Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 88, 4 February 1909 — Page 4

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TIIE RICH3IOXD PAIXADIUM AND STXX-TELEGRAM, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 1909.

The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram Fubllshvd and owned by the PALLADIUM PRINTING CO. Issued 7 days each week, evenings and Sunday morning. Offic--Corner North th and A titreeta. Home Phone 1121. RICHMOND. INDIANA.

Rndotplt Ci. Leeds MaaaslBB Editor. Charles 91. Morgan Business Manasrer. O. Owen Knhn Sews Editor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond $5 00 per y sar (In advance) or 10c per week. MAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS. One year, !n advance . fS.OO Elx months, fn advance 2.80 One month, la advance ..... .45 RURAL ROUTES. One year. In advance $2.04 Six months, In advance 1-25 'One month. In advance 25 Address chaneei as often as desired; !botn new and old addresses must be Siren. , Subscribers will pleaoe remit with order, which shouM b srlven for a specif lea term; name will cot oe enter 'ed' until payment la received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana, postOffice as second class mall matter. 'CORN SCHOOL FOR RICHMOND. It is safe to say that not many of !th'e members- of the Young Men's Bust ness Club who attended the Corn School, at Centervllle yesterday came faway unimpressed. There la no doubt jthatelt Isr-ono-oC he most beneficial , things forthis community which has happened for years. To see men of Ull. ages and of great experience gathered itogether to learn something more of the way In which to carry on the World's work: Is. Inspiring. The expression of Intelligent comprehension on -the faces and the deadly earnest atmosphere which pervaded the whole place was remarkable. A hing Of that sort doea more good hy ifar'than the same sort of thing in any other walk of life. For the farmer suf llers from the very thing which makes ihim Independent. That Is isolation jCompare for a moment the condition lof the farmers-the peasants of Europe, !and the condition of the American farmer. The continental man is a beast of burden "bowed down by cen turies of toil." The "Man With the Hoe" Is not to be found as a class in these United States. The reason is that forces are at work to make the agriculturist a scientific man. me Dusiness men or Richmond know the benefit that the Corn School is to the whole comunity. They believ ed In it before they saw with their own eyes. Would it not be a good thing to have the Corn School in Richmond next year? The present Corn School has strained the capacity of the town of Centervllle. The accommodations which seemed quite sufficient 'at first were almost one third too small. Richmond has accommodations that can not be found in any other place in the Sixth district. And next year from present indications all these accommodations will be needed. This movement is growing and the time will soon be at hand when every farmer in this whole neighborhood will go to the Corn School. It is now simply up to Richmond to see that the Corn School, which to some extent was fostered by the business men of Richmond, shall go on year aftef year. That is the reason it should held in Richmond next year. The transportation facilities and the accommodations for holding meetings will make Richmond the logical place for the holding of meetings of this sort which are sure to become more and more extensive every year. It is now up to the business men of Richmond to start to offer the hospitality of the town to the farmers of the Sixth dictrict. MEDICAL EXPERTS. Up at Buffalo, New York, the other day the New York Bar Association started a good movement when it stated that in its opinion the introduction of medical experts is injurious to modern judicial procedure. What they protest against is the hiring of experts at enormous cost to testify in cases. These cases are usually either will cases or murder trials. Every one will remember instances where experts have on their oath testified that two extremes were true. This can only be accounted for by the fact that 'men have a price.' The New York Bar Association says practically the same thing when it remarks that this practice "tends to put professional knowledge on the plane of commercialism." There is no doubt that there are many experts who testify honestly. At the same time there is a great temptation to an expert witness to tesify that he knows such and such a thing to be true if he knows that he is going to be paid 5 well to do it. That is only a legalized form of bribery and perjury. The bar association thinks the condition can be remedied by the simple act of not allowing expert testimony to be paid any more than a common witness. There will not be quite so many experts anxious to testify if the are only to be paid a minimum price. Then if a medical expert ia hanker lng after a rakeoff, it is likely that :.nnn.r Aiv: IfitAr hA wilt ltA rnntrht : In that very, ancient law. which, precludes

