The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, December 25, 1913, Image 4
J SHAVE THEM DOWN
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SOUTHERN STATES LOSE POWER
WITH RLPUHLICANS
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DELEGATES CUT DOWN
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National Committee of the KopublicaiiN
Resolves to Reduce South's
Representation in the Councils of
the Party?< !. (>. 1'. Is Reorganized
on a Compromise llasis.
The Republican National committoo,
in meeting assembled at Washington
Wednesday night concluded
Its labor of reform In party proceduro
and launched its campaign for a re
union or warring elements hy adopting
a resolution providing for a radical
change in tlio basis of representation
in national nominating conventions,
which would reduce the quota
of Southern States from 33 to 10 per
cent of the Convention's total.
The action of the committee, made
unanimous before adjournment, must
he endorsed by States entitled to cast
a majority of votes in the Electoral
College before it becomes party law.
In order that such action shall be
taken as promptly as possible the
committee appointed a sub-committee
of three, consisting of Charles B.
Warren, of Michigan; Senator Borah,
of Idaho, and Governor Hatfield, of
West Virginia, to prepare an address
to the States urging their immediate
ratification of the proposal.
Approval by tho States will insure
a call from tho national committee
for the National convention of 1916
along the lines laid down at the meeting
Wednesday. Tho re-organization
plan adopted came a compromise,
which reflected the views of many
committeemen that Southern representation
should bo reduced, but not
brought to the vanishing point. The
resolution provided*.
"That this committee shall issue
a call for the National Convention to
ho held in 19 16 to nominate candidate
for President and Vice-President
In accordance with the following basis
of representation;
"Each state shall ho entitled to
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umi ucicgiiiue iii lcirgu; ono delegate
at large for each Representative in
Congress at large from any State; one
delegate from each Congressional district;
an additional delegate from
each congressional district in which
tho vote either for Republican Presidential
electors or for tho Republican
candidate for Congress in 1014,
shall have been not less than 7,500
and that for each delegate chosen an
alternate delegate shall bo chosen in
tho same manner and at the same
time to act in tho absence of the delegate.
"Provided, however, that the above
shall not be made tho basis of the
call for the National convention to be
held in the year 1010, unless prior to
January 1, 1015, Republican State
Conventions held under the laws of
the States, or called by the Republican
State committees of the States in
such number of States as are entitled
to cast a majority of the votes in the
present Electoral College, shall ratify
the action of this committee in respect
to determining this basis of
representation."
According to figures submitted by
the sub-committee t lie new plan
would reduce the total number of
delegates from 1,078 to 998. The District
of Columbia and Alaska were
provided with two delegates each by
separate action, and the Phillipine
Islands, Porto Kico and Hawaii also
were given two each without the
right to vote. The Southern States
would have 164 delegates in all.
R. H. Howell, of Nebraska, led the
fight against the resolution. He said
Republican voters would not bo satisfied
with a reduction of the sort
proposed and pointed out the comparative
strength of the delegations
from several northern and Southern
states under it, giving also the percentage
of votes cast in these States
to show the Republican weakness be
low Mason mul Dixon's lino, and tho
strength above it. Mr. IIowoll was opposed
by Senator Borah, former Governor
Iladley, holding the Louisiana
proxy; Committeemen Remmel, of
Arkansas, and McGregor of Texas,
and IT. L. Johnson, a District of Colunmbia
negro, who held a proxy
from Georgia. . *
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Feared Mob Violence,
Posses Monday night searched tho
surrounding country about Stanville,
Ga.. in the hope of finding the negro
who attacked a white woman in her
home. When found she had been
choked into insensibility. Violenco
was expected if the criminal was apprehended.
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Told Them to Move Out.
Fifteen feudal enemies of the Collins
family of Old Morton, Mo., rode
into the village Sunday and burned
four houses, severely beating the inmates
The CollinR wero warned to
leave on pain of death
Spaniards at El Paso.
The Rnanlsh colony 'n El Paso,
augmented by the 320 refugees expelled
from Chihuahua, now aggre- ,
gates more than 400. and many more j
are exneeted from remote ranches
and mines.
EXTENDS FARMERS' TIME
SMITH UK TS AMKNDMKNT TO
d'HUEXOY KILL.
