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TOLL BILL Willing to Be Sunk to Get President to Show His Hand. WASHINGTON, March 21. Declaring that he was "willing to be blown up or sunk down for the honor of his country" in order to get President Wilson to offer some reason for his demand fcr the repeal of the exemption clauBO of the Panama canal act, Senator Joiaes, of Washington, today read an ari icle stating that President Wilson wi'thed to gag the house into eonsiderat un of the bill. The article stated that President Wilson wished debate in the house to be limited to as short a time as possible. Senator Borah asked if Jones believed the report was correct. Jones replied ths.t while the president might not have teen as specific in the statement as die newspaper report indicated, nevertheless "intimation coming from certaa quarters have marked effect." Senator Horah said he doubted such an intimation. The deba te on Jones' resolution callon the president to inform the senace what counl ries had protested against free tolls and to send to the senate copies of all communications on the subject. Senator Hoke Smith moved that the resolution be referred to the committee on foreign, relations. This motion ultimately prevailed. Mayor Batchelor and Tony George of Marion, with Seaborn Wright at tabernacle Sunday, 7:30. Come. WILL mTwORK Whitewater Lodge Prepares for Anniversary. Whitewater lodge of Odd Fellows initiated a class of nine into the third degree latfc night. After the work a liehr luncheon was served. Whitewater lodge will celebrate its sixty-seventh anniversary of the institution in Richmond, in May. Installation services were held May 21, 1847. Because ol the closeness of the anniversary of! the founding of the Order of Odd Fellows in America, ninety-five ypars ago, it has not been decided on which date the celebration will be held. Tins national anniversary is on April L'tj. The last; county meeting, except the one to be held in Richmond, will be at Hagerttown next Saturday night. The Patriarchal and Golden Rule decrees will be given to several candidites. A special train will be run to l.'agerstovu to accommodate visiting members who are expected at the encampment meeting. PRAYER MEETINGS A number of cottage prayer meetii gs have been arranged to be held in d ff rent parts of the city Monday, morning, afternoon and night, and Tuesday corning. The women will take nctivo charge of these meetings. The list submitted is as follows: Vondiv Morning, 10 O'clock. Mrs. Herbert Weed, ?0?, North Eleventh streei. Mondiy Afternoon. 3 O'clock. Kourteerth Street, Mission. Mrs. John Brooks. 427 North Nineteenth street. Mrs. C'hirles Newman, 21 North Sixteenth street. Mr?. SXinner, 311 National road, w es? . Mrs. Gooiee Mansfield. 1135 Kast Mnin street. Ninth ;ml South B Street Baptist church. Mrs. John I". Hasemeier. 104 South Seventh street. Mrs. Fred Taggart, 525 North Twenty first "street. Mrs. T. Gist, 125 South Thirteenth street. Mrs. J. Charles Roland, 28 North Seventeenth street. Mrs. II. I. Brady, 240 Ft. Wayne a venue. Mrs. Bejerner, 309 North Eighteenth street. Mrs. Crowell. 238 Richmond avenue. Mrs. Holiday, 245 Pearl street. Monday Afternoon, 4 O'clock. Mrs. Lfionard, 401 South Fourteenth street. Tuesday Afternoon, 2 O'clock. Mrs. A. L. Boyd, 210 North Twentieth strept. Mrs. Ethel Schutz, 515 North Twenty-first street. Tuesday Afternoon, 3 O'clock. Ninth and South B Street Baptist church. Every night next week there will he prayer service at the North Fourteenth Street Mission. Mrs. Candler will lead in the services. DISTRIBUTE SUPPLIES Distribution of the election equipment was started today. The ballot boxes, voting booths, ropes to set off the polls, etc. The first distribution was made at the city building where the voters of the Eleventh precinct will cast their ballots. The hauling of the equipment will continue Monday all day. ZOOK FINED FOR PUBLIC INTOXICATION Edwin Zook, a farmer's son residing southeast of Greensfork, appeared before Mayor Robbins in police court today to answer to a charge of intoxiation. He pleaded guilty and his fine was stayed. Mayor Robbins told .ook to return to his home but it was found that a train did not go to i Ireensfork until late this afternoon. ;:ook compromised by going to Centervllle and then walking four miles ?: cross the country to his home. He : :so told the mayor that he had $io but someone relieved him of It while he was drunk LIVER PILLS