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Many of these experts will no doubt howl loudly over the destruction of what has always been a good graft for them. But: it is wtll to remember that no other class of men receives extra money for court appearance. It wouldn't hurt if the thing was carried on all over the country. FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE To the Editor of the Palladium: In all this discussion pro and con for local option in Wayne county. I do not believe attention has been called to one point that I believe is of great importance. That is the small number of employes that are required to operate the saloons of Richmond. There are fifty-one saloons in this city and to operate them it requires fiftyone proprietors, t:venty-six bartenders and forty-seven porters. This makes a total of 174 men and the Richmond saloons do a business esti mated conservatively at $400,000. Now isn't there something wrong there Think of that much money go ing into a business that employs only 174 men. And another point may be considered. When the wives and children of-these same proprietors are added, the total is but396 people de pendent upon a $400,000 business. That means $1,000 worth of business to each person in any way dependent upon the saloon for maintenance. And if the Minck brewery be counted in, the public will be surprised to learn that it employs but about fifteen men. Isn't $1,000 to each person depend ent upon the saloon business a little more than is fair, when it is consid ered there are so many other indus tries in which the proportion is far below that? How many men are there engaged In factory or clerical work at $20 per w-eek? Not very many, but $20 per week means about $1,000 per year and that is what the saloon busi ness of Richmond represents to each dependent person. And then, too, who pays the most of Ms money? It comes from the man who earns his bread by the sweat of his brow. If it were not for the laborer and the fac tory employe, would the saloons exist? Not long. These men can not af ford to import their , drinks, as the outlay is too great at the one time, so they have to buy it at the saloon a mite at a time and pay for it at in verse ratio. Li. W. To the Editor of the Palladium: Much has been said and some print ed in regard to violations of the law in dry counties and townships. Foes of local option have pointed to Hagerstown as an example of a town where evil has followed voting out the licensed saloons. It has been claimed more liquor has been shipped in there than ever was consumed at the saloons. Stories have been told about the terrible condition of affairs existing there. The Hagerstown Exponent In its edition of this week controverts these statements editorially as follows: Hagerstown has often been slandered in the past in a manner unfair and undeserved as is the case again in the "blind tiger" conditions reported abroad as existing here at present. The reports that we have more drunks than before the saloons closed, and that conditions in that line are worse, are false. Most of the homes that were so sorely afflicted with drink will tell you of wonderful improvement; many of the merchants will tell you of improved business conditions; many of the farmers will tell you of better conditions in their sections over this township. What intoxicants are used here now are about all bought abroad by the consumer and are not sold here to any extent. Most of it comes from Cambridge; that source is our most serious "blind tiger" now, and if the county goes dry so will Cambridge, and then no one there will have the right as now, to send such goods up this way. It is to be noticed that for the most part the "country weeklies' are opposed to the liquor trade. The opinion of the editors seems to be the only reason, but witness the following from this week's edition of the New Paris Mirror. The Zanesville. O., Signal has anPiles Quickly Cured at Home Instant Relief, Permanent Cure Trial Package Mailed Free to All in Plain Wrapper. Piles is a fearful disease, but easy to cure if you go at it right. An operation with the knife is dangerous cruel, humiliating and unnecessary. There is just one other sure way to be sured painless, safe and in the privacy of your own home it is Pyramid Pile Cure. We mail a trial package free to all who write. It will give you instant relief, show you the harmless, painless nature of this great remedy and start you well on the way toward a perfect cure. Then you can get a full sized box from any druggist for fifty cents, and often one box cures. Insist on having what you call for. If the druggist tries to sell you something" just as good, it is because he makes more money on the substitute. The cure begins at once and continues rapidly until it is complete and permanent. , You can go right ahead with your work and be easy and comfortable all the time. It is well worth trying. Just send your name and address to Pyramid Drug Co., 92 Pyramid Building. Marshall. Mich., and receive free by return mail the trial package in a plain wrapper. Thousands have been cured in this easy, painless and inexpensive way in the privacy of the home. No knife and its tortures. No doctor and his bills. All druggists 30 cents. Write today tor a free s&cfcage. .