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Caucus Approves South Carolinian's
Provision to Meet Planters* Nec<l
for I*ong Time Loans.
Following the lino of thought developed
in his recent speech upon tho
tloor of the Senate on the pending
currency bill, Senator Smith of South
Carolina Wednesday night in the
Democratic caucus insisted that the
farmers should have a six months'
noto upon which federal reserve
notes might he issued. He continued
tho fight Thursday, and succeeded in
securing a majority of tho Democratic
senators to back him up in his
fight in behalf of an amendment to
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viivj vuhoiiuj uin which no una proyared
and which la aa foliowa:
"Provided, That notoa, drafts and
billa drawn or issued for agricultural
purposes having a maturity not exceeding
six months may ho discounted
in an amount to bo limited to a
percentage of tho capital of tlio federal
reserve bank to ho ascertained
and fixed by tho federal reserve
board."
This amendment, which was adopted
by tho caucus Thursday night, will
be offered upon tho floor of tho Senate
and will ho incorporated in tho
new banking law. Senator Smith, of
course, is very much gratified at the
outcomo of his labors. -Thursday
night he said:
"This amendment puts tho farmers
where thier business is recognized
as of equal Importance in the
financial system of the country with
the prime commercial papers of other
business, such as tho notes, drafts
and bills of merchants, miners and
those of the so-called business world.
Under tho terms of this provision,
farmers' notes, hills and drafts, Issued
for agricultural purposes, are
available at tho reserve, bank for a
note issue on the same footing as provided
for a 00-day paper.
"In other words, in a ease of
money stringency or panic threatened,
this paper can he used for deposit
with tho regional bank and upon it
ivuvi ui iooci yo iiwh;o may UW IWHllt'U
for tlio purpose of meeting the emergency.
Thus you will see, it puts the
farmers' notes, hills and drafts upon
exactly the same footing, as an asset
upon which capital may be realized
by the farmers, as the prime commercial
paper of tho other branches of
business in tho financial world, and
for a period of six months."
After the caucus adjourned, Senator
Owen, in charge of the bill, said
that in accordance with the resolution
submitted by Senator Smith and
his plea for it in the caucus that the
committee has now reconsidered section
13 and will accept the amendment
quoted above.
COTTO.V SFKI) STATISTICS.
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Figures Oiveii Out by Census Korean
for This Season.
Statistics of tho cotton seed products
industry for tlie present cotton
season, announced by tho census bureau
Thursday, show 280,1 IS running
hales of linters had been obtained
and 2, 201,276 tons of -cotton seed
had been crushed from the crop of
1013 prior to December 1. The number
of cotton seed oil mills and other
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the period prior to December was
850.
The number of active establishments,
tons of cotton seed crushed
and running bales of linters obtained
prior to December 1, by states, follow:
EstablisliStates
ments Seed Linters
Alabama ... 81 1 02,100 21,661
Arkansas ... 4.1 117,022 15,200
Florida .... 4 1.1,806 1,107
Georgia . . . ? 152 375,881 4G.80G
Louisiana ... 12 74,581 0,148
Mississippi. . . 60 1 05,700 2.1,07G
Missouri ... 4 1 1,740 1,640
N. C G2 1 00,862 1 1,762
Oklahoma. . . 58 1 16,640 20,066
S. C 08 172,865 10,1 08
Tennessee . . . 2.1 00,218 12,511
Texas . . . .220 677,503 101,416
All other states 5 20,0 11 2,005
KILLING ON RKKCH ISLAND.
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Negro Kills "White Man l?y Crushing
in llis Skull.
Early Sunday morning Rural Policeman
Ilolley brought to Aiken
Daniel Merry, colored, charged with
the killing of a white man by the
name of Minus McElmurray. The
killing occurred on Beech Island Saturday
night. It seems that a wagon
load of people were returning from
Augusta, all said to bo in a drunken
condition. McElmurraywas along, and
got into a fuss with Berry. The negro
struck the white man over the head
twice with an iron pipe, crushing his
skull. McElmurray lay down in the
wagon then and was put out at Dobson's
store where he soon died.
Hurt In Runaway.
