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SCOTT COUN r K I I Vol. XIV BKNTON, MO., APRIL W. 1915. No. 10. IN THE SOUTHEAST. What the People are Doing in Other Counties that are Near. Stoddard Tribune.The body or Frank Wllkcrson who with hi brother, John, robbed the bank of Wllllamsvllle at Willlamsvlle, Mo.. March 1st, and locked the cashier and board or directors in tne bank vault, wnH recovered near Mill Spring yesterday morntnn by two fishermen. The fishermen fou- $570 mostly silver In the clothing. The body was In water about eight feet deep and covered with sand and driftwood only n part of a lep; being visible. At the time Wllkerson drowned the river was hlRh and muddy and Iwlng covered up by sand shortly after he had drowned, dynamite and dragging the river failed to hrlng his body to the top. The river yesterday was clear nnd the two fishermen could see the body at the bottom and had no trouble getting It to thebauk Delta item in Cape Republi-,uri.-Snturdny afternoon the lion Mountain neurit recBin JaekHon Items. A news dis patch lh the St. Louis dailies or Sunday, dated llentonville, Ark. Rtated that on Saturday W. E. Talle.v hail been convicted In the Circuit Court of that city of hav ing received money on deposit ut the time the bank of Rodders. Ark., failed, knowing that the bank was insolvent, and his pun ishment rixed at two j ears in the penitentiary. The bank was clos cdAugust, with liabilities amount ing to $400,000. Talley In former years was a school teacher In i'ape county. When J. E Frank lin began his career us Napoleon of Finance, Talley entered his ser vice.. The Arkansas bank was known as a Franklin bank. Six other employes of the Rodders bank are under Indictment ou the same charge. Dexter Messenirer. Friday and Saturday weic chicken days in Dexter, and it is conservatively estimated that 1125,000 pounds of message from the dispatcncr poultry were Hmravwu " lllino that trainmen had reported ,K these two days. Four ears '. . ivin.r .lend alone- u.it ham on last Sunday, and side the track some nw"j ,io,w,t on the Cotton licit and requcstin:? him to investigate. Two of the depot force jumped on a speeder and. pulled down to nee about It. and when they got there the woman was not dead, but was In a laborous attempt to . hio in the dumn with her head. They soon discovered that she was intoxicated. A man who passed by said he knew the wo man and that she lived at R k view She handed some chou i compliments to the man and swore she never was at Rock Mew in her life. Poplar Bluff Citiien -Charles Randall, a prisoner In the count ll awaiting trial on a charge of robbing the postofflce at Puxleo wa . seriouslyand possibly fatally injured Sunday night at the coun ty Jail by Harry McCoy, nothoi prisoner They reenme Involved n a difficulty during which Mo Cov struch Rnndall with the tot-alr radiators, etriklng him on the face and head The tone the nose was crushed, the sku.. fractured and an ugly flesh wound inflicted. The "kin of the forehead was lacerated until It dropped and Tell down over the yc- tkot the legislature has in creased the pay or supreme court Judges from $4,500 to $7,500 and of appellate court Judges from M500 to so.oco the Jaolwon Casb-Book hopes that the in crease In pay will stlmula tS the radges to "even greuwri : - ... fi.i y.-. muinn nil in nun and hi.o iu nt least three more cars of poultry here In the hands or rWiein ready Tor shipment, or when cars can be secured and Inariad. As near as we can get at It something between $17,000 and $18,000 were paid out to the fcirtneru nt Dexter on these two .inn fnr live MoiJltrv. and some thing over a car loan oi eggs o mniintintr i'l round figures to aft DOn were marketed here. It was the biggest two pouivij ever seen In Dexter, anu tne price was away above that oi norma: years. tinvti Critic The democratic platform demanded retrenchment nii,. affairs, and we got it where Billy Patterson hit Mike OConnell. in the neck. Twenty years ago we had a congress that appropriated nearly a bil lion dollars. Do you remember how we kicked? The congress Just closed, appropriated almost two and a quarter billion dollars and they can not be charged with throwing any of it away ou necessities of life for the poor. It all goes for the