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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-11-02

Wall street has nc great love for
President Wilson Well. why should
Wall street like him when he pushes
through such legislation as the federal
income tax which is the first effort
ever made n this country 10 FAX wealth
instead OF neCessftv2 And we imagine
that Wall street doesn't exactly love
him for pushing through that federal
inheritance tax bill
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-11-02

William Eliza Williams. now serving
his second term as congressman
large from Illinois and the nominee
Of the democratic party for reelection,
IS the only candidate for congress
man at-large on either ticket not re-
siding in Chicago. ana it rs to the i'm
terests % the people dewustare to
keep him in congress
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-11-02
The Girl at the Pie Counter.

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pia4osaaEr ana mat sne gong 70 g's
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hosting Iood ~ the customers and not
+ TOT wearing o0b my listeners on your
lftpe. your comedy is old F." here do
you gel #. OUT Of me aimanacs " the
morse Jour ais. regular guys come u
mere 20 eat. 3ou ana your pals drop
been crippled for sprineing Kick in
with your dime Kid. get a weeks sup
ply Or tooth PICKS. Iresa supply OF
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~la.Ass. woman. tuesday celebrated
her 10Th birthday anniversary. She
tools advantage a- the occasion 10 .gun-
SCI wives on me management 81 =
husband sac said. Don't argue W5HH
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-11-02

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charge Ills title Is superintendent at
finance.
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Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-11-02

PAPERS thrown from ship 10 foil
the enemy have been found ia the
stomach q shark This suggests an
idea that aa- 1--WE 20 see pur -
practical use Why not train few
sharks and pat .aea 'u service as mail
rarrisrg7 Here is bunch for the
Germans J. NJ C.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1916-11-02

Ur T. c. Meyer as coroner has
saved the taE payers money Fl rs ta
their interest Is reefaef bim
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go ,'', o,t, ,,tt.
You want your aIa' '
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you uo Du .s=-. ..-..- --.-.-.
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Nhat Al"a 81 q
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hiu" ''
Reflect John Day. member pr .A-
state board H| aBGH#E.a# #HH. ... -- S-r
acienl homes. aHa SQUARE. b'-o
n ls iD lh" ptop.@ tA..a. Fl.
him
You should moi vote 10. E-oso
Thompson for states attorney because
- his politics. You should reflect
him because he has proved THAT he
can be trusted 70 safeguard Che well
fare of society and the .aEHa"er
in considering g##4.# p A4 '.lea
Ter next tuesday aai "e ee.el Fa as
promises Tine man VINO mas dome
thlnEF more .--a.."3 =" your ."5
slueFaIoh thaA .Ae 1. I-a a-
Will do SO ana So e. IS elected
--
Voting booth Thought. Blight wears
of depression started uy the Eaose-
Welt panic of 1897 are now followed ug
IN the united states q temporary
prosperity 'aet sAE Untrue DAT
isn't that better than no prosperity
The revenue b5ll which passed con-
Fress was demanded hy the new COM
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-17

ror. brutality and stark butchery. II
sickens with the sense Of mans in
humanity TO man. II makes war de-
spicable and devilish. Il conveys an
indellible lesson to all who have been
bewitched by those who have decked
out the naked hideousness Of war with
tinsel drapery.
There are also scenes % surpassine
dignity and beauty done by a master
artists hand-the signing oy the Pres
ident Of the Proclamation for volun-
teers which marked the end Of the old
regime, the Surrender Of Lee to Grant
and the assassination Of the President
in Ford's Theatre.
The tender affection in which Mr..
Lincoln is held was manifested in the
way the great audience received the
scene Of a heart-broken Southern
mother pleading with him for her son
sentenced to death as a guerilla Ev-
cry eye was dim with tears in the
strangling hush that fell on the thea
tire. What might not our country have
been saved had the problem of Re-
construction been left to the Great
Heart-the one man who comprised
within himself the resources Of the
intelligence, experience, breadth and
sympathy Of Abraham Lincolnl
"The Birth of a Nation" has my I'M
qualified approval.
This wonderful picture will be
shown at the Washington Theater
again today, matinee and night.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-17
THE BIRTH OF A NATION" PLEASED LARGE
AUDIENCE AT THE WASHINGTON LAST NIGHT

