Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 39, Number 102, 10 March 1914 — Page 7

THE RICHMOND PALLADIUM AND SUN-TELEGRAM, TUESDAY, MARCH 10, If 14

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Wet and Dry Communications

Editor's Not This space Is referred for communications on the local option election. All letters must bear the name and address of the writers. Contributions -will appear In the order received. TIME8 HAVE CHANGED. Editor of The Palladium and SunTelegram: Personalities should have no place n the present local option campaign n which the voters are asked to pass Judgment upon the saloon as an Institution rather than upon the saloon keepers and their paid agents as men or as citizens. Nevertheless, the effort to make one man's record and personal influence an important element in the campaign creates a situation that requires a passing notice. It may have been sheer desperation that led the saloon men to bring J. Bennett Qordon to assist them In the campaign. The way drowning men grasp at straws is proverbial. But if It was not desperation over a losing cause that led to their selection of a publicity agent, it demonstrates a curious ignorance of the way times have changed since the local option election of 1909. The things that gave Mr. Gordon an influence then are lacking today. He was then a rising, if somewhat eccentric young man, held in esteem by the faculty and alumni of Earlham college. He was known as a "good fellow' in local club life. His fearless advocacy of moral and civic reforms had won him the respect and confidence of the friends of social and civic righteousness. He was a rising figure in local politics. Most of all. he was editor of an established newspaper, in which William Dudley Foulke, an influential citizen and political reformer, was supposed to have a controlling interest. The saloon champions must be desparate or blind, indeed, not to recognize that with regard to Mr. Gordon's position, times have changed. It is a far cry from the editor of an independent paper reputed to be devoted to the city's welfare, to one who returns as the hired advocate of the saloon interests and is forced to buy advertising space in order to get his stuff before the eyes of the Richmond public. His advocacy of the "wet" cause in 1909 deprived the Evening Item of a large part of its best patronage. It lost him the respect of the temperance element without gaining for him the confidence of the saloon forces. They could not forget his editorial on "A Hell of a Parade." He ran a poor third as a candidate for mayor of the city the nest year. His policy wrecked his paper financially. He lost his position as editor, and finally left tho city in debt and further discredited by a street brawl. The liquor men will find that in depending upon Mr. Gordon, deprived of his former position and handicapped by his more recent record they are leaning upon bruised reed, for times have changed.. Mr. Gordon's first effort indicates that he thinks the liquor problem is the same a it was in 1909. He does not seem to know that in this respect, too, time have changed. In 1909 his apparent influence on the result of the election was largely due to conditions in Richmond and the country at large that have since passed away. At that time the temperance forces here were largely divided as to the expediency of an election just tberei. Many Democrats regarded the county local option law, forced through an extra session of the legislature by Governor Hanly. as a political measure, and they looked upon the attempt to vote the counties dry in a hurry as a Republican .trick to profit by the temperance sentiment of the state. This feeling was intensified in many minds by the conviction that Governor Hanly had proven his insincerity by his interference with our Police Commissioners. At that time we had failed to convict three notorious blind tigers, and many believed that we should wait until thelaw against blind tigers was strengthened before voting out the saloons. At that time, too, no large cities of Indiana had had enough "dry" experience to demonstrate conclusively that the closing of the saloons would not hurt business or raise taxes. The business men and manufacturers held back, fearing financial loss or increased taxes, and even many of those opposed to the saloons would not openly espouse the "dry" cause. Now any one who has not been blind or deaf to what has been going on for five years knows that in every one of these respects times have changed. The temperance people are no longer divided. The present local option law a modification of the Hanly law by a Democratic legisla SURE WAY TO END RHEUMATISM Ease Stiff, Sore Joints and Muscles, Makes Pains and Backache Promptly Vanish. It. is needless to suffer any longer with rheumatism, and be all crippled up, and bent out of shape with its heart-wrenching pains, when you can surely avoid it. Rheumatism come from weak, inactive kidneys, that fail to filter from the blood, the poisonous waste matter and uric acid; and it is useless to rub on limiments or take ordinary remedies to relieve the pain. This only prolongs the misery, and can't possibly cure you. The only way to cure rheumatism is to remove the cause. The ney discovery, Croxone, does this because it neutralizes and dissolves all the poisonous substances and uric acid that lodge in the joints and muscles, to scratch and irritate and cause rheumatism, and cleans out and strengthens the Btopped-up, inactive kidneys, so they can filter all the poison from the blood and drive it on and out of the system. Croxone is the most wonderful medicine ever made for curing chronic rheumatism, kidney troubles and bladder disorders. You will find it different from all oilier remedies. There is nothing else on earth like it. It matters not how old you are, or how long you have suffered, it is practically impossible to take it Into the human syste mwithout results. You will and relief from the first few doses, and you will be surprised how quickly all your misery and suffering will end. An original package of Croxone costs but a trifle at any first-class drug store. All druggists are authorized to sell it on a positive moneyback guarantee. Three doses a day for a few days is often all that is ever needed to cure the worst case of backache or overcome urinary Aortfers. ( Ad-wsrtiee meat)