buncoinb, for the buncomen St. Louis Labor. The St. . ., v , ; . nut will If.' To spend an oi m arlll reoulre more onge'r vacations. If there Is any MM the Jobholders know how to do, it is to increase their pa Think of a block-headed congress man or a Judge drawing ; $JD i n day while the laborer who pa.vs it In luckey to ttJtXfiO, Pemiscot" Argus. J. E LaDuke of Blythesvllle. Ark., was a caliei at our office Monday. He said that financial cond'tions among the farmers there was n w. Wvct ill -it Tot only refusing credit for sup plies Tor the Doming - L " Jl i tlcinir stock, tools and farming implements from taWMW on last year's accounts. He aid several farmeis h'd 1o d him that much land would lie out tins year on account of inability of tenants to secure help to culti vate crops. The Mnssichuse'r'B legislature voted down a resolution calling upon President Wilson to issue an order prohibiting exportation or arms and ammunition to the war ring nations ol Lurcpe. Of course The way to stop var is not to quit Belling war material and food to the fighters. That would interfere with Lusiness. The bet ter plan is to set asiJe an occas ional Sunday und i r y Tor peace. Then, on Monday, ship out more guns and animuii. ..on and lood. . Stoddard Tribune. William Slo a vounir man about 25 years I'M old. was killed at Perkins in at Tuesdav morning J freight train on the Cotton Belt He had left home ai Randals the day before su; posed y '' Capo Girardeau, and it is thought by his neighbors lint he w-s r tying to get back home n a freight train and fell off. His body was found early Tue .! y moin.ng In a horribly mangled condition. Louis Court of Appeals has nmua the setting aside of the $l.uui erdlct agalnat nn uamer oi vur Scott County Iv-lCKer. mt ' deep gloom among the Democrat- lc politicians oi eicoii voum.j, they will have to pay sue .n and find themselves stampcu o engineering a uoei suit t-uat uv, no foundation in met. iui- ""b- nal verdict was secureu irwui hand-picked Jury or the court house clique. Maiden Merit.-M'hi'e sound oalrnn In his home, located in the east part of town, George Allen was robbed or ji.oo.bu rimj night of last week. Before retir ing he took the money off his per ,.?. a .,uttin it in grip in whore there was a blue flannel shirt and a rasor. muuiua.. morning Mr. Allen rouna tne . .,. In the rear of his yard robbed of Its contents. A new law In West Virginia makes it cost a political party about $30,000 to put out state and county tickets. The la vv w aimed at the Socialists, nut. then. Us a 'ice country. A 0J political party that has not tli backing of the rich corporations don't have to put out a tuke.. . lbort Riggs, a rerryman nt Bird's Point is milting and It is supposed that he was drowned His gasoline launch wus caught floating down the river ten mi.es below. The river was dragged for the body without success. Riggs has a wife and three child ren. Aunt Harriet Hopkius. a colored woman said to be 104 years old. died at the home of her son in Jackson last week. She came to Jackson from the 6outh in the early sixties, and old settlers say she was about 50 years old then. Her exact age is not known ..... Federal Judge Pollock declares the migratory bird law to be un constitutional. He holds that 6ep erate states only ha.e the right to enact laws to protect game. . . . If you want the truth, you must read the unmuzzled Kicker. THE "NIGHT-RIDERS." The seven so-called night-riders arretted laet week were taken to Sikeston tor their preliminary tri al berore Justice Parsons Friday, and were remanded back to Jail In default of $2,000 bond each. But Just why these poor, ignor ant devils, most of whoai can nei ther read or write, should be de clared tov te "night-riders" I do not know. Nirht-riders have hor- I ses on which to ride, but these fel lows appear to be too poor to own a dog. While I have not allowed my self to suspect that this affair may, to some extent, bo a frame- up to frighten the tenant farmers vi ho are organizing in the lower end of the county, yet the press dispatch sent out of Sikeston on the day nrter arrest, woum jus- tiry suspicion. The dispatch starts orr Twelve FARMERS and labor ers were arrested here last night at the residence of J. C. Harris, after they had organized