Hammond Times, Volume 2, Number 285, Hammond, Lake County, 20 May 1908 — Page 4
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THE TIMES. Wednesday; May 20, 1903.
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- ' SHOULD AGITATORS BE ALLOTTED TO WRECK BUSINESS? i
THE LIFE OR DEATH of the saloon business in Gary Is a matter of extreme moment, not only to Gary, but to other points In Lake county where the trail of the anti-saloon agitator has been marked by stealthy and secret
work, which has been as deadly as the It is a singular thing-, 13 prohlbltary
in the province of this writing to discuss Its economic and social propriety, it is a remarkable fact that It generally comes Into a community from the outside, by men who make it a business and are paid for It. In other words
they obtain their livelihood by attempting to take away the livelihood of
those whose business makes them purveyors of a public commodity. There are two sides to every question, but the prohibition agitator allows only one side to be tenable. No sane man will afHrm that the liquor traffic is without its evils, but that the remedy for these evils is the destruction of a
business licensed by the United States nicipal, is yet to be proved.
We are of course all familiar with the harrowing picture of crime, and suffering that the temperance orator and his horrible example fasten on to
the saloons, and some Gary saloons have no doubt been guilty of Infractions of the law, but to destroy the business as a whole, depreciate the value of property, may ruin may of the saloonmen, put their wives and families Into skeleton hand of starvation, is a serious matter. Nor will the Gary saloons alone be the sufferers. There are hundreds of saloons In Lake county whose
proprietors are law-abiding, honest, charitable citizens and their business is
imperilled and jeopardized. The saloonkeeper who breaks the law is de
.serving of punishment and there are officials elected whose sworn duty it is to see that these violators are punished. If they do not do they duty, It
is the duty of the elector at the hustings to put men In office who will,
The officers of the Lake County Saloonkeepers' association are as anxious that the members of the association keep within the pale of the law as the
most ardent temperance advocate, and
them suffer for the sins of those who are outside the association. It is to be regretted that the association cannot find some method of bringing these
delinquent and law-breaking saloonmen to show that the saloonmen of Lake
be, which, if the county revenues were to do lose, would make sustaining of the schools and other public institution a hard, and many say, an almost imposible task. The ''question is, indeed, a most serious one In every aspect
and It Is time to pause and consider
The arguments of the prohibitary agitator have been found to be specious In many ways, and those who are entrusted with the licensing of saloons, may well hesitate before they wreck the business which, as we have said before, is licensed by law. Two wrongs never yet made a right and the business interests of Lake county have a perfect right to see that the momentous ques
tion is minutely considered. "THIS DATE IN HISTORY." May 20. 1471 Albert Durer, celebrated painter, ' born. Died April 6, 1528. 1774 Charter of Massachusetts annulled and people declared rebels by Parliament. 1775 Declaration of Independence ,. adopted , at Mecklenburg, N. C. 1731 Rev. David Dudley Field, American clergyman and writer, born. Died April 15, 1S67. 1S25 Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, first woman ordained as a minister, born near Rochester, N. Y. 1S5S Capture of the Peiho forts. 1S59 French and Cardinians defeated the Au?trians at Montebello. 1873 St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York City, dedicated. "THIS IS MY 61st BIRTHDAY." Oscar G. Murray. Oscar G. Murray, president of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad company, was born May 20, 1847, at Bridgeport, Conn., and was educated In the public schools of that city. His railroad career dates from' 1S72, in which year he entered the services of the Galveston, Houston and Henderson railroad as ticket agent at Galveston, lie remained with that road until 1S80, rising in the service until he became general freight and passenger' agent. During the next five. years he occupied a similar position with the Gulf, Colorado and Stnta Fe. He next went with the Missouri Pacific lines and from there to the Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis and Chicago Road. In 1S82 he became second vice president of the Baltimore and Ohio and. from 1S96 to 1839 he acted as receiver of that road. A year ortwo ago he was promoted from the first vice presidency to the presidency of the company. . . - W. VA. KNIGHTS TEMPLAR. Huntington W. Va., May . 20. The Knights Templar of-West Virginia met In this city today in thirtyrfourth annual conclave. In their honor the city was elaborately decorated with the colors and emblems of Masonry. A business cession was held this morning and in tha afternoon there was a ItiS parade.
