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The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13
FOuLke Cites Reasons
For Nev Constitution

ment prevent our cities from taking
rank as they ought to among the
splendid examples which England and
Germany are furnishing. II il high
time to revise our constitution.
But we must proceed in this revi-
sion in a manner that will insure full
deliberation in every change proposed.
Provision should be made by law for
constitutional convention. Ample
time should be given for the selection
of delegates and no restriction should
be made as to the period of its DELHI
erations When 1T meets. the follow
ing questions. with others that ] can
not anticipate, will undoubtedly arise
for its consideration.
EDUCATIONAL TEST.
In the matter of elections, it would
seem wise to limit the suffrage to
citizens of the United States, but 1t is
not wise nor just to continue the con-
! stitutional provision that the suffrage
/ shall be confined to males. All citi-
zens, without regard to sex, should
vote Whether or not the time has
now come for general woman suf-
| frage, it is bound to come hereafter.
| The payment of the poll tax is a
| Just condition for the right of suf-
frage So, too, a provision that no
man can vote who cannot read the
| constitution of the state. When the
means OF education are furnished free,
| the state has right to require this
rudimentary educational test.
| The General Assembly now remains
! for sixty days in regular session and
! for forty days in any special session
I! This is a clumsy arrangement. 1t re
quires the session to close even
though the most necessary measures
may be undisposed Of Short biennia
sessions were designed to protect the
people against too much legislation
but the scheme is illogical. If Legis
latures are really a bad thing, VIII!
not restrict them to ten days, or five
A single extra day or, at most, tive
or three would be sufficient to dispos'
of the accumulated business. yet b,
out present system it is forty days
special session or nothing, for, whel
that session once begins, it is quit
sure to last it's term. A more elasti
arrangement than the present on
ought to be substituted.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13

Writing in 'The Citizen" a Pro-
gressive weekly, issued In Indianap-
oils. William Dudley Foulke. Of this
city. shows why the need of new
constitution for Indiana is imperative.
Extracts from Mr.. Foulke's article fol
low:
Our state needs badly a revision of
its constitution. Indiana has had two
constitutions. The first was passed in
1916, the second in 1851. The last,
with very few changes, and these not
vital ones, has continued down to the
present time.
Now the necessities of government.
in 1851 we're radically different from
those which exist today. We are not
confronted with the same problems.
We have little danger of religious per-
secution, of the suppression of free
speech or press. But we are in great
danger of injury from the special
privileges accorded to corporate
wealth, from political manipulations
occasioned by imperfect methods of
! representation, from system of I'M
| just taxation which protects chiefly
the dishonest, from restrictions which
withhold from our municipal corpora
tons the necessary means for the de-
velopment of their local affairs.
Our old constitution, as it stands, is
obsolete We need q revision.
OTHER STATES LEAD.
| Other states have recognized this
need Outside of New England and
New Jersey there is not state in the
American Union which has not con
stitution newer than our own, except
Wisconsin, and Wisconsin has adopt
ed such radical amendments that hel
fundamental law has in this manner
been brought down to date.
Indiana stands alone in adhering tc
the fossolized system of constitution
making which prevailed half cen
fury ago. The result is that oul
whole system of Jurisprudence is h"
hind the needs of the time; that oul
methods of taxation are hardly DerLel
than those which prevailed during thu
decadence of the Roman empire; tina
our system of representation STILES
!, the popular voice and renders us thu
prey of political cabals, and that ou
restrictions upon municipal govern
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13
Shall We Boost the Library?

