
pleaded self. defense.
Zang, who is a bartender, is
expected by the prosecution to
testify that Simon borrowed d
revolver from him two hours be-
fore the shooting. To the police
tonight Zang said Simon came
into the Mooney saloon twice
while he was drinking and told
somebody THAT fellow will
never live to testify against me. "
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05
BREWER TO CONTINUE CRUSADE
AGAINST CROOKS AND GRAFTERS

Jackson, Miss, March IA
declaration of war to the finish.
plain, fiat and unequiyOcal,
neither asking nor giving quar-
ter. is contained in a letter writ
ten by Governor Brewer to w.
c. Pittman, member Of the lower
house Of the legislature.
After denouneing as false sew
eral statements contained in a
letter written by Mr.. Pittman to
mis- home paper, Governor Brew
er pays his respects to the BilbO
faction in unmeasured terms.
declares that he has no purpose
Of asking that the Indictment
against the Lieut.. Gov. for com
plicity in grating be nolle prosS,
ed. and that he has rejected all
overtures of this character made
by the friends Of Bilbo.
In conclusion. Gov Brewer an
nounees that he is going % take
the stump, although not a eandi-
date for any Office. and show "a
the honest yoemanry in every
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05
WHILE ON TRIAL FOR MURDER
MAN IS SHOT AND KILLED

st. Louis, March 2.-Wesley
(Red) Simon, on trial here on a
charge of numbering Emmett
Carroll in a gang feud nearly a
year ago, today was shot and kill
ed in a nearby saloon during a re-
cess of the court in which he was
being tried. Shortly after the
killing Henry Zang. principal
witness for the prosecution, sur.
rendered at the central police
station, saying he had some
trouble with Simon.
The sheriff who had feared an
attack would be made on Simon,
had detailed four special police
men to guard him in the court
house. When the shooting oc.
Cured they were standing on a
street corner two blocks away.
Zang saws that Simon, after
making a menacing gesture and
threat. moved his hand toward:
his hip pocket. When Simon;
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05
Accused Banker Escapes.

Aberdeen. Miss, March 3 =
Hardin Adams, cashier of the
First State Bank of Prairie,
Miss, on a charge of receiving
deposits in an insolvent bank,
committed in default of ten
thousand dollars bond on
four charges in an affidavit in
Justice S. A. Dalton's court,
awaiting action of the grand
jury now in session. escaped
from Jail last night and is now
at large.
A brother, Park Adams, was
convicted in circuit court at Ma,
con last week on the same charge
and sent to the penitentiary fol
eighteen months.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05
Chamber of Commerce is
Now a Permanent Organ
ization for Columbus.
LOCKE MADE PRESIDENT
Nearly One Hundred Enthusi-
astic Citizens Attend Meet
ing at City Hall.

Through a drizzling rain
nearly one hundred enthu: :iastiC
citizens attended a meeting al
the city hall last night, which
was held for the purpose of or
ganizing permanently a Cham
Der of Commerce for Columbus.
The meeting was one of the
most rousing of its kind ever
held here, and everyone present
showed unusual interest in form
ing league that will in the flu
ture mean much for this city.
Over one hundred and twenty
names of members have already
been enrolled.
The gathering was called to
order by the temporary presi-
dent, DR.. j. w. Lipscomb, who
had the secretary. Mr.. V. B.
lines, read the minutes of the
last meeting.
After a permanent organiza.
tion the officers were nominated
and elected as follows: 7. j.
Locke, Jr., president; |. |. Kauf-
man, vice.president; V. B. lines,
secretary; Parker Reeves, treas
urer; twelve directors, Messrs.
w. N. Ethridge, |. |. Kaufman,
Reuben Banks, Charles Evans,
C. H. Hale, W. M. Cox, W. E.
Kennedy, ]. P. Mayo, V. B.
lines, G. M, Flynn, W. H. Car
ter and DR.. ]. W. Lipscomb.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05

The Home-School League will
meet at the Franklin Academy,
Friday afternoon at three O'Clock.
The following program has been
arranged: Song. by several little
girls: Piano solo, Miss Lucille
Chitwood; Recitation, Miss Lou.
ise Prewitt; Piano sclo, Miss
Leon Gunter; Subject of interest,
Miss Alice Wildman.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05

community from Yellow Rabbit
to Vinegar Bend just the sort of
crooks he has had to contend
with since assuming the office of
governor.
Regarding his anti-graft cru
SADIE against penitentiary off,
cials, Gov. Brewer points out
that when he entered the Office
Of governor the penitentiary was
yielding no revenues to the state,
but today it is showing a net
revenue Of S4O0, 900 per annum.
In waging this fight the gov
ernor says that he has had to go
up against all sorts of obstruc-
tions, including law suits for
fabulous sums. threats of perso-
nal violence, attempted black.
mail and innumerable efforts to
break down the power and pres
tige Of the governors Office with
fs.seh0cd and eaiumny, and.
since this sort of war has been
declared. he is willing to fight it
TO the finish.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05

