Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 101, 9 March 1914 — Page 3

Tim RICHMOND PALLADIUM AMD SUN-TELE GRAM, MONDAY, MARCH 9, 1914

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MANY ATTEND MILTON COUPLFSjyEDDING Miss Alice Clevenger and Ora D. Snyder Marry on Wednesday.

MILTON, March I. The wedding of Miss Eva Alice Clevenger and Ora D. Snyder Wednesday was a largely attended affair. The marriage was solemnized at the home of the bride's parents. Mr. and Mrs. Frank M. Clevenger and the oeremony performed at three o'clock by the Her. F. M. Westhafer, of Milton. Pierre Helm who presided at the piano played the wedding march as the couple entered the parlors and pansed at the altar. The bride was charmingly dressed In white all-over embroidery mall dress and carried a shower bouquet of pink carnations. All the appointments of the home were simple but very pretty. A wedding luncheon was served. The following guests were In attendance: Messrs and Mesdames F. M. Clevenger and Simon Snyder, parents of the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Snyder, Miss Ratie Snyder, Miss ZelUe Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Bond, Miss Pauline Bond, Mr. and Mrs. Phillip Higham, Chas. Clevenger, Miss Mary Higham, Walter Clevenger, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Clevenger, Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Clevenger, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Marlatt, Miss Mary Marlatt, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Marlatt, Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss Rank, Miss Naomi Nunger, Miss Cora Spahr, Miss Monica Willltts, Mrs. Tressie Hamilton, Morris Bond, Mrs. Leonard, Mies Ettle Doddridge and Miss Hilda Helms and the Rev. F. M. Westhafer. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder will live on a farm in the Doddridge neighborhood. The bride was the recipient of many presents.

Dramatic News and Comment

The Boss." Tonight at the Dennett theatre the Francis Sayles Players win offer for the first time in Richmond, Edgar Sheldon's first and best play "The Boas" which had a long run In both New York and Chicago, also a season om the toad and "The Boss" has proven to be a very popular stock play for the past two years. After more than ten years In the theatrical business Mr. Sayles considers his part in this play to be the best part he has ever attempted to play, the balance of the company will all be seen to advantage, while the production will be complete. Following the performance tonight

another country store will be given when the capital priie will be a plane. Saytee Laet Week. Next week will be the last week of the Francis Sayles Players at the Dennett theatre, as they will cloee March 21st to open their summer season in Superior, Wis. The member of the company will take a much need ed rest before their opening there on Easter Sunday. For the last week Mr. Sayles will offer two plays. For the first five days "A Man's Game", which waa played by Miss Esther Williams and for Saturday matinee and night only, "The Lion and the Mouse," which was used as the opening play here last May.

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MORRIS PARK, N. Y., March 9. Because Miss Marie Grether refused to bare her shoulder to corroborate her story. Magistrate Leach discharged Otto Straub, accused of sticking Miss Grether with a snow shovel.

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the order received. Editor of the Palladium In a recent issue of the Indianapolis Star there was a full illustrated page devoted to the subject of "Calling In Women to Save the Cities." Why should not our women help save Richmond from the many evils that menace the happiness of her homes? King Alcohol and an accompanying evil, the "red light district," could be banished from our fair city if every woman would exert her influence for. Christ and the home. 'Tis true that some of the homes have never felt the awful blighting curse of alcohol, but some of the brightest and best men, and women, too, have filled drunkards graves and we can never be sure of the future so long as the tempter is in our midst. Then is it not sad to relate that oftlmes women themselves are the tempters. In the light of modern sci-

I ence and medical research it is amazing that a wife or mother would be guilty of dispensing liquor, medicine or food adulterated with poison to '. ruin body and soul! Have they not I read of the son who told his agonized ! mother that her brandied peaches had

.awakened on uncontrollable appetite

for liquor he had never known before? Would that we had more teetotalers among the women of today, such as the noble band of ""White Ribboners"

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Hayes. Mrs. William J. Bryan and Mrs. Woodrow Wilson. Women, awaken to your responsibilities ere It be too late! Are you sure your loved ones are immune from the awful temptation of King Alcohol and those who bow before his throne? Women, listen to the moans and cries of the poor half-starved wives and children begging you to take the open door of temptation from their midst so that the money expended for liquor may go for food, clothing and a place to live. If you are Indifferent and steel your hearts against their piteous appeal, God pity you! May you never lie awake nights listening for the unsteady footfall of one who may enter your home, not to recognize you, but to heap abuse and perhaps blows on your pbor, worn-out body. What if your boy, bone of your

I bone and flesh of your flesh, should i stagger home or maybe be detained

by the "arm of the law," and be compelled to pass a night in the cold, miserable confines of jail, would you then think it was time to put out this awful curse from the land? Or if your fair daughters, whom you have always shielded from every hard, trying circumstance, what if you should see her suffer in silence, too proud to tell even mother of the escapades of the one who has promised "to love and cherish her till death do us part," oh, what

would you then do? You would surely awaken to your duty as a wife and J mother as never before. i God speed the day when not a wom

an will sanction by example or indifference the evil of liquor drinking, either moderate or to excess. But, may we all feel that we are our brother's keeper, and do all within our power to eradicate this dreadful curse from our city. MRS. ROSCOE E. KIRKMAN.

