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The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23

ample to it's subdivisions by making
the first cut in its own levies. Such
moral example will prove of vast bene-
fit to the people. BY reducing the state
levies several millions of dollars will
be saved the taxpayers but by forcing
reduction in local levies through
such an example great many more
millions will be left in the possession
of taxpayers. The average aggregate
local levy throughout the state is az
proximately ten times the aggregate
state levy. Therefore, for every mil.
lion dollars cut from the state collec-
tons ten millions should be cut from
local collections. Thus it is seen what
an important step is contemplated by
the Governor.
In special session of not to exceed
three days, cost of which will consist
of the mileage of the members alone,
the campaign for reducing taxes will
be inaugurated. OF course, not sin
gle activity of the state will be cur
tailed. For instance the appropriation
for school purposes to the various
counties has already been made ana
will not be changed. The contracts
for good roads have all been made or
are in process of making and not a
shovelful of dirt will be stopped by
the proposed reduction in the levy. The
prospect is that the total state levy
will be reduced to a figure equal to or
less than the aggregate levy was prior
to the enactment of the Hite road law
This means that the people of Ohio
are to receive this vast system of good
roads, penetrating every section of the
state Ga system unequalled in any state
in the Union) without any increase
whatsoever in the tax rate.
So much for the first fruits of the
| Warnes law. Who is there now tc
criticize except the tax-dodger who
will still prate about his right to vote
for an assessor, who will permit hin
to dodge, having been taken away?
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23
TAXES WILL BE REDUCED

Governor Cox is carefully consider
ing the advisability of calling an eX-
1raordinary session of the general as
ssembly for the specific purpose of re-
>ducing the state tax levy and conserv-
ipg to the people the splendid fruits
'eA the Warnes law. The matter viii
DC finally determined within week
-er ten days when the state tax com
mission will be able to give definite
&gures as TO the increase in the grand
duplicate OF the state under the new
assessment, It must be borne in mind
chat the state levy is made by the gem
-eral assembly and only the general as.
Sembly can reduce il. The present
state levies, there are hut four OF
them, sinking fund .0335 mill; common
&choOl fund 1850 mill; university fund
1926 mill; good roads 5000 mill, were
made before it was known what the
Warnes law might do. Now that re
salts are ascertained it Is clear that
xhe state levies must be reduced or a
vast surplus in the state treasury ac.
cumulated No state has a right to
take from its citizens more money In
the form OF taxes than is necessary
--Eor an efficient and economical admin.
1stration of government With no
change in the levy and with the in.
creased duplicate provided by the
&arnes law there will be In the state
treasury at the close of the year ap
Nnezpended balance approXimating
5S,000,000 In the opinion of Governor
CoE this large surplus is entirely un-
warranted, This money should be left
In the pockets Of the people and 1t is
the purpose of the proposed special
session to so amend the leyies as "a
seAye the unnecessary surplus in the
peoples pockets
Undoubtedly the increased dupli
Gates produced by the Warnes law IN
the various counties, townships, mu
inequalities and school districts will
produce under the old rates conditions
IN these subdivisions similar TO tha
existing In the state. And II is per
<ectly proper that the state set an ex
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23

BY consolidating thirty or forty
state departments into two or three
commissions Democratic State Admin
istrations reduced expenses. BY COM
yelling Republican officials and the
banks they favored to disgorge inter
est they had collected on public funds
and appropriated to their own use and
by letting the public funds out at in
terest to the highest bidders, Demo
cratic administrations increased re-
ceipts. BY running down tax dodgers
with the Warnes law the Cox admin
istration has so increased the grand
duplicate that within three weeks it
will reduce the tax rate. It's time for
a summing up of the evidence.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23
PROGRAM
For ADDr al Banquet OF St.
Vincent de PauI'S. Alumni
Association To Occur On
Tuesday Evening, June 23