James Caughman, former comrnis
sioner of Lexington county, was run I
over by a heavy two-horse wagon I
loaded with corn on his plantation
about five miles north of Lexington.
Tuesday and dangerously injured. j
SGML PLAIN I ALU
LIQUOR MLN WAKNtD OF THFIH
CllMlMi LOOM
MUST mm I lit IK VAKS
Says They Deliberately Aid the Most
Corrupt Political Powers and
Hacks With All Their Kcsources
the Most I'nworthy Men, the Most
Corrupt an<l Hoc remit Ollicials.
The liquor men see the handwriting
on the wall. The following confession,
remarkablo for its frankness,
is from the ofllcial Journal of the
whiskey dealers:
"A truthful statement of how matters
stand publicly on the great
liquor question?a look at things as
they are:
"It is always best for normal people
to look at things as they are.
Reality may be obscured to tlie sick
or feeble-minded in certain circumstances,
but deception is a poor evidence
of friendship. Partisanship
with blinded eye only leads the way
to ruin, and self-deception is the
worst of all.
"Let us look at things as they are.
and in the face of the enemy dare to
consider and concede their strength
Knowing his play of battle, we can
better arrange our forces for his defeat,
rightly estimating his strength
we can better provide to meet it.
"The prohibition fight henceforth
will be nation-wide, and contemplates
writing into the national constitution
a prohibition of the manufacture and
sale of alcoholic beverages. To accomplish
this result will require the
ratification of thirty-six out of the
forty-eight states in tlie union.
"Of those nine are already in line
through state prohibition?Maine,
Kansas, North Dakota, Oklahoma,
Mississippi, Georgia, Tennessee,
North Carolina, and West Virginia.
The last five have been added within
a period of six years.
"In addition to these there are
eighteen states in whicli n nnW
of the people live in territory made
dry by local option in which we may
be assured prohibition sentiment predominates.
"If the people in these states who
are opposed to the liquor trafllc demand
it, their legislature will undoubtedly
ratify a national amendment.
"The most influential argument
against prohibition is that it is not
effective; that 'prohibition don't prohibit'.
"This is not basic or moral; the
fact of failure to enforce is no argument
against the expediency, much
less against the moral issue involved.
"Ultimately all questions must be
settled by moral standards; only in
this way can mankind be saved from
self-effacement. The liquor trafllc
can not save itself by declaring that
government is incapable of coping
with the problem it presents; when
the people decide it must go it will
be banished.
"We are not discussing the benefit
or justice of prohibition, but its possibility
and probability in present circumstances.
"To us there is 'the handwriting
on tho way', and its interpretation
means doom.
"For this tho liquor business is to
blame; it seems incapable of learning
any lesson of advancement or nny
motive but profit.
"To perpetuate itself it has formed
alliance with tho slums that repel
all conscientious and patriotic citizens.
"It deliberately aids tho most corrupt
political powers, and backs with
all its resources the most unworthy
men, the most corrupt and recreat
officials. It does not aid the purification
of municipal, state or national
ad ministration.
"Why? Because it has to ask immunity
for its own lawlessness.
"That this condition is inherently
and inevitably necessary wo do not
believe, but it has come to be a fact,
and the public, which is to pass on
the matter in its final analysis, believes
anything had that anybody can
tell it of the liquor business.
"Why? T.et all tho leaders of tho
trade answer.
"Other lines of business may bo as
had or even worse, but it is not so
plainly in evidence.
"The case of tho liquor traffic is
celled for adlndlcnttnn hv ?iio
can people, and must bo ready for
trial.
"Other cases may bo called later,
but the one before tbe court now can
not be postponed. Rut, as In the
post, the men most concerned are
playing for postponement, not for acquittal.
Is it because they wear the
weakness of their defence that they
fear to go to trial?
"There are billions of property involved,
but when the people decide
that tbe truth is being told about the
alcoholic trade the money value will
net count, for the conscience aroused
puts the value of man above all other
things.
"Prepare the defence, friends;
make your case to-day for the court;
the trial can not be postponed."
Old newspapers for sale at the ITer?ld
office.
j HAD NO STATE LICENSE
WEALTHV HINTERS SHORT IN
GEORGETOWN COt'NTRY.