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Other Newspaper in Calumet Region Times are requested to favor the manla dcllveilng. Conuaanicato with the interest of the people and It utterance welfare of the public at large. dynamite mine. agitation, and while It is not with government, state, county and mu it would be most unjust to make to task. There are figures at hand county pay a tax to the powers that Its weight and importance. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS OUR OWN DICTIONARY. KNOCKER, n. A skate who uses the hammer because he Is too much of a coward to use the axe. Hammond has no pay-as-you-enter cars but there is a blameslte too many bump-as-you-ride cars running out of the junkshop. You cant go down to the drygroods store and buy a dollar's worth of culture, or have refinement delivered to you by the groceryman. HE READS IT YEARLY. Mr. D. F. Needham, one of the old comrades of the city, is a new yearly reader to this paper. Vicksburg (Mich.) Herald. A MAN IS NEVER SO MUCH A MAN AS WHEN HE'S TRYING TO CON VINCE A WOMAN SHE IS ANYTHING BUT A WOMAN. "Well, it looks very remote, indeed," says our Mr. Fairbanks, as he raises a cherry cocktail to his ruby lips. SAY, BO. If the waiter, the street ear con ductor, the telephone girl or the cleric from whom you demand so much such an arrogant manner, had your op portunity, you might d where they are. Ever think of it 7 We don't blame "Fighting" Bob Evans for using such lurid language
Heart to Head Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyright, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye.
VIE ATS THE USE? Why is man bora with the closed fists? Because he wants to grasp everything. And why does he die with palms outstretched? To show that he takea nothing along with him. Talmud. The quaint saying of the Talmud Is a good one for this day and age an age of grasping commercialism. Some one has aptly named the dispo sition of modern men to gather to themselves more wealth than they need or can use as "money madness." There3 method in that madness. Note the cunning of the monopolist who gathers to himself the ways and means of production. See how his converging lines of transportation and his watchful execution match that of the spider that weaves his converging webs and lures his victim. . Money mad, these moderns. And some of them, like lunatics in a cell, grasp at the straws of their matting to weave them into a golden crown. And some of them grasp at the motes in the air of their dusty cells, seeking substance. Some of them ravage the world and rob their fellows. Some steal from earth and sea and sky. Some sell their souls to the devil. Listen to the marching chorus of the money pirates, the grunting, sweaty chorus of grab, grab grab! Poor fools! Yet a little while and the grabbers shall pass away. Whose, then, 6hall these things be? The lawyers will revel in the loot of it, heirs will quarrel over it, harpies will fatten on the funds, and prodigal hands will sow the surplus wealth broadcast over the earth. Even now lustful eyes watch for the first symptom of the hour when the fists of the lucre loving lunatics shall relax their itching palms. Poor fools! Our brief Anglo-Saxon phrase puts the lesson of the Talmud in fewer words. , Our ancestors were accustomed to say, "There are no pockets in shrouds Poor fools! Soon the grabbing hand shall lose Its cunning and the lying tongue cleave to the roof of its mouth. In the language of the street: What's the use? when they mentioned his name In con nection with the vice presidency. Some women never see a couple . out walking together without they start the story that they are engaged. It seems to be up to Joey Cannon to be sitting up nights and thinking the wood pulp and print paper over. Somehow chivalry gets an awful chill when a man gives his seat to a woman on a street car and she takes it as if she had a right and without thanks. For all time to come people who have never heard of Laporte will associate the name with the most horrible of crimes and with the most atrocious deed of the century. Good Lord makes us as wise as some 18 year old high school students think they are. IN POLITICS William Kliver, the republican noml nee from Gary for the office of joint representative against Attorney W. M. Stanton of Gary,, was in Hammond yes terday and was asked how the poll tical situation looked In the new steel city. "We are not shouting and making a big noise," said Mr. Kliver, "but you just wait until after election and there will be an amazed lot of democrats over the county. "The situation has been gone over pretty thoroughly," he continued, "and I think I am safe in saying that Gary and Calumet township will roll up about as pretty a majority next fall as tho republican party could ask for." Friends of Daniel W. Lawler, who was recently elected mayor of St. Paul, are seeking higher political honors for him. A movement has been started to make him the democratic candidate for governor of Minnesota this fall. His friends believe he could be elected to succeed Governor Johnson. Though Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri has repeatedly expressed a desire to remain out of national poll tics for the present, he is now being discussed in some quarters as a pos sible candidate for the democratic nom ination for the presidency at the com ing Denver convention. Locke Craig appears now to be the man- who will most likely succeed Gov ernor Glenn in the gubernatorial of fice of North Carolina. Next In the running Is William W. Kitchln,. who has served six consecutive terms in
