The Sunday Oregonian., March 01, 1908, Magazine Section, Page 11, Image 55

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Daily ot of a Trip Around the World.
By B. W. Howe. Two volumes. Illus
trated. Crane at Company, Topeka, Kan.
Fairly sizzling with ehrewd observation,
homespun wisdom, crisp humor and what
is known to the American newspaper pro
fession as Atchison Globe personally.
For Mr. Howe is the well-known editor
of that newspsper, and to read these
two volumes of his in which he describes
. a memorable trip around the world, par
ticipated In by himself and daughter.
Miss Matcl Howe, one seems to be again
enjoying the Atchison Globe. There is
only one Atchison Globe, and may It and
it esteemed editor ever bask in prosper
ity. May the years deal gently with
them, for In this corporation age such
humorists can't be spared.
Probably no such informal, original
books of travel and observation, as
these have been published for oh! ever
so long. Mr. Howe takes you at the
start by the hand and into his confidence.
You feel, although you personally don't
know tile man, that Mr. Howe Is your
friend and that the tour is a personally
conducted one and that you are In it. It's
like the unexplatnable delight of experf
ent'lntr a foreign trip without leaving
home. Mr. Howe can rest assured that
his volumes, so modestly written and
filled with human interest, are as benefi
cial to jaded readers as a pure breath
from a forest of pine. The illustrations
sre of lively interest, because many of
them show the redoubtable author-editor
in a variety of poses and moods. The
general story is wisely broken up by
wlmt a printer would call "ems." The
world Is all the better for such a laugh
maker as Howe. Occasionally he is a
"shocker," for, being boss of hb news
Paper, he writes these letters to his home
resders with daring fearlessness and
without wriggling doubt that some stern
editor will blue-pencil his copy. So he
speaks out, regardless of fear or favor,
and freely criticises some of his fellow
travelers, with the same unconscious hu
mor he displays when discussing folks
around home.
Editor Howes' memorable trip around
the world began October 26, 1905, and end
ed Msrch 10, 1906. He traveled about 31,
000 miles, and says that, although he was
a passenger on one dozen different steam
ships and on railroad trains In 11 dif
ferent countries, he neither suffered acci
dent nor delay. The cost of the trip was
about t&OO. He and Miss Howe visited
Hawaii, Japan. China, the Philippines,
Straits Settlements. Malay Peninsula,
I'eylon, India. Arabia. Efeypt, Palestine,
Italy, Switzerland. France, England and
Ireland. It is comforting; to know that,
wherever the tourists went, they found
tfnglish spoken, good hotels, traveling
easy, and conditions, in the main, pieas
ar.i. On the journey to San "Francisco Mr.
Howe seems to have taken a dislike to
certain missionaries, for he writes:
Tmaclne spending a night and a day in
a small room with five noisy and Impu
dent children. That's what I am doing.
Ths missionary has no notion that his chil
dren sre a nuisance. Neither has his wife.
UM night, after I had gone to bed, the
missionary, having coaxed the children to
red, proceeded to amuse himself by telling
the conductor about his "work" in China.
On thla sleeper there la a Japanese woman,
with two little girls. Hr children are
splendidly behaved and under control. Aa
soon as the missionary civilizes the Chinese
he will probably try to civilise the Japan
ese. Is all seriousness, the missionary's fam
ily Is a thousand years behind the Japanese
family. if the missionary will civilise his
nwu children he will never be missed la
chins. Yet, think of the ttred, hard-working
people who have been bullyragged to
give money -with which to send this mis
sionary to china! There is another man
en thla ear who has a auspicious look I
think he is a missionary also. He is a
thin, cadaverous man; so thin. Indeed, that
the bows of the spectacles he wears wrap
twice around Ms ears. Hs Is smooth
faced, and watery-eyed, and his teeth are
wide apart In front.
At Pan Francisco the tourists were met
by Cugene Howe, son of the sdltor of
that name. "As this is a sort of letter
home. I suppose no one will object If I
sav that Eugene U a fine young man."
writes Bugene's father. "He Is only 19
years old. and for a year past has been
a reporter on The Portland Oregonian,
the leading paper of the Northwest coast.
A boy of 19 who can hold a Job like that
is all right. My son Jim Is at Honolulu,
having just resigned a good position on
the Sun Francisco ChronMe to accept, a
better one at Honolulu. These boys of
mine have done so well that I shall be
compelled to take chloroform to keep
from talking about them."