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HOBOKEN. N. J.. March 9. Because her husband called her an "ignorant mutt" and a "cave woman" when she objected to his singing, Mrs. Charles Albers seeks a separation.

TRENTON. N. J., March 9. Two farmers of Alicel, Oregon wrote (lor. emor Fielder that "girls are darn ecarce out here" and asked help.

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BY J. BENNETT GORDON. "I was ashamed five years ago of the rot the editor of the Item then poured out over the city and made the people believe it. I don't understand how he could get the people to believe all that stuff, but he did." Rev. 8. R. Lyons, as quoted In The Evening Item. A lot of water has gone under the bridge and over the dam in five years, but facts haven't changed a particle. Rev. Lyons may use whatever characterization he pleases regarding the statements made by me in my capacity as editor of the Item five years ago, but the point is he cannot deny those statements now, and he couldn't deny them then. The reason the people believed me then was because I spoke the truth and proved it to be the truth. The reason they didn't believe the side with which Rev. Lyons was affiliated was because the men who furnished the publicity for the "drys" in that campaign didn't speak the truth and had the lie nailed on them so big that anybody could read it. The people in that campaign five years ago wanted facts. They got them, and acted upon them. The people in this campaign want

facts. They are going to get them. The great bulk of common i people in this city are going to decide this election. They are not :

going to be swayed by tirades, generalities, vivid oratory, harrowing pictures, or denunciations of their neighbors as being murderers, licensed burglars, anarchists and debased criminals. All of those who vote upon this question are going to live here after the election. This is to be their home, under just exactly the

conditions they fix at this election. If they make a mistake it will

be too late to remedy it ; therefore, it is incumbent upon all of us not to make a mistake. The people know the conditions now. Do they want to change them? If so, why? That is the issue. It is a moral issue, a business issue, an economic issue, a municipal issue. It affects every business man, every working man, every taxpayer, every boy and girl. Reason, not prejudice, should decide such an issue. Facts, not fiction, must decide such an issue. Experience, not theory, should determine such an issue. If those who want a change of conditions can prove their case by reason, facts and experience, to them should belong the victory. If those who believe we would be worse off under the proposed change than we now are, prove their case by facts, reason and experience, to them should belong the victory. There are extremists on either side to whom none of these things will appeal. To such the arguments of this campaign will be lost. We expect to appeal to men and women who are sensible enough to know that liquor is going to be sold in Richmond in large quantities even though it is "voted" dry. It is up to them to decide whether the conditions under which it is now sold are not better for the people and the town, morally and commercially, than the conditions under which it would be sold then. We expect to appeal to that class of citizens who are honestly interested in having a law-abiding, prosperous, moral community, a place where they can raise their children in safety, where they may do business at a profit, where they may find work at remunerative wages, where they may follow their own conscience without fear of bigotry, where liberty is not license, and where they do

not have to submit their code of living to some self-appointed moral censors who are so busy picking the mote out of their neighbor's eye they have no time to keep their own doorsteps clean. This is not a question of stopping the selling and drinking of liquor. It is a question of the regulation of the selling and drinking of liquor. "Voting" a community dry does not mean total abstinence or temperance, or morality, or happier homes or lower taxes or better business. Stick a pin right there, brother, for we will furnish absolute proof of these statements within the next few days. Rev. Lyons may call statements made five years ago "rot" but he doesn't dare question their reliability or integrity. Men five years ago believed I was on the wrong side of the question, but none of them dared assert that in presenting the argument and facts I lied. I believed then I was right. I believed then the closing of the licensed saloons in Richmond, as they are operated here, not somewhere else, would injure the city morally and commercially, that it would make the conditions surrounding the sale of intoxicating liquor worse, and there would be no compensating feature on the other side of the ledger. Five years of observation in various states of the union and careful collection of data on the subject have convinced me more than ever of the correctness of my belief. It is my purpose to set forth these facts before the people of Richmond. I will give proof of every assertion that is made. I welcome any man to challenge my statements or to demand my authority for making them. I invite any man to show wherein I draw any unwarranted conclusions from facts stated. Rev. Lyons had a chance five years to prove my statements "rot" but he didn't. He will have an opportunity at this time to do the same thing. Rev. Lyons says I published "rot" five years ago, when I said the licensed saloon if left in Richmond, under existing laws, was not the menace to boys that other evils were. He now refers in the same speech in which he called my statements "rot," to his boys and asks if they haven't any rights in this city. He certainly hadn't any purpose in dragging his boys into the discussion except

