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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

other takes its place. Last April the
County License Board OF Franklin
county ordered certain hotels to close
rooms frequented by girls and in
which liquors were served. One OF
the proprietors carried the case to the
courts and the court held that the
license board could not successfully
maintain such prosecution OF the
proprietor. This shows that they not
only exist, but have succeeded in OBJ
tanning the sanction of courts.
1.-THE number of prosecutions of Ii
censed places for Sunday violations,
sales to minors and habituals, and vio-
lations of state and federal laws is
constantly increasing. For the year
1915 the state commission reported
81 such prosecutions by them, and for
the next year they reported IFS, which
shows that in one year the number of
licensed persons to be apprehended by
the State Board for violations in
creased one-half These figures do
not include the many arrests made by
city and county police for the same
Saloon in Politics
"The selection of the various coun-
ty license board members is left to
the state commission and, it is
known fact, in almost every instance
the State Board in making its ap-
pointments, follows the recommenda
tions of the county committee of that
party to which a majority of the
State Board belongs. When it is re-
membered that such partisanism is
practiced in the appointment of state
and county boards-the boards which
are charged with enforcing the liquor
laws, within whose power it lies to
grant and deny licenses-nced any
further argument be advanced to prove
that the saloon in Ohio is still in poll
tics?"
Further testimony tending to prove
that license control can never solve
the liquor problem is given in the
writer's summary:
Prohibition Only Cure
mo, the license system has not
stopped agitation, it has increased it;
it has not eliminated brewery domi
nation; the bootlegger can still get
supply of wet goods and that is all
he needs; its inhibition against the
immoral character is ineffective; the
baneful influence of the traffic is in
herent, license has not and cannot re-
move it; and the saloot. in Ohio is
deeper in politics than ever. The Ii
cense system has not redeemed one
promise made for it.
81 early learned, as member Of
the license commission, that just as
soon as the state attempted to regu-
late the traffic, the traffic attempted
to dominate the state, and, if not
-svvrt4rows, the traficy through the
license system, will become the mas
ter.
"When the cry in the world is for
bread, not booze; when the need of
the hour is men, not drunkards; when
conservation, and not waste, is dom
inant necessity; when efficiency, and
not frivolity is civilizations only
hope; and when booze attempts to
master the state. there is but one al
ternative-Prohbition. The traffic
must 60"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
MACK LEAGUE DENOUNCED

The synod of Ohio, Presbyterian,
went on record at its meeting in Co
lumbus as favoring statewide Prohi-
btion. The Anti-Saloon League was
endorsed. but the so-called Law En-
forcement League, of which r. A.
Mack is the head, was denour ced.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
LAW IS UPHELD

A Chickasha, Okla, jury upheld the
new state bone-dry law by sending
John Tucker, former deputy in the
United States Marshal's office, to the
penitentary for five years for selling
intoxicants. fuckers was the first
case to be tried under the law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26
LICENSE OR PROHIBITION