On the tenth day out on the Pacific
Ocean Mr. Howe writes with charmtret
abandon: "I am conscious that these let
ters are becoming pretty dull. When
they become more tiresome than reprint
that Is, time copy cut from other papers
it will be the duty of the managing edi
tor to throw them away. I know it
would require a good deal of Etrve toe
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D.Mowellfe
the managing editor to kill the old man's
stuff, but the necessary permislson is
hereby granted." Further on he con
fesses that he may be a harsh critic in
literary matters, because he believes that
not one book in 100 is readable.
It doesn't matter whether he de
scribes life on the ocean wave or on
storied ground, Mr. Howe continues to
entertain. He thinks that Jerusalem ia
the dirtiest city he visited; that no other
city equals Paris, and that no other ho
tels equal the French; and that London is
the greatest city In the world.
No doubt you would expect Mr. Howe
to rave over Naples and Its music, but he
doesn't.
"The cheapest thing in Naples is music.
Tonight our party of five occupied a box
at the finest opera-house in Europe, and
the charge was ?5. The opera was 'La
Toscs," but we were all tired and sleepy
and left after the first act. although there
were 74 men In the orchestra."
On the homeward stretch Mr. Howe
evolves this philosophy: "A woman
should not only weigh less than her hus
band, but she should be younger, shorter,
more patient, more polite and more for
giving." How much more patriotic an American
Mr. Howe became when he again landed
on these shores! Of New York he writes:
"In New York, In going up town on an
errand, I used tho underground railway,
and it seemed to me to be the most won
derful thing I had ever seen: four tracks
and trains whizzing by all the time. . . .
Kvery man who lives in this blessed
country has reason to go to his front door
every morning and cheer because he is an
American. If you don't know It. I do."
It must have been with a Pralse-the-Lord-for-all-hls-goodness
feeling that Mr.
Howe finally "struck" Atchison. He says
In closing:
When I go to heaven I shall think to
myself: "This Isn't so much; I had a bet
ter time when I returned to .Atchison after
an absence of nearly five months." Some
more of my friends had sent flowers and
after 1 had admired them t thought: "The
best thing about It all Is that big. wide
bed of mine." For months and months I
had been sleeping In narrow steamship
beds, and In hotel beds "made up" after a
fashion t do not admire. . . . But it
was the same old bed.
The Idy of the Mount. By Frederic 8.
Jsham. Illustrated. The Bobbs-Merrill
Company. Indianapolis. Ind.
Told with a sweep and a vigor recall
ing Mr. Isham's earlier novel. "Under
the Rose." The present novel is a tale
of Old France, Just before the Revolu
tion, in which the plain people sent three
words bounding over the world: "Liberty,
equality, fraternity." The picture on the
book cover represents a girl of that aris
tocratic age, with proud, patrician fea
tures, hair of dull-red gold and hold
ing a horsewhip in her uplifted right
hand. 9he is the Comtesse Elise. daugh
ter of the Governor of the Mount. The
latter great rock stood some distance
from the shore in a vast bay on the
northwestern coast of France, and to
the left lay the dense Deiaurac forest.
The Mount had been for centuries a
monastery and fortress of the mftiks.
but at the time of Louis XVI it had be
come a stronghold of the government,
strongly ruled by one of Its most irw
exorable nobles.
Both the Governor of the Mount and
the Seigneur Desaurac were suitors for
the hand of Claire, only daughter of the
Comtcsse de la Mart, but the Governor
won. Desaurac. who was gifted with a
long pedigree .and little of this world's
goods, married a peasant girl, by whom
he had one son. Andre, and. becoming
morose, the father sailed for America,
where he died on the field of battle for
the American Republic.
The Comtesse Elise and Andre, other
wise known as the Black Seigneur.- are
the principal personages In the novel,
which turns out to be a romantic, well
told story of finely sustained Interest.
The character construction is fashioned
with boldness. The Governor, haughty
and aristocratic: the Comtesse. wilful
and yet alluring; young Desaurac. half
pirate, semi-revolutionist, and possessing
the ubiquitous quality of appearing at
the most unexpected moments; the Msr
quls de Beauviilers. a picture in Van
dyke lace, and soldiers and sailors to
measure. The book does not get excit
ing until, the news comes that the revo
lutionists of Paris have stormed the Bas
tille, and then the country people, who
have been cruelly Ill-used by the Gov
ernor of the Mount, retaliate by s'tormlflg
his stronghold, under the leadership of
Desaurac This is the picture:
Aram that cry, "The Bastille of the
North, we t-o will take our Bastille," dom
inated the clashing of arms and the tumult
of strife. . For what seemed an intermina
ble period the Governor"! daughter saw
through flashes of light men struggling,
striking. The Governor walked toward the
great stairway leading to the open space
near the church. To his startled gaze the
rock, like -aa ant hill dia.urbed, aeemcd
swarming with life. Even as he peered
down, new relays of men poured upward
from dark byways to the reinforcement of
those already gathered at the portala, and.
for the first time, his confidence, bred of
contempt for the commonalty, became
slightly shaken.