a night riders' association and writing threatening letters to land-owners and to the Scott County Milling Company." Can you draw any other conclu sion from the above except that the men arrested were farmers and rami laborers? Vet they all lived In town and worked, when they had work, at the mills nnd factories, or at other common la bor. So far as I was able to learn during my brief Interview lrfst week, not one or them is engaged In farming. I accept with a great deal or caution, any alleged facts estab lished by detectives. They are often more crooked than their victims. What happened at Sikes ton after the arrival of the de tectives Is not at all unusual. Ig norance and poverty Is quick to fall into such a trap. The ugly feature Is the threat ening letters alleged to have been received before the arrival of the detectives. However, If such let ters were received and I believe thev were it was the work of in- dlMduals, as it seems clear that there was no kind of organisation formed until after the arrival oi the detectives, and the organiza tion was wholly their child. Yet "the law" turns the organizers loose and holds the organized 1 People who have watched th? slimv work or detectives despise them. It is known that In many oncoH thev hnve sworn away the liberty and the lives or men for a reward. They usually encour age crime, help to commit it, and then appear as witnesses against their victims. Among the miners of Pennsylva nia, many years ago. Detective McPartland wormed himself Into an organization known as the Mollie McGulres. He worked him self up as leader and, after plan ning and helping them commit many atrocious crimes, he turned Informer and caused about twenty of his Ignorant dupes to be hung. Rut McPartland got a "reputa tion" and is still a detective. But he came near losing his "reputa tion" when he undertook to rail road Moyer, Haywood and Pettl bone to the gallows on the "con fession" of Harry Orchard. That I am not alone In my low opinion of detectives Is evident imm the comment of the Illmo Jlmplicute on the Sikeston affair. Editor Purceu is a mwaiwiw' man or many years vxpvriviwvi says: If the only evioence me oimc has is these two detectives, some one is liable to get into trouoic. wv. rinnVit if thpre is one man in what It was erncked Up to he, and set out in quest of a little easy money, lie carried sni.uui) life insurance in old line and fra ternal societies. Turley died nnd his body was cremated. Demand was mode for the Insurance money. Huspectinir something wrong, the Insurance concerns began an Investigation. And here is what developed: A conspiracy was framed up be tween Turley, his wife, the coro ner and an undertaker. Turley disappeared and lived on a farm in obscurity. The body that was eremated was that of a pauper whose features resembled Turley. The undertaker confessed. of what I 25 in Scott county who would be lieve one or these imported dete" tl oh on oath. Wo know- we wou'.d not." It was detectives wno iramcu up an "anarch st plot" In New vork onlv last month to have a DOUple o' half-witted boys to place a thing they called a bomb in a chur sh w here the rich "wor hipped," ami the newspapers or the entire nation screamed about how detectives dressed as scrub .vomen, toUtd the destardly plot tn Mnw 11 Tl the rich. Now it de- ..inies that the boys were of detectives who to "pull the legs" of the rich, aud according to the state's attorney, the bomb would not have blown out the panel of a pew. the wanted George Stehr Has Opend Up a New Blacksmith and Wagon Shop Oi his Lot, Opposite Public School, Oran. mfl am prepared to do all kinds of work in my line at reasonable priees. Horse -Shoeing a specialty. GEORGb STEHR, ORAN THT HOLY INCENTIVE. The trouble with our Industrial system lies in the fact that the necessaries are produced prima rily for profit and not for use. ThV country may be overflowing with food and clothing, yet If you . . -.,.. r i i arc not a oie 10 paj " you oau starve and rreeze. ThnvP n ie thaae who belies e that the necessaries or life should , THE LAND LEAGUE. The Land League of America, seems to be spreading rapidly in this section. Last week the Kick er rejiorted three active locals in the southern part of the county, and now there are Tour. The