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Riff Lauds Poetry of Lawrence Dunbar

The following paper was read by J. Edgar lliff at the celebration held in honor of Lawrence Dunbar, the negro poet: We are so burdened in this day with a great array of statistics ahd reports of the armies of organized societies for everything that we are forgetting the poet. The shelves of our public libraries are silent and undisturbed in the poets section. The priceless and immortal treasures from the dim past speak to only the few who still have poetry and truth in their heatrs. We are neglecting these treasures for educational fads, based upon a kind of insane worship of the worst liar of all, adulterated statistics. If you love the blooming rose, the wild bird's call, and the sweet assurance of things found in nature, your fussy nuisance of a neighbor, who wants to reform you, not because he loves you but in order to make himself a shining light, overwhelms you with tracts, pamphlets and cart loads of statistics and government reports to show you how vile you are if you come not his way. We are so stuffy over students with statistical dope that everybody has statistical indigestion and Peruna has an immense sale. We are so filling them with political economy and religious brick-bats without straw, that we seldom see the oldtime men and women of the royal type who were free, independent, outspoken, liberty-loving and generoushearted. We are time servers, haters of men, schemers -anything to promote the flow of dollars inwards toward our own pockets. Where Are Poets? If we go on in this path we shall utterly forget the poets. Why, there are no great poets now! .We shall forget the poets who stood for truth, for liberty, for love, for justice, for humanity, and children will ask: "Pa, what kind of an animal was a poet? Our history speaks of such. Was there ever such a thing? Our teacher says that poets belong to the age of Santa Clans and fairies and not to this age of facts and statistics." The various races of men have been proud of their literature and justly proud of their achievements in every field of human advancement. The great northern races, both restless and fearless, have handed the torch of light and liberty from one generation to another, and have laid their dead in eery land and buried their sons beneath the waves of every sea. The glory of Greece lies in her p ets. Shakespeare gives more renown to England than all of her wars or conquests. Marble and brass crumble and perish, but the poet remains. Slaves Became Poets. In both Rome and Greece slaves became poets, counselors and philosophers, because you cannot shackle human thought. You may so terrorize men that they hide in caves and dare not whisper to themselves what they think, but within The court of the mysterious brain there come dreams and visions which some day pass into laws and constitutions and men defend them with their lives. And races of men basking in the sunlight of their glorious ancestors, quoting noble thoughts from the poets and parading the humanity of their religion, have sometimes grown cruel and hard, drawn sharp lines and driven from the pale of their civilization those whom they choose to call "barbarians." We Americans are given to conceit. Every man of us knows that he could run a, newspaper better than its editor; every one of us feels that if we were only president of the United States how different ir would be; and we all ktio wthat. we could write better poetry than Shakespeare if we cared to waste the time. We are all good judges, too: but we judge poetry as we do horses. If a string of verses is not spavined, knock-kneed or string-halted and trots or jogs along smoothly, then it is good poetry. But poetry is something more than this. Poetry as the poet Shelley said, is the best expression of the best man in his best moments. Poetry Still Survives. There are many true poets among us who can find no word to express the uplifting of the soul. There are many sweet songs unsung and many great poems dreamed, but never voiced. There are men and women among us of deep, musical and harmonious natures who cannot play upon instruments or sing songs, and there are others who can play upon instruments, sing hymns and write verses who have neither music, nor love, nor human sympathy in their souls. So we may safely say that not all of the great and good, not all of the sublime and beautiful sentiments of humanity are expressed. God and his angels alone must hear the best and noblest outpourings of the souls of the poor and humble and unknown. Think of the patient and lonely that are patient and virtuous in silence. Think of those heroic beings who battle on fields unknown to us and never complain; who make no parade, who have no brass bands, no housetop proclamations, and no public praise. The best poems are never penned. The best songs are never sung. But the true poet expresses for us what we feel in our best moments, and when we pick up a favorite volume we love it because, as Lincoln said, we find ourselves in it. Nearly every race has its background of ancestral literature. England had her Chaucer, Ben Jonson, Shakespeare, Dickens. George Eliot, Tennyson, and down to our Riley in the same mother tongue. There is Spain with her Cervantes; France and her Moliere; Italy and her Dante; Germany, Goethe and Schiller; Greece and her great epic and dramatic poets; Ireland and her Goldsmith and Moore; Scotland and Burns and Walter Scott ; there are so very many. Dunbar Stood Alone. But Dunbar's race had no literature. There was no racial inspiration for him. He was not the blossom, the flower, the fruit, the child of a great family literature like Shakespeare or Longfellow. There he stands alone, utterly alone. It was this that impressed me the first time I saw him and talked with him. Look at the Ayer's Pills are liver pills. They increase the flow of bile.

