Muncie Post-Democrat, Muncie, Delaware County, 9 November 1923 — Page 2

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Tii_ MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT

THE MUNCIE POST-DEMOCRAT A Democratic weekly newspaper representing the Demmocrats of Muncie, Delaware County and the Eighth Congressional District. The only Democratic newspaper in Delaware County.

Entered as second class matter January 15,1921, at the postoffice at Muncie, Indiana, under the Act of March 3,1879.

Subscription Price, $2.00 a year in Advance

Office 733 North Elm Street. Telephone 2540 GEO. R. DALE, Owner and Publisher.

Muncie, Ind., Nov. 9, 1923.

grand jury might have gone further. Organized lawlessness always goes hand in hand with organized protection from official sources. Somebody possessed of a clear conscience and an iron hand should go to the bottom of the liquor situation in Indiana and find out how far up the liquor conspiracy goes. If it extends to Washington the people ought to know it.

Friday, N»y. 3. 1$^

THE ESSENCE OF BUNK. Since the adoption of the eighteenth amendment fehtre have been billions of words published in thousands #f newspapers and other periodicals concerning booze and the enforcement of the Volstead law, and ninety percent of it has been pure bunk. The wets have an extensive publiicty department and the burden of their cry is ‘Tight wine and beer.” The drys receive their inspiration through the Ameri«m Anti-Saloon League and its well financed press agent

department.

Each side has a vociferous bunch of ballahoo artists who might have to go to work if the liquor question were

ever settled.

Washington contributes t othe confusion by sponsorutsr the idea that the enforcement of the national prohibition law isa deep and tremendous problem, almost be-

ytnd solution.

Prohibition enforcement officials receive their appointments through political drag. The men who get the jobs are mainly lesser political lights who hold their jobs by spreading the Washington bunk that the illegal manufacture and distribution of liquor is extremely dif-

il«ult to curb.

Thus they excuse themselves when some fellow r points out forty or fifty breweries in operation and some oity where liquor is openly sold over the bar without of-

ficial interfence.

The liquor problem would be simple if the wet and dry press agents were all chloroformed and men placed in pharge of enforcement of the law who refuse to play both

ends against the middle.

Prohibition and the Volstead act have only resulted thus far in the establishment of a vicious political oligarchy founded on contraband booze, bribery and ex-

change of protection for poltical support of double cross- Minton, lauding the local authorities I house and •rs who talk dry in the amen corner and hobnob with for their earnest endeavors, was not h*otle"p , ers in secret * the only 6XCitement in Muncie - Sun ’

As applied now prohibition is a rank failure. If the ^ hile th6 igX50d brothcr was extc!! . fine iL-Kr *• no*,"^.remarked the enforcement officers were sincere the booze traffic OI 1:lg the virtues of these saintly om- plunger as he Slowly massaged the America could be stopped in forty-eight hours. But they, cerg, one of the biggest crap games “bones” between his palms. *©r their sponsors at Washington are not sincere. So' Of the season was being pulled Off In Jess then heaved the dice. “Wham! Ihe^e VOU are Bob Graves’s protected gambling I reads ‘leben. Pay me so’s I kin pay X U ^ " ] house and blind pig on South Walnut the co’t.” It was even so. When the

street. little jokers had ceased spinning, and

CONFINING WOFK. I Tlie colored boys were there rolling lay quiet on the green cloth the welH. W. Evans, imperial wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, Z"* ^ ^

Georgia), answered a challenge to a debate on the ques- dollarg by making a few <.p a8Se s” fcien of whether Jewish homes are American homes by for hlgh atakea . quoting from the sixth chapter of Nehemiah: j Monday night jess o’Geese, now “I am doing a great work SO that I can not come under bond on a liquor charge, and

itown. Why should the work cease whilst I leave off and awaiting trial, puiied off some real __ rfnwr. tr> wnn ” i comedy in Bob’s place, which was re-, or ‘leven, North Western K. K. K. ••me UOWI1 IU yuu. • t/ . 'centlv given a clean bill of health by declares that its craps any place else Insomuch as the work now being done by the Ku g ial Jud 6 Harry Redke y. but African golluf at Bob Graves’s. Kux Klan is all “mobilization work and productive of $10 -

-from each person mobilized, at least $4.50 of which gets to | ifie imperial wizard, it is not hard to understand why!

The democrats should wake up and rid the party of its present chairman, Obed Kilgore, unless they want a repetition of the sequence of disasters which have overtaken democracy in Muncie and Delaware Co. since Kilgore has served as chairman. The party is rapidly disintegrating here under his ministration nd has practically descended to the degrading status ft a cog in the Billy Williams standpat republican machine. The party is suffering from dry rot and can only be restored to health and vigor by a strenuous pruning process. The first prune to be unloaded is Kilgore. The democratic party has no room for dead ones. The Star Monday morning gave first page prominence to the address of a prohibition enforcement officer who came up from Indianapolis to surprise the natives here with a statement that the liquor situation is cleaned up in Muncie. In the same issue appeared an account of the arrest of a half dozen or so of assorted bootleggers, male and female. If cleaning out the liquor law violators here means running them down to the point where only three hundred or thereabouts are left, then we will agree, with the optimistic enforcement official, that Muncie is at

last dry.

