The Syracuse Journal, Volume 3, Number 26, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 27 October 1910 — Page 1

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IC. 1. U. IIEEIING ATjORT ME The attendance at the thirty seventh annual State Convention of the Womans Christian Temperance Union which closed last week at Fort Wayne, was the largest and best in the history of the organization. Every state officer and nearly all county officers were present at the convention and much interest was manifested. Delegates to the National W. C. T. U. cohvention, to be held in Baltimore, Maryland November 12-17 were appointed during the closing session Tuesday. On Sunday pulpits in the various churches were filled by delegates to the convention. It is said one of the greatest lectures in the interest of temperance ever heard in Fort Wayne was given by Clinton N. Howard of Rochester New York. “What to Do With the Lawless Saloon” was the topic for the great lecture. In part he said: “What to do with the lawless saloon is indeed a questiori. There is more than one kind of a saloon, you will judge from the subject, therefore the question is, whdt is a lawless saloon. What percentage of the total number of saloons does that include? I tell you truthfully that includes 100 per cent. An American saloon that does not violate the law is a greater curiosity than the specimens brought back by Teddy Roosevelt from his African hunting expedition. The proprietors of this sort of a saloon must know but three things: How to break a dollar, how to break a head, and how to break the law. If I describe one of them I describe all for they are all the same. “The lawless saloon is different from all other institutions. The law says the saloons must not sell on Sunday, must not sell on election day and other important holi days. But they do. The lawless saloon will never obey the law, and in that respect it is different from other things in this country. ‘ From the city, county and slate comes the cry, ‘What shall we do with the lawless saloon?’ I will answer it first for the ladies of the W. C. T. U. and next for the church and its people. Satan has established his kingdom here. All one has to do to be convinced of this is to keep the eyes open and read the newspapers of the country. In all business it is lawful and right if it improves the value from the raw material. Does the saloon improve the value frffin the raw material? That it does, not is sufficient proof of the uselessness of the saloon. Then is the saloon business an honorable occupation? The worth of a man is shown by the use he makes of his raw material on hand.

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“I do not want anybody to think that Ido not like the saloon men. I like them, and they are all right, but their business is all wrong. The man behind the bar, however, is as good as the man in front of it, and in the eyes of God he is as good as the man who votes to continue the liquor traffic. The criminal saloon man is as good as the law that permits his license to be issued. Ir fact you ask any saloon man and lie will say that his business is the work of the devil. It makes devils and is the devil. I make no apologies, for you cannot expect the scent of a rose when I have a polecat on the dissecting table. “It is all right to pray for world's evangelization in this generation, bat that is not enough. We must move this corruption from the state and the nation before we can even expect one part of the world to be evangelized. Never will we solve the great social problems, and the great labor problems until we over throw the rum power. We must show the heathen world what constitutes Christianity. “Women would be better off with a heathen sober husband than with the ciiristian civilized drunkard. ’ “A nation that is tolerating such a practice is resting under the shadow of the curse of the Almighty It is an immeasurable crime. The women of the W. C. T. U. have hit the horny headed serpent and the work they are conducting is gigantic. “We must cast the saloon out of this nation with the state as the unit. Your responsibility extends beyond the county lines and spreads over the entire state. The divine remedy is to kill the traffic and the conclusion is prohibition.” Killed at Elwood by Train. . A small girl by the name of Dolly Criss at Elwood, Indiana, got her foot fast in the frog while walking the Erie and Western rail road track. After trying in vain to release her foot, she threw her self to one side of the track when she saw a passenger train bearing down upon her, resigned to suffer the loss of one foot, but trying to save her life. But the unfortunate child’s clothing was caught by the engine pilot and she sustained wounds from which she died an hour later, on the operating table. Suffered a Broken Rib. B. F. Kitson while assisting at moving a small building for his son Floyd last Thursday had a rib broken from a hard bump against a pry that he was using. Dr. F. L. Lane went to Avilla Saturday to meet his brother who resides at Washington D. C. From there they went together to Lawton Michigan to attend a reunion of relatives.

SYRACUSE, INDIANA. THURSDAY.. OCTOBER 27, 1910.

