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The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

Dorothy Mansfield Adams. daughter Of
w NJ Adaus, proprietor OF the summit
House on Mt. Mansfield, was injured Fri
day when the horse She was riding to do
Red Cross soliciting slipped and rolled
over on her She was picked up uncon-
scious, but later revived. and is not be-
lieved to be seriously hurt No bones
were broken
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

In Caledonia county court Friday Frank
Martini was brought from county Jail and
pleaded guilty to the charge OF man-slaugil-
ter Judge Waterman sentenced him 10
the state prison at Windsor for not less
than seven nor more than nine years.
Martini got into dispute with Philip
Grenada the night OF August u and ia
tally stabbed him
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

MAGAZINES AT LOWEST PRICES
me about what magazines you
want for the coming year. / can get
them for you at money-saving prices.
Mrs. G.. NJ. Love, Magazine Specialist,
South Newfane. VT. 20S-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23
TODAY'S CASUALTIES.
Official Summary Released for-Publi-
cation This Afternoon.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 23.-War
department releases of casualties to-
day aggregate 6,326, of which 3,4S5
arc in the forenoon list and 2,S41 are
in the afternoon list The Sunday
releases were 1855, making Sill
for the tw2 days. Following is the
official summary released for publica-
ton this afternoon:
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

To RENT-EXtra nee tenement and
location, ground floor, with or without
heat, furnished or not furnished. three or
five rooms, near postoflice and high school,
up-to-date Call Princess Apartments,
Tel Glj. 244-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

TO Tenement, Brick House"
Central ST., six rooms, bath fine cellar,
best water, garden; stable if desired ;
lowest rent. A. ID. Wyatt, p Putney
Road. 204- If
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

To RENT-Six-room fiat, three min
utes' walk to $. A. Smith Co, five min
utes walk to Bradley Corporation and
Main 81. w. c. Horton, Agent. Phone
29G.B. 246-25l
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

TO RENT-One five-room apartment
in Grand View. street floor; also, four
room apartment All modern improve
ments Tel l46-M. Leslie Smith. 245-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

To RENT-First class upstairs tene-
ment of five rooms, hot and cold water
and bathroom Centrally located. Apply
to F.. L. Perry & Co, Main St 237-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

TO RENT-Four-room tenement on
Main st. You can have a chance to do
the janitor work and pay half the rent.
Edgctt & Co. 225-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

FOR RENT--Cottage house Of five
rooms and bath; furnace heat, electric
lights. Rent SO per month. J. l.. How
ard, agent. 247-tf
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1918-12-23

TO RENT-rwo front rooms. single or
in suite. with running water and bath.
Wheel Club Block. Apply Frank L. Bar
bcr. 246-tf
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-16
A DEBATE THAT DID NOT HAPPEN

Of course the election is over, but people are now receiv-
ing copies of a speech by Senator Pittman, which purports to
be a debate" on the subject of the presidents recent appeal
for a one-party government. But the trouble with Mr.. Pitt
mans document is that it isn't what it says it is-a debate.
The debate" as we all know, never took place, and Senator
Pittman's friends, according to the Congressional Record, are
responsible for the fact that it didn't take place.
The senator started the debate October % and finished
it, for when the other side attempted a reply there were some
cooler heads than Pittmans who forced an adjournment. And
day after day that adjournment was forced for the one spe-
cifc purpose of preventing that debate" and without even a
pretense of any other reason. And day after day those who
wanted a real debate made the record show who forced adj
journment.
There were a lot of things Mr.. Pittman and his colleagues
wanted to keep out Of that debate, and out of the record, and
had reason for wanting to keep out; and they resOrted to the
only way they had of keeping them out And nobody dream
ed that even Pittman would call his stump speech, with a few
intersections by other senators, a debate, after what followed.
There is probably not in the history of the senate another
such instance of a party, especially a majority party, running
from discussion, and being forced to keep up the running I'M
til after the people had voted. The flight of the Huns isn't a
circumstance in the annals of running.
If Pittman could have heard some of the things said by
men of his own party about his speech and what followed, he
wouldn't have reminded them of it by sending copies labeled
a debate"
There are times when forgetfulness is a consolation.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-16
DOES THIS MEAN YOU

