The Fort Worth Record and Register (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 12, No. 113, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1908 Page: 6 of 12
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his record.
I'll leap the other way.”
He was working for John
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tacturer of Danburs, Conn., sued a mem-
ber of the Hatters union of that place,
the union itseir and the American federa-
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exists.
The fervency and the frequency of the
Standard Oil company's arising to explain
nowadays at least indicates that it is not
the absolutely unfeeling creature that it has
been represented to be.
Foraker may be the favorite son of Ohio,
but one William H. Taft, by the family
name of "Bill," appears to be able to get his
feet under the table every time the dinner
bell rings.
It has been estimated that It costa this
country 1145 a minute to ruP congress, but
if that was all It costs there would be lit-
tle complaint about expenses.
President Roosevelt has admitted that an
Ohio man is superior to nim when It comes
to manipulation of the Ehglish language.
And all along it has been supposed that the
President's vigorous expressions would fur-
nish an unassailable advantage to Mr. Taft.
In all this talk about a war between the
United States and Japan nearly everybody
has forgotten to mention what the two
countries are likely to fight about.
His big record was made in
In one day he pieked 1.017
The defective flue can almost always be
dependea on to produce the hottest fire.
the issue can be settled upon Its merits
without conplleating other matters of stale
or national concern ,which are to be de-
termined thia year.
John Mitchell has declared himself out
of sympathy with the sympathetic strike
and the supreme court of the United States
has declared itself out of sympatay wie
the boycott.
Attorney Littleton has retired/from the
Thaw case, thus demonstrating that know-
ing when to quit is not the least among the
virtues that are possessed by Texans.
Judging from the activity of safe-blowers
in Oklahoma, the people stand in need of
guaranteed bank deposits.
Senator Foraker should not overlook the
announcement that the Philippine delega-
tion will come to this country with instruc-
tions to vote for Taft.
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But don’t be frightened—if I leap.
'How dare you!” then
The maiden cried.
"Look thus at me?
Please leave my side!
Where is your heart at
That you do *
So rude a thing?*’
He said, "A-choot"
•"A-choo* a-chooi"
He told the maid.
Then with an effort
He essayed
An explanation
To work through.
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He bought a safety razor
And the advertisement said:
“You merely lather up your face
And then you go ahead.
You need no hone or strop at all
To get a velvet shave.
And you save fifteen cents a day-
Don’t be the barber's slave.”
Of Course.
“He gives his wife money and advice
whenever she requires it.”
"And I suppose she takes it?”
"Well. she takes the money.”
cluny insertion.
The back is plain lined, but may have
a large monogram in center, and the whole
is surmounted by a four-inch flounce of
cluny edging.
These are put on over colored China silk
linings and are most effective.
Lingerie Pillow Covers.
Beautiful lingerie sofa pillow covers are
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high-spirited man.
The boy born this day will be fortunate.
Thai’s Why.
"The honest man has nothing to fear.”
"That’s because the honest man is always
poor and has nothing to lose.”
Safe.
"‘Tis leap year," said the callow youth.
And eyed the maiden fair;
He eyed the peach bloom of her cheek
And eyed her Titian hair.
Thursday, Feb. 6, 1908.
Now shines a golden day upon the land
And fortune waits thy quest with open hand.
Local Social Notes.
Mrs. F. M. Cola of Wisconsin to the guest
of Mrs. H L. Colo.
Mrs. Will Southgate of the City of Mex-
ico is visiting Mrs. James Liston.
Mrs. B. C. Millar of Mineral Wells spent
yesterday with Mrs. 8. B. Mayfield.
might be practiced in the construction of
the Panama canal by a discontinuance of
the canal newspaper.
The government seems to be much elated
over the declaration that the locks in the
Panama canal cannot be shelled. Very true,
very true.
TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION.
DAILY.
with the natural order of things, let us get
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"What doth It profit a man if he gain the
whole world and thereby lose his life?”
"Profits him a lot!”
"If he loses his life?”
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Epidemic.
"Who are you looking
At?” asked she;
"You're very rude.
It seemis to me!”
He looked at her.
Eyes full of rue.
