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'ht fw I f t ' if ! t - ! TOD ilUSKOGCE CIMETER. P. R. Prf: . ...Assocfata Editor , E. D. MtexefM Allocate Editor j W. H. Tin. Jr.. . . . . Man 1 gar E. H. Twin- .. ...Collector THE .V. A. C. YV. j MEMEEH . ! riATiOMAL Ni!Orn rnc I ACZCSIATiO The Cimcvar n the .!;" H??vhHen P2pr in the C: ot Mtrakexe. 'Aw d illy I'hwna m someUcM Kpb4i ran and somatinvw independent bet :: the prexent l.rae it claims t be Hide pendant, such a eh'.flKinx i not wrtn Ihne whoops in h 1 to any political party and yet Siy iu editor, got rth at the Ilpb!"f. ps ccmir. What bate Ingratitude. Tho Rcjvuhlican party ia the phfp and all else the a The Oklahoma Segro is nurc ! Sbat from brttcr experience. REPlHMfAN COUNTY CANDIDATES. Tor Congrcy Sec-end DlMrlct Harry Ward. For Shtrm 1. J. Hays. For County Attorney 11. u. Whippy rman. For County Judge Myron White. .For County Treasurer A .A. Coup-land. For County Aaesor J. W. Hubbard. For County Clerk W. S. Har aha. For Court Clerk Dr. J. M. Coon. For County Superintendent Miss Alice M. Robertson. For County Surveyor M. A. Earl. For County Weigher F. T. Swift. Cr.rnmissinncrH. No. 1. John L. Cooper, Ft. Gib Hon. No. 2 J. C. Rhodes, Webbers Falls. No. 3 Irvin Hhnchard, Has kell. State Representatives. John 1Icber. 0. E. Cramer. Geo. Ltopol 1. cffjfyiUaffGcioGfxxfcta SURRENDER TO FORCE V0ULD TEND TO DI3AGTER. That kind of virus In our ijrlng us r.a end of disaster. If 'm v.e let capitalist! cr working- g men, any Intjreit, learn that the 8 way to get what la wantvJ Is by g applying pretcurs and If v;e con. 8 tlnue In that couroe far n few yean, democracy will be n fail ure, and we might ns well give up our form of government." Mr. Hughei In His Speech at Portland, Maine. r&vwm&0mmjjw NOT AN CIGHT-HOUR LAV, i Recent Hcld-Up Legislation Doea Hot Shorten Workday a Mlnuto. Ai n n.ntlor of fnct, It li not n:i ilclil hour luu nt nil. It docs not curtail tlic I rtiltitiitMi'H worl; j I 7 ilny liy n nIiikIc minute. If no HKliiPcr bus horn recHxIiii; ?') for uorkliiK ten hour a dnj, tills law will raise his pay to $n.'J.1; hut It will not Mtorh'ii IiIm worl; day vcn the ti'iitli part of n m-c-ond. This Is no i.ioii like tho true I'lKht-lioitr prliuiplu than cliftlk Is lll.e cJiccsp. The n mi why piopl call thlx an flfjlit-li'iur law Is lie nuise It mih that In tho rase of railroad trainmen they tduill Cct their ilnj's pay for the llr.st ; i elKht houra' work, and all the te.it Is to bo considered oer tlm Do not toll mo that this Htrlko could not have been called off or postponed If President Wllnon had shown that he meant hus liens. I do not for one minute hi'Ileve that those four brother hood leaders Htarted the blaze Koine; without knowing how to put it out. One of them ad mitted that he could put it out ho far ns ids own brotherhood was concerned, hut that his fol lowers would think that lie had cone bnclc on tlirm if ho were ! to do ho. Statement of Con- ! urcfii-ninn A. P. (Jnrdncr. ! -. . 1 Irvin 8. Cobb In to make campaign iitpccchci for the Democratic party In (the Wcflt. Irv, jou all recall of course, M a humorlnt. ami Is peculiar jly equipped to do full Justice to hU aubject. i ' AN&WCR! eight Mntinn i NOT EIGHT YEARS. (Rpeclnl Dlnpntili to tho N. Y. lit raid.) ISAIl IIAItllOlt. .Me.. Mnndnv. To tho IMItor of Hie Herald: ; Malne'n answer to Wll.on: ; "J'.iriii uourx, nut not eigut ; yeur." -A Former Progressive. ; r-'44 i rlftnn "'"'j."' "' ' lnf rr""' I r.FTTlNP. r.I.OSE TO HOMF . I j&8Sr43 j&&S. I , YouaUhitf "X'v f i fight j - -a ,2s Ncte "In aJd tlon t; one caaJ In the liquor lndu:.ry, who wou'd Lo threwn out of jobs if national p'oNh.ilon prtvailed, mr V million r.therc in allied trades would lce their President Wilson's speech of nccep- mears cf llve'ihaod a.