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The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26
SLOW no COMPREHEND

The new American diplomacy OF
President Wilson is altogether sim
pie, yet there are those who cannot
or viii not understand Il, This ma
ton has ceased 10 be the protector OF
exploiters, and will not again assume
that role as long as Mr., Wilson is
president, The United States in
stead OF guarding and encouraging
concession seekers and privilege mon
gers, now deals fairly and squarely
with the smaller American countries,
with a view 10 their own betterment.
The United States Is not going TO
war 10 protect the holdings OF inyes-
tors In Mexico, The fact has been
made abundantly plain, but appar-
entity not yet plain enough, There
are few who still demand that the
United Safes fight TO uphold their in
dividual rights which are frequently
not rights" at all but mere fraudu-
len concessions wheedled or bought
from the corrupt government OF DiaZ,
From chihuahua, Durango and So
nora comes the wall Of the American
partners Of the cientificos. allies Of
the politicians who debased repub-
lie and enslaved a people. They are
still demanding protection, although
IL may mean Intervention and war.
Their craftily acquired acres must be
preserved to them. even though thou
sands of utterly disinterested young
men of the United States may be
compelled to give up their lives In
the process. IL may be noted that
no such demands are being made by
men legitimately interested In MeXi-
co. They may suffer from the con
tinued civil war, but they are willing
to accept their necessary losses with
out seeking to drive their own coun-
try into an expensive and bloody
war.
No cry of selfishness has ever been
more futile. That tenet of dollar
which prescribed the pro-
lection of American investments as
the most sacred duty of the Ameri-
can government is abrogated and
completely dead The better feature
of dollar diplomacy. which sought to
Pan-American trade, is still
alive. The European war opens a
fine opportunity for commercial de-
along Legitimate lines
But there is nothing either in alb
stract justice or concrete common
sense to compel the nation to go to
war in behalf of handful of wealthy
citizens who took a spectators
chance under most alluring condi-
Lions and who are now in process Of
being 'stung PLAIN Dealer.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26
WHIP HAND rs HELD BY ON
CINNATI CROWD

AS indicated recently In the Senti-
mel, the Cincinnati crowd in the Ohio
legislature Is the balance OF power
and able 20 dictate terms 20 the pres
ent Ohio legislature, Peter w, DurI
is the boss In Cincinnati. He Is wet
He has Just secured the appointment
of Mr., COwen. of Hamilton county
and Cincinnati. 10 be Highway Com
missioner Mr., Sharp of Williams
county, who was backed by Mr., Geb-
hard. was thrown down. Sharp had
splendid qualifications and was we'll
recommended, but some ON his dis
trict friends, who have influence al
Columbus, seemed TO have quietly
laid down on him, Durr is able TO put
the Republican party in a deep hole.
He has the power 10 adjourn the leg
islature II he so desires. He Is a Re
publican and has no sympathy with
anybody or anything that Is on the
water wagon, He knows that he can
make dry Republicans do his bidding.
Dry Republicans over Ohio are begin
ming to kick on Pete. They say that
Governor Willis should not surrender
to the liquor influence of the Queen
City.
Republican newspapers are criti-
cising Mr. Wills for allowing the Gin
cinnau crowd to dictate anything.
But Pete has four aces and a reputa-
ton for not losing any bets. He let's
the little fish upstate make the
noise and vote the G, o. p, ticket,
but he does the rest.-Otawa Senti-
mel.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26
PAYING THEIR DEBTS TO TAX
DODGERS