ture gives no room for political partisanship to affect the vote. In this campaign the "dry cause la not even apparently open to the old taunt of being managed by hysterical Anti-Sa-loonlsts, by sentimental preaohers lacking both funds and political experience, and by women strong only in their hatred of the institution that robs them of their living and threatens their loved ones. The present movement to "dry up"the city Is directed by experienced men. It Is organized by seasoned politicians, and financed by business men and manufacturers who openly and eagerly give it moral as well as financial backing. Most important of all. In the five years that have intervened, a wave of "dry" sentiment sweeping over the whole country has grown to an overwhelming flood. Hundreds of cities have tried abolishing the saloon. Many have tried it both ways. There Is today an overwhelming mass of statistics and testimony, not available five years ago, that proves conclusively that dry cities prospered; that bank deposits increase and business flourishes, that arrests, drunkenness and pauperism decrease, and that city governments do not go into bankruptcy and that taxes are not increased. Richmond has meanwhile had a half-decade's experience with her boasted "law-abiding" saloons that has exposed the fallacies of the campaign Ave years ago. It will be facts that the "drys" furnish this time, and the saloon agent can furnish the "hysteria." Times have changed. If Mr. Gordon thinks he can turn the shadow back now in Richmond on the dial of progress by rehashing five year old attacks on the Anti-Saloon League and decrying "preachers' hysteria," it is because he does not know that times have changed. We are always glad to welcome back our former citizens when they come home. To the Bennet Gordon that was and to all of him that remains, to the enthusiastic student, the fearless reformer and the generous rival in discussion, to the editor who wrote ".A Hell of a Parade" we give a cordial welcome. But to the hired fountain pen of the liquor interests, seeking to turn back the tide of progress and to fasten again upon the city that gave him his start in life, against the city's will, the vampire hold of the saloon to him we cannot promise much satissatisfaction from the visit, except, of course, the saloon men's ducats. Our best wish for him can only be that he may fulfill the prophecy some even of his "wet" friends are making; towit, that he will only make additional "dry" votes by his efforts. And, perhaps, it would be kindness to add the hope that "the jingle of guinea may help the hurt that honor feels." EIBERT RUSSELL.