Hrst local was organized in Mississippi county last week, and the move ment is expected to cover rack rented Southeast Missouri berore the crop season is Tnr odvanced. There are renters unions In Dunklin county, but these seem to be local affairs not affllllated with the national organisation. In Pemiscot county the old Farm er educational and OoOpiratlva Unions is beine revived. The far mers in the lower counties reel that they need something, but haven't yet got hold oT the real thing, and the papers that "keep them posted" are not going to give them any inrormation. No doubt all will finally merge Into the Land League as spon as they understand. Last week the Kicker gave you the outlines of what the Land League proposes to accomplish. Therefore It Is In order to give their Idea of how they propose to bring It about. Here is their program : "To secure Justice, end oppi-es-sion and realize the golden rule we pledge ourselves to use all lawful means at our disposal, whether it be by suggestion or demand upon governmental pow ers or by co-operative action of the membership, to attain the ends stated herewith : 1. To abolish the unlimited ownership of land and to that end we advocate amendments to the various state constitutions that will provide that all land he'd out of use or for speculative pur noses be taxed to its full rental value. 2. To abolish any system of farm tenure whereby the landlord receives an amount that equals more than one-third the grain and one-fourth the cotton. 8. To secure more conenient and sanitary dwellings and out buildings and modern Improve incuts for tenants. 4. To educate our membership in scientific agriculture and se cure the co-operation of land owners with our membership in the rotation of crops and other modern methods of conserving en ergy and fertility of the soil. 5. To prevent a tenant from be Ing forced to cultivate more land than he can reasonably work without the excessive labor of his wire and children, and. In fact to educate all our membership in more intensive farmlnrt. 6. To prevent the planting or an excessive amount ol any one pro duct, and to secure the co-operation of all interested parties in such proper diversification as will cause each farmer to raise as nearly as possible his own living. 7. To educate our membership to iook upon the credit system us a curse and to secure such rental trading and marketing contracts as will allow each farmer to con trol h s own products. 8 In order that home life may be made brighter and more secure we demand a more Just and per manent rent contract so that the tenant may not be dismissed without good and sufficient reas 0I9. To co-operate with all othe; w orkingmen's organizations to e cure letter conditions for our class, lnciuuius iuc unv- produce from farmer to consumer. 10. To striKe at tue ivu and industrial combines that fix low prices for raw products and high prices for finished products we advocate co-operative buying and selling systems. ware-houee. gins, compresses, oil mills, cotton mills ami other industries and in stitutions related to the farm. ten works the reverse the people wanted. Take, Tor instance, your inii trust laws. When the Sherman anti-trust law Was enacted, ever? body thought we would hold the big trusts now; aud nobody ever dreamed that this law would be twisted so as to apply effectively to organized labor- the '111110: trust", as the courts have declar ed It. Rut it has leen applied eN fectlvely nowhere else. Why not admit the truth'.' Why not remove the sham and hypocri sy and look at things as they arc.' What use have we for law-makers whose laws are of no erfect un less approved by the federal jud ges appointed by the powers of plutocrasy? WHY WONT PEOPLE SEE? Whv will iot le. intel ment peo ple, Insist on being blind to plain facts that anyone WOO 100 u ni.i see? We are having what we call "hard times," nnd the wise men tell us it is caused by the drougth or last year, the war In Europe the Democratic administration, and so on none of which is re sponsible lor the general depres sion. In individual cases the drought may have hurt, but the general crop conditions last year was not bad. The wne.it crop was the largest ever known. The lo cal pea and pea hay crop was good, tmly corn suffered. That the corn crop failure was not si bad is proven by the the mnrket price is at FROM A MOTHER. THE INJUSTICE OF IT. I Editor Kicker. 