Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 23, Hammond, Lake County, 15 July 1908 — Page 4

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THE TIMES. Wednesday, July 15, 1908.

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WHO IS PEDDLING COCAINE IN HAMMOND?

IT IS ABOUT TIME FOR THE DRUGGISTS of Hammond to get busy and ferret out the guilty person or persons in their imdst who are bringing disrepute to Hammond through the illicit sale of cocaine to the blear-eyed and disreputable flotsam and jetsam who drag their wrecked bodies out here in search of the drug. From time to time within the past few months, the Times, single-handed, has exposed the traffic in cocaine in Hammond. It has photographed and interviewed the coke fiends who bought the cursed stuff to take back with them to their lazar-houses. That these human wrecks have taught Hammond boys to use the vitiating drug is evidenced by the existence of a coke club here with over a dozen members. There isn't a week passes but what some coke user is not arrested in Chicago and con

fesses that he has bought the drug in

a byword. The Times has the names of two druggists in Hammond who are accused of trafficking in cocaine. These deny that they are doing so any longer- Indeed, the druggists accuse one another of selling the deleterious drug. The public at large having no other Information to the contrary have a perfect right to draw their own conclusions, and the respected druggists of the city knowing that certain ones of their guild are sitting on a barrell of gunpowder as it were, should touch it off. It is high time for the druggists to call a meeting and take action. They should expose the guilty traffickers to the world at large. It is for them to complain to the authorities. Now is the time. The man who sells the noxious drug is worse than the creature who uses it. The one can't help himself.

ABOUT DOCTORS AND

THE LAKE COUNTY MEDICAL ASSOCIATION' has at divers times and places, both collectively and individually, taken decided exceptions to the newspapers for their attitude in what the doctors call "advertising the medical profession." The doctors insist that they do not want their names used in connection with any case to which they are called, insisting that the publication of their names would be a violation of professional ethics. Some of them in accident cases, give out information with palpable reluctance. They have brought up the question in their meetings and stormed because their names have been mentioned in connection with cases that are of public interest and which the newspaper, as a purveyor of news, has perfect and ethical grounds for publishing. In this connection it is interesting to note what Dr. Herbert L. Burnell said lately before the American Medical association at Boston- He said: "The medical profession and many of the public are afraid of the press. Whether this position on the part of the public is justified or not need not be discussed. I never had occasion to appeal to the press for assistance and co-operation in any public measure without receiving hearty, but at all times, to my mind, indiscreet assistance. Newspapers will publish what they think the public wants to know, but not what we think the public ought to know. They assume, quite properly, the right of decision. The greatest power that we can have to diffuse information is the public press. Let us be frank with it and I believe that it will almost invariably be honest with us." We take decided objection to what the learned doctor said in stating that newspapers will not publish what the medical profession think the public ought to know. We have never yet heard of a newspaper that has

refused to publish any doctor s suggestion or advice wherein it relates to

the improvement of public health. It is quite possible that the newspapers of the country reach nearly as many people as the doctors do and are just as glad to advise the people in the matter of public health as the doctors are. Dr. Burrell is quite right when he advises doctors to be frank

with the press and it will be honest with them. The doctor who tries to withhold information from a newspaper that the public has a right to it,

makes a bad mistake. "THIS DATE IN HISTORY." July 15. 1S0S Cardinal Manning born. 1S33 Thomas C. Piatt, United States senator from New York state, born at Oswego, N. Y. 1S39 Chartist riot in Birmingham, England. 1810 Treaty of London between the sultan and Mahomet Alt. 1S41 William C. Whitney, secretary of the navy in President Cleve- " land's cabinet, born. Died Feb. 2, 1905. 1554 Benjamin Ide Wheeler, president of the University of California, born at Randolph, Mass. 1555 International park at Niagara Falls opened. 1S95 Henry M. Stanley elected to the British parliament. 1906 The seventy-fifth anniversary of Belgian Independence celebrated in Brussels. 1907 Ten persons killed by an explosion in a turret of the battleship Georgia. "THIS IS MY 72ND BIRTHDAY." WIlMani Winter. William Winter, the dean of American dramatic critics, was born In Glou