Fate, which had struck him sharply in
the capture of bis daughter and the en
forced negotiations leading to the release
of one he would have dealt with after his
own fashion, now gripped him closer. What
did It portend T Whence came ail these
people? Not all ef them from the imme
diate neighborhood! Voices, among the as
sailants, had called out in what was surely
tha Parisian dialect of the rabble; here to
propagate the revolution; extend the circle
of flame! -And they had aeen that arms
were not wanting! Muskets, pikes, swords,
must have been kept concealed for. soma
time In the town at the base of the Mount
or on the shore.
Unlike most novels depicting such a
time of blood, the author does not delight
in describing carnage and there cannot
be said to be much love-making in the
pages. But-the union of sentiment and
romance is skilfully worked out to a sat
isfactory close. Several attractive illus
trations are by Lester Ralph.
Federal Usorpaaios, by Franklin Pierce.
Sl.SO. D. Appleton A Co., New York City.
Written In a clear and simple style,
not necessarily hostile to President
Roosevelt, yet objecting to his general
pronouncement that the power of the
Federal Government should be increased
"through executive action and
through judicial 'interpretation and con
struction of law."
Mr. Pierce, who Is a New Tork lawyer,
says that whije his book is a plea for
the ear redness of the United States Con
stitution, he does not mean that the latter
document, framed 130 years ago, is well
suited to the needs of existing govern
ment. He advises that its rigid pro
visions. Its system of checks and balances,
as an obstacle to popular government,
should be radically changed by amend
ment, but never by construction or
usurpation. At the same time, Mr. Pierce
forgets to give the President credit for
the vital agitation he has started to
mould popular opinion by which neces
sary amendments to the constitution
may be secured.
Mr. Pierce writes with the practiced
east of a lawyer, arguments and facts
are his weapons, not personalities. He
attacks party lines, and says that politic!
as a trade has been the curse of our
country since the Civil War and will con
tinue to be until a new line of men with
new ideas of their duties to their coun
trymen, are heard in the House of Rep
resentatives. He complains that Congress
yearly passes 3000 or 4000 statutes, and
that state legislatures add about 23,000
pages additional. The only way, it Is
pointed out, to keep government free is
for each Individual to presume that gov
ernment is in the wrong, for "that pre
sumption will keep it upon its good be
haviour." It Is considered that one change which
would bring salutory results Is to make
the President's term of office seven years
instead of four, and to take away the
right of re-election. As may be guessed,
Mr. Pierce Is in favor of the referendum
and the election by popular vote of Unit
ed States Senators.
Delight, by Gertrude Smith. Illustrated. 50
cents. Henry Altemus Company, Phila
delphia, Pa.
It is a true remark that every religion
which has lived has produced a literature,
and it is therefore fitting that Christian
Science should produce a notable Chris
tian Science story of Juvenile fiction.
This little book extends to 221 pages and
principally concerns a Mrs. Allen, who
adopted a -year-old crippled girl from
the Children's Home. At that time the
little girl's name was Ennie, but was
changed by her new friends to Delight.
On the fifth printed page we find that two
years have elapsed and that Delight,
through the aid of Christian Science, is
a physically strong child, able to romp
and play. Some of her sayings are:
"Perfect love casteth out fear. What
are false gods? Why, all naughty
thoughts, and sick thoughts, and medicine
bottles."
Delight is really a wonderful child and
so sweet on every occasion that it's a
wonder she wasn't mistaken for sugar,
and eaten! She is just the angelic child
to live within the pases of a befok. She
has a pet peacock named Arnold Berkeley
and once she succeeds In converting a
clergyman of another denomination to
Christian Sience. The book is not with
out Its charm, as a beautiful study in
soul-life. It is sure of a large sale.
Retrieval at Panama, by Lindon W. Bates.
Ilustrated. The Technical Literature
Company. New York City.
Llndon W. Bates is an engineer of in
ternational renown. He is a member of
the Soclete des Ingcnieurs CIvils de
France: Institute of Naval Architects
and Institute of Civils Engineers, Great
Britain; Soclete Beige des Ingenieurs,
Belgium, and Western Society of En
gineers, United States. He Is also known
because of his excellent presentation in
smaller books of Panama Canal problems.