The following is the program for the
annual banquet of st. Vincent de
Paul's alumni association to be given
Tuesday evening, June 25, at the high
school auditorium, corner Chestnut
and Macarthur streets:
Toastmaster-Rev L. w. Mulhane.
Veni Creator-Alumni chorus.
Roll call.
Minutes of 1913-Mr. John Ahern,
10, secretary.
In Memoriam--Miss Sarah Condor,
II, necrologist.
Address of Welcome-Mr. Joseph
Henley, 10, president.
Responsible. Francis O'Rourke
IA.
Piano Solo - Miss Marguerite
Barnes, '13.
Toast-Mr Carl Smithhisler, '01.
Violin and piano duet-Mr. Alfred
PAIL, II and Mr.. Paul Rogers, 'OS
Reading-Miss Elizabeth McCor
mick, 10.
Piano duet-Mrs. Stella Bucking
ham, 'O7 and Miss Helen Henley, II
Toast, st. Vincent de Paul-Mr
Charles Kelly, 10.
Vocal duet, "Who Knows" (BalO-
Mr. Cyril F. Allerding, '05, and Mr.
Fred j. Lawler, '99. Mr.. Paul Rogers
0S, accompanist.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23
SHORT LOCALS

Mr.. Neil Knode of East Vine street
is spending the day in Centerburg.
Miss Louise Wiker of GAINESVILLE is
visiting with friends in Mt. Vernon for
a few days.
Mr.. r. N. Matthews of Connellsville,
Pa, was a visitor in the city Saturday
Mrs. William e. Hull has been called
to Springfield, o., by the Illness of her
mother.
Miss Grace McClelland of Coshocton
returned home Saturday after visit
with friends here.
Mrs. Phoebe Jones of Mansfield is
making several days visit with rela.
tives and friends in Mt. Vernon.
Mr.. Carl Taugher left Saturday
morning on several days trip to Co
lumbus and Tifin, He will visit in
each city.
Mr.. David Mcfarland had his left
foot severely injured at the Pennsyl-
vania shops Friday when the wheel Of
small truck ran over the foot.
Mr.. and Mrs. L, A. Stream and
family of this city spent Friday with
Mr.. and Mrs, d. w, Goodell of Fred
ericktown.
MIR. and Mrs, Joseph Ferguson went
to Tiffin Saturday morning to visit for
several days with relatives and
friends.
Mrs. Wainwright Davis and two
sons, Wainwright and Calvin, of Mt.
Vernon, ILL.,, arrived in the city yester-
day and are the guests of Mrs. Davis
parents, MIR. and Mrs. c. A. LaFever,
south of the city.
Mr., and Mrs. j. Grooming and Mr.,
and Mrs. VIM. Dunzuriler have re.
turned to their homes in Cleveland
after visiting with MIR, and Mrs. Frank
Englehart of West Vine street.
Bert o, Evans of Mt. Vernon was
among those who successfully passed
the state bar examination in Column
bus, according TO the list given out
Saturday.
MIR, d. L. Scoles, who graduated
from Berea College, June Sth, afte,
spending two weeks with his parents
north of the city, has gone to the Uni
yersity Of Wisconsin to do post-gradu
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23

that it was counterfeit. The money
is denominations of 81, So and $40
bills and few $50 and $40 bills.
It. is all new money and therefore
it could be detected more easily.
The stranger is described as being
man OF medium height rather
stocky in appearance. He wore
shirt without a collar and a cap
and had on pair of blue serge
trousers. He would have passed off
as an ordinary working man. He
was seen after o'clock Thursday
afternoon, and it is stated that he
tried to induce a certain party to go
to one of the stores and purchase
some goods for him with the bogus
money. This was refused. Whether
he succeeded in passing off any of
the money today is not known.
The local police department was
informed of the fact that the
stranger was here with the bogus
money, but it is understood that they
told a Mansfield business man it was
out of their jurisdiction and they
could take no action. 1t was report
ed that postoffice inspector was
here today and that he would be in
formed of the circumstances and
might possibly make an investigation.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23

, RESOLUTIONS Of Respect, Obituaries and
Cards Of Thanks, five cents per line.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23
STRANGER
From Canton Tried To Pass
Bad Money Al Mansfield
Mansfield News)

The merchants and business men
of Mansfield, as well as the public
In general are warned to be on the
lookout for bogus money. 1t is un.
derstood that between $500 and 81 900
in counterfeit paper money is in
possession of man now in Mans
field and that he came here for the
express purpose OF putting as much
of it as possible in general circula.
tion.
1t is stated on good authority that
the stranger came here from Canton
yesterday and that he exhibited be.
tween $500 and $4,000 in counter
felt money. He even stated that it
was bogus money and permitted one
man to examine 1t very carefully to
see whether he could detect the fact
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23
ILLINOIS SUNDAY
SCHOOL CONVENTION

