Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 91, 7 February 1909 — Page 4

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Kh4ol!i G. Leedi Caarlea St. 91 orgs a O. Owen Kuan -Maaaalnc Editor. -Boatneaa Maaaaer. I. Xewa Cdltor. SUBSCRIPTION TERMS. In Richmond ff.ee per year (in advance) or 10s per week. MAIL SUBftCFvIPTIONa On yar, in advance "'SSS 81k. monthe. in advance .eo Do month, in advance RURAL ROUTE3. On year, in advanca fell monthe, in advance .......... On month. In advance Address changed a often an desired; both new and eld addrasaea must be given. Subscribers will pleaoe remit with or. which should fc given for a specified term: name will r.ot no entered until payment la received. Entered at Richmond. Indiana, postof rice as second cJhss mail matter. THE DIFFERENCE. Yesterday afternoon the Palladium carried In its news columns the 'ex planation of the defeat of the anti saloon forces In this county by Mr. Thompson. He is reported to have eald in regard to the republican lead ers "They are willing enough to stand upon a platform but when it comes flown to the actual work, they remain In the back ground. The republican leaders showed themselves to be insin'eere in their support, locally." Mr. Thompson's sentiments are matter of hi own conscience and as 'eueh are to be respected, but his in tellectual nicety seems to have been ffiirtnri hv the recent outcome of things In the county of Wayne. He seems to be suffering under a misapprehension of a subject with which he should be familiar; namely 'the subject of county local option and Its purpose. r County local option means the placing In the hands of the people of any county the right to decide for them selves whether or not they wish the sale of liquor in their county through the ). medium of saloons. It means nothing else. We are not discussing whether or not this is right or wrong, we are discussing cold facts. There is not the least use to look at the statute Uwe have bad a demonstration of the law not so long since. The republican party had a plank in its platform which favored this same county local option and it was made a law mainly by republican votes as everybody knows. These facts need no repetition. But this paper pointed out repeatedly during the campaign that a man might easily believe in the principle of letting the people decide and at the same time vote wet when the time came and many men did so. . It seems inconceivable that any man with the reputed cerebral tissue of Mr. Thompson should have labored under a misapprehension that every man who granted the right of the people to vote either way should have denied himself the privilege of voting either way. What does the word 'option' itself mean If not the 'power of choosing. A child can. find it in the dictionary. No. this sort of thing is exactly what-we meant on Friday night and on last night when we said that the lime was at hand when both sides should leave all recriminations 'and Insinuations behind as most of the leaders have done. It is much more graceful to state the fact that the people of the county of Wayne did not ' want to drive out the saloons and that the drys did not have enough votes, than it is to go around saying that the republican leaders showed themselves to be insincere locally.' If Mr. Thompson can show evidence that the republican leaders offered to aid In making the county dry and can prove the same then these men were 'insincere. But no evidence has been Introduced save that these men favored county local option as an issue in the last , campaign. We have shown what was already obvious that the reasoning of Mr. Thompson is fallacious and his nice sense of discrimination is rather dullad by the events of the election. THE GREAT. HOPE. fhe message of the life of Lincoln Is not hard to grasp, although his life was one of those miracles that mortals can not altogether explain if they have the audacity to try. Here was a boy born in the back woods of the "poor white trash" of the Kentucky uplands. In other mountain districts of the south these people are 'called "crackers," they live their little hour or two and then are gone. ' This boy might have lived to a ripe old age in- the mountains and have smoked his pipe or chewed his cud of tobacco and told Ills legends and then have passed Into the great beyond with never a ripple on the face of the busy restless currents of life. r Instead he died in the highest office that the people of these United States have to confer on any citizen. He died after be bad faced and solved