Dr. Victor Keene, the Indianapolis hydrophobia expert, was called to Chi- j cago by J. Ogden Armour from Bloomlngton, where he was giving an address at Indiana university, to attend; his daughter, Lollta, who was bitten by a dog. As a result of a controversy be tween the officials of the Home Tele phone company of Wabash and the of ficials of the Michigan division of tho Big Four railroad, all of the telephones have been ordered out of ticket and division offices of the company. The Merry Widow hats are getting a severe bump in Terre Haute. The umpire at a ball game denounced them, and now J. W. Johnson of the Eighth Avenue Baptist church has come out in a sermon against them. The state convention of the St. Jo seph's society is being held in Evansvllle and will convene in Richmond next year. Secret societies were condemned and a plea was made that German be studied in both the schools and the home. Julia Sautskop, aged 85, and Edward Cnieskl,' half her age, were arrested today while eloping from Terre Haute. When arraigned in the police-court it developed that the bridegroom has been in America but a few months and the woman was living with her father, from whom she stole $300 with which to get married. William Fleming, a real estate deal er of Cleveland. O., was arraigned in the circuit court at South Bend today on a charge of bunko steering. He is one of the men who is alleged to have congress as representative of the Fifth district of North Carolina. Idaho democrats believe a victory is in store for the party in their state this year. As a result of the general feeling of confidence an unusual Interest is manifested in the campaign and many men of high standing have expressed their willingness to. try for office on the democratic ticket. The knocking out of the Gary saloons has given the politicians something else to think about for a few days. The Laporte-Porter democratic and Judicial and joint representative convention will be held at Wanatah. The date will soon be selected. Attorney Phllo O. Doran of Laporte has announced his candidacy for the republican nomination for prosecutor of Laporte county. Republican politicians in Goshen have organized a Charles W. Miller club. The purpose of the organization is to promote the interests of Miller, who is a candidate for the republican nomination for congress. Carl W. Riddick, secretary of the republican state committee t klhsathnt republican state committee, thinks that "from latest and reliable inforamtlon from counties over the district It now appears that John L. Moorman, the popular editor of the Starke County Republican, will receive the republican nomination for both the regular term and the unexpired term of the late Mr. Brick." LABOR NEWS Representatives of sixty labor organizations have launched the Chicago (111.) Equity Exchange, which proposes to distribute farm products direct from the grower to consumer. It is believed that the approaching convention of the International Printing Pressmen and Assistants' union, which will meet in Mobile, Ala., on June 15, will be the largest ever held. A large number . of telegraphers In Indiana are on strike and there has been a great delay in the transmission of messages. The Indian government Is opposed to the demands made upon it. A new bill Is being drawn up providing for a state printing office in Minnesota and will be presented to the next' legislature for consideration and passage. -The proposed measure will have the support of the State Federation of Labor and the solid backing of union printers al lover the northwest. The Finnish legislature has passed the bakers' bill which makes eight hours a legal day's work in all bakeries throughout Finland. The same bill provides that night work in bakeries shall be prohibited. By a referendum vote the Stove Mounters and Steel Range Workers International union has decided to hold a general convention this year. The convention will assemble In Chicago the third week in July. Three times as many foreign laborers left this country so far this year than during the same period last year, and only one-third as many have entered American ports as during the corresponding period of 1907. Action taken by the board of control of the Minnesota state prison, providing that, if necessary, the prisoners may be worked overtime in the twine plant not to exceed three hours a day, has stirred up some of the unions. EAGLES AT SACRAMENTO. Sacramento, Cal May 20. Sacramento is today the roosting place for members of the Fraternal Order of Eagles from all parts of California. The state aerit of the order Is In annual ses' slon with a record-breaklnjc attejodajice.