The best evidence in favor of Pro-
hibition is the record of its success in
dry territory. The strongest proof of
the failure of license is the record of
its failure in wet territory. The fall
ure of license in the state of Ohio is
told in the current number of the
Commoner by ]. II. Secrest, formerly
Assistant Secretary of State and men,
Der of the State License Board of
Ohio.
The Ohio license system, which is
referred to by many as a model Ii
cense law, has been in effect for about
FIVE years. The advocates of license
in urging its adoption, gave assurance
that:
Claims for License
I. It would stop agitation by solv-
ing the liquor question.
2. 1t would destroy brewery domi-
nation of the traffic.
y. II WOuiQ QNotioS pootie6 6hbt
the speakeasy and blind tiger.
4. 1t would afford control of the
traffic which could regulate the saloon
and saloonkeeper, thus destroy the
baneful influences of the saloon, and,
through the inhibition against the
moral character, it would put the traf-
fc in respectable hands.
s. 1t would remove the saloon from
politics.
In discussing the result of the Ii
cense law, Mr.. Secrest writes: I'm the
measure, it has accomplished these
ends has the system succeeded or
failed" The writer then shows in
detail how each claim made for sa-
loon regulation under Ohio's model
license law has proved failure. The
following extracts from Mr.. Secrest's
article which we give in the order of
the above claims made for license
show how completely regulation has
failed in Ohio.
The Failure of License
at has not stopped agitation because
it has not solved the liquor question.
Since the adoption of the system we
have had two statewide Prohibition
campaigns, and are now in the throes
OF a third.
1.-THE brewers still dominate the
traffic. In the State Auditors office
is an abstract of the liquor license du-
plicate of Hamilton county, one Of
the largest counties in the state. This
abstract shows that, in this one coun-
ty alone, the breweries own IA pieces
of real estate in which licensed sa-
looms are conducted. Similar condi-
tions prevail in other counties. =. /.
"Bootleggers, speakeasies and blind
tigers still flourish. During the two
years / was on the state commission
we prosecuted 1913 unlicensed persons
or bootleggefs, most OF them in wet
counties. Reference to the reports
4eSs OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES show .thst
they had 502 such prosecutions for
the year 1915 and o02 for 1916, the
most of these cases being in wet
counties. The record shows that un-
der license, the number of bootleg
gers has increased instead OF de-
creased.
Blind Pigs Numerous
"a survey of the daily papers with
their daily reports of arrests and raids
will convince any one that when one
Objectionable place is wiped out, an
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

In Iowa the vets want to cut down
the good tree of Prohibition BECAUSE
a few bootlegger insects spoil }ome
of the fruit. In Chicago the liquor
interests want to save the bad sjloon
tree by spraying to kill the music
and dancing bugs.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

During its recent session Congress
received petitions from labor unions
protesting against Prohibition. NOT
A SINGLE UNION FROM A PRO-
HIBITION STATE was found to be
among those who were said to be
against Prohibition law.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

William Parks was shot and fatally
wounded by Edward Walsh, in sa-
loon at Rock Springs, Wyo. Walsh
was looking for another man with
whom he had had trouble, and shot
Parks by mistake.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

Drunkenness may turn even al sol
der who has no criminal instincts
into brute who may commit outihges
at which he himself would be shocked
in his sober moments.-Hon. James
Bryce, former ambassador from Eng
land to the United States.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

Even the liquor dealers realize that
the burial of John Barleycorn is not
great way off.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-10-26

It is the bar in cabaret that does
the harm.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

the Carrel treatment. AS a result of
an appeal by American admirers of
DIR. Carrel to M. franklin Bouillon, the
latter persuaded the government, in
the person Of NJ Painleve, to study at
first hand the use of the Dakin fluid.
The correspondent was present when
the minister of public instruction, who
was the first member of the cabinet to
take such step, visited the Button
hospital, close by the Pasteur institute,
to see for himself the miracles worked
by DR.. Shutro with the treatment de
veloped by DIR. Carrel DR.. Shutro is
perhaps the ablest Of DR.. Carreps few
disciples in France.
M. Painleve was astonished at the
simplicity Of the system, which 1s mere
~ the washing Of the wounds with
bleaching lime diluted in water, with a
percentage Of soda added to neutralize
the caustic effect Of the lime. At the
foot Of each bedstead in the Button
hospital is strapped a wooden post, to
which a bottle containing the fluid, pink
in color, is attached. From the bottle
thin rubber tube carries the solution
to four small glass tubes. from which
the wound is flushed every two hours.
Thus the dressings are kept moist and
the wound Is freed from infection.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
PRESIDENT ELECTRIFIES
WASHINGTON BY ADDRESS
LONDON PAPERS COMMENT
ON PRESIDENTS ADDRESS