deep-rooted prejudice which is truly the white man's burden, inherited from his man-hunting, man-killing and man-enslaving ancestors. This prejudice is our inherited burden. It chills the heart's best blood. It makes us brutes and beasts. We talk of freedom; of emancipation. No one is free who i3 bondage to a prejudice, be he black or white. There is no freedom where men tremble in the shadow of a fear. There is no liberty where one lives in the bonds of his race-hating heart. There is no emancipation until man acknowledges with heart and brain, and attests by daily act and thought, that this world, with all in it, is one, and all of a kin. There has come down to us the noble speech of one who lived long before the splendid dreams of our literature the words of Buddha, "Never, never should a man be satisfied until every living creature in all the wide universe is emancipated." Prejudice Rampant. Look for a moment at the hateful and unspeakable prejudices coming down to us from ages of bigotry and hatred and persecution under banner, clan and creed, race and religion; the slaughtering of Jews; the burning of infidels; the destruction of "barbarians" and "heathens;" think of the surviving relic, that you can't expect anything above the sensual from a negro! Think of this and consider Paul Dunbar, black, poor, obscure, standing among us with a poet's soul and a poem to express that soul, and that he should be recognized by other poetic souls as a kindred soul. And yet it is not so wonderful after all. for the angel of genius is no respecter of persons, time, circumstance or place. It came to the Greek slave Epictetus and made him the great philosopher of his day. It touched the brain of the slave Aesop, and his fables will be read as long as truth is loved in homely phrase. It visited the humble Scottish cottage and gave to the world the immortal Burns. And more and greater than all, it hovered over that little bunch of humanity in Kentucky and fashioned the great heart, the honest brain and the noble soul of Abraham Lincoln. The man who thinks he could write poetry as easily as he could push a wheelbarrow; the man .who judges poetry as he judges horses; the man who is so prejudiced and jaundiced, and warped, and lopsided, and mean, that he can't look over his high board fence and see any good in anybody but himself and what he calls "his'n" this man has never accepted Dunbar he never will he never can for you can't put a bushel into a pint cup and we don't care whether he does or not. for nature's great school will keep just the same. The poetry and intelligence of Dunbar completely refute the opinion of Thomas Jefferson on the negro's mental capacity and capability. I would not take one star from the crown of this great liberator. He was a rare mind, both destructive and constructive. To this loved speculator and free-thinker we owe an immense debt of gratitude. We stand privileged to speak our own honest thought because of such fearless souls as Jefferson and his colleagues. The principles which he hurled upon the world shattered empires and enraged despots, but the principles were wider and deeper than he d earned. He said, "All men are born to be free and equal." The seed was sown. That declaration finally freed the negro slaves against whom he had such desperate prejudice. Belies Criticism. Jefferson said that the negro race had not one trace of poetry, painting or music; that no negro had ever yet imagined anything beyond a "catchy air;" that, the Indian could carve and speak in elegant language, but in the negro's work there was not one gleam of superior intelligence, aptitude or taste. Love, he said, which inspires the melodies of poets, kindles only the seDtes of the negro; never his mind ,or heart, or soul, and that in all the tide of time it has never wrung from the black man one word which other lovers love to repeat. "Mere misery," he said, "has been an inspiration to the race. The blacks are wretched enough, but they never attuned their woes in poetry." Jefferson was wrong. The negro has demonstrated that he is not devoid of art, eloquence, literary instincts, poetry or music. Like some other races, they were never given a chance in a thousand years to show that they hadBany elementary trait beyond patience, forbearance and human endurance. Dunbar was a pure, unadulterated negro, and I am glad of it, and so was he, and so will his race rejoice in the future. Frederick Douglass, as you know, had the blood of his master in him; so has Booker T. Washington; but Paul Lawrence Dunbar stood as a clean type, an unsoiled hope for his race. You cant say of him when you read the wonderful things he wrote, "Oh, he just inherited that from the whites, whose blood flows in his veins." Emerson once said of a preacher, that you couldn't tell from his sermons that he had a mother, wife, child or kin, or that he had ever loved, hoped, felt, worshiped or had a single human experience. But you can tell it in Dunbar, tie had suffered, he had aspired, he had loved. lie goes to the common heart of humanity, and no