And all he said
Was just, "A-choo!"
why the people of the United States should
suffer from another panic. If they would
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day. Purchasers will be in a good mood.
A good day to open negotiation* with
bank*.
Hire men to work around the house this ,
day.
Samphire, sage, myrrh, hyssop, house-
leek. dandelion, aniseed and balsam—herbs
under Jupiter—will be potent at 11:30 p. m.
Clerks and office workers will find op-
portunities near their hands in these hours. ,
A lucky day for baking, cooking new !•
dishes and cutting out dresses.
"Running water" threaten* -Guard stop-
cocks. pipes and tanks.
A happy occurrence will come in April to
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In Suspense. %
"Are you sure he will die, doctor?”
"I trust not, madam.”
"Are you sure he will recover?”
"I should not like to commit myself to
that extent, madam."
"Oh. youjdoctors!"
' We do the beet we can. madap."
"But when can you let me know whether
or not to order mourning?**
French Impolite to Women.
A foreign correspondent to the New York
Times says that so rapid has been the de-
cline, in recent years. of the Frenchman’s
traditional politeness that a league has just
been formed in Paris to arrest the move-
ment and to promote, if possible, a renais-
sance. The new organization is to be called
"The League of Politeness to Women." The
nature and the aims of the league are ex-
plained by one of its founders as follows:
"For many years past we Frenchmen have
been losing our old reputation for good
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After all, what is the use of all this talk
about trial marriages? They will continue
Pireon club of Dallas with a musical this
afternoon.
Mrs. J. C. Terrell will entertain at cards
tonight complimentary to her niece, Miss
Martin of Albemarle, La.
Ihe w. A. R. M A. will, hold a meeting
this afternoon at the home of Mrs. L. E.
Roberts, 701 Jennings avenue.
Mrs. Frederick C. Switzer of Mangum,
Okla., and Mrs. James Bedigo of St. Louis
will arrive today for a visit with Mrs. H.
E. Lyle.
The City Federation of Women's Clubs
will meet this morning at 10 o'clock in
Mayor Harris' office and a report from all
committees will be received.
Mrs. Walter Wells will entertain this
afternoon in honor of Mrs. Maggie Kerr.
Mrs. J. N. Fishburn and Miss Pearl Ed-
dleman are visiting Mrs. J. Beard in Ard-
more, Okla.
THE FORT WORTH RECORD; THURSDAY MOBBING, ^FEBRUARY 6. 1908. -
THE BoYcOrr CONDEMNED.
The supreme court of the United States,
in an opinion handed down without dissen
Monday last, holds that interference by
Cleveland. Ohio, complains that the town
is infested with crooks who claim Pittsburg
as their home. Can it be that embarrassed
millionaires have been driven to such dire
straits?
ble for as much as possible and go home
as early as possible. Hours from 9 to 4
means leave home at 9 and get back at 4.
"We are continually up against lack of
system in handling our work. There has
been no checking system in force—why, I
found some time ago 836.000.900 of assets
on the books that had never been collected.
For that reason we don't know what real
estate the city owns up-state until it is sold
for taxes and we have to buy it back again.
"We get more than enough criticism. In
the case of a recent comptroller who is
continually telling me that I know nothing
about municipal finance we found a differ-
ence of $3,000,000 in two pages of his ae-
Heavens! The, newspapers are beginning
• prim pictures of the new spring hats.
No Nature Faker.
"Ernest Seton Thompson says that mos-
quitoes never bite frog*."
"Do you s’pose that’s a fact?”
"Course It’s a fact! They never bite mud
turtles, either.”
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Victor of many a hard-fought contest in
the cotton field, John Williams, colored, 24
years old, the Acknowledged champion cot-’
ton picker of the world, is at present a resi-
dent of Muskogee, acting in the official
capacity of major domo of the Scales build-
ing. Williams came here from Texas when
the building was opened last fall, where he
had long been in the employ of Scales,
and he expects to return when the cotton-
picking season reopens. There are few men
in the country who can gather anywhere
near as much cotton as John can in a day
and none has ever been found who can beat
constantly advancing.