If a train conductor or an engineer through carelessness
or indifference causes death or injury he goes to Jail and he
or his employer pays damages besides. If anybody through
carelessness or Indifference spreads contagion he should be
held to the same accountability.
In many cities where individuals were indifferent they
have been arrested and fined. In other instances the peo-
pie have taken the punishment into their own hands, and in
those cases the penalties were not limited to fines.
We have already lost more men by influenza than we
have lost by the war, and most of these losses were unneces-
sary. If the editor of the Tribune felt that he had, through
carelessness or neglect, spread contagion and caused death
he would believe himself a murderer and properly subject to
trial as such.
Any employer who will ~needlessly, or for profit, expose
his employees to contagon, is a criminal and should be treat
ed and regarded as such. The Tribune will not ask nor
knowingly permit any Of its employees to wait upon any Gus
toner who does not comply strictly with the orders of the
health authorities in relation to the wearing of masks, and
for their protection and that of the public it respectfully asks
that no patron enter the office without a mask properly
worn.
With a view to carrying out this policy and making it
general placards have been printed and will be supplied
without charge to any business house in Goldfield that will
display them and enforce this rule. Employees have a right
to ask and insist upon the adoption of this rule, where any
employer may be disposed to disregard it.
Observe the law and see that others do.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-16
EXIT WILLIAM III

Kaiser Wilhelm II is kaiser no more. In the face of de-
nands of the German people, through their representatives
in the reichstag, he has until today gripped his throne and his
crown with a desperation that was finally broken, no doubt
by fear of the fate that overlook Nicholas of Russia, and from
which the kaisers brother, Prince Henry, so narrowly escaped
but yesterday.
In the meantime, if longevity be an object with him, he
will seek to avoid the wrath of his own people long enough to
be tried as a criminal by some court yet to be established by
the allies. And in the meantime also Foch and Haig and
Pershing are proceeding with their work of wrecking Ger
many's war machine, for there will be no peace conference
with any German government, no matter by whom organized
or who may stand sponsor for it, while the German people or
the German army have guns in their hands. That is one thing
that will not happen.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-16
PEACE REIGNS

Peace has come to the world. And wherever men are
governed by the rule of law, there is rejoicing today. The
brutal policy of force exemplified and intensified by a race
that has for nearly two thousand years practiced plumber
under the doctrine that any nation has a right to what it can
take-this policy of force which its disciples taught was be-
yOnd all law has been beaten by the forces that rallied un-
der the banners of law. And it is a peace by victory, a sur
render of the forces opposed to law.
There will be rejoicing in every home in America; there
will be joy in every home in France and Belgium and Italy
and Serbia and Roumania; there will be joy today in every
home where the lamp of civilization has been lighted, Es-
pecially will there be rejoicing in those homes that have Civ
en- of their husbands, their fathers, their sons and their
daughters to the greatest task that humanity has ever been
asked or required to assume.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-16
SOME CRIMINAL CARELESSNESS

