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The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-09-21

you, and then you do your own thinking.
Under recent Presidents. the extravaganza
Of the Government has grown so prodigiously
that European nations are amazed. The cold
figures show that our Congress, which took
a recess a few days ago, was the most reck-
lessly and shamelessly profHgate legislative
assembly that the world has ever known.
There are 20 million families in this coun-
try, allowing members as an average; and
this Democratic Congress spent one hundred
dollars for erery family!
If the taxes were laid DIRECTLY there would
be an Instruction; but as the Federal taxes
are never seen, except IN the higher prices
paid for all ta,lft-pr0tected articles, the
people merely grumble at high prices, instead
Of at high taxes.
The high price IS the high tax; and its
collection is just as compulsory as the State
and County tax, because you have to buy stuff
to live, work, and stay clothed.
Our Democratic Congress therefore taxed
us $500. to each family, or $40. head, at one
session. Add this to your other taxes, and
then realize, if you can, the extent to which
the Privileged Interests are confiscating cur
property
All taxation is confiscation: the law con,
dennis part of what you own, and applies
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-09-21

ISN'T it about time that we Democrats were
becoming clear-eyed enough to see things
as they are, and to get acquainted with our
selves, politically?
What's the use of always staying under the
Influence Of dope, handed out to us by the
daily papers?
Let's all get sober.
Let us take charge Of our own minds, and
size up the situation for ourselves
There isn't an Independent daily paper in
any great Southern city. There isn't single
one Of them that can afford to tell you what
4 am going to tell you.
They would lose the advertisements which
support them, and they would lose every
Catholic subscriber.
Nearly all Of these daily papers are owned
by the Northern corporations which have
gobbled up our railroads, our power sites, and
the various other corporated companies which
unload their taxes upon the resident property
owners.
Consequently, you need not expect the daily
papers to give you the whole truth about any
thing affecting the Privileged Interests, the
leaders of the two old parties, and the
foreign church whose strangle-hold already
throttles the press.
Let me lay some undeniable facts before
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it to the maintenance Of governmental ma
chinery, upon the theory that you will get
the worth of your money in the administra-
ton of your public affairs, the protection of
your life, etc.
So long as your share of the confiscation
is equtably adjusted and wisely spent, you
are benefited by the confiscation; but the
moment an unfair assessment is laid upon
you, or your taxes wasted in extravaganza,
then robbery takes the place of legitimate
taxation.
AS the United States Supreme Court has
Subtitle power to tax, is the power te
destroy"
Do you feel able to pay at the rate of $40
per- capita and 500 per family in addition
to your State, County, and municipal taxes?
You are right up against that question.
The vast combinations of capital which
own the public service corporations and the
manufacturing industries, pay no tosces at all.
This seems incredible, but it is strictly true,
because of the court decisions which hold that,
unless corporation is allowed to charge up
all expenses and then clear a reasonable net
profit, over and above these operating ex-
penses, the corporate property aci1 be con-
fiScQted.
CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO.)
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-09-21

Church, SO the Church shall not lay it's hand upon
the altar of Government.
"And let say that while am Mayor, it will
not'
Earlier in his statement the Mayor reviewed
the incidents leading up to the present trouble,
telling how his Administration had authorized an
investigation of private charitable institutions in
New York, and how Commissioner KingsbUry had
safeguarded the fairness of this investi cation by
appointing on the investigating committee repre-
sentatiVes of the three principal religious denOmi-
nations of the city supporting private institutions
of this kind Thus the Jews, the Catholics, and
the PrOtestants each had representative the
committee. Continuing the story the Mayor
said:
"These men, as committee, undertook to make
examination of these institutions. What they
have found has been pretty thoroughly spread
upon the record made before Commissioner
Strong, the Governors Commissioner sitting
der the Moreland Act.
"That in some of these institutions of all de-
nominations children were found with their har
knotted with lice their scalps covered with itch
ing Sores their bodies covered with filthy clothes
that had not been changed for three weeks, their
bodies underfed and undernOurished, deprived Of
any reasonable opportunity for recreation, COM
PEELED to sit on backless wooden benches, some
of them compelled to battle, ten, fifteen
twenty-five standing in a trough of six inches Of
water many of them compelled to the same
towel after bathing, and other kindred condi-
tons"
Screaming with rage, because Mayor Nit
chel had sought to improve the wretched con-
dition of the orphans, for whose comfortable
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-09-21

