Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 164, 21 April 1909 — Page 4
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ANOTHER QUESTION OF MORALITY. It Is admitted that state-wide prohibition in Missouri would wipe out at
least $100,000,000 in property and
throw out of employment tens
thousands of workmen who have spent
many years in gaining a knowledge of their trade and who would be at a loss
to find another vocation. A moon
shiner running an illicit still In de
fiance of all law and public consent can soon master enough of the crude
process to turn out a fiery liquid of uncertain strength and purity, but the
art of brewing, which is older than
history, is an occupation demanding
a great degree of knowledge and skill
aa well as large plants and Invest
ments of capital. This business today is on a legal basis, as it has been from Immemorable times. Its development has heretofore been encouraged in
large communities. It has been in
vited in as a standard form of Industry, a footing it has always had in Europe. In that continent it Is rec
ognized aa a part of the social organisation and la not assailed on moral or other grounds. It is subject to regi:-
. latlon, but Its destruction there is un-
thought of. To notify the owners of this prope
ty in Missouri and the multitude of
nrkmiin whn mmnnrt thnm&elvea and
families in connection with it that it Is under the ban of the law, and that
all who labor In it and all who have
property In it must look to some other trade and dispose of their proscribed possessions as best they can, would seem to the average mind to trench
upon some powerful considerations of morality.. How far this huge eviction in business would cut into all business and property values, and how deeply
It would disturb the entire field of la
bor and the sense of justice upon which it broadly rests, is a question
that time alone could answer. Not
one trade alone is directly interested
Numerous trades are Interrelated in
every extensive Industry. To put off
the day of destruction three years or five years, would soften the blow, but ' little. . Who would open the doors to workmen trained only in an ostracised trade unless aa raw manual laborers? Who would buy property especially built for operations placed under the
Interdict of the law in the name of morality, without allowing weight to the fact that a question of morality
can have more aspects than one?
: Was not slavery abolished without
compensation? it is asked. -The Idea of emancipation with compensation waa steadily, rejtcted . in the slave states. They never made the slight-
President Lincoln declared that he
would save the Union with or without slavery. In the second year of the
war ha pointed out In figures that war
was coating more than would the frea
ing of the slaves with full compensa
tlon to their owners. If peace could
hare been had upon those terms
President Lincoln and the party behind htm, which embraced war demo
crats as well . as republicans, yould have met the proposition more than
half way. Slavery waa Immoral, says the world today. But when It exlstBd peaceably In the United States the feeling among the people waa that it
Involved certain property rights with s moral claim. The abolition of slavery came as an unavoidable military
' lecesslty, but only alter due warning. The analogies in this case are alight
The existence of the nation was at itake. . Great armies were clashing In terrible battles, with slavery a ml-
tor issue compared with the preservation of the Union, and the slavehold
rs. with arms In their hands, opposed
the Union; even with compensation for
their property. There is no offer of
compensation among - the . state-wide irohibitlonists of Missouri. They
teem to think that the whole question
f morality la confined to a single deitructlve blow. St. Louis Globe-Demo
crat.
Impossible. .
From the Providence Bulletin. Any
inti-noise crusade that endeavors to jompei email boys to play base ball without yelling might as well save its lose and devote Itself to formulating
1 tariff that would please everybody, nntlnc 'i cure for the lastest style
n hats or something equally practic
able. ,
Y UASOHIC CALENDAR. Wednesday April 21-Webb lodge, tfo. 34, r-aVA, M regulax,meetlng..
Gordon Contradicts Himself BY HIS OWN WORDS HE BRANDS HIS OWN INSINUATIONS AS CAMPAIGN UES. "And I say to you men, and nobody knows It batter f than f do, that Ed Harris ia clean I Ma ia a young man of the highest Ideals ha ia clean , aa a hounsTa tooth 1" ( j Bennett Gordon in his speech at the Gannett theater, April 19, 1909. Everybody else knows it! Even Bennett Gordon admits it. . But in the report of his speech published under Bennett Gordon's own direction in the Evening Item, those words were omlttedl Those words were omitted, although over the whole paper there ran the heading "The Item prints ALL of the news and prints it firsC Was it deliberately omitted, and if so why? There is a reason. Because throughout the report of the speech a studied effort was made to insinuate 'that Harris is not honest We are willing that the people should know the truth. Mr. Gordon admitted things In his speech which he is evidently afraid to publish in his newspaper. . We do not rest our case .on what Gordon said. We repeat that Harris ishonest. We repeat that Harris ia-under no obligations to any one. Bennett Gordon says that Harris' candidacy does not bear inspection. He hints of things that are back of it that do not bear the light. He insinuates that Harris Is not his own boss. , .. . . That he cannot guarantee what he will do. That he would have to obey "orders.