a problem that had perplexed the men of many generations, nay in spite of

the fact that every man of prominence of his own generation held a different view. He not only delivered the negroes out of bondage but he saved the country to which he owed nothing but suffering. What that message is which we have to learn from his life is sim ple. Hope. From the time that the little cracker boy first drew breath there was one thing that he did which few have ever done to such a perfection. That was to hope. Hope took him through the sad days of the sordid childhood. Hope took him through the sad days of a lonely manhood. His hope saved these United States, for this man had enough hope for a whole nation. In the darkest days of the war of the rebellion' there was not another man In the country who had the courage to hope for anything better. Lincoln had hope enough to send hundreds of men to their death in the battles between the North and the South. There is a simple phrase which we place on the coins of this commonwealth and by its very commonness we have come to hold it in jest and light esteem. "In God we trust." Most of us-trust in ourselves. Lincoln trusted in his God. On that terrible day when Lincoln knew that the battle of Gettysburg was going to be fought Lincoln went into silent prayer, and had it still been in the days when the angel of the Lord came down to visit mortals we should have heard it said that Lincoln had a message from Heaven , like a prophet fcf old. That message is to be found in printed books. It is the Gettysburg address. Christianity is the essential doctrine of hope. You may yet read that Lincoln was a member of no church and was therefore an infidel and not a Christian. There has been no more illustrious example of real Christian life than in the history of the life of the boy from the back, woods Lincoln. THE UNHEALED WOUND. It Is commonly supposed in the North that the South has gotten over its resentment and its hate of the North and all those who were concerned in the late war of the reoellion. The North is fond of the Idea that the late war with Spain brought the North and South together and that the only places in which there yet lingers a shadow of that one time fury which moved men to yell that wild rebel yell are those where the older part of the population is still a'ive and kicking. That feeling against the North was at the time of the war (and since, for that matter) crystalized when It had to do with Lincoln. He was a great ogre and he is still the great ogre of the South. Listen to the typical re marks of the Issue, the paper of Gov ernor Vardaman, of Mississippi, on the subject of Lincoln: "I shall endeavor to show you the kind of a man Abraham Lincoln was, as his closest and best friends have pictured him, and from this picture you can but expect to see that only a man of his character could have committed this crime, the coldest and most hideous and cruel of all the ages, that have come down to us in the annals of history. This proclamation was promulgated, (if we believed his historians), by an avowed infidel; one who scoffed at the teachings of the lowly Nazarene, and held hts -ministers in contempt. "And this man, this infidel, this cru el heartless monster, this man, is now lauded to the skies and- our children commanded to buckle the knees, bowdown and worship him Only a real degenerate with the facts as I pictured them from the lips of his warmest friends, could for a moment think of giving adoration or even respect, to such a cruel baboon." A gracious and kindly southern woman, who of all others had the air of being gently born said not long ago in speaking of her girlhood: "We were coming home on the train one day when it was announced that Lincoln was finally dead. My mother turned to me and said: 'Don't look happy, children, it's wicked." And," said the old lady, "that's the way we felt about it, I'm ashamed to say, and sometimes it's hard for me not to feel that way yet." Many years must come and go before the men and women of the South recover from that animosity which is the by-product of that terrible war. There are forces at work which may yet heal the deep wourfcl which the war inflicted. The work which is before many minds is the bringing together of the North and South. Mr. Taft has undertaken that work, but he will not finish It. There is hope. If the presidents of the United States from now on use their resources to heal the breach, it will be'well for the country. ' There must be a united country before the negro question Is permanently solved. But that time is not yet, nor for many years to come. It is a condition which must be faced and be dealt with for though there may be

other things which seem more important at this Juncture there is nothing more important than the bringing of the country together before the negro question again asserts itself. It may be the dream of a visionary but the final breach may be healed in the solving of the question which tore the two sections of the country asunder.

HEAD OF LINCOLN TO BE PLACED Oil A President Roosevelt Favors Plan and Has Consulted With the Master of Mint Over the Project. NOTED SCULPTOR HAS PREPARED FINE MODELS It Is Probable Design Will Be Placed on Half-dollar, But Legislation May Be Necessary. Washington, Feb. 6. President Roosevelt has given his consent to the adornment of one of the popular coins of the country with a fine head of Lincoln. He conferred with Frank A. Leach, director of the mint, about the matter. The details are now under advisement. Victor D. Brenner, the New York sculptor, has presented to the director of the mint some of the finest models for Lincoln coins ever seen in the treasury. These have been shown the president. The head of Lincoln, splendidly drawn, will adorn one side of the coin. The customary wreaths - or words will be on the other side. It is probable that the 50-cent piece will be selected as the principal coin for the Lincoln head. Some legislation may be necessary to make the change. The one-cent piece -is also being considered. The present half dollar bears the bead of the Goddess of Liberty on one side, surrounded by thirteen stars. The other side bears the eagle, with stars and inscriptions, Cleveland and Grant on Bills. Secretary Cortelyou has had prepared at the bureau of engraving and printing new designs for gold certificates of the ten and fifty dollar denominations. On the face of the ten-dollar certificate is an admirable bust portrait of the late President Cleveland. The lower part is framed in a wreath of laurel. On the face of the fifty is an equally fine portrait of Gen. Grant simil arly treated with a wreath of oak! leaves. The text on the face of each of the notes is so arrayed as to have the general effect of a wide pedestal upon which the busts are resting. The numerals in the corners of the notes are large and conspicuous. The scroll engraved borders are narrower than in other notes, leaving a large white space in the centers. The backs of the notes are printed in gold bronze color, used exclusively in printing gold certificates. It is the opinion of the treasury officials that the designs for the new notes are superior to any hitherto put out by the government. It is expected that the notes of the new series will be ready for issue within the next three months. Emergency Currency Ready. Director Ralph of the bureau of engraving and printing has completed