-.J .vcuU try to get tie Jcbs of men In other wits oftance could have been phrn-d even Jt more succinctly In the graphic words .. : ti Koss Tweed, "What ure iou going C03B AND PROHIBITION Irving S. Cobb, the great hurrar lit. writes in the Saturday Even ng Post, cf his experiences during a hunting trip cut west, in his story, "The Dattle Men of the Republic" he deribs3 Colorado's prohibition lsv In the fcllwlra varda: 'Ev3ry now and than, In the cool of th: lay, ycu see a srrall group cf thj r.ativa yo-nanry go'ng home, ttepp.n'j hlQh upen th: heaving and taecing cldewrik, and pauslrg occa sionally, with arr-.o (ntert.vlned and heads inc'lrsd tavirj n common ctntjr, to oiv 2 jsing hlc- cupi for the re ' nitabulary. I: Is '.ha e'esa c . f hlc day." m o li 1Y KANSAS Twenty tion Five Hundred Separa sAre Granted During the Past Year nder a Tope'ta. Kansas, dato line, t e m Joseph (Mo) XcwH-I'reart car ri( 1 tho following story of Increased jrinio and divorcoH in "dry" Iviuisuk: There were C.OfiS prliionor.s In Kan sas Jai'.j in the fiscal year from Ju'y ' 1913, to July 1, 1915, tnJ 2uT, dlvorcfs r.rantcd In tho htato, according lo a report compllad I j J. V. Howe, secretary o! tho statu hoarl of control, frotr. tU.tome.;M of clerUa of district cojrU In the statu. Tin 4 shows an increase of 180 prison urs in Jail, and 135 divorces ovor t 'ar aso. The report states that thf-ro woro 025 liquor convictions, of hlch 117 wero In Cherokee county, 101 in i'havw.ea county, &) in Iteno county .mil CI In Kedgwick county. Tho number of prlsoncri In Jail was largest In Shawnee county, wlmro fi'Jl sere (nnflne:!, according to the report, .'"nlgwlek Hhowoil 5 Ul, V.'yandotto 44S, und Montgomory 411. L'onto of tho m.i'lor went em countluj icport a ' irge number o! pr'vonara, probably due to I. W. W. trouble, tho report hor In tho number of divorces grantod '' ', -. Ick county lcida with 29J; Wy .i.1 life, efi-cnd with 27S; Shawnoo, tu, Cruwrord, 1.17. and Caerolfo. 10.1 1 ,n u jrt uhowa thoro n.iro 109 boys uiM'or .'xtoeu, and U9 glrla uitdor hIx trcn. In Jail durinx tho year. ThU lie a amlnoreaso of hlxtcen boys and tnur.i'an glrlH for tho year. PROHIBITION AND LIQUOR REVENUES A correspondent of tho New York Iv.n eallo attention to tho fad that wh.le Intornal rccnuo returns for tho j car ended Juno ."j, 1915, showed a f.'.'l'.tig o.T In tnis on Intoxicating liju-rs. they sho,v an Incroaao for 191t5. Tho falling off was attributed t i the growth cf mhlblllon aoritlmout. 1 ho roport of tlio commisalonor for the fircal year 1910 shows that al though stato-wldo prohibition laws went Into c fleet in January 1, 191 G, In tho Htates of Atkansas, Colorado, Idaho, lowu, Oregon, South Carolina and Washington, with a total popula tion of 9,000,000, thoro has been an lncreaso of J2J,000,000 In thu taxos paid on distilled and fermented liquors, If prohibition was tho cauao of thin docllno In the receipts from Jlqtnr taxes in 1915, was the addition of 9.0'O.oQO population to prohibition terltor) tho runs) of the increase in 1916? the