or even unborn in the stirring years
of go to 20. A boy can learn more
true history and get more of the at
mosphere of the period by sitting down
for three hours before the film which
Mr.. Griffith has produced with such
artistic skill, than by weeks and
months of study in the class room.
This drama Is a telling illustration
OF the possibilities of motion pictures
as an instrument Of instruction in His
tory.
The criticism that it exhibits the
Negro in an unfortunate light and that
it is calculated to engender racial ano-
mostly. is fully met by the considera-
ton that il represents the Negro, not
as he Is now at all, but as he was in
the days when he had just had the
chains broken from him. and when he
was rioting in the deliciousness Of a
liberty, so new aud untried, that he
hou hON JNh lNoA hoA W uhuoA oNuAu IL
and was as ignorant as a baby of the
way to use II. II is in this respect ex-
actly true to history and If it reflects
upon the Negro as he was then II is a
compliment TO the black man Of today
An exhibition of lawlessness might
not have been proper thirty or forty
years ago. Such properties change
with the passing OF time.
The battle scenes which Mr.. Grit
fifth has depicted are OF SURPRISING
power and realism. Every lover of
peace must experience a certain pain
full qualification that just at this time
the CHASTITY one thing Of carnage can
be brought so closely home to the eye,
II is one thing TO read about the
trenches. the killing and the corpses
II is quite another thing 70 have them
bodily pressed before the eye, with all
the demoniac fury that marks conflict
at close range. A we'll written de-
soription OF a battlefield allows the
place and the occasion TO be invested
with features OF magnihcence, with the
heroism OF the contestants and the
glory OF the yictors. On Grifith's
screen We see the real thing. There
Is no magnihcence, no glory, but hor-
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-17
Correspondence
Park Lake and WaIIingford

Miss Urla Mattox was in Maysville
last week.
Born to Dotson Jordon and wife a
boy. Dotson is all smiles.
Carl Carpenter of Paris was the
guest of Miss Ora Bramel last Sunday.
H. G. Rays and Miss Hattie Stages
came up from Maysville Saturday
night.
Several from this place are making
preparations to hear DR.. Blogett at
Ruggles Campgrounds July 4.
A. +. Perkins, wife and children of
Newcastle, Ind, are on a visit to their
mother and father for a while.
Mrs. Carrie Gaines and children of
Caro-, ILL.,, are in on a visit to her par
ents and other relatives here.
Born to r. W. Carpenter and wife
formerly of this place but now of
Mayslick, a daughter, Elizabeth Perry
Abun Parker died Saturday and was
buried Sunday at Foxport. Funeral
services were conducted by Rev Stot-
tier. He leaves a wife and six small
children to mourn his loss.
Married at the home of the bride
June 9th, Mr.. Clarence Ray to Miss
Artie Moore, Rev. z. T. Thacker Of
flciating. The happy couple have the
best wishes of the scribe for a pros
porous voyage over the matrimonial
sea.
Died May the Gath, Branch Gulley,
aged 80 years. at the home of his son,
Lem Gulley, near Sharpsburg, Ky. He
lived here about fifty years and was a
good citizen, loved by all who knew
him. His children have the sympathy
of this community His wife proceeded
him to the grave about two years ago
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-17
HOW ABOUT THIS, MIR. DEMOCRATl

Washington, June l5-Republican
Leader Mann made a speech in the
House today denouncing Democratic
attacks on former Justice Hughes for
resigning from the Supreme Court
Bench to accept the Republican nomi-
nation for President and declaring the
Democrats had furnished precedents in
1904 by nominating Alton B. Parker,
Chief of Justice of the New York Court
OF Appeals, and by voting on Federal
Judge George Gray at the same con-
vention. Representative Gordon of
Ohio replied that Judge Parkers stu
alton was different because he was
holding a State elective office.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-17

