Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 363, 25 March 1907 — Page 3

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CHAPTER III. Sayler "Draw the Line." T In February the railways traversing ur state sent to the capitol a bill that had been drawn by our ablest lawyers and reviewed by the craftiest Df the great corporation lawyers of JCew York city. Its purpose, most Shrewdly and slyly concealed was to exempt the railways from practically all taxation. It was so subtly worded that this vould be disclosed only when the companies should be brought to court for refusing to pay their usual share of the taxes. Such measures are usually "straddled" through the legislature that is, neither party takes the responsibility, but the boss of each machine assigns to rote for them all the men whose eats are secure beyond any ordinary assault of public indignation. In this case, of the 91 members of the lower bouse, 32 were assigned by Dunkirk and 17 by Silliman to make up a majority with three to spare. My boss, Dominick, got wind that Dunkirk and Silliman were cutting an extra melon of uncommon size. He descended upon the capitol and served notice on Dunkirk that the 11 Dominick men assigned to vote for the bill fwould vote against it unless he got ;$7.000 apiece for them $77,000. Dunkirk needed every one of Dominick's men to make up his portion of the majority; he yielded after trying In vain to reduce the price. All Dominick would say to him on that point, so I heard afterward, was: j "Every day you put me off I go up thousand dollars a head." We who were to be voted so profitably for Dunkirk, Silliman, Dominick. and the railroads, learned what was going on Silliman went on a "tear" and talked too much. Nine of us, not including myself, got together and ent Cassidy, mimbsr from the Second Jackson county district, to Dominick to plead for a share. I happened to be with him in the Capital City Hotel bar when Cassidy came up, and hemming and hawing, explained how he and his fellow insurgents felt. Dominick's veins seemed cords straining to bind down a demon struggling to escape. "It's back to the bench you go, Pat Cassidy back to the bench where I found you," he snarled, with a volley of profanity and sewage. "I don't know nothing about this here bill except that it's for the good of the party. Go back to that gang of damned wharf rats," and tell 'em, if I hear another squeak, I'll put "em where I got 'em." Cassidy shrank away, with a furtive glance of envy and hate at me, whom Dominick treated with peculiar consideration I think it was because I was the only man of education of any pretensions to "family" In official position in his machine. He used to like to class himself and me together as "we gentlemen," in contrast to "them muckers," meaning my colleagues. Next - day, just before the voting began. Dominick seated himself at the front of the governor's gallery the only person In It. I see him now as he looked that day black and heavyJawed and scowling, leaning forward and both forearms on the railing, and his big, fiat chin resting on his upturned, stubby thumbs. He was there to see that each of us, his creatures, dependent absolutely upon him for our political lives, should vote as he had sold us in block. There was no chance to shirk or even to squirm. As the roll-call proceeded, one after another, seven of us, obeyed that will frowning from the gallery jumped through the hoop of fire under the quivering lash. I was the eighth on the roll. Sayler!" How my name echoed through that horrible silence! I could not answer. Gradually every face turned toward me I could see them, could feel them, and, to make bad enough worse, I yielded to an imperious fascination, the fascination of that incarnation of brute-power power of muscle and power of will. I turned my eyes upon the amazed, furious eyes of my master. It seemed to me that his lips must give passage to the oaths and filth swelling beneath his chest, and seething behind his eyes. "Sayler! repeated the clerk in a voice that, exploded .within . tne. "No!" I shouted not in answer to the'clerk, but in denial of that insolent master-to-dog command from the beast in the gallery. The look in his eyes changed to relief and contemptuous approval. There was a murmur of derision from my fellow members. Then I remembered that a negative was, at that stage of the bill, a vote for it I had done jrist the reverse of what I intended.The roll-call went on. and I sat debating with myself. Prudence, Inclination, the natural timidity of youth, the utter futility of opposition, fear, above all else, fear these joined In bidding me let my vote stand as cast. On the other side stood my notion of self-respect. I felt I must then and there and for ever decide dialrr J J Free Sample. AdJre9Tept.. The Shine That Lasts Longest

