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THE WELMINGTON MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JANUARY 8. 11)08. PRECIPITATED THE hW Run Upon the Largs Trust Com panies Ci , I Statomont Made by K. G. Dun &j o in Annual JScvj-vv or Trade. until ii u in n .ii.),imi',l A lilOt 11 Premium on Currency When Most Needed. New York. Decemlr 31. The- withdrawal of $125,000,000 from n) few large trust companies, precipitate ing a season of hoarding and send-j ing currency to a premium at a time when it was most needed, through- out the country, is credited in R. G.' Dun and Company's annual review! of trade, published tomorrow, -with' having been one of the greatest fac-J tors in turning the year 1007 fromj its promise of new records in pros-! perfty to a closing period of financial champagnes were selling at half-dis-Virbance that, caused man? plans' price and "even cheaper. Many vas for future extensions of business to be either abandoned or postponed. Thr restoration of normal conditions the. review declares, depends upon easier money and a revival of confi dence, both 'of which seem "hearer to day than at any time sinee October when the "stringency began. While failures were frequent during the last Miartcr of the year, 'the review point:-: otit that if the comparison is carried "back to previous periods of 'distre ss., 'there is much cause for con gratulation in the insolvency re turns. "The Review says in part: "Although in many cases the size of croifc- in 1007 fell below some pre ceding years. Inch prices made thej return to the farmer much larger than Tver before to some extent short crops in other countries ac count d for the high prices, notably in th case of wheat, for which for eigners were willing to pay more than a dollar per brinhel during the closing months. "Adding the value of cotton, meals, dairy products, poultry, eggs, and all other itemsraised by the ag- ricii'lturist. the year's total attainsj the phenomenal value ot .?.4'M). 000.000. "Cotton has rured at a high po sition throughout the year, while the latest statistics of the crop indi-j cate a yield of 12,000,000 bales on 10 per cent, less 1 nan the high rec-j cord established in the previous, vious year. The old crop year ended! on August 31st with the largest to-j tal ever harvested' and with exportsj exceeding all other years except 1007, as to quantity, while the high; average export price of 10.7 cents per pound this year, raised the tota'ij value "70.000,000 above the prev-I vious high water -mark established; two yeirs earlier when the average, price v jus about 2 cents per pounds - j TOKPEDO BOATS AT PARA Plot ilia Had Rough Voyage Ts Fire Days Behind Schedule. Para, Brazil. December 31. The tor-. pedo luat flotilla, which is preceding, the battleship fleet to the Pacific coast,' arrived here today from Port of Spain,! Trinidad. Tha flotilla had a ro lgh voyage, en countering head seas, iid was delayed . one day on the run by bad weather. The transports Arethusa and Sterl ing arrived here yesterday and fromj ihem the flotilla will take coal and! supplies. The torpedo boats will leavei hero January 3 for Pernimbuco. They; 'are five days behind their original schedule. Para is on The Para river, about j sixty r.riles from the sea. It is a mod-) 'ern city of broad at;d well-paved, stii'i'U, isui riUMiiieu i iie;itum iuuu suburos and has a population of 75, 000. It is an important shipping port and hr. ;. fairly good harbor. The tor : pedo boats will remain there several - day.. Af WV I.IVIX KX).St;KHED ftnldiiv; Badly Wrecked lv Iy Miscreant . Thrown New York. Dec. 31. A bomb thrown -against the front of a two story frame "building1 in East 11$ street in the .Tironx yurly today, badly wrecked the -builrlin? and endangered the lives of Height tcrsons asleep therein. A fish vtore kjpt by Joseph Raen on the first -floor as almost demolished and his Tiving room back of the store was rwreck.'d. A door was? blown off it3 3tinres and striking Mrs. Marie Bot- tisimo, Rjien's daughter on the 'head,! inlicteh a painful wound. The ceilings in a tenement in the upper irart of the building occupied by a family of six persons were torn down by the explosion but the family wis not injured. Raen has asked the police to seaci for his son-in-law. Antonio Bottisino, who he said, had threatened to blow! ip the store because his wife had left him and taken refuge with hed father WILL MARRY MISS WHALEY. Cooke Expresses His Intention of Re turning East. San Francisco, December :!. Tfe? Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, who disappeared from his residence when his identification became known, to gether with his young companion. Florotta Whaley. and their baby is ptayii?g at the home of a friend where they are comfortably situated In an interview last night Cooke said he will return east as soon as he can get enough money together t travel and as soon as matters can be arranged he will marry Miss Wha ley. It 5s expected that the g and mother of the young lady will send her the funds necessary to return east. The no'ice are not looking for Cooke, although dispatches from Xew York say that there is a war rant for the eloping preacher's ar rest on the charge of abduction, and that the local authorities will be ask ed to find and bold the fugitive. j BIRMINGHAM SALOONLESS. Citizens Take Advantage of Low 1'rices and Lay in Stock of Liquor. -Montgomery, Ala., December 31. A special from Haynesville, Ala., says : managers of dispensaries at Havnes- I ville and Fort Deposit will begin a test tomorrow for the eonstitutional- ity of tfcw local eitiei law in this ! county. In an election Lowdnes re - cently went dry. The dispensers will tender their license monev to the probate judge tomorrow. In event c uie uisjiiEors, u is un derstood, will continue business thereby putting the state in the at titude of complainant. Birmingham, Ala., December 31. At midnight the existence of saloons in Birmingham and Jeffersoncounty tne largest county in the state, tcr- minated. It is estimated that more than two hundred and fifty establlsh- ments are affected, At many places today brandies and ui liquors nave oeen delivered to private residences and stocks on hand with the dealers are small. The large number of the best saloons in the heart of the city have teen rent ed, but many places which have brought $100 to $125 a month will not bring half that amount. Tonight was the time et for the prohibition to go into effect in the counties in Alabama, in which local option elections have been held dur ing the year. Crenshaw county was added to the prohibition ranks today, making fifty counties in the state whicn closed the doors, of the saloons permanently tonight. This leaves seventeen counties in the state from which liquor can be sold for another year. : PROMISE ITI.Fn.LED. Now Year's Eve tYio Noisest Evev Witnessed rn New York. New York. December 31. With hearts as light as the confetti that swirled, blizzard like about the 1 road way railroad route, Xew York ers tore the last leaf from the cal endar of 19 07 tonight and set their faces toward the new year. Of all the boisterous new year's ' ves there never was one more noisy and hilarious. Early today the word was sent out from Police Commis sioner Bingham's office "Let the crowds have a -good time. Suppress rowdyism, but -allow them to make a noise." It had been promised that to night's demonstration would 'he the noisest ever heard and the vvnole thing came off as advertised. Early in the evening the fun began, ear drum splitting horns, cowbells and every other din-producing advice that the cult of hucksters "has dis- covered, sounuing in nornoie ais sonance and Increasing in volume un til the midnight climax, when shriek ing whistles, pealing bells and snouts from a million throats marked the passing of the old and the advent of the new year. TnmVht'?! r fl ohm firm rvict "Trw Yorkers about three quarters-of a million dollars. COTTON MILES CLOSE DOW X. Action Taken in Accordance With Agreement to Curtail Production. Providence, R. I., Decerhber SI. -The cotton mills of B. B. and R. Knight, in Providence, "Woonsocket, Arctic, Nick, Pontiac, Lippitt, "River Point, White Ttock, and Jackson. R. I., and at Dodgville, Hebronville, Keadville and "Manchaug, Mass., Shut down tonight until next week.' The Knight mills, which employ 7,000 hands, will continue a policy of cur tailment with o'. er mills in this state during January and February. It is oxpeeteu that the Manton, Riverside, Valley, National and Pro vidence mills of the American Wool en company, employing 10,000 opera tives, which have been closed for several days will resume work to morrow. Nassau, N. TL, December 3 1. Be ginning next Monday, the cotton mill of the Nashua Manufacturing and the Jackson company of this city