A man was robbed at Dallas while in
the act of changing a twenty-dollar bill
for two strangers Never change twenty-
dollar bills in public.
outside on the city’s time.
“An ambitious man in the city’s employ
doesn't get a_chance. He’s held down by
rules. If you try to do real work to make
a necessary change, you're up against pre-
cedent at once. The moment you swat
precedent you are a heretic, or a reformer
at least. It’s time we had a system that
Will let us know where we are—that will
tell us what we can and cannot do.
"You can’t eliminate politics from gov-
An Iowa candidate for office hanged him-
self the other day But this is not the only
instance in which a political candidate has
hanged himself.
little economy
Members of the legislature and candi-
dates for the legislature who believe in the
rule of the people, which is the first prin-
ciple of Democracy, cannot consistently
deny the request for the submission of a
prohibition amendment to the constitution.
For, necessarily Involved in the principle of
the rule of the people, is the detail of giv-
ing opportunity for the people to express
their will. Therefore, when any consider-
able number of respectable citizens duly
express their desire to vote upon a propo-
sition, especially a proposal to amend the
organic law. they are,cleurly within their
inherent rights as members of a militant
sovereignty.
To hold otherwise is to deny sovereignty
itself. for sovereignty necessarily retains
the privilege to re-form as well as to form,
to alter as well as to establish, to destroy
Then, again, the public will have more
faith in the quality of Thaw’s insanity if
it is allowed to last a little longer.
the woman whose birthdate is today. Sha
will meet new friends.
Much apprehension is felt by the patrons
of schools because of the tax muddle in this
part of the state. The situation at present
is as follows. The legislature has passed a
bill, signed by Governor Haskell, which pro-
vides for the remission of all state taxes
The point has been raised that this act is
unconstitutional and it may be that these
taxes will yet have to be paid. A bill has
been Introduced by Senator Thomas which
provides for the remission of county taxes
in the counties of Grady, Stephens and Jef-
ferson. This because it is the consensus of
opinion of all fair-minded men that the
parts of these counties lying west of the
meridian line will be unfairly treated if
compelled to pay county taxes, while the
parts east of the line were not assessed last
year. This bill has passed the senate and
will more than likely become a law. In view
of this fact there is no need of worry or
apprehension on the part of patrons of or-
ganised schools located in the parts of Jef-
ferson county which were assessed last year,
as the school tax will be collected and there
will be just as much money to pay the ex-
penses incident to the operation of these
schools as if statehood had been a myth.
Go right ahead with the schools and figure
on having as much money as If there had
never been any question about state and
county taxes.—Waurika News.
tion of bodily disease, or to the Invention of
flying machines, or to. the relief of the poor.
I am sure that hard times never would come
again. There would be no poor to relieve
and no diseases to cure. and all of us would
own automobiles and flying machines.
"Is this not a remarkable state of affair?
The whole country is suffering rom a sort
of economic epilepsy, and yet hardly a dol-
lar is being spent in a scientific search for
the cause or for its remedy. Our business
men are ignorant of the laws which dif-
ferentiate sound business from unsound bus-
iness. Our bankers know next to nothing
about the science of banking. You have no
right to blame them. for our schools are not
teaching even the rudiments of the science
of business; and science is never the product
of untrained experience.
"The rich men of the United States have
given billion* of dollars for the support of
education and scientific investigation, but
not a single million has yet been set apart
for the education of men in the science of
business. Not until this neglected srience re-
ceives the attention it deserves, will it be
worth while to pray for perpetual-prosper-
ity.” ' "
Leon Brummer. chartered public account-
ant. spoke on “Accountancy as a Panic
Prophylactic.”
"Consider the more careful and conscienti-
ous meditation of any executive officer who
knew that his actions would be reviewed and
house and spent an entire day under the
urging of a guard in cutting ice. It was
the hardest day’s work he had ever done,
and hereafter the memory of it will cut
some ice when he is sentencing other pris-
oners.
“Consider the value to the, institution,
whether financial or commercial, of the
varied experience and the independent criti-
cism of the independent accountant. Consider
the ready acceptance by the public of the
statements issued by the independent ac-
countant. and I believe that you will agree
with the suggestion that accountancy can,
and will, prevent financial panic.