ourselves and our adversaries in the
war. The president has no intention
of taking any part in the actual ne
gOtiatiOns Of terms of peace. That he
leaves wholly to the belligerents. He
simply comes forward now to state in
unmistakable terms, both for his own
people and for the other people Of the
world, every one of whom is directly
concerned, what kind of peace it is
that he will consent to call upon his
countrymen to approve and sustain
Asking how the belligerents will re-
gard it, the paper thinks it's principles
and phrases will be hardly palatable
to autocratic rulers or easily recon-
ciled to their traditions and methods
of government. But yet, if the peo-
pie hear them gladly, perhaps the
government also may find it wise to
find in them a path of safety. AS for
ourselves they are our terms, or if
they are not, they ought to be and the
mass of the nation will do we'll to see
that their rulers render to them every
possible favor and support
Referring to the presidents "nobly
concluding Words the Guardian says:
These are words which will find an
echo in many hearts an words are
sometimes Deeds"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

porary houses were built on it's deck,
and by the middle of March more
than 1900 gold hunters had left for
California.
Much trouble followed those who
passed through Mexico, on account Of
the bitter feeling that had been en-
gendered by the recent war with that
country, and all along the route
through Mexico we're said to be
strewn the bones of those who had
been murdered
Early in March the great emigra-
ton overland began, and scores of
companies and thousands. of men at
tached to no company set off for the
gold fields. In less than three weeks
it is said, 1850 wagons crossed the
Mississippi at st. Joseph and 1900 at
Savannah Landing and Council
Bluffs. The country, it was said, for
miles and miles represented a great
tented field. Toward autumn the first
Of the overland emigrants came
across the mountains. In
less than two years after the discov-
cry of gold close to 100000 emigrants
found their way to California in
search of the yellow metal.-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
Don't Neglect Kidneys
SWamp-RoOt, DIR. Kilmer's Pre-
scriptiOn, Overcomes
Kidney Trouble.

It. is now conceded by physicians
that the kidneys should have more
attention as they control the other
organs to a, remarkable degree and
do a remarkable degree Of work in
removing the poisons and waste mat
ter from the system by f1ltering the
blood.
The kidneys should receive some
assistance when needed. We take
less exercise, drink less water and
often eat more rich, heavy food,
thereby forcing the kidneys to do
more work than nature intended. Evil
dence of kidney trouble, such as lame
back, annoying bladder troubles,
smarting or burning. brick dust or
sediment, sallow complexion, rheu-
matism, may be weak or irregular
heart action, warns you that your
kidneys require help Immediately to
avoid more serious trouble.
An ideal herbal compound that has
had most remarkable success as a
kidney and bladder remedy is Dr.
Kilmer's Swamp-Root. There is
nothing else like it. It is Dr. Kill
mer's prescription used in 4 private
practice and it is sure to benefit you.
Get a bottle from your druggist.
However, if you wish first to test
this great preparation, send ten cents
to DR.. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton,
NJ, Y, for sample bottle. When
writing be sure and mention The
Bridgeport, Daily Farmer.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
PARIS NEWSPAPERS
COMMENT ON SPEECH

Paris, Jan. 23-President Wilson's
address to the senate is printed in
full in the most prominent place by
all the morning papers and comment
as a whole is sympathetic but skepti-
cal. The Petit Parisien says:
1T seems that President Wilson. as
in his previous note, has mistakenly
placed the states attacked and the
aggressors on the same footing, when
the distinction was an easy one
which he was in conscience bound to
make.
with that stipulation we can only
subscribe to the formulate which the
president sets worth as basis Of fu-
ture peace. None of his conceptions
can offend us. They are ours. They
were ours long before 1917. We GER
tainly will not oppose them. 1t gives
us only pleasure to see these plans
for liberty and justice eloquently up
held by Mr.. Wilson. But what will
Germany and Austrias ay'
The Matin says:
I'm entire agreement with Presi-
dent Wilson as to the principles enun-
ciated by him he nevertheless shall
believe, until more fully informed,
that there is a portion of humanity
on which these principles must be i'm
pressed by force, for it would be err
roneous to suppose that they could be
led to accept them from conviction
The Journal says: 'Mr. Wilson is
obsessed with the idea Of inaugural
ing for the world a golden age of uni
versal brotherhood. His whole mes
sage is dominated by that noble
chimera, and that must be invoked
as an excuse In order to alternate the
impression which this extraordinary
manifesto cannot fail to make on the
Allied countries. I
Mr.. Wilson's scheme is simple of
belief, except that it requires a. new
type of 'man. Does Mr.. Wilson in
tend to change human nature?"
Gustave Herve writes in the Vic
toire: What a pity it is this mastery
page of social philosophy is marred
and almost disfigured by those three
little words: Peace without victory"
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
MILFORD MAN DYING
OF TETANUS CAUSED
BY COLLAR BUTTON
Especial to The Farmer.)

