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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
PRIMARY A FARCE

'1F the present primary election
law had been specially designed for
the purposes of corrupt politicians
land who shall say it was not?) the
job could not have been done better.
No system that was ever devised
lends itself more readily to the plans
of the cunning worker, meaning
thereby the man who does the actual
dirty work and receives from the
bosses a reward sufficient to keep body
and soul together, sometimes.
For years the bride givers have
been yearning to invent some plan
by which they could abstract an off
cial ballot from the polling booths and
give it to voter, with instructions to
vote it and retain the one received
from the judges, to be marked and
given to the next man, thus keeping
up an endless chain. The coupon pro-
vision has rendered this impossible in
the general election, but the trainers
ly arranged that the coupon should
be affixed to the envelope and not to
the ballot. Candidates are given in
advance of the election as many bal
lots as they are willing to pay for and
may distribute them ready marked.
The voter may take one of these into
the polling booth with him and place
1T in the envelope, retaining the I'M
marked ballot given by the election
officials. This ballot, when given to
the worker, is presumptive proof
that the voter cast the marked ballot
given him. The weak point in the
system is that the voter may have two
l. 1
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Editor the CECIL WING Elkton Md

Editor the CECIL WING, Elkton, Nd.
Dear Sir:-Enclosed please find
money order in payment of my sub
scription to the WING to March H.,
1915.
| am sorry should have neglected
this necessary performance for so
long a time, but have not had any
notice beyond that contained in the
paper and had good intentions immed-
iatel y after reading them, out immed-
lately overlooked them.
AS one who is interested in the af
fairs of the county, although separat-
ed from them, l appreciate the good
part you are playing in those affairs
and the ultimate good that must come
out of a fearless defense of those fun
damentals that make for the welfare
of the people and their institutions. |
hope you may some day find yourself
rewarded for your efforts, in the i'm
proved conditions that shall surround
Cecil county and her sons.
With all good wishes, am
Yours very truly.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
HUNTING A WAY OUT.

OUR Democratic friends in their
haste to undo the good work of the
Republican party, during the previous
fifty years, neglected to provide for
emergencies and hence the govern
ment is now facing deficit of an hun
dred millions of dollars in its income.
The extraordinary policy of imposing
a tax upon incomes, in time of peace,
had to be resorted to in order to put
the free-trade theory into operation,
but even that source of income has not
been sufficient to make good the loss
of revenue caused by abandoning the
protective tariff system. Consequent
ly the President and Congress are
casting about for some additional me-
thod of taxation. Some of the ways
suggested are: increasing the rate of
taxation on incomes, stamp tax, and
higher tax on alcoholic liquors. Of
these methods the most satisfactory
would doubtless be the last mentioned
In the opinion of vast number of the
American people whiskey tax, if i'm
posed at all, cannot be too great. The
only objection to be urged against it
is that it commits the government to
the recognition of the liquor traffic,
against which moral sentiment is be-
comm more and more strongly array
ed year by year. A stamp tax would
be an anomaly in time of peace and is
of all systems the most inconvenient
and annoying. 1t should only be re-
sorted to to meet unusual eXpendi-
lures consequent on a state of war or
following that condition. A larger in
come tax would be as popular, barring
increase of tariff, as any other method
except with the people who have to
pay it.
But there must at best be something
wrong with any system of taxation
dependent upon the extraordinary
means contemplated at this time.
There are no doubt many citizens who
are ignorant of the fact that at the
close of the Civil War, when the popu
lation of the country did not exceed
more than half its present number, the
notional debt was three billions of dol
lars. Yet when Mr.. Cleveland was
elected President the second time it
had been reduced to eight hundred
and extraordinary sources of
income had been abandoned. 1t was,
it is true, increased by couple hun
bred millions during that Cleveland
administration.
And is it not significant fact that
again, in time of peace, the country,
during Democratic administration,
must resort to borrowing to meet ex-
pendltures or impose extraordinary
taxation to avoid doing So The CON
trast between this condition and the
magnificent financial management of
administrations is striking
and should also be instructive to the |
people. Evidently the Democratic
theory of taxation is at fault and seri-
ously so, and the American people |
should be on the alert to reverse the |
blunder which, in the election of 1912,
brought about the present extraordin
airy condition.-Ex.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
MERE WASTE.