Carbondale, ILL.,, June 20-Bnthusi-
asm was the keynote at the opening
of the fifty-sixth annual convention Of
the Illinois State Sunday School as.
sociation in the First Presbyterian
church here today. Large delegations
of Sunday school workers from lead
ing cities and towns throughout the
State were in attendance. The ses-
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23

There are two ways by which po-
litical machine" may dispose OF a
treasury surplus. One is for the ma
chine" to pocket the interest on pub
lic funds or invest it in skyscrapers.
The other is to reduce taxes and leave
the surplus in the peoples pockets.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23

The assurance heretofore given by
Governor Cox that taxes will be re-
r,aaced are now to be realized. 1t is no
longer necessary for any one to pre-
sace this statement with an "if." Re-
"a Suced taxes will be an accomplished
<aact in three weeks or less.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23

sions will continue two days, conclud-
ing tomorrow evening with union
meeting of the young peoples societies
at which officers of the International
Sunday School association and other
prominent workers will speak.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23

Cleveland fans contend that automo-
bile fever is the cause for the Maps
poor showing. 1t is declared that sew
eral members Of the team spend too
much time in the buzz wagons.
The Democratic banner. (Mt. Vernon, Ohio) 1898-192?, 1914-06-23

Governor Cox proposes to reduce
ESTATE taxes and use the funds, more
5 than 100000, recovered from favored
banks as interest on illegal deposits
-sS former Republican officials, to help
'.aefray the expenses of the state.
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18
Red and Yellow Trail
Makes Good Progress


At the annual meeting OF the Red
and yellow Cross State Trail No 2,
held in Gettysburg june 3 and 10, the
following resolutions were adopted
and proceedings had:
The Red and Yellow Trail conven-
ltion, in mass meeting assembled, rep
resenting the counties Of deuel., Cod
ington. Clark, SPHINX. Fanlk. Potter
Dewey, ziepach, Meade and Butte.
propose the following resolutions:
Resolved That the highway known
as the Red and yellow Trail extend
ing aEross the state through the
counties 81. Deuel. Codington, Clark,
Sphinx, Faux Potter. Dewey, ziebach.
Meade and Butte, and particularly
described BY maps on file "a the ofss
fces Or the several counties aiong
The highway be ana the same is here
~ designated Stats Highway No d d
vs snd II y elect ot tAa
presidents u ne coosiherciel cfubs d q
an county seat towns As yics-presEs
dents Tor their respective counties;
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18

Z d
dends of 10 par cent besides fine ex-a
'tras on a capital Of S55.s60, 900, and
has surplus Of ss3. .72e 900. 1t ownsl
numerous mills, employs 5000 males
and 1000 females; has $4,000 spin
dies; 10000 looms; weayes 8. $50. .00Ol
yards Of cotton and 27o,0o0 yards of
worsted per week; ases 4s.ooo, ,80o1
pounds of cotton per annum and
10,4Oo,0o0 pounds Of wool; burns 1oO,-1
900 tons of coal q year; uses 10000
gallons OF oil per annum; and has al
weekly pay roll Of s112,o
These are some OF the results that
have been achieved in the cotton IN
dustry with raw product Dhat costs
~ cents and more a pound The Wa
tertown Flax Produces company pro-
(cesses working with q raw product
that costs less than haa the price
fof raw cotton goods and preparing d
material very much more salabls than
cotton goods sat corresponding prices
have an easy superiority over other
textile mills IN rnanufa Featuring expense
and offer that much betesr yakles OF
profit on the investment.
It was long ago declared by scien.
tific experts and practical nanufac-
turers that any process which will
quickly and cheapIy convert raw fiax
into a pure, firm and thoroughly de.
gummed fibre that can be spun as
easily as cotton, win reEo1ufionize the
linen industry. The facts and figures
given in the foregoing article show
conclusively that the inventions and
processes owned by the W;atertowr
FLAX Products company do this and
do 1T perfectly. They do the work in
a few hours; the old methods, those
now employed in Europe, require be
tween three and six months to pro
duce the same result.
The new processes applied to the
textile mills of this country, cam in .
comparatively short time, give Am.
lerica the control Of the linen industry.
1 THE intelligent man needs mo argu-
ment to convince him that such an
enormous economy in time and cost
of production means a relative in
crease Of revenues and profits.
L =
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18
10 AN AUTOMOBILE