1t is impossible to witness the won
derful drama, THE Birth of Nation
which made its first showing at the
Washington Theater last night, and
not want to say something about it.
Everyone who has seen it is saying
something about it. When one has
been crowded upon, pressed down and
run over, it is against Nature not to
make some kind of an cutlery.
That is the way one feels when COM
ing out of the Washington Theater.
The thing is vast. 1t is overwhelm-
ing. Nothing like il has ever before
been put upon the stage.
The tension of the performance is
but a single feature OF it-but il is
that which one feels most poignantly
after three straight hours. Il begins
in an easy way but commences soon
to find it's muscle and goes on to the
end pounding upon ones senses with
blows that come heavier and heavier
more and more rapid.
1t is not apparent what are the
grounds of the objections urged
against il, nor what is the animus OF
those who are scheming to have the
exhibition prohibited by Court pro-
ceedings.
The National Board of Censorship
has approved II and when assault was
made convened again and reafirmed
their approval. The popular endorse
ment which the play has since re-
ceiyed by the thousands who are see
ing it daily will require more than
small preiudices or moral eccentrici-
ties 20 disturb. In the meantime ef-
forts TO suppress II are thus far sue
cessful in nothing so much as In Civ
ing il wider and more renumeratlye
publicity
The intimate familiarity which MIR,
David W. Grifith has shown with the
events OF the Reconstruction Period
along with the detailed scholarly
study which he has made Of the wider
territory Of events which the play
covers renders the production one OF
surprising educational value 10 those
who were either young children still
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-17
SIGNS OF DANGER.
That Should BE Needed by Maysyllle
People.

There's serious danger in neglecting
any weakness Of the kidneys. The
warning that Nature gives should not
be overlooked. If troubled by too FREE
quent passage OF the kidney secre-
tions; burning or scalding; II the Sc
cretions are highly colored and con-
tain sediment when left standing-if
you have backache, too, with frequent
headaches and dizziness, make up your
mind that your kidneys are effected
and begin using some reliable kidney
remedy. Deaths from kidney disease
base increased in the United States
alone. 70 per cent in the last 20 years.
The risk is great-you cant AFFORD to
delay. Maysville people recommend
Doan's Kidney Pills. Can you ask for
better proof of merit than the state
ment OF this Maysville resident?
w. f. Lynch, 127 w. Third ST.,
Maysville. KY, says; My kidneys
were weak and the passages Of the
kidney secretions were scanty and
painful Having used Doan's Kidney
Pills before, l again got a box and
they quickly restored my kidneys to q
normal condition"
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Lynch had Foster Milburn Co,
Props, Buffalo, N. Y.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-17
SIMPLY A CASE OF WHEN

With every mortal in this of normal intelligence and think
ing age it is simply of when"
Some may scof others may rdcue this statement but it is
true.
For instance
Walking in the straight and narrow path is matter of
puOn force of habit 1t is done only WHEN choose
The inofensve dog kicked only WHEN the kicker
chooses to descend to the level of the brute.
We go to church WHEN please, believe the minister
WHEN choose and the devil WHEN il strikes fancy
Habit and necessity have no place in any of these.
We boost for the town WHEN peases u.s. knock il
WHEN the inclination Overaks lapse into of ndif
ference WHEN our thoughts and desires dormant
We prosperous WHEN give best thought and energy
to business affairs and enjoy life the fullest only WHEN
from the shadows and bask the sunlight existence
Go where you please and the subject from any angle you
choose almost every instance life simply long of WHEN
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-17

Secretary edfeds refusal to make public the the
employed take the manufacturers will make
these to do good campaign work without the effect being spoiled
by knowledge of their official connection with administration
Secrecy has its administration pledged pess
publicity.
The public ledger. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1913-1968, 1916-06-17
MIDDLEMAN TRANSFER co.
AUTO TRUCK FOR HEAVY OR
LIGHT HAULING.