There has been very severe and very general condemna-
ton of the port authorities of the United States in connection
with the introduction and spread of the epidemic of influenza
that has already taken a heavier toll of life than any contagion
that has visited Aemrica since Columbus first set foot on
American soil. 1t has taken a heavier toll of American lives
than the present world war and the Spanish-American war
combined.
The disease had already taken thousands of lives in Eu-
rope before it crossed the Atlantic, and its deadly character
was already known. 1t is pointed out that the medical rec
ords of Europe were available and that the most cursory
reading of the medical journals, without going further than
that, should have revealed to the quarantine officers that here
was a disease that called for the most rigid and exacting APP
plication of the quarantine laws.
1t is plain to everyone now, and should have been plain
to our port officials and other responsible officers before the
disease reached here, that when the first ship with influenza
patients on board cast anchor at an American port that ship
was to be isolated until the slightest possibility of carrying in
lection ashore had passed. The Scientific American suggests
that "the rigid precautions that would be taken if en- arriving
ship had yellow fever patients aboard should surely have been
taken in the case of this deadly scourge." And then the editor
of that magazine adds:
But what arr the facts? Incredible as it may seer in
f1uenza cases by the scor and. fol all W e know, by the hun
dred, were taken ashore and placed in the general wards of the
hospitals. Fellow passengers of the patients, who must in
evitably have been exposed to infection, and must many of them
have been carrying the disease, yer allowed to go their several
ways throughout the land.
WAS YER official faulty stretched to greater lengths than
When n the ships company had scattered, whether to
spread the infection among fellow patients in a general hospital,
or among the unsuspecung and unwarned citizens, in home, Of
flee, passenger ar or theater, the mischief a done"
Goldfield has suffered but slightly so far, but that is no
reason for relaxing our vigilance. Tonopah has had twenty
nine deaths. Ten thousand preventives have been suggested,
and nobody cares how many of them you use as long as you
comply with the regulations the authorities have prescribed.
And those regulations tell you to wear a mask in the presence
of others, not under your chin nor under your nose, but over
your mouth and over your nose. And while you are observ-
ing the law just keep in mind that you have a right to demand
that others observe ii.
And don't be afraid to assert your right.
The individual who hasn't respect enough for others to
avoid exposing them to danger hasn't any feelings that are
worth respecting. Don't be afraid of hurting them.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-16
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER IS, 1918

paper man and the only layman on the committee, was COM
plimented by one of the best known justices of the supreme
bench on having made the best legal argument submitted in
the case, and he did it on the pledge the people of Utah had
given to the Union and his analysis of the word marriage"
embodied in that pledge, as defined by Webster and other lex
And the pledge that the people of Utah gave was no more
definite or binding than the pledge that Berger gave when he
forswore allegiance to his Hapsburg sovereign and asked the
privilege of becoming a citizen of this republic.
Anyhow, when that debate closed the house declared by its
vote that it had the right to exclude a man certified by a state
as having been elected to congress. And aside from the Rob-
eHs case the Tribune believes that a careful reading of the
Documentary History of the Constitution and the debates in
The constitutional convention affecting the provisions that
appear in Section 5 of Article 1 show quite clearly that the
makers of the constitution had in mind the possibility of just
such issues as the election of Berger has raised. And they
provided in advance for their solution when they had the con-
sttution declare that leach house shall be judge of the cleo
tons, returns and qualifications of it's own members, and a
majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business"
The provision for expulsion by a o-thirds vote occurs in
another paragraph.
Not all the people in the new states that had just broken
from the mother country were in sympathy with the form of
the convention was proposing to establish and
there was prevalent a fear, clearly and distinctly voiced, that
other powers-particularly the mother country-and other
systems inimical to free government, might coverty seek rep
resentation in congress and in the executive branch of the
with a view to its ultimate overthrow. And no
man who has read those debates will doubt what the mem
bers of that convention who afterward entered congress-as
several of them dd-would have said to Victor Berger if he
had presented himself in their time under circumstances such
as surrounded his recent election.
4 4 4
If the facts are as we believe them to be we shall expect
to see Berger challenged and asked to stand aside when he
presents himself with the other members-elect to be sworn
in. And we expect to then see the house direct Mr.. Berger
back to those people in Milwaukee who sent him, with the
message that if they want a representative in congress they
must send someone who means what he says when he swears
to support and defend the constitution and the laws of the
United States.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-16

I'VE are under divine protection" the kaiser told them in
a speech in Alsace only a few weeks agOS But they will find
that they need something more than the divinity of the kaiser
when the Americans come upon them. And the Americans
are going forward in that sector.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-16

There must be some satisfaction to the French in the foe
that they are getting the Germans off their soil, not by me
gotiations," but by fighting. That is the kind of a victory
that the French will forever be proudest of.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1918-11-16

But Judge Day and a majority of the committee held that
the house had the right to exclude and reported accordingly
Littlefield and others submitted a minority report and the de
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-23
German Hatred.

