Star-Democrat, Greencastle, Putnam County, 25 December 1908 — Page 4
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unit in itself Is, it ran not be made I into law. To repeal the county unit, we believe, would result in leaving no local option upon the books. Under the circumstances, therefore, it would appear that the honest position is to allow the present law to stand until it has proved its fitness or unfitness. It is the only chance for advance. Should it be repealed without trial the fight must be made over again at the next election. Left upon the books it will be tried and there will remain no doubt in any mind. With a choice between two units of local option there
for difference of opinion.
Entered at Pelophone,
paper of
any address In the wa8 ground
t3.0U a year—Payable . , . ,
6 cents per week '' , ‘ l one unit an untried law, and no
chance of making a law of the other,
i-ciiss mall matter w0ll | f j 8 eeni good temperance and
tie. Ind.. Postofllce.
.rood politics to lot it stand. Still repNo. 65 resentativo and senators will, no doubt, represent the feeling of their constituencies, and as we said, these constituencies are by no means a unit, the state over, on this subject. We are certain that many Democrats are not for repeal. We are equally certain many Republicans are for
repeal.
7H/fi/GS TO THINK ABOUT Thoughts fr< m men of affa ir • upon question- of the day. That Love of Money.
THE OPTION FIGHT.
It has been decided that Putnam County will at once take up the fight for an election under the county local option law. It is perfectly right and proper that such an attempt should be made to make the county dry. The legislature has given to the people of Putnam County the right to show by their votes whether they are in favor of license or not. If a majority of the people of the county declare that they are opposed to license, then, under the rule of the majority, license must cease. There ought to be no hard feeling about this matter, although we confess that it will be difficult for those whose business is threatened to view the mater calmly. Nevertheless calmness must prevail. It will be a battle of argument. Both sides will present the business argument. The temperance side will present the argument of the public good. There will be an abundance of feeling, but there should be no temper, no street
arguments, no turmoil.
One other thing. This is a fight of the people of Putnam County. The less the Anti-Saloon League has to do with the battl' 1 the greater the chances of the temperance forces to win. Many people are very much disgruntled at the Anti-Saloon League and especially its district leader. He can do little good here. It is not an Anti-Saloon League fight. It is a question of the will of the majority in this county. If the temperance forces have a majority they are entitled to the right of controlling the question of license and of putting out the saloon. We one and all believe in the rule of the majority, and one and all must accept the ultimatum tis expressed in
the vote.
Again the Indianapolis Star has contradicted itself. Before the election, it will be remembered that the Star declared that Marshall was the brewer candidate and was being supported by brewery money. After the election, it declared, in a much discussed editorial, that Marshall was elected in spite of the brewers, implying that he would have received more votes if he had not been associated in men’s minds with the brewery interests. In an editorial of this week the Star again declares that the Democrats were elected with brewery money and hence ought to repeal the county unit law. Now there is contradiction here, it appears to us, both in letter and in spirit. We mention this at the risk of calling forth from the Star some more “plain Saxon terms” in reply.
Man is not only the architect of his own fortunes, but, logically, he also is the architect of his own misfortunes. Too many men—far too many—measure success by money, in their warped view, that unfortuuI ate person who fails to accumulate j\ast sums, even thougii he serve his I fellowmen well, is a rank failure Proceeding on that theory, these) many men seek but one end in life— money. In attaining that end, they become hold and arrogant. The law of righteousness and right is to them a dead letter. Nothing, in their distorted vision, can be permitted to stand against money. Thus believing, on they go until the jolt conies and they awaken all too late. Chas. W. Morse, the New York financier, is a fair specimen of men of this char-
to study the causes from which arise ’’its greatest and most constant and costly enemies.” Such work, he contends, is as necessary to a city as its health department, as it results in
lessoned expense, ultimately. Modern scientific thought recog-
nizes that the criminal is to an extent a product of conditions, and that humanitarian efforts to reduce crime should be along scientific and sympathetic lines. The study of criminology by each large city skeins a reasonable way of getting at the roots of evil. How far a study of crime and criminals would ameliorate conditions in the matter of reducing the! number of recalcitrants is, of course, problematic, but the experiment seems worth while, and the Congress of Criminal Anthropology is an organization of 400 or more university jspecialists in medicine, anthropology, physiology, psychology, jurispru-
dence and sociology.
