Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 70, 17 January 1909 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PaUAOIUM AND 8UN-1E LKGRA3L 8UXDAT, JANUARY 17, 1909.

the ttlchmond Palladium , and Son-Telegram Published and ewned tor the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. lesued 1 day each week. evenings and Sunday morning. Officecorner Nortn tn and A etreeta Hem Phone RICHMOND. INDIANA.

Ra4tk O. L.ee4 MuaslaB ! Charles M. Meraa Baalneas Maaaccr. O. Ohm Kaaa Sewa Batta. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond $6.00 per year (In advance) or 10c par week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. Ob year. In advance Six months. In advance One month. In advance RURAL ROUTES. One year. In advance '?"22 On n manlh. In ulva.nca ........... .2 ft AAArmmm .hlfirxl an nt tun aft desired; both new and old addresses must be given. Subscribers will please remit with order, which should given for specified term; name will not be enterea until payment is receivw Entered at Richmond. Indiana, postoffice as second class mall matter. IF WE WERE IN THE LIQUOR TRADE. Owing to the fact that the people of this community every man, worn an and child are vitally interested in the local option campaign now being conducted in this county, the result of which will decide the fate of the saloons, the following editorial which appeared in the Philadelphia North American the past week is ex tremely pertinent: A man whose interests are such that he feels called upon to defend the present status and conduct of the makers and sellers of beer and whisky lias written a susreestive letter to The North American. His communication we find interest ing for a peculiar reason. It is not because we know , that the writer is an honest, law-abiding, Belf-respectlng citizen. There are many decent-liv ing, home-loving men, just like, him, in the wholesale and retail liquor trade. And, like this man, they are Just as narrow and short-sighted as the well-meaning prohibition extrem ists, who would have sane men who know their fellow-men believe that ev ery liquor dealer is a devil incarnate deliberately seeking to wreck souls and bodies. Nor do we notice his letter because he rethreshes much old straw reciting the sophistries, flimsy arguments and faulty logic which It has been child's play to tear to tatters when put forth, repeatedly by the ,Press agents of the brewers and the Model License League. . This letter interests us chiefly because of its conclusion. For, though not a woman's letter, what Is practi cally Its postscript Is the best part of it. And' this Is the passage that has stirred us: Clearly there is no way of pleasing such saintly critics as you except to relinquish every safeguard against the interference of an irresponsible outsider in a private business. You do not undertake to tell manufacturers and merchants of steel and linen how to dispose of their goods. But you assume the right to tell us that you know more about running our lawful business than we do ourselves. Perhaps you will be kind enough to stop down from your destructive pose the easiest of all to assume and say what you would do, In my place, if X were to turn over to you my business, which represents the honest energy and earnings, the toll and investment of the lifetime of a man of middle age, who owes no man a' dollar, who has a home and family that he Is proud of and has no apology to make for any act in his personal or business career. Now, we shall not dwell upon the delusion which the liquor dealers ; share with the managers of railroads and the heads of other great corpor ations, that any business is a private business, barred from Investigation and regulation, after it passes the line of infringement upon the rights of others and the general welfare. We choose rather to adopt the wild ' ly Impossible suggestion of the liquor trade being turned over, in its entirety to us to run. There Is nothing farther removed from the realm of possibility than the concentration of our energies upon the conduct of a single saloon, in or out of Philadel phia, to say nothing of the control of all of America's liquor traffic : But the challenge to "put yourself in his place" always is a fair one. And so we accept it and say. frankly what we should do if we were reputable liquor men discarding all senti ment and basing our utterances solely upon cold-blooded, commercial com' mon sense. The first thing .we should do would be to insist upon the making and sell ing of honest goods honest labels and honest contents of every bottle,

Jug and glass. We should Insist upon be that we should no longer employ no customer being poisoned by false as our agents to push through leglslapretenses receiving blend, compound j tlon the blacklegs and crooks now alot imitation whisky, green and yeast-most universally used by the liquor inladen beer or "Imported" liquors and terests. . wines concocted in this country of i Finally we should - not be blind

"extract" and . "neutral spirits" except when the purchaser called for

such health-wrecking adulterations with his eyes open.