1 nave ceen jr Kutn 1 ameron. tonrilnt vour 1 inner a long lime oaian .s 1 ue weaker vessel ami think you keep telling tin , least so everyone has been aay peoplea whole lot of truth. Now Ing for the lost million years or I want to nsk you a few quest- so nnd yet, again nnd again, the lons- (weaker vessel is called upon to We have several slot machines ' stand the greater strain, in our town. Some are poker and j I am thinking especially, Just all are gambling. 1 hue children , now. of the home service which and I hear my loy sometifte , working women are so frequently plays them. Would It be asking j called upon to render. When a too much of you to give the pub- woman goes out into the business lie a little light ou the question. world and works all day long to We have some grand jurymen earn her living, and turns in part selected from our town and they 0f her wages to the family budget may lenrn their duty. We also she ought to receive the same im have two or three negroes here . mun'ty from home care which Ik who nmke it a business of brinu- Riven as a matter of course to Ing in whiskey aud peddling it. ; her father and brothers. There ought to be some way to I And yet what one of us doesn't stop this. We have a W. O. T. V know of a dozen cases when- wri hcre. but they don t have time to 1 men. Just because they are wo bother about that. men. and presumably the weaker Commerce is a nice place to live vessel, are asked to bear a dou- if neonle would live nice, 1 Tegret jbie burden to see so mucti meanness ueiun my children. I would Sign m name if 1 was not afraid of mj husband. Commerce, Mo., March 'Si. . . I regret that there is a v. anywhere who must rear ti.t man who has sworn to love, provide for and protect her. But until woman is made economically and politically free, it will be BO, s to the grand juiy you are mistaken. Only a ict;t jurv has been drawn. c-lot machines arc illegal ana permitted to operate only because fact thatH nf the indifference of those whose no higher 1 ,iutv it is to sunnresa them. As than it has been for several years for noot-leggiug," th.it is also a Last week i.eo Btenr, wno is 1 violation of law. ana not so easnj farming near Redman, was in tne Kicker office ard we discussed the "hard times" and the destitute condition of the farmers In the Sandy woods territory. I asked : "Thev made the best wtic.it cr op ever known in Sandy woods. didn't they-.' "Yes." "Made about double tiie usual average?" "Yes." "And their pea crop was rinc'." "Yes, but the corn crop was a failure." "Well, you raise three crops, wheat, corn and peas, and there is seldom a season that not one or the other or these is a failure. He admitted this. Hence then must be some other reason besides discovered as the slot machine PersnnallT. 1 do not object to I know a young girl who works at h gh tension for eight and a hni" dours a dav In a very strenu ous bus nes office. She comes home utterly exhausted. Home ought to mean absolute re-d to her but it doesn't. Slie must spur bersel! on to the task of helping her mother get the supper and c.eir :i away. A younger brother who In doing some easy office work wh'ch doesn't take half his energy s far more able to work thur; she. but no one thinks of ex pert ng hini to. 1 asked his moth er once why Gertrude always helped With the dishes and Chnr le never did. "Why. Ciarlie is a I bo.v she sa'.d "why Should he?" Aga n at this very moment, I 'can th nk of two cases where wo men are worKing eignt or nine hours a day in business offlOSS and the slot machine any more tnan 1 lectins as convalescent nurses to do to the 'church raffle" or the gome member of the family at piano or automobile "contests" in I n'ght. In both cases there are BUguratcd by the merchants. The male members of the fam'ly who, moral effect is the same a game 1 by reason of being male the or chance, Jut as in all "bui- stronger vessel are cons dered immune "rom sucn worK. ann in both cases, altho it might be a strr. n on the family finances to out I pay an attendant, there is no doubt that that wo ild be done n the cho ce lay between that and ask ng the father or