WE are rather glad that other en-.
gagements prevented our being pres.
ent at the eace-conference" of Re-
publican 'leaders" in Baltimore last
Tuesday. We are rather inclined to
think our presence would not have adj
ded to the peace palaver-much of
which We know was hynocritical and
all of which we think was puerile. The
idea of bringing full-grown men toge-
Their to harmonic them politically If
they don't harmonic on principle they
are not worth harmonizing. We be-
lleve in independence in political af-
fairs. We believe in cutting ticket
when it ought to be c,,c But we have
no patience with or respect for the
man who cuts tickle, Tor a merely
personal grievance. When men of
such inferior size and petty spirit are
counted "leaders" of a party, that
party need not be surprised at the
members and quality of the followers.
The present campaign for example,
is one which deals exclusively with
national issues-the election of
Senator and Representative to the U.
5. Congress. That means that an in
telligent voter will support Demo-
cratic candidates provided they are
worthy because he believes in Demo-
cratic principles and Republican can
didates because he believes in Repub-
lIcan principles. We cannot imagine
a full-grown man, much less social
ed Leader" failing to support the can
didate who represents his political
principles, unless the so-called "lead-
err is one of that small-souled type of
bipeds who would rather cherish a
political "grudge" than cleave honest
ly and clearly to political creed.
There are such men in all communi
ties and parties. There were such men
at the conference just referred to-
men whose past political treachery is
well-known and whose future political
loyalty is not in the least guaranteed
by harmony palaver. The man who
won't stand to his principles without
hitchlng is not worth the halter by
which you attempt to tie him.
This is just the way we feel about it
and just the way we would speak
about it, at peace conference or any
where else. We haven't a bit more
faith in political hypocrisy than we
have in any other kind. and are not
bit more misled thereby. We don't
coddle to that kind, we pin no faith to
that kind, we don't believe in angling
for that kind. Let them that are
crooked be crooked still. We wouldn't
waste five minutes of good time trying
TO straighten them out.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
Price And Sisk On National Prohibition

The WING received last week, too
late for publication, the following
article on the attitude of Hon. Jesse
d. Price and Col. A. w. Sisk toward
National Prohibition. We herewith
publish the article, because it seems ia
snow the difference between a direct
answer and politicians side-step-
ping.
Hon. Jesse D. Price says:
Il have never taken a position on
National Prohibition and if | am
elected to Congress | shall try to
act on it in accordance with what
l conceive to be the best interest
OF the country, carrying out at
the. same time the wishes of a
majority of my constituents"
Col. A. w. Sisk says:
Il have never yet seen a tenn
perance bill too drastic for me to
advocate and vote for, and | have
never yet heard an argument in
favor of liquor that was in the
least degree convincing. | do not
think that we have any use for it
IN any sphere or activity of life,
and we, therefore, can afford to
prohibit, not only it's use, but its
manufacture as well, and | there
fore unhesitatingly say to you
that | will not only vote for the
Acknowledgment Amendment,
but will use my influence on
TINS or any other Prohibition
Amendment that may come be-
fore Congress while | am men,
Der of that body"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
Sample Letters
"a PROCLAMATION.

PERSONS who neglect to pay their
subscriptions not infrequently feel ag-
grieved that an office should insist on
collection. Most folks, however, of
honest intentions and average good
sense, take different and better view
Of the matter as will ne seen by a
couple of letters which we herewith
select as samples for publication.
CECIL WING Co.
Dear Sirs-Enclosed you will find
money order for CECIL WING.
want to thank you very kindly for
waiting on same.
Yours truly,
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$40, $12, SIS

See our values of $40, $12 and
S15 Suits for Men and Young
Men. You will find no better val
ues anywhere, and you know who
you are trading with and what the
"Mullin Label stands for
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
Real Estate Transfers

E. Kirk Brown and wife and Charles
P. BARLEY and wife to Louis SEEKER, of
New York, property above, $40 and
other considerations.
John A. Krumrine and wife to Ed
win j. Harrington, of Allegany county,
% acre property in Fifth district, $40
and other considerations.
Elizabeth A. Harvey and others 20
Harry L. Harvey, four lots in Nortr
East, So and other considerations.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19