Milford, Jan. 23.-Charles Diggs of
Indian River, a janitor in local
school, is dying Of lockjaw, which is
attributed to a collar button.
Diggs refuses to go to a hospital,
and he is supported in his wish by his
daughter, Mrs Olmstead, trained
nurse, who insists on attending him
at his home.
According to DR.. Carlton Heady.
who is treating Diggs, an abrasion
was caused by Diggs' collar button, ON
the back of his neck, and last Tuesday
1T became infected. Tetanus devel-
oped and his neck, jaw and body
gradually became stiff.
It was said today that his life has
been despaired Of He has been able
to take only half a teaspoonful of Ii
auid at intervals, and spasms have
followed each feeding
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
TRY THIS FOR A,
C0LO--IT'S FINE.
'Pape's Cold Compound" ends
severe colds Or grippe
in few hours.
Central NEWS PHoTo SERVICE. NEW YORK.

You can end grippe and break up
sever cold either in head, chest,
body or limbs, by taking a dose of
"Pape's Cold Compound" every two
hours until three doses are taken.
It promptly opens clogged-up nos
trils and air passages in the head.
stops nasty discharge or nose run
ming, relieves sick headache. dullness..
feverishness, sore throat, she ling,
soreness and stiffness. AL
Don't stay stuffed-up! Quit blow
ing and snuffling! Ease your throb-
bling head-nothing else in the world
gives such prompt relief as :.'Pape's
Cold Compound which costs only Is
cents at any drug store. 1t acts with
out assistance. tastes nice, and causes
no inconvenience. Be sure you get
the genuine.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
THE LURE OF GOLD
How it Drew the Half Crazed East
ito California in 1840.

One of the most exciting PERIODS IN
the United States OF a commercial
character was the wild rush of people
from the eastern part Of the country
to California in 1913 and 1849, fol-
flowing the announcement of the ex-
tensive discovery of gold. It looked
as if the faces Of all eastern people
were turned west through the exag-
gerated stories that were published
of the vast quantities Of the yellow
metal that were everywhere in evil
dence.
The height of the excitement was
reached when OF Dec. 5, 1848, Presi-
dent Taylor announced the discovery
in his message. The abundance OF
gold was such, he said, as could hard
ly be believed were it not for the re-
ports of officers on the public service
who had seen the mines.
i The first question that entered the
mind of the eastern prospector was
how to reach the diggings. Till spring
came the overland route was closed
But the way by sea was open and to
jewellers on the seaboard was far the
better
Then began series Of most I'M
usual advertisements in the newspap-
ers Manufacturers Of rubber goods
advertised tents, beds, gold bags and
camp outfits. One. publisher got out
a book containing 81 engravings of
implements used in washing gold
from sand. A manufacturer advised
all going to the gold country to take
along one Of his gold washing ma
chimes. Such advertisements as can
oyster house will be sold low; pro-
10 Vol 10 a
"For sale, for a hundred dollars, half
a light, easy business that plays a
handsome profit, as the advertiser is
going to California became COM
mon. Il
Every ship, brig, schooner or sloop
that was half fit to go to sea was
scraped, painted, fitted with hunks or
cabins and advertised as an AL, fair
sailing, copper bottomed, copper nail
ed vessel, bound for San Francisco
direct or via Chagres Before the
middle Of December four ships load
ed with adventures left New York,
and six others were to sail in a few
days.
A New York paper found fifteen
vessels loaded for California and re-
ported many more ready to go to
that country from Boston, Salem,
Philadelphia, Baltimore and New Or
leans.
Many went out as individuals while
thousands Joined companies or asso-l
Citations which chartered or bought
ships, Many associations chartered
ships and sent them around the
Horn, while they journeyed overland.
Many of these associations had odd
titles-as, for instance, "the New
York Yellow Fever company"
By the end of January, 1849, 80
vessels had set sail for San Francisco
via Cape Horn, IA for Chagres and
two for Vera Cruz, carrying, all told,
over $500 passengers.
The newspapers spread broadcast
all sorts Of exciting rumors, and with
the arrival of each batch of letters
the gold fever ragged more f1ercely
than ever. A letter from a gentle
man in California stated that Jumps
of gold pound in weight had fire.
quently been found and that good
sized pieces could be dug from the
crevices in the rocks. Every ship
that sailed was so crowded that tenn
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
TAILOR BANKRUPT.

