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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07

Advertisement of a laundry In Tam
pa: your shirt comes back a-smilin'."
Yessir; you betcha- Mine usually
comes back grinning all over: act just
as II they had been having ripping
old time-and thereby hangs. in occss-
ional cases, a tail. Yassum-Nearly
all my shirts come back just erbout
"tickled to DEATH"
He Was . Fright
Girl told me that from the last we'd
ding she attended she sneaked home a
piece OF the wedding cake" believing
In that old localism that IL she placed
that cake beneath her pillow she
would see in her dreams the man she
was to marry. But never again for
her. Why she calculated, rather
than marry such man as that I'd
remain single all the days of my life.
Which goes to show that sometimes
the best adage may be away off.
Opinion From connoisseur
Says the Ocala Star: "A hundred
women kissed Marshal Foch at state
dinner in London the other day. There
Is no satisfaction in having one woman
kiss you in a crowd. let alone a hum
dreds
And, / would like to know how the,
astute editor of the Star wised himself
up to the extent that he makes 20 pos
tive statement? Was he ever kissed
by one hundred women in crowd?
Was he ever kissed by one woman
in crowd? / mean kissed-and not
"pecked at Editor BENJAMIN makes
his statements broadly assertive-and
while agree wholly and teetotally
with him on the century rum" I'm
willing to admit my experiences has
been much narrower than this After
he gets higher than three he'll have
to count me out: up to that number
all / can say is that while complete
satisfaction" may be lacking because
of brevity there II yet piquant pleas |
ure in the performance. Either that
editor takes In too much territory
or he's the main mangler amid Nor
mons, and knows whereof he speaks.
Anything 70 Oct Votes
Ever notice how q candidate will
dwell on the labor question when he's
speechifying In q crowd OF workmen; |
on the "old soldier" topic il he's talk !
ing to that class; on the rights of cap
ital when with the capitalistic people; |
and so on all along the line? Yes. X
have. too. think it's a silly PROPOSE
tion-and the public is on to the prac-
tice Just as strongly as am. II / ever |
run for governor of Florida my
speechifying will be Of brief dimen-
concentrating like this, sf'rinst: |
Folks, I'm mighty glad to see SO |
many OF you here to listen -to me.
I'll not detain YOU very LONE The
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-08-07

to lie to you to set office. I'd like
the Job-and there are others just ~
good. possibly better. who are after
It. That's about all for this time.
But remember that think I'd make
a pretty good governor. Yassum.
thank you."
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
U. S. LED MOVE
/. FOR TEMPERANCE.
Many Societies to Fight Alcohol
Organized Early in Nations
History.
WOMEN ACTIVE AS LEADERS
John 3. Cough, Reformed Drunkard
First Crusader to Win Fame
by Success at Home and
Abroad.

When the movement which has now
brought about prohibition began in the
United States it was called the item
perance movement" and the phrase
temperance question" embraced all
the problems in connection with the
use and abuse of alcoholic drink Tenn
perance, of course, primarily means
moderation, while prohibition, as used
in this connection, means a form of
sumptuary legislation abolishing the
manufacture and sale of alcoholic Ii
quors. In the early days Temperance"
was loosely used sometimes it meant
moderation and sometimes total absti-
hence. Many of the first crusades were
against ''spiritS''-diStilled liquors as
distinguished from wines and beer.
Early temperance pledges were often
framed TO draw this distinction. How
ever, the word temperance as used in
the titles and constitutions of reform
organizations soon came to mean total
abstinence.
This temperance movement, which
shows signs of bringing about prohIbi-
ton in many parts of the world. be
gan in the United States. The tenn
perance pledge was in existence before
1900. Possibly the first temperance
society was organized by the farmers
of Litchfield county, Connecticut, in
1779. In 1908 a society was formed in
Saratoga county, New York; the 43
members were pledged not to drink
rum, gin, whisky. wine or distilled
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

