Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 38, Number 283, 6 October 1913 — Page 4

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THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TECEGRAM. MOOT AY, OCT. 6, 1913

The Richmond Palladium

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Entered at the Post Office at Richmond. Indiana, as Second Clans Mail Matter. A Public Disgrace At present writing we have no less than twen- ( ty-seven cases of typhoid fever in this city. Typhoid fever is a filthy disease transmitted by ; flies, water, milk, "carriers," infected persons, i etc. It is preventable. It is extravagant. It is needless. Dr. J. N. Hurty, of Indianapolis, secretary of the Indiana State Board of Health, says in a recent letter to the health officers : "Let your newspapers, officials and citizens know that every case of typhoid is a black mark against the sanitary conditions of the community, and costs more than fire or flood." In another connection, commenting on the exceptionally high percentages of typhoid in this state, he writes : "The higher mortality from typhoid is a state sin and disgrace, and proves that Indiana still lives in the "Typhoid Age" and IS GUILTY OF GROSS SANITARY NEGLIGENCE !"

And we are all to blame ; the " dairymen for j their negligence, the public for its indifference, I sufferers for their heedlessness of others, and health officers for their nursing along and protecting dairymen that do not measure up to requirements. Being of one guilt we cannot sit

around and thrown stones, but we can get to work and remove this public disgrace from the community. Where Is the Excitement? The Democrat's long prayed for tariff bill now functions as a law of the sovereign people.

Millions of dollars' worth of goods are in bonded ;

warehouses at New York awaiting the signal that the long closed protection doors are opened at last. Meanwhile the anticipated excitement and panic promised by high protectionists has not yet been materialized. It seems that business is stable and industrial conditions about normal. This is not the least significant symptom of a new time dawning. The once sacrosanct high tariff goes down and hardly a flurry results.

Industrial lords do not seem to lose sleep norl

do the indices of commercial affairs suggest much disturbance. Neither, we may add, is the humble, ultimate consumer lying awake nights calculating his earning to accrue from the decreased cost of living made possible by the new law. It is pretty generally understood tht country over our hopes in that direction are to be largely illusory. Even the Democratic leaders themselves have more than once in the course of their debates warned their constituents against expecting too much from the reform. The tariff war, now ovar, has revealed an 'astonishing state of affairs we had scarcely yet begun to realize. The senate, for years and years supposed to be the very bulwark of privilege, the foe of popular legislation, the ogre of populist imaginations, has become very modest and obedient. Instead of tearing the heart from the bill as referred by the house, it goes the more popular body one better and tightens the screw a turn more. It reduces tariffs four per cent further than the house, and raised the income tax on $100,000, or over four per cent, the house's figure, to five per cent. Is the world coming to an end? But the most extraordinary thing revealed by the history of the bill is that we have another Big Stick in the White House. As an old New York politician puts it, when speaking of the Democratic party, "The president is not only its virtual head, but its master;" and Mark Sullivan went him one better and exclaimed in Colliers: "It (the senate) is now eating out of the president's hand." Meanwhile Democrats are rejoicing to find themselves somewhat efficiently organized and actually doing something. It seems their long period of mere opposition and criticism in national politics is over for a time. They are drunk with the wine of achievement. We wish them much joy. And also, as the winter wears away, we shall see how they hang together when the really big question come up, What shall we do with the trusts?

prisoned for a term at Auburn. He is situated next to the death cell in the "idle" department, sleeps on a straw pallet and eats the regulation prison fare. We hope Mr. Osborne's experiment will bear fruit in publicity and prison reforms. It is a good thing to see him so much in earnest. But we wonder if, after all, he will be able to know JUST how it feels to be in jail? He has friends, society, money, home, and a good name to return to after his voluntary incarceration; he knows it will be brief and undisgracing. He may be able to surround himself with the Jailbirds' walls, food and physical conditions, but he can't surround himself with the criminal's inner experience, and that, we believe, is, after all, the main thing. AS TO PROHIBITING STRIKES T