FARM TELEPHONES IS VIEWED IN THE CITY The interest with which the farm telephone movement is viewed in the cities is a certain indication of the importance of this idea of the of communication among rural reresidents. The following editorial on this subject recently appeared in the New York Commercial: In all the present day agitation of the question of the necessity for getting a portion of our swarming and congested urban populations “back to the farms” the against the movement almost invariably advanced is alleged impracticability; briefly, that the average man or woman will always be found preferring a roof and a dry crust in the city to a comfortable home, good clothes and an abundance to eat and drink in the country. There is a good deal in the contentian, it must be admitted. But it loses sight very largely of the fact that country life in years comparatively recent has undergone a most wonderful improvement, has experienced an almost complete metamorphosis. Today nothing of importancr in the doings of the world escapes the knowledge of the average American farmer, provided he cares to learn about it. The telegraph starts the news going, the country telephone does the rest. By the use of the country telephone American farmers' can, and do constantly, prevent gluts at the nearby markets; by this means they keey in touch with produce market quotations the country over, the system saves them millions of dollars a year in the aggregate in pre venting the destruction of perishable products through over-accu-mulatiion in local markets, and in a thousand and one ways the rural telephone contributes to the safety, prosperity and happiness of the American farmer. This is particut larly true of the vast agricultural regions of the West and Southwest. Speaking of the latter section specifically the Texas Commercial-Sec-retaries Asssciation says in a recent bulletin: “Statistics show that the growth of the telephones among the farmers during the past five years has been tremendous. Statements by the farmers themselves are to the effect that they prize their telephone. as much as they do their rural delivery. There are many corporations, private ownerships and individuals today engagad in the business of supplying the telephone needs of the southwest. They, one and all, should receive such encouragement as their energy, courage and capital invested warrant. “While providing for the telephonic needs of the southwest has progressed greatly during the past few years, nevertheless the necessities of our people have as yet by no means been cared for. A tremendous amount of money as well as courage and energy is yet needed in the telephone field. The problem will not have been solved as long as there is a single farmer in the Southwest whose home has not this modern utility in it.” The Southwest is no exception There are hundreds of thousands of fertile acres in the Middle and New England States to-day only waiting the tickle of the intelligent Jar-, mer’s plow, hoe and rake to make them as profitable. Get out into

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the soil, produce something, sell it, pocket your profits, and don’t forget to put in a telephone. Many farmers are now planning to install this valuable telephone service, for nearly all realize the 1 benefits to which this editorial writ--1 er refers. The fact that farmers ’ can do nearly all of the work of « construction and installation them- . selves makes the improvement an easy one for them to undertake. The spread of the rural telephone idea in the past couple of years is indicated by the sales figures of the Western Electric Company, the largest manufactures of telephones in the world, which reports that in the past twenty months it has sold over a quarter.million rural telephones. The telephone connection on the farm is of the utmost importance, as nearly everyone nowdays realizes.. Boy Hurt by Automobile. Ray Beghtel the ten year old son of Mrs. Catharine Beghtel was knocked down and shoved several feet under the wheels of an automobile, receiving serious scalp wounds and getting bruised ufl quite badly. The accident occurred Sunday evening about 5 o’clock on the corner of Main and Huntington streets, where several children were playing. The machine was a five passenger touring car belonging to Newels of Goshen; coming from the east and in anticipation of making the hill north on Huntington st. on high speed they were running much faster than the law permits. Coming suddenly upon him the boy got excited and did not know which way to go. The driver made an effort tn stop the machine in time, to save the boy but was not successful. _______ Died in his Automodlle. Word has reached Warsaw of the death of Mr. Barstow, who for sev eral years has spent the summers at Lake Wawasee. He has many acquaintances about the lake and was a prominent citizen of Lima, 0. i Death came suddenly while he was j automobiling.—Warsaw Daily Times. Moved to Florida. J. W. Brady and wife, Ed Holloway and wife left Wednesday for i Anriona Florida where' they will make their future home. Their household goods went out Saturday, evening for that point with Ephriam Sloan in charge. ■ To Bulid at WawaseeLouie Salinger has purchased of , Haines Egbert a lot in Pickwick, Park, Wawasee) next to the cottage owned by J. B. Hager. He will erect a cottage in the spring.— Goshen Democrat. We received a letter from Prof. Forest Kitson Saturday asking us to send the Journal to his address at Menominee, Michigan, where he is superintendent of. Penmanship in the public schools. Mr. Kitson is a Syracuse boy, one with high aspirations and is tffiod. We will publish from time to time some of his advanded ideas io penmanship. Earlier in the season it looked as though there would he a very small crop of potatoes this fall. But the fall rains with n« frost until late has made a wondj* ful yield of late potatoes. At Fort Wayne choice potatoes are sellmg at 35 to 40 cts. per bushels. |

