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The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT
Sterling Twists The Donkey's Tail

Senator Thomas Sterling spoke
TO q good sized audience here on
Tuesday evening, on the political
issues of the day. lyndall was
represented by several auto loads
of citizens, including several can.
cidates on the county ticket, viz !:
G. G. Puckett, F. M. Scoblic, G.
E. Stoddard, VIM. McBurney, T..
A. Eads, also Siegel Green and G..
@. Terrence on the legislative tick.
ct. The speaker was introduced
by D. K. Tomlinson, local commit.
teeman. Mr.. Sterling character.
lied the issues Of the present cam.
paign as the most important since
1865. BE alluded to the exorbi-
tant claims made by the democrats
for beneficial legislation and said
that about half of the laws for
which they are taking credit were
enacted during President Taft's
administration, a number of which
he mentioned. He contrasted the
policies of the two leading parties
on economic questions and showed
the necessity for change from the
present policy if We hope to avoid
disastrous foreign competition af-
ter the close of the European war.
He made a strong address, and
his intimate knowledge of the way
matters have been handled by the
president and congress during
the present administration enabled
him to shatter many of the claims
of superior service that have been
made.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02

Don't forget to vote for John A.
Matuska, democratic candidate for
sheriff by placing a cross opposite
his name on election day, Nov. z.
He was born and raised In this
county, is 36 years of age-in the
prime of life-and has been mar
shal at Tabor for several years.
Your vote will be appreciated.
Political Advertising.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
(PoL1T1cAL ADvERT1sING.)
M. S. COOLEY
Tabor, S. D.

Tabor, S. D.
Candidate for County Superlntend-
ent Of Schools .on the Democratic
ticket.
Born and raised in Bon Homme
county; Received her early educa-
tion in the rural schools of the
county, later attending the UDiver-
sity OF South Dakota and gradual.
ed in 1907, receiving the degree of
Bachelor Of Arts,
Has had eight years experience
in teaching in the schools of Bon
Homme County.
Holds life certificate and is
we'll qualified for educational work.
Your support will be greatly ap-
preciated.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
EDI TORIAL COMMENT.
Has 'He Kept Us Out Of War;"

"He kept US out of war" is a
popular slogan with those who are
supporting Mr.. Wilson, but like
many catch phrazes it contains
very little truth. In the first place
the president can't declare war il
he wants to without consent of
congress. In the second place,
there is not, and has not been q
country in the world that has had
any desire or intention of declaring
war on us. All threats of hostili-
ties have come from the president
himself. If he has made these
threats without due cause he is de-.
serving of blame rather than praise
but if he was justified in sending
his ultimatums, and the foreign
countries have complied with his
demands then there has been no
occasion for war. If on the other
hand, his just demands have been
ignored and he has failed to take
steps to enforce them then his on
iy plea must be that he has sacri-
feed American rights on the altar
of cowardice, and the American
people have never sanctioned such
leadership. We do not want war
and do not believe there have been
any difficulties which with stronger
diplomatic handling, could not
have been settled without the sac
rifce of American lives or Ameri.
can honor, and yet without war.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
From the Tyndall Tribune.

Ducks and geese in large mum.
bers are vending their way south
ward along the "Old Muddy"
However they do it at very re-
spectacle altitude and give the poor
sportsman but little chance.
The Tyndall high school football II
team triumphed over Yankton Aca.
denny team on the local gridiron
last Saturday afternoon, the score
being 10 to 0. The boys are i'm
proving with experience and be-
fore the end of the season should
have one of the best teams in the
state.
Alfred Heitgen arrived last Sun.
day from Montana. He expects to
return the latter part of the week
in his Ford which has been in stor.
age in Tyndall this summer. He
reports conditions prosperous in
Montana and that bis father is so
we'll pleased with the country that
he does not expect to return before
Christmas.
Friends in Tyndall have received
word that Attorney L. B. French,
of Yankton, suffered a stroke of
paralysis last Sunday. Just now
serious the illness may prove is
naturally unknown at this time,
but Mr.. French's many friends in
Bon Homme county trust that his
recovery will be speedy.
Mrs. Elsie Benedict, vice. presi-
dent Of the National Women's Suf
frage League, spoke in the court
house last Friday evening. The
room was we'll filled and all who
heard her declare that her argu.
ments were presented in logical
and convincing manner.
Uncle Joe Whiting, republican
candidate for county superinten-
dent of schools, has presented the
public schools of this city with an
eight volume set of histories. The
gift is a valuable one and is appre-
ciated by the high school students
as we'll as the people of Tyndall.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02