The City Government must insist upon value
received in terms Of care, nOurishment, and
proper treatment, and proper living conditions in
return for the public funds appropriated to pr-
vate' charitable institutions. 1t is the moral
we'll as the legal duty of the officers of the City
Government to insist upon humane of the
city's wards. When who supposed to
stand in the community for the principles of right,
justice, religion, and obedience to the laws, out
of mistaken institutional zeal, oand themselves
together to Illustrate the due administration of
those laws, going to the lengths disclosed
by the evidence herewith presented to you, very
serious situation is created. 1t transcends in the
Importance of its effect and the significance Of it's
scope the mere breach by individuals of provisions
of the penal law. 1t touches basic principle of
American life-the reciprocal nonnterference Of
Church and State.
WOODS SUBMITS EVIDENCE.
Police Commissioner Woods letter to the
Mayor, which was inclosed to Mr.. Swami, was as
follows:
June 8, 1916.
Hon. John Purroy Mitchell, Mayor City of New
York, City Hall, N. Y.
Sir: Pursuant to your request that 1 trans
NIT to you as as complete all evidence OBJ
tanned by the police Department as to the COM
mission Of crime in connection with the investi-
cation of the State Board of Charities before the
The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1916-09-21

support the City was paying, the priests
compared the Catholic Mayor to Judas Iscar-
lot betraying his Lord
following bold appeal to public opinion:
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-03-25

in the shape Of job as law clerk.
with the public service commission
with pay at the rate of 5000 each
and every month.
Any time the roll was called In
the senate the observer only had to
know the administration desires
with reference to the pending meas
ure to know how Senator Joseph Gray
of Writ would vote Ills devotion
10 the cause was absolutely without
flaw The seareher for the reason
of this viii find it in the handbook
Of West Virginia official life. which
shows that Senator Grays son Is one
Of the physicians at the Weston Hos
pital for Insane at a salary of $1,000
a year, and keep.
There came to the senate from
Randolph county, the Honorable Noah
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be furthered and that the public
revenues are being devoted largely
to the upbuilding of a powerful and
dangerous political machine
81 believe that taxation is just only
when it is limited to the actual needs
of government economically admins
tered. and that to raise, by any sys-
tenn of taxation, revenues beyond
such actualsneeds. is unjust and be-
comes nothing more than legalized
robbery. | was convinced when vot-
ing and acting as a member of the
state senate. and | now assert, that
the revenues provided for the years
1916 and 1917 by the legislature
prior TO the extraordinary session of
1915. were ample for the legitimate
needs of the state goveT nment for
those years; and for that reason
strenuously opposed, at the last ex-
traordinary session, the passage of
those measures which further added
to the tax burdens.
1T will be found that the measures
enacted at the last extraordinary SEES
sion increased the revenues almost.
II mol QulIe, Si,UuU,ubu lot edEH Oh
the years 1916 and 1917, over those
OF any previous years, and more than
81 900, 900 in excess of the legitimate
requirements for each of those years ;
and thus placed i'm the control of the
administration S1.000.000 for each
year. to be squandered for illegitimate
purposes and for the upbuilding OF a
machine to perpetuate themselves in
power and keep open for themselves
the opportunity to further plumber the
people of West Virginia. My Demo
cratic colleagues and |, together with
the fair-minded and more progressive
Republican members of the senate, OPP
posed, every fair means at our com
mand the passage of these vicious
measures; but we were fially over
ridden by the administration men,
beers of the senate, and those meas
mes have now become the law of the
state, so that the people of West Vir-
ginia are today grooming under tax
burden greater by far than ever eX-
listed before in the history of the
state.
Il believe that the people OF West
Virginia are entitled to an honest,
economical and business-like admin
istration of the state government,
and / know that such administration
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-03-25