swindled W. J. Springborn out of a $10,000 bet on a fake wrestling match. Jackson Brown, a young Monroe township farmer, living near Anderson, has brought suit against his father-in-law for J20.000 on the charge that he was responsible for alienating the affections of his wife. Ex-Mayor Edwin J. Bidaman last night shot and killed a burglar who was trying to enter his home at Sixth street and Maple avenue. , Bidaman was aroused by the noise and going to the window he saw the man trying to get in and fired. Charles Edward Wagner, a well known editor in Vernon, expired at the home of his sister, Mrs. William F. Welker. : Mr. Wagner was 55 years old and was the editor of the Vernon Banner and Journal. He was a prominent republican. Grace Myndus committed suicide at the home of his parents in Logansport yesterday. Six months ago Grace went south to hunt work and 6he, believing that she had been deserted, shot herself. This preyed on his mind until he suicided. Jacob Meisse, aged 99, the oldest man in Hamilton county, died at Noblesville yesterday. He was a very devout man and had read the bible through twenty-five times since 1S90. Seeing the glimmer of a lantern. Miss Gertrude Bergman of Columbus thought that an automobile was about to crash into the buggy in which she was riding. She jumped from the rig and sustained Injuries from which she was rendered unconscious and has been in that state ever since. THE CREAM OF THE Morning News "Merry Widow" hats, polka dot veils and high heels are termed Satan's tools by Rev. W. A. Bartlett in an address to the West Side Christian Endeavor Union. Collins-Comerford trial is shortened by the admission of testimony obviat Ing the necessity of calling 150 wit nesses. "Chicago" Is the name of a new ocean greyhound of the Compagnie General Transalantique, which Is about to be launched. Chicago attorney In argument on exception to master's report in the Western Life indemnity case declares there never was a more flagrant case of graft than when officers of the company deliberately agreed to despoil the company of $200,000. R. R. McCormick complains to Alderman Kohout that the city's delay In granting wire permits Is tying up the sanitary district's power. It Is said that the action ' of the House of Representatives In voting $1,500,000 for the Japanese exposition in 1910 is In the nature of a peace offering and is also tha "speak softly" compliment to the navy as the "big stick." Chief of the forestry service gives figures on the present supply of spruce ptilp wood to the congressional investigating committee. Secretary Taft makes pblic at Washington the details of the arrangement with the Panama government which promises an honest election in the republic. Wealthy New Yorker, doomed by hydrophobia discovered too late, Is arranging his affairs preparatory for his death, which he realizes is at hand. Love letters to Colonel Snell, said to have been written by prominent women certainly will be offered as evidence in the will contest trial at Clinton, 111., this week. In her suit in New York for divorce from Senator Tlatt, Mae C Wood asserts that William Loeb, secretary to the President, and former Assistant Postmaster General Waynne, "conspired to get certain valuable papers away fro mher. Three to one Is the estimate of W. J. Bryan's, majority over Governor Johnson in the Alabama primaries of Monday, although the Minnesota man showed great strength In some parts of the state. Scalding and drowning In a bathtub on the Mauretanla prove to have caused the death of General C. A. Whittle r of New York, whose demise was announced by wireless last Thursday. May corn ranges near the 80s before relief comes to the shorts, and wheat scores a lively advance; cattle unchanged, with hogs higtier and sheep lower. BAPTIST ANNIVERSARIES. Oklahoma City, Okla., May 20. The national celebration of the Baptist anniversaries was begun here today, prominent Baptists from all over the country being present. The various bodies which will hold their annual meetings during the coming eight days include the Northern Baptist convention, the American Missionary union, which has charge of the foreign field; the Home Missionary society. Women's Home and Foreign Missionary societies, Publication society and Historical society. The proposed changes in denominational methods will make the meetings of special Interest and farreaching Importance. SOUTH CAROLINA DEMOCRATS. Columbus, S. C. May 20. Democrats of South Carolina assembled in state convention here today and were called to order by General Willie Jones, chairman of the state executive committee. The convention will decide upon the eighteen delegates from South Carolina to the Denver convention. Though the sentiment in this state in favor of William J. Bryan for president is not over-enthusiastic, there has been no work in the interest of any other candidate and it is expected that as a patter of course the convention will give the Nebraska leader its indorsement.
Presidential IS'o.
GEORGE B. C0RTELYGU OF NEW YORK.
Republican Keynote Speech at Chicago Convention is Stirring Up Considerable Trouble Because of Fact That Beveridge is Ditched.