From the Tyndall Register
q. N. McCollum arrived home
Saturday last with 5 cars of feed.
ers which he picked up near Win
ner.
Roy Lorenz and several other OF
our young lmen left Tuesday for
Montana. They 60 to look over
the country and expect to find EN-.
ployment and spend a portion Of
the winter there.
Mrs. r. A. Lorenz accompanied
her daughter-in-law, Mrs. John
Lorenz, to Scotland Tuesday. The
latter was on her way to join her
husband at Hot Springs near which
place they expect to make their
home. Mr.. Lorenz has purchased
several hundred acres OF land and
expects to engage quite extensively
IN the stock business.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
Socialism in New Zealand

A lecture was given in Mitchell
last Friday on "The Social Life
and conditions in New Zealand.
That country has adopted some
very advanced socialistic customs,
but from an industrial standpoint
it can hardly be taken as an exam
pie. 1t has per capita national
debt of $421. 30, by far the largest
of any country in the world. It's
annual expenditures exceed by
So 900, 900 90 it's revenues! We
would prefer to follow the example
of a nation that is making SUCCESS.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
Dillon Refutes Democratic Policies

Congressman G. II. Dillon ad.
dressed the voters of Tyndall at the
Cosy last Monday evening. MIR.
Dillon presented the issues in the
present campaign in clear and con.
vincing terms. He showed that
the present prosperity is not due to
any democratic legislation but en-.
tire)y to the European war, and
that when the. war is over q period
OF reconstruction will naturally fol.
low. During the period of recon-
struction it is very essential to the
prosperity of this country that the
farmers and manufacturers should
be protected by a tariff.
Mr.. Dillon also refuted the argu-
ment that President Wilson has
kept US out of war, as we now in
reality are at war with Mexico, al
though no declaration of war has
been made. More American lives
have been lost in Mexico during
the Wilson administration than
were lost during the Spanish Am
lean war. The only reason We
have not been plunged into the
European war is the fact that nei.
ther Germany nor England wish ia
engage in war with the United
States. Mr.. Dillon also took ur
the 1912 democratic platform and
showed tina. Wilson and the demo.
cratic congress have broken nearly
every plank in the platform. IT Tyn
+; dali Tribune.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
EXCHANGE NOTES

- 73 y vi
Parkston Advance. j. w. Peck
ham went to Scotland on business
Monday, and while there had tho
pleasure of q nice little visit at The
]. Z. Quinn home. Mr.. and Mrs.
Quinn have just moved into their
line new residence, and have one
Of the most beautiful and we'll az.
ranged homes it has ever been our
pleasure to inspect. The family
are we'll pleased with their Scotland
location, and Mr.. Quinn is enjoy.
ing a large law practice there.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
Wanted-A Real States Attorney

a A .
One of the most important Of
fees in the county is that of states
attorney, and the need for more
efficient service than we are now
getting in that Office is very ap.
parent TO anyone who has had any
opportunity to observe. F. M.
Scoblic is an attorney of recogniz.
ed ability, and his integrity has
never been questioned. He has
previously held the Office and gave
good service, and vote for him
will be in the interest of good gov.
ernment and honest service.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
Dillon to Have the Last Word

Congressman G. H. Dillon will
speak in the opera house here on
Monday evening, November 9th.
This will be the evening before elec-
tion and it will give him the oppor.
tunity to get in the last word. Mr..
Dillon is a good speaker, and his
experience in congress has put
him in close touch with the ma
tional issues in which the voters
are interested.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
EDITORIAL COMMENT

perior in the county. eiegel Green
for representative has also had
previous experience and made .
good record in the last legislature,
and @. Terrence is a young man of
good ability and can be relied up.
on to give faithful service to his
constituents.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
Why a Constitutional Convention?