In response to a city wide demand for more
satisfactory library service, the Commercial
Club appointed special committee to make in
vestigations of conditions and to recommend
needed improvements.
After being at work for several weeks, this
committee has found the chief reason for our
present inadequate facilities to be lack of reve-
nue.. To our shame be it said, that Richmond,
in spite of it's state wide reputation for culture,
stands among the five or six poorest and most
petered out cities in library support. This dis
graceful fact ought to make us blush.
Something must be done at the earliest posi-
BILE moment to meet the demands of the people
for library that will do for this town what wide
awake libraries are doing for other towns.
Better library service will mean that your
children will have better chance for education.
more adequately equipped library will mean
that you can improve your chance for making
living and for getting more wages. Statistics
show that the workers who read most are those
who receive the highest wages and those who re-
ceive the biggest incomes. Habits of reading and
good salaries go together.
1t will mean that the library will be so ar
ranged as to give every person in town instant
library telephone service This will be so man.
aged that any one at moments notice can get
through the phone any desired item of informa-
ton.
1t will mean that even child can find any
thing about any subject contained in the library
! It will mean extension service that will take
the library to the schools, to the factories and to
all the people everywhere within the township
More men and young men will get into the habit
of reading, habit that has characterized almost
all men of achievement in the world.
| 1t means that tax payers will receive the full
worth of their money.
1t means that tax payers in Wayne Township
outside of Richmond, get the full benefit OF
the service they have so long been paying for
! 1t means happier and more intelligent
community.
! Be sure to go to the Commercial Club meet
ing tonight and boost for better library.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13
"A Boy and the Law y

This is the title of an extraordinary five film
photo play shown at the Murray Theatre last
Friday night.
1t is true story of the actual experiences of
q Russian boy who left Russia, when his father
murdered by the Cossacks, and fled to the
United States, country, he believed and
he described to his mother, where there is no
law After arriving in Salt Lake City, he be-
came newsie and finally landed in Judge Willis
Browns juvenile court.
1t was with two wagon-loads of such lads that
the Judge later established the now famous Boy
Town. These street gamins of all shapes and
sizes were dumped into the middle of farm and
left to themselves. 1t then in their strug-
giles to make the place tolerable for themselves
they discovered the necessity and beneficence of
law 1t was this discovery and not punishment
or threats that transformed these "copper"
hating, pilfering little toughs into citizens.
Judge Willis Brown is genius He knows
that bad boys usually are lads whose energies are
forbidden normal expression. He knows that thu
average boy who breaks the law is not crimina,
but delinquent. Judge Brown never calls a bad
boy a criminal. He knows better.
Years of practical experience convinced the
nudge that reformatories do not make bad boys
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13

Good Reason.-Gabe-"Why is it that Slick always
wins at poker and yet can't win bet the pones?
Steve--"He can't shuttle the ponies. "-Cincinnat
quirer.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13
VAPOR TREATMENTS
FOR COLD TROUBLES

Are now used in all hospitals. The
vapors carry the medication to the
lungs and air passages without dis
turbing the stomach. When Vick's
"Vap-O-Rub" Group and Pneumonia
Salve is applied over the throat and
chest, these vapors-of Menthol, Thy
mol, Eucalyptol, Camphor and Pine
Tar-are released by the heat of the
body. Usually the worst colds go in
one night-croup in fifteen minutes.
Vicks is fine for head colds, asthma
and catarrh, and is absolutely harm
less. Three sizes-from 25c up.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13
OPENING Murray Tonight.

Probable the greatest ensemble
ever gotten together in one tabloid
musical show will be heard when The
Tenderfoot," Richard Carries great
est success, will play the Murray the
atre tonight. Miss Mabel lie Vote,
the prima donna, takes flat above
high c. She is known as 1.-The Girl
with the large voice" She is small
in stature and is very petite and pos
sesses scintilating personality that
fairly radiates from her. She is a
student of several of the large con-
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13
LETTER LIST

The following letters remain unclaim-
ed at the Richmond pOStoffice and will
be sent to the dead letter office if not
called for within two weeks:
Ladies' List-Clara c. Benbow. Mrs.
], Fred Davis. Mrs. Sallie Freeman,
Mrs. Nathan Green Mrs. Anna House,
Miss Margaret Milender. Ruby Null,
Mrs Mona Kicker. Mrs. H. f. Kicker,
Mrs. H. E. Robertson. Mrs. T. F. Rose,
Mis- Catherine Waldorf. Mrs. T. l..
Williams, Mrs. E. f. Wilson, Mrs.
Walter Wood, Miss A. Yost.
Gentlemen's List-George Bentlage
Thomas Fullerton, Harry Gunthrie
WillGyknon, Warren H. Hubbard, Harry
B. Jones, w. H. Kinsey, Otto F. Lantz
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13