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the printing of $500,000,000 of the so-, this man that this centuryis now honcalled emergency national bank cur- j oring. rency authorized by the act of May -There are three great names that 30, 1908, , and $80,000,000 of the new stand out prominently as having made notes are now being issued to banks an impress on the literature of the in the regular course of redemptions. ! country. Irving is known and respectThese notes will take the place of ed as the "Father of American Liter the old national bank notes, which . ature." Hawthorne, the wizard of lit-

will be Tetired as fast as they reach the treasury. The law directing the issue of these notes contemplated the formation of natural banks throughout the country into currency into cur - rency associations which were to be held responsible for the notes issued by the individual banks forming the association. The City of Washington Association however, is the only one which has fully complied with the requirement of the law as interpreted by the secretary of the treasury. Banks Waiting for Congress. Soon after the act of May 30, 190$, was passed there was a general movement among the banks of the country to form currency associations. The question was early raised whether an individual bank could retire from its association at its pleasure, provided all the obligations of the associated banks had been fully met. The secretary of the treasury decided against this proposition. Thereupon banks generally suspended further efforts to form associations until congress has specifically authorized the retirement of banks under the conditions named. Up to this time congress has taken no action in the matter. Washington Once Gave Up to three doctors; was kept in bed for five weeks. Blood poison from a spider's bite caused large, deep sores to cover his leg. The doctors failed, then "Buckle n's '.Arnica Salve, completely cured me," writes John Washington, of Bosqueville, Tex. For eczema, boils, burns and piles its supreme. 25a. at A, G. Luke Co

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A Reader" Tells of the Centennial of Poet Poe

The saddest thing in centuries is the centennial of Edgar Allen Poe. The pathos-of the whole affair is enough to make one pause and wonder. From the very beginning his career was full of venom, and those who were the closest to him have done him the most of injury. Rufus Griswold, his biographer, is known in history just as one might remember a Judas Iscariot, a Nero or a Herod. No man of the century has a name more horribly and pitifully mangled than Poe. Much has been made of one Allan, a I wealthy merchant of Richmond, Va., who adopted Poe and befriended him and possibly not a word has been said amiss, but the selfishness of this same man in making merchandise of the brilliancy of his nephew, at last cutting him adrift to lodge on the banks of the stream of all driftwood, among the other strays and waifs of literature 1 is an lirnvrUten .Viantor cava o nariCTanh hprA anri th Critics of the life of Poe have ceased to call Griswold a liar and a thief, although Poe called him both, but like the friendship of Allan, it was purely selfish and stimulated by the traffic in the brilliancy of the man. Because Poe would no longer endure this imposition, the lusty Griswold published a book which has immortalized his name, and defamed Poe's, but immortalized solely because it is linked with erature for his skillful handling of the English language, every sentence per fect; Poe as a man of pure genius aai all-soul flame, a star of purest ray sejrene A crown of thorns this man Griswold wove and pressed on the brow of Poe. N. P. Willis, John Kennedy, Mrs. Whitman and Mrs. Osgood have changed it Into laurels for his adornment. The world has long since admired the genius of Goethe, Burns and Byron, and has even condoned the offense of these men in the wrong done to women whose lives they blighted. It is time the genius of Poe be recognized who committed no sins save against himself. It is a delight to remember his purity of thought and life, his tender devotion to his invalid wife, and his lifejpng reverence for womanhood. Poe's place in American literature is secure. The author of "The Raven." "The Bells." and "Annabel Lee," can never be dislodged from the high place that his genius lifted him. The echoes of the music of his verses will sound into the far distant future, and the lines written in the memory of his Invalid wife whom he adored and over whom he watched with a pathetie tenderness, can not be forgoten. With what exquisite charm these words ring out. and with what power they take hold of hearts as we hear him sing: And neither the angels In heaven above. Nor the demons down tinder the sea. Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. : For the moon never beams without