Editor Palladium and Sun-Telegram: The writer has always esteemed and admired the talent, pluck and courage, of convictions, and at this moment would gladly render Mr. Bennett Gordon any favor possible, not Mr. Gordon, therfore, but the cause he champions, is the question the people are now flKhting. While the good citizenship of Richmond are freely giving their time and money for the moral and civic uplift of Richmond, does Mr. Gordon, without money and without price, come all tbe way from Sioux City, Iowa to indulge in the same rot that constitutes "wet" stock in trade? "Frenzied, Hysterical, Libelous, Confiscation." This is the hoar-frost logic the "wet" Jack-o-lantern uses to lure Richmond into moist territory. Grand old Earlham college that has given to the world so many noble men and women; as well as many hundred people of our "panic proof city," are all "hysterical fictionists. made crazy bv the Honeywell revival." With Paul lt us crv aloud: "Would to God that. ; baring these saloon chains, all that hear us might become such, instead of alcoholic. Narco-Maniacs!" "Confiscate the Property and Business of 50 Odd Saloons." Any ten year old school boy can show in actual figures how much money, to say nothing of the want and misery Richmond would save, were every saloon empty the year round. Webster defines confiscation to be: Seized and appropriated by the government to public use. The Standard dictionary says: To appropriate personal property as forfeited to public use or treasuryDoes the wetest "wet" In "Richmond believe what Mr. Gordon says about confiscation of the property and business of fifty odd saloons? If you do then you will surely vote "dry", and oh, what a jolly joy ride you could have in the barrels of bad whiskey appropriated to public use. During the late civil war, we often foraged and confiscated provender for the mules; of course there are two legged mules in Richmond who would delight in the confiscated provender of "fifty odd saloons," but the real mule, well, you can lead him to the barrel, but you can't make him "confiscate." If Mr. Gordon really has any facts and figures, many people await their forthcoming; "watchful waiting." JOSEPH M. THURSTON.. 225 North Eighth street. ALCOHOL AND INSANITY. Editor Richmond Palladium: Sir: In Mr. Gordon's first communication he made the astonishing assertion that religious excitement produced more insanity than alcoholism. I promised to reply to that assertion; here are the facts: In the report of the New York State Commission in Lunacy for the year ending September, 1904, the following were among the causes assigned for insanity in the 5788 cases admitted to New York State hospitals during the preceding year: Religious excitement, twenty; alcoholism, seven hundred and seven. (See Official Report or Extract in New International Encyclopedia, article "Insanity," Vol. X, pp. 64S.) In the New York State Lunacy Commission Report for 1907 occur the following words: "As the prevention of alcoholism has a very definite relation to the prevention of insanity, the detailed study of the controllable conditions which favor intemperance may prove a fruitful field to those who are interested in the latter work." Let us come nearer home. In the 23rd Annual Report of the Eastern Indiana Hospital for the Insane, for the year ending, Sept. 30, 1912, we find on page 23, under Table II, a statement showing the nature of the insanity of the patients. This indicates that 21 patients were treated for alcoholism. If during that saaa period tfeem were any individuals there sufXeftteg from

religions excitement the Report does not say so. ' Dr. Henry Smith Williams says: "Considering the United States as a whole. It is variously estimated that from 26 to SO per cent of all the insane patients admitted to public asylums owe their misfortune directly or Indirectly to alcohoL" Dr. ClouBton, superintendent of the Royal Edinburgh Asylum, Scotland, puts the figures for alcoholism: men 42 per cent, women IS per cent. In Paris in 1900 the figures were: men 61 per cent, women 22 per cent; in Vienna 40 per cent; Prussia In 1888 over 45 per cent. (See "Alcohol," Williams, pp. 68-66). If space permitted I could give similar official authentic figures by the column. I here and now flatly and unequlvocably contradict Mr. Gordon's asser tion. If he made It In good faith, he manifests crass ignorance; if it was not made in good faith I nail the lie to the counter. I challenge Mr. Gordon to produce the least scrap of evidence In support of his reckless assertion. If this be a sample of his work for the saloon keepers he Is not likely to serve his masters to much effect. ; . Francis C. Anscombe, 100 S. W. 7th St March 9, 1914.