WE are glad to acknowledge among
our new exchanges the Evening Led
ger, of Philadelphia. We have long
regarded the Philadelphia Public Led
ger as the greatest daily that comes
to our notice. If the evening edition
which the Ledger is now publishing
equals the merit of its morning con-
temporary, nothing more or better
can be said for it.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19

OiiieSu o'oeSo " pray AoA PSoSS III
Europe.
The proclamation sets aside Sunday,
October 4, as day of prayer, its full
text being as follows:
'By the President of the United
States of America:
"a PROCLAMATION.
Whereas great nations of the world
have taken up arms against one an
other and war now draws millions of
men into battle whom the counsel of
statesmen have not been able to save
from the terrible sacrifice; and
Whereas in this, as in all things, it
is our privilege and duty to seek coun-
sci and succor of Almighty God, hum
bling ourselves before Him, confess
ing our weakness and our lack of any
wisdom equal to these things; and
Whereas it is the especial wish and
longing of the people of the United
States, in prayer and counsel and all
friend,iness, to serve the cause Of
peace; therefore,
81, Woodrow Wilson, President of
the United States of America, do de-
signate Sunday, the fourth day of
October next, day of prayer and
supplication, and do request all God
fearing persons to repair on that day
to their places of worship, there to
unite their petitions to Almighty God,
that, overruling the counsel of men,
setting straight the things they can
not govern or alter, taking pity on the
nations now in the throes of conflict,
in His mercy and goodness showing a
way where men can see none, He
vouchsafe His children healing peace
again and restore once more that con-
cord among men and nations without
which there can be neither happiness
nor true friendship nor any whole
some fruit of toll or thought in the
world; praying also to this end that
He forgive US our sins, our ignorance
of His holy will, our willfulness and
many errors, and lead us in the paths
of obedience to places of vision and to
thoughts and counsels that purge and
make wise.
SIN witness whereof l have hereunto
set my hand and caused the seal of the
United States to be affixed.
Ozone at the city of Washington
this eighth day of September in the
year of our Lord one thousand nine
hundred and fourteen, and of the in
dependence of the United States OF
America the one hundred and thirty-
ninth.
"(Signed) WOODROW WILSON.
"By the President.
civilian JENNINGS BRYAN.
Secretary of State"
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera & Diarr
Chamberlain's Liniment

If you are ever troubled with aches, pains,
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ciate the good qualities of Chamberlain's Lini-
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The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
Nation Called To Prayer For Peace

President Wilson has signed a pro-
clamation calling on the people of the
United States to pray for peace in
Europe.
The proclamation sets aside Sunday,
October 4, as day of prayer, its full
text being as follows:
by the President of the United
States of America:
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
No. 1886
REPORT OF the CONDITION
OF THE
National Bank of EIkton
At Ei.ton. In the State Of Maryland. at
the close of business
September IL, 1914
DEC0VynOrc
RESOURCES

Loans and Discounts. 49,. S443, $40 81
Overdrafts. secured and unsecured.... 4IO7
U. ,; Bonds to secure circulation $4,000 90
Bonds, securities, ETC., (other than
stocks) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 62i,i16 70
All other stocks 800. 2l.352 so
Ranking house, furniture hxtures.... 10000 90
Due from National Banks (not reserve
agents. ................. ......... 4,Iso o3
Due from approved reserve
agents in Central Reserve
Cities.... .......... ....S24,1 1875 81
In other Reserve cities..... e2,9e2 40 l17.i57 81
Checks and other cash items 43e 40
Notes OF other National BIZ nks....... 2,255 90
Fractional paper currency, nckels and
cents...... 80. .........-, 80. 1888 IS
Lawful Money Reserve in Bank. viz:
specie .....,.............'. $50 964 IS
Legal-tender notes 1906 Oc 6s,05o IS
Redemption fund with U. s. Treasurer
Is per cent. of circulation ...-.... 1900 90
-
Total.......... ......"... Si.34i,io1 81
LIABILITIES
Capital stock paid in ,............... $4,000 90
Surplus fund 100000 90
Undivided profits less expenses and
taxes paid .............. I26S3o ~
National Bank notes outstanding..... 4S,400 90
Due to other National Banks....... S,427 O4
Due to Trust Companies and Savings
Banks ............... 80. 1883 20
Individual deposits subject to check. 424 7O2 81
Demand certificates of deposit. $50 EOS 81
Total OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. s., 3li i01 81
State OF Maryland County of Cecil. IS:
|. Chas. B. Finley, Cashier of the above
bank, do solemnly swear that the above state
ment is true to the best of my knowledge and
belief.
CHAS. B. FINLEY Cashier,
Correct-Attest:
FRANK r. SCOTT
CHAS. b. FINLEY. JR |,
THOMAS b. MILLER,
Directors.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this 18th
day of September, 1914.
CHARLES II. JEFFERS, Notary Public.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1914-09-19
Pin Stripes
Tarlton Plaids
Mixed Worsreds
Grey Cheviots