But this present volume is his Panama
monument, so to speak. He Is in every
way qualified to speak.
"Retrieval at Panama" Is a valuable
book of criticism but mingled with Ameri
IF THE FIGHT COXTIXl'ES THERE WILL. BE NOTHING LEFT TO FIUH T OVER,
can patriotism and optimism. Much of
what appears within the pages referred
to was originally printed in the New York
Press newspaper, but new matter has of
course since been added. Much of the
explanation Is technical but not so
scientific as to trap the ordinary reader,
what Is given bo interestingly. Just makes
him wish for more. In finding reasons
for the being of his book. Mr. Bates goes
along the well-known path that as our
country needs the waterway most pres
singly to safe-guard the territories under
Its flag, the canal work should be placed
from a technical viewpoint before our
citizens.
J. M. QUENTIN.
IN LIBRARY AND WORKSHOP.
Among new printings are the tenth edition
of "My Mamie Rose." the third edition of
"Hazel of Heatherland." by Mabel Barnes
Grundy, and the fourth edition of "The
Appreciation of Pictures," by Russell Stur
gls. Mrs. Humphry Ward is expected very soon
to arrive In this country for a long postponed
visit. She will be the guest of Mrs. Frederick
W. Whltridge, of New York, who, as the
daughter of Matthew Arnold, Is her cousin.
The visit will be Mrs. Ward's first to America.
The new edition of W. D. Howell's ex
quisite story of travel Is entitled "Venetian
Life." and is embellished by many fine illus
trations by E. H. Garrett. One of these
illustrations, pictured on today's book page,
intrcduces one to "Palazxi Balbl and Grl
mani." Charles H. CafTln, whose "Child's Guide to
Pictures" is being awaited with much inter
est, la best known as the author of "How to
Study Pictures." Mr. Caffin is an English
man, a graduate of Oxford, but he bac been
so long identified with American art criticism
that this fact is sometimes forgotten.
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Ainslee's for March has a complete novel
by Anna A. Rogers, called "The Madonna
of the Tea Table," which ought to prove
a big success. It Is '-a tale of American
Army and Navy people In Japan and con
tains many striking and absorbing situa
tions welded together with unquestionable
skill.
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The sermons of Rev. W. R. Huntington,
D. D.. rector of Grace Church. New York,
entitled "A Good Shepherd and Other Ser
mons." the title discourse being a memorial
of the late Biebop Huntington of Central New
York, will soon be reissued In a cheap -and
popular form, in the aeries known aa Whitta
ker's Sermon Library.
.
It may interest opera-goers and book
lovers to learn that a special souvenir
edition of Maeterlinck's "Pelleae and Mel
lsSnde" is in preparation. The book will
be profusely Illustrated with scenes from
Debussy's opera, :uid will contain a critical
introduction by Montrose J. Moses, the dra
matic critic
Elizabeth Robin's "Come and Find Me."
which has been running serially In. the
Century, is now Issued in book form. Misa
Robins Is at her Winter home In Florida,
though usually much of her time is spent
In England. "Come and Find Me" will have
11 full-page illustrations by Earnest L.
Blumenschein.
New books received: "Another Fairy
Reader," by James Baldwin, 35 cents; and
"A Laboratory Manual of Zoology," by
Margaret Burnett, 30 cents (American Book
Company) ; "Messages for Home and Life,"
by DInsdaie T. Young, 1.25; and "Some
: Little Prayers," by Lucy Rider Meyer, 35
cents Jennings & Graham).
A book designed at once to embody the lat
est idea in building values, and to be at once
practical aa well as attractive, ia entitled
"Building a Home." by H. W. Desmond and
H. W. Frohne, of the Architectural Record. A
special feature of the book will be the Illus
trations and plana which are all drawn to the
same scale, and are all practical.
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Fugitive poems by Helen Hay Whitney,
gathered into a little volume entitled "Gypsy
Verses." reveal a delicate fancy and a clear
sighted, poetic Imagination. Thla Is ber
phrasing of "Love and Dawn":
"Down shaking long light pennons in the
love the. least
And love the greateat of the morning's woes?
See how the rose
Breaks in a hundred petals down the sky.
Darkness must die.
And In the heart, where flatters sad desire.
Wakes the new fire
Silver and azure of the open day.
So. grief, away!
We will be gled with flagons, drown old pain.
And Dawn aball bring us to her own again."
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Discussing S3. Phillips Oppenhelm and his
position as a writer of sensational novels. Dr.
Richard Burton remarks in the current ussua
of the Book News Monthly: "The truth is.