have hungry longing that has been confessed
longing have striven iii vain bury my breast
want to take when days hot and mnggy
Behind little Jogging horse IN old shabby buggy
Oft hurried along the road ia ones fine machine
AT such pace Ieannot tell brown field from green
want amble peace, unheeding what they say,
And watch with the ancient horse flick ancient flies
81 / never landscape that is not scuddng by
Iii gales clouds Of before my gogged eye
The pensive galopng the hens sqawing
II anything seems peaceful know it will not last
Il have great ambitions and have desire TO shine
AS heroine of accidents IN the automobile line.
This plebean longing, without qubble remorse,
want that shabby buggy and want that ancient horse
Grace Dufneld Goodwin
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18
.IllEN MILL
Comparative Value
Of Linen and
Cotton.
COST OF PRODUCTION
A Valuable Invention
Owned BY Water
town People
COST OF PRODUCTION
Watertown Flax Products Co.

4
Stute for linen. Hardly anybody used
cotton hundred years ago, But as
the population grew and the market
for white goods" increased the de-
mand for linen outran the supply. 1t
took so long (16 to 20 weeks to- pre-
pare linen for use that it could not
be made fast enough for the wants Of
the people. There was not enough
Of it to go around. Prices went up.
Soon the majority of people could not
afford linen for common use, and yet
white goods" were necessary to their
health, comfort and happiness AS
they could not get linen they had to
put up with the next best thing.
Il 1t was thus the substitution Of cot
ton began.
The manufacture OF cotton improv-
ed; it's uses extended. until at pres
ent there is something like $600.000,-
900 worth of cotton goods produced
and imported by this country every
year.
But cotton is still regardsd Al slsss
an inferior substitute for linen. and;
the demand for linen is greater than
ever .345
Suppose some one has invented pro-
cesses that make it as easy and as
cheap to produce linen goods as to
produce cotton goods: can you real
ize what enormous fortunes must be
made by the company owning and
controlling those processes?
Here is the situation: For over
two thousand years, indeed, since the
days Of the Biblical Pharaohs, it has
required about sixteen weeks to get
fax ready for spinning and another
thirty or forty days to bleach the
woven fabric. 5
AS is we'll known, flax was grown
for household manufacture fifty years
ago in nearly every state in the
Union. If the American farmers of
fifty years ago were able to produce
f a quality of fax suitable for linen
manufacture, there is no reason, as
far as cultivation is concerned, why
farmers Of today cannot do the samc
thing.
That slow process necessarily lin
its the amount Of linen that can be
manufactured and makes it expensive
in spite OF small wages. At different
times in different countries scientific
men and inventors have tried to dis
cover means to better the ancient
methods and reduce the time. They
knew that If the gum and rosin could
\ be taken out by some quick and mex
pensive process fax could be spun as
easily as cotton; and that whoever
I discovered how to do that would en-
able che linen industry to- increase
Its revenues many millions Of dollars
a year.
A Hope and a Prophecy Fulfilied
A serious obstacle IN the way Of es-;
tablishing linen industry in this
country was the technical difficulty of
ssretting' the fax straw, whether by
keeping it imr ssed in water or ex-
1 posing it to sUew. But In 1898 a
government on the subject
confaines xp % ment: IN the
prest is q g ac Investigation
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18


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trading connect Ions betNee ttsSs 1900 NJ
count ries. iance tt - not only ~ l ~
iishers rho are terested in thsas siEs !s'sg
|culation of British ma nes xnSt re
[iodicals in Canada 'sSsSsls
The Toronto Star. WI hics isr u ssIs,l
tissue devotas tyso colu INNS; al editx,dai
Iial comnnent is This discussion, say
tf,at ii may be aduiit "a. III atSs
han the people III Canada sio nut tTs.et
their descent from tlae british laisi
and that their attarh leflt 10 fhss f3r
Iish empire must BE based upon raasss
rather than upon tradition and th1s
kind of sentiment hal accoIapa1iiee
| tradition It declare that the stfs
essential III Can dian unity and thak
there can be io unity with tho ea1se
Ipire that il NOT based upon Canad dfara
Iunity.
s,The way to resist Aine nericanfxa-
!, s,tion ii adds, 'is to encourage the
spirit of Canadian aatiuna ity, nor tus
ltry to check Ii, as some unwise and
Itimid imperialiats do. Canadians
lmust be made to feel that canad Liam
lcitizenship rs as real and as vltaf 81
1thing as American citizensh any
lthing that tends To conyss anadsss
Into & mere province rather than lEs
Ination undermines one of the strong
lest bulwarks against ann exattnn fts
the United States
The Winnipeg 1ies, one xhts
lmost radical organs In Westarri Cam
ada, says
The absolute truth fl that there ~
too much empire shout ing roo mucsm
lgeneraiizing has resulted In negsack
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18