As to the work which it is proposed should be undertaken by Louisville in common with other cities of equal importance this statement is
made:
The question now is, will the president, in case he proves some of the congressmen to be 1 the rascals he proclaims, raise himsel from the depths into which he lias sunk, or only pull
the others in after him?
“As in machinery we must first repair the wheels out of gear, so In society we must first study the criminal, crank, insane, inebriate or pauper who eat] seriously injure both indi-
T _. . .... , ,, ''dual and community. Thus a worthacter. Discussing the downfall ot less crank, by killing the prominent this man, the New York Financier I,.'’ iz '' n ' ( 'itn paralyze the community.
i llie injury from such action is often
sa>h - (beyond calculation. Governments “While it is impossible not to feel pay out millions to catch, try and the keenest sympathy for the man rf°"t'!' a 1S ' 1,111 v |‘ ry , . to study the causes that lead to
whose abilities must have been dts- crime.
tinctly worth while, since they en-’ .,T* le study of man, to he of most
... . utility, must be dericted first to the
aided him to accomplish so much. i;aU8es ot | . t . llU( . |JaU perism. alcoholone can not help appreciate the jus- ism, degeneracy and other forms of tice of it. The lesson it teaches is a T ° <lo , ,h l is tl ?' > 1 i . , "l ivi , d '
,uals themselves must be studied. As
strong one. After years of struggle, the seeds of evil are usually sown in of work with heart and itnnd, of af- ' I'ddhood ami youth, it is here that
all investigation should tence,
power, to lice a sen- , 0 r there is little hope of making nrs . i a Federal the world better if we do not seek i :ke a dream, evil of KO( ial evils at thel '' be -; in the years “The most rigid and best method H Mr. Morse had of of both children and adults ! • .... ls that of the laboratory, with instra- ■ lung ambitions, merits of precision in connection with)
fluence and of
tence of fifteen >
prison must seem beyond belief. Y that have passed, ever paused in hi;
to count the po^ i d' ost of what he sociological data. Such inquiry con-
sists in gathering sociological, path-
was expending whic belonged to other people, he could have seen the ultimate result. He never thought he
A BOY'S WAR MEMORIES
Indianapolis Star
Wednesday the said editorially:
Upon the county option issue the Kep’i'ilii .1! > blindfolded and gagged by (iHeritor Hanly, made their fight and lost. Upon the opposition to that measure the Democrats, aided by brewery money, made their light ainl won. The people have instructed them to do a certain thing and It is an inspiring sight to see that they seem to have the courage and fidelity to carry out those instructions. It would he unpleasant to see the o elc ted on a Democratic platform and then face about and acquiesce in a It publican platform. The people In .e vole I against county option and in favor of ward and townai ; , option. They are entitled to 'he fruit of their election day activities and it . ill !>o profitable subsequently \dmltiing that this, the view of an organ of the opposing party, is not unbiased, - and admitting further that tin advice i n i quite free from polities, as shown by the bitterness of lea final statement, the argument is, n< i rtheless, worth consideration It i not true that the Demo<i >t : pa fought tin* entire catnpaign upo the township unit issue. T is v.O! ! have been true if Governor lie- . had not called the spec-i-'i se si . in many localities the onplexi :: of the struggle was quite changed v this act. Many candidates an Democratic leaders felt tha. . I . : was out of politics ; > i hired. It is prob-
< ; lie: iti - - where
i n f* !..••• was st rang
c iera* voted the Domo-
o k"i on the r.nppo-il iun that tin.i w; ■ disposed of, though • I ’ .1!. are that other com- > \o led tb Democratic ticket ■ tope the victory would t the county option. In this the stale is not a unit, nor
the Democratic senators and repres ntallves. the state over, are not of
one miud.
Again, the Democrats put r rwar.
Siiint -Lauden’s Recollections Draft Riots and of Lincoln's Death
nlognal and abnormal data as found in children, in criminal, pauper, and I defectlvt (lassos, and in hospitals.)