"In making this bold claim for accountancy
we do so with more confidence in our abilfty
to undertake the great work which will come
to us, than we have before had. Some six or
seven years ago the accountant may have felt
that the onward strides of commerce and
finance were getting beyond him; he rec-
ognised that the coming generation of ac-
countants would need be better than he: he
recognised that there was need for a strong
professional school, and for a strong leader.
His anxiety on this point la gone, for such
a school now exists, and is known as the
School of Commerce, Accounts and Finance
of the New York University, and such a
leader is now at the head of the school—I re-
fer to Dean Joseph French Johnson.
“To this school have come, and around the
standard of this leader have gathered stu-
dents of character and intelligence, honest,
earnest, eager and capable, upon graduation,
to accept the responsibility as accountants.
“Consider the bank president facing a line
of depositors surging around the wrong win-
dow. this president assuring these deposit-
ors of the solvency of the bank, even though
his neighbor on the right and his neighbor
across the way have been obliged to close
their doors, and then consider this same bank
The queen of Portugal did all she could
to beat off her husband's assassins with a
bunch of roses, thus makfhg a practical
M)ustration of the poet's prophecy of
"braining a murderer with a rose.”
Oklahoma would entitle one to a divorce,
provided good and sufficient- cause was
proven, persons wishing to get quick action
in the courts came to this state, hoping to
secure same. Judge Garber’s decision, how-
ever. knocks that divorce mill sky high.
The act of congress requiring a continuous
residence in Oklahoma for one year super-
seded the three months law passed by the
territorial legislature, hence the three
months farce is a thing of the past, says
Judge Garber—Oklahoma State Capital.
securiies were upon securities of the pre-
ferred class which had not been subject to ----------- -----_
violent fluctuation within the year, and | swat the other fellow we’ll -have politics,
which were safety margined, and stating the The attitude of the city’s employe under
amount of the loans upon such securities.” -*-------- —•- — *---“*•’-----i-
Comptroller Met* had some tart things
to say of red tape and of the lack of SYS-
tern in the laws regulating his department.
"If the city would find the man for the
job and then fix his salary for him., we'd
have bWtpr service all along the line, said
the comptroller. "When you And a man
with experience you can't pay him the sal-
ary his services are worth, and if you cou 1
he couldn’t pass the civil service examina-
tions. If a man got in state or in municipal
work as much recognition for enterprise,
ability and initiative an he would get in
private work, there would be an incentive
to go ahead, and he'd not be doing work
The court-martial that I* trying General
Stoessel for surrendering Port Arthur to the
Japanese I* bringing out some very interest-
Ing testimony. The evidence is that the
outlying forts only suurendered when every
man capable of making a defense was either
killed or . wounded. One of the most im-
portant of these positions surrendered when
there was but a single officer and two men.
In the face of these facts, it would seem
that poor old General Stoessel is a very
much abused man.—Oklahoma State Capi-
tal. A
serve was not available, and therefore,
though the banks themselves were sound,
they were forced to suspend simply because
of the unavailability of their reserves.’’
Dean Joseph French Johnson, responding
to the toast. “Hard Times, Come Again No
More," said:
“Prayer will not save us from panics.
They are not divinely ordained, nor are they
the product of speculative folly and flagrant
dishonesty.' It is a beneficent law of na-
ture that the man who dances shall pay toe
piper. Hard times follow extravagant and
foolish consumption of wealth just as sure-
ly as dyspepsia follows extravagant con-
sumption of pie. Instead of finding fault
t¥dax_,.___
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pendage still theihs. When the word went
forth that a three months' residence in
There was a time when every rag and bit
of cotton was carefully gathered up and
sorted for the paper mill. When men found
that they could make paper out of wood by
simply holding a stick on a grindstone, the
collecting of waste ceased. Old newspapers
were burned. Now, however, with the in-
creasing cost, the collecting has begun. The
other day the Ladies’ Aid society of the
Methodist Episcopal church in Mattoon, lit,
wanted to raise some money. It began to
gather the waste rags in the community. It
has just sold a carload and realised $105.
which little sum strives a large number of
problems for it.—Ardmore Ardmhreite.