Every size, "a to so inch chest
for Men; 33 to 38 chest, for Young
Men; IA to 10 years, for High
School Boys.
Fall Overcoats, $40 to $50.
Balmacaans, $40 to $25.
Dunlap and Stetson Hats.
Manhattan Shirts.
Boyden Shoes.
and lots of others in every grade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
HUB" UNEMPLOYED ASK EMPLOYMENT 5O,OOO Out of Work in Mas sachusetts, Declares a
 Leader

Boston. March 1.-The unemployed marched up Beacon hill today and asked for work from the legislative committee on social welfare. The parade was headed by Morrison I. Swift, active in behalf of the unemployed for several years.
 Women and men, numbering more than 100. claiming to be both skilled and un- skilled workers. informed the commit tee that they had been out of work for months. MT. Swift suggested that they be sent to a state fahn.
 Henry Sterling, a representative of the state branch of the American Fedora ton of Labor. told the committee that there were 50,ooo persons out of work in this state
 After the chairman of the committee had announced that the petition of the unemployed would be carefully consid- cred and an effort be made to find some gation departed. Upon leaving the state house they marched to St. Paurs cathe- dral. where the leader called for Dean Ropsmaniere. When he was told the latter could not see him, Swift left a letter asking:
 Can you not organize a free restaur- ant or form bread liner This is an emergency and we, therefore. urge you 10 head q movement among your people To do something now. The state cannot get into action before some real suffer- ing shall have been endured.n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
GREAT LOVE TRAGEDIES
DON'T MARRY A REPELLENT PIGMY

What strange mixture of man and ani- maj was Jean Jacques Rousseau, the French philosopher If you but look at the genius he displayed his figure is gigantic, but if you turn to the private character of the man, he is a repellent pigmy. Many were the unnatural loves of Rousseau dur ing the early years of his life, and up to the time he broke with the de Warens woman and affiliated himself with the Le Vasseurs.
 At the time Rousseau began bestowing a strong attachment for Theresa Le Vas seur. a woman writer described him "as queer as his person, and that is saying a great deal Madame Maupeou and l tried to guess what it was In spite of his face she said, his eyes tell that love plays great part in his romance. No, said I, his nose tells me that it is vanity. Well. then 'tis both one and the other
 Le Vasseur was a mere kitchen maid at the time of their meeting in 1745, totally unsuited mentally to a man of Rous- seaus character, but it was the beginning of union which lasted for the length of a generation and more down to the day of the philosophers most tragic ending.
 Rousseau and Theresa were married. Ii was a common-law marriage. He stood up at the table in a company of his friends and acknowledged her as his wife It was the most respectable alliance he ever had. In their own views they were just as tightly bound as any marriage ceremony could bind them.
 Theresa Le Nasseur would probably have been happier if she had married q stout stabel boy. as she did some 20 years afterward, by way of gathering up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05