will -go - forty hour a week schedule. The; mills will be run eight hours a day, five days a week, closing all day Saturday. About 4,000 operatives are effected. B I SHOP ANTREWS DEAD Distinguished Methodist Divine Pass-t-d Away Yesterday Morning. New York, December 31. Bit-hop Edward G. Andrews of the Metho dist Episcopal chnrch died at his home in Brooklyn at 5 o'clock this morning. Bishop Andrews, who was S2 years old, contracted a severe cold while attending the '.bishop's confer ence and the meetings of the home and foreign mission boards of his church at San Francisco last October and a general breakdown followed. Bishop Andrews for aearly half a century was one of the most widely known clergymen in the United States. He was formerly pastor of several large churches in the Xev York conference. Born in Cen tral New York, he studied for the ministry in Wesleyan college. For several years before entering the ministery he was president of Caseenova academy in this state. He was chosen bishop in 1872 and in 1904 was relieved of many duties i.nd placed on the retired list. He con tinued to take important part in the councils of the church until the last. Bishop Andrews Is survived by a widow, one son and three daughters. Following The McKinley Policy. When President McKinley asked Judge Taft to take the responsible position of governor general of the Philippines, he told him it would make him president. In every step Mr. Taft has taken with reference to the Philippines, he has followed the poli cies laid down by President McKinley, and as a result, his administration of Philipr?ne affairs has been so suc cessful that it has filled the entire civilized world with wonder. Durham Sun. ADDRESS OX RACE QUESTION. Sleaker Declared Present Genera tion is Relapsing into Savagery. Savannah, Ga., December Tzlc- Thomas M. Norwood, forme gressman and ex-United States sena tor from Georgia, delivered a re markable address upon the race ques tion today, the occasion being his retirement from the bench of the I clt court, a place he had occupied J for 12 years. The judge said that after investi gation and long contact with the ne gro as a defendant in his court, he had reached the conclusion that the blacks are incapable of receiv ing and using more than the rudiments of an education. The nesro as a slave was cared for by the white man, he said, but the present generation is retro grading to the status of the savage and is ruled by force. This is shown by the constant disregard of laws, repeated resistance of ariest and shooting down of white men who at tempt to control them. The mulatto is the curse of both the white and negro race in the south said Judge Norwood. They stir the others to deeds of violence and ere- ate discord. Illicit miscegenation he held, should be repressed by the most vigorous laws. It should be made a capital offense, the guilty man handed and the woman sent to the penitentiary for life. AX EXTRA SLSSIOX .S4nu- MMisiblc Pre Comments on Hie .Miu it uist ujseti .2esiioii. Maj. H. A. London, editor of the Chatham Record, one of the wisest and ablest democrats in the state. takes the same view of an extra ses a ses cently sion of the legislature as was recen expressed by the .sun. m tne last iy- sue of his paper, he Chatham Record, Major london says: "When the legislature meets in ex- tra session next month, as now seems certain, we hope that it will promptly transact the business for which it is called and adjourn without attempting any legislation of any other matters. "While there may be some other matters that might be legislated on without detriment to the public, yet such can wait until the next regular session." Some sense and wisdom in that. And in view of the talk about the special session pastdng a state prohi bition law it is interesting to note that the author of the foregoing was also the author of the temperance measure introduced in the legislature two or three terms back, known as the "London BiTI," and for which all the temperance organizations fought. There is no truer temperance man in the state than Major London. Another expression, and another view of the special session, which is also sensible and to the point, is tak en by the Salisbury Evening Post wdiose brignt young editor is a mem ber of the legislature, in the following: "It is announced by Governor Glenn that he will assemble the legislature in extra session some