Mr. Oppenheim Is mindful of the fundamental
facts of human nature; his tales have a gen
uine psychologic interest. Then, too, they are
very well written, and they display an easy
acquaintance with the great world, whether
that of national or International relations, or
of faehtonable society. The writer seems
equally at home in sketching a king- or a
criminal. And, again, there is now and then
a serious note of social sympathy In his work,
a humanitarian tendency, which dignifies the
popular elements more obviously there; excit
ing fable, dramatic situations, mystery, sus
pense. It is the union of these qualities which
lifts Oppenhelm's narratives above the tawdry
shilling shocker, while, at the same time, they
retain ite virtues'. Above all else, his fiction
stands for story for story's sake a good
thing in these days of fictional invertebrates.
He has taken to heart Anthony Trollope's re
mark that in his first book he had a story
to tell: whereas thereafter, becoming a pro
fessional novel-maker, he had to tell a story.
Onpmhelm always has a story to tell, and tells
It with the cunning of a true craftsman. Buy
ing one of hla stories you may be sure of
one thins; it will chain your attention. A
typical tale of his will not turn out a lesson
In disguise, leaving the novel-reader in the
6tate of disgust."
Hot Fight On for Prohibition in Kentucky
VIGOROUS EDITORIAL, FROM THE LOUISVILLE COURIER. JOURNAL
AGAINST THE '"MACHINATIONS OF THE DEVIL INCARNATE."
'----.......
There is an actual fight over pro- I
blbltlon In Kentucky (think of such I
a thing in Ksn-tuckyl) or the Louts-
vine Courier-Journal would not pub- I
llsh editorials of the length, and
energy of the following, which Is J
taken from that paper of February 2
21. I
BEFORE the present General Assem
bly at Frankfort proceeds to pass
a law which, to meet the require
ment of the extremists, should be en
titled, "An act to recreate Kentucky In
the image of Maine and Kansas, and to
abridge the liberty of its citizens,"
Its members and especially those of
them who are so blatant In proclaiming
themselves Democrats would do well to
consider that the public opinion which
will preside over the next state election
will not represent the snap-judgment of
hysteria, but will be an enlightened pub
lic opinion, availing itself of the horrid
example of Georgia and other states
south of us, which have tried prohibition
to find It only a scheme of spoliation
and delusion, uniting bogus religion with
rotten politics, and replacing conditions
that admittedly need reform by condi
tions tenfold worse.
But a few days ago the Courier-Journal
1 cited the pastor of Grace Episcopal
Church, of Long Island City, as saying
that be felt it to be his duty, as a min
ister and a citizen, to do all In his power
to support a return to tho license sys
tem, after two years of "dry." He
claimed to advocate license on moral
grounds, and asserted that the "no-license
plan did not remove the evil of Intemper
ance, but exaggerated that evil and
added to it many other worse evils,
proving a prolific breeder of perjury,
lawlessness -and hypocrisy, all kinds of
vile and -poisonous concoctions being
dispensed by .irresponsible and disrepu
table persons."
"Prohibition," says Boyd Winchester
with admirable precision, "may close
the saloons, but the favored classes can
dring at will in their homes and clubs,
while the multitude must resort to cel
lars, 'blind tigers, 'secret joints' and
hidden places generally, where adultera
tion and extortion prevail; the differ
ence being that drinking will go on with
unabated fervor, . though under mean,
furtive and demoralizing circumstances.
Any form of prohibition or restriction
bears most heavily upon the poorer
classes, the rich being always able to
secure whatever potations they wish.
No one can question the sincerity of Mr.
Gladstone as to temperance, but when
urged to join tn a temperance propa
gandism In 1SS4, he wrote: 'How can I,
who drank good wine and bitter beer all
my life. In a comfortable room and
among friends, codlly stand up and ad
vise hard-working fellow-creatures to
take the pledge?"
There Is not a thoughtful, right-thinking
man In the world who does not know
that this is ths truth, and bound. In the
nature of man and the case, to be the
truth.
Cardinal Gibbons is the latest author
ity, and a very great authority he is, to be
quoted to the same effect. The good Car.
dlnal Is firmly of the opinion that pro
hibition does not prohibit. His idea that
laws which are sure to be broken are
bad laws, begetting disrespect for all law,
cannot be successfully controverted. Only
those who are very ignorant and unre
flecting, or else victimized by emotional
insanity, can think otherwise.