eating beverages. Drink is the cause
of much misery, vice and crime, ana
even the most temperate user of alco-
holic liquors. who sees no personal
reason for prohibition. should be will
ing TO subordinate his comfort and
pleasure co the welfare of the COM
munity. If prohibition means a ma
teriaT decrease in crime, semi-criminal
vice. pauperism and destitutiOn, then
we should all acquieSce in that policy
as lesser evil, if not an absolute
good"
The United States is a great and
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

plars. an order of total abstainers or
ganized in 1851 at Utica, N. Y. were
also working to this end.
The call for the Chicago convention
originated May %, 1869, in the grand
lodge of the Good Templars at Oswe-
go, n. Y, which appointed committee
to convene a national gathering TO
organize a political party favorable to
prohibition legislation. This commit
tee consisted of John Russell, Detroit,
Mich. Daniel Wilkins, Bloomington.
ILL.,. ]. A. Spencer, Cleveland, o.; John
N. Stearns, New York, and James
Black, Lancaster Pa. At this cOnven-
ton the party was organized, a plat
form was adopted and a national COM
mittee was appointed. with John Rus
sell chairman.
The first national nominating con.
vention assembled in Columbus, O., on
Washington's birthday, 1872. 1t
named James Black for president and
John Russell for vice president. Black
was one of the founders of the Ma.
tional Temperance Society and Pub
LEGATION house, an organizer of the IA
nous Ocean Grove IN. j. Camp
Meeting association and prominent
Good Templar. Upon his death in
1893 he left his Temperance library"
of 1 200 volumes to the National Tenn
perance society. Russell, the Father
of the Prohibition party" was a Meth
odist minister and a leading Good
Templar. His newspaper, the PENN
sular Herald, was the first to advocate
the formation of a separate political
party for prohibition.
Notwithstanding the worthiness of
the cause and the candidates, the pub
lie support at the election of 1872 was
not enthusiastic. The total of the
votes received by Black and Russell
was but 1907.
In 1876 Green Clay Smith of Ken
lucky and Gideon 7. Stewart of Ohio
were the candidates. They pOllcd
9,737 votes. In 1880 Neal Dow of
Maine. with II. A. Thompson of Ohio
as running mate, appealed to the
country. General Dow was widely
known as the author of the Maine pro.
hibition law. hut he succeeded in get
ting only 1895 votes.
Candidates and Their Vote.
The Prohibition convention of 1896
split the party over woman suffrage
and money. The free silver" minor
jty formed Liberal party, with Bent
ley of Nebraska and Southgate of
Illinois as its Standard-bearers. They
n0lled about 1900 votes.
The feature of the Prohibition cam
Daign of 1900 was a tour of the coun-
Try by the candidates and corps of
speakers by special train. In 1912
the Prohibition convention renom-
mated the candidates of 1903. The
candidates since 1884 and their vote
are as follows:
1888. Clinton 3. Fisk, New Jersey,
! dnd ]. A. Brooks. Missouri, 49945
! votes.
1892, John Bidwen, California. ami
j. b. Cranfill. Texas 27O,710 votes.
1896. Joshua lowering, Maryland.
and Hale Johnson. Illinois, 100. 1853
votes.
1900, John G. Woolley, Illinois, ard
H. B. Metcalf. Rhode Island. pos. 1863
votes.
1904. S. c. Swallow, Pennsylvania,
and George B. Carroll, Texas. 25S. POS
votes.
1905 Eugane w Chafin- Illinois end
Aaron S. Watkins, Ohio, 253,2 31 votes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
Weekly Health Talks
What Doctor Pierce Has
Done for Humanity
BY DOCTOR GRIPS.