Joseph Fishelberg, a tailor of
Bridgeport, fled a petition in bank
ruptcy yesterday and he made oath
that he did not have the money Ito
pay the filing fee. His liabilities are
listed at $1,204.22, all unsecured. AS
sets consisting of certain equipment,
are valued at $50
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
KILLED BY EXPLOSION.

Santo Domingo, jan 23-Many
persons on board the Dominican coast
steamer Carib were killed and others
were severely injured by the explo-
sion of the steamers boiler, which
completely wrecked the vessel.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

Tomorrow, Wednesday, will be Pre-
Inventory Bergain Sales Day; 81, SIS
Sc articles including winter hats, pet
ticoats, shirt waists, furs and wells
for So at E. H. Dillon & Co., 11O5
Main street.-Adv.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
Pays For Fan Stolen Years Aao.

Pays For Fan Stolen Years Ago.
Greenville, S. CA woman who is
seeking to make peace with her Max
err as she expresses it, and who finds
that something is hindering her has
sent to local dry goods company 25
cents to pay for fan which, she says,
she took from that company twenty
five years ago. The woman now lives
in North Carolina. In the letter she
stated that she stole the fan and that
her conscience has hurt her.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
Railroad Director at Sixteen.

Aurora, Ill.-The youngest railroad
director in the world lives in Aurora.
The distinguished youngster is Henry
Herbert Evans, sixteen years old. He
was elected one of the Fox and Illinois
Union railroad board at the last annual
meeting. His father is secretary and
treasurer of the railroad. The railroad
is twenty-five miles in length.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
WOULD EGG HENS ON TO LAY
Food Eugenist Has Plan to Control
Their Output.

Their Output.
: Washington.-Out Of the din and
clamor for federal legislation to deal a
solar plexus blow to the high cost Of liv-
ing came unique and eugenic sugges-
ton from southern representative.
| The legislator announced his inten-
ton of introducing a resolution for
compulsory egg control for hens. He
expressed belief that it might be easy
to curb output, but was perplexed as
to the practicability of speeding up the
lay to any appreciable extent.
He says, however, he believes his
plan makes the matter of investigation
pale into .insignifcance.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

Articles of incorporation were filed
at Albany by Bonbright & Co., Inc,
of New York, with a capital stock Of
100000.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

DR.. John w. Chambers, one of the
leading surgeons of Baltimore and be-
lieved to be the first surgeon in the
south to perform an operation for ap-
pendicitis, is dead.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

agreed to report favorably the bill
providing for prohibition in Alaska.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23
SAVING OF LIMBS
American Surgeons Fluid Avoids
Hundreds of Amputations.
CALL BENEFITS WONDERFUL,

Many More Could Have Been Saved
Had Value Been Felt EarIier-Young
South American Surgeon First to At
tract Attention of French Govern
nent to CarreI Treatment.
Paris. - The official lethargy which
for so long has impeded the develop
ment Of the disinfectant fluid invented
by III. D. Dakin and perfected by DR..
Alexis Carrel, both Of the Rockefeller
institute Of New York, is rapidly giving
way to a realization Of the tremendous
benefits accruing from it's use.
It remained for young South Amer
lean surgeon, DR.. Shutro, to attract the
attention Of the French government to
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

Farmer Want Ads, One Cent Word.
The Bridgeport evening farmer. [volume] (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1866-1917, 1917-01-23

Farmer Want Ads. One Cent a Word.