'''.,S' '''' ''''''' '''i"'''
Inc "erman prIVy councillor in
diets the American government on
the Ground thar II "pernittad Car
r,,.. ro,-... -. H.. 60, - ~.
li''N ,'''' '" u "t ''"'eu ain0Hs the
American people,
The Indictment IS easily thrown
o,,, of c,rrt ,rro ,n,orta.. ,,,..
-. ',''' .1'''' So
s'"'heht mas eNertea itself to pre-
vent American people from hating
the German people The president
has repeatedlv tbourh r,istokorIy
irsis,oa ,, dr,,,.r,,,, - .,,-,i,.a,,,-
'''9'7's'' ''' ,'' N'''s'' - distinction oe-
yWoen lhe HSSfiinan people and their
royal and military masters. He has
repeatedly urged the American peo-
pie to draw that distinction and to
Eu'rI against mating the German
people
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-23
A LASTING ErEECT.

ono Of the most noticeable ef-
fects OF the war in America has
been the more complete fusion Of
various races and diverse interests
Of our citizenship into one integral
nation. Never before has there been
anything that has so closely and
completely drawn all Americans to-
gother az this tremendous strug-
gle with the marshalled hosts of in,
Equity for, from whatever country
our men have drawn their lineage,
they have all awakened to the rcall.
zation that this war presented the
greatest menace to their happiness
land prosperity that history has ever
developed. In the resistance TO this
threat they are AS one man,
More than that, we have been re-
,lieved of much of that artificial ,aris-
tocracy that was fast growing Ia
alarming proportions In this land OF
democracy. Tho snob was having
his own way but tho war has lcveled
all, social distinctions and we see
the sons Of captains OF finance serv-
ing in camp and trench shoulder 10
shoulder with the sons of the humb,
lest toller. and they are comrades in
feeling as we'll as In duty, Never
since tho original stratlfication OF
the elements Of the social system has
there been a more complete oblitera-
tlon OF class distinction than in the
emergency which called upon citi-
zens OF every artificial level to strug-
gle In q common cause, II has been
mighty levelcr OF caste distinctions
The heat of sublime enthusiasms has
burned away lot OF dross and melt
ed into unity multitudes OF people
who had been estransed and dis
trustful OF each other.
Is this beautiful coalescence des-
tined TO be purely trnnsitory? we
think not WIN the end OF the wal
see the old-timo barriers restored
and class jealousy reign in all It's bit.
terness? Most assuredly not, We
know quite we'll that the abolition OF
caste Is az necessary to true de-
mocracyaas tho elimination OF weeds
from a garden before the fruits OF
toll shall blossom into fruition Caste
emhitters. disntegratcs, brutalizes
This baptism of blood viii make OF
Americans new nation with q
clearer conception Of the brother
hood of man, and the dream OF the
ages will grow into fact
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-23
Not n Cheering Prospect.