1t has always seemed to me that DIR.
Pierce, of Buffalo, N Y, should be placed
near the top when a list of Americas
great bensfactors is written. He studied
and conquered human diseases to de-
gree that few realize. Whenever he found
remedy that overcams disease, he at
once announced 1t in the newspapers and
told where it could be bought at small
price. He did not follow the usual custom
OF kceping the ingredients secret. so that
the rich only could afford t, buy the
medicine, brt openly printed the name Of
each root and heiL he used And 50 today
the names o. 0r. Pierce and his medicines
are w'l1ly known, and they stand for bet
ter health ma better citizenship.
Gre ot-tbis great physicians most sue
cess! al rc,~' ;es Is known as Dr.. Pierce's
Pleasant T., cts. These are little SUGAR
coated nils, composed of Mayapple, leaves
OF. aloe, root OF Ialap-things that Nature
grows in the ground. These Pellets are
safe because shey move the bowels gently.
leaving no bad after-eifects, as so many
pills Go. Very often they make person
who takes them feel like new man or
woman, for they cleanse the intestines Of
hard, deeayed and poisonous matter that
aecumulates when one is costive. If you
are eonstipated, by all means go to your
druggist and get some of DR.. Pieree's
Pleasant Pellets. They may prove to be
the very thing your system requires 30
make you well and happy.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

The United States of America has
entered upon the tremendous social ex-
pertinent of national prohibition of
the manufacture. sale and use Of alco-
holic drinks. There will be abundant
time to give the experiment fair test
since the prohibition is by constitu-
tiOnal amendment. To all appearances
this mandate by the American people
against the use of alcohol is intended
TO be absolute and final. We have
written it into organic law-intO mag
ma charta-in the form of the eight
zenith amendment to the Constitution
of the United States.
The experiment is a tremendous de-
parture from previous tendencies of
the American people. We are an indi-
vidualistic people, with strong sense
of personal liberty. Yet here we have
set out to regulate personal habit, not
by statute, but by constitutional
amendment.
And the manner of the passing of
This constitutional amendment is quite
as remarkable as the amendment itself.
Action on the seventeen previous
amendments to the Constitution has
taken between nine months and forty
three months, an average of about two
years. The resolution providing for
this eighteenth amendment was passed
by congress December II. 1917 On
January 16. 1919, its ratification by
the states is accomplished.
What has brought about this ratifi-
cation so quickly? Obviously the Ma
tiOnal Prohibition party has had prac-
tically nothing to do with its accom-
pliShment. The answer evidently is
that the war has brought it about.
Prohibition is both an economic ques-
ton and moral question. The war
set the American people to looking at
prohibition from both viewpoints. We
got accustomed TO the thought that
grain was better eaten as food than
swallowed as liquor. inasmuch as we
were fold that food would win the
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
SHOOTS WoULD-BE SUICIDE
Policeman Forced to Take Drastic
Steps 70 Su5due Ran Who Had
Cut His Own Throat

New YOrk-Tn order to subdue him
fer trip to a hospital, a New York
policeman recently had to shoot man
who had attempted suicide by cutting
mis- throat with penknife.
Fred Hood. a clerk in government
shipyard. had stabbed himself in the
throat and stomach when his gr0ans
attracted the policeman. Hood re-
sented intrusion by the law and
stabbed the policeman in the arm. The
patrOlman fired three shots in the cell
irs ID brighten Hood. No results.
Hood again went after the policeman
with the knife, whereupOn the would
he suicide was shot twice in the legs
by the policeman. Hood then subsid-
ed and was taken to hospital.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

ing. But nothing is more eloquent.
more conclusive, than an accomplished
taet' especially when the process of
accomplishment is morally so free
from objection rs is the democratic
process OF legal agitation. discussion.
voting and legislation.
AT any time in the past decade many
a thoughtful, public-Spirited citizen
must have said to himself something
like this: "If | were benevolent
deSpot | should deem it my duty and
prerogntive to prohibit the manufac-
ture, sale and consumption of intoxi-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

on the floor, where it was found the
next day. much the worse for wear.
Anyway, Miss Willard took her
grievance to the Prohibition party.
The Prohibition party offered the
nomination for president to st. John,
with William Daniel of Maryland for
vice president. st. John accepted the
nomination. He was an effective
speaker and campaigner and he went
out after blOod-and especially Re
publican blood. He carried the war
into New York, considered doubt.
full" state in the exciting struggle of
that campaign between James G..
Blaine and Grover Cleveland.
st. John jumped the Prohibition vote
from 1896 votes to 150,626 votes.
What is more. he polled enough votes
in New York to defeat the "Plumed
Knight" in that state and, as ii
turned out. in the nation. The feel
ing of the time is indicated by the
fact that st. John was burned in
effigy in more than 100 cities.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
FOUNDED half
A CENTURY AGO
National Prohibition Party Organ
lied in Chicago by 500
Delegates.
EARLY STANDARD BEARERS
Eighteenth Amendment Has Never
Been Favored by Leaders Because
of Odds of 10 to | Against
Its Passage.