State Game Warden Gets in ftcluml
Them, but Tlioj Take Special Train
Out of the State.
Isaac E. Emerson, tho "Bromo
Solt/.< r King", who owns a hunting
preserve in Georgetown county, took
his party of wealthy northerners out
of the State on a special train Sundap
afternoon when Chief Game Warden
A. A. Richardson got in behind
them for hunting without licenses,
according to information given out
Tuesday by Mr. Richardson, who had
just returned to Columbia from
Georgetow-n, where he said 0110 of tho
party, Georgo W. Ewing, of Baltimore,
Md., was dismissed on a technicality
at a hearing before a magistrate
for hunting in tho State without
a license.
According to a statement from
Chief Game Warden Richardson, he
sent his assistant, Mr. Kunderburk, to
Georgetown county to look over the
situation when ho felt that there
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Ing licenses being reported from that
county as he was certain there should
be. Deputy Funderburk reached
Georgetown on Thursday and found
lie states, that Millionaire Emerson
was entertaining a party of wealthy
tourists, none of whom had licenses
as far as he could ascertain.
Deputy Funderburk went out to
"Arcadia", the magnificent country
estate of Millionaire Emerson, which
is located on Waccamaw Neck five
miles from Georgetown. When he
reached there he found Mr. Emerson
and his guests just returning from a
hunt and ho ascertained that the following
made up the party:
George W. Ewing, M. Henry, Mrs.
Bottie W. Ewing, Mrs. Annie Emerson
and Mrs. Margaret Vandorbilt,
all of Baltimore, Md., and Mrs. Ethel
McCormick, of New York, all wealthy
and well known tourists, and Isaac E.
Emerson, the owner of the place.
Deputy Funderburk says ho ascertained
from the clerk of the court
that only Mr. Emerson had a license
when he demanded to see their licenses.
He then telephoned Chief
Game Warden A. A. Richardson, at
Columbia, who Instructed him to take
out warrants for the men in the party
and to tell the ladies the law required
them to have licenses.
Deputy Funderburk had talked
with Mr. George W. Ewing when Ik4
met the party at "Arcadia", as they
were returning from the hunt and being
certain only of his name, swore
out a warrant charging him with
nunung witnout a license in South
Carolina. Tn company with tho sheriff
of Georgetown they went to tho
country estate of Mr. Emerson on
Saturday and arrested Mr. Ewing on
Saturday morning. Mr. Emerson accompanying
them back to Georgetown.
The sheriff and Deputy Funderburk
had made the trip to the country
estate of Mr. Emerson in the fish
commissioner's boat, the "Nancy",
and when they wero starting back
Mr. Emerson asked how fast tho
"Nancy" could travel On being told
ten miles per hour, he ordered his
men to bring out his racing boat, tho
"Arcadia", capable of running nineteen
miles an hour, and the party
were soon in Georgetown, where Mr.
Ewing was put under sufficient bond
to await the arrival of Chief Game
Warden Richardson.
Owing to the train schedules, Mr.
Richardson did not reach Georgetown
until Morday morning and when he
arrived he found only Mr. Georgo W.
Ewing, and said that ho discovered
that Mr. Emerson had ordered a *p?cia?
train on Sunday evening and had
returned north with his other guests
that night.
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LEAVES IT TO U. S.
Spain Entrusts Caro of Its Mexican
Citizens to This Country.
Senor Don Juan Riano, Spanish
ambassador at Washington, Tuesday '
advised Secretary Bryan of Spain's
heartfelt thanks for the attitude of
tho United States towards Spanish
refugees from Chihuahua, Mexico. !
Similar action was taken by the Spanish
minister to Mexico, who requested
that Charge O'Shaughnessy convey
to the various authorities in El
Paso, Texas, thanks on his behalf for
their kindness to the refugees.