The head of the publicity department of the ku klux klan Monday at Atlanta assassinated the chief attorney of the Simmons faction of the invisible empire. The night before the assassin went to the “imperial palace’ of Emperor Joe Simmons with the intent no doubt of bumping off his royal nibs of the comic empire. A revolver was taken from him and he was kicked out, but not before he had made the admission that he had been ordered to commit murder. Now that klansmen have started in killing each other off, the situation becomes hopeful.

JESS O’GFISE WINS PRICE OF

FINE SHOOTING AFRICAN GOLIUF _

AT BOB GRAVES' PROTECTED HAVEN

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GET IN THIS FIGHT Every Catholic, Jew, Negro and foreign born citizen in Delaware county who values his liberty and God-given right to enjoy the fruits of democracy and freedom from oppression, should contribute to the Post-Democrat defense fund. Every native born, white Protestant citizen who believes in law and order, and who abhors the thought of the control of courts, juries and public officials in general by a secret, criminal oligarchy, should help finance this great fight. As stated before, it is not charity we are seeking, it is aid in the cause of liberty. These ar e more than mere lawsuits. There is more involved than the comparative trivial question as to whether or not the editor of this paper shall spend many weary months in penal servitude and be compelled to pay out thousands of dollars in fines. The right of free speech is challenged. The question of fair pi ocedure in the courts is involved. The venom of the klan is now centered upon the editor of this newspaper. If these bigots suceed in ruinng and imprisoning their intended victim, they will have demolished a rampart which now stands like a rock in their path. A big fund is required for the defense and the offensive. The response has been liberal. Do not delay in your respons to this appeal.

The speech of Prohibition Officer) Jess walked into

laid one

the gambling hundred and

thirty dollars on the crap table. “I shoots the wad, the price of mah

to worship God according to the dictate of his conscience. He is guaranteed complete liberty in this respect. The trouble is and has been that many do not worship God at all.” EX-GOVERNOR FOSS (Mass.)— October, 1915—“I have a special sympathy for those igood people who, misled by dishonest misrepresentations, are apprehensive of the future of our public schools. But I assure them that those against whom their fears are directed will be found, as they have ever been, in the forefront of the fighting for American institutions on the field of battle and else-

where in public or private life.” ■ SENATOR ATUBi POMERENE (Ohio)—CantOB, O., Daily News, Oct. 12, 1915—“We have Mere the right of free speech, Mat not the right to slander; free press, hut not the right to libel; free conscience, but not to condemn other religions than our own.” HENRY A. WISE (Virginia)—Richmond, Va., “EnqBirer,” Nov. 1855— "Down, down with any organization, then, whieh denounces a separation between Protestant Virginia and Catholic Maryland—between the children of Catholic Carroll and of

Protestant George Wythe. 1 Meleng a secret society, but for m pelftfral purpose. I am a native Virginian; my ancestors on both sides lor Iwn Mildred years were citiaona el t£i* country and this state—Mall BnglisM, half Scotch. I am a Proleotanl My birth, by baptism, by ednentlon, and by adoption. I am an Amerieam; y«t in every character, in every relation, in every sense, with all my Mead, aid all my heart, and with all roy might, I protest against this secret organisation of native-Americans and Of Protestants to proscribe Roman Catholics and naturalized nRigenp.”

Jess’s fine is paid and he got it lawfully for the judge held that Bob now isn’t running a gambling house. Section umspsteen of the revised statoots, U. P. C. X. Y. Z., Page seven

Mvans has no time for debate.

Certainly the work should not cease, not while there

is a single “kontribution” in sight!

But what we cannot understand is why Imperial Wizard Evans cannot entrust the continuation of the work to some of his oath-bound kleagles long enough to come down and tell us in what way the homes of our Jewish citiwtns are not equally as American as the homes maintained by those money-grabbers who are peddling racial and religious prejudices at $10 a shot in this state. We are all more or less familiar with the man who •annot leave his desk for a single day because of the urjfency of his business. And we all know that when circumstances compel that kind of a man to leave his desk the chances are better than even that some other reason than love of work i$ revealed as the influence that confines

him.—Indianapolis Commercial.