The National Prohibition party is
just fifty years old, its semi-centennial
falling on September L, 1919. 1t was
born in Farwell hall. Chicago. The
convention numbered about 800 per-
sons from 10 states.
The formation of the party was
probably first discussed in public at
a Pennsylvania state temperance con-
vention in 1867. Temperance leaders
had failed to get much consideration
from the Republican and Democratic
parties and were feeling the need of
independent action. The Good Tenn
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
How Ii Happened.

Pardon me-" said the army co.
for military chefs are prone To addr
their underlings cOurteOuSly, but
prithee tell me where you learned
peel POTATOES so artisticaIly? |
serve that you do not cut off
cuticle in great hunks, as, alas,
many do, but loosen bit Of the 81
Of the tuber and then deftIy strip
all off. You must have had much
perience in skinning e'er entering up
soldiers lifeY'
81 did, thank you, sir" replied
accomplished member Of the kitcf
police. Before / decided to make I
world safe for democracy ! was
country banker. kansas Citg S'a,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

beers. and wines for recuperative pur-
poses will be in great demand.
Likewise the league is not unmindful
of the great demand there viii be for
certain medicines. Without stringent
regulation in this particular il might
appear that national prohibition had
produced a nation of invalids.
1t is runored that Mexico is destined
to become the thirst parlor" of the
continens for all those bibuIously in
clined who can afford to travel that
far to get drink with kick In it"
The immediate result is likely to be
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
MINING STOCKS WERE BURNED
Musty Papers Became Eyesore to
Housewife and She Destroyed Them
Worth Much Money.

Denver, ColO.-An oId-fashioned,
hrass-bOund chest filed with musty pa
pers became an eyesOre in the home of
Mrs. Curtis Smith of Denver. Mrs.
Smith had the brass removed and the
chest and contents burned That was
Il years ago.
Today action is pending in the dis
trict court to have restored to Mrs.
Smith the equivalent of 1900 shares
of stock in one of the richest silver
mines In Colorado.
The stock, believed at the time TO
be worthless, was fed to the flames
in the ancient chest.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

on the water wagon after national pro-
hibition goes into effect.
How TO extend prohibition to the en-
tire civilized world.
While prohibition leaders are glory
ing in their victory, they realize that
the United States will not be bone dry
unless the law is rigidly enforced.
The league foresees that unless
there be rigid regulation of doctors and
drug stores. there Is likely to be an
alarming increase of Illness among
those afflicted with unquenchahIe thirst
and that prescriptions fse toddies,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

der the most favorable legal conditions
Under a constitutional provision that
is proof against attack. To the YER
dict of the majority as rendered under
the existing law of the land all good
citizens will cheerfully submit. The
people rule in the United States. and
in the course of rather short period
of time their will, expressed by the
legislatures of more than a necessary
number of states to make it effective.
has prevailed in this important mat.
ter Of prohibition.-Editorial in Chi.
cago Daily News.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

January 16, 1920, certification and an
nouncement of ratification being merely
a matter of form. 1t is needless to say
that the vets do not accept this view
and that effort TO delay the formal
proceedings will be made. prelimi-
nary to contrasting the legality of the
ratification.
At any rate it is formally an
nounced that such u contest will be
made. II is likely that the vets rely
more on the referendum proposition
than on the question of votes.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
500 Reward. 500