- Those are the things that Mr. Gordon by his Intangible insinuation PRINTS about Harris. Why did he not also PRINT what he DID say? Why did he not PRINT what he said at the Gennett? "HARRIS IS CLEAN ABSOLUTELY CLEAN CLEAN AS A HOUND'S TOOTH." He sneers at Harris for not giving a guarantee. Harris does not have to give a "guarantee." " He does not trick the people with a guarantee that is worthless. And we proved to the people of Richmond last night that the "Iron Clad Guarantee" of Mr. Gordon amounts to nothing. Our ridicule was not a. sneer. Our criticism was based on the law. It is the past which made Mr. Gordon give his "Iron Clad Guarantee." It ia the past record of broken promises which made Gordon make his guarantee which amounts to nothing. It ia because this paper has exposed to view those things which Gordon has not well concealed that angers him into attacking that man's honesty which he himself admitted.
not merely closes the career of one of the finest actresses of the nineteenth
century, but removes from earth one
of the noblest and most generous of women.
Girla and Sanity. From the New York Press. The way a man can keep being crazy over a girl is ' for her to keep on being crazy over some other fellow.
Discovery. From the Cleveland Leader. The democrats must have a new leader, says Hoke Smith. Hasn't he the original idea?
The Speedway. From the Baltimore Sun. Washing
ton is turning up its nose at cities thatJ
"haven't no Prado."
TWINKLES
Undecided. "Did you ever have oppendlcitls?" said the insurance man. "Well," answered the skeptic, "I was operated on. But I never felt sure whether it was a case of appendicitis or a case of professional curiosity."
Superseded. The orator now disappears; Our eager souls are stirred At present to exultant cheers By the man who slides to third!
Bennett Gordon may have overlooked the 'fact that he said that Harris is as "clean as a hound's tooth." Bennett Gordon may have forgotten for a minute that be was not playing his political game when he said that Harris Is honest. But we say that the man who will say one thing and print another (for he controls the Item) is not a man to be trusted. We say that the man who will purposely omit what he said is not clean cut. And we say that there ia a startling discrepancy between Gordon's statement of Harris honesty and the insinuationa which he printed. This la a thing which If purpoaely done is inexpressible in the English language.
HARRIS HAS MADE NO GUARANTEE SAVE HIS' OWN WORD. AND THIS 18 THE BEST AND THE ONLY GUARANTEE NECES-
FORUMOFTHE PEOPLE Articles Contributed for This Column Must Not Be in Excess of 400 Words. The Identity of All Contributors Must Be Known to the Editor. Articles Will Be Printed in the Order Received.