Mr.. and Mrs. II. F. Smothers.
who have been spending several
months in Cuba and Florida, are
in Columbus for a..few days the
guests of DR.. and Mrs. W. w.
NestmOreland. Sr., en- route to
their home in Kansas City.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05

until the period of infection has
passed.
Among other matters which
came up for consideration was
a motion to appropriate $1,000 q
year for the purpose of assisting
in employing county demonstra-
tor or commissioner of agricul-
ture. The motion, however was
overruled.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05

The many friends of Mrs. F.
L. Price regret to learn of her
illness at her home on South
Sixth street.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05
COMMISSION RECEIVED

Hon. T.. H. Sharp, who several
weeks ago was named postmas-
ter ::of Columbus, received his
commission yesterday. He will
probably 60 into office Monday.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05

Miss Edith McGeorge is spend
ing several days in Meridian the
guest Of Mr.. and Mrs. Harold
McGeorge.
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05
Gist Of News From Over the
Country Gnvs,a in q Brief
Review.

- 'NNN - Nv w 0ta
The Iowa Supreme CourI
last week declared constitutions
the Webb-Kenyon law prohibit
ing the shipment of liquor into
dry territory.
The Mississippi Senate on Feb.
ruary 20 passed a bill prohibiting
the shipment of liquor into the
State in any one consignment in
excess of one gallon.
Announcement is made that
the George Peabody College for
Teachers, Nashville, will open
June 25, the summer session to
continue from that date to Au.
gust 4.
Gov. H. c. Stuart. of Virginia,
on February 10 signed the en-
abling act providing for the SUBJ
mission of the question of State.
wide prohibition to the voters of
Virginia.
The Maryland House of Dele
egates, by a vote of sixty to
thirty-four, on February 18 de.
feated the resolution providing
for a vote on the question of wo-
mans suffrage.
The Southern Railway Com
pany has sold $1O,0O0,00O five
per cent three-year notes. The
proceeds will be used for the bet
terment of the company's shops,
yards and terminals.
A Statewide prohibition bill
was introduced in the Maryland
Legislature last week. 1t pro.
vides for the submission to the
voters of a consti,>1ional amend
ment prohibiting the sale or
manufacture of Intoxicating
liquors.
A report of the Board of Edu-
cation of Kansas City shows
that it costs the city 1886 a
year for each white child in the
elementary schools and $41.54
for each negro pupil.
The United States treasury
statement of a week ago showed
a deficit to date this fiscal year
of $25, l49, ,278, as compared with
a surplus of $4, $50, 96l to the
same date last year.
The South Carolina Legislature
has passed a bill authorizing the
establishment of a State cotton
warehouse system. The meas
ure is to be submitted to a vote
of the people at the next general
election.
Premier Asquith, in reply to
an inquiry from a member of the
House of Commons, stated last
week that the British govern.
ment would not reconsider its de.
cision not to participate in the
Panama-Pacifc Exposition.
The Standard Oil Company has
entered into an agreement with
the Chinese government for thu
development of OF fields in Ger
tain Chinese provinces. Tn,
government is to enter into part
nership with the Standard Oh
Company.
The committee which las beel
hearing the arguments of tn
representatives of various cite
as to the location of Federal re
serve banks has completed tina
part of its work, and is now bacI
in Washington after a five weeks
trip through the country.
February % was the last da
on which national banks coul
make application for member
ship in the new Federal reserv
banking system. Nation a
banks failing to make applicatio
by that date must go into liqu
dation not later than Decembe
%, 1914.
On February Il the Senat
ratified general arbitration tire;
, ties between the United State
and eight nations; Great Bri
! ain. Japan, raly, Spain. No
} way, Sweden, Portugal, an
: Switzerland. An amendment
: exempt from arbitration the Par
5 anna Canal tolls question was d.
feated by a Fote Of forty to thi
The Columbus commercial. (Columbus, Miss.) 1893-1922, 1914-03-05