G keim, who had gone down to de-
feat at the election then recent, while
CALAMITY holding aloft the progressive
banner as candidate for congress
W the Second district independent?
Why, Brother Keim exuded the es-
sence Of independence when he first
arrived in ChaEeston Gradually
but not too gradually TO be noticed
he showed a change Of heart and be-
fore the regular session had halr
gone he was wearing the collar and
clankng the chains Of the adminis-
tration one Of It's most dependable
supporters. Looking through the re-
port of the state audit we find that
the insurance agency conducted By
Senator keim in Elkins had been
favored with insurance upon the
tContinued on Page Five.D
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1916-03-25
SENATOR CORY HOGG OPENS. CAMPAIGN
AT SUTTON IN Strong, STIRRING SPEECH
CANDIDATE BEGINS HIS FIGHT BEFORE A
LARGE AUDIENCE AND RIPS UP STATE ADMINISTRA-
TION-MAKES MANLY PLEA FOR THE NOMINATION
AND TELLS VOTERS WHAT THEY MAY EXPECT IF HE


THE West Virginia legislature
and republican administration ma
chine as | saw it, should have been
the title of the address made at SUIT
ton Monday by Senator Cory Hogg,
OF Fayette county, democratic aspr-
ant for gubernatorial honors. To a
large and enthusiastic audience he
talked for over an hour about the
rotten conditions in the state house
in Charleston, and in clear and
very forceful manner outlined his
policy and told what will happen if
he is put in the governors chair.
Senator Hogg paid particular at
tention to the makeup on the repub-
lican side of the house in the last
legislature and the manner in which
he scored the administration minions
was good for those who attended to
hear.
In addressing the voters Senator
Hogg said:
When the citizen of a state goes
before his fellow citizens asking their
support for high office, it is meet and
proper that he give them frankly the
reasons that impel him to such action.
together with an outline of the poll
cies by which he viii be guided in
the administration of its affairs in
case OF his election.
"A few weeks ago. | decided to ask
the Democratic party. TO which ] have
the honor to belong. for it's nomina-
ton to the high office of governor OF
the state of West Virginia basing
my candidacy upon the facts given
and the policies suggested in the
following statement"
In giving the announcement of his
candidacy to the press OF the state
Senator Hogg made the following
statement
Il have decided to become candi-
date for the Democratic nomination
for governor of West Virginia, sub
ject to the action of the Democratic
party at the primary election to be
held throughout the state on the
sixth day of June, 1916.
My experience as member of the
senate from the Ninth senatorial dis
trlct, at the regular and the two eX-
traordinary sessions of the legislature
OF 1915, has caused me to realize that
the people of West Virginia are being
shamelessly tax-ridden in order that
Inc ambitions of those in power may
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dollars a day or more should be pre-.
scented with two dollars a day extra.
That resolution, rushed through with
out opportunity for discussion, took
from the state treasury and put into
the pockets of the employees of the
senate $685. They had already been
paid SIC, 952 to do the work for which
they had been employed, and this ad-
ditional money was simply a gift from
the senate, paid from the pockets Of
the people. During the two special
sessions that followed the regular
session the cost was almost the same
proportion, the whole amount for
the three sessions, sixty-eight days,
paid FOR employees alone, being $685.
969. / want TO say that this service
should not have cost more than ten
thousand dollars at the outside
The house of delegates has SO
members, handles considerably more
business than the senate, and in the
nature OF things should have more
employees at a larger cost than the
senate, yet the amount spent for EN-.
IiOYES Nv lUt iiOuSt was 81 900 1909
than that spent by the senate. The
house spent S31.731, where it should
have spent not to exceed $4,000 The
total cost of employees in house and
senate was $4,000. when it should
not have exceeded S22 000-when
$4,000 would have gotten service in
every way efficient. Thus 194 peo-
pie were employed to do work that
would have been as well done by six
ty-fiye. and the cost was 300,
when 1t should not have exceeded
$22 900. s42,700 of the peoples money
thus frittered away, given away, at
a time when every effort was being
made TO devise ways and means to
raise more revenue. Every one of
those employees was put on the pay
roll Of house or senate because OF
work that he or his friends could be
relied upon to do for those who had
the appointing power. These people
and their friends constitute part OF
a political machine.
While we are dealing with the leg
islative era we might as well finish
UP with It..
During the regular session Of the
legislature the most uncertain mem
Der of the senate was the Honorable
A. Bliss McCrum, senator from Pres
ton county. First he would vote with
the democrats and independents
then he would switch to the admins
tration forces, going back and forth
from one side to the other in such
a way that nobody could tell where
he was TO be found on any given ques-
ton at any fixed time.
Finally, however, toward the end
of the regular session, after having
made the independents believe in him
SO strongly that they named him as
their member OF the steering commit
tee, he settled down to fairly regular
support of the administration poll
cies. During the first special session
he supported everything the admin