28. It06. at the poetofflce at Ham. March . 1879."

....?.oo ....S1.5 ONE CENT Other Newspaper in Calumet Eegion. J Hammond until Hammond is becoming THE NEWSPAPERS. cester, Mass., July 15, 1836, and went to school in Boston and Cambridge. lie tinmen law at Harvard and was admitted to the bar, but he never prac tieed his profession. He began to wrte at an early ng and his first volume of poems was published when he was only eigaieen years oiu. Mr. inter removed form Boston to New York in 1S59. For some years he wrote with more or less regularity for the Saturday Press and other publications. In 1S65 he became dramatic critic of the Tribune and he still holds that position. During ail these years his literary act ivny nus oeen remarnaDie and he is still one of the most industrious work ers in professional service. In addition to his journalistic work Mr. Winter has written a number of books relating to the stage and several volumes of poetry. MAINE DEMOCRATS MEET. Bangor, Me., July 15. Democrats of Maine assembled in state convention here today, Hon George M. Hansen of Calais presiding. The convention will name candidates for the state offices to be filled this fall. The candidate for governor will be Obadlaa Gardner of Rockland. -

eart to Hear!

Talks. By EDWIN A. NYE. Copyrlcht. 1903. by Edwin A. Nye. ONCE HE WAS A MAN. This is an editorial about one who used to be a man. He is now a millionaire. This man began his business life without a dollar. If, as some one has said, "a man is worth only $2 a day from his shoulders down and 20 a day from his shoulders up," this man at first was worth only $2 a day. After awhile he began to use his head to work from his shoulders up. As soon as he got to working from his shoulders up he began to work others. He learned how to make money grow money. He was smart enough presently to corner some special privileges that the man who works with his hands never gets. Then he began to get rich quick. In a little while he was a millionaire. And there was the man's wife. "When he was just beginning to do things with his head he married a fine girl, who, like himself, was poor. She worked hard, denying herself. She saved and slaved and lost her beauty. What mattered it? They were getting rich. They would enjoy their prosperity together. Then this man became a thing. He looked into the face of his wife and saw that her beauty had faded. She did her best to please him, but the old charm was gone. And one day this creature in male garments happened to bump into a girl who was artful, fascinating and pretty to boot. She looked at him and smiled. He was hypnotized and finally undone. He would have this woman. Tie would buy her. He was rich enough to do so. And thus the plot thickened. The male creature sent his lawyers to the old wife, who had literally given herself to him, body and soul, and offered her much money. The lawyers told the wife her husband had no further use for her. Then came the divorce suits and the scandal. Finally the millionaire went away with the pretty woman. And almost every day the old wife cried. "Who is this fellow with much money and no soul? Turn to the commercial reports of Dun or Bradstreet and read over the list of millionaires quoted there. If you will pick out some one at random you will scarcely fail to find his nam addresa. RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS Ah! Yum, Yum. Mrs. John Armstrong, living at Doniphan Station, gave a dinner yesterdav that called for eight chickens and three cakes. Atchison Globe. Bet the preacher was there. THE TRUTH REVEALED. "Well, I heard him plenriing behind the door for just one; they must be en-gaged. "Naw; they're married. It was a dollar he was pleading for." It is almost time for some one to spring the straw vote with the glad tidings that -- is going to be defeated. Substitute either the name of Taft or Bryan. IN TALKING TO A GIRL, SOME .MEN LOOK SO FOOLISH, THAT IF THE GIRL COULDN'T HEAR AT ALL, SHE WOULD KNOW WHAT THEY MEANT. Mr. Hearst to Mr. Bryan: "No. you can't gull me again. I've buttered your parsnips for the last time." Of course, you don't need to get hot over politics thin summer, but you probably will disregard the advice If you hnve any red blood In your vein. If you have an old Bryan button from 1898-1900. of course now is the time for you to dig it up and use it. A man w ho tries to please n woman and plense himself at the name time makes the saddest mistake of his life. Doubtless Mrs. Nick Longworth wondering where she can go next be in the shotted. limelight and be snapThe man most Interested in the weather the fanner I the Inst man to do any kicking about the weather. It begins to look as if there were gcing to be a Princess Ruth as well as a Princess Alice. Veil, why not? A burnt child dreads the fire, but there is always something fascinating about one's old flr.es. City's O. K. Ontside ot That. A stray booze fighter or two has bvtted into our ranks, and while deporting themselves ordinarily well gen-