Continued on Last Page.
The Irish standard., 1914-05-30


less we call collecting heresies of
the century work., and was not of
the working class, yet he is accorded
first place in Socialist genealogy.
He is the father Ono Socialist dis
putes it) of modern Socialism. Where
did he get the child? Was it of him
or the working class and who were
it's ancestors? Frederick Engels. an
other great name in Socialism and an
intimate of Marx, says that Marx is
the father of the child and he calls
the child by very high-sounding
phrase, easy of understanding to
those of the school room and the
university, but difficult to those of
the working class.
He calls the child the materialistic
conception of history, and here we
have the child Socialism.
Now, it is not the purpose of this
paper to treat of the materialistic
conception of history. or the philoso-
ply of Socialism, as we have more
practical job at hand, but we might
give the Socialist definition of this
philosophy without causing much an
noyance. Says w. j. Client, Social
list principal of the Rand (Socialist)
school of New York City:
Matter is the only substance and
matter and it's motions constitute the
universe
Now, the ordinary worker hasn't
much of a chance in discussion on
the materialistic conception of his
tory, and if it was born in the
working class he certainly didn't
know it, and never met any of it's re-
lations.
To him it sounds exactly like
atheism. and it won't allow for God
or for the soul. You can't get him
to believe that such philosophy was
born in the working class. He knows
better and he has you beat on the
argument, for he knows he knows.
Now Engels was not of the work.
ing class. but a son of manufac-
turer, and like Marx, University
man. Engels was sort of godfather
to the child and helped nurse it for
many years. Then there was La
sale. another son of Jewish parents,
who hung around the nursery and
helped fill the milk bottle occasion
ally. Like Marx and Engels, Lasalle
was a university man and not of the
working class.
Manifesto.
1t was about 184S that Marx and
Engels broke it gently on unsuspect-
ing mother earth that they had the
child and they issued short story
of his life called the Manifesto" So
cialists of today call the Manifesto
the clarion call of Socialism.
Apparently for many years after
the Manifesto they were unsuccess-
full in putting the child to work in
the working class. They had been
exhibiting him as a prodigy in some
of the universities and did succeed
in getting a number to help in his
support. but these were not of the
working class. It was not until
about 1863 when the child, now a
boy of nearly 16, was put into the
hands of Lasalle with instructions to
have the working class adopt him
and pay for his support.
Lasalle. an untiring worker, re-
sourceful and flighty, started on the
Job and formed an orpanization
The Irish standard., 1914-05-30
THE IRISH STANDARD

'bogies."
But as to the practical intent of
Hunters editorial. 1t was written to
stop, if possible, the throwing of the
searchlight on the work of Socialists
in their attempt to disrupt the trade
unions. It failed of it's purpose,
however.
: AS to the threat to form another
labor movement" the Socialists have
tried it time and time again. Debs
organized the American Labor Union
at Denver to destroy the trade I'M
ions. He, Haywood, and other So
cialists, organized, in 1905, the In
dustrial Workers of the World to-
destroy the trade unions. Socialists
organized innumerable dual organi-
cations against the national unions
for the purpose of destroying the ma.
tional organization. The recent
cases of the machinists, shoe workers
and electrical workers will serve as
examples.
The organizations so formed have
been used as strike-breaking organi-
cations against the trade unions, and
are being so used today, and yet Hun
ter would threaten, as if trade union
lists did not know Socialism and the
tactics of socialists.
Hunters little article didn't de-
ceive anyone, and his conscience quib
tickles the Socialists as a good joke.
In the issue of the New York Call,
Nov. 81, 1909, we find the following
by Justice bert, prominent Social
list:
There. can be no political revolu-
ton without an economic one. We
must first revolutionize working
class economic organizations and
then we can revolutionize society;
for then we will be real, instead of
a delusive political force.'
Some Socialist Philosophy.
Quite natural. Simply Socialist
philosophy. Capture the economic
organizations" Grade unions) and
revolutionize destroy them, for
they now stand in the way of Social
ism. 1t is consistent, Socialist
reason why Socialism is opposed to
trade unionism.
The New York Call in it's editorial
comment under date of Dec S, 1909,
says:
1--WE are sorry that there was lit
tie in the proceedings of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor convention
at Toronto to make one feel hopeful
about the American Labor Move
ment."
The Socialists never feel hopeful
for the American Labor movement
because it isn't Socialism and we
know they never will feel hopeful for
it.
>, ~ Changing Tactics.
Now, in the N. Y. Call, Dec. II,
1909, we find very interesting para
graph of A. M. Simons, Ed. Interna-
tional Socialist Review. Mr. ST..
mons says:
1--WE have appealed through soap
box theorists, ignorant of everything,
and have wondered why we reached
only the ignorant among the work
ers. We must send out men who are
themselves union men, who go direct
ly and specifically to the men of their
trade. and who preach the class
The Irish standard., 1914-05-30