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man can justly boast of any cultun or wisdom who has never been lr touch with the common humanity. Melody Present. His ode to Ethiopia comes down the ages, and .1 feel when reading it that 1 am listening to the cry of sorm crushed soul of long ago. In the poetic expression of love, wherein Jefferson says the negro cannot rise above sense, Dunbar has shown a rare genius. Melody, the great characteristic of his race, pervades and perfumes the whole of his songs. These gems equal any love melodies Thomas Moore ever wrote; besides, they have the flavor of the old plantation melody, which far excels in beauty and flavor the Celtic rythm. I think that he sometimes rises to the exalted state of poesy found in the sublime choruses of Aeschylus, the first dramatic poet of ancient Greece. If you will read Dunbar's hymns and then take up the choruses

In "Prometheus Bound" and "The i Persians," you will see what I mean. I In all of Dunbar's poems I seem to hear the low crooning of the old slave woman; the lullaby of the loving mother singing to her child to be the heir of a greater civilization a civilization founded upon a high sense of humanity. I hear the voice of long-lashed and burdened Africa. I see the very dawn. I see the march of a new people, bought and liberated with blood and stripes. I hear the jubilee cry of a free people, of a true emancipation, not for the black man alone, but for the white as well the human race freed from superstition, liberated from ignorance and the prejudices of ignorance. I see the dawn of a true liberty where men will no longer invoke government from the gods but from the loving and glowing heart of humanity human rights personal liberty where these are absent there is no justice, for there can be neither justice, nor equity, nor civilization without individual liberty guarded by the sovereignty of the law. LENTEN SERVICES AT EPISCOPAL CHURCH The following subjects will be preached on at the morning services at St. Paul's church the next three Sundays: March 22 The fourth Sunday in Lent, "The Forgiveness of Sins." March 29 The fifth Sunday (Passion) in Lent, "The Passion; a Revelation of the Malice of Sin." April 5 The bunday next before Easter (Palm Sunday), "The Passion; a Revelation of the Strength of Love." These sermons will be preached by the rector. The bishop of the diocese will visit the parish for confirmation Wednesday night of Holy Week, at 7:30 o'clock. PENNSY TAKES OFF TWO MORE TRAINS Although there will be practically n. change in time schedules of the Pennsylvania trains, two trains will be taken off the schedules tomorrow. Northbound train No. 9 and southbound train No. 12 will be removed. No 9 left Cincinnati at 11:45 o'clock p. m. and No. 12 left Chicago, at 11:45 p. m. A change will be made in the numbering of trains. The northbound train now designated as No. 1, leaving Cincinnati at 9:20 p. m. will be changed to No. 9 on the sheets but will run on the same time. The train now designated as No. 6. leaving Chicago at 9:50 o'clock will be known as No. 12. There is practically no change in the running time of the trains the only change being the removal of the two trains. HUSBAND BLINDS WIFE WITH ACID CHICAGO, March 21. Mrs. Nathan Karant likely will lose the sight of both eyes as the. result of her husband's throwing acid in her face early today. In the presence of a score of passengers on a street car which he boarded, after he had tried to blind his wife, Karant drank from another bottle of acid and died. Mrs. Karant had brought, suit for divorce and their quarrel started when Karant asked her to withdraw the suit. SUES "SLUGGERS" INDIANAPOLIS, March 21. Frank Reaman, former employe of the Indianapolis Street Railway company today filed suit for $50,000 damages, for serious permanent injury alleged to have been sustained at the hands of a "flying squadron" of sluggers which he charges was in the employ of the company during the street car strike last November. This is the second suit of similar character, instituted as the result of the strike, the first one being for $25,000 and others are said to be in contemplation. An effort is being made to Germany to unify the forty systems of stenography now used in that country. g I GENNETT Tonight Farewell to all