were covered with water from the re-
cent rain.
Mrs. G. A. Borders entertained the
w. F. NJ. S. of the M. K. church, Fri
day afternoon.
A number here have received in
vitations for the Easter dance to be
given at the K of P. Hall at Cam
bridge City, Tuesday evening.
Misses Mary Stills and Ruth McCor-
mick were at New Lisbon to attend
the Easter bazaar given by the Queen
Esther Bible class of the Christian
Bible school.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13
Senator Cummins Makes Speech

"The men throughout the country who &C
knowledged allegiance with the Republican party
in 1912 the most progressive, the most in
telligent, the most patriotic, the most humane,
the most capable body of citizens who ever asso-
ciated themselves together!'
This is the modest estimate of the Republi-
party made by Senator A. B. Cummins, of
Iowa, in his Chicago speech of last Thursday
night.
eff then," anticipating the inevitable inquiry,
1.-The Republican constituency was sound and
true, why were buried in 1912? We suffered
disaster because some of the men who had been
clothed with the power of office refused to Crap
pie with the problems with which the times and
conditions confronted Them
Senator Cummins' speech, as a whole, makes
it plain that by "men who had been clothed with
the power of Office he had in mind President
Taft and his colleagues in office and the officers
and members of the Republican National Con-
vention
BY whom were all these supported? By
the state committeeman and county committee
men and ward henchmen all over the country and
by the rank and file of the voters who supported
these.
BY whom were they elected? BY the men,
bers of the Republican party. By whom was the
Chicago platform written and adopted? BY these
same representatives chosen by these same mil
lions of voters.
Senator Cummins does not believe that the
principles and PHILOSOPHERS of the Republican
party are absolutely inadequate and obsolete. He
would have understand that few leaders
could hoodwink the millions whom they repre-
sented
He would have US believe that these voters
! and the vast political machine which they sup
ported and connived in "the most intelligent
the most capable body of citizens" in the world
What dictionary does Senator Cummins use
Good Reason.-Gabe-"Why is it that Slick always
wins at poker and yet can't win bet the pones?
Steve-"He can't shuttle the ponies "-Cncnnati En-
quirer
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13

Robert Mcdowell, William Montgom-
cry, Rev. J. milford, f. w. Gates, A.
H. Price. Ebert III. Ramey, Samuel
Rich. E. c. Robinson. Marin Rusk, Rob-
ert Smith. E. c. Spenser, F. NJ. Speare,
Robert Stanley. Thomas Sullivan, Will
bur Sweeney, II. J. Tesdall t2), James
Tull H. G.. White. c. T. Wright.
Miscellaneous-Fina Secretary
Brotherhood of Painters and Decora-
tors, Theno Auto Co.
E. NJ. HAAS, p. NJ.
Five years ago the banana was
scarcely known in Germany.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13
Dramatic News and Comment

servatories of music and has spent
most of her time in grand opera, but
was induced to enter vaudeville this
season by Mr.. Voolfolk, after long
persuasion.
Mr. Harry kessler, the tenor, is
also possessed with a wonderful voice
and it is worth the price of admis-
sion to hear these two people sing.
The other members of the cast are all
singers, including the Frisco quartet,
and a great singing chorus.
The Tenderfoot' will play at the
Murray theatre, commencing tonight
for three days.
The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1914-04-13
PROGRESSIVES TO
ATTEND MEETING

SPENCER. Ind, April 13.-Between
400 and 500 Progressives will leave
various cities of the second Indiana
district to attend the state convention
in Indianapolis on April Is. A special
train will be made up at Mitchell, and
stops will be made at all the import
ant points along the Monon and VAN
dalia railroads to pick up delegations.
The Bloomington band will lead the
delegates from Sullivan, Greene and
Monroe counties who will board the
train at Bloomington. The train will
leave Mitchell at 2:45 Friday after
noon. and on the return will leave In
dianapolis late Saturday evening. DR..
r. H. Richards. of Patricksburg, dis
trict chairman, will have charge OF
the trip.
+, New York will have the next in
ternational eugenics congress in Sep
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-17
{ ANsWER.)