n-,pondciit inquires. Possibly ' ditbtrinl depression rausod the falling off for 1915, and industrial prosperity brought about tho lncreaso for 1910. Who knows? Wilmington Del.) Every Evening. "" ,1,n,ff,,V'f ?l",ftn fl V'innlfl: jzsg :& ml en ur.d a ii!f pertans directly cn - CHURCH ORATOR SAYS LAWS CAN NOT ELIMINATE INTEMPERANCE FUBS QHYS Mn'SUHMY DIBITS E All C ELI 5T A Democrat's Idea of an Ideal watch dog of the Treasury is a Pommeran- Dr. W. R. '.'asson in Address Warns Hirers A.jainst the Mr. Wilson Is now budly engnged Man Who Gbes About tho 'e the other Me ot tLe suffrugu Country With a Patented " Piipp for All Hinmn Ilk The campaign agents who two years buie ior aii Human nis 0K0 wwe liIlslIy enqnKCd thanklllg Go), "i for Wooirow Wilson beem to be tak Tho fo:iow.ng appeared in tho lag their acations Just now. Omaha (N'tb.) flee: It rf.etn ting too much tho law aeoripl!a!'!S nothing. If the American citizen can no be trjftted to handle his own tastes and desires, than citizenship has deter orated. Prtachurs who turn their churched over to political agitators are crippling the po-Aer of thj gospel. How arc of tho type of reformer who gees barking about the coun try ah a patent romedy up hi a!rivc guaranteed to cure all hu man ills Tenp3rance Ik a matter of indi vidual decision. I ery man must wmk out his own salvation. "The prohibition problem. Is a queb- In .,, tf) 2 oos nt -,. lion for every man to dfcclde for hHn-vnPf T,.n Mr , s Wll. ... holf. II If not n quf-Htlon to be passed wnnt hn wth ct t0 the ,,,. on by legislators Intemperance ls,flf T wnltf nn Illinn-f ,. ,. as old as clvlllz-ition and the indl ... ....m.. ....... ................ ,,aIIoti I tay to jou. thai lal who expects to wipe It out by, Mjin(, fftr ,.,, for ,., rnorr- writing : of a law Is deluded Ju,lc t() n , Dr. W It asson of New orV ;Imilll,eil,PC(. of thu rifi victual who expects to wipo it out ny, the said in a foreful address dellvored at All liamt.s' Church Sunday morning. Derating tho bill" Sunday moth- u, .,.,,...,.,. u ...... ""'--voted for Wilson four ygars ago. And liig systems suggeated by ho called., .. ..,.., ., reformers of legllailng tho drink ovll out of existenco and impressing his audience with tho truths of self con troi. v. Ill power and determination, Dr. Wasson concluded his addresH with tho remark. "Tho law goos far enough when It suppresses vlco and erlmo. We require the services of tho police and n.her olncers ot the law, but tho hlg struggle lies witn the ludhldual ' Beware of Reformer. "Snhatlou Is often confounded and coniujcti wun conversion, uonvor j Blon is the llrst stop for tho manr turned In tho right direction. A man Is ant finally sacd until ho Is perfect r in holiness. Thcso bombastic 'convcr- Hlon may uo HKeneii to gotricn quick schemes. No man can ho a lovil ono minutes nnd an angel of light tho next. Wo must work ou our own snlvatlon. Duwaro of the long-haired reformer who goes about tho laud declaring that hn has n pat out dovlcu up his slcovo that will give you salxatlou at u mouiont's notice. jsv ho church and tho mlnlstor can mu savo you from hIu. It Is up to you Knowoldge, doslro and power aro de mauded In tho settlement of salvatioiil as well aH tho tomperanco problems Conscience plays a prominent part Hovelatlon Is tho voice nnd conscioncf tho oar. Salvation is impossible with out eoiibrlenco. Trouble, comes whot men do not net on the knowledge tho lmvo a slmiiated. Their conseloi'eci aro hurdoned. "Thoro is no such thing as total dc pravlty. 