Next day IT® in a barber's chair
Sank with contented sigh.
The barber marked the criss-cross scars
From chin to either eye.
And hummed a tune right cheerfully
And stropped his blade the while.
"What make of safety do you use?".
He queried, with a smile.
ernment. As long as 'human nature be-.
"I am going to bring the new missionary
to you tomorrow. I know you will like
him.”
"Well, if I don’t, the cook had better
climb a tree," replied- the cannibal king.
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He Should Be Satisfied.
"She keeps him hi hot water.”
"Well, she fell in love with him because
he was such a beautiful swimmer."
manners. In fact,'we are no longer as po-
lite to ladies as are the English or the
Americans. This is evidenced every day in
a hundred little ways. For instance, not
once in a hundred times will a Frenchman
ever think of giving up his seat in the sub- r
r. Jett Boo* a News Ce.G.L laekman. Atel
Jefterwon Nems Stand. ■
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WASMTXGTON, D C —Robert II Watatns.
tired-looking womnen may be standing
around him. It is also a common thing in
2.. . . . ... , . ______ • these days of rapid transit to see a man
devote to thiss subject a little of the energy elbow a crowd or women to get in front
and money now being given tonthe ellmina- i of them
••Even in the best social cires, where po-
liteness to women should be considered one
of the essentials of good breeding, we find
The icemen in Toledo who have been
convicted of a conspiracy in restraint of
trade and sentenced to jail for six months,
are beginning to be impressed with the fact
that nte is real and that they also have
to go to a real jail. That beats fining
the corporation.
A New Jersey Woman has just received
a letter that was mailed fifty-four years
ago The woman will probably be dead
before the conduct of such a alow carrier
can be investigated. - ;___
president appearing before these depositors
holding aloft the banner inscribe with the
two magic words. ‘Account-Certified.’ dis-
tributing a statement of the account, show-
ing that a recent examination has revealed
a stated amount of actual cash on hand, that
the loans In sums from 11.000 to 150,000 have ; an increase in business, but his prosperity i
been made to 5,000 merchants, all of whom • threatened by a quarrel about a loan.
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sworn statements of their affairs with the
bank, and in no case have these loans been
beyond an amount which the standing Rad [ whether in business for himself or in em-
statements of the merchant would Justify, ploy.
that the loans which the bank had made on -----------------------------------------
It is evident that many business men in
Shawnee desire to try the commission form
of city government. This change places
the control in the hands of three commis-
sioners, who shall devote their entire time
to the work. Just for th® sake of ascertain-
ing how interested Shawnee is in this sub-
ject the Herald invites brief communica-
tions from the taxpayers of the city. Natur-
ally, a change in government throwing full
authority upon three men invites an ex-
change of opinions as to who are the three
men who are best fitted to accept these
position* in case a change is voted. The
Herald will appreciate nomination*.—Shaw-
nee Herald.
M. Harrison of Waxahachie, Texas, at that
time. Five times during his career Wil-
liams has beaten 1,000 pounds and his aver,
age day’s work exceeds by three or four
times that of a good gotten picker. Last
season Williams gathered 46,000 pounds.
Cotton pickers make 75 cents per 109
pounds. It’s a poor day for him when he
.doesn’t make from 33 to 38 per day. John
has plenty of credentials and proofs to back
his record. Framed and" hanging on the ,
wall of his room is his •“diploma" in the
shape of newspaper cHppings and letters
written to him from the most prominent
cotton men in the country. One of his
choice possessions is a letter from the man-
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ngement of the Lewis and Clark Centennial
Exposition at Portland. Oregon, rguesting
him to be present and give an exhibition it
rapid-fire cotton picking William, baa
picked cotton ever since he was big enough
to get out in the field and his swirt finger*
early put him in a class by himseir A cot-
ton-picking contest in Texas Ie a big event
and each contestant has hie backers, who
wager good-sized sums of money on their
tavortte.— Muskogee Phoenix.