istration forces proposed, and when
the second special session met be
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became the spokesman Of the admin.
istration; the leader of its forces,
the chief defender of every policy 1t
proposed.
No man could figure out what had
occurred to work the change I'm Sen
ator McCrum's views and actions,
but it was not long before everybody
understood, for few weeks after
the final adjournment came the an.
nouncement that he had been APP
pointed a member OF the state board
Of control at a salary Of $4,000 year
and such travelling expenses as he
cared to use Wherever Mr. Nc.
Crum goes these days he is found
singing the praises and supporting
the candidates Of the administration
II such acts as these do not constitute
political machine building, then / do
not understand the term.
Senator Billings, of Tucker county
was another uncertain quantity dur.
ing the most of the regular session
but finally he settled down to steady
support Of the administration, and
soon after the adjournment of the
second special session he was ap'
pointed to place as inspector, or
something Of the kind, in the Work
mans Compensation department. This
position entails as | am informed, no
duty more arduous or eXacting than
that of drawing a salary Of S125 a
month have no charge to make
against these highly honorable sena-
tors. / merely state the facts.
Among the members of the senate
there was one distinguished gentle
man who stood without hitchins
throughout all the sessions-the adj
ministration always knew where TO
find him Senator r. l.. Gregory, OF
Wood county, fought the good fight
and kept the faith as viewed from
the administration standpoint, at all
times without faltering. There was
some wonder expressed as to why he
was so assidious in its service. A
glance at the report of the tax com
missioner showing the audit Of all
state expenditures for the fiscal
year ending June 30,1915, reveals the
fact that Senator Gregory, in addi-
ton to his mileage and per diem as
a member Of the senate, drew from
the state treasury, in wages and ex-
penses, the tidy sum Of S5,322S7
And he is still drawing, having been
retained since as an attorney in vari-
Gus cases to which the state IS party.
Senator Gregory may not be a wheel
in a political machine; but he is GER
tainly a good sized cog.
In that bright galaxy of senators
who could be depended upon to stand,
hitched or unhitched, Senator Dennis
Steed, OF Lincoln, was at the outset
one of the most conspicuous figures.
Finally, however, he became some
what obstreperous, and showed ten
dency TO stray from the reservation.
Then came another change Of heart.
and be finally finished the sessions
in good standing in the inner circle
OF administration supporters. And
behold He has received bis reward
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will, in four years, save to them mil
lions Of dollars and yet make ample
provision for all legitimate public
needs. And | promise that If nomi-
mated and elected governor of West
Virginia, the public business Of the
state shall have such honest, econ
omical and husiness-like administers
ton at my hands
This statement aroused criticism
ir sources from which criticism was
naturally expected 10 come, and
was challenged by the Chief Executive
OF the state to point out specific in
stances Of profligate expenditure OF
the peoples money, and to furnish
proof of the construction of a po-
litical machine. l could not, OF
course furnish such instances and
such proof in a mere announcement
of my purpose to be a candidate but
shall now proceed to do so.
The building of a political machine
means. as | understand it, filling the
Office of the government with people
not because of their efficiency, or fit.
ness, but whose services are at the
command of the appointing power
when there is political work to be
done. In other words II means the
hiring of political tools to serve spe.
cial purposes, and paying their
wages from the money taken from
the people by way of taxation. Many
times offices are created and have
been created with no other apparent
purpose than that of caring for such
political workers. That Is what !
am constrained to believe has been
done in this state. Let us look at
the record.
In 1914 / had the honor of being
elected TO the state senate from this
Ninth district, and as such member
attended the regular and special SEES
sions of the legislature in 1915. There
| noticed that ! considered a eombi-
nation of profligate expenditure OF
public funds and the building of a
machine, and my first opinion has
been strengthened by what further
study of the matter has revealed.
The senate is composed of thirty
members, and ii IS necessary that
they have assistance OF number OF
clerks and other employees in order
that the work OF the state may be
done eXpediously and correctly. A
fair estimate of the number of such
employees necessary would certainly
not exceed thirty; but the senate OF
1915 employed ninety four The pay
of these employees ranged from two
dollars day for floor pages to ten
dollars a day for the chief clerk.
those between 'tting three, four.
FIVE and six dollars per day each.
These were the wages allowed by
law--the wages thew knew they would
get when they asked for and receiv-
ed their appointments. But on the
last day OF the regular session a SEN
ator introduced resolution providing
that such employee who drew less
than five dollars a day should be
presented with one dollar a day in
addition for the entire session, and
that each one whose pay was i've
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-11
STEAMER LOADS
CARGODuRING
LONG TRIP