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Editor's Note This . space is re-1 served 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. SOME OF THE MANY REASONS RICHMOND SHOULD BE DRY. Editor Palladium: About ten years ago, having at that time enough sight to get about the i streets safely and read the signs on the building), while on my way to a theatre, having stopped to partake freely of liquor in one of Richmond's "law abiding saloons," became intoxicated and as the result toppled against a mail box, bursting the one eye doctor's had been able to retain sight in. Remember, this was ten years ago. I am now twenty-nine years of age. All these years, at numerous intervals, have been under the influence of liquor, several times losing my position as tuner for the Starr Piano company, to whom I'm deeply indebted for this ability. This was the one means of earning my livelihood and how wrecklessly I sacrificed all to satisfy this appetite. Most every means conceivable was resorted to by my parents to put an end to this downward career, finally taking legal steps to prohibit saloon keepers selling to me. As I stated in a previous issue, will say again I have been able to get all the liquor I wanted right over the bar in "Riohmond's Law Abiding Saloons." ORVILLE L. THOMPSON'. THURSTON'S OPINION. Editor Palladium: Kindly give space for a few quota tions from some "higher ups" In med ical science as to that dread disease, etnyi nyarate or alcoholic narcom - enia. Dorland Medical Dictionary: Narcomania (Greek, stupor madness.) An insane desire for narcotics. Alcoholic insanity. Narconmaniac. One who is affected with narcomania. Cyclopaedia Medica, Vol. XIII. Or ganic poisons Alcolohl Acute poi soning by alcohol varies from what easily recognized as alcoholic intox - ication to a profoundly comatose con - dition which cannot be distinguished from apoplexy and many other causes of total insensibility. Page 330. Diseases of the Nervous System, by L. Harrison Mettler, A. M., M. D.. as-! sociae professor of neurology, college j of medicine of the University of Illinois; professor of mental and nervous diseases In the Chicago Clinical j school, etc., etc.. Page 959 Alcohol-; , 111-IZ . loin. nu uuui occiuo iu cac v ti it i J. iarly deleterious influence upon the nervous system. Its effects are somewhat different when it is imbibed in large quantity occasionally from what they are when it is imbibed in small quantities for long periods of time. It v-h- of qrute and chronic alcoholism, there are occasional ...t 1,uuloaa