THE BOY ORATOR, OR WM. JENNINGS BRYAN II. "Gordon opens his campaign with a clean cut speech," but like the musician who reads at sight, but not at first sight, he takes up eight columns to make the cut and anyone can see that he makes several cuts and not very clean ones. , "I can and will get the largest vote ever given to a mayoralty candidate," is a broad assertion unless he controls the world and all its elements. The whole eight columns contain just such assertions and are filled in with big I's and will, it Is a good thing he knows what he will do because no one else ever does. He throws Doc in a pretty bad light, but we dont expect Doc is tearing his hair about It, In fact he can't afford it, as he hasnt aa much hair to tear aa Gordon. While Doc is wrong and not the man for Mayor, everyone knows his goodfellowship and all of those Bryanite assertions are wasted on the people. As for the "Kids" we know , that Gordon hadn't quit mussing up his clothes, as he musses up everything else, when Harris was born, and while Harris has never set the world on fire as yet and may .not have as large a head, he has larger feet, which gives him fair understanding and you can see him further and if he is a baby he has a man's ldeaa and looks more of a man. While he wasn't deprived of hia parents at an early . age . he has had to work for a living like the rest of us, and he is the shopman's candidate. He did vote' wet like the majority of voters of Wayne county and has never denied it. but he didn't pull the whole thing off and then feel so elated that he bought himself a diamond ring. ' We think Harris will do as much as Gordon except being a knocker. "Sometimes I have been right and sometimes I . have been wrong. Where I have been wrong I have tried to make reparation.' is true of every man and if he opposed Mr. Meredith and Is now for him and was against Kirkman ono time and for him the next," why wouldn't he be liable to be against all he Is for now, or for all he is against, after he gets to be mayor by this large majority? "Name a public enterprise, a concession granted or wrested from the
corporations, a social, educational or
artistic movement, a charitable institution or a public movement which X have not worked for and through my work made possible. We know of a little thing, and it Is the little things that count, in fact most of Gordon's actions are little. A certain band came her and drew a good house, was really good and waa written up nicely in the Morning News at the suggestion of one of Gordon's numerous em
ployee., who , knew. Gordon would not
play fair because he was sore at the
manager of the house. Then Gordon
comes out the next day and roasts the band proper and calls it rotten, thereby sacrificing the interest of the band and also of the city, in order to take
his spite out on the manager of the
house, and we believe he would at all
times sacrifice the interests of the
city In order to get even with some
person or corporation, and we also be
lieve now that he is running in the
race in order to make himself appear
the big Pomposa and crow over his enemies more than to serve the people.
We believe that outside of all that Is said about Harris he is all right and should be the shopman's candidate,
and all others.
A Shopman who really has calloused
hands.
Items Gathered in From Far and Near
The Way to Peace. From the New York Tribune. Sec
retary Meyer wisely holds that the chief hope ot International peace lies
in the establishment of true friendship and confidence among the nations of
the earth. The genuine progress made in the establishment of such relations
between the United States and other
countries gives great promise for the
future, but in the nature of things the work must be slow, as is the building up of friendship and confidence be
tween individuals. In the meantime, the surest guarantee is to be found in what the secretary of the navy hap
pily calls "ramparts of steel."
Th Typhoid Fly.
Prom the New York Times. The
slaughter of the Stegomyia fasciata since the proof under the indictment that it was the host for the propaga
tion of the yellow fever parasite has
been frightful, and something similar
has been happening to the typhoid fly
The fact is even more important, for it is easily possible to flee to climes where the Stegomyia never ventures, but it is hardly possible to escape the typhoid fly. , It is the common house
fly, the nuisance which flies from the
manure heaps and the sewage-laden
rivers Into the windows of almost ev
erybody's parlor, or, worse yet, kitch en.
Praises for Maryland.
From the Boston Transcript. Mary
land is not a rich state, but for her
resources she is doing more for the
public highways than almost any of her sisters. In planning to spend $4,-
000,000 on them, it is provided that the highway commission shall keep all
state highways reasonably clear of brush and otherwise in good condi
tion, plant shade trees if practicable.
and establish and maintain watering troughs. A stat that makes herself
attractive adds materially to her as sets. '
Modjeska.
From the Brooklyn Eagle. The
death of Helena Modjeska. after a lin
gering illness, at bar California h
A Mathematical Marvel. "That prima donna wants more sal
ary every time she sings."
"Yes." answered the impressario.
'I never saw such a head for tempera
mental arithmetic."
Awakened Sympathy.
"When the balmy zephyrs come
stealing o'er the scene," said the young
man with feathery hair, "doesn't It make you feel kinder toward human
nature to dream of being on the moon
lit lake with your light guitar waking
the echoes with song?"
"It does," answered Mr. Sirius Barker, "it makes me feel kinder
than I ever did before toward the fel low that rocks the boat."
I A re Popular in Washington
Puzzles.
O the chemists have perplexed us
Till we find we cannot state Where the viands that have vexed us Really originate. When an unfamiliar savor Marks the fruits that used to suit, Is it a benzoic flavor, Or a failure of the fruit? If you have to read the label On each bottle that is sold Before you are truly able To decide what it may hold. When with citizens too frisky. The police are playing tag, ' How shall they distinguish whiskey From an imitation jag?
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Political Announcements
Admtbements in This Column Cost Ten DoOars for all Offices Except Councumen U nieh Are Five DoOars
FOR MAYOR.