The Austrian Archduke was assassinatcd in
Bosnia by a young Servian. 10 years old.
The Austrian government demanded Of the
Servlan government that the King of Scrvia
publish an apology for the anti-Austrian talk
of Servian officers. that he express his regrets
for the assassination, that he suppress all I'M
friendly expressions toward Austria in the
Servian newspapers, that the Servian
officers accused of completely in the as
sassination be brought to trial, and that
Austrian representatives be allowed to par
tlcipate in these judicial proceedings against
Servlans.
The Austrians dictated the very words of
the demanded apology, insisted that it be
published on the front page of the Servian
official journal and as an order Of the day to
the Servian army!
1t will be seen at once that compliance
with this unheard of demand would have
meant the surrender of Servian indeDend-
ence.
To suppress free speech and free press. and
abdlcate her right to try her own subjects in
capital cases. was impossible.
Austria not only demanded all this in the
most truculent tone and terms, but required
an answer in 48 hours.
Servia replied within that time making
every concession demanded, excepting the
trial of Servians by Austrians.
Even as to this there was no refusal, but
request for information concerning the ex-
tent of the authority the Austrian officials
would exercise in the trial of Servians and
a request that the whole subject be referred
to the Hague Peace Tribunal.
Austria Immediately denounced this re-
ply and launched armies of invasion upon
Servia, which the German press said ''wilI be
demolished"
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-17
POpery, i'm lis Relation TO Civil
and Religious Liberty.

THERE has been such a demand for the
February Watson's Magazine, in which a
full reply was made to Cardinal Gibbons
amazingly false sermon, that we have put the
article in booklet form.
The reader can easily verify every state
ment made by Mr.. Watson. in answering Car
dlnal Gibbons, provided the reader is sufi-
GENTLY interested to consult the standard
authorities.
We will send the booklet at 10 cents a COPY,
prepaid; 10 copies for Is cents; 100 copies
for $500.
: TIE JE'FFERSONIAN PUB. 90.
Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-17
THOMSON, GA, SEPTEMBER II, 1914.
The COluEnbiad Makes a State
ment AS To *. of G.
Membership.

THE knights of Columbus publish, at
HOboken, n. j., magazine named The
Columbiad
That's funny name for magazine but
still this is a free country and names are not
patented or monopolized by any benevolent
Trust.
| find in this latest issue of the Columbiad
that the Knights are on the decline in Geor-
Ola. Bully A treasonous secret order like
the X. C.'s ought to decline in loyal American
States.
In the Empire State of the Sunny South
this treason gang of the Italian pope has only
al members.
In Kentucky, also, they lost ground.
In Missouri they gained a little. The
Menace must see to that.
In Bryan's State, they gained considerably
Bryan brags on the traitors. instead of fight
ing them.
In North Carolina there are 365 of these
Tories, and in South Carolina. 81. But The
Jeffersonian has good circulation in the
latter State and the Il. G. crowd lost some
members last year.
Maybe they couldn't swallow the 4th de-
gree oath
In Alabama they gained only four last
year, in spite of Mobile and Birmingham
There are only 837 Of these oath bound serv-
ants of the Italian pope in Alabama.
In New York, there are 1890, hyphenated
patriots mostly.
In New Jersey there are >1O,821.
In poor old Massachusetts, there are 90
O81.
In Mississippi. only 1873.
In Pennsylvania 23,267.
In Wisconsin, $500
In Oklahoma, they lost few members last
year. and now have 1880.
SO, you see, this traitor~gang is mostly
Northern concern. The States where it is
strong, are the States that have been flooded
with foreigners
Why should genuine and loyal Americans
be mixing up with this oath-bound secret So
ciety. whose members are chiefly foreigners
and whose allegiance is due to foreigner?
Americans can worship God in the Catholic
way without all this secret society mystery,
darkness and concealed purposes. ,x,..a.,.,
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-17
THE .JEFFER SONHAN

two years. to safeguard the interest OF the
New York Fruit Trust.
A part Of our Army is at Vera Cruz, partly
to protect the Standard Oil Company AMI the
American owners Of Diaz- Huerta ''conces-
sions."
Why is it that the Federal Government
can help everybody, in time of desperate
need, ercept the man acho feeds and clothes
the acOrzd?
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-17
The Demands That Austria
Made On Servia.