If there had been any doubt that
the administration was under obliga-
tions to the holders of wealth and tax
dodgers like John D. Rockefeller
the action of the House in the pas
sage of Section Eight of the Parrett-
Whittemore bill does not change that
doubt other than to make certain the
truth
In general terms the Parrett-
Whittemore bill is designed to de-
centralize the Warnes law bit and
body, completing the work of the
BETTER emergency bill. Willis has
been wont to refer to the Warnes tax
system as the Russianization of Ohio,
but this was campaign chatter. On
the other hand the new tax measure
and the "rippers" otherwise proposed
can well be spoken of as the Mexican
ization of the state. Not only does
the new measure tear up and destroy
all semblance of the orderly and per-
feet system of protection for the hon
est property listers but it re-estab-
fishes a tax machinery that is a bur
den on the people, a joy to the tax
dodger, and a machine which gives
autocratic powers to appointing otli-
GERS. Like the witches of Macbeth
favor and hate the provisions of the
new law are such as to keep the
words of promise only to the ears
and break them to the hopes There
is still the centralized system, more
political than ever. The people may
elect assessors but the auditors and
tax commission can remove them,
and name additional ones at will.
The new board of revision has pow
ers that are autocratic in the ex-
treme. Furthermore as outlined by
Democratic Floor Chairman John f.
Kramer, the Mexicanization paves
the way for a shrunken tax duplicate,
and in the background hangs the
wolf to devour the Smith one per
cent. law and place the burden on
he farmer who can't hide his proper
ty. The cities will demand this and
probably get it for their own saliva
ton.
But the worst feature of the Par
-Whittemore bill isn't the Sec
ton Eight" of which there is a sus-
picion strongly grounded that it was
written by Virgil P. Cline, the person
al attorney of John D. Rockefeller.
Under this section it will be possible
to enable wealthy holders of proper
ty to escape by listing their property
under the New York laws where the
payment Of a fling fee of stock and
the like releases the property from
further taxation. This provision is
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26
THE DEMOCRATIC MINORITY

The Democratic members of the
Ohio legislature are conducting
themselves in such a manner as to-
win the favor of public opinion. Like
stone wall they stand against the
fads and follies of the Republican
majority. In unison they register
their votes against disturbing and
confusing every department of State
government. Few if any Democrats
join in the midnight revelries that
have caused the shadow of scandal
to fall aslant the state house. Few
are ever absent when duty demands
their presence. Each one alert.
They do not fear to taunt the enemy
when they know the game is going
wrong and public welfare is the sac
rifce. The dignified conduct of this
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26
SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST
OHIO LEGISLATORS

Mr.. Deiton, Republican, is mem
Der of the legislature from Miami
county. The Ohio State Journal
Republican, printed the following in
its issue of Wednesday, March It:
Mr. Deiton, of Miami, is re-
ported in the house as saying:
1 have just heard of an excur-
sion made by a number of mem
bers of the general assembly, pi-
loted by Representatives of the
certain interest that is asking
something of this legislature.
First, the party went to a bur
lesque theatre at the expense of
the lobby. Then they had big
wine supper. Later they tour
ed the so-called red light dis
tricts of this city. The lobby
paid all of the expense.
While some members of the legis-
lature may be careless in their con-
duet the majority are well behaved.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26
THE AGRICULTURAL
DECENTRALIZERS

[By James w. Faulkner, noted Co
lumbus newspaper correspondent
One of the bewhiskered jokes
around the state law factory is to say
that fellow is so old that he was
alive when the only honest farmer
died. This is always said sarcastic
like. Yet the farmer is honest like
other men-in a relative sense. Most
of them like to see honesty practiced
but they don't favor fool honesty"
For instance they raised sixteen
kinds of Tophet about the salaries
paid the four members of the State
Agricultural Commission, which
amounted to $4,000 per annum and
demanded a non-partisan board with
out compensation. Their bill, as the
city fellows read it on it's introduce
ton in the General Assembly, pro-
vided for just such a board, nine in
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

II is welcome news that unemploy-
ment is decreasing, War or no war
people cannot wait indefinitely to
buy clothing or build needed shops
and houses. War or no war, capital
becomes bored with idling In banks
and not drawing Colum-
bus Times.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

what the tax dodgers with movable
residences want This Section
Eight" was the basis OF Republican
caucus and was forced through on
the orders of the administration"
with headquarters in Cleveland, II
this section Is permitted 10 remain IL
will make OF Section Eight" a
phrase as expressive as has been "26
Broadway" in the past.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26
NOW SORRY