, , , , Such experiments of measurements' j could lose what he had won. The should be made as are of interest not lianaele of success seemed such a <l,, l' to sociologists, psycho-physicists , . , , , and anthropologists, but also to sale place, that it probably never oc- physiologists and pathologists, ettrred to him, even in his most anx- Much money lias been given and' ions moments that all of its supports |iSsco V J?y e Cf 8 nc^chemkal elmnonisj could fail him at once. With power ■> the search for unknown planets, had come a fancied safety and an ar- 1 '' 1 .' ' tw't statues and lottn.l art gal-. ... . , .. I - ties at groat expense. These things J rogance which placed him above the', ll: , v „ot all be immediately useful
of the banking laws, which probably seemed : I 1 '' time has come when it is import-!
ant to study a child with as niuca e\-j adness ns we investigate the chemical elements of a stone or measure
fie mountains on the moon.”
to him trifling and without point if
he considered them at all.” There is the chief lesson. No
"While with Le Brethon, I underwent a memorable and weird experience—that of the draft riots,” writes Augustus Saint-Gaudens in his reminiscences in the January Century. “Leaving my work because Le Brethon, In some excitement, had told me to go home one afternoon at an early hour. 1 noticed the strange appearance of the absolutely deserted streets no omnibuses on Broadway, which was always crowded at that hour—and not a soul, wagon, car, or anything that seemed alive j mi Third Avehue as I turned into it. i A moment later a man or so with a gun running in the distance gave the only signs that the city was not a
Then I recollect
man, whatever his position
world, can afford
to ignore laws that movement is that the
society litis adopted for its protec-'and nations should look
The idea of the promoters of the
cities, states
after the
tion. Money is powerful and [Kitenl moral as well as physical health of beyond question, but it is not beyond the people. The rapid Increase of and above the law. The filthy stuff (time, suicide and insanity in civiliz-. may be employed in many ways to ed countries is pointed to as ground; defeat righteousness, as written into for the contention, and it is insisted law by the people, but it will fail ul- ( t>iat in this, as in other new lines of timately. just as it did in the case work, it is impossible to know in adof Morse just as it has in the cases vame the practical results, hut that of thousands of others like Morse.'it is an axiom of science and sociol"The midds of the gods grind slowly, ogy that the way permanently to les-
but they grind exceeding small.”
Indlanapolis Commercial.
Immediately After Christmas Day W'e shall begin to make ready for our Annual Invoice of Feb. 1st And in order that the stocks all over the store shall be in the best'condition— We shall make concessions in the way of reduced prices on seasonable merchandise And on all lots where we find we have an overstock. By coming in during the month of January you will be able to buy desirable merchandise for less money than usual. In the meantime We wish to thank you for your generous patronage during the past year And To wish you a very Happy and Prosperous New Year, and all the Joys of the Holiday Season. ALLEN BPOS.
the
t: c-nitb with t respect
dead one. Then I recollect vividly I () f 1KMlldiu « u l ,htuirE > :iml tlH w H l l I the spinelessness
taking me into iter arms by my mother, who had been in a paroxysm of fear as to what had become of me, the others of the brood already resting safe at home. Later on, as the storm lessened, it was strange to see two cannon posted in Twenty-first Street at the northeast corner of Uramercy park, pointing due east in
the direction of the rioters.
“Then came the news of Lincoln’s assassination, i recall father and mother weeping as he read of it to us in the morning at breakfast before starting for work. Later I saw Lincoln lying in state in the City '.tail, after joining the interminable !T:e that formed somewhere down
in MiVet and I'd tip by his
!> r.t the head of the staircase. 1 v.' cl !"i ' to the end of the line to look at hint again. This completed my vision of the big man. But the 'literal, which I viewed from the • i of the old Wallack’s theatre on . lotne Street, revived the profound .i 'liini'y of my impression with see-
eta i> one uncover as the funeral
r went by. Finally the boyish
sen an evil is to study its causes. The plan does not seem impru.’tieable. The initial expense is not | large, and such work systematically undertaken in the various cities should he worth its cost to medical science aside from its probable practical results in tho problem of abnormality, criminality, insanity and degeneracy in cities. There seems to
Diderate as any Gilbertian pirate who be 00 suitable encouragenever lot a Sunday pass without D,cu * sb °uld not be given to the
writing to his mother, or as the lion who was only Smug the joiner when
he roared his wildest.”