the Fragments that were left; but there is little reason to think that Rousseau would have been much happier than he was with any other mate.
 There no social disparity between the two Theresa was a person accus- toned to hardship and coarseness, and so was he. and he always systematically pre- ferred the honest coarseness or the plain people from whom he was sprung, to the more hateful coarseness of heart which so often turks under fine manners.
 But in time Rousseau found out the Grievous disadvantage of living in soli- tude with a companion who did not know how to think, and whose stock of ideas was so slight that the only common ground of talk between them was gossip.
 The l-e Vasseurs were among the most odious of human beings, greedy, idle and ill-humored, while Madame La Vasseur had every fault that woman could have Tn Rousseau's eyes, vet he bore with them all for years, and did not break with Madame I4e Vasseur until she had pois- oned the mind of her daughetr and done her best by lying to render him contemp- tibe to all his friends.
 In the course of years Theresa herself gave him unmistakable sings of a change in her affections. 'I began to feel" he said, that she was longer for me what she had been in our happy days, and l felt 1t all the more clearly as l was still the same toward her."
 This was in 17e2, and her arrangement grew deeper and her indifference more open, until at length seven years after ward we find that she had proposed a separation from him. What the exact reason for this gradual change may have been we do not know. nor have we the right to say that they were not adequate and just.
 We may suppose that there was that about household life with Rousseau which might have bred disgust even in one as little fastidiors as Theresa was Among other things which must have been hard to endure, we know that in composing his works he was often weeks together without speaking word to her
 Whatever the causes may have been, Theresa passed from indifference to aver sion, and in the one place where a word of complaint is wrung from him he de- scribes her as rending and piercing his heart at moment when his other mis- cries were at their height. He chided her gently for her actions: Not only dearest of all friends have you ceased to find pleasure in my company. but you have to tax yourself severely to remain a few moments with me out of complai isance You are at ease with all the world but me-"
 Saturday-Dont Marry a "Diarist."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05
FIRST USE OF
 RESINOL STOPS
 TERRIBLE ITCH
When Other Treatments Gave No Re- lief. Suffered Eight Years, Hut
 ResinOl Cured in Week

Jan. 27, 1914: q suffered over eight years with eczema It started in one little place and kept spreading until it covered my hands. My hands looked like they had been burned by fire and peeled off in large pieces until they were only raw flesh. I was told it was eczema. It itched and burned me so that l could not sleep at night I tried all sorts of eczema salves and one pre- scription after another, but nothing gave me any relief until tried Resinol Soap and Resinol Ointment and after the first application my hands pever itched or burned again. and were weN in one week. want every sufferer from eczema to know that they can find a cure in Resinol" (Signed) Miss Ethel Scott, AIilstead. Ga.
 Physicians have prescribed Resinol for nineteen years, for all sorts of skin troubles, pimples, dandruff, sores. ul- cers, burns wounds and piles. Every druggist sells Resinol Ointment and Resinol Soap. but for trial size. free. write to Dept. FIR, Resinol. Baltimore. Md. Do not be deceived by limitations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-03-05

from Tuscaloosa, where she spent the week end with Mrs. William Pardee tFrances Ross Burton), of Valdosta, Ga, who was in Tuscaloosa visiting her parents
 Mrs. Frank Freeman has returned from Anniston, where she visited Mrs. Wade Sproull. She was accompanied home by Miss Louise Sproull
 
 Mrs. R. E. Steiner has returned to Montgomery after visit with her daughter, Mrs. E. M Mason She was accompanied home by Mrs Mason.
 Mrs. Norman wedd is spending a few days in Selma with MT. and Mrs. L. w. Hubbard
 Mrs. Sumpter Bethea and Miss Bes- sic Bethea have returned from Pensa- cola, where they visited MT. and Mrs Hillman Hale.
 Mrs. Amos Allen Culp tMary Lykes) Of Charlotte, N. C., arrived Tuesday to be the guest of her mother, Mrs. l.. l.. Lykcs.
 Miss Dorothy Ransom will return Saturday from Selma, where she has been the guest of Miss Annie Mae Stoddard.
 Mrs. John W. Sibley is spending a few days in New Orleans.
 Miss Mary Chollet Berney, who has spent most of the winter In Mont gomery with Mrs. William Berney, has returned to Birmingham.
 Miss Jessie Henrietta Martin of Greensboro is the guest of her sister Mrs. J. W. Morrow, 1216 North Thirty third street.