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AvrfOM or etc. whether I was a thing or a man. Tet, again and again I bad voted for measures just as corrupt had voted for them with no protest beyond a cynical shrug and a wry look. Every man. even the laxest. if he is to continue to "count as one," must have a point where he draws the line beyond which he will not go. The liar mutt have things he will not lie about, the thief things he will not steal, the compromiser things he will not compromise, the practical man of the pulpit, in politics, in business, in the professor's chair, or editorial tribune, things he will' not sacrifice, whatever the cost. That is "practical honor." I had reached my line of practical honor, my line between possible compromise and certain demoralization. And I realized it. When the roll-call ended I rose, and, in a voice that I knew was firm and clear, said: "Mr. Speaker, I voted in the negative by mistake. I wish my vote to be recorded in the affirmative. I am against the bill." Amid a fearful silence I took .my seat. With a suddenness that made me leap, a wild and crazy assemblyman, noted as the crank of that session, emitted a fantastic yell of enthusiastic approval. Again there was that silence; then the tension of the assembly, floor and crowded galleries, burst forth in a storm of hysterical laughter. I wish I could boast how brave I felt as I reversed my vote, how indifferent to that tempest of mockery, and how strong as I went forth to meet my master and hear my deathwarrant But I can't, in honesty I'm only a human being, not a hero, and these are my confessions, not my professions. So I must relate that, though the voice that requested the change of vote was calm and courageous, the man behind it was agitated and sick with dread. There may be those who have the absolute courage some men boast if not directly then by implication in despising him who has it not. For myself, I must say that I never made a venture and my life has been a succession of ventures, often with my whole stake upon the table I never made a venture that I did not have a sickening sensation at the heart. My courage, if it can be called by so sounding a name, has been in daring to make the throw when every atom of me was shrieking: "You'll lose! You'll be ruined!"' I did not see Dominick until after supper. I had nerved myself for a scene indeed, I had been hoping he would insult me. When one lacks the courage boldly to advance along the perilous course his intelligence counsels, he is lucky if he can and will goad some one into kicking him along it past the point where retreat Is possible. Such methods of advance are not dignified, but then, is life dignified? To my surprise and alarm, Dominick refused to kick me into manhood. He had been paid, and the $77,000, in bills of large denomination, were warming his heart from the in ner pocket of his waistcoat. So he came up to me scowling, but friendly "Why didn't you tell me you want ed to be let off. Harvey?" he said, re proachfully. "I'd 'a done it. Now, damn you, you've put me in a place where I've got to give you the whip." To flush at this expression from Dominick was a hypocritical refine ment of sensitiveness. To draw my self up haughtily, to turn on my heel and walk away that was the silliness of a boy. Still. I am glad I did both these absurd things. When I told my mother how I had ruined myself In politics she began to cry and tears were not her habit. Then she got my father's picture and kissed it and talked to it about me, just as if he were there with us; and for a time I felt that I was of heroic stat ure. But as the days passed, with no laurels in the form of cases and fees and as clients left me through fear of Dominick's power, I shriveled back to human size and descended from my pedestal. From the ground-level I began again to look about the mat ter-of-fact world. I saw I was making only a first Damn You, You've Put Me In a Place Where I've Got to Give You the Whip." small payment on th heavy price for the right to be free to break with any man or any. enterprise that menaced my self-ownership. That right I felt I must keep, whatever its cost. Some men can, or think they can, lend their self-ownership and take it back at convenience; I knew I was not of them and let none of them judge me. Especially let none judge me who only deludes himself that he owns himself, who has sold himself all his life long for salaries and positions or for wealth, or for the empty reputa-

tion of power he wields only oa another's sufferance. A glance about me was enough to disclose the chief reason why so many men had surrendered the inner citadel of self-respect. In the crucial hour, when they had had to choose between subservience and a. hard battle with adversity, forth from their hearts had issued a traitor weakness, the feeling of responsibility to wife and children, and this traitor had easily delivered "them captive to some master or masters. More, or less, than human, it seemed to me, was the courage that could make successful resistance to this traitor, and could strike down and drag down wife and children. "I must give up Elizabeth," I said to myself, "for her own sake as well as for mine. Marry her I must not until I am established securely in freedom. And when will that be?" In my mood of darkness and despair, the answer to that question was a relentless: "Never," especially if you are weighted with the sense of obligation to her, of her wasting her youth in waiting for you." I wrote her all that was in my mind. "You must forget me," I said, "and I shall forget you for I see that