time between the 5th and 15th of January for the purpose agreed upon with railroadss. The Raleigh dispatch continues that "the governor said there is a demand that the agitation of this railroad rate question be stopped, that business is being hurt, 1 he is told by business men and if the agreement i? ratified by the legislature the roads can then borrow money which they need to carry on extensive work of improve ments." "It Is to Governor Glenn's credit that he has regard for the opinion of the business men who have advised of the hurtful effect of legislation hostile to the railroads and a most encourag ing token of future soberness that the pendulum is again swinging normally. As wa bnve V.rpfofnrp rVsprved thfi I state of North Carolina is not alone responsible for the depression of rail- road securities but the action of the legislature in making a rate which the : railroads declare is confiscatory un- questionably contribute to the trouble, j We have learned at pretty steep price that. conservatism in making laws as in all numan anairs is xne sciiesv ?uindard. "Onr pvnf-Tipnee in Ipedslatine rail- J raods may all prove a blessing j in disguise since it has demonstrated thtxt the people of North Carolina will not indorse injustice whatever affect ing corporations or the individual." New Bern Stm. First Dry Sim da j m New Orleans Ner-v Orleans Sunday experienced its first really "dry" Sunday in many years. Saloons that ?have been doing j business every day in the year lor a decade or more, did not attempt to open xheir doors, while the police were peculiarly active against the few who did. Out of the sixteen hundred barroom in the city, there were only twenty arrests, and these ere mostly plaees in the suburbs. The big down towwn saloons and the restaurants and cafes made no effort to sell. New Or leans dispatch to Raleigh -Tliaes. Who Pays the Bill? Who is paying the immense sum which it must cost to send broadcast throughout the -country the book writ ten by Chancellor Day, of Syracuse, N. Y., University, in which he attacks the Roosevelt policies and lauds the Standard Oil Company to the skies? We don't know. But we do know ths,t Appleton & Co., the publishers, are not printing an expensive book and send ing it out free just for their health Durham Sun. If those who vote for prohibition In order to get the stuff out of their way would not put themselves to so much trouble to get It afterwards the thing would work out better. Durham Her ald. T pjssEffita mte pswl JTZS Hearing at Wil'mington Postponed Indefinitely Work on Masonic Temple !rocr:::--Mowljr Final Arrangements Made for Paying Spanish War Soldiers. Regards for rti2itle From jU3 - Charters Issued. Messenger Bureau Raleiyh. Dx 31. Governor Glenn was notified today that the Atlantic Coast Line railway had brought about an indennitc post ponement of the hearing as to the pas senger rate question, which had ben fixed for January 0th. at Wilmington before Standirg Master Waller A .Montgomery. Your correspondent has mentiont-d the fact that no little pres- t sure has been brought to bea; uin the Atlantic Coast LH:;e bv th South- ern, the Seaboard Air Line, the No. - folk and Southern, Norfolk and West- I ern and other roads in order to in duce it to fall in line with the plan A . . ,. , , . suggested by Governor Glenn for 2 1-2 . J , ent uniform rate everywhere south , , 3 . of Washington and 3c m.leage books for longer distances. Last night your correspondent hf-ard that the A. C. E was on the point of falling in line anr inn nti v rw;i ri trie.. Tnir.r, points of difference existed between ! it and the governor. This taiemnt ,as renewed today ant, it looks as :: inc- Loast L,me win soon be m pro- cession. 'The i'tep anncunn d today has this bearing. As f.oon as it comi n. the legislature will be railed and the. cession will very niick'y follow IM call as there is no liuv. limit Detweea the call and the assembly ing of the general assembly. The A. c. L. seems t snov whaT it is ci,ected to do bv its agreement to continue the "nearin until after the session of the legv-la-ture. ftince this is "what the actin means in plain terms. Today this news brought about in creased talk about what the legisla ture might do; that is whether it will go outside of railwr.y matters or nor Evidently the official. expected ro con sider only these matters. Some per sons were savimr that the srovernor Ttiitfht lav thp'nrnhihitinn nue, ion ho- fore it, but the governor a fortnight ' " -1 l j ii i in-1 tii... if-.