After the election last fall Demo
cratic newspapers predicted that the
voters would be ready to return tt
Democratic government in Ohio, once
they had taste of the rule of Willis
and the Republican legislature. Bu
those same democratic editors did mo-
expect that those voters, who pul
Willis into his easy chair, would be
ready for a change before he hac
been governor two months. Judg
ing from comment locally, from the
independent press and from letters
written to city newspapers, many
voters already regret that Governor
Cox was turned down. Here is a
sample of those letters written to the
Republican Columbus Journal, and
it will be noticed that the writer ney-
er voted for Cox, yet predicts he Will
again be governor of Ohio:
Editor Ohio State Journal:
Il did not vote for James M.
Cox either time he was candi-
date. | admit that he was an
efficient executive; but under his
regime there were too many Off
cials and too much money was
DdlQ LOT Ju6lT SeINlCeS'
However, at this stage Of the
proceedings l am sure of one
thing. If the present legisla-
ture keeps on dalying and pro-
posing and enacting laws merely
for the sake of undoing what
their predecessors did or be-
cause the members do not know
what they want, the next legis-
lature will be Democratic and
the next governor will be man
named Cox.
Il am by no means the only
man to make this prediction. A
good many voters begin to think
they have been fooled, and that
as a reform legislature the pre-
sent body is a conspicuous fail
ure. Decentralization is a good
thing within certain limits, but
it can easily be carried to an alb
surd extreme. If Governor
Willis wants to save the Repub-
lican party in this state he will
find no more effective means
than by making his personality
more prominent in the legisla-
ton. People care far less about
who is responsible for laws than
they do for the character of the
laws.
CHARLES w. SUPER" b"
Athens, Ohio March H."
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

IL was Carlyle who said that no
good book, or good thing of any sort,
shows its best face Mt first. Yet crit
les of Democratic constructive legis-
lation carp because IL has failed to
bring full results before the ink Is
fairly dry on the printed statutes.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

You will admire every pattern in
Kendell's large stock of Wall Paper.
We'd like to show you and tell you
the price. We don't want your mon
ey unless you are pleased.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26
Athens, Ohio March H."

Government chemists have discov-
cred method of treating petroleum
by which the output of gasoline will
be doubled and provide a supply OF
products necessary in the making of
dyes and high explosives. These were
problems that baf1ed the experts Of
the big corporations that are inter
ested in these industries. Where
the public benefits is that these dis
coveries by government chemists will
be available to all who can make use
of them. If the experts of the big
industrial corporations had made
them, the economics and the profits
would have been theirs.-Common-
er.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

Colonel Roosevelt is still proclaim
ing his belief that the "surest way TO
avoid war Is to be prepared for IL. "
There are seven or eight nations In
Europe that the colonel will be COM
PEELED to pass over in selecting Wit
nesses to support his claim.-Com-
mOner.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

retary of the new State Board of
Agriculture to $4,000 from $4,000,
and they emitted Shrek that could
be heard six miles up the Olentangy
river That was dummed foolish
ness. They wouldn't stand for it,
and by heck, they didn't.
Now they are in full cry after the
fees paid by the city .fellers" for au-
tomobile licenses. They want them
only sent out to fix up clay roads in
their townhsips and to help them re-
duce their taxes. And, by jing, it
looks like they are going to get away
with it. oh, it's great to be an hon
est farmer and a member of the Cen
eral Assembly at one and the same
time.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

The Plain Dealer aptly refers to
Governor Willis as the chief saloon
keeper Of the state" applying to him
the definition he created for his pre-
decessor. who enforced rigidly the
provisions of the license law. The
p. ID. should call Wills the "chiefest"
because the home rule amendment,
which was elected with Willis by the
unprecedented vote in Hamilton
county, provided him with forty-fve
more counties TO boss.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

minority will transform it into a ma
jority, when the ballots are cast
again.-Otawa Sentinel.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

To date Governor Willis has not
restored a single overflow to the
state house, Calamity, please copy,
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26
A NATTER OF BUSINESS

The William p. Frye was a sailing
ship carrying a merchandise cargo,
Members Of her crew were saved.
She was sent to the bottom by a Ger
man captain engaged in raiding and
acting, he says, upon his best infor-
nation as to the nature of his duties.
The sinking of the Frye was not an
unfriendly act, and the results are
such that there is no difficulty in ar
irving at what should be done The
question of punitive damages may
arise, but in its minor consideration.
Adequate payment for the actual loss
to owners is the important matter.
1t is not at all probable that Ger
many has any objection to making
adequate amends.
Other cases of this kind have oc-
Cured in other wars. Other cases
will occur in this war if il remains
long in progress. The occurrence is
not one that could lead to a breach of
cordial relationship between nations
whose relations are sincerely cordial.
The case of the United States, as
best friend of the owners of the Frye,
against the German government, as
employer of the captain of the Prinz
Eitel Friedrich, is much like the case
of a farmer against a railroad whose
train has run over his COW. The es-
sential difference is that the case can
not be tried before a corporation bait
ing jury and the damages assessed
are likely to be fair.
The captain of theEitel was acting
upon a wrong understanding of his
duties when he destroyed the Frye,
but there is no ground of charging
him with intention to commit a wan
ton act against the United States
Louiville Courier-Journal
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