Atlanta, Ca, Sept. s. 1914
N EAR SIR: AS reader of the Jeff, l would
~ like to ask Of you the demands made upon
Servia by Austria. If you are familiar with same
will be pleased to them in The Jeff.
Yours truly, T. j. w.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-17

New Edition of "Napoleon," by Thos. E..
Watson. Just off the press. i. One volume.
$3.50. Handsomely bound, profusely illus
trated. This book is regarded as standard bv
the French readers and scholars. The Jeffer-
sonian Publishing Co., Thomson, Ga.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-17
IN CLUBS OF TEN ONLY.

With cash accompanying the order, can The
Weekly JeffersOnian or WatsOn's Magazine
be offered at the rate of fifty cents for year.
Where lists containing less than ten Names
are sent, the subscriptions will be entered
only for six months.
There can be no deviation from this rule.
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1914-09-17
The Federal Government Can
Help Everybody, EXcept
the Farmer.
CONCLUDED FROM PAGE oNE.)

for the Government to help everybody else,
it is impossible to help the Farmer.
You can buy silver. but not cotton.
You can store whiskey in a Government
warehouse, but not cotton.
4Ou can issue unlimited quantities of paper
money on notes, stocks and bonds. but not on
cotton.
John Shelton Williams declared that
S5OO,OOO,000 was available for farm loans;
but when we endeavored to locate the money,
we couldn't
1--WE are not in the market for farm leans"
said Hoke Smiths Regional Bank; and what
the Cars bank said, the other banks re-
peated.
President Wilson declared there was $780,
100000 ready for us, under the Aldrich- Vree-
land law; but where is the money?
The Money Trust has it, and the Money
Trust isn't lending it to the Farmer
The business of the Country is being
smothered to death for lack of currency.
The Administration has legazised and for
tilted the Republican Money Trust. AND WE
ARE 1SZ'RANGLING Nv ITS TOLLS.
To every cry for relief, the Government
answers
500 to the Regional Banhs."
When we 90 to the Regional Banks we are
told
500 to yOur local banh"
When we 90 to the local bank, we are told
"We hnUent got the m0ney"
WHAT ARE We TO DO?
The Jeffersonian pointed out the speediest
remedy. legal and practical, in the removal
OF the prohlbltlve 10 per cent tax on State
bank notes.
A simple repeal of the destructive tax was
all that was necessary the State banks would
have done the rest, under laws already in ex-
istence.
But while Senator Hoke Smith pretended
to take up this plan. he did not. His propo-
sltlon, when carefully examined would leave
the State banks light where they are. 2a0D.
His plan would put the State banks abso-
ntely in the power of the Money Trust
For instance, under Hoke Smiths plan. as
fully reported, not dollar of currency could
be issued by the State banks of the Atlanta
region" acith0W the consent Of H0Ae Smiths
"Reqi0na7"
Senator Smith IS opposed to any sort of
State bank currency that will compete with
his own monopoly.
The Gear aconts complete control. po7iticM
and financial
In default of the adoption of genuine, in
dependent State bank currency. heartily en-
dorse 1.-The Screven County Plan"
Let local 601hs form local dissertations,
and issue circulating naedtuno on cotton.
LET Us STRIKE OUT FOR LOOAL
INDEPENDENCE!
Unless we do, this Money Trust will choke
the very life out of u.s.
In the ruin of the Farmer others will be
ruined-the merchant, the laborer. the local
banker and all who deal with and live on the
Farmer.
The local banks have as much right to
create an emergency money, as the Clearing