The editor of the Courier-Journal re
ceived a letter not long ago from a good,
Christian woman in Central Kentucky,
who was fairly horror-stricken that the
paper, which she said 8benhad held next
after her Bible, should "oppose temper
ance." She was able to see but one side
of it. She only saw the drink habit with
its devilish machinations; the saloon with
its easy seductions; both to be extirpated
by a statute, which would not, in our
opinion, reach either, whilst entailing pe
culiar evils of Its own; smuggling, adul
teration, extortion, perjury. .
We do not need to go to Maine for the
proof. Right at our own door, just across
the Kentucky line at Knoxville, in Ten
nessee, they have tried a castiron prohibi
tion ordinance long enough to test its evil
fruitage. Thence, as from all other places
where the crazy plan has been tried,
comes the same old story: the business of
the town Mrtously crippled by the new
law; more than 100 vacant storehouses
placed on" the market, affecting the prtcea
of all real estate: the city taxes to be
raised. Tot alcoholic liquors are readily
obtained by persons who want to buy
them, and an order for liquor from Mid
dlesboro was recently filled by a Knox-
ville agent with decision and dispatch. '
encountering nowhere the least hin
drance. If there were any variation in this ex
perience, the prohibition people might
talk. There is none. In Maine, in Iowa,
tn Kansas, the sole effect of prohibition
enactments has been, first, to get the
prohibition question into religion and then
into politics, and, finally, to make it the
agent of universal corruption.
The red-nosed angel who plays prohibi
tion In public six days in the week and
gets drunk in secret over Sunday is a fa-i
miliar figure in those states where the.
drink issue, fomented in the churches,
has got into politics. "'Honest liberty,"
says Milton, "Is the greatest foe to dis
honest license." It is so easy for vice to
affect virtue for the Devil to quote Scrip
tureand to palm off fraud on impres
sionable people for truth. True courage,
true integrity, the spirit of true patriot
ism and religion are first expelled by In
tolerance from the churches, and then the
hue and cry for bogus religion is taken
up by the red-nosed angels of politics, and
upon it are rung all the changes which
Pharisaism and perfidy know so well
how to ring, In order to catch the ear of
the unthinking.
Members of the General Assembly
should take into consideration the fact
that half measures will not suffice. The
Anti-Saloon League announces that "it
is. ready without a moment of delay to
lead a movement whish shall prevent
the saloon from doing business on a sin
gle foot of soil and on any day of ths
week anywhere in this grand old common
wealth." The Kentucky conference of the
Methodist Episcopal Church declares:
"Eternal, and unrelenting warfare against
the saloon; it is war to the death for
local prohibition, state prohibition. Na
tional prohibition, and for the use of al
cohol as a beverage to be prohibited by
state and National legislation." The re
cent prohibition candidate for Governor
took the position that: "If the liquor
traffic Is a good thing, it should not be
prohibited by local option in a limited ter
ritory; if it is a bad thing (which he be
lieved) it certainly should be prohibited
in the State of Kentucky and throughout
our Nation."
This means the conftscatipn of a hun
dred millions of property values and the
increase of taxation everywhere.
The Legislature must go the whole hog
or nothing. To satisfy the prohibitionist,
they must make Kentucky even as Maine,
and Kansas, and Georgia. They may not
at that rate get the prohibition vote. It
is Tom Watson, in Georgia, who Is likely
to carry off the usufruct of the dishon
est statute, not the fool Democrats who
enacted it.
Boyd Winchester used' to be considered
a pretty good Democrat. That he is not
only, a Democrat still, but retains his In
tellectual vitality and convictions as well,
is attested by his contemporary writing.
Through ' the following shines the spirit
of Jefferson himself.
Opposition to sumptuary laws has long
been a tenet of the Democratic party. It ia
a Democratic axiom that the best-governed
people are those least governed: that .the
science of legislation Is the science of
touching as lightly as possible the freedom
of the citixen in his individual, domestic
and personal life. The mania for regulat
ing everywhere does not spring- from a
democratic root. It ia characteristically
monarchical to oversee all, to Intermeddle
with all, like an Argus with a hundred
eyes and a Brl&reus with a hundred hands.
The royal conception of government Is that
of a felt presence in the daily life of every
citizen, directing his manner of life. This
monarchical idea has been defined by
LEGENDS ON AMERICAN COINS
IS Plurlbna TJnum" Has Been Used by Onr Govern
ment Ever Since 1792; Mew Jersey First Adopted It.
THE use of the motto "In God We
Trust" on American coins is less
than half a century old, but the
legend "E Plurlbus Unum" has done
duty upon nearly every United States
coin Issued since the establishment of
the Mint in 17S3, and even goes back
to the days when individual states
struck their own coins.