Aligning ourselves against the pois oners for profit, the natural conse quences would be that we should cease the long fight against Dr. Wiley and Instead give hearty co-operation to his efforts to procure and enforce legislation that would make poisoning impossible. After enforcing the use of honest goods, we should concentrate the efforts of the trade upon the obliteration of the dive. Aside from morality, philanthropy or the civic spirit and solely to "save our face" commercially, we should start out to make it unprofitable to run a thug resort, a dance hall where girls are set on the down grade, a "growler" trade to children or any sales to minors or drunkards. Therein we assume that our motives would be wholly selfish. For our aim would be to cease being sponsor for the things that had been our worst hurt to free ourselves from identification with the things that subject the entire liquor trade every year to being "maced" for great sums by politicians to fight the sentiment created by the crime of dives. For our self-respect and for our fam llels we should work unceasingly to give to the business a better name, and by divorcing it from lawbreakln groggeries, debased sexuality and speakeasies, we should strive to raise our livelihood to a point where the children of the saloon keeper would not be pointed out by the fingers of their schoolmates as a class apart. We should become very busy to impress upon them the economic truth that overproduction of a perishable product does not justify them in en deavoring to force an uncalled for supply far in excess of the community's demands. We should demand that they cease a multiplication of saloons to an ex tent that prevent the saloon owner from making a living unless he sells during illegal hours or caters to vice, As liquor men, we should fight for the passage of laws to prevent the present practice of brewery owned sa loons, with the nominal owners chat tel mortgaged not only for license, stock and fixtures, but body and osul, present and future. If we as liquor men controlled the trade, we Bhould strive for an honest judiciary, so that when a license was granted everybody would believe that, from the liquor man's standpoint, the new saloon would be for the public convenience or, in the language of the statute, a "necessity." Very carefully we should guard against the location of such a "neces sity" In a residential district, forcing it upon a neighborhood of homes, de preciating the value of property and making enemies for the entire traffic, by invading the real vested rights of the home-owners. And, above all, we should never play the fool by jamming a saloon against a church or a school trading for the good will of some dirty wardworker, purchasabe for a $10 bill, the implacable enmity of every good woman in a whole neighborhood rous ing the mother-spirit against not one petty saloon, but against the . whole traffic. We should fight as strongly against the cheating hotel and restaurant as against the tenderloin dive and the suburban "joint. One of our first crusades would be against "refilling." For meeting reputable merchants face to face daily, we should be ashamed to admit that our business was the only one which has not progressed beyond the old bad standards of cheat and shoddy the only instance in which the customer who knows what he wishes to buy is puzzled to name a halt dozen places in a city of a million and a half Inhabitants where he can really obtain what he calls for and is willing to pay for. We should stop the publishing of statistics at east for a time. Before putting forth more estimates of the taxes we pay and the revenues we provide, we should wait until we had so cleansed that business that the inevitabe comparison of the crime, dis ease and poverty with which the traffic taxes the community would not be crushing. As we thus progressed," we should gradually, quietly, persuade the de cent men In the business that there no onger was need to be the tools and allies of every corrupt gang of municipa politicians in America. For, with the business legitimized, there would no longer be dread of the grafters' power no longer need for every hon oraoie, decent citizen to lace every campaign with full knowledge that the money and the influence of the entire liquor trade would be arrayed against the policies of right and law and or der. ' . -V'"- " And one logical consequence would enough to pursue the suicidal policy of driving states into complete prohl-

The Second National

bition by invading "dry" townships or counties. We should refrain from the imbecile course pursued from Maine to Mississippi of nullifying the will of rural communities, and therby ultimately forcing even unwilling cities to submit to a state-wide extension of the violated restriction. We sould try instead to make every liquor dealer understand that local option or something far worse for his interests must prevail eventually throughout the length and breadth of the land. And we should strive unceasingly to convince him of the wisdom of accepting the inevitabe. We should endeavor to explain the plain truth that an irreconcilable difference exists between two great classes of Americans. There are millions of good people who believe that the traffic in drink In any form is the cardinal curse of the age; that It is not only harmful, but sinful, and that their souls' salvation almost is dependent upon their struggle to destroy it. There can be no compromise by think good Americans who believe that to drink what, where and when they please is a natural right, and that any restriction is an Invasion of personal liberty. There can be no compromise by those extremists. There is but one sane, practical method of settlement, by appeal to the great mass of rightthinking Americans who stand between. And that appeal can be made only by the real American doctrine of the greatest good for the greatest number in any community, expressed by the votes of the majority at the polls, honestly accepted, honestly enforced and honestly obeyed the real establishment of universal local option, which the liquor trade must face unless it prefers ultimate confiscation and destruction. A MINISTERIAL FAMINE. There has been a recent disturbance among those high in the ranks of all the great churches all over the world. Not only is this the case in protestant but in Roman circles. In an article headed "The Prevailing Priest Famine in America," in the Ecclesiastical Review (Roman Catholic), for November, the Reverend A. P. Doyle of the Catholic University of America discusses some of the problems which confront the religious world. He begins by quoting an American Roman Catholic Bishop as saying that "The Church (Roman) in the United States could put to work fifteen hundred priests tomorrow if she had them." That is, in addition to the present supply. Father Doyle says in regard to this statement that "the Bishop who made the statement about the fifteen hundred was not far astray and that the priest famine in America is an awful reality." ;. Moreover at the Lambeth Conference there was no subject which attracted more attention than the supply of the clergy. This represents the English established church and the American Protestant Episcopal church. And the cry goes up all over the country no matter what the denomination may be. What Is the reason for this? . The most significant fact that can be set forth is that the average salary of the minister or clergyman is only about $800 per annum. There is a greater disparity, between the incomes of the other professions and the minister than there ever- was before. Twenty-five years ago the average