DP AND DOWN

GETS CRAMPS; IS DROWNED. Jesse P. Willhite, aged twenty-two, of Mellott, was drowned while swimmingnear that place. Willhite dived off of a ledge and swam about ten feet when he was seized with cramps and sank to the bottom. He called for help, but the boys on the bank were unable to reach him. SONS HELD FOR MURDER. John V. Long, a wealthy Wabash county farmer received a telegram from his two sons, Milo and Walter Long. at Culbertson, Mont., saying that the two boys have been arrested for murder and need his assistance. Mr. Long left at once for Montana. The two boys, who were prominent in Wabash county, went to Montana two years ago, securing a farm. DROPS DEAD ON BIRTHDAY. laughing and joking with members of his family who were assisting him in celebrating his fifty-third birth anniversary, EM Weesner of Wabash was ..suddenly stricken with heart disease and almost died instantly. He was a. wealthy farmer. MAKES SECOND SURVEY. The second survey of the proposed traction line from Danville to Rockville fifty-five miles west of here, is being amde. The engineering corps was at work near Bainbridge this morning. Residents along the right of way are of the opinion that their hopesc are to be realized. STANDARD OIL LATS PIPE. The Standard Oil Company is laying a pipe line from the oil fields in Illinois to connect with the main line in Ohio which runs to New York. Part of the line will cross Shelby county in the northwest. FARMERS RAISE CORN. The farmers of Indiana, according to the statistics on the acreage of wheat In the state this year compiled by the State Bureau of Statistics, turned their attention form raising wheat to that of raising corn and other grain for stock. PUBLICITY THE CURE. With a view of lessening the number of accidents oeeuring throughout the e rally, took occasion to let the cat out of the bag. Crystal City (Texas) Chronicle. WHEN A MAN GOES TO A POLITICAL MEETING HE DOESN'T PAY ANY ATTENTION TO THE SPEECHES EXCEPT TO YELL AT THEM. THE NEXT DAY HE FINDS THEM IN THE NEWSPAPERS. IN POLITICS If statistics recently sent broadcast over Indiana are correct, there will be 63,000 entirely new voters In the state at the fall election. These figures must not be taken to mean that these voters are nil young men who are voting for the first tie. It includes votes being cast in the state that were not cast at the last election. The rumor reached Hammond yesterday that the Chicago Record -Hera Id is to go democratic July L'O. This information is said to have been told in confidence to a Hammond man by a well known Chicago politician. The reason for the change s s-aid to be purely commercial. The democrats have no organ in the middle west. They realize that they will have to light the Hearst papers and part of the campaign funds which the party will have at its disposal this year will be spent in purchasing this paper. The story may or may not be true, but whether the change will take plae and if it does whether the paper will continue to be Weilmairzed and Curtisized will be matter of great interest to its readers. State Senator A. f. Bowser was in ITamond yesterday anil todiy looking over the political situation and conferring with some of the leaders her?. Speaking of the dissatisfaction that has been shown by labor with the republican party. Bowser had the following to say: "The Indiana labor leaders themselves admitted that at the last session of the legislature there was more done for labor than in all of the preceding sessions. I myself introduced and secured the passage of the 'full crew bill.' which was the pet measure of the railroad union men. The sixteen hour bill was another measure which was heartily endorsed and which was passed by the legislature. The republican party in Indiana has given labor everything it asked for and I do not believe that the unions in the state will go back on the'r friends and take a chance on a party which is an unknown quantity, except for promises, with no assurance of fulfillment." Richmond, Ind., July 14. Ohairan Beck of the Wayne county democratic committee and fifty or more other local members of the party will go to Indianapolis Wednesday to attend the Kern demonstration. The local committee expects that Mr. Kern will hold one of his many Indiana meetings during the campaign in Richmond, where he always has been held in high esteem. Six weeks ago Mr. Kern was the gue.n of honor at a special eeting and the banquet of the Richmond Commerce;