"A MAN AFTER MY OWN HEART.? Editor Richmond Palladium: Sir:, In your last night's issue Mr. Gordon refers to me as "a man after his own heart." I wish to state publicly that I reject the impertinent familiarity. I utterly refuse to fraternize and speak of him as "a man after my own heart." He has chosen his company; let him keep it The brewers the- saloon keepers, the drunkards and the "bums" are "the men after his own heart." Those all belong to his gang. Let me speak to him personally. So you offer me "the glad hand!" No, sir, I don't take it'. Let me tell you, sir, that If you come back to this city as the hireling of the liquor people you can not expect by an assumed geniality to receive the right hand of fellowship from decent citizens. There is no warm welcome for you here in christian Bociety. I suggest to you that so long as you stay in Richmond you go through the back alleys toward midnight and give "the glad hand" to the helpless drunkard lying in the dirt where your master has flung him. Call him "Brother," pick him up and take him home. Goto the police court and the jail, and from among the drunks there pick out your "Brother." Find the men in delirium tremens and "Brother" him. Let me tell you, sir, that you cannot give one "glad hand" to the liquor people and the other to the ministers of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. If you want to know, sir, what "the men after my own heart" think of you, it is that "you have sold yourself to work evil in the sight of the Lord." May God open your eyes to see what 'your own heart" is like. I will have a word with you about your "three nails" by-and-bye. Francis C. Anscombe, March 10, 1914. Snookum and Babe Skating Bears, at Coliseum tonight, 8:30. MODELS WIN TWO "Y" BOWLING RESULTS. Models 687 897 S05 I. H. C. 858 699 690 Featured by the score of 278, rolled by Nusbaum of the Models, that team annexed two games out of three from the I. H. C. quintet last night on the "Y" alleys. The Harvesters started out in championship form in the first game and took the same by a big' lead. They fell down in the finals, losing both by big margins. Scores: Models. Players 1st. 2d. 3d. Dennis 151 174 127 Price 134 186 194 Foster 144 110 166 Hughbanks 146 149 164 Nusbaum 112 278 144 Totals 687 897 I. H. C. Players 1st. 2d. Miller 199 140 McKee 144 111 Melhuish 160 139 805 3d. 136 155 139 151 ; Richey 183 190 I King 163 119 136 j Totals 858 699 690 Hear Prof. Elbert Russell on the local dry .situation tonight at Reid Memorial Church, 7:30. A meeting for men. A. S. M. WILL PLAY "Y" FIVE TOMORROW The A. S. M. Co. five meets the "Y" basketball state title claimants, tomorrow night at the Y. M. C. A. gym. This is the third meeting of the teams, the first two resulting in "Y" victories. The lineup of the Seeders has undergone big changes, and the "Y" bunch can not affor to loaf on the job or send in its second team if it expects to win tomorrow night's game. HEADACHY, COSTIVE, BILIOUS,-"CASCARETS Liver and bowels are clogged Clean them to-night! Feel bully! Get a ten-cent box. Sick headache, biliousness, dizziness, coated tongue, foul taste and foul breath always trace them to torpid liver; delayed, fermenting food in the bowels or sour, gassy stomach. Poisonous matter clogged in the intestines, instead of being cast out of the system is re-absorbed into the blood. When this poison reaches the delicate brain tissue it causes congestion and that dull, throbbing, sickening headache. Cascarets immediately cleanse the stomach, remove the sour, undigested food and foul gases, take the excess bile from the liver and carry out all the constipated waste matter and poisons in the bowels. A Cascaret to-night will surely straighten you out by morning. They work while you sleep a 10-cent box from your druggist mease your head clear, stomach tweet aad Yowt Mrer and bowels regular fersaonths.

Story of Girl May Save Young Cornell Man From Death Chair

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LEO M. FRANK AND HIS WIFE. Leo M. Frank, Cornell graduate, under sentence of death at Atlanta, Ga., for the murder of 14-year-old Mary Phagan, and his wife both believe that he will be granted a new trial and win acquittal through a new and startling story by Helen Ferguson, the little factory girl, who was one of the chief witnesses for the state in Frank's recent trial. Helen says that Jim Conley, whose attorney did much to bring about Frank's conviction, and whom Frank charges is himself the murderer of the girl, made drunken advances to her the Saturday before the Phogan girl was killed. She also was accosted at exactly the same spot on the first floor of the factory, of which Frank was superintendent, where the defense believes the Phagan girl met her death.

NUSBAUM SETS UP RECORD IN BOWLING When Roland Nusbaum of the Model bowling five, toppled over a total of 278 pins in the second game of the Model-I. H. C. contest last night at the "Y" he performed a trick that has not been duplicated in the city for many moons. Nusbaum's score ranks with the best ever made in the city, and so far as known, the highest in this section of the state. Nusbaum, while a consistent bowler, never before rivaled his effort of last night. He start was nothing out of the ordinary, as his first two frames resulted in spares. His third attempt, however made a clean sweep of the maples. From that point on it was strike, strike, ten times in succession, wi ththe result that when the Jast pin had been demolished Nusbaum's account on the score sheet held a total of 278. MEET SCHEDULED AT SHELBYVILLE JPhe first meeting of the Indiana Hljyi School Athletic association, composed of schools of the state will be held at Shelbyville May 8. Some of the teams that will compete are New Castle, Richmond, Rushville, Shelbyville and Hagerstown. Easter April 12th. Order. your spring suit now. Emmons, corner Ninth and Main.