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Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise, but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. . And so all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling my darling my life and my bride In the sepulchre there by the sea. In her tomb by the sounding sea. It was the author of these lines who asked for bread and was given a stone. wno Deggeq lor nsn and was given a scorpion. America has done well that in this year and this month she has observed them as the year and month of the centennial of his birth. Despite his traducers he has outlived the century in which be was born. It is because the recognition has come so late that we said in the beginning that the saddest thing of the new century Is the celebration if the centennial of Edgar Allan Poe. A READER. Ah." complained the visiting nobleman, -but you have no privileged class es in raia country." "We haven't, ehr replied the prominent citizen. "Well. Ton ins nntrh a I be out some night when a gang of colc w. o B on a tear." Chicago Record Herald. "A soft answer turnetb away wrath,' Quoted the wise guy. "But never a book agent." added the simple mug. Philadelphia Record.

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Cw.fcW. 1903, by Edwin A. Nye TOM JOSNSON-REAL NAM. Here is a man! His fortune gone, he Is brave and happy. Forced to give up a mansion, he will more Into a cottage. Mayor Tom L. Johnson of Cleveland la the man. navlng lost bis wealth, . he must give up his palace on Euclid avenue, bis automobiles, and go into a smaller house. Is he soared or crabbed or morose? Not Tom Johnson! He might bare saved his fortune It be had resigned as mayor, given up bis fight for three cent street car fares for the ieople and taken tip his private affairs. But listen: "I decided I con Id not do that I entered the fight with certain Ideals. X wanted to fight privilege and apclal interest. I had already decided to give up working for dollars. "Why did I choose this course? Til tell you. I WANTED IIAITINESS. And I've been bappy In It." . Mind you. Johnson la not posing for effect nor seeking the bubble reputation. Listen further: "I haven't been laboring to b rewarded by the gratitude of the people. One cannot count on that, lt'a the PLEASURE IN DOING THE WORK!" My friend, that goes deep! Tom Johnson knows what atere moneycrats do not know that money cannot buy happiness. Why? Because money belong to the MATERIAL WORLD, happiness to the SPIRITUAL WORLD. And that la just where so many money makers miss the meaning of life. Once la awhile a rich man begins to see this. Carnegie says In his "Problems of Today." "Beyond a competence for old age. which will not need to be gTesL wealth LESSENS rather than increases HUMAN ilArriNESS." Rockefeller in his magazine studies says the same thing In other words. And there Is the adage: "Millionaires who laugh are rare." Tom Johnson cannot be happier In the bis bouse on the avenue than In' the little house on a aids street because hts happiness is the FRUIT OF HIS SPIRIT, which does not depend on externals. Hspplness comes from a consciousness of duty done, and Tom Johnson has done bis duty. Happiness comes from helpfalnees. chsrlty. kindly serv icethese made fleab and Tom Johnson is the Incarnation of these things. And so, whether fortunes go up or down, this courageous, loyal, hearty, hopeful spirit the real Tom Johnsonholds up its chin and rejoices to be a din - . VVvMl,kel Flour make deUcloue baked NORTH AMERICA. Orla-laallr Mapped aa u Esteaslea ( ladte aad Cfclaa. "Uneducated America ns." says a correspondent of the London Times, "pronounce the name of their country Amarica. calling themselves Americans. In so doing they not only yield to a natural craving for a finer euphony, but, quite accidentally, I presume, are more correct etymologicslly than educated Americans. Amerigo being the Italian form of the Gothic Auialarlc, contracted to A marie This personal uame means "strenuous In labor, resolute in action. an appropriate motto to add to the Washington armorial in the .national device of 'America. "Brazil was the original America. , Down to the first quarter of the six tccntb century our North America was still mapped as sn extension of India, Tibet, China and Japan, with Brasil as an island, separated by the islands discovered by Columbus from "the new world of Greater India' snd named 'America provincla and again 'America vel Brasilia.' "Not before the middle of the six. teenth century was the term 'America' extended to North America, with the addition 'vel Nova India.' In brief, the Americas were both mere windfalls in the heroic secular quest after spiced India. This is the redooblej debt the Anglo-Saxon race owes India." of aiaeatire Inissiojui

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