brother to do what the daughter is doing. ncss.' the corn crop failure, lorn crops have burned up before in Sandy woods, but the people did not suf rer as now Then there is that story about the war causing it. Everyooaj j who knows anything about it Knows that when there i war. the nations not at war have greater demand lor food, clotnll g leather, ammunition and other war supplies. Ho you re member how the Boar war in South frica Jumped the price of our horses from about forty dol lars to about a hundred and the price has remained up ever since Don't you see the agents of France. Germany and England amou'j us every day buying noises and other supplies? It is my opinion that if it were not for the war. this country would be much worse "on the bum" than it is. s far the Democratic adminis tration, it is responsible to the extent that It is eat. Itallstlc. The same condition would e.vist under any administration run in the in terest or the capitalist class. The cause lies deeper in the system itse.r. s machinery be g'an to displace human labor we had periodical panics." The workers aie both the producers and consumers. When the work ers produced a great deal more h in 'he Ir scant wages would buy back, a ' panic" set in. The p'.u'.c rniici it "over-nroductlon." Th- w orkers h d produced too mucn :eu to help an 1 were tluvc ore. turneu ouv w i0n, monev A SOCIAL REFORMER. The Social Reformer set bi thei.v upon his selappolnte I task of abolishing poverty. H j came upon a politician aud asked Ife'j aid. I Too bad. Old man " replied the 1'OMHMUU. 1 MIUUIU "- I ' l.ge you, but poverty is not an is-1 sue Just now. I'm n'ra;d you Wll have to mo e on." WHERE WE ARE AT. 1 would be very thanklul ir the vv ise ones would explain what use we have Tor a national congress and State legislature.? What service do they perrorni be produced ror use only, and that except to eomsumt the people's the profit system is criminal and money? The courts have usurped should be abolished, 'men mere are others who believe tnat 11 tne profit system should be abolished every body would be lazy and cease to produce. They seem to think that there would be noth ing doing if people ceased to rob each other. "There would be no incentive to stimulate our beet eftorte." thwy say. They do not seem to realise that the "incentive" nec essary to succeed under the ex isting order is the Incentive of the bog. I have Just read a press die patch from Denver, Colo., telling of a business transaction that caused these remarks. This par ticular transaction Is not differ ent from like transactions that we read of every day. Last fall Val. Turley, a Denver furniture dealer, discovered that Democratic prosperity was not the power to nullify their acts then why not abolish these ex pensive pretenses of a government of and by the people and admit the truth? What is the truth? Why, the unvarnished truth ie, that we live under an irresponsible despotism, with federal judges, not elected by the people, in possession of the despotic power. What does It matter what kind of laws your so-called represen tatives in congress or state leg islatures may enact, so long as the courts of the privileged class may nullify them? In the first place, your so-called representatives are not likely to enact any law that is of benefit to the masses, except under ex treme pressure of an aroused p co lic starve far the want of the things they had produce. 1. 1 half century ago these panics appeared about every 20 years but as machinery has more and more Increased productiveness and displaced men. the panic per iods multiplied until NOW IT HAS BECOME CHROMIC. Let me illustrate what I mean. Deface the appearance or the fac tory it was a big day's work far a man to make a pair or shoes. Today the factory turns out twelve pairs far every man, wo man and child employed. The same is true of every other oc cupation including the up-to-date farm. Mfii-hinerv is doillil the work w hile the men. women and child ren who formerly did it are tramping the country in the hopeless persuit or a Job. Finding all doors closed wej become desperate, commit crimes. or suicide, or go insane. The Democrats of the South are getting awfully good and pious. Down In Alabama it is against the law to sell a newspaper