.lemnn- chrnnie aUoholism blame most, the man or the perfectly wh' intelligent citizens of Richueu'on.. Chionn alsouonsm reflated saloon' 1 mond (in case the saloons should be The constant drinking of alcohol and." reguia.eci saloon. l.-losedi if these men are worth keeneitr.r.hniin hovorafog in imniint that i It is for you to decide. ioseai, ii inese men are wonn Keepalcoholic beerages in amounts tnat , - themselves crazv get ing. they will find honorable work. If never are sufficient to cause actual: -V"n "rinK memseives craz. get . . redemption ther will flriinVonnKt rrniiiee rhanires of a ' delirium tremens, and are sent to the ie are pasi reaempnon, iney win 2lnHr- " ttr i n Sv i ' madhouse where they rave their, me lve Richmond, and thus bless your

the tissues of the bodv. In a work of this sort we are only concerned with the changes that are established in the nervous tissues and functions. 1 will pass by, therefore, with the merest mention, the well known alterations in the digestive apparatus, the heart and arteries, the kidneys and , the skin. j D. Appleton's Medical Library, Men-1 tal and Nervous Diseases, by Henry J. ' Berkley, M. D., clinical professor of psychiatry, the Johns Hopkins university, chief visiting physician fo the city insane asylum, Baltimore. Mania, page 151. The inclination to alcoholic excesses is frequent in all forms of mania. Even should the individual have been previously of absolutely temperate habits, he now becomes a frequenter of saloons and drinking halls, there to consort with lewd company and Indulge to excess in spiritour liquors. Many cases of so-called dipsomania (uncontrollable desire for spiritous liquors) really belong to the periodic manias. When each era of excitement the subjects take to drink, and the spree ends only with their incarceration. In making a diagnosis of prognosis in a case of an-1 parent acute alcoholic insanity, it is ; well, therefore, to remember that per- i iodic inebrity is often only a symptorn of mania attacks. I could fill the wets' vast expanse j of paid advertising space with cita-i tions from eminent medical author!-! Executor's Sale of a desirable double brick j house and household goods; at No. 114 and 116 South: 12th street, Monday, March; 23rd at 2 p. m.. JAMES MULFORD Executor Big Country Store Tonight

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ties on the dire effects of alcoholism, printed in agate type; but I will not presume further on wet paid space. If

any wet brother will show me a medical work on nervous and 'mental diseases that does not treat of alcoholic insanity, I will show him that the book is away behind the great procession of modern medical advancement. Psychic Alcohol Narcomania. Psycho neuroses, or purely mind j diseases primarily, now have a class known to mental and nervous special i ists as psychic alcoholic mania. Mod ern medical psychiatry, following up the scriptural proposition, "For as they think, so are they;" now know that the mind continually dwelling on one subject finally becomes absolutely obsessed and the individual becomes an incurable monomaniac. Therefore, it is only with sincere desire to aid an unfortunate brother that we advise Mr. Gordon, after completing this job, to consult a neurologist. J. M. THURSTON. M. H. MURLEY'S VIEWS. Editor Palladium Mr. Gordon says to take the saloons out of Richmond will mean the financial loss of $244,H42.St yearly to the city, of which $35,271 goes for lunches. If fhe saloons were not In existence the money that is spent for drink would go to feed children and wives, and the butchers and bakers would get the benefit just the same. Also the other business houses would 'get their share of the money that now goes for drink, and we would have a cleaner, better city. DoeB Mr. Gordon deny this? And did he not say that half the empty saloon buildings would be oc- ' cupied by drug store blind tigers, how does he make out that will be fifty-six empty build 1 Then j there ings? As far as the value of surrounding buildings is concerned, which would you. Mr. Business Man, rather have next to your store, an empty building or a saloon? , He further says that it will put

