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August 13/1904
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GE1CS OF THE PAST
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'111 - bootlegger is just a smuggler under a new
name. .Vs Augustus framed the first known ex
cise law, it eau be taken for granted that the first
boot lender was a Roman fisherman, and that under
cover of darkness there was plenty of booze-run
ning along the Tiber. The smuggler has been oper
ating ever since, and today revenue cutters patrol j
every water line in Europe. Hut by way of speci- j
fit4 illustration, consider what happened when teal
and coffee were first introduced into Europe. The j
beer and liquor interests objected strongly to the in-1
troduction of these new beverages and the govern-!
nn-nts of the day were solidly behind them. Charles!
1. of England issued a proclamation against the cof
feehouses which had sprung up, terming them sem
inaries of sedition. Later, three thousand of them
were summarily closed up in London. In Ger
many. Frederick the Great thundered his disapprov
al of coffee in the form of manifestoes. He him-J
self had been raised on beer, he averred, his ances-j
tors had been raised on beer, bis glorious victories I
bad been won on beer, and he was disgusted to note I
how many of his subjects had taken to drinking eof-!
fee.
As his loyal subjects continued to drink coffee
in ever-increasin'*' numbers, Frederick endeavored
to turn th etraffic into a royal monopoly. Koval
coffee-roasting establishments were started and the
common people were forbidden to do any roasting
on their own. The hausfraus of Prussia promptly
proceeded to break the law by roasting coffee in j
their kitchens. In other words, coffee stills became
the order of the day, and Frederick was compelled
to organize a new force of revenue men who went
about the streets of Berlin with, their noses in the
air hunting for proof of illicit coffee. They became
known, naturally, as coffee sniffers and were re
warded by a share of the fines imposed as a result
of their sleuthing. *
Heavy taxes were clapped on tea when it first
invaded Britain and tea bootlegging at once became
a profitable occupation. The smuggling devised
many methods of tea-running. Most of them wore
a complicated and ingenious costume which enabled
them to smuggle in as much as thirty pounds of tea
concealed on their persons.
We have, unfortunately, given the world a
grossly exaggerates idea of the extent to which we
break the \ olstead Law. If statistics were avail
able it would be found that only a small percentage
of the men of America are dealing with bootleggers
and that the home still is becoming extinct. Dis
regard of the law may be glaring and wide open, but
the number of people who break the law is never
theless comparatively small. It is getting smaller
all the time. We are adjusting ourselves to the
new condition more rapidly than would be possible
with their centuries of smuggling back of them.
SANCTITY OF LIFE.
In the Russian pact which Britain’s Labor gov
ernment negotiated with Soviet Russia there is no
clause respecting the sanctity of human life. In
other words, there is no demand made upon the So
viet government for assurances that the imprison
ment and execution of its subjects without fair trial
should cease ‘‘as a condition precedent to any agree
ment or understanding with it.” This omission is
being drawn attention to now that the subject is be
ing aired in the course of the present election cam
paign in Britain. It is recalled that Mr. Gladstone
passionately denounced the cruelties inflicted on
political prisoners in the prisons of Naples in 1851.
Copies of Mr. Gladstone’s letters on the subject were
sent to the British representatives at all the eoi; cw
of Europe with instruction to give copy to each
go\ ernment. The British foreign secretary of the
line. Lord Palmerston, warned the Neapolitan gov
ernment of the violent revolution that long-continu
ed and widespread injustice would surely bring
about.
In this connection, General J. B. Seely, a for
mer member of the government of Mr. Lloyd George,
pvints out that the Soviet government has been guii
ly of “manifold and grave abuses’’ on a scale hn
im uMirably greater than that denounced by the Brit.
is foreign secretary of 711 years ago. lie points
out that Lord Grey of Falloden, in speaking on the
Russian pacts, said the Soviet government was found
ed on masscre. The reign of terror in Russia con
tinues. General Seely believes that, taking into
consideration all the circumstances, to conclude a
treaty with Russia without guarantees of the sanc
tity of human life would be to condone their offences
and share in their guilt. The omission of any pro
vision respecting the sanctity of human life illus
trates the half-baked character of the pacts drawn
up with the Soviet emissaries.—Victoria (B.C.) Col
onist.