All that has come to pass was to be expected. There was never substance to the opposition to
Monarch <>t \U He Sm -eys. Disappointedly, and somewhat
! testily, a liberty-loving New York newspaper cries out that Cannon is
the House, thanks to
(the spinelessness of the Republican
insurgents who are
‘really as eon-
mo vemeni.—Courier-Journal.
Tariff and Progress.
i We have not seen a better stateanj ment of the philosophy of
Mr
live tariff as we have it than that Cannon save upon the part of a few nia j e
a protec-
have
by the New York Journal of
rare and rash souls in the guileless commerce, thus:
West, who staked their fortunes
, Nothing could be more denioraliz-
upon antt-Cannonism and went down jpg than to la 1 shielded against skill, in glorious, but unsatisfying defeat, enterprise, ingenuity, superior methTlnt Mr Cmnnii was h e ;uIs ; "“ l i! "l"'' , 'ed facilities, in Short, Iii.1t Ml. Cannon was to b e sent to be protected against competition; hack to Washington by the Danville which in the spur to progress. If a districe seemed alltogether probable , i;l and quality of products
, , ' ,s ' 1,1 1 to make, thev also bring
and that his power in the House more in the market, and the normal ne\er seemed improbable at any wa '. 111 increasing profii upon them is ... to improve the methods of productmie after the election. tion and cheapen the cost. That Storming and raging at the Sepak- do * s not mean lessening the compen- . r for his absolutism is merely but- a'!,' 1 ■,Ms'in^' l ! h'.'' .'ffiricnev ' :, ( l ’f ,al i, ! !tl, , . ting ilte cranium against a wall. As That is the great benefit of eompetlMr. Cannon has said, he is in the ^tlon'in^oth Tuanlitv'k’lid'qu^r^ final analysis the servant in the which can not fail to be a benefit to House. He is an autocrat because !!? tb ( ' a l ,,ta l utnl labor, for their re-
turn i itiies out ol the values proJiic-
:!.! party is an autocrat, and a re- ed and not the figures of
watching out' among the crowds to ti" and detect anybody who looked like the assassin, John Wilkes
t’ ■■ township unit as a bona fide tom- ! I' Uith. who sc. mod the perfection of
manly beauty in his pictures, must close my Impressions of that extra-
ordinary period.”
tionary because
tatlve of
■ ,'atco movement. They held that i was a . ten in advance and declared C ot they wished to make this ad-
wiiice. The conditions are now pe-j • ial ' ^ Kepublban .eiiiti makes ^ ^
impossible to pass legislation no'
welco party. ♦ REAL EST M i: TRANSFERS :•
There Is no doubt that a majority of
*
the Republicans would join with | such Democrats as favored the repeal of the county unit to accomplish that end. it is equally certain that the) would not unite with the Democrats to pass the township unit, so that, no matter how excellent that
i wm — — wages and
he is the represen- ! ,r,c,, ' 1 1 ae complex protective sys-
,, bus put the various industrial
reactionaries. He repre- and trade interests upon such an ar sents the will of the majority, or in 'ificial basis that correct cal.-ulation
"her words of the machine and its i'','; 1 ,
loyal cohorts. One of his exact selfish motives in a wa\ to pervert knowledge of the facts in his case ■.’itd'tlH^sonne,! 1 n d nH ,0 e’' Inenta ! action
.iiHi tne sooner an i more rapidly we U" be relieved of the demoralizing
be '/Tect the better will it be for the
health and sanity of the nation
facts in his case
lews liis serenity in the fact of u h, seems, now and again, to
ii.M" nding danger.
Central Trust Co. to Mamie E. Gainer, lot in Greencastle. $d000 Central Trust Co. to Hester E. Hughes, lots in Greencastle 675 Nancy E. Baker to Clarence L. Hutchens, land in Franklin
Hanly and Party.