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SPEAKER AVERS SALOOH KEEPER . (Continued from Page One.)

were voted out than when they were there. Consistency, is It not? "Another speaker for the wets in Texas had some statistics. He said that Maine, a prohibition state, bad a larger percentage of colored persons In the penitentiaries and Texas. He was appealing to the colored voters to vote wet. I asked him how many colored persons were in the penitentiar ies of Maine. He was forced to answer 'one.' Of course the percentage was big but tbe number was as low as It could be. "Every dollar that the liquor traf fic gives the government comes out of the pockets of the people. Somej Bay that it comes from the pockets of the drunkards and if it does let NATS STILL, HOLD CELLAR POSITION CITY LEAGUE 8TANDING. Won. Lost. Pet. Ideals 17 7 .70S Quaker City 13 11 .542 Victors 12 15 .444 Nationals 10 17 .370 Last Night's Results Victors 769 876 836 Nationals 831 774 794 The Nats failed to evacuate the cellar last night, dropping two out of three to the Victors, on the City Alleys. King, Rockwood and Hadley did the most cinsistent bowling of the games, averaging 177, 176 and 166, respectively. Victors. W. Martin 140 159 192 Cooney 139 152 168 Zlndort 102 148 146 Hadley 169 17.7 150 Miller 144 165 165 Handicap 75 75 . 75 Totals 769 876 896 Nationals. King 192 168 168 Rockwood 195 19S 159 Hosier 108 138 124 Hodge 157 123 168 Mercurio 179 167 . 175 Totals .. 831 774 794 Mother and ChUdren Built Of Coughs Grateful Because It Restored Chil dren's Health and Strength. Grateful for the good health that she and her children enjoy, Mrs. C. Wesp sends the following letter from Long Island: "I have used Father John's Medicine for myself and my two children with excellent results, and I can recommend it to all sufferers. My children and myself were troubled with coughs and were run down, but now we are in the best of health. 'I would not be-wltbou-It In the house. It is the best tonic for building up the system." (Signed) Mrs. C. Wesp, 28 Juniper avenue, Middle Village. L. I. Remember that you endanger the health and even the lives of your little ones when you give them patent medicines, depending for their effect on dangerous drugs, and alcohol. Without these drugs or alcohol Father John's Medicine relieves colds and gives new strength and health. Not a patent medicine. (Advertisement) -

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much money do yon people of Richmond give to charity each year? Do yon realize that a great part of this money Is given to families of drunk ards? Not all of It, bnt a great part. Two Kinds of Taxes. "There are two kinds of taxes. One is the regular tax. specified by law and the other Is the tax brought about by feeling, by the. heart and the desire to alleviate suffering. This second tax Is largely due to the liquor traffic. "The fight against the liquor traffic is the most hopeful big battle going on in the entire world. It Is a fight for God, for the borne and for the native land. "Finally we will amend the constitution of the United States to outlaw tbe liquor traffic. We most stand together and we will do it. "Tomorrow I am to hold a conference with ex-Governor Hanly about the Flying Squadron. Then I am going on Into Illinois where- we are to have 307 local option elections in April. The drys are going to carry 250 of these towns. How do I know? Because -we are waging the fight and the wets only hope to carry six. We have women suffrage in Illinois. The three western states, Oregon, Wash-: ington and "California are going to take up state wide prohibition. I am going out there to do what 1 can to assist them in the fight. We are go ing to win and I believe that If Muncie, your neighboring town can votw dry then Richmond can do likewise and will do 60 on March 24." PILE8 CURED IN 6 TO 14 DAYS Druggists refund money If PAZO OINTMENT fails to cure Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles. First application gives relief. 50c. Work was obtained for 26,340 men and women by Cleveland free emqloyment bureau last year. m DEVON ARROW COLLAR COJETT XTABODx&CaTROriOC Up and Relieved by Father John's Medicine '-V t dissolves the heat of the nostrils; penetrates and heals the inflamed, swollen membrane which lines the nose, head and throat; clears the air passages; stops nasty discharges and a feeling of cleansing, soothing relief comes immediately. Don't lay awake tonight struggling for breath, with head stuffed; nostrils closed, hawking and blowing. Catarrh or a cold, with its running nose, foul mucous dropping into the throat, and raw dryness is distressing but truly needless. Put your faith just once in "Ely's Cream Balm" and your cold or catarrh will surely disappear. Advertisement) Main Sl.Cor.Ninth

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