The origin of the legend Is rather
uncertain. There is evidence that it did
not originate in the Colonies, nor was
it brought Into being, as many have
supposed, by the conditions which ex
isted in this country In the latter half
of the eighteenth century. It seems to
have been derived from a foreign
Source.
The motto "E Plurlbus Unum" is
found on the title page of an English
publication, the Gentleman's Magazine,
about 1630. It was first used in Ameri
ca on the copper cent dated 17S6, is
sued by the StaTte of New Jersey and
known as th.e Nova Caesarea cent.
In 1786 a law was passed by the Leg
islature of New Jersey for coining cop
per cents, which were to be made "in
the state, of such device and Impres
I slon as should be directed by he Jus
tices of the Supreme Court, or any of
i them." Whether the justices had any
thing to do with the selection of the
motto 1b not quite certain. They seem
to have taken very little Interest in the
matter and left the design to the first
New Jersey mintmaster. Waiter Mould, a
coiner at Birmingham. England, who had
emigrated to America and set up his
plant at Morristown.
The motto was borne by all the many
varieties of cents struck by Mould and
other coiners in the state during the three
years of coinage 1788. 1787 and 1788.
In 1787 Ephraim Brasher adopted the
legend for the famous New York doub
loon, struck in gold, which has since
become the highest priced coin In
the world, t200 having been paid for a
speciman last Summer at the Stickney
sale. On this (join, however, there was a
slight variation in the reading .of the
legend, it ibeirig "Unum E Plurlbus."
Several varieties of the New York cop
per cents dated 1787 bore the motto "E
Plurlbus Unum." It appeared on the
"Immune Columbia" series dated 177,
ths Kentucy cent dated 1791 and one vari
ety of the Washington cent of the same
date.
The early engravers were fond of placing
m'ottoes upon coins, usually in Latin. On
the Maryland coins, known as the coinage
of Lord Baltimore shillings, sixpences,
groats and pennies tho legend generally
used was "Crescite ct Multlplicamini"
(Increase and Multiply).
The New Hampshire cent fo 1776, said to
be the first coin issued by one of the
United States, bore the Inscription
"American Liberty," with the pine tree
as one of its chief devices.
The New York cent struck at Newburgh
nearly all bore the motto "Inde et Lib"
(Independence and Liberty), which In
scription was shown by the many varie
ties of cents struck in the State of Con
necticut, One variety of the New Tork
cents bore the inscription "Virt et Lib"
(Virtue and Liberty).
A number of the states put out "Im
mune Columbia," or free Columbia, cents.
The reverse die of this piece seems to
have been used in conjunction with one
of the regular obverse dies used by Ver
writers on government from Aristotle dowa.
and it postulates a sovereign power stand
ing at the aide of every citizen to see that
he behavea. Thla is the direct opposite of
the Republican dream and idea. The ae
eurlty of individual rights, the rights to
life, liberty, property and the pursuit of
happiness, and arbitrary restrictions, re"a
contradiction in terms, a blasphemy in ra
Hglon, a w lekednesa in politics." Provl- i
dence has given to every sane human being
a degree of reason necessary to direct him
self In the affaire which Interest him ex-'
clusively. On this grand principle civil and
political society rests, and it has been the;
object of all the struggles against arbl-'
trary power, temporal and spiritual, civil'
and political, military and ecclesiastical, tn
evary age. There can be no question more
Important and vital to the existence of
civil liberty. It Is the question of cen
turies, over and about which men have,
fought and suffered and died, until out of i
the dark and dreary struggle the great .
truth was established that "the only free-1
dom which deserves the name la that of
Pursuing our own good in our own way. so
long aa we do not attempt to deprive oth
ers or impede their efforts to obtain It."
The drastic prohibitionist, who is th
lineal descendant of Cotton Mather, the
tru-i disciple of Philip of Spain, a nat
ural believer in the Inquisition and the
stake, will none of such reasoning. He)
wants to make his neighbor as himself,
and, unless his neighbor yields, he wants
to kill him. His is not the idea at all
that the saloon shall obey the law; it ia
that liquor shall cease to be used or even
exist.
Laws to regulate the sale of Intoxicants
and increase" the responsibility of liquor
dealers, with a Judicious and rational
license system and a reasonable restric
tion, are wiser and more effective and
more likely to be observed and enforced
whenever public sentiment approves
them, than any prohibitory enactment.