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An Oklahoma negro ha* been legally
married to twenty-three wives. That’s
enough to make New York and, Chicago
jealous.
men saluting women in a much leer re.
spectfut feshion then they used to do. Now*
adays, a man’s greeting to a woman ac-
quaintance is brief and familial he barely
condescend! to lift his hat. And the pleas-
ant old French custom of raising one’s hat
to a woman passed on a public staircase 1*
also rapidly dyng out. -The note of the old
order of things was a lofty deference. That
of today I* familiarity.
’•Our league does not advocate a strict
return to the old form* of ceremonious po-
utencs=, such as obtained in our grand-
fathers’ day. Much of that was artificial
and ridiculous. But we do wish to keep
alive—revive would be the better word--
something of traditional French courtesy.
"I confess that our task will be difficult
in these day* of hurry and bustle. We have
not elaborated our programme yet, but
there is one point that we have decided
upon. We shall post up in all public places
where impolitenens la now unhappily no-
torious—in railway and omnibus stations.,
in street cars and suhway cars—a small
placard bearing thiis Inscription: 'Be Po“
lite to Women.’ "
count*. In answer to the argument that
civil service insures honest men in the city’s
employ, I say that I’d rather have a slick
crook around me any ' day than an honest
fool You can get onto a crook's curves,
but can never, discover a fool's brains. We
have got to take honesty for granted. This
city system Is not vicious. It is just ineffi-
cient. We must make it up-to-date and
serviceable."
Incidentally, what has become of the one-
time band this town had? If that organi-
sation didn't blow itsel f out of existence
for good and all time, why not some public
spirited fellows make an effort to nave the
band brought back into its own. A town
of this size, and a county seat at that,* should
be able to support a good band, but a
band can’t exist altogether on wind and
brass—it takes a little coin as well. During
the spring and summer seasons an open-air
band concert, say one or two nights out of
the week, will afford our people a pleasant
evening’s entertainment. As it is now,
about the only entertainment < ?) we have
at night la that furnished by the barking
population. About the only thing wanting
is a director, but a man can be had at
' Ardmore, if arrangements can be made to
pay him. If every business firm and pro-
1 feesionat man tn the city would pledge to
give from it to $2 per month, according to
their ability and the amount of music they
have in their gizzards, there is a possibility
that the town will have a band the coming
season. It must be remembered, too, that
thia l» presidential campaign year.—Mari-
etta Monitor.
Of course, a sane legislator will Ignore
the whims and lads or mere adventurgs
or tactionists or revolutionists, but the pro-
hibitionists of Texas cannot be dismissed
as an inconsequential element of the citi-
zenship: Whether they constitute a ma-
jority or a minority remain* te-de deter-
mined by the vote upon the,amendment it-
self. but manifestly they constitute a body
sutficientiy numerous and potential to be
entitled to an opportunity to test public
opinion upon a great question of sivic and
social life.
Thin view is so elemental in popular gov-
ernment that we cannot conceive a justi-
fiable opposition In the absence of formal
instructions from the people. We under-
stand that the prohibitionists intend to have
the question of submission voted upon in
the Democratic primaries this year by ob-
serving the prescribed rules for obtaining
an expresston on any proposed legislative
meniom-ic-batiadene-shalezislatorwhe
is faithful to party inatruction* will too
guided by the vote of the primaries.
"Whatever the plan of action, in the ab-
sence of contrary instructions from the
people we hold it to be the plair duty >t
legislators to submit such an amendment
as the frienda of state prohibition propose.
In respect to the form of the amendment,
it is to be hoped that the prohibition lead-
er* will be guided by a broad and flexible
statesmanship rather than by impulse and
seal. As the constitution now stands, un-
der the interpretation of the majority of
lawyers, it permits prohibition only by
counties and political subdivisions of coun-
ties, and the legislature has no power be-
yond lecal option laws. Whether the peo-
pie will agree to an unalterable constitu-
tional decree for state prohibition, whether
they would Indorse the Georgia extremist
plan of prohibiting the sale of medicinal
liqyors, except alcohol, or the gift of any
intoxicant, even in the privacy of the home,
whether they would be more favorably In-
clined to investing the legislature with
plenary powers to deal with the liquor
question within its own discretion and by
progressive action from time to time as cir-
cumstances, expediency and experience may
advise—these are details which should re-
ceive careful deliberation at the hands of
those who desire a workable and satisfac-
tory remedy for the evils of the whisky
traffic. We do not now presume to offer
specific advice, except by way of suggestion
that while the question is being considered
it ought to be studied seriously to the end
that some permanent good to morals and
citizenship may be accomplished in this
state of many conflicting and contrary con-
ditions.