We specialize on large contracts.
Office and barn East Front street.
ONCE Phone 22S. Home Phone 500,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-07
VESSELS SUNK, GUNS OR NO
GUNS.

Much stress 10 being laid upon the
fact that the liners Persia and the
Gfengyie, which have been sunk, pre-
sumably by submarines, in the Med
iterranean are said to have carried
stern guns for purposes Of defense.
This, it is pointed out, takes them out
Of the class of unarmed merchant
men and makes them subject to the
attacks by submarines the same as
any other warship, but the fact APP
pears to be overlooked that they are
not naval cruisers and that they are
not going about the high seas as such.
but are engaged in the transportation
of non-c ombatants. men, women and
children of both neutral and bel1igerent
nations and that though they have a
gun mounted on the rear deck It is
only such as was sanctioned for ves-
sells of that character by The Hague
conference.
But whether they carried gun or
not there. has been no consideration
for commercial vessels IN the Mediter-
ranean. The Ancona was not armed
with a gun and the subsequent sink
ing of the French and Japanese liners
without warning was not based upon
any such contention so that no mat
ter whether guns are carried or not
the submarine policy there has been
to sink everything that was encoun-
tered without even respecting the re-
quirements Of international law OF
paying any attention to the rights OF
humanity.
The fact that there were guns on
the Persia and Glengyle may add to
the complications, or 1t may be used
to befuddle the issue, but it has been
made plain enough, nevertheless, thai
very little consideration has been CIV
en- to the presence or absence OF guns
in the wholesale taking Of life in the
Mediterranean submarine warfare
Nothing can apparently be allowed &c
stand in the way of ruthless destruc-
ton,
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-07

shall be able to bring all other human
wills into subsection to their own, and
SO rule all mankind, or whether the
people shall rule themselves. The
question is whether democracy shall
bend its back to the scourge and die
a martyrs death.
test, in which the progress of the race
tor q century seems to tremble in the
balance, no intelligent man has a
right to be, in his heart, neutral. No
nation, to which God has entrusted
knowledge and power, has a right to
be neutral. The only question remain
ing to 1t Is, What can it do? It Is not
to ask how it may keep itself out Of
trouble; not how it may remain at
ease and IN quiet, how it may hide
itself behind successful diplomacy, but
rather how it may help the rifrAt to
conquer the wrong. If the UnSAd
States, by throwing itself into thie
struggle, could bring about peace in
righteousness, and thus make secure
| the highest interests of humanity. it
would be verify guilty before High
| Heaven for keeping itself in its safe
and quiet nook looking On. When we
were straining every nerve to gain
our independence, we did not wish
France to look on only. And she did
not look on only. Circumstances have
changed since that day, but not the
I obligation to help the right with all
the power that God gives US.
JOHN OTIS BARROwS.
| Norwich, Jan. 6, 1916.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-07

OF officers of the United States navy.
This case arises from the fact that
there has been lodged with the state
department by the German embassy
the affidavfts OF six American mule
teers to the effect that there was q
misuse OF the Stars and Stripes by
the British naval auxiliary Bara1cng
and the additional charge made against
the crew Of that vessel Co the effect
that they killed the unarnaed crew Of
the submarine which had been sunk
by the shots from the Baralong. To
all of this Great Britain enters a gem
eral denial and asks that It be judged
on the facts secured by an impartial
board Of inquiry.
This is not the first TINS that Ger
many has presented afifdayits Of
Americans to support its contentious.
Because II has been obliged to admit
that the affldavits uphclding the claim
that the Lusftania CARRIED one or more
guns were false and that the ship was
unarmed, does not necessarily mean
that these afi1davits IN another case
should be thrown out, but In this, as
in all such cases thorough inves-
tigation is advisable and 1t In a fair
and sensible suggestion that has been
made by the British foreign minister,
who is apparently prepared to prove
that the charges are untrue.
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-07
THE WAR PRIMER
By National Geographic Society