'l hero is n spark of goodnes In ovory fian if ou can but reach It Again 1 say, wo must work out outr own salvation rather than having Itr thrust upon us." ...! &fa Editorial Comments If you had two dollars to Invest would you trust it to the business eat-aity of Josephus Daniels? Then. ry let him handle thi million) that arc to be spent on Uie new nav ? Jndsin by the sina of War r -part-men: activity the Administrate n is cunningly arrangln? to brin? the militiamen home Just In time to enable them to vote for Mr. Hughes. A train of thought on i mind has to be composed cars. one-track of khuttie Three years ago Woodrow Wilson was explaining that hard times were psychologies!, but he Isn't trying -to sq.ilrm out of responsibility for the present prosperity. Tlie disaster to the Memphis ciuseti very little excitement, Americans be ing used nowadays to seeing the navy on the rocks. r This DemocraUc Congress has pass- d Into history profane history. to do about lt?M - We see by the Interviews with the Mexican commissioners that the cam paign fclogan this year In the Sonora bandit belt Is "Thank God for Wood row Wllion." ilr. Wilson's eulogy of Lincoln at Hodgonvllle was more literary but less sincere than the one he pro nounced upon himself at Shadow Law n. The new half dollars will have an olive branch on one .side and on the otner nn eagle, in full flight. WIlsou money. Motto of the McAdoo shipping law: "The sun never rises ou the American flag." With Mr. Roosevelt likening his "neutrality" to that of President Wil son and the Houston I'ONt coupling his most famous act with that of a Demo cratic Congress, the late Mr. Pontius Pilate must be basing un uncomfort able time in his grave, if he hau c grave. r Mr. "Wilson used four pens to nfllx his .signature lo the Adamson bill, n souvenir for each of the brotherhood's chief. The public's fcouvenlr will be In the form of an added tax amount ing, say, to fifty million dollnrs a year, or fifty cents n head for every man, woman and child. - ,moti , ,0 , r ,tnni, f , ., ,,. v. i tiiitii mill i - htand for the :lits of all American citizens regardlej.s of race or color." The ,uddoht and ore.t 'people In the land nre the negroes who there were u lot of tin in. ZSHSHSHSSZSHSHSaSHSZSTJ Election of Hughes Means Peace With Honor Not War, Not Peace With Infamy. r "We have lienrd In recent days that the alternathe of the policy of the present Administration Is war. I think the alternative of the present administration Is peace with honor. I am a man devoted to the pursuits of pence. We cheilsh tho Ideals of peace. Wo entertain no thoughts of ag gression; we are not covetous, we nre not exploiters, but we are Americans, and American rights must hu maintained throughout tho world. That Is the cornerstone of our security; that Is the essential basis of pence. We aro not courting struggle, but I do tmy In all serl oumics that wo lmu been living In a period of national humilia tion. f C'Our citizens have been nun dered, their property destroyed and our commerce Interrupted. The alternative of a weak nnd vacillating policy Is not war; It Is a linn insistence on known rights In a world where all na tions desire our filendslilp and we desire the frleniWilp of all, and w hei e only Inexcusable blun dering could drag us Into strife." Charles H. Hughes at Union League Club reception In Now York City, October 3. In WIN, WINE, pVERY WHERE Ph u t, 1..