Hillquitt it was, who, while declar-
ing at the Chicago Congress of the
Socialist party that 80 per cent of So
cialists were atheists. yet refused to
allow the congress to go on record
condemning religion. He declared it
would be bad tactics, and, therefore,
had inserted in the platform the
clause, Religion is a private mat
ter"
This gentleman in very clever
article in the N. Y. Call of Deem
Der IL, 1909, entitled: "The task be-
fore the Socialist Party" said:
Socialist Party Anomaly.
Socialism in the United States to-
day is in the anomalous position of
being a working class movement
minus the working class, and our
main efforts must be to remove that
anomaly. Our efforts to enlist the
support of the working class must
necessarily be directed in the first
place to the organized portion of it.
And whatever may be said to the
contrary, our party has never made
sustained and rational efforts to win
the friendship of these organized
workmen. Much of our time and en-
ergies in the past have been wasted
on the effort to capture the trade
union movement bodily; in few in
stances we have been led to the folly
of attempting to reorganize it, going
to the extent of creating rival organi-
cations, and at times have interfered
and meddled with their internal af-
fairs.
"BrOwbeat Unions"
We have often tried to coax, ca
,jole and browbeat the trade unions
into Socialism, but we have made but
little systematic effort to educate
their members in the Socialist phil
osophy.
We must change that policy once
and for all. The Socialists, within
the trade unions, must bestow great
er attention on their unions and the
Socialist party must be ever alert to
champion the cause of organized la
Dor on all occasions unreservedly and
aggressively. Call 12-12-09.
Now. that article by Hillquitt shows
the skill of the man, but it shows
more. 1t shows between the lines a
part of the game that Socialism is
playing in the trade union move
ment.
First, he contends that Socialism
in America is working class move
ment minus the working class.
Surely his contention cannot stand
either in logic or experience. So
cialism is not a working class move
ment no matter how much Socialists
would have us believe that it is.
Socialism Not Working Glass Move-
ment.
If Socialism were working class
movement it would be of the work
ing class. with the working class
ideals. hopes and aspirations, work
ing class leaders. If it were of the
working class and for the working
class surely it would find
a responsive chord. The mothers
heart never is cold to her own flesh
and blood, her own offspring; the
mothers arms are ever open to clasp
the child of her heart.
The working class must be cold
The Irish standard., 1914-05-30

The trade union belongs to the
bow and arrow days and like the lat
ter should have been discarded long
ago." Call. $500.
"Unions Antiquated."
You see, according to Socialism,
trade unions are antiquated, and
should be discarded. OF course, they
stand in the way of Socialism and
that is sufficient justification for
their elimination.
But quite naturally we trade union
lists are ignorant. We don't know
what is good for us, in fact we need
a guardian; we are in a pitiable
state, for the New York Call under
date of Sept. II, 1909, says of us:
Zone of the chief reasons why So
cialism makes Roadway so slowly in
the United States is because the edu-
cation of the American workers is at
such frightfully low level
1SnOIt1llCC Ok vtOkhCiSs
Well, our education may be at a
frightfully low level, but it would
have to be frightfully lower before
we could accept the doctrines of So
cialism.
1t is rather interesting to note that
while Socialists condemn trade I'M
ionism and use their best endeavor
for the disintegration of the unions,
yet when they are publicly shown up
in their work against the organiza-
tion they resent the searchlight being
turned upon them.
We have in the following editorial
by Robert Hunter (prominent Ameri-
can Socialist and author of Social
lists at Work") under date of Nov.
10, 1909, both whimp and threat,
Hunter says:
Socialism and industrial union
ism are both attacked. Industrial
unionism is held up as terrible
boyle. The man who believes in in
dustrial unionism is an enemy to la
Dor. He is monster and traitor"
Threats.
'"The result of these attacks may
be serious, more serious than Mr..
Gompers realizes (threat). For sake
of conscience Socialists may be forced
out of the American Federation of
Labor. If this happens few ma
tional unions and many discontinued
local unions may be forced to form
a new labor movement. "Call, H.
1900.
For conscience sake no Socialist
has right in the trade union move
ment, for as Haywood said:
"The ethics of trade unionism are
opposed to the fundamental principle
of Socialism.
Socialist Conscience"
But little thing like conscience
never troubled Socialist. In fact.
Hunters language sounds like ro-
nance to the Socialist who knows So
cialism, for their doctrine (material-
istic conception Of history decries
the possibility of such thing as
moral mentor, and as John Spargo,
(leading American Socialist and au-
thor of Life of Karl Mark said, at
the Socialist congress, held in Chi
cago, May, 1910, 1T is indeed anus
ing to hear the mention of morals
and morality in Socialist conven-
Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-09-23
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