Liechtenstein-'Tn the war of
giants, two midgets counterbalance,
San Marine in the Entente camp and
Liechtenstein in the camp of the Teu-
tonic Powers" begins a primer des-
cribing the smallest Of 0ermany's al
lies. issued today by the National
Geographic Society. "Liechtenstein Is
ter of mountain crags, situated on
the border between Switzerland and
Tyrol, and it shares the distinction
with San Marine and Monaco of being
the smallest Independent state in Eu-
rope. From almost every statistical
viewpoint, except that Of square miles
1t is considerably smaller than either
of its rivals.
"The obscure principally lies south
than 60 square miles of rocks, bleak
mountain sides, avalanches, ever
green forests. high pastureland, and
brook-scarred valley bottoms. 1t is
about IL miles long and it's width va
ries between one and miles. Its
highest summit reaehes an elevation
Of S.445. feet, the Rotf1e Wand, and
here the Vorariberg joins the Iiech-
tenstein frontier. Vaduz is the capi-
tai of the State. residence of about
1000 inhabitants, where are the gov
eminent offices and where the diet
sits. The town Is two miles south of
the Schaan railway station, beyond
the notice, the worries, and the vani-
ties of the world
Iiechtenstein possesses a constitu-
ton, given In 1862 and amended in
1873, 1895, and 1901. The national diet
consists of is members, three of whom
are appointed by the Prince, while the
remaining twelve are chosen by q
male electorate. A representative Of
Norwich bulletin., 1916-01-07
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
How Shall the War stop2

Mr.. Editor: On what conditions shall
there be peace? A right answer can
be given only as we take into account
the issue at stake. For what are ma
lions fighting? Who began the bus
mess and for what purpose? The Ger
man emperor decreed that there should
be war and without a moments de-
lay, set in motion his mighty, and al
ready modified forces. to crush his
neighbors. His one object was to con-
quer. Whatever was in his way must
get out of his way. So solemn treaties,
international agreements, the peace
full homes of -combatants, the lives
of such as might try to protect their
children and their firesides, the treas
ured art of centuries-all must be
destroyed without question and with
out pity, if they should prove to be
an obstacle in the way of reaching
the end sought. Unoffending Belgium
was the first to suffer, and the last is
the Armenian race. These people are
being destroyed as an incident of the
holy war said to have been urged
upon the Turks by the Germans, and
the work accomplished by means of
the most fiendish cruelty ever devised
by man. These things are done in ac-
cordance with the principle that the
state is everything and that individual
rights are nothing: that the govern
ment does not exist for the individual
Out the INDIVIDUAL 1OT INC government.
In this case the government is the
kaiser. Nothing is allowed against
his will. A little Prussian oligarchy,
of which he is the head, claims the
right to rule over all weaker peoples
to do this peaceably if they. can,
forcibly If they must Shall they sue
coed? Is it right that the stronger of
the nations about them should per-
NIT them to succeed without a strug-
gle to. prevent it? Not If it Is ever
right to defend the weak and the in
nocent against the strong and the
cruel. This is the question at issue,
Shall suffering human beings be grant,
ed their natural rights and privileges
Shall an inoffensive people have the
right to live? And, accordingly. shall
mothers, with their children gathered
about them, on the deck Of the boat
carrying them to their home, be ruth
Iessly sent to the bottom Of the ocean?
The question. then. to be answered
by this world-war Is not whether some
great nations shall suffer much, wheth-
er vast treasures shall be poured out,
whether the blood of armies shall be
shed, but it is whether what is right
shall prevail, whether the weak shall
be protected in their rights, whether
the poor shall be permitted to dwell
peaceably in their homes. The ques-
ton is whether a few men who claim
to have the authority of the Almighty.