Washington Times. Governor Foss lias announced that if the New Haven railway engineers strike, as they threaten, he will call the Massachusetts legislature in special session to pass legislation to put an end to railway strikes in the future. There is no doubt that the largest public interest would be served by such legislation; but when the governor states that the laws of other states furnish ample precedents for laws prohibiting strikes, it is not quite clear to what he refers. Laws for a proper consideration and adjustment of grievances, for mediation, conciliation, and arbitration we have, and in recent years they have been very successful. But it is doubtful if there is constitutional power to forbid employes to strike. At any rate, a piece of legislaiton undertaking to make a strike a criminal conspiracy, or something of the sort which seenif the obvious day to get to the point would be certain to arouse bitter hostility among organized and other labor. There is, however, a wide field for extension of the program of adjustment, discussion, mediation, and arbitration in labor strikes, without going to the extent of actual prohibition. Organized labor could be expected to protest that if the right to strike be actually taken away, the effect of moral suasion measures would be greatly lessened. Governor Foss is, of course, largely right when he says this controversy is rather between the people and the railroad employes than between the employes and the railroad management. That is no longer a new view. Neither the railroad nor its employes suffer the chief injury by reason of a strike. The public does that; therefore, it is the right of the public to intervene, as it is doing through the Massachusetts governor, to protect its concerns.

Steel Cars Prevent Loss of Life

An Earnest Prison Reformer Slowly it dawns upon us that our prison system as a whole is a failure and a farce. Those most acquainted with it are most critical of it. It is due to their agitation more than to any other source that a public sentiment is being created which promises to transform from top to bottom our methods of dealing with crime. Just how much in earnest prison experts Wnmi is well illustrated by the case of

IIOYV j Thomas Mott Osborne, chairman of the New York j state commission of prison reform. Mr. Oshog Innc felt that society is committing i

crimes against criminals and that penitentiaries J T 1 .1

make a smuch crime as tney cure, in oraer to discover just what effect solitary confinement with the usual prison regime has on the average human being, Mr. Osborn has had himself im-

AMERICA LEADS WOMAN'S MARCH New York American. The suffrage battle, which 'has been so magnificently fought wisely and winningly on the American side and valiantly but indiscreetly on the English shores is verging now toward its crisis throughout the world. It is absolutely certain that the progressive woman has forced her issue into the arena of international politics and compelled the attention if not the indorsement of all nations. A powerful English editor declares in ringing italics that the militant cause is doomed and that the aggressive battles of the Pankhursts, mother and daughter, have antagonized the English race, who have come to fear that, if the Pankhursts and their clan shall win,' England will be a woman's nation, ruled by women and dominated by the female rather than the male. But on this side the water we have had serener and wiser advocacy, which has won both judgment and votes from men. Six States in successive triumph have given to woman that which England's militant suffragettes have battled for in vain, and nearly a million women today are voting in America upon the issues which make the present and the future. It is a question of methods. The essential principle of universal suffrage is vindicated in this great Republic. Woman has won her right to vote. She has won it by proven equality in the schools and by superb effectiveness and leadership in all the great movements that concern the race. America has crowned and is crowning her every day in the royalty of a deserved citizenship. And when America, leading the world in progressive sentiment as it does today shall practically announce that her noble women have place and power In the mighty problems of this Republic, the nations of the Old World will hear and heed the solution which this great new electorate has presented for the healing of national and international ills. The woman's cause was never so hopeful or so inspiring as it is today.

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TODAY Thinhouter'i 2 Reel Feature LIFE'S PATHWAY A Drama of the New York Underworld. Majestic WHEN THE DEBT WAS PAID

An unusually heavy loss of life was undoubtedly prevented in the recent head-on collision of two electric trains on the Long Island railroad, at Whitestone because of the fact that the

cars that were loaded with passen-1 The shell like construction of the ves- j

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GENNETT lOMORROW NIGHT

Geo. M. Cohan Presents "Broadway Jones" Prices 25c to $1.50 Seat Sale Now Murray Theatre.

niotormen and one conductor were kill-

jthe impact, but the cars proper passed ! through the accident nractii-allv lin

ed. These men were standing in the1 ---t except for a few smashed vestibules of their respective cars, windows.

At the Murray. Week of October 6 "Beverly Graustark."

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At the Gennett Oct. 7 "Broadway Jones." Oct. 11 "Merry Burlesquers."

Palace. "Life's Pathway," a two part TJianhouser drama being shown at the Palace today is a thoroughly thoughtful, artistic piece of work by Lloyd Lonergan. It is a study in the appalling contrasts of life. And in this subject it is brought home forcibly by the case of twin sisters, who, left orphans in babyhood, are separated and brought up in two entirely different stations in life. The story is laid in the slums of New York and presents many true and vivid scenes of this great city's lower life. In the cast are the Thanhouser stars, Flo La Badie and William Russell, with the Thanhouser "Twins" in the leading parts. The program also includes the Majestic drama, "When the Debt was Paid," a beautiful romance of the old California Missions.