to give the inference, the impression, that they had been injure by the licensed saloons of this city in the last five years for which my "rot" was responsible. Now, let's get down to brass tacks. If anything has happened to Rev. Lyons' boys in that time that causes his outburst of protest, was it due to the licensed saloons ? Let him, answer yes or no on his honor as a man and a minister and quit fogging around. If the saloons, as they have been operated here in the last five years, due to the people here believing my "rot" have injured his boys, let him say so plainly and specify the saloon or saloons. And to be fair, if his boys have been injured by any other agency in this city, let him say so and put the blame where it belongs. Dont play the hypocrite and blame the licensed saloon with something it didn't do in order to shield something else. In this same address he talks about how the licensed saloons of Richmond have injured his "institution," that is, his church. If there have been any tragedies or scandals in his church due to the licensed saloons of Richmond, let's have the facts. But let's be fair

on the other hand and tell of other agencies that may have worked demoralization with his institution. My views may be "rot" but Rev. Lyons is not going to whip the saloons over my shoulders. He is going to fight honorably. Let him give facts. That was exactly where his side was weak five years ago, which is probably why the people here believed my "stuff." The fight is on. It is not one-sided. The avenues of publicity

are not going to be muzzled. Men are going to stand up and be

counted without tear of intimidation or bull dozing. Two weeks of argument is enough to satisfy this community. Two-triirde of the expense of pollolng of Richmond, of administering olty justice Is devoted to the product of the saloons." Editorial In The Evening Item. Does the Item mean to Infer by that statement that fn event the town goes dry, we can cut the expenses of the police and city Justioe departments down two-thirds? If not, then what is the argument? Here'B the glad hand to Rev. Francis Ansoombe! He's a man after our own heart. He wants to deal in tacts. He la hungry for statistics. He wants figures on "dry" territory and taxes. Well here are three nails for him to drive. 1 -Maine, that eryslum of prohibition, which has had fifty years of it. has a tax rate of 23.50 per $1,000 the third highest In the country. 2 We naye heard a lot about Kansas City. Kansas, as the ideal city because it is dry. It Is always contrasted in Anti-Saloon League literature with the awful conditions that prevail In Kansas City, Missouri, which is wet Kansas City, Kansas, assesses its property at 100 per cent of the actual valuation, which is the maximum assessment any city can make. It's tax rate Is $1.64. Kansas City, Missouri, assesses its property at only 40 per cent of its valuation, yet its tax rate is only $1.25. How is that explained? 2 If we are to believe the Anti-Saloon League authorities Kansas Is n grand old state, dry from stem to stern. "We quote from an address made last Friday evening at the Tabernacle by Dr. Anderson: "Out of 103 counties in the state (Kansas) not an insane person found in S7; in E4 there are no feeble minded people. 96 have no Inebriates, in 98 the poor farms have no inmates, 65 have no prisoners who are serving sentence for crime, the Jails of 53 are empty." If this be true, how does Rev. Anscombe account for the fact that the cost of government in the state of Kansas has increased from $3,600,578 to $4,600,000, or a $1,000,000, in four years an Increase of 22 per cent, while Indiana with a million more people to take care of and not a dry etate has increased its cost of government In the same period only 1 per centf Come again, brother! Despite Rev. Lyons' assurance that we print "oC you will find our figures are accurate, and you know statistics are not hytteri or a matter of some fanatic's mere opinion. "We have all heard men, after they had descended to the lowest rung in the ladder of reepectabiiity attribute their downfan to the loon." Editorial In The Evening Item. We surely have. It is a common thing for a man after he ha descended to that level by some other route to take the "easiest way" and instead of admitting he has been leading a double life all the years put the blame on the saloons. We know a man right now In this city who used to beat bis boys, when they were little, so brutally that the neighbors threatened him with arlest unless he desisted. When they became older they went to the devil tn all but drink. Yet he is out today saying the saloons ruined his boys. It's easy for a coward to lay all hts own cussedness on the saloons, rrovtded he re mains on the sate side and doesn't specify the saloon. President Kelly, of Earlham, says if Richmond votes "wet" It win mean a decreased attendance at Earlham. Why? Hasn't Richmond always been wet? He himself came here to take the presidency of the college when the town was "wet" and he thought he was being promoted when be came. He has issued every year reports as to how the college has grown and prospered in a "wet" city. Yet he says if the citizens decide not to change the conditions and environments amid which the college has grown and prospered all these years that fact will irreparably injure the college. President Kelly should get a string and tie his logic on straight. His only evidence that his prediction will come true is the citation of the claim that after the election five years ago the attendance at Earlham diminished. This, he attributes to the result of the election. But does he know that was the reason? At that time, if he remembers, there was a concerted effort upon the part of some bigots connected with the coUege to secure the dismissal from the college faculty of the most venerated and best beloved professor of the college because he had merely exercised the right of expressing his opinion. As an alumnus of Earlham college, I happen to know something of the disgust and resentment this bigoted action caused among Earlham alumni. I happen to have had correspondence upon the subject at that time with Earlham alumni and I know the college suffered because of this fact. Is President KeUy sure it wasn't this effort during his administration to gag an honest man and suppress free speech that hurt the college, rather than the fact the city of Richmond decided It would let well enough alone and maintain the conditions under which Earlham college has so marvelooaly grow