] First OF the Santa" steamers to
reach San Francisco via the Straits
of Magellan. from New York, in sever.
al months. was the Santa Cruz. Capt.
Watson. which locked March %. with
q general cargo
According to the Chronicle. the yes
sci brought $500 tons of freight for
San Francisco and has 5000 tons for
Puget Sound ports
Included in her cargo was large
shipment Of coffee from Santos. On
the west coast she picked up nitrate,
and when she was given pratique at
San Francisco she went to Oakland
Long wharf to discharge her nitrate
cargo.
Crossing the Gulf of Tenuantepec
the Santa Cruz ran into heavy sea.
and since she reached Lower Califor.
mia was in the grip of heavy north.
west gales. which impeded her prog.
ress to port
After discharging her cargo at the
coast the Grace steamer will proceed
to Puget Sound to deliver the remain.
der, and then will load for her re-
turn to the east coast.
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1916-04-11
sY AUTHORITY.
INVITING PROPOSALS FOR TER.
RiToRY OF HAWAII 4eo REFUND
ING BONDS, SERIES 1916.

The Territory of Hawaii under the
provisions of an Act of Congress, en-
titled "An Act to Provide a Govern
ment for the Territory of Hawaii, :"
approved April 80, 1900 (31 SITS. 141),
ss amended by an Act of Congress ap-
proved May 81, 1910 (36 SITS. 443), and
pursuant to the provisions OF an Act of
the Legislature of the Territory of Ha-
waii, entitled IAN Act to Provide for
Public Loans" approved April %,
1903, as amended, and pursuant to an
Act of the Legislature of the Terri
tory of Hawaii, entitled can Act for
Refunding Bonded Indebtedness" APP
proved April IA. 1909 (Chapter SS, Re
vised Laws of Hawaii, 1870, offers at
public sale si,750,000 Refunding Cou-
pom Bonds of the Territory of Hawaii,
bearing interest at the rate of per
cent per annum.
Bids will be received at the Office of
the United States Mortgage and Trust
Company, 55 Cedar Street, New York
City, or at the Office of the Treasurer
of the Territory of Hawaii, Honolulu,
Hawaii, until 2 o'clock of the after
noon of April %, 1916.
C. J. MCCARTHY,
Treasurer, Territory of Hawaii
6420-Mar. IL, IA, 81, %, April 4, IL,
IS, 25.