PATRIOTISM AND _ partyism There are two parties vital to the government of the people; Ist that of law and second that of liberty. They are the same in all democracies. At the close of the War of Revolution the Federalist party, standing for law, came into power with Washington and then John Adams Chief Magistrates. Alex ander Hamilton was the intellectual chief of the party of law—Thomas Jefferson that of liberty. The Whig party was the same fundamentally as the Federalist, the Republican the same as the Whig. The old Republican party was the same fundamentally as the antiFederalist, and the Democratic party the same fundamentally as the old Republican. So, fundamentally, we have never had but two distinctive parties—the party that stands for liberty and the party that stands for law. There is an irresistable conflict be tween liberty and law. Liberty and law. Liberty unrestrained ends in anarchy, and law unrestrained ends in despotism. If the party of liberty holds control continuously for a great number of years it will bring in anarchy. If the party of law holds control continuously for a number of years it will bring in despotism. Hence arose nullification and secession, and hence arose alien and section laws. Let the pendulum swing—one party and soon again another have control of the nation —if we would be free and prosperous. So the true patriot is today a Federalist and tomorrow an anti-Federalist. Today he votes on the side of Washingion, tomorrow on the side of Jefferson. When anarchy threatens he stands on the side of law, when despotism threatens he takes the side of liberty. But great interests dominate. Metaphysical creeds lie on the library shelves, covered with dust. Living interests move men to action A contest is before us between the class known as “speculators,” who have gotten rich off the labors of others, and the toilers whose products have been wrenched from them by “indirection.” The laborers have, borne their wrongs until these wrongs have become insufferable. They speak in the same language as the fathers: “When a long trai of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evince a design to reduce us under absolute despotism,” etc., etc. This language may be correctly and appropriately applied to the two old party organizations controlled by the money power. Hence the revolt of the farming and laboring classes now impending. How may we know when a people are free? By the character of their rulers. A free people choose great men to lead. So it was with Athens. She chose men like Pericles to lead in the days of her greatest glory. Then did she have true freedom. In the people resided the power of deposing the leaders. That constituted them free. For the least evidence, and even suspicion of disloyalty, the free men of Athens ostracised their leaders. They banished them from the state. The power of ostracism—the power of deposing resides in the people. It was a living power. When the power ceased then freedom expired then tyranny prevailed. A tyrant

is one who holds power despite of the popular voice. He is an usurper. Our fathers of ’76 were free. They chose their great men to lead—their Jeffersons, their Adamses, their Franklins, their Henrys, their Washingtons. I was a Federalist in 1890, because then anarchy was threatened to be fastened Upon the nation by the extreme doctrines of the southern anti-Federalists—Dauis, Tombs, and the rest —reaching beyond the limit set by the fathers. So far and no farther, said they, shalt thou go in the pursuit of liberty. When secession was reached anarchy was at the door. I then thought it my duty to support Federalism. But today—Cannon alone in the house of representaties. Why has the supreme power been placed in the hands of one man? It was done to simplify corporation control of America, banks, railroads, standard oil etc. Both Federalism and anti-Federal-ism, if kept within their proper meets and bounds are of God; for God is the author of both law and liberty. But when they reach beyond their proper meets and bounds they are of the devil; for the devil is the author of both despotism and anarchy. What, then, is the duty of the patriot? It is to be a sentinel on the watch-tower of freedom, to guard the republic against the extremes of Federalism and antiFederalism, In 1860 the patriot fought anarchism; today he must arm against despotism. When the boat tips to one side let him stand on the other, Watch that it tip not to either side too far. Change sides and save the boat.—Leonard Brown. Leesburg Girl in Politics. In a letter to friends here Miss Ida Geddess, a former Leesburg girl, now located near Jefferson, Colorado states she has been nominated by the republicans of Park county as their candidate for county superindent. Miss Geddess owns a large ranch near Jefferson and has engaged extensively in hay raising. She says she now has over 600 tons and the market price is $15.00 per ton, with prospects of going higher. —Leesburg Journal. For Sale—At a bargain, an improved 20 acre farm 3 mile of Syracuse, splendid soil, plenty of fruit. Call quick if you are in the market for a small farm. W. G. Connolly.

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OUTSIDE PHSISE FOB SEm«!EBIB6E The independent newspapers all over the country have nothing but words of praise for Senator Beveridge and the stand he took at lhe last session of congress, every pledge he had made to the people. The following appeared in the Review of Reviews for October: “When Albert J. Beveridge’ in 1898 proposed himself as a candidate before the Indiana legislature for the United States senate, it seemed to a large body "of the people the must preposterous proposal ever made. The party machine opposed him. Party leaders without exception smiled at the idea and reform elements as a rule gave him the cold shoulder. But when the election came he doubled tip the opposition and was chosen—honestly chosen. In a brief speech of thanks he said “The people only are my masters and to the people I will be true.” That was an easy generality and might have been said by any Lorimer. “On the sth of April, 1910; twelve years later, at a Republican state convention in Indianapolis, he stood in a hall packed with four thousand people who surrounded him on all sides, leaving him scarcely standing room, and for an hour and threequarters, in clear cut sentences, he defined his position. Except frequent applause, a tense stillness prevailed through the assembly while he proceeded step by step to explain what he had done and why he did it. It was a great speech delivered in a great way, and when he had finished every listener felt that he had kept his word—that he had stood for the people..” Horse Run Away. Considerable excitement was created last Thursday afternooh when a horse belonging to Fred Gross of south of town,Yore away from him while he was changing from the halter to the bridle. The horse ran down the street amidst children that were on their way home from school, but fortunately none of them were Hurt. The run away turned into an alley where he tore loose from' the buggy and was caught when he came back on the street a minute later. WANTED—A good washerwoman and ironer. Inquire at this office.