The amendment providing for
calling a constitutional convention
is one that should be voted down.
Our constitution is easily amended
and we shall get better results by
revising it section by section as the
occasion may require, than by at.
attempting to make a lump job OF
it.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
Is Our Unnatural Prosperity Safer

Last Thursday, while President
Wilson was declaring that our pres.
ent prosperity was not the result
of the European war, and that we
have nothing to fear from foreign
competition after the war closes,
the administration authorities at
Washington were anxiously con-
sidering the alliance entered into
by the allies to control commerce
after the war. This alliance will
dominate the supply of certain raw
materials which it is said will con.
etitute a distinct menace to this
country.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
Who is Backed by Wall Street?

The democratic publicity bureau
is giving prominent mention of the
declaration of Jacob 81. Schlff in
favor of Wilson. Schlf is men,
ber of the great Wall Street bank.
ing house of Kuhn, Loeb &
Co. How does this tally with the
previous claims that Wall Street
was all for Hughes? ?
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02


Tho South Dakota Edusa Y
Association i % b hsld . g1J
town from November 05zI
Several counties 81 ths stats lIyo
already sent il ! 1OOe6 snroj llnsnt
Of their teachers. Thus n Bon
Homme county has only enrolled
three. Whether : teacher canat..
tend or not, she may become s
member by paying tho enrolment
fee Of 81 which also entities her to
= copy Of the proceedings of the
meeting. Teacher's wishing % On.
roll may do 30 by sending in ths
required fee to this Office.
To encourage an interest ii spell.
ing the county superintendent has
furnished each rural teacher ia the
county with spelling certificates,
which will be issued for every fif.
teen perfect lessons il this subject.
After receiving three Of these small
certificates the pupil will receive !
Reward Of Honor certificate. When
he has earned nine small ceStifi.
Gates he is entitled to q Spelling
.Diploma. We hope that every boy
and girl will endsavor to earn one
of these certificates every month.
State Supt. 9. H. Lugg has fur
nished sufficient public health
charts for every school in Bon
Homme county, with his request
that every teacher post one il her
school room. Already many Of
these charts have been delivered TO
the teachers and the remainder
will be delivered soon.
The school house in Pleasant
Valley Dist. No. rs burned to the
ground on Sunday morning. This
was indeed unfortunate, but the
district intends to build . new up.
to-date building at once.
Maxon District No.. 80 opened
the 28rd with Mr.. @: E. Frederick
as teacher. We are indeed glad to
know that the, board secured his
services for another terms work.
The teachers attendance certi-
ficates for the district institute
held at Tyndall we're mailed direct
to the clerks of the various dis
tricts.
Lake Point District, No. 65 and
Running Water District No. IS are
planning to erect new school
buildings next years
The true object of education
should be to train the mind to
think clearly and act rightly-Van
Dyke.
There were twenty-five appli.
cants at the teachers examination
last week.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
Fulton, The Man of Many Parties

Ex.C Congressman Fulton, of Ok
lahoma, is stumping this state for
Mr.. Wilson, and is being advertis-
ed as a progressive republican. In
bis home state he is known as a
democrat, and was elected to con.
gress as such. He was defeated
Tor re. election by a republican.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
John D. is A Public Benefactor

John D. Rockefeller has stood
his full share of abuse, but just
now he is the only man in the coun.
try that is showing mercy on an
afflicted people. Gasoline is the
only commodity that is going down
in price.
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02
The Republican Legislative Ticket