What's the matter with US any
way? Big crops for two years and
now war time prices for grain and
the money piling up in the banks
The deposits in Chicago banks alone
increased $9O,O00,000 the first six
weeks of 1915. We are better off
than we know, stronger than we rea-
lize. We have not lost our skill, nor
initiative, nor vitality. We're scared.
We are like lot of people at a fun
eral: the Service is over, its time to
go, every body wants to leave, and
each hesitates to be the first to start.
The buy it now" and the build it
now" and lot of do it nows" are
all right. While our smypathies for
others in distress naturally depress
us, it is time to rise above our fears
and with firm hands and brave
hearts march confidently out into our
future and our destiny And do
things.-H. H. Windsor, in Popular
Mechanics.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

senate.
AnG again, the amazed city chaps
found that a neat little jigger had
been inserted providing that in cases
of quarantine when the state orders
cattle slaughtered, the slain animals
be settled for at the going value
Some jigger, Ell? A $4,000 bull
with the hoof and mouth disease
isn't worth thirty copper cents and
the state kills him as quick as a $35
steer. But under this section when
the compensation is awarded the bull
owner steps up and gets $4,000.
Grand, isn't it? The plea was that
the live stock breeders in Ohio
wouldn't prove the strains if they
weren't protected against losses in
epidemics.
Yet in the cities if a man earning
$500 a day is placed under quaran-
tine because one of his kids has the
diphtheria and is kept shut up for
two weeks he cannot recover a nick
ell. The ehical Board of Health
can tear his home to pieces, douse
him in formaldehyde burn his clothes
and do pretty much with him as it
pleases and he cannot chirp. His
strain apparently does not need i'm
provement. He is a mere "city fell
ler", and its always open season for
him. His only chance is to have him
self registered as Holstein bull,
which, of course, is impossible as the
grangers control the registering ma
chinery.
1t also has been ascertained that
in the mad rush for the reduction of
offices and slashing of salaries the
ruthless hand of the Committee on
Retrenchment and Reform has not
fallen upon the hay and grain de-
partment which keeps its orchard,
fertilizer, commercial feed and other
inspectors as of yore Last month
the farmers abolished the once of
Secretary to the State Board of Ad-
ministration, which had charge of 21
state institutions and imposed his
duties upon the chief fiscal officer,
whose salary they cut from $4,000
to $4,000 That was real economy
This week they were invited to re-
peatand reduce the salary of the Sec
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

$4,000 pairs of Shoes will be sold
by big Pete" at last years prices
Hecan save you from soc to $1OC
per pair. For cash only.-adv.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

We have a pick of a very large
number of the latest and most pleas
ing Wall Paper patterns we have ever
seen. We think you will want some
of them when you see them and know
the price. Costs nothing to look
KINDELL'S DRUG STORE.-adv.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

number, of which six were to be far
mers.
But when it reached the floor from
the farmers committee it was discov-
cred that each member was to get
SO per diem. Rough calculation
will show that by sticking on the job
nine salaried gents could pull down
S27. 900 year as against $4,000 for
the costly Commissioners soon to be
ousted. There was an awful sputter
when this coon was pulled out of the
hen house, and the chicks" are NUT
tering that it will be put back in the
Senate.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

One remedy with many uses-Han
ford's Balsam of Myrrh.-adv.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

Don't forget the big Odd and End
Sale is still going on at Big Pete's"
For cash only-adv.
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