( :iri( r ' i i i -j , . j, would be for a speeTie )Uifose; that is 'on the railroad question and that iu: inougm in.s coma -e oppose. :i , . i in a very few da. Hi seemed to thin;: as1 do some other prominenr. men that tu- legislature would not undertake matters outside of the call This was tin talk a fortnifht ago. Very little work is now "in progress ;ci the Masonic temple. It is true the weather has beeti unfavorable to some extent. A lot of the workmen quit on account of the cut in wages; an r-orts of rumors, some i: them more cr less wild, have tees current and are still so regarding the contract -work on this tmilding. Certainly no ! trme is to be lost if litis to be com- leted by nex' Juno The final iirrangemtcits are made lor the sending oi.t of the checks lry the governor to h : Spanish war veterans, and the distribution of mon- ey will be made in a lew days. ; The governor offers a reward oT ; for John Williams charged with stea! ; iii a pair of mules - valued at 5150 j from J. A. Pig:?, near Lillington. It i is claimed that he flej with the mules cjig cannot oe lounu. Anotner re- fvard 13 ferec f0; 3,ajor Bannve,!. i who is char 'ed Wlth thc murder "r - E'U Chance, of Pitt county, who 1S LUUU1 LU ' "r- An order is issued from military Maior t'tadquarters here a.-signm; ! Charles S. Jordan and C'eburn B. Har- ris, respectively as chief surgeon an-! .uuiui.gi j 1 jo"-- i which is commanded bv General Arm- fitJld. Under a new regulation the bri- gade staff is not appointed but is a- signed from the gen3ral staff, this he :ng the custom in the army. Prof. J. B. Cariylr- ..1' Wake Forest i-ollege yesterday finished his work ?f collecting $112,50J for Wake Forest College endowment, apon whhh basis he gets. $37. 500 from i;e general edu cation loard. Chartere are grantef. to the Vass Mercantile Company, at that town in Moore county, with pow.er to oval in real estate, etc., capital .stock J23.U00. to the Elks Home Company, Ashevi'.le. $50,000; to the furniture Distributing Company of Greensboro, to manufac ture and stll, $100,000; the Southern Liquor Supply Company of Washing ton to buy and sell whiskey, etc., $50, OQ0; the Carolina Realty Company, ot High Point, $100,000. SIGNS OF THE TIMES For State Prohibition by Legislative Enactment . The Wilmington Messenger and oth er papers are hinting tiat the special session of the legislature, If it is call ed, will not only take mi the passen ger rate matter, but will .lso consider the advisability of a state prohibiton law. Since so great a portion of the state already has prohibition and since the cities and towns in whhh saloon3 and dispensaries prevail will surely vote out liquor, the legislatire could do a great deal worse than miking the entire state dry. For instance, it would save Wilmington, Salisbury and Winston the expense of an e!enion. Raleigh Times. TO THY OtT CA N D I DAT ES Iphtii Banquet Prom incut iH-movratJ Imltcd Politl?U Mtualimi in Uu West The trying out of candidates for the democratic nomination logins in Phil adelphia ou the evening of February 1st. A dinner is to be given to State Tieasurtr iicrry, of Pennsylvania, acu i lie i o itit,-tiiiit-xi ci v m Ov rTin i Lia e tec ii asi-ed to appear and peak: Wil- iiam Jennings Bry.i of Nebraska; ! Go truer John A. Joanson. of Minn- ; sota; Governor Jamt-s H. Higins-, of J Rhode Island; May..r Voni L Johnson. J of Cleveland. Ohio; Mayor George W. Icuthrifof I'ittsburg. and Judge Gcorg - Gray cf Delaware. Brjan i. not the only ihtou on the pike. Thvre is a disposition to give Governor Johnson an opportunity. Those interested in the welfare of the party think that if the democrats are desirious of winning back the west they had better name the famous vote gttter of Minnesota. The situation in tho far west seems almost hopeless Every state has joined the republican camp. The Rocky Mountain states and territories make the following show- ; ing of senators, house members and delegates in congress: Washington, five republicans, Oregon, four; Callfor- ' . . . . nia. ten; Arizona, one, a democrat: x. . , , ,, f.u New Mexico, one, republican; Hah. L. three republicans; Nevada, three, a repupblican and two democrats: Idaho, three republicans; Colorado, one dem ocrat and three republicans; Wyoming. ! three republicans; Montana, three re- f ! m. w-v M . ...1 Duniicans: .