IN INDIANA

United States, the American Anti-Accident Association of Shelbyville asks the press of the country to make a special feature of all accidents occuring in this country, placing the occurences under a regular heading, as is done with sporting, financial and other features that are classified. PUNCH AS BAD AS BEER. Church members who drink their punch from cut glass bowls with silver ladle are just as deep in sin as men who use rusty tin cups in the worst saloons, according to Prof. Charles Scanlon of Pitsburg, who addressed the temperance conference at Winona Lake today. The address created much discission. LEARNS RELATIVE'S ABODE. Robert Brown of Columbus until today did not know that he had a relative but this morning he received a letter form E. Brown of Omaha, Neb., who stated that he was a half brother and would be here this week. The two are sons of William Brown, a former resident of Columbus, who went to the civil war and did not return. DROWNED IN POOL. While a half dozen young fellows enjoyed the cool waters in the big bathing pool at White City in Indianapolis last evening they did not realize that their companion, John S. Wilkinson, a compositor in the composing room of The Star, was lying at the bottom of the pool, either a victim of cramps or from overeonfidence in his ability to swim. CASSEL JURY DISAGREES. After being out almost forty-seven hours the jury in the trial of Emery Cassel at Spencer for the murder of Thomas Mills reported to Judge Clark at 1:55 this afternoon that they were unable to reach an agreement and were discharged. SENATOR TAKES VACATION. Senator Hemenway of Boonville has written his secretary, Thomas P. Littlepage, that he left Chicago Saturday for a week's vacation on Mackinac Island. He is the guest of A. T. Hert of Chicago, who owns a summer home on the lakes. club, and his very happy address on that occasion won him many new friends. The presidential campaign this year is the first of modern times to which the railroads have not contribute! from $150,000 to $1.500,000 in the form of free transportation for stump speakers and other political workers. Wisconsin is to have a primary election the first of September. It is to be the first time in the history of the state that United States senators are to be nominated by direct vote of the people. The controversy among Illinois republican candidates as to who shall have their names first on the primary ballot has been settled by the decision that the lists shall be headed by the names of the candidates for renomination. .Taes M. Guffey, the grim antagonist of William Jennings Bryan, has been a democratic leader in Pennsylvani for many years. In addition to being a pastmaster in the game of politics he ir the possessor of an immense fortune, which he made for the most part In the oil industry. The Porto Rican legislature has passed an act to regulate the hours of railroad employes with sixteen hours' limit. At .loliet. 111., the quarry workers' strike has been settled by arbitration through the efforts of the Central Labor union. Probably 15.000 men in the Iron and steel trade of the Midlands (England) district will be affected by a five per cent reduction in wages. The first annual convention of the National Fedehatlon of State. City and Town Employers' Unions will be held in Boston, Mass., August 2. Painters and decorators at Sherman, Texas, who went on strike for an eighthour day at $3.60, which was refused, have started a co-operative shop. Trade unionists at St. Joseph, Mo., are working hard to send members from their own ranks as representatives to the legislature and other offices The Bakers' union of San Francisco, Cat, has appointed a committee to prepare a recommendation to the international convention that Is to meet In Oetoher to erect a home for aged and disabled members of the organization. The mayor of Knoxville, Tenn., recently appointed three representatives of organized labor to assist in drafting the new city charter, and through their efforts it is expected that the Initiative and referendum clause will be inserted. The national joint arbitration board of the Granite Cutters Employers' Association and the Granite Cutters' Union has adjusted all the points In dispute at Quincy, Mass., and there can be no strikes nor lockouts in the next three years. The three chief unions in the print ing trade have, It is announced, resolved to federate, so that they can act unitedly In all matters pertaining to work and wages throughout the United Kingdom. Some such arrangement was Inevitable after the decision of the lindon Society of Compositors to extend the metropolitan area which resulted In some friction between it and the Provincial Typographical Association. Four unions have united; the benefits are to be uniform and are to . be paid from a central fund.