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RESTORATIVE TREATMENT FOR NERVOUS MEN Coming from a source of unquestioned authority on the ailments of men It is presumed to 4 be infallible, while the profes- 4 ston generally endorse the Ingredlents and prescribe them in many different forms of var- 4 ious diseases. The following formula is highly efficient In quickly restoring in nervous " exhaustion, melancholia, anxi- ( , ety, timidity in venturing, disziness. heart palpitation, tremb- t ling limbs, insomnia, thinness). fr ' nlri extremities, tireri-all-ln . i feeling and general inability to fr do those natural and rational acts upon which depends a man's- success and happiness in social and every-day life. The instructions for mixing 4 at home secretly so that no 4 embarrassment may be felt, are as follows: First get three 4 ounces of syrup sarsaparilla 4 compound and one ounce compound fluid balmwort; mix and let stand two hours. Then add 4 one ounce compound essence 4 cardiol and one ounce tincture cadomene compound (not carda- 4 mom), and mix all together. 4 The directions are to take one teaspoonful after each meal and one when retiring until 4 bounding health and full strength are restored. Even a few weeks will witness most i wonderful results. 4 Astonishing nervous force and S equilibrium follow the treat- 4 ment, no matter how serious 4 the case. 4 This contains no opiates f whatever and may also be used 4 by women who suffer with their nerves with absolute "certainty of prompt and lasting benefits. t nounced that hereafter it will carry no liquor advertising, owing to the fact that that part of the state has been voted dry, thus indicating that the people do not favor the use of intoxicants. While the Signal has taken this stand we are proud to state that the Mirror has adhered to this same policy for its entire newspaper existence and feels that it has never seriously suffered financial loss by such a position. We have repeatedly turned down liquor advertisements and are still doing it. Almost all of the great magazines of today now refuse such advertisements, and the list is growing. COUNTY OPTION COMMITTEE. It would -seem to "a man up a tree" that if Editor Gordon would go before the grand jury and make oath to what he claims to know in regard to blind tigers, and Sheriff Meredith would "get busy" and do what he promises to do, "in the event this county is voted dry," the blind tigers could be captured and caged, with little or no effort on the part of others. Yours truly, OBSERVER. To the Editor of the Palladium: Dear Sir: Will you kindly give me space in your paper for a few words that I would like for you to publish for me in regard to the county local option, that I have read and heard so much about. First I would like to say a word to the laboring man and to the labor unions of the city of Richmond and county of Wayne and that is, have you ever stopped to think how many men would be thrown out of work if the county goes dry. If not, I would like to give you a rough estimate of the number that it would throw out of work: From the saloons, 225; from the breweries and agents, 50; from butcher shops, 11; from the bakery, 6; from the ice business. 8; from the cigar makers, 25; from the grocery, 10; total, 335. Now brothers have you ever stopped to tliink who would give them employment. Would it be by the dry party? You know that out of that number of men that there are not very many that could stand to be idle very long and they would have to work to keep the family from starving and that they would wdrk for any kind of wages in order to get bread for the little ones at home. And as you know that labor in Richmond pays from $1.50 to $2.25 per day, I think that with that amount of men out of work you would be lucky to receive $1.00 a day for your labor. Now brother it is up to you as to how you ought to vote to protect your own interests and your own family. As when you see such men as Judge Blair on the stump for the temperance party, you can bet your last dollar that the capitalist is behind the temperance movement, as the judge is not in the business for his health, as it is well known that he is a corporation man and this temperance movement is on to crush out the labor union and to throw thousands of men out of employment in order to reduce the wages of the laboring man. Now a word to the farmer on the question, and that is in the past ten years you have received better prices for your produce, for your livestock and for everything that you raise on your farm, than you ever got in your life. Now wio i3 it that consumes all your farm produce? Is it the temperance party or is it the laboring people? Answer that yourself. Now as to the brewery. If they want a team of good horses and you know that they use a great many teams every year. Do they go to the .temperance party to buy them? No, they go direct to the farmer and pay him a good round price for them, and when the brewery wants corn and barley, they don't go to the temperance party to buy, they go to the farmer and that is what keeps the prices up for the farmer. Now Judge Blair said In his speech Sunday to keep your corn and feed it to your hogs. Now if you vote the saloons and the brewery out of business, who in the h will you sell your hogs to. Will the temperance party pay you the prices that you receive at the present time? I say no. Now as to the clergy. I have the greatest respect for the clergy in their own place, but I do hate to see a clergyman standing on the corner looking wise and milking his whiskers and talking temperance that is talking to drive out the saloons and drive in the blind tiger. That is what I call running out the little devil and running in the big devil. I think that they would "do far better to stay in the pulpit and preach the gospel to the sinners on the inside and I know that the good Lord woul think morw of