-sortn ijanota. iour repui- licans; South Dakota .four republic.vns; j Nebraska. seven republicans, one de- iti, eeI iriuunuiu?, wm- - mocrat; Kansas, ten republicans; Io- i'n!t.,i states senators. This offer wa, twelve republicans and one demo- , nn,h hun in I :'.'. b inc. a.5 crat; Minnesota, ten republicans and Sj,okeM.i.m "f a democrr.tlc wrklca one democrat ; Wisconsin, eleven re- r on , ,onTir,ced that the onlx publicans and two democrats, and i , j,an , Ior . fatthood in a generation Michigan, fourteen republicans. i was j S4 lirlng a leader of national That is the record Johnson is the j prominence. Mr. Bryan I Joined him only democratic governor in 'hat sec- R tram en -nte tlmmgh Oklaho tion of the country. He has won in ev- I Ina to Texas said he would much ery contest he made. He is very pu- ! ,-ah, r be senator from a gr at state ular on the Pacific slope and as far back this way as he is known. Washington dispatch. C.M.I ONE Dill E.ND.Wl HELD . K i I - - 1 1 1 1 I l l llatlltlil ( )vrr till :-ecl mi: Moh-n Uoml.s Cases Against tin- Oiheis er( -Nol 1 'rovcd . Mtii U ..c uo.l hndrUlii ,U.y 'S',aU' , , "? n i.i t.l..i.,. i lie triill of the Iieiri'o IlieA - - - " - " i liU vvunieu arresteu on .iouua mxui ... i iiit t.i and at Wrightsville Sound, ,.Jt!i vfe:iliL.r iroods from cars t , ,.,w.; ih. .-tft Pr.ekin,' iv,m- ! ' . ------ - - - o t . .i. l' . . . : r t.. ..i-: n .- i ... coiibagueu io mt cvul i auiub wiu- pany's lwal agency, that it w;u found necessary to adjourn the hearing to the superior court room. The trial of the dozen defendants was In progres for nearly thnt hours and wfter the exhaustive examination of witnesses and their rigid cro.-Ts-exanunation, a nol pros was taken in all the cases except the one against SiD ia Wash ington, who conducts the restaurant on Nutt and Walunt street, and in whose place a large majority of arti cles was secured by the officers, which were believed to have been stolen from the Swift people. After hearing arguments by interest ed counsel, the magistrate bound over the Washington woman under a bond of "J200 for trial by the superior court. under a charge of receiving stolen j goods. Later this bond was given and the woman was released. The Washington woman was repre sented by Hon. John D. Bellamy; Hen ry Jones, one of the defendants, had B. G. Empie. Esq., as his counsel, and Marsden Bellamy, Esq.. appeared for the other defendants. The cases were prosecuted by Herbert McCIammy. Esq.. representing the Swiff Co ii!!.NfriNfi .(. ni:i:n r Scll Vaudeville ICntertafnment to t oe in (. 1 1 in .lanuary n.r wortny; Cause For the worthy purpose of raising money to send to several wayward youths to a reformatory, there will ' given in this city, by locad talent with the aid of professionalsone of the swellest vaudeville entertainments ever seen in Wilmington. A committee consisting of Messr. T. H. Wright. W. F. Robertson, J. H. Cowan, will arrange the program and these gentlemen promise something unusually attractive and entertaining. Acts and paraphenalia have alreadv been donated by the Crystal Palace. Bijou and Majestic theatres, the Hol-lowbus-h orchestra has donated Its ser vices and all the Academy attaches will act that occasion without enum eration. The event will likely be given on Monday night. January 13th. and un doubtedly a packed house will greet the players, the worthiness of the cause alone appealing to hundreds. SPOKE IN BEHALF OF POWERS. Remarkable Demonstration Follows Conclusion of Counsel's Sjtcerli. Oerrcetown, Ky.. December 31. In the Caleb Powers trial todav Judge J. C. Sims, chief counsel for Powers, in an add res? lasting three hours, based his argument on the theory that Henry Youtsey was a po litical crank, imbued with the oxto ment of the time and that he fired the shot that killed William Goebel. that this was on Youtsey 's own res ponsibility, and that no conspiracy had been shown by Powers or r".nv one else. When Judge Sims conclud ed a remarkable demonstration fol lowed. Scores of men and w i n crowded to the bar where the pris oner stood with his aged mother and shook his hand. mm imka is me Thirty Persons Believed to hare Besn Killed Mi.e Dc.nl IUnIIc Tnkm Out Mia llioufrtit ( N on lire Rult of I!Ilolor.-prr Mh1) n H-1UV nsid Mlnii. Santa Fe. X. M.. Dcemtr 31.