The announcement from the Span- <
ish premier that the Madrid govern
niciiL una ueciaeu to leave the safeguarding
of her interests in Mexico
to tlie United States Tuesday was
spoken of by Secretary Bryan as in
line with the action of Croat Britain, <
Prance, Japan and other nations, t
which did not happen to have consular
officers at places where their sub- 1
jects were in difficulty. <
The Spanish consul at Chihuahua I
said that he had received a cablegram i
from the minister of foreign affairs i
at Madrid, which said tho Washing- i
ton government had promised it
would exact from all factions in Mex- |
ico the same respect for Spaniards as I
was demanded for Americans. I
The Montgomery Advertiser says; 1
that with the narrow skirts clrctun- i i
scribing their activities, the ladies of j <
to-day can't step on anything higher j I
than an ant. t
HANOS IT TO THtM
D.ANItLS POURS HOT SHOT INTO
THE REACTIONARIES
THEY FIGHT REFORM
hi Address Before Now York Tar
Ifcel Dinner Navy Chief Hammers
Standpatters With the Very Wortls
lleing L'setl to Discount the Progressive
Movement.
Reactionaries who think to weaken
the advocacy of progressive measures
by declaring that they are the products
of "hysteria" were roundly denounced
at New York Wednesday
night by Secretary Daniels of the
navy, in an address at tho dinner of
the North Carolina Society of New
York.
"A few days ago," Mr. Daniels
said, "a distinguished educator from
a Southern state in a speech in New
York declared that such new and
progressive measures as the initiative
snd referendum were 'revolutionary'.
Another distinguished authority,
a statesman and educator, referred
to certain modern American
political doctrines as 'wild theories'
which common sense and wise experience
demand be rejected as the result
of hysteria.
"The real truth is that, this socalled
'hysteria* hurts. It. keeps
party pledges, it does not take from
labor tho bread it earns, it makes
protection-built wealth pay income
tax. It elects senators direct from
the people. They call it. hysteria liecause
it means we can have no more
senators from the New York Central
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lutinuctu, iiu more senators rrom tne
Southern Express Company; no moro
senators from the New York, New
Haven & Hartford Railroad; no more
senators from the Standard Oil Trust.
"They call it hysteria because it
prevents the classes from exploiting
the masses, and brings the government
back to the people. After all,
the real hystericals are not the people
who stand upon the housetops and
cry for reform, but the people who
nro guarding special privileges and
are seeing the castles built by privilege
tumble down about their heads.
"No, gentlemen," continued the
secretary, "the victims of hysteria
are not the forward looking, promisekeeping
reformers, who quietly convince
the people that this new way,
this gospel of progressive statesmanship.
is best for the country, but your
hysterical man is that incarnate expatriotism
who madly waves the stars
and stripes with one hand and grips
his rebate-provided, protection-fostered
wealth with the other, and be
wails an alleged tendency to put a
period to class legislation, who wildly
proclaims that we are turning away
from tlioso fundamental principles
through which we have como to our
present high state.
"Legislators in the * recent past
have been the favorites of great corporations.
They have felt a compelling
power from 'higher up*. The
Impersonal element in the situation
made it hard to cure, but at last the
ax has been laid at the root of the
tree, and the people have demanded
that all this must be changed. How?
By legalized primaries, even for president,
by pure food laws, by an income
tax, by a lower tariff, by laws
to protect seamen, by regulation of
the trusts, by the abolition of interlocking
directorates and rebates, etc.
"Take (he tariff. The men who revised
it were not hysterical. They
used figures and facts. They were
painstaking and scientific, and what
was the answer? The benofieinrins
of protection, tho infant industries,
gray and hoary with age, and obese
from their long pull at tho pap-bottles,
cried out: 'You are go*ng to
impoverish our country,' Four
months under the new tariff have
passed and the report of Secretary of
Commerce Itedfield declares that 'the
flooding of our markets with the
cheap wares of Europe has not happened,'
as predicted, and America's
trade is evidencing a healthy growth.