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them. Now I want to say a few words to the Wayne County Local Option league. On my return home from work last evening I found delivered at my heme a large bundle of junk in great big figures, giving tax rate3 in dry counties. This is another great move. You don't say that in Mount Vernon, Ohio, that the police force was reduced. from 21 to 15 and that the salaries of the 15 were reduced $5.00 per month. Yours truly, M. M. To tne Editor of the Palladium: In your last evening's issue appeared an advertisement signed by several Hagerstown citizens, and purporting to be in answer to an editorial of the Item. I note at the bottom of this ad, there appeared the following: "This was tendered the Item at advertising rates yesterday and refused." Will the party who tendered it, kindly make his identity known? Neither the business manager of The Item nor any of the business office force, nor myself, know anything of this alleged action. The party who tendered the ad. will certainly not be ashamed to reveal his name. Yours very respectfully, J. B. GORDON. Democratic Simplicity The senate has passed a bill increasing the president's salary to fmo.nno per annum, and this, too. following the so-called reWuke of the members of congress. The "big stick" and the "pitchfork" got in their work, but in spite of that the bill has passed the passed the upper house. Senators Bailey, democrat, and Borah, republican, spoke warmly against the measure and deplored the tendency to depart from democratic simplicity. The latter condemned it as a departure from the constitution. Figures were presented to show that Mr. Roosevelt had drawn an average of $1!UX per year, his "extras" looming up more than ten times as much as much as those of any of his predecessors fn office. But at that it may well be doubted whether the American people will ever have another such a president at any price. The income of the national treasury has been the largest in these years that it has ever been, yet we ran bhind millions, last year to the tune of many millions. This is the more significant when we consider that the extra expenditure of money for the building of the Panama canal is not paid out of government funds, but by the special process of selling bonds, as is: also the vast reclamation service con- j ducUd ia the same way. ' . 1

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A great deal of talk has been indulged in by the "Wets" and their sponsors, intended to confuse the voters as to the real issue in this fight. The issue is, whether we shall have the open saloon in Wayne county for the next two years or not. . Do not be misled by such statements as have been made to the effect that should we vote "Wet" on February 5th, another election can be called at any time The law says, "Whenever an election has been held under the provisions of this act no subsequent election shall be held thereunder until the expiration of at least two years from the last preceding election." (Sec. 8.) - The claim has also been made that the drys are spending money like water and the wets are embarrassed for funds. This is absurd. We admit we have expended considerable money for legitimate expenses, such as hall rent, speakers, printing circulars, advertising space, postage, etc. (not to exceed $1 ,500.00 all told). Our books are open for inspection. Will the wets say as much? We have it on good authority that the "Wets" were furnished $60,000.00 by the Brewers in Seneca county, Ohio, and put $25,000.00 of it into the City of Tiff in, and carried the election. They did this after a number of counties had gone dry by large majorities and they realized they must build a dam to stem the tide of popular disapproval of their nefarious business. Will the Brewers of Indiana be less liberal in this crisis? WE THINK NOT.

Shall the sale of intoxicating liqu'ors as a beverage be prohibited?

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Senator Borah declared that the proposal would never have been made during a presidential campaign or previous to it. This goes to show that popular approval is not given it. and in the end it may become a menace to the party making it. There is much in the air these days thaf apprives Jeffersonian simplicity. Monarchial splendor . is still feared by many people. It grates on the feelings of many people to think that the holding of any office, even if it be the office of president should be marked by regal splendor. No one especially regrets the spending of the the money; it is a question of motive that lies back of, it all. Theoretically there is no great: office within the gift of the people I that can not be presented to any man who is worthy of the gift, no matter from what station of life he may come, but it appears incongruouos to lift the man from lowly life, artificially dignify him for a term of years, say four or eight at the most, and then re Shall YES

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Election, Feb. BALLOT duce him to the rank of a common man, with nothing to support his former dignity, save as the office may have supplied him with the wherewithal. Other countries as England for instance pay their officers large salaries. But there is no comparison that will stand the test whereby it will be shown that the people have not suffered. England pays her royalty high salaries, but the men who do the work get far less than our men who do the same work. The Church of England pays her bishops as much as $10,000, $2r.)00, and even $75No and a palace to her high officers, but the curates who actually do the work have the pitiful stipend of from 2K to $4i per year. It is a question whether the elevation of our office holding class does not degrade the non-officeholding class. Like glory of almost whatever sort it is usually secured at the expense of some one else.

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5th, 1909 What, after all the office of president anyway? Is he not the high sheriff of the United States? The Insignia of the "big stick" is not so far wrong as tl.e paragrapbers would have us . believe, for the office of president is that of a constable. He is executive: it Is his place to enforce the laws. It is trr.e that he has some legislative power, but that is simply confirmatory of legislation which conies to his hand readymade, or negative when he ex. ercises his veto power. What strange fatuity is this that has seized us that we should dignify a constable and place him at the head of the ticket and hand his name down in the register of fame, when our local ronstab'e comes up at the tail of the procession at home? If in the nation the office of president is the highest, then that of township constable is the highest at home. A READER. PALLADIUM WANT ADS. PAY. & u