-1 Trj.T.fn. ,Nw Vork City. But all cf this wine is to drlnV. It is for the French warviort at th extrem fcattle-front, and Is but a portion of the immenie supply thAt Is con stantly being furnished the soldiers. This wine, direct from thft famous French vlreyards, Is renowned the world over. nnriTni ITT uncHiyuftni .i rnniQIIMFP N 0 uUSDUmtb m 0 FARCE OF PROHIBITION LAW IS SHOWN BY CONSTANTLY j INCREASING SUPPLY F "WET GOODS" IMPORTED s BY THE COLORADO METROPOLIS 45,555 IMS IB EICHT Ml Citizens' Thirst Grows -Bootlegging Causes Slump in Near Beer Sales -Entire State Follows Example of the Big Town and Gets Unrestricted Amounts Denver (Col ) is pointed to as an In stance of the failure of prohibition It Is claimed that citizens of Colorado are disgusted with the dry law which went into effect .only last January 1 Tho Denver Times saa: From January l to August 1. the f.-st seven mjnths of tho operation Oi the prohibition la In Colorado. 111. 132 shipments of Intoxicating lliuors were received In tle state under pro ision of the statute allowing the Im portation of liquor by an Individual for personal vzo A shipment may ranje from a bo:.!c to a barrel, or even a larger container if any in use for till- purpose. ucgmntng wun January, up iu am including July, the shipments show a steady monthly Increase. Reports j from county clerks to the secretary of ! mate are not coninlste for August, nl-1 tnougn oi me cigntejn couiu.e .-.4. Lake whlcI, startC(1 , jauarj. wth have reported cl;ht show Increases on,y tvem t,Ight shipments and in and ten decreases In number ot ship creage,i ,0 S!4 , Juno amI 753 in Julyi ments. The records of the secretnry i or a l0.al of 3G30 for th(J geveB of state take no note of the quantity months. an.j Larimer, which had 151 of each shipment, n in January and HC In July, or a seven Fair Supply Leftover. j monthi total of 1.9 10. On tho other When the state went "dry" on Jan hand, Here Is Clear Creek, a mlnlnt uary 1 last therj apparently was a fa'.-' county, with a total of SS4 Bhlpmenti, sized supply left over fj-om the "wet" i and Prowers, an agricultural and stock year. This was indicated In tho fart raising county, with 1.3GG for the sev that (lurivs the month ot January only en months. .. . .-.-- .tn..V.f..U) 2.507 shipments or intoxicating liquors j came Into tho state. Tho Increiso bo gan with February. In number of ship ments thoy .ore: February S.S91 m "' ,, , r o? J"., jc no APru May 19.927 June July , 21.004 ' 25.023 Total 111.132 Manufacturers of noar-beer and oth er beer substitutes claim that tholr business was reasonably good up to August, but during that month It foil oft materially. They charge this to an lncreaso of bootlelng. Tho records in the olllce of tho se rotary of stato neither boar out nor disprove this claim, slnco tho counties which have roported for tho month of August nro almost evenly divided between these showing Increases and those showing decreases in liquor Blilpments, whllo .n no case are tho incrcasea or decreases marked. 33 Per Cent of the Liquor. Dor.vor has about 25 per cent of tho population of the state, but, figured on the number of liquor "packages" ban- died by railroads and othor carriers, It has received within a fraction of 3.1 rer cent of nl the liquor shipped Into tho state -"i - - w.... .w. tho first soven months of tho year ag gregated 37,411 out ot the 114,132 for tho wholo stato during tho samo po rlod. Tho Dcnvor liquor shlpraonta have boon compiled for August, and show n I, proccdlng ,. nf ,. is of tho .ero. slight incicaso over tho mouth. 