Only a parent can appreciate the agony of mind

which besets the father and mother of M^j>s Marguerite of the Pope( he cannot express- with representative catholics did not Dearth, who disappeared a W^eek ago last Thursday, leav- Jjjg b jg gm-prige that there should bo to be informed that they do not i*g no clue that would guide the distracted relatives, in Officers and soldiers in this army so concede to the Church authorities their frantic search for the mysteriously missing girl, j devoid of common sense as not to tbe to direct their course in Such tragic events only serve to accentuate the fact that Bee the Impropriety of such a Step, it political matters, but many ProtestMOSt of our troubles and vexations are but mere triviali- is 80 monstrous as not to suffered, or ant 3- lacking this knowledge which ties. Petty hatreds, desire for revenge and childish abuse , 6XCUSed; in doed, instead of offering come with personal acquaintance, •f r^wer resultin'* from factional differences or other ig “g ^ ^ william h oauses sink to nothing in the presence of a real calamity, oUc bretliren ag to them we are in tapt—Dec. 20. i9i4--There i s SUCh £*S has overtaken the family of the mioSing girl, and debted for every late success over the nothing so despicable as a secret

the Post-Democrat, along with all other citizens of Muneie prays for an early and happy solution of the mystery.

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Tito wiiv flat Sn^xorable law Humjut s-i - :’.- «'F,»u w<> prepare ourselves f*) r«.*(«**•:> deeds i>y the reiterated chnb *• ■,! good or evil Ihaf gradually detemn*** eituracier.—

George Eliot.

- —O————*o.*/*— Tha Stehar Universe. The Stellar Universe has » background of pearly white nnd astronomers do not know whether this it caused by mitEona of suns or she presence of ;ie dons matter scattered through the vast sosoe

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Perfection it; Ancient Grecian Foot. When Athens was in her zenith, the Grecian fool was the most perfectly formed and e- :‘y proportioned of any of the h 0 race.

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“Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offence against Americaa principles and American Institutions. I It is a wicked thing either to support ' or to oppose a man because of the

creed he professes.”

PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON —Before the Manhattan Club, . Y., Nov. 4. 1915— fr We should rebuke not only manifestations of racial feeling here in America, where there should be none, but also every manifestation of religious and sectarian antagon- | ism. It does not become America that within her borders men should raise j the cry of church against church. To do that is to strike at the very spirit

and heart of America.”

| WILLIAM J. BRYAN—The ( Com- | moner, August, 1915—“Those who have come Into Intimate acquaintance

Railroads Cmfc IVIore In Taxes Than In Dividends

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common enemy in Canada.” society that is based upon religious ABRAHAM LINCOLN— “Recollec- prejudice and that will attempt in tion of Abraham Lincoln”—Lamon— any way to defeat a man because of “When the Know-Nothings get con- his religious beliefs. Such a society

All men are ere- is like a cock-roach—it thrives in the

ated equal, except negroes and for- dark. So do those who combine for eigners and -Catholics.* When it such an end and work In secret and

The federal grand jury, which has just adjourned,

found indictments against one hundred and fifty or more ^ jt wll J read: violators of the liquor law at Fort Wayne and Anderson. 1 J

It seems impossible that conditions could have existed in ^ to tWs l6hould preter 6mlgra . , n the

"both cities s , |ch as have been disclosed, unless sworn of- tIng to 80me ^ere they ftx-vtce president marficers of the law had been either criminally lax in their make no pretense of loving liberty.” shall—At Indianapolis, sept. 8, dutv or in criminal conspiracy with the indicted bootleg- ex-president roosevelt — 1912—''under our form of governgerS. It WOUld seem that the district attorney and the New York Herald, October 13, 1915— ment the right is given to every man

The railroads are today paying out more in taxes than they are in dividends, according to figures compiled by the Bureau of Railway Economics from the records of the Interstate Commerce Commission. In 1913 total dividends paid to railroad stockholders were about two and a half times the total railroad taxes. Last year —1922—taxes paid were 11 percent greater than the aggregate dividends. In the ten-year period, 1913 to 1922, taxes increased about 135 percent, while dividends decreased about 16 percent. Records of total sums paid out by railroads in cash dividends and taxes from 1913 to 1922, inclusive, are for the year ending table. Figures for 1913 to 1915, inclusive, are for the year ending June 30, and for Class I and II roads, the latter of which constitute from 2 to 3 per cent of the total. Figures for 1916 and subsequent years are for Class 1 roads only, and for calendar year: AGGREGATE DIVIDENDS AND TAXES PAID. Total Total Year Dividends Paid Taxes Paid 1913 $322,300,406 $127,725,809 1914 376,089,785 141,942,711 1915 259,809,520 139,313,602 1916 306,176,937 162,474,735 1917 322,295,779 215,146,471 1918 275,336,547 223,595,268 1919 278,516,908 232,363,445 1920 271,731,669 282,750,533 1921 298,511,328 275,128,134 1922 271,576,000 301,003,227 Increase in taxes is due in part to an increase of approximately $5,000,000,000 in the property investment of the railroads between 1913 and 1922. While the total investment value of railroad property during this period has increased about 33 percent and taxes upon property 135 percent ttoal compensation to railway stockholders has decreased 16 percent. Taxes now exceed dividends not only as to aggregate, but also per mile of line. In 1913, $1,466 was paid out in dividends per mile of line, compared with $531 in taxes. In 1922, $1,156 was paid out and $1,282 in taxes. W. J. Harahan, President The Cheasapeake and Ohio Railway Company. Richmond, Va., Nov. 1,1923.