"The latest exhibition of hysteria
Is tho effort to prevent passage of
the currency bill. It is well known '
by everybody that this bill is certain
t n hof>nnin q lo?' ?
vx/ wx/vv/111 \j r* i<i >y o u un tail tlUl iy els now 1
framed and the principal features of
it aro as good as upon the statute
books and those who would destroy
confidence in the American government
and its ability to control its
finances, dub as hysteria the effort <
to pass a long-needed currency re- 1
form. i
"Take conservation. The waste of <
our resources has been so wanton as :o
rob unborn generations. Men have |
risen up and declared it must stop, i
Thoso who wished to take all the i
coal for this generation and permit a f
few concerns to grab up all the mines 1
*nd minerals declared that the con- 1
scrvationists were crazy. By this 5
craft they had their wealth. j i
"Thoso who wished to impose im-i
perialism upon our country, forget- 1
ting that government by consent of <
the governed is the basis of our lib- 1
crty; those who wished to annex 1
lands ncross the seas and change our i
government to one-half free and half 1
colonial, were as logically certain to <
:>e reversed as those who held out for t
jlavery In the face of Lincoln's t
THE HORRY HERALD
CONWAY. S. C '
Published Kvery Thursday.
Till R8DAY, DECEMHEK 23, 1013.
PHOEESSIONAL C AH 1 >S.
11. 11. WOOD W AUL>,
Attorney and Counsellor at lam.
COAttAl, a. C.
11. U. SCAKUUKOLCIL
Attorney at l^aw.
CONWAY, 8. C.
H. H. BlllHOl'OHS,
Physician and Mnrgtm.
CONWAY, 8. C.
W. E. McCORD,
Dental Surgeon
CONWAY, S. C.
HENE HAVENBL
l>nnd Surv eying
and
Drainage
Spleey Building (V>nway, d. O.
When Christmas Time Comes.
When Christmas time comes round it
seems
As though the long, long years
Roll hack and take away our cares
And dry up all our tears;
I don't know why It is, but when
The great day comes along
I pet to feelin' young again,
And kind of turn to song,
And whistle and po on just like
A hoy would. I'll he bound.
The old world seems to brighten up
When Christmas time comes round.
I'm tickled at the Jumpin' Jack
And all them kind of things;
I like to watch the toys that play
Tly windin' up the springs,
And somehow?don't know why it isr
Love seems to fill the air,
And I forget I've enemies
Or troubles anywhere;
And every little while I sort
Of listen for the sound
Of voices that have long been still,
When Christmas time comes rounds
I wish that I was Santa Clans
And had a magic sleigh,
To visit all the children who
Look forward to the day?
The orphans and the cripples and
The poor folks everywheres ?
All children that are good and kind
And don't forget their prayers;
I'll bet you that they'd all be glad
vvnen they pot up and found
Their stockin'a fairly bustin' out.
When Christmas time comes round.
Oh, happy time of jinglin' hells
And hills all white with snow;
Oh, Joyful day that takes us back
To care-free long ago
I wonder if up there above
Where happy anpels roam
They do not pet to thinkin' of
The happy times at home,
And turn, in fancy, back once more
To listen to the sound
Of voices that have lonp been still.
When Christmas time comes
round ?
MUltDEKKR I/VXCIIHD.
Maddened Mob I'ulls OIY Stunt ii?
North Dakota.
Cleve Culbertson. recently convicted
of murdering three members of
the Dillon family at Ray, N. 1)., was
taken from the Williams county jail
bv a mob Thlirsdnu on/1 e
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;i bridge near there. The lynching
took place shortly before daylight.
The party, which consisted of a largo
number of masked men, battered
down the doors of tho jail with a
heavy iron pipe.
Despite tho warnings of Sheriff
Erickson, the men opened the door to
the cell occupied by the prisoner and
dragged him out. Tie was taken to
tlie middle of the Muddy river, a ruilo
and a half from town, and hanged
front a wagon bridge. Tho body was.
then riddled with bullets.
To Signal Years End.
The naval observatory has arranged
to send broadcast from its Arlington
radio station a New Year's greeting
which will be spread broadcast
river the continent and the Atlantic.
prophecy that tills country could not
exist half free and half slave. They
afe tho hysterics. They have gone
around as though booted and spurred
to ride other men, and some of them
have applauded at public dinners tho
mng, "Damn, Damn, Damn, the Filipinos.'
"This so-called hysteria denounced
tiv standpatters and reactionaries is
lemocracy, the rule of tho people.
In every generation the standpatters
lave sought to have forward-looking
rien declared fnnatics and lunatics,
bright and Cobden were the destroyers
of English liberty. Jefferson was
i leveler and a demagogue. They
vere all hysterics."
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