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ar8 are m jn 8aioons. , writer), but that moreover be would xow the man do not have to go,not hetray his motives, uenj,Kj curtains and swinging doors' Indeed, "People be Damned" is the j t ' t ,.iar Bn . .,-n nnt the nnoi slogan of every saloon keeper, ami

cigar, so rooms cigar stores and groceries et this trade? i To be sure thev will and the cigar' manufacturers will go on just the san,e ! We certainly do know what we have Richmond now. if on March 16th there was in police court nine cases,

four of which were for drunk. ! paintings, snowing an perveniea ine How manv men get drunk, and in undraped or drapelesB statuary, showtheir crazv "madness kill their wives in sculptors debased, or children, and when thev come to, Saloonists. liberal patrons of art. their senses are in a cell and are '? Oh.no; they are harpies, whose

! told their wife or child is dead, and i thai they are a murderer? They did it! Yes. but who w hen that man is lead , - ... t Kl- ,, ; .. away, all caused by the w hisky they get in our saloons. So to close the saloons would turn 1

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THE MEMBERS OF THE LOCAL BARTENDERS' UNION, NO. 541, ARE FACING THE ISSUE OF BEING THROWN OUT OF EMPLOYMENT BY THE CLOSING OF THE LICENSED SALOON IN RICHMOND. Such result would mean disaster to many of the members, as it would compel their sacrificing property and moving their families to other cities. On the other hand, it would not mean the stopping of the sale of intoxicating liquors in Richmond. It would simply take that sale out of our hands, despite the proved fact that we are law-abiding, of good moral character and do not sell to minors, and put the sale in the hands of a lot of lawless and disreputable men who would be under no restrictions or regulation. We appeal to the laboring men that this would be unjust, unfair and intemperate. If one portion of a community can legislate certain laboring men out of a job and certain Unions out of existence, where is the agitation going to stop? What class of laboring men may come next? The members of the local Bartenders Union ask all Union labor to vote "No" in the interest of sobriety, prosperity and industry. EI). C. MILLER. Pres. JOHN J. DAUDT, Fin. Sec'y.

250 men out of a job, would it, Mr. Gordon? Well how many men yearly lore their jobs on account of drink? Not only their jobs, but their homes! So which would be best, to turn the saloon men out of a job- directly this year, of for years to come have other men turned out of jobs indirectly by the saloon? The wets say the boy does not tako his first drink in a saloon. Then how is it that out of the eleven cases that came before the police court in the last five years, six out of the seven cases were found guilty for selling to minors. It looks as if some of the boys take their first drink in a saloon after all, does it not, Mr. Gordon? The saloon keepers claim if they are put out of business there will be "cheap whisky" drug store blind tigers. Then why don't they let it go dry, change their business from a saloon to a drug store and make more money than before? They , don't, simply because they know they could not. An interested boy of IS years. MYRON H. MURLEY, Route 4, Richmond, Ind.

WRIGHT'S OPINION. When I was a student at Leland Stanford my professor in journalism told me this story: A young man, who had just been graduated from Chicago university got a position on the Inter-Ocean as staff reporter. The first work assigned to the young man was to interview Mr. W. K. Vanderbilt. Accordingly, he interviewed Mr. Vanderbilt and returned to the editor with twelve typewritten pages of notes. The editor hurriedly looked over the notes, then, turning to the reporter, asked: "Didn't Mr. Vanderbilt say anything about the people?" "Nothing; only 'people be damned, replied the young man. That's exactly what I want," ejaculated the editor. I am sure that if Mr. Gordon would use "People be damned; the saloon keepers are the fellow whom I am working for," as a headline to his paid advertisement, that he would not only create a bigeer sensation (which distinguishes a successful newspaper every wet advocate. The saloon keeper ,B ",e art" enemy 01 oecem oocieiy the threshold to disease and all of its concomitant miseries the braxen proxy and free agent of sin and sor row, wail ana woe. strong in win. indeed, is that young man who Is able 10 snun its aiuremenis ine nun 1 Business 11 is 10 prey upon me pas sions or the youtni wnat is tne citizenship of 250 men of this stripe worth ' Kicnmona . Not a straw; not a straw! i city. Sincerely. A. CHESTER WRIGHT. Williamsburg. Ind.. March IS, 1914.

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