Bon Homme county republicans
have put up q strong legislative
ticket this year. For senator J..
q. Stephens has had experience in
that line Of service, and has no su-
The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-11-02

Word for the Army Mule.
An army mule is better than IN
automobile II his chauffeur knows how
to crank him up. Boston Transcript.
The Huttig news., 1916-03-18
.DR. bR0UCH 0N
 NEGRO QUESTION FAvORS NEGROES HOLDING 20. lITlcAl POSITIONS IN SOUTH AND IN ARKANSAS.
CRlTlCIzES CHURCH PEOPLE
Net In Symr athy With Separate
 Schools, Churches, Nor Cars for Whites and Negroes-SevereIy i Criticized by Papers in South.

The Arkansas Gazette of January 3, 1915, published Dr. Brough's annual report of the University Commission on the Southern Race Question" Dr. Brough commenced his report by stat ing that "A condition, not a theory, confronts us in the South," and after speaking of how much the white peo- pie and negroes were together during the days of slavery, he continued as follows:
 This close social contact Of the races has now almost entirely disap- peared. In the Southern States gen, erally there are today no points of so- cial contact whatever where the two races meet and exchange ideas. Sepa- rate schools, separate churches, sepa= rate telephones, the Jim Crow law, restrictions of the ballot, not to men, ton violent anti-negro political agita' ton in at least two of the states have produced an alienation of the two races without parallel Every
The Huttig news., 1916-03-18

Arkansas-in fact, the best man they could find in the South-hence they made him chairman of the commission, which. as stated. has for It's object showing the white folks of the South how to handle the negro question.
 He stated further:
 Social solidarity is inexorable Se- gregation in the departments of pub lie service, railway and street cars, and even in cities, may be exceedingly just, but the idea of farm segregation as proposed by Clarence Poe, editor of The Progressive Farmer in my humble opinion. proposed as means of giving the white man a better chance in agricultural and industrial competition with the negro, seems a travesty upon Anglo-Saxon superiority and an injustice to the negro"
 Progressive Farmer criticizes Rrouoh's
 Opposition to Land Segregation.
 The Progressive Farmer, which has 100000 subscribers among the farm CTS of the South, and which has offices
 
 at Birmingham, Alabama. Raleigh, Memphis, Tennessee. and Is recogniz- ed as the largest farm paper in the South, had the following to say:
 There's another thing that is com, ing, men and brethren, and that no power on earth can stop, and that Is land segregation between the races a plan for permitting rural white com munities that wish to remain wtate 10 keep themselves white.
 Ut is not a plan for compulsory ne. geo segregation by large districts, but a plan for voluntary white segregation by neighborhoods.
 "It does not propose any unfairness to the negroes; 1t aims only at fair and equal chance for the white man.
 And this brings us to a further word of explanation. Dr. Charles Hill man Brsugh, of the University of Ar, kansas, is president of so-called University Commission on Southern Race Questions" whose members, Southern college professors, met in Washington City few days ago, called on President Wilson, and figured con- spicuously in the Washington papers and in the Associated Press dis patches.
 It is not fair for these gentlemen to send forth their opinion as If they were the expression of the Southern university men acting on their initia' tive and with their expenses paid by themselves, or by Southern money, when the facts are that the University Commission on the Southern Race Question was organized by gentlemen employed by Northern money to work for pushing negroes forward In the South, and its expenses are paid from some of his funds.
 Now, we repeat that Dr. Brough and his university associates may be just as honest and patriotic South erners as there are, but they ought no to want 10 shoot from ambush. w cannot believe that they want to ap pear as volrgtary organization o1
The Huttig news., 1916-03-18
French Agriculture.