While the administration press or
gans are tearing their shirts to prove
that Farnk B. Willis is an angelic
truth teller when he charges a treas
ury deficit, and while Budget Com
missioner Fullington admits a three
million surplus Republican Treasur-
er R. c. Archer has been calmly dis
tributing nearly eleven million dol
lars among the banks, who are get
ting it under the Democratic plan of
competitive bidding, which was en-
forced first under rigid orders of
Governor Harmon isued to Treasurer
Creamer The old plan was to con-
ceal a surplus if there were any, and
let individuals profit on the interest;
and if the people inquired have a
suave clerk tell them lit was none
of their business"
The Celina Democrat. (Celina, O. [Ohio]) 1895-1921, 1915-03-26

Wow! and again help! the Smith
agricultural ripper emerged from the
senate a half a law bearing provision
that would make the salaries of the
new board members $4,000 a year,
as compared TO the maximum salar-
les of $4,000 paid to the commiss-
toner's ripped out of Office, A sec
ton fixing the per diem at $40 for
the members was the sleeper that the
rippers wanted, but the minority
succeeded in taking IL out in the
house. A substitute will be inserted
at a conference of committees which
may be just as bad, under the dicta
ting influence of a certain female
lobbyist whose influence on the ma
jority is unquestioned.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-29
BOOSTER TRIP ENJOYED
(Continued from Pare ID


Mrs. w. z. Robinson, Mrs. George
T. Baker, G.. D. Backus, A. T. Carl
son, Port Hickman, Harold Hayner,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Bagley, Mr.. and
Mrs. G. 2. Battles and son, Leon, Mr.
and Mrs. e. HI. Denu, F. s. Lycan,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Baer, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. l.. Brooks, Mr.. and Mrs. G.
M. Bacon, Mr.. and Mrs. e. A. Bar
ker, J. E. Black and family, Mr.. and
Mrs. A. A. Lord, Mr.. and Mrs. w.
P. Dyer, Mr.. and Mrs. r. H. Schu-
maker and daughters, Mrs. George
Strickland, Miss Olga Nelson, Mr..
and Mrs. A. A. Andrews, John F. Glib
bons, Charles Vandersluis, Philip
Gill and family, James Hennessy, G.
A. Huffman and wife, Joe Christie,
Mrs. p. H. Marcum, Mrs. c. M. Jacob
son, Mrs. H. Koors, F.. E. Bush and
family, Mr.. and Mrs. T. 8. Andrews,
Charles Cominskey, H. B. Brookins,
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Walsh, Henry Mil
Ter, e. M. Sathre, Mrs. William Nc
Cuaig, Alice Dyer, Mr.. and Mrs. A.
P. White, Mr.. and Mrs. Martin Ken
field, Miss Evelyn Nutting, J. K.
Given, Margaret McGee, Marie Nc
Gregor, Lillian McGregor, Elizabeth
Erickson, J. Bisiar, Del Burgess, John
Pfeifer, G. H. Slosson, Matt Phibbs,
Adolph Klein, Andy McNabb, Roy
Mckenzie, Mrs. U. Gill, ]. Fink and
Henry Funkley and family.
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-29
DID IT EVER OCCUR
TO YOU, MIR. READER

There are over a thousand words
in a column of a newspaper. If you
don't believe it, count them. When
you have counted them, write col
umn on some subject. Then write
column on another, then column
on a dozen subjects, then a column
with different subject for every two
or three lines. Then chase news
item all over town for a missing col
umn and find out that there was
nothing to it. Then write about five
columns more, and you have material
for a rather slim newspaper. Do
this today, tomorrow and next day,
The Bemidji daily pioneer., 1915-07-29
ONE YEAR OF WAR AS -
SEEN FROM VIEWPOINTS -.
OF FIGHTING NATIONS

the nation have answered the call for
industrial reinforcements (bear in
mind that 80 per cent of the British
public consists of workingmen, their
women and children); also in the
marvellous response to the prime min
ister's appeal for an adequate supply
of silver bullets. Never in the his
tory of any nation has a popular war
loan met with such success.
Has Itself to Blame.
For the apathy displayed by the
masses in the first ten months of the
war the British government has only
itself to blame. The leaders of the
nation made the mistake of entrust-
ing the entire conduct of the war on
land to one man-perhaps military
genius, but with serious limitations
on the human side, including an ut
ter inability to understand the civ
ilian temperament. For seven months
the war was conducted in secret.
Through the anonymous *teyewit-
nesses' the public was fed with an
occasional optimistic but colorless
story from the front, the burden of
which was that everything was going
along splendidly, that the Germans