Saturday Post
Some fve or six weeks ago the
country visibly shuddored when Sec
retary McAdoo announced that new
revenue legislation at this session of
congress was dvisable-shudder
not because the country shrank from
paying more taxes. but because It
knew that revenue legislation at this
session would be shaped by very in
aompetont hands.
= This congress spent six month";
last year on a revenue bill, and pro-
dDced measure so ambiguous COM
plicated and inequitabie that the
only ground on which 1t might have
found excuse was that II had been
thrown together overnight by men
in desperate hurry, who did not
understand the subject they were
dealing with. In various sections II
was impossible TO say what congress
really intended. The law was put
into effect by a series of more or
less arbitrary interpretations and de-
cisions by revenue officers. In other
sections the intention OF congress
was clear---and clearly wrong ac-
cording to all accepted principles OF
equitable taxation. There was no
doubt, for example. that congress in
tended TO tax man who earned a
given income twice as much as II
taxed an idler who enjoyed the same
income from an inherited fortune.
Even worse than that, the men
chiefly responsible for this measure
the men who would shape a new
revenue law at this session-re-
malned so far from having gained a
better understanding OF the subject
that they were actually rather proud
Of their work. Apparently all they
have been able TO see respecting the
law of 1917 Is that IL produces n lot
OF revenue. Taxation by men whose
only object Is to raise revenue, with
calm indifference to the relative ex-
pcdlence and equity Of the means
employed. is not a cheering prospect
Naturally sthe country shuddered-
not at the prospect Of more taxes.
but at the prospect Of more bad
taNRS
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-23
President and Prohibition

| lineage Tribune.
president Wilson has Indicated Nj,
olsapproval OF the plan to enac, w.
prohibition of the manufacture sna
sale of alcoholic beverages NV -.
ats aaGhlhs an amendment to appronri
me president Is not opposod 30
prohioltion legislation. lie jS ~
posed 10 prohibition Legislation n
this fashion. His opposition probahi1,
WIN ehd the consideration OF tbis
particular method. ''''S
me Hethod is bad. Prohlbitio,
one OF inc important Social ones.
SUiiss tiUIs OF the nation. Even war ma.
DitoH, treated as an expedient In
ata emergency is an important So
cIai question. The habit of eyas,N,,
and indirectlon In Legislation
urlous to ALI honesty of purnosa d.
all cases, and 1t is particlIlarI, a.,
urlous to all honesty OF nurnoso w.,
portant issues OF habit, morals -
toms and manners of living Tor III.
entire people. 'S
Ihe urgence for war prohibi.to,
uoes not come solely from poor,ia
whose sentiment Is one OF estah
tshed aohorrence of liquor, but ais,
from people who have no emotIoraI
Ieeling, but are concerned uaroIv
Tor the needed efficiency in tho pro.
cesses or the nation. Even tho lat-
Ter people do not stop with urging
war prohibition, but insist thai q
rational nation, careful Of It's nm
man material and striving To hiring
human life to It's best uses and bigh.
est enJoyments, will not tolerate the
use OF intoxicants.
the scheme of prohibition alvays
will present It's harmful asnecfs
Such a regulation of habit by law
must be confession of general
weakness OF character, and there
must be a wish that the indlviduaI
might regulate himself rather than
accept regulation. This is notpan
osoteric consideration. A nation
which does not need prohibition for
the preservation of It's human ma
torial is a stronger and better ma
uon than one which does require A
general law forbidding practices
which each individual could and
ought to control for himself.
But If no other way out OF the de-
basing influence OF freely sold alco-
hol can be found the country may
expect that the majority OF the peo-
pie will fasten prohibition upon the
minority and that so far as possible
the use OF alcohol will be stopped by
law.
The question has been submitted
to the people and they will deter
mine 1t. Their action probably will
come too late for war uses, and that
prospect prompts the effort TO obtain
drastic war emergency measure
which will make the country dry
during the war. It might be adyan-
tageous to have war prohibition for
conservation Of material and men,
but as we have so often protested
before, the desirability Of the result
cannot be accepted as establishing
the desirabillty of the method.
A way of meeting directly so I'M
portant a question as prohibition
must be found IL war prohibition Is
to be had. President Wilson is right
in opposing what has been suggested
in congress.
Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1918-06-23
BAR THE SLACK ERs.

since b,gcbau ig the national
game. It's stars booming aa heroes to
hundreds Of red -bloodcd American
boys Il is a matter OF scrlous inter
est to the American people whether
or no, the sport ls 10 be kept clean.
II after the war is over the league
teams takE back the cowardly
schemors who len the diamond to
got into what they considered bomb.
proof Jobs, 80 much the worse for