ANOTHER CHERISHED TRADITION
GETS JOLT.
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police rise to
protest, and in so doing they put a decided crimp
in one of our cherished traditions. From Ottawa
comes the announcement that “get your man” is
not the slogan of the “moiuities” but an echo from
the pages of ficticn aid Hollywood. “For one
thing,’’ said a high official, “if the movie actors who
impersonate Cana Fan mounted policemen insist on
wearing a pill-box hat v ith service uniforms I wish
they would get a haircut; to begin with. A hair
cut goes :miwh better with a pill-box than the am
brosial leeks now cuerect on the stage.” But the
protest will be in v<bn. Of course, the Mounted
ce do not always °get their man,” but that does
not mar the tradition i>r the best regulated of an-;
thors and actors. Mark Twain once said he would }
move a river ninctj rniles if the exgiencies of a story
required it. As roll t v to abolish Santa Claus
as to tilt at the tradition of the pertinacity of the
Canadian Royals.
MAKING HARDER TIIE WAY OF THE
MFRDEROFS G IN MAN.
The government has wisely taken steps to
check the indiscriminate sale of firearms. The
house has passed, by a vote of 282 to 39, a bill de
signed to make more difficult the use of the mails
for the shipments of weapons capable of being con
cealed on the person. It is not intended to inter
fere with the shipment of small arms through the
ordinary channels of trade, for manufacturers still
may mail to dealers or to authorized classes, such as
law officers, postal employes and watchmen official
ly employed. The bill, however, would stop the
evasion of state laws which forbid sale of firearms
except by permit, and which are attempting to con
trol the traffic in arms. The increase in crime is
due in some measure to the ease with which weapons
may be obtained, and state and federal control of
the sale and distribution of arms, should have some
good effect in checking this practice. That public
opinion is coming to be centered on the question is
shown by the fact that recently one of the largest
mail order houses announced that it would discon
tinue the distribution of firearms.
THAT Port Angeles octanegarian who continues
to take his daily forty strokes above and eight
strokes under the surface of the salt water, even
when the mercury slips down to a point approaching
zero, may live to be 110, as he believes, but to most
folks the natural query is—what’s the use?
THE mercury settled down to 62 below zero
this week at Red Deer, Alberta, but nobody ever will
know just what the minimum for the continent was
until reports thaw out from Medicine Hat.
Britain promptly canceled the Russian treaties.
The old lion is quite as peevisn as he was in h’s
eubnood days.
Cato learned Greek at 80, Dr. Eliot quit drink
ing at 83, Chauncey M. Depew took up cross-word
puzzles at 91, but Abraham had a baby at 100.
The President is for economy and then economy,
as he has said before. The country will be back
of Congress in backing him up in this. And Con
gress will be backing him up by respecting the bud
get and governing its appropriations accordingly.
“Only” 225 bills were introduced in the House
the first day. The little joker in this statement
is that all the bills of the spring session not dispos
ed of remain on the calendar; and there are bushels
of them.
LIBERTY I
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WILLIAM S HART
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WILD BILL HICKOK
Also a two reel comedy
“THE COBBLER”
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LITTLE OLD NEW YORK
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in price;
The first manual training school
in the United States was inaugurat
ed in Georgia in 1803.
Civilization:—A place to eat; ladies
Ready-to-Wear; a Tax Collector..
Modern novel: 100,000 words, ex
plaining why he left his wife for her.
Fortunately God still loves America
even if American Mercury doesn't.
A good naval oil reserve is one
that doesn’t go dry by the time the
navy recovers it.
It may not be sunshine in his soul;
it may be moonshine in his tummy. '
All of the insect pests are gone now
except the pretty male who uses per
fume.
The urge to express oneself may be
genius. But more frequently it is
common swellhead.
Brunswick Radiolas, the Radiola de
Luxe at the Alaska Shop. tf
Join the Chamber of commerce.
At any rate the highwaymen of
old held you up instead of running
you down.
The man may call it platonic friend
ship, but the woman sews at night to
have everything ready.
The next congress will share the
president’s views, except in the mat
ter of language economy.
AIL that is necessary to get that
superior is to select the right crowd
for comparison.
Spend it for a home then. A used
house doesn’t lose half its value the
first months you own it.
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