--An explosion of firo damp entonied 30 miners in the Beruel coal infno at Carthage. Socorro ount. ov. ntnl t by the CarthaKc Fuel compan ll is supixwu an rr ut'.tti. uiuu bodiej, hae bevn taken out already. Fort mn employed in the mine had not returned from dinner nhen the explosion occurred. Carthage is on a branch Hue of the Santa Fe line from A'buque rail road and Is one of the oldest rain ing camps in the territory. It Is lelieed that tho mines aro on fire as a result of tho exploian. The miners are mostly Anierb am and Mexicans, but then ate a ler Greeks and Italians. Mil BUY ANN MISTAKT HcCic--.) Cham' of SrimtciMilp Pnm Oklahoma. lib h lie Wn to ll o for S-urh Statehood. Thoma H. Doyle, of Perry. OU. iecntly aspirluc for a Jcnxi ".tic. put inatorl.il nomination. Raid teda : 'One of tho unwritten stoii-- of Oklahoma olltlcs is th.it Wllllai i J J Brv;.n w.v. ii.vlted. an 1 ior a mm ' f i ioe.-d' i orf Mr-d. !', Ing to Okki- i s. ficht for statehood wUh ..Vc-anc that hi. rewar xvoul(1 on,. f okbhoma'- lln (1 . would ee one ol UK I. noma urut than president. He promised to con sider the proposition Several day later, he told me he had his ncwsio per and other interest in Lincoln, Neb., and he could not see how le ! could afford to take the step" Guth- 1 r'0' (Okloj. Dispatch. DEPENDS TUP. SLMS Michlgnu IVMor Declare- "'nicre I ' No,l,,,,s XVn,,iS XV:tU II,M,M IJc,T , ... .. . .. .... - -i. ....... In I T!l I III ' Jill III', till :- lll'tllll j s;f,,.,pi ,r I1U lci laratioii. i - . .vl40u, .wkl., 4-c. . ... ah". ' . .. .. t . i. ... . i .-.;iiii il ' i i i ii iwiii, n.v I ......... i)1(.ic anient .iiiwcaic . i . vn.io nn and the not bed ol the pinioi-uion ., w -in in u l.inaii . a d f1 ;.Ue ol i the saloon has b- a Uh.iiu u I jj j.- t;riUin, pa&tor ot Hie ie ;inai 1 ut n.raI1 thuich. a qtiiet, liiiMbht. , a,,.1.JarK xnan with a family of grow- ing boys. The criticism by Dr. uickio o President Roosevelt, In a Detroit church last Sunday. In which the for mer said the President did not ha-.T the courage to put Into hb annual message some reference to ihc liijijor question, though It was petitioned (or by lV,fK)0 people, called forth He v. Grimm's defense. , "Nobody ever dares to sav anything . for the saloon in Albion."' dn I and ' Mr Grimm, "but I am not afraid. 1 do ; not think that President Roosevelt ; lacked courage when ihclftied to mention the liquor question I itiink he was sane not to mention it. We do not want a dry country. Neither do wo care to have our governux nt In th hands, of .-uch as cannot thin) sain Iy when liquor is mentioned. "So much is hoard Jn these :iy of 'the curse of drink.' of tie -hare ful liquor traffic, ' of prohibition, and of other terrible things, that ori- must doubt if we really live in a sane, in d. pendent and happy ountry Is it really a sin to drink a gla-:; of wine n id as.-: or two of ,-t r No. not so long as you can pay for it, and do not mal e your family suffer for If If there Is harm In the moderate partak ing of liquor, then Christ, our own beloved Saviour, must have tinned. He drank wine real wine -with HI disciples, with the publicum ami sin ners. Christ himself says. 'John rarne neither eating nor drinking, and they 5 ;v. Uv hath a dvd. The Son if Man came eating and drinking, and they s.ay. Behold, a man gluttonous and a winebibber, a friend of publican?! aud sinners." Matt. xi. Ik and VJ. "According to the talking and acting of the very good people of today who subject themselve to the command, 'touch not, taste not, handle not' people who are dying also to mbjct others to the same tommand they would If Christ wero hre cry out, Behold a man gluttonous ami a v.!n -bibber "Why did Jeus Use "wine in the most holy of sacraments? Why did he not use water or buttermilk? If on- of our religious cranks today should in stitute a new sacrament he would cer tainly not think of using wine. "There Ih no wrong In the sane par taking of liquor. There Is no wrori in an honest liquor traffic. Not very one ha the t!me and knowledge to make beer and wine. It must ). mad and sold somewhere by some one I believe our laws regulating the mlc of liquor are quite good. Enforce, thesft laws and let well enough alon "We do not want to encourage drunk ards. They themselves ar- to blam for their miserable life. Liquor does not kill them; they kill themlve?. Our Kolema duty is to cave fhera, to help them, not by filling their mind with prohibition, but by preaching the living and Kiring word of God to them."