Catarrh is a local disease greatly inf
enced by constitutional conditions.
therefore requires constitutional trea
ment. HALLS CATARRH MEDICIN
Is taken internally and acts through II
Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the sY
tenn. HALLS CATARRH MEDICIN
gives the patient strength by imprOvll
the general health and assists nature
doing its work. $4,000 for any case :
Catarrh that HALLS CATARR
MEDICINE fails to cure.
Druggists 75c. Testimonials free.
F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

opinion; still, it would be unreason-
able to maintain that the legislatures
that have been vying with one another
for the honor of precedence in ratifi-
cation have been acting contrary to
the wishes and sentiments of the co
pie or in obedience to threats or or
ders from unrepresentative, agrees I've
minOrities.
Prohibition as a policy may or may
not be as wise and expedient as it's
sincere and resoIute champions assert.
Time will tell. But the people have
resolved to make the experiment I'M
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

heterogeneous democracy. 1t has no
benevolent despot and wants none The
democracy has decided TO give nation
wide prohibition thorough trial The
ratification of the dry" amendment
cannot be attributed by fair-minded
opponents to prohibition to accident,
hasty judgment or minority coercion.
II is too manifestly spontaneous to adj
nit of such Interpretation of the re-
suit. True, there has been no actual
national plebiscite or referendum, for
our federal constitution provides no
such method of ascertaining public
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
BIames the "oId Woman"

Mansfield, O.-"This is the old wOm-
ans fault" explained Ed Baldwin
when arraigned in local police court
on a disOrderly charge.
She cusses and Swears and calls
me names too numerous to mention.
She thrOwed pan of cold water on
me Saturday night when l was in
bed" continued Baldwin.
When the judge lei him off with a
suspended fine Baldwin said he was
going to the probate court to try to
get lunacy affidavit against his wife.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

ers contemplate urging the nations to
abolish freedom of the seas" to the
demon rum" This is incidental to
the great campaign the Anti-Saloon
league is launching for worldwide
prohibition.
Tine first step in this campaign was
the dispatch of delegation headed by
Col. S. S. Musgrove of Alabama to
Paris to arrange for an international
prohibition congress, which will cam
vas the feasibility of enforcement of
worldwide prohibition By league of
nations.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

WIZ. We saw what the enforced so
briefly of military service did physical
ly, mentally and morally for young
men who had INDUCED in liquor in
peace times.
Some of our allies got into the war
In hurry because they had tO--Bel-
GUM and France TO save their lives,
Great Britain TO save its national hon
or America took its time-a long time
and gradually worked itself up to
the determination TO fight. Doubtless
much consideration of prohibition was
Il part of this slow process. So that
when the opportunity came the states
of the Union went over the top just
about as the American marines and
dOughboys did in the Argonne.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
Music of the Battlefield.

A few weeks ago a writer attempt
TO describe the noise of war and
clared it was impossible. Pietro Ma
cagni, the famous Italian composer, "a
er made an attempt. He was yisitiI
his two sons at the front, and witneS
ed a battle for the first time
This is indeed music!' he excaiI
ed. at seems as though all the b
drums in my orchestra were multiple
by million and have suddenly gOi
mad I"
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

the paciicatiOn of northern Mexico for
the safe entertainment of Americans
with thirst, while the ultimate result
may be waning of enthusiasm for the
annexation OF Mexico to a dry United
States. Cuba is also said to be pre-
pairing for extensive weekend enter
tainment of the Florida winter colony.
Moonshining, contrary TO general
supposition, is said to be far from a
lost art. and will come into its own
under national prohibition. unless
sternly repressed-
To deal with all these possibilities OF
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28

evading the law the Anti-Saloon league
has devised legislation which it will
ask congress to pass at this session.
The league proposes the creation of a
federal prohibition commissioner to en-
force the law, and severe penalties for
violations thereof. which include a fine
of from $500 to $1,000 or Imprisonment
from two TO six months for keeping
liquor in the home even though only
for personal use.
Foreseeing that drinking on high
seas outside the three-mile limit may
become popular the prohibition lead,
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1919-01-28
TWO BIG TASKS FOR "DRYS"
Plan to Rigidly Enforce Prohibition in
This Country, and to Extend IL
Over the World.

National prohibition having been
achieved. the Anti-Saloon League of
America. which conducted the success
full campaign against liquor. is now de-
voting Its attention to the two follow
ing questions:
+. How 10 keep the American people