LABOR NEWS

Editors Consider

Here are some of the opinions of newspapers in different parts of the country on the nomination of William J. Bryan: FOR. Albany Argus: "Shall the people rule?' is the overshadowing issue which manifests itself in all questions now under discussion. Mr. Bryan and his advisers are to be congratulated upon their discernment, sagacity and true patriotism in so opportunely recogniizng the great issue." New Haven I nlno: ' Is there a parallel in all our history to the career of this remarkable man? Bravely has he fought his battle unaided save by the virtue of his cause and the appeal an honest fight must always make to honest hearts. In spite of his defeats Bryan has stayed to the fore because he stands for principles that cannot die. He got the nomination not because the powers that he wanted him, but because the people wanted him. In November they will elect him to the presidency." Elmlrn Star Gnctte: "No candidate ever entered a campaign under more ideal conditions. Indebted fo;' his nomination to no one except to the people who instructed their delegates to vote for him, free from all corporation influence in any direction, Under obligation to no one, absolutely independent in his position, he will be able to carry out the will of the people as no other an could carry it out." Trenton True American: "In William Jennings Bryan the democratic party has a magnetic leader who measures up to the full stature of American manhood; than whom there is none more loyal to his convictions, possessed of higher ideals of life." Providence News Democrat: "Colonel Bryan will have the earnest support of all true democrats and he must profit greatly by what he so apty described as the republican retreat at Chicago. Those who, before the convention, favored the nomination of some other democrat will undoubtedly do all in their power for Colonel Bryan's election." Rochester Union nnd Advertiser: "Mr. Bryan in 1903 is a very different man from Mr. Bryan in 1896. In the twelve years which have intervened Mr. Bryan has atured; his breadth of vision has greatly increased, and his radicalism has softened into positive conservatism when compared with many of the utterances of Mr. Roosevelt." Wafertown Daily Times: "Mr. Bryan has. however, a better chance of success than before. The depression in industrial life which may continue until election day, although there art signs of a constant bettering of conditions, will help him. He is In a position to profit by calamity." Boston Traveler: "The fact remains that William Jennings Bryan is practically the unanimous choice of the democratic party in convention assembled and is entitled to the votes of all democrats who believe Mr. Bryan's personality and platform represent ant" embody democratic principles and poll cles." AGAINST. Washington Post: "The Post has expressed the opinion that the democracy would make a mistake if it should nominate Mr. Bryan, for the substantial reason that he could not be elected. Mr. Bryan seems to think otherwise, and he has had sufficient influence with his party to be granted another trial." Cincinnati Commercial Tribune: "There is no discounting the hold which Mr. Bryan has upon the organization of his party and upon the party itself. Nor is it wisdom to dispute his strong personality. He Is a candidate who cannot be overlooked and a candidate who cannot be elected. He has fastened himself on his party which seems to like the fastening and is riding it to death." THE CREAM OF THE Morning News No corporation gifts, limit on campaign contributions and publicity of receipts and expenditures are to rule the democrats, according to the national committee's decision at Lincoln. Bryan and Kern will be notified at their homes, but a series of big meetings is planned. Prohibition national convention opens today in Columbus, Ohio, but delegates have not united on any candidate for president as yet. Indictments against Attorney Robert Cantwell, II. H. Stridiron and Henry Moissand. based on the perjury charges in the Chin Wal urder case, are voted. Chicago Automobile club determines to probe charges that a criminal conspiracy against autoists exists at Glencoe, where Policeman Frank H. Moore shot Miss Buena Stribling. Methodists gather at Des Plalnes for their annual campmeetlng. which opens tonight. Stub terminals are said to be necessary before elevated through routes can be established Sixteen bids, ranging from $2,000 to $3,000,000, are received at Washington for site of the new Chicago postoffice. Mystic Shrine council opens in St. Paul with large attendance. Senator Foekler of New York, who saved the Hughes anti-gambling bill at Albany, saves girls from a tenement fire in New York. Thomas D. Jordon. former official of the Equitable Life Assurance society and under Indictment for perjury and forgery, drops dead in New York. Slight mishap, after a flight of one hour and thirty-five minutes, causes