and that the vice presidents Of the
various counties call q public meet
Ing In their respective counties for
the purpose Of organizing a county
good roads association, and
we request our representatives and
senators in congress to favor such
federal legislation for highways as
will bring the most aid to our state
in reference to postal and rural
routes. regardless Of the amount Of
appropriation, and
sss That we extend vote of thanks TO.
Governor Byrne, D. G. Issenhnth and
others who have contributed to the
|deveiopnfent Of good roads and high
ways and especially the highway now
known as the Red and Yellow Trail I
and further commend the action of
Governor Byrne IN setting apart and
desi signafing a Good Roads Day, and
That we extend our thanks to the
several boards oS county commission
}srs for their assistance in establish
ing this Trail and especially the coun-
iify commissioners OF Potter county Tor
1procu1ing the right Of way and grad
ling the stretch Of road known as
Beaver Gulch Road and a part OF the
Red and Yellow Trail, and
We recommend q division OF the
Trail association TO be fixed hi bound
-aries from the Minnesota state line
to the WESTERN county line of Clarh
county and westward from there to
/ the Missouri river and westward from
1.-THE Missouri river to Belle Fourche
| that the divisions be numbered and
known respectively as Divisions Nos
I1, Q and 8, calculating from east tc
west and thar each division nominate
Land elect its own officers or set cl
iofiicers and a1so in the greatest meas
lure co-oporata with each OF the other
isaivissons for the ;turtherance of the
lnp-building OF good roads in tiieir re.
lsspective districts.
(Signed)
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18
(Sigfled J
Jas. aR McGee,
I'D 3. Tooney.
q, e. Dillon,

C0MmlIGee-
Il After the reading and adoption OF
the resolutions. Mr. 1ssenhuth again
took the floor and addressed the as.
sembly for over an hour on the snb-
ject Of Good Roads. We regret that
time ami space win moi permit MS To.
give some of the points made By the
speaker in his most able address. The
speaker gave special attention to tho
moral, humane, historical and econTi
omical side Of the question, and made
q special plea In behaIf Of the horse.
The matter OF good roads in connec-
ton with the alIimportant subject Of
Capitalization OF the rural schools
was strongly advocated by the speak
Ell, who produced abundant data tend
ing to show that good roads 90 far toll
advance the educational interests ofI
every community. Mr. IssenhuthI
handled the big subject from every
angle, and thoroughly convinced hisl
hearers that good roads are q nar
tionai issue.
The nomination and election of OIL
dcers for the coming year was them
held, the offices Ia the association toll
be filed being that Of president andl
secretary. Mr. Isseahuth was strong.
81 urged to accsnt tie preaf 5sacy frrii
Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1914-06-18

Read j. c. .cooper's special farm ad
on page i've of this issue. n
The Press., 1914-10-28
Grades of Lemons.

There are good many interesting points about lemons. There are sev
 eraI qualities that combine to make d prime or fancy brand of lemons. A first class lemon must be free from specks. have smooth skin of q pale yellow color and be very hard. Take magnifying glass and you will See that the little black specks on the lem
 on that look like seeds are really para sites They are called lemon lice. and Il curious fact iS that as soon as the lemon is cut from the tree these para. sites die immediately. ...r
 The best fruit comes from little place near Naples. Italy. called Mai0ri The next ill grade comes from S,Ir rentO. Those from MesSina and Paler
 mo are about the same quality and rank next. and those from Catania are inferior The MuiOri lemons are very carefully cultivated. They are on the trees even while the snow iS still on the ground. but are kept covered with mating to protect them. not Ouly from the cold. but from the sc0rching rays of the sun They are nearly white when picked. very graceful and regu- lar in shape and are, exceedingly smooth and hard. Spatua. ~.