Indianapolis, May 2(K Correspondents at Washington the filling their papers all over the country Just now with stories to the effect that President Roosevelt is bitterly aggrieved at the subcommittee on arrangements for the republican , national convention In not selecting Senator Albert J. Beveridge, of this state, as temporary chairman of the convention. It is being printed everywhere that the president wrote a personal letter to Harry S. New, chairman of the subcommittee as well as of the national committee, asking that Senator Beveridge to be chosen to deliver the party keynote and that thereafter the president and the senior senator from Indiana outlined the keynote and decided what should be put forth as the paramount Issue of the day. Thought it an Outrage. The stories relate that the selection of Senator Julius Casear Burrows of Michigan, for the position desired by Beveridge was a sad blow to the president and that he has expressed himself as thinking the selection of Burrows an outrage. The correspondents point out that Beveridge was turned down because of a fear he would deliver a ripsnorting speech and stampede the convention for the president, or if not that that he would emphasize the importance of the Rooseveltlan issue and mold the which would be pleasing to the president, i It 13 known that Senator Beveridge expected to be the deliverer of the party keynote. Members of the state committee had been informed that Beveridge was not eligible for the chairmanship of the Indiana delegation to the Chicago convention inasmuch as he would probably be the presiding officer of the convention. The leaders of the party had been advised, hokever, that Beveridge would regard it as an honor to be made the Indiana member of the committee on resolutions. New Favorable to Beveridge. Politicians here say that Chairman New was favorable to Beveridge and had Intimated that the senator would be chosed. They now think that the antl-ltopsevelt ' members of the subcommittee are responsible for his turndown. This agrees with the volume of stuff now being printed In the metropolitan papers. They Insist that the anti-Roosevelt republicans urged the selection of Senator Jonothan P. Dolliver, of Iowa, an antl-administratlon man, and that the selection of Burrows was a compromise between the two factions represented on the subcommittee. . - Senator Burrows, It Is explained, was not the candidate of any faction, but an eleventh hour choioe. His state convention has declared for Taft, but the senator, himself, has not been allied with the Taft boomers. He Is a so-called conservative and many republicans regard his selection as a happy choice. Selection Would nave Embarrassed. Politicians here say that Beveridge's selection would have been embarrassing Inasmuch as his speech would have been modeled with a view to pleasing the administration and that as such the speech would have been a drawback to the candidacy of Vice President Fairbanks, Inasmuch as, the Indiana candidate for the presidency represents the conservative, safe and antiRoosevelt wing of the party. The inconsistency of an Indiana senator delivering a Roosevelt keynote at a convention in which Fairbanks is a candidate for highest honors, would have been ludicrous, it Is pointed out. It Is thought too that the opposition ,ta Mr.. Beveridge ..was partly personal
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as well as partly political. The New York Sun points out that older men of the party have objected to what they regarded as a growing tendency on Beveridge's part to be the party's spokesman on the floor of the senato and to assume the leadership in party councils. The paper also states that the charge is made that Beveridge went to the president with the request that the president have him named for temporary chairman. Says That President Isn't Done. Many correspondents think that tha president will seok through his lieutenants on the convention floor to hava the selection of Senator Burrows rejected by the convention. Precedent for this Is not lacking. Twenty-fouB years ago, the subcommittee recommended the selection of Powell Clayton as temporary chairman of the republican national convention. Roosevelt was then on the threshold of hi9 political career. He and Henry Cabot Lodge, now a senator from Massachusetts, sought to have the recommendation turned down. Roosevelt, himself, made a rousIng speech, urging the selection of John R. Lynch, a colored orator from Mississippi. Lynch was elected by a vote of 424 to 384. This bit of ancient history is now dug up to show that the president would have a familiar precedent should he decide to seek the selection of Beveridge in opposition to the subcommittee. And as a strange coincidence, it is recalled that Poyell Clayton, the temporary chairman, turned down twenty-four years ago, Is now a member of the subcommittee whose recommendation is being challenged. PRESBYTERIAN ASSEMBLY. ! Greensboro, N. C, May 20. Everything is in readiness for the meeting of the forty-eighth general assembly of the Southern Presbyterians, known officially as the Presbyterian church In the United States, which will be called to order here tomorrow morning. Thia year the opening sermon will bo preached by the retiring moderator. Rev. James R. Howerton, D. D., of Montreat, N. C. The asembly Is tha governing body of the Presbyterian, church in the south, the court of final appeal in matters of doctrine. Its work Is managed chiefly through executive; committees, which are elected each year. These various committees and boards are as follows: Executive committee of foreign missions, executive committee of home missions, executive committee of colored evengelization, executive commitea of ministerial relief, trustees of the assemly's home and schools, trustees of the assembly, American Bible society, permanent committee on Sabbath and superintendent of Sunday schools. NEW EISH0P OF GEORGIA. Savannah, Ga., May 20. The service of consecration of the Rev. Dr. F. F. Reese as Episcopal bishop of Georgia took place here today, and was the most notable ceremony in the history of the Episcopal church in this city. Christ church, where the event took place, was filled to overflowing. Half a dozen bishops of the church and many clergymen of prominence took part in the ceremonies. The new bishop comes to Georgia from Nashville, where he was for four years rector of Christ church. He la a native of Baltimore and a graduate of the University of Virginia and of the Berkeley Divinity school at Middletown. Conn. He was ordained a priest in 1879 and filled the pulpit in Baltimore and Macon before" goias to Nashville.