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St. Louis Globe Democrat: The star, in their courses are fighting against the democracy. The republican party has the record, the leadership and tha candidates that appeal to the country. It is only fair to say. however, that Bryan is likely to make a stronger fight than Parker made in 1904." Philadelphia Inquirer: "Let no republican suppose for a minute that Mr. Bryan is a weak candidate and that the choice of him was a mistake. There could be no greater, no graver error. The fact is that the Denver convention did the wisest thing, and from among the men available for consideration chose the one who had the hest chance of success. He ls dangerous because with a single exception he is the most popular man in the Lnm-d States today." Baltimore News: "The most significant tinng in the proceedings at Denver is the evidence that Mr. Brvan intends to make his fight by an" appeal to he radical vote, especiallv to the radical Labor vote. On the success of this effort democracy will base its hopes and Mr. Bryan will base its hopes and Mr. Bryan wii, cost-his last die. llho knows?" Baltimore Sun, ,;iad,y beari t timony to Mr. Bryan.8 brinjant inte, lect. to his oratorical genius, to his fine moral qualities, his uprightness of character and his patriotic intent, any thoughtful and patriotic democrats have, nevertheless, been unabe for My era! years past to convince themselves that his further leadership would ak for the welfare or success of the party or for the good of the country." Watertown Standard: "Bryan's nomination means the overwhelming defeat of the democratic ticket at tha rolls-next November; his theoretical career is distasteful tr tv,.. euuerminded voter, be he democrat or repub- ' ""u nt WI't receive the active opposition not only of the republican Party, but of a great many of his own party." Worcester Gazette:. "The July sunrise on the Colorado mountains, streaming over a cross of gold of honors for the nominated Bryan, may rest on a crown of thorns pressed on the brow of a third-time defeated Bryan in the Nebraska valey some morning in Ko. vember. Rochester Post-Evpress: For the third time Mr. Bryan is the candidate of tae democratic party for the presidency and for the third time he is headed straight for the ditch. Ther. was at least a chance this year for tha election of Judge Gray or some man line him." Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph: "True to its traditional capacity for doing the wrong thing in a crisis, the democratic party last week nominated William J. Bryan for president, by a vote that was practically unanimous. Either of the discarded candidates would have made a more formidable opponent for Taft than the actual nominee." Yonkers Stntesmnn: "Bryan Is the same Bryan of other years. He is still the accomplished orator and magnetic man, but the cunning of the unscrupulous politician is discerned in tvhat he says and does. He rides a hobby for a time, only to mount another and cavort in public until again r ismo unted." ANIMAL ODDITIES. The cry of a wounded hare resembles that of a child in distress. A very good horse can in ten hours go sixty miles if the vehicle is light and the turnpike good. The goldfish is a great coward, and a tiny fish with the courage to attack it can frighten it almost to death. The bird of paradise is found only on the island of New Guinea and the neighboring coasts of Australia. A neat little brush is attached to the tail of the glowworm, and it is used to keep clean that part of the insect from which the light gleams so as to make it more distinctly visible. the return of Count Zeppelin's airship, which started from Lake Constance on a twenty-four hour trip, and another attempt will be made today. Test will be ade of an automatic device to prevent railroad collisions. Wheat is easier on cooler weather northwest and corn and oats weaken in sypathy; cattle and hogs lower, witli sheep strong. Prices of stocks on the New York exchange are strong after opening uncertain on account of Gompers' pledge. Kenneth P. Edwards leads qualifiers on western golf championship, with Chandler Kgan close up. MINERS' UNIONS TO JOIN. Denver, Colo., July 15. Before tha convention of the Western Federation of Miners adjourns here It is expected that the preliminary plans will have been adopted for the proposed amalgamation with the United Mine Workers of America. The proposition to merge the two organizations has been under consideration for some time and was discussed by the United Mine Workers at their convention in Indianapolis last January. If the proposed combine of the two organiaztlons is accomplished It will place the miners among the largest labor organizations in the world. The total membership will approach 400,000, and It is beiieved that within another year practically all of the miners of the United States, Canada and Mexico could be enrolled In the federated un ion, i ne w esiern reaeration now 'dominates in metalliferous mining, V, 1 r r. . V, r. T"r, it "VflT. Wr -1. fines it? activities and membership to the anthracite and bituminous coal fields. THE TIMES DOEHXT CARE HOW MANY PAPERS YOU TAKE, IF YOU READ IT, YOU WON'T BE WITHOUT IT.