1 or tho nm eight months of tho yoar tho Denver shipments were: January January 802 1 ohruary 2,801 l0,l1 c-ls,! April 6.190' May . . . Juno ... July ... August Total . 0.S7I . 7.3S0 . S.l '3 . C.lll 13,5:5 fP or 1 1 OS GUI LI DV" ncu ! OL A Proportionate Increase. It Is liuercjstlr.g to note that, wlta he exception of the first two monthi j! prohibition llauor shipments recelT ed In Denver an 1 those In other coun .es of the :ute sliow a proportionate , .ncroajo ironth by month. Thus ln Apnl jh'trcenta into Denver approrl w iTu.'.cd aLout one-thiid of tho ahirinenu "I .nto the who..? b.ate, and the ratio costinaeo a3 tae to.als for tho city and state mount month after month. Viewed broadly, no section of thi state may ntakc claim of abitluencc tt the d'ictva.. ta--t at nnv nthor I'vo-f V j cojnt, whct'.er it be given to minlnr or asrieultural or other niirsults. a poors to ha.e its share of citizens witn a thlrat that grows larger monthly. J Some of tho mining counties may b -. shown to be 'wetter" than some agrl cultural counties, as In tho case ol N Same Rate of Increase. With few exceptions tho same rats o' monthly lncreaso to be found in tho figures for tho whole stato and for I b0,n or separately Is also found to ap- Py l " Jdual counties. Pueblo roiintv st irtn.1 ik .l. t-a,r I'uumo county started tho "dry' year with 1 IS liquor shipments for January, (541 for February, 1,355 for March, 1.S09 for April, 1,721 for May, 2,156 for Juno and 2.309 for July. Weld started stiongcr. with 27C for January, 492 for February. C71 for March. 767 for April. 837 for May, 1.109 for June and 1.438 for July. i:i Paso had 176 in January, , IS1 in February. (ISO in March. 841 la April, 924 In May, 1.0 . in Juno and 1.22S In July. Tho records of some ol the othor larger counties are: Douldor January, 145; February. 293; March, 497; April, 718; May, 7S; June S45; July, 931. Delta January, 61; February, 72; March, 105; April. 1 -w; May, 131; Juno, 147; July, IM- yuun mu , , , , , -,,, JIM, "-yV, I romont January, 39; February, 14Ubl March. 222; April, 268; May, 286; Jun,yf 399; July. 417. Iluorfaro January, 45: MS louruary, 1S1; March, 2S5; April. 35H Mav. 2 IS: .Inno. f.fl7- Ttv r.ta i.fr.h on-Jnnunry. 28; February, 35; March, Ul; April. 91; MatlS; Juno, 143; I jiv oo-i t nq ,," " '. r0. February, 201. March 5 Aprl,Vgs7: Mny, U70. j 1,566; July, no re 1 i.riri. i.nirnil .Irmnnr.. nn. r.kmnm 165; Mnreh, 196; April 230: May. 240; Juno, 328; July, 213. Mosa January, 92; February. 150; March, 175; April 222; May. 2"0; Juno, 339: July. 361. Montrose January, 36; Fobruary, 3! Mnrch' 77: Aj,r'1' 13: y "5; Jun ' 1B7. Julyi 1CS Morgan-January, 1545 'j Pobro'",y. 220; March, 219; April, 239 l May, 72. jlul0, 333. July 441 oterJ 1 I January, 106; robruary. 211: March. ; 2JI; April. -37; May, 321; June. 370; J 1 July, 159, Teller -January. 82; Feb- J ninry. 2S7; Maich. 522; ApriU 5S3; & May, CD J. June, SC5: Julv. 695. Pollco and etnto authorities mavec oporatod sinco tho flrat of the year to otcn tho tldo of tllc.il liquor Bales, and thluj t 0 caica will bo prosecuted by tho dUriot nttor.ioy In tho West Sld 10 -it during tho coming wook.