In an editorial under the caption
Arthur .McDonald, honorary pres- “Governor Hanly and the Future of
International the Republican Party in Indiana”
An !ni]»oi'Liiit Civic Problem.
Third
ident of the
Congress on Criminal Anthropology of Europe,” is trying to interest Louisville in the establishment of a laboratory to study the criminal and weakling classes. He takes the position that every large city should be willing to appropriate at least f 1,200
Si frit bares the condition of the party and handles the Governor without ; loves. His utterances have an addel significance. Inasmuch as he was at the head of the legislative campaign for the party committee and is a member of the state machine. Se-
frit is editor of the Washington Gazette. In part lie says: "Governor Hanly has ruled the party until it well-night is ruined. Now. it seams, he would finish the work by stoning it to death. With j no reason under the shining sun for it. he dragged tile party to a station where it had to declare for a proposition which lias no legitimate place in partisan controversy and created a schism that brought an ignominious! defeat. "We are not asking Governor! Hanly to recede from hitvtand. All we ask is that the temperance radials let the party alone. if the' legislature, acting as a free agent, the members voting as their constituents would have them vote, sees fit to permit the county option law' to remain, well and good. But the assumption that the Republican party sit mid engage as a party to keep, tlds law in effect when it lias been repudiated by a vote o the people j., worse than madness.” The Republican members of the house will meet at Indianapolis Wednesday. Representative Hunan K. Babcock, who is the governor's pri- ! v ate secretary, is doing ail he can to bind the Republicans to stand for! county local option, and It is supposed that he is acting under the! governor’s direction.
WHY WAS THE KING BORN?
WILLIAMS-RODGERS
Wednesday morning at ll o'clock Mr. J. Hytner Williams of Raccoon, and Miss May me F. Rodgers of Roachdale were united In marriage at the parsonage of tho College Avenue Church by Dr. J. S. Hoagland. rite young people were attended by Miss Hal He Williams of Fincastle and Mr. Luther Steele of Raccoon. In the wedding party were also Mr. and Mrs. Ottle Fry of Flncustle. The bride and groom are among the best known and populari young people of Putnam Countv M, Wiiliams is u teacher of prominence and success. The bride is the' daughter of Mr. and Mrs. w. C. Rod-1 K'-is. Pho bridal party left after the ceremony for Indianapolis where they will make their future where they will be glad to see heir friends. The young couple have the best Wishes of a host of friends. :
The theme announced for discus ion in the Christian Endeavor so" ties of the country during the ChrL mas season of 1908, is “Why \\ the King Born?” The followiti verses, answer this question: Why was the King of Glory born In yonder stall at Bethlehem, A Babe so weak and so forlorn Without a crown or diadem? U by did he leave the throne above I o i ratcl all life’s thorny way? But thus to show liis Father’s I ' The price of souls with blood i pay. ■Kin was born and crucifli d. fo rescue front the depths of ni; I hat sinners might he glorified io reign with Him in realms i light. I'or (! )d so loved this race of men As from His heart to part His Si And give him up to die that then His will on earth might still ! done. B> ransomed souls, redeemed w ' blood, * ailed in His word and saved I grace. In < iirist tlieir Ark us front a Hoc Ot sin ciiid death in every place. I heir number never can lie told "'ho yet shall walk with Hint white Along the streets of finest gold. ° ( D'ain tlie cups of pure deli". I n ' i ' at length the supper spread, lac bridegroom comes his bride crown, And all the ransomed from tho ih At that marriage feast sit down • lien tlie angels all shall wonder, see, And know as well the Seraphim, (.od sent His Son to Calvary to seek and find a bride for Him II ,p£ u "hy this Christmastide .... 1 be Kmg was born in Uethlehei men look you on this white-robi bride Behold, she wears a diadem. And sits with Him in heaven tit rone. Exalted there beyond compare, o reign with Him the One alone Born from above His realm i share. Then tune each harp and touch tt strings. And sing his praise in notes < love, 'i til faith gives place to angels' wins ° ‘ )ear you to the choir above. Rev. D. Van Dyke.
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