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as much as any one of the other professions. Today all this is changed. The average young man can not afford, he thinks, to go into it For no matter how much a clergyman may receive, he always has to live in the manner in which the congregation live, so that he Is rarely able to save anything out of the salary. On this subject the "Living Church" had to say: "It is very difficult for the clergyman to find a field in which he can find reasonable support for his wife and children. The amount of actual suffering which the wives and children of the clergy too of-ien undergo is little realized by the churchmen generally. It is literally true that we cannot support the clergy that we now have, together with their families. Some of them are In actual distress, many In continual anxiety as to the future." This being the case is it any wonder that the average young man in this age of commercialism hesitates before entering the ministry? The only solution of the problem is, that the churches must remove all doubt that there will be any danger of the financial embarrassment of those who go into the ministry and must provide greater means of taking care of the aged ministers and their widows and orphans. PEACE MAKING IN THE BALKANS. Turkey, under the persuasions of the diplomats of Great Britain and Russia, has at last agreed to accept the indemnity of $11,000,000 in consideration of the annexation of the Austrian government for the provinces of Bosnia and Herzegovinla. The Austrian government has all along taken the stand that it owed no indemnity to Turkey and would pay none; so in the pretty fashion of di plomacy, the amount of indemnity was merely designated as recompense to the Ottoman government for certain of the royal forests situated in i the annexed provinces. All that is 1 now left is to call an early meeting of the powers to formally revise the . . . A- ' Benin treaty. Nevertheless with that astute cleverness which has always marked the actions of the Ottoman government, the Porte has not as 'yet formally recognized the independence of Bulgaria. The Czar of the Bulgars acting through the channels of diplomatic exchange has offered to pay a lump sum for the tribute which erstwhila went Into the Turkish treasury from East Roumella. The So nan government was also willing to pay a substantial indemnity for Turkey's Interest in the Oriental railroad. But as yet nothing has been accomplished. It will be remembered, doubtless that the Oriental railway and its strike were the piece de resistance In the squabble in the Balkans which has caused all the trouble. For the Bulgarians refused to withdraw their troops from the line after the strike was over. Up to date Turkey has demanded that besides these two indemnities (for the tribute and the railway), that the Bulgarians reimburse her for the tribute imposed in the Berlin treaty and for Bulgaria's share In the' Ottoman foreign debt. This. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria has refused to do. It is expected In some quarters that the Bulgarian .government will have to do this inasmuch as up to this time it has had the Viennese government behind It. But now. not only the) Austrian government, but the

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governments of Great Britain and Russia are bent on forcing Bulgaria to accede to the desires of Turkey. And so the war cloud has been dis pelled. It has been due mostly to the efforts of Great Britain, Russia and France. But beyond these three countries. It must be said for Kaiser William that it was owing to him that Austria was forced to consider pay ing the $11,000,000 which she had hitherto refused to Turkey. Thus Austria has nothing to be regretful about since if she had been forced into war, even the merest campaign would have cost her more than the small Indemnity which she paid for two valuable provinces. And so all concerned will live hap pily ever after. Perhaps. - It is the Balkans. A VETO FOR THE PEOPLE. The president has performed many services for the people of the country who were responsible for his election, but none have been much more im portant than the veto of the bill con cerning the water power franchises which were to be granted to the Westhouse and the General Electric Com pany on the Des Plaines river. The not one Which is of such vital Im portance at this very Instant, but Is one which will mean much to the fu ture development of this nation's resources. Such a veto was truly states manlike. It Is only another instance that the president is practicing what he preaches in the matter of conserving our national resources. As the president very wisely remarks It Is only a matter of a few years until we will have to rely on some other force than steam and there is every reason to believe that this force will be electricity furnished by water power. Already the cotton mills which have recently been erected in Northern Georgia draw their mo tive power from the streams In the hills as many as fifty miles away The new adaptation of the principle of the turbine to, the waterfall has made water power a new factor as a motive power instead of a back number. - It need cause no surprise then to the average person to learn that a syndiacte has gotten hold already of the most desirable water powers in the coutnry and wants It all. It Is hardly worth while to point out that a mon opoly of anything like the natural cap ital of the country is far more danger ous than an organization like the Standard Oil company. And we have a sample of that. The country need not be seriously alarmed at the squabble between con gress and the president while we have a president who will veto such a bill and a congress which will pass it. Hewitt Don't yon tMy like a flower? face is Jewett Can't say. I never saw century plant In bloom. Exchange. Tfeere'o No Use Fcr Anycae Coughing their heads off when they can get a bottle of Conkey's Flaxseed, Wild Cherry and Menthol Cough Syrup for 25 cents. THE CON KEY DRUG CO. tth and Main ftts, Under new and correct management. Up-to4tiemlnuto.

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