j you are not for me." The answer came by telegraph: "Please don't ever hurt me in that way." And of the letter which came two days later I remember clearly this sentence: "If you will not letne go on with you, I will make the journey alone." This shook me but I knew only too well how the bright and beautiful legions of the romantic and the ideal could be put to flight, could be hurled headlong into the abyss of oblivion by the phalanxes of fact. "I, see what I must do," was my answer to her letter. "And I shall do it. Be merciful to me, Elizabeth. Do not tempt me to a worse cowardice than giving you up. I shall not write again." And I did not. Every one of her letters was answered sometimes, I remember, I wrote to her the whdle night through, shading my window so that mother could not from her window see the reflection of my lamp's light on the ground and become anxious. But I destroyed those long and often agonized answers. And I can not say whether my heart was the heavier in the months when I was getting her letters, to which I dared not reply, or in those succeeding months when her small, clear handwriting first ceased to greet me from the mail. (To Be Continued.) Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. Successfully used by Mother Gray, nurse in the Children's Home in New York, Cure Feverishness, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Destroy Worms. Over 30,000 testimonials. They never fail. At all Druggists, 25c. Sample FREE. Address-AUjwSk Olmsted, LeRoy, N. Y. MAKE A FAST RECORD Copies of Indiana Acts Already Delivered. 22,000 TO BE PRINTED. The first copies of the acts of the last state legislature, in book form, were delivered to the secretary of state Saturday by the state printer, William B. Burford. If the governor issues, his proclamation with the speed that was shown by the printer these laws will go into effect seven days earlier than two years ago. The session of the . legislature this year adjourned on March 11, and the first books were ready for the secretary of state Saturday. At the preceding session adjournment was had March 6 and the first books were delivered March 25, which at that time was a record in speed, but which is eclipsed seven days by this year's performance. Of the edition 2.O0O volumes will be bound in sheep, requiring t 400 skins, and 22,000 volumes will be in cloth, making the total amount of cloth used, 4,000 yards. Two carloads of No. 1 book paper were required in the printing and four and one-half tons of tarboard is being used in the binding of the books. Eight fifty-six inch presses were employed sixteen hours a day on the work. Artificial gas, the SOta Century fuel. 10-tf From the hawksville turtle of the Carribbean sea comes the tortoise shell of commerce. The Jamestown Exposition police will consist of a hundred men, known as the Powhatan Guards. Sore Throat Wisdom If overy mother could realize the real danger that lurks behind every case of sore throat, she wooldn t rest until she had effected a cure every time a child has it. Your family physician will verify the statement that it is a positive fact that every child with sore throat is in immediate dancer of contracting Croup, Quinsy, Tonsilitis or Diphtheria, and is not removed from that danger until the throat is cured. Think of itl Liniments or outward application of medicines do not and cannot cure the ailment, though they may offer temporary relief. Neither can you cure sore throat with a cough syrup or a cold cure. To cure, you must get at the seat of the disease, removing the cause. Nothing does that so quickly, safely and surelv as TONSIL1NE. A single dose of TONSIL1NE taken upon the first appearance of sore throat may save long weeks of sickness. great expense, .worry, even death. TONSI LINE is the stitch in time. Use a little sore throat wisdom and buv a bottle of TONS I LINE today. You may need it tomorrow. TONS1L1NE is the standard sore throat remedy best known fend most effective and most nsed. Lock for the long necked fellow on the 25 or 50 cent sized bottle when you go o me arue store to get it. The Tonsiline Co. Canton. Ohio.

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At the Theaters Theatrical Calendar. GENNETT. March 30 "The Time, the Place and the Girl." PHILLIPS. Entire Week High class vaudeville. THE THEATORIUM. Entire Week Motion pictures and illustrated Songs. "The Time, the Place and the Girl." "The Time, the Place and the Girl" comes to the Gennett on next Saturday night, with the sanction of an unfinished run of six months in Chicago, where the virtues of musical comedy must be definite and decisive before playgoers will accept them. This piece is not a musical comedy, but a comedy with music, full of lively action, good, sound sentiment, and what is more than either, a number of original and artistic character types. The score was written by Joseph E. Howard, whose songs are sung the world over, and the book by Messrs. Hough and Adams, librettists of "The Umpire." Though the music is an attractive feature of the entertainment. as Mr. Howard's compositions are always bound to be, the plot is so trimly and masterfully constructed that it would be an interesting play without the aid of the melodies. The leading part is that of "Happy" Johnny Hicks, played by Arthur Deagon. Hicks is a square young gambler with a fund of sound philosophy which he expresses in epigrammatic slang, and who falls in love with a pretty trained nurse at a mountain sanitarium whither he has been forced to flee with his chum, Tom Cunningham, who is in danger of arrest, because of an escapade in a Boston gambling house. Vaudeville at the Phillips. There will be a pleasing variety of entertainment offered in the vaudeville bill for this week at the New Phillips and the performers who are not regular features will be new to the patrons of the house. Indications are that the program for the week will be found up to the high standard that Manager Murray maintains. Below is the program in full: Overture Mr. Chas. L. Stone, musical director. , Toki MuratI Japanese wire artist. 4 Andersons 4 Featuring the marvelous Anderson Children. Illustrated Song Cal Lankert. Leroy Benson and Co. High Class Musical Novelty Act. , Harris Beauregarde and Co., pre-

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