"Beverly of Graustark." "Beverly of Graustark," a romantic play in four acts by George Barr Mc-

Cutcheon will be the offering of the Francis Sayles' Players at the Murray theatre all this week starting with the performance tonight. "Beverly of Graustark" has been seen in Richmond before, however never at the Murray prices and Mr. Sayles guarantees us a first class performance of this great play. While in the East Mr. Sayles went to Philadelphia and personally selected the costumes and they are among the best ever seen on the Murray stage. The regular matinees will be given during the week.

Murrette. Trof. Emanuel A. Brown, the eminent social worker and lecturer, will deliver his famous lecture in connection with the greatest of all photo plays, "The Expose of the White Slave Traffic," at the Murrette theatre today and tomorrow. Prof. Brown is regarded throughout the eastern country as one of the most influential of mission workers, and was instrumental in closing up the "Red Light" districts of Van Couver, B. C, and a number of other western cities. Pathe weekly this week shows a wonderful view of the Pennsylvania railroad wreck at Wiley. Ohio, recently. This is one of the pictures made by Manager Murray recently and sold to the Pathe company and is entirely

separate from the one shown recently

way" Jones has succeeded in scoring one of the big hits of the theatrical year. In the play "Rroad vay" Jones has squandered a fortune in an endeavor to "burn up Broadway." In despair he consents to marry an heiress old enough to be his mother, but before that event can take place an uncle dies and leaves him a Chewing Gum factory. To further increase his good fortune the Chewing Gum Trust offers to buy out his factory for a fabulous sum. The girl in the play dawns on the scene nd through her influence, he is induced to change his mind and instead of selling out goes to Jonesvllle, his native city, and becomes the active head of his new possession. The above attraction will be seen here tomorrow night at the Gennett theatre.

MURRAY ALL THIS WEEK Francis Sayles Players In the greatest of all romantic Plays Beverly of Graustark by Geo. Barr McCutcheon PRICES Nights 10c, 20c and 30c Matinees Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, 1Cc and 20c. Next Wetk "The Confession"

The railroads of the United States use about 150,000,000 wooden ties each year.

at the Murrette.

Gennett. j Without the aid of Jilting tunes or! ragtime rhythms about' the American flag or any other favorite topic, Mr. Geo. M. Cohan's newest 'play "Broad-,

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MURRETTE TODAY 1 "The Expose of Ihc White SlaveTraffic" Lectured by Professor Emanuel A. Brown. PATHE WEEKLY Showing the Pennsylvania Railroad Wreck near Wiley, Ohio, and 2 other interesting pictures.

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I THE TARIFF AT BREAKFAST 1 Philadelphia Times. As you emerge from your blankets (duty reduced 5 per cent under the new tariff) and dash across the rug (reduced 25.44 per cent) or the linoleum (reduced 17 per cent) to the bathroom (tiles reduced 2Y2 cents a square foot) you are entitled to know that you may use the bath brick with more than your usual abandon, for it is about to be 20 per cent lower in the list. Your perfumed toilet soap is treated almost as kindly by Mr. Underwood and his colleagues. Your towels are to come in 15 per cent cheaper. The alcohol for your rubdown, now taxed 20 per cent, is to be admitted free. Thirtyseven per cent has been knocked off the duty on razors. After you have donned you clothing (reduced variously from 10 to 74 per cent) please contemplate the saving which must come, if the tariff tinkers speak truly, to your breakfast table when the new schedule is in force. Ten per cent on the table cloth, a cent a pound on the prunes these are no meaa trifles for you, who expect to lay something aside for old age as soon as the robber tariff is reduced. Your coffee is now on the free list, and will stay there. But if you use chocolate, rise and cheer, for it is to be reduced 13 per cent. Fresh eggs are coming in at 5 cents less a doren, and the pepper and salt to go with them will be reduced respectively 1 cent6 and one mill a pound. The duty on wheat for your rolls is chopped 25 cents a bushel; on your oatmeal, 1 cent a pound. Potatoes are to rush from foreign fields at 25 cents less a bushel. Imported lamb will come to your table if the wicked middleman doesn't wrong you at a quarter less than it comes now. If you are importing cream for your coffee (most of "us don't) it is going to be knocked down 5 cents a gallon. But will your breakfast a year from today be really cheaper, according to your market accounts, than it is this morning? This will be the test of the tariff so far as the ordinary householder is concerned. We shall see.

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