or magazine containing a liquor ad vertisement, even though the pub llcatlon ie printed outside the state. But they still arrest as vagrants men who can find 110 work and place them on the plan tations to work under conditions ae bad or worse than peonage. If you want to find a man with the dust of the cave not yet removed from his back, hunt up a Demo cratic statesman. Thp soe ai Reformer went on a I bit farther and met a physician. He asked the Physician to help. Real y. good Sir," replied the Phys clan, 'you Will have to ex cuse me without poverty I should have to go out o' b s ncss. for it 's the eause Of many of tiie dis eases I am cnl'ed u;on to treat.' The Soe al Reformer went on B bit farther and met a Sdanufac turer. whose a d he solicited. Can't do it 'it a!, sir deciared the Manu acturer emphatically "It would be ruinous to my busi ness. Without poverty 1 could not hre little children or secure adults at such low wages. Yo w'P have to move on sir." The Sue al Re'ormer moved on fariher and came upon a Ch'. i'y Worker whose help he requested. "I cannot denj ;hnt t would be a good thirg in a way." replied the Char t.v worker, "but 1 can not asset you. You see there is a vast quantity o' capita) Invest ed n this and other charity or Sanitations, ai-o they employ a great many people and uc.' great many others an opportuni ty to ease the r conscience through contr b itions. Witlioit poverty, o' course, all this effort would be w nsted" The Sec ai Re'ormer moved "! 'aitter. and, meeting a Pauper, asked u in to help him t abo Nh poverty . splend d idea " a 1 ed I lie Pa imer. 'and 1 should be de e '- but as l an e 11c 1 m nor Influence, there is uo'b ng I ca.. do." The Roc al Reformer and at i:-si a unt moving. Li: e. moved 01 VV 'S si The country has more law breakers tlinn law-makers. How can we ever expect to fici ' good I at that rate? COST OF CHILD LABOR. From address by I- W. Hine. A 5,000-mile proces-ion o' child workers la asking us I! we can af ford child labor. If I can show you b it a part o' that procession which 1 have fallowed from the canneries of Maine to the cotton ;e!ds of Texas, they Will tell you what child laboi has cost them, what it costs their ' mil es what it costs industry what X costs SOClaty YOU AND ME and they wl'.l ask you. "Does ;t pay?" Trey start o'f with happy hearts and happy faces, for work : is 'un at first, bit a machine tears at one child's body; coal dust smothers another; eye strain and body- train arrests ' their development ; their joy ceases- They are ready 'or the hu man junk-piie. and who 'oots the ' bills? E en if they escape physical harm, can thev escape the mental and moral taint o" Illiteracy, of ' leadening monotony, o' close ac quittance with vice and crime? The news e on the street gambles and knows "the underworld;" the messenger-boy on hs wheel 1 carr'es notes to and from the red light districts. The major ty of ihe boys in our Juvenile courts have been street-workers i they hne tampered with the mora! ilUTZ-9tW i So. f industry s.n es by child ibi r, society pay-, because child labor works in a i'lc 1 u ye by inndequently piep rlira children 'or ' fe and hand eapp 'i c 'hem for U1 ite work an I th" rearing of her own 'ami lies ' n ' 1 try has stooped pretty low when t draws rn our-year-oldh c M n v tho'r parenis'wuges below the point of tupport by employ art children. 11 robs children of b m play I time and health and makes iua terial for the Institut'ons society builds 'or the sick .11 m nd and b y The expense society should Charge to child labor wc cannot en '1 ul.'ite. It Is a ga-lorloue 'civilisation" that drives men Into police court to beg to be sentenced to prison where they may get warmth and And even then the proposed , food. Yet this is happening every measure Is emasculated and filled day In this land of plenty, with "Jokers" so that the law of- Head the uumuccied Kicker. Of Interest to Farmers Money Saved by Buying Farm Implements, Wagons, Buggies and Furniture of R. 6. Heuchan & Son Commerce, Mo. e Terms on Wheat and Hay Ma chinery and binder twine until after harvest. On corn machi nery until November 1. All kinds of extras for Acme Harvesters, and sections and guard -plates for all other Binders and Mowers Also UNDERTAKERS' SUPPLIES