Local option laws, unlike prohibitory
laws, do not confuse the wholly different
Issues of saloon regulation, and personal
abstinence, and do not Impose upon com
munities laws which public opinion will
not suffer to be enforced. Local option,
constantly growing more carefully restric
tive and stringent in supervision, alms,
whenever practicable, to draw the line be
tween that part of the traffic which pub
lic safety requires to be prohibited and
that part which, If evil at all. Is too re
motely and indirectly so, to warrant an
Interference with individual rights. This
policy trusts every community to handle
its own saloon problem, regulating the
sale of liquor according to its own de
sires and needs; and the result has been
as agreed by all who know the facts, an
average of effective and Impartial law
enforcement far above anything that
could be looked for or has been reached
under statutory or constitutional prohi
bition. The Courier-Journal offers local option,
each civil district to be its own judge, as
the alternative, and it believes that an
Infinitely better agent of real temperance
than any other.
We do not expeot that the Illiterates of
the chain-gang of reptiles and varmints
which ten years of machine politics has
raised up In Kentucky will see either the
truth or the force of the axiom, "equality
for all exclusive privilege for none"; but
ambitious politicians ought to see it.
The fight Is on. and it will be a light to
a finish. Believing as It does, the Courier-Journal
will support no man for of
fice who equivocates upon a principle
which ought to be as dear to manly
hearts as the Constitution of the United
States itself, as the Christian religion
itself but It will oppose him relentlessly
wherever be appears and by whatever
name he calls himself its one purpose
being to reseue Kentucky from the ruto
and reign of perfidy and Pharisaism and
to save it from the fate of Maine, Kan
sas and Georgia, a triology of states In
which scoundrellsm masquerades as a
statesman, and the devil stalks abroad
at high noon incarnate and unresisted.
mont, New Tork and New Jersey. The
design represented the Goddess of Lib
erty seated, uuholding with one hand the
scales of justice, with the other grasping
a flag which falls from a liberty staff,
surmounted by a liberty cap.
The inscription on the Massachusetts
copper coinage was simply the word
"Commonwealth." rafe Massachusetts,
coin bears the inscription "God Preserves
New England." An extremeley rare va
riety of the Massachusetts copper, dated
1776. contained the legend "Liberty and
Virtue" and is supposed to be the first
pattern for the Massachusetts cent.
The Carol in as were credited with a
coin of the same character as one of
the Massachusetts issues. It having the
same form of elephant on one side, but
the inscription reads, "God Preserve
Carolina and the Lords Proprietor."
This coin was issued in 1694.
The copper coin known as the Louis
iana cent, struck in France as early as
1721 for use in the American colonies,
bore the Inscription, "Benedictum Sit
Nomen Domini" or (Blessed Be the
Name of the Lord). This was a favor
ite inscription with the French engrav
ers and many of the regular French,
coins of the period contained it.
The first Continental dollar, one of
the rarest of American coins, a silver
specimen of which sold for $500 some
time ago, was dated 1776 and inscribed
"American Congress. We Are One."
This coin, together with the Fugio cent;
of later issue, bore the motto, "Mind
Tour Own Business."
One of the scarcest of the early
coins, showing an Indian seated upon!
a globe and holding a bunch of tobacco
in his right hand, and dated 1778. has
the inscription. "Non Dependens
Status" (Independent of Position).
An extremely rare and interesting:
copper of the "Confederatio" series
shows an Indian standing beside an al
tar, his right foot upon a crown, arrow
and bow in hand, surrounded by ths
inscription, "Inimica Tyrannis Ameri
ca" .America Hostile to Tyrants).
This coin possesses an added interest
for the reason that the reverse was in
all probability a working out of a de
sign for a crown, one of the coins in
a series suggested by the financier of
the Revolution, Robert Morris. Mr.
Morris suggested that a gold crown ha
Struck which should bear the design
of "an Indian, with his bow In his
left hand and in his right hand 13 ar
rows and his right foot on a crown,
the Inscription. "Manns InlmlcsTyran
nis.' " The series were to be of ths
denominations of quarters, pence, bits.,
dollars and crowns ten quarters to
make one penny, ten bits to make one
dollar and ten dollars to make one
crown. A very high value is placed on
this coin, and a specimen recently
brought $800. , '
One of the very scarce Washington
coins, dated 1786. showing a portrait of
the General, had the inscription "Non
VI Vlrtute Vlcl." .1 conquered by vir
tue not by force..
Still another rare copper showed an
Indian as the principal design and the
inscription "Liber Natus Libertatem
Defendo." (Being born free I defend
liberty., This is one variety of the
rare series of cents struck for use in
New York, and a specimen sold for
J8GJ last Summer.
The Kentucky cent bore the mottoes
in English, "Our Cause Is Just" and
"Unanimity Is the Strength of 8ociety."
One of the early coins of the Ameri
can Ross series bore the motto, "Utile
DulcL"