The main point now in mind is the prin-
ciple of the people’s right°to express their
will upon any question of Important po-
litical and civic consequence.
Not only is this correct in the abstract,
but if It is generally accepted, the clash
of a prohibition campaign will be post-
boycott with the free। exchange of com- The judge of the Toledo, Ohio, police
merce between the staes cannot be per- court had himself sentenced to the work-
mitted. In the case at issue a hat manu-
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der the seventh section of the Sherman
anti-truet law to determine the right of
labor union* to boycott- article* entering
into interstate trade. By .the term* of the
sectton named the complaining party, E
his charge 1* sustained, may collect three
times the amount of his loss. In this case
the adgment asked was for $240, Hi.
The claim was resisted on the ground
that the law was inapplicable to labor or-
ganisations, but the court held differently.
Interest attaches* to this decision from'
the fact that it is the first that the su-
preme court has handed down on the sub-
Ject Vf boycott, and from the further fact
that It constructively sustains Wie Judgment
of the United Staes court of appeals for
the District of Columbia in the Buck range
case, wherein the American Federation of
Labor was enjoined from furtd prose-
cuting a boycott
The full text of the decision is not at
hand, but the press account is sufficiently
clear to make apparent the intent of the |
court, that a boycott is a conspiracy in
restraint of trade, and shat labor unions j
as ench, are dotted with no immunity from ,
the operation of the law.
The decision is undoubtedly sound in Its
conclusions that a boycott Is a conspiracy
in restraint of trade, although it does not
necessarily follow that labor uions are the
only offenders. Any group of persons may
Instigate a boycott, and. as a matter of fact,
the first boycott was instigated by a group
of Irish farmers. In the present Instance
the boycott resulted in financial loss to the
complainant, and the law says he may re-
cover three times the amount he proves
up Unless financial loss is provable, and
the article boycotted enters into Interstate
commerce, another and a different action
might not lie; although in rendering the
opinion Chief Justice Fuller said: ’There
is no doubt that, to quote fom the well
known work of Chief Justice Earle on
trades unions, ’at common law every per-
son has individually, and the public haa also,
collectively, a right to require that the
course of trade should be kept free'from
unreasonable' obstructions ’ "
The main point la that the objectionable
boycott haa been condemned by the high-
est legal tribunal in the land
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ersoerumemmi sn
Jupiter and the sun are in benefic aspect
with the four-day-old moon. Mars is in,
ecliptic conjunction. The moon is on the
equator.
A most auspicious business day all over
the United States and anada. Proposi-
tions and suggestions made in these twenty-
four hours are rife with promise of suc-
cess. Send old customers information about
new merchandise. ' ,
Owners of retail shops should put their
best foot forward. It is a typical selling
eduntila
New York Commerlal.
Wiilam B. Rigely, comptroller of the
currency and City Comptroller Metz were
the principal speaker* at the annual dinner
of the New York Univeristy School of Com-
merce, Accounts and Finance at -the Hotel
Knickerbocke Saturday night. Mr. Ridgely,
whose subject was "Panics and Politics,”
emphasized his belief in the necessity of the
establishment of a central bank and a
credit currency as the great factors in the
prevention of panics, particularly banking
panics. Mr. Ridgely took an optimistic view
i of the present condition of the country.
The country is all right," he said, "but
it woke up one morning to find that the
banks had suspended though the country
hadn’t. But now that the machinery of
domestic exehange is in operation again it
is up to the country to resume. I can't see
much prospect in the present session of
Congress at least, of get tin* the legislature
to reform permanently the currency and
banking system. I believe in the necessity
of a great central bank and I firmly believe
that the only proper banking currency is a
credit currency.
“We need a central bank with a reserve to
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