HZNRT W. DEUKER la a candidate
for mayor, subject to the Republican Bosfilaatloa.
SAMUEL K. MORGAN, candidate for
- Mayor, subject to the Republican nomination. EDWARD H. HARRIS la a candidate, for Mayor, subject to the Republican nomination. FOR CITY CLERK BALTZ A. BESCHER Is a candidate tor the office of city clerk of Richmond, subject to the Republican nomination. FOR JUDGE OF CITY COURT. LUTHER C. ABBOTT is a candidate for Judge of the City Cturt of Richmond. Ind.. subject to the Republican nomination. COUNCILMAN-AT-LARGE. MATT VON PEIN Is a candidate for the office ot Councllman-at-large, subject to the Republican nomination. FOR COUNCILMAN.
JESSE J. EVAN'S, candidate for Councilman for Second Ward, subject to the Republican nomination.
SENATOR AND MRS. BEVERIDGE.
The Word "Rajah." Literally the word rajah means king, and mabarajah the great king or ruler over several kings, but generally speaking the titles rajah, maharajah and nawab have no greater significance than the words feudal lords as used in mediaeval times in Europe. Many of them have been made by the will of the reigning chief, many bestowed for meritorious acts and deeds.
Her Mistake. There is a frigid coldness between a young man and his best girl for which her absentmlndedness is not altogether blameless. "So you've coma at last!" said he the other night. -Why, I'm early." she replied. Ifs
only 7, and I promised to be here at 8." "H'm, but you've mistaken the day. I've been waiting hers sines yester
day."
TEIIAIITS OBJECT TO RENTAL RAISE Colonial Block Rents Go a Soaring.
Tenants are complaining because of a raise in the rents for rooms at the Colonial building. An Indianapolis trust company controls the building now and has charge ot the rentals, some of which have been advanced B0 cents on the month and others have been raised $10 per month. An attorney, who Is a tenant, says the company is acting within lta rights, but he does not approve the judgment displayed.
Uttls Willie What Is a scheme, dad? Dad A scheme, my son, Is something that usually falls through shortly after you Invest money la It,
Heart to Heart Talks.
By EDWIN A. NYE.
Copy.ight, 1908, by Edwin A. Nye
"LUCKY BALDWIN. "Lucky" Baldwin Is dead. All his life long he was misnamed. He lived to be eighty years of age and was successful. And men are not uniformly lucky for eighty years. Instead of "Lucky," he should have been called "Plucky" Baldwin. Men, looking at his successful career, attributed his success to some special favor of fate or to birth under some lucky star. It did not seem to occur to them that the fortunate strikes of the bold operator were the result of carefully mapped out campaigns and that Baldwin was a cool headed, brainy, forceful man. In his mining deals he came In contact -with the shrewd, long sighted men of his day. He came out best in his ventures because he wss shrewder and longer sighted than they. Baldwin was plucky. His nerve and daring carried through bg deals which he had carefully thought out In advance. For instance When he wanted Sharon & Jones to close their option on a big mining deal he offered them a check for $200,000 to abandon It. accurately forecasting that they would do the opposite; It Is told of him that he secured the centrol of the Ophlr mine by engaging In a fist fight with the entire board of directors of the company, holding up itbs proceedings for half an hour while 'his lawyer was securing sn Injunction. Baldwin waa badly beaten up, but the Injunction, it la said, made him thalf a million dollars. Which was pure ptaek. He had foresight also. When ha bought the big ranch In California and -began to spend a fortune in Improvements the) people openly sneered at the venture. It was called "Baldwin's Folly," but he lived to see the day when It- waa one of the most valuable estates in the world. . Pluck Is luck. Foresight is fortune. While Baldwin's career. Including the rough days of racing and gambling. Is not a career fit to be held up for the close emulation of the young, it does prove that brains and courage are more than rack.
Baldwin was not luckier than
Be was pluckier than mo&t.men. .
MRS. BUSHNELL ILL The friends of Mrs. George W. Bushnell of Andover, Kan., will regret to learn that she now lies at the point of death. Mrs. Bushn ell's girlhood was spent In this vicinity, she being a sister of Mrs. W. I. Dulin of this city and Mrs. William W. Foulke, of Spring
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