Since the outbreak of the war the French government has been fully alive to the paramount importance of the agricultural problem, which has been rendered all the more difficult of solution by the drain which the general mobilization made upon labor. In spite of the great sacrifices made by the women of France, who, since the war began, have undertaken agri- cultural work hitherto performed by men, there was for c long period q serious Jack of hands This has been remedied to a great extent by the initiative of M MiIlerand, the min- sister of war. who put at the disposal of farmers territorial troops and the men in the depots who are unfit for the fighting line. Permission has also been granted to men in the trenches to return to the farms for seed time, while in the zone Of the armies off, cers in command have ordered sol diers to render help to farmers when- ever possible.
The Huttig news., 1916-03-18
For sale at Union Saw Mill Go. Store.

where Throughout the South. despite the physical contact in business way, tAe two people live and move n totally different worlds of thought and feeling, and that is one of the chief causes of the growing danger of the Southern situation.
 Dr. Brough continued as follows:
 The effect of this social isolation of the negro is of the greatest i'm. portance for both white and black. The closing of the door of equality of opportunity to the negro, and his persistent intellectual and moral pau. perization must in the end react upon the civilization of the white"
 The association between whites and negroes during the days of slavery, which Dr. Brough regrets, has been Tn a measure discontinued, and was quite a different thing to the kind of asso- citation that would exist Il his ideas upon this proposition should prevail today. In ante-bellum time negroes and whites did not associate as equals. Negroes were not clamoring for so, cial equality; they did not presume on any kindness shown them, or take advantage of any familiarity with them as they would today if the close social contact should prevail that is advocated by Dr. Brough.
 From the quoted statements, we reach the conclusion, (and there can be no other conclusion), that Dr. Brough is in favor of social equality; that he is opposed to the Jim Crow law and Is in favor of it's repeal SC that the negroes may ride in the same coaches with the whites, that he fs opposed to separate schools for whites and blacks. and is, therefore, in favor of their consolidation; that he is op posed to separate churches for whites and blacks and is, therefore, in favor of the whites and blacks belonging tt and going to the same church.
 The Southern people know how '' treat the negro as they should h'
The Huttig news., 1916-03-18

treated, and the Southern people and the negro are satisfied. About the only trouble the Southern people have with the negro is when some North ern negro, educated in schools where whites and blacks go together, who worships where whites and blacks worship together, comes south and stirs mp trouble among the negroes, or when some fanatical dreamer un' dertakes to agitate social equality Tn the Southern States.
 We also have the following Ian, gnage. taken from this famous report of Dr. Brough:
 'In 1914 there are over 4,000 negroes in the Government Postal Service; al together there are 22,500 negroes in the employ of the U. s. Government.
 pr. Brough boasts of the fact that there are 22.500 negroes on the gov ernment payroll, when everyone knows that these negroes were put on the government payroll by Republi can administration; that most of them are in the Northern States, and that 1t was done solely for the purpose of controlling the negro vote in the doubtful states The Doctor knows that the Southern people will not now. nor will they ever, tolerate the negro holding office in the South, and that the entire South resented the appointment of a negro postmlstress at Indianoia, Mississippi, by Roose welt.
 He said further:
 Again. it may be fairly urged that the white churches of the South have been pursuing a penny wise and pound foolish economy in dealing with the moral religious uplift of the members of the weaker race. Do we mean to say that one per cent per member is doing our share in evange lizing the whole race? God pity the Southern Christians, the Southern churches and the Southern States II we do not awake to our responsibility in this hour of opportunity The Methodists averaged less than the price of a cheap soda water, and the 1.4-.4o444 .P--at CouEc1L1J=t, rep 1 senting over 100000 white Baptistsl asked only one.half cent per member for this tremendous work"
 It appears further on in his address Dr. Brough could see a silver lining tc the black cloud because he stated that the pro ylems of race adjustment are becoming less acute, and in support of his statement said that negroes ire quently serve on juries in Southern States The facts are that about the only time the negro serves on a jury in Southern States is in Federal courts. presided over by Republican Federal judges, and that it is always resented by Southern people.
 When the so-caIled University Com mission on the Southern Race question was organized. they wanted someone to spend their money that was in sym pathy with their movement and 1T harmony with their ideas. Dr. Brough was the best man they could find ID