. 20. 60 is PAGE FOUR THE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1930 All are dead who have not Liberty, said the wise man, and Liberty is greater than Late. We believe State Lottery Advocated THE WORKMAN these statements to be true. We comprehend the necesfor Great Britain sity for Liberty in our own experience, and we think inac the night ior Liberty is in order. That same Liberty that breathed upon Leonidas at Thermopolae and he Economist Says Sporting Instinct of Published on Saturday Ly WALROND, at the office No 72 wrote his name among the stars. That Liberty that CARLOS MENDOZA Street No. 72, Panama, Population Should be Utilised smied upon Mutiades at Marathan and the Persian hosts Box 74, Panama Box 1102, Ancon of oppression fled before his flashing sword like witherRATES OF SUBSCRIPTION eu leaves before the northwinds. The Liberty that TO HELP BRITISH TREASURY ONE YEAR. 40 Cy.
touched the pen of Thomas Jefferson and he wrote the Emancipation Proclamation for the human race. The The Evening Standard, London, Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord SIX MONTHS of April 10th, says: Once the Arch High Chancellor, and the Speaker of Liberty that kissed the lips of Patrick Henry and he THREE.
bishop of Canterbury, the Lord the House of Commons uttered words of flame that will live until languages are ONE MONTH.
Chancellor, and the Speaker were Evidently at that date there was no ueau and lips are dust. The Liberty that grasped the trustees for a State lottery which ecclesiastical condemnation of public hand of Abraham Lincoln and he struck the bonds of helped to found the British Museum. lotteries on moral grounds. Indeed, The Liberty of the Press is the Palladium of our rights JUNIUS slavery from the hands of four million slaves. The Lidie, Harold Cox, the well known eco a few years later it is recorded that beriy inat inspired a Buxton, a Knox, a Wilberforce, and nomis, suggests that the Govern lady residing in Holborn had a lotTHE WORKMAN, SATURDAY, MAY 17, 1930 a Victoria The Good of memory for ever blessed! ment should once more encourage tery ticket presented to her by her This is the Liberty we seek the Liberty we needlutteries to help in securing revenue. husband and that her success was LIBERTY and the Liberty we must have and for which it is our prayed for in the parish church.
duty to fight till Autocracy is dead and buried, that men Throughout the latter half of the of every Nation, Race, anu Tongue might dwell in peace MR. COX ARTICLE eighteenth century lotteries became a There is more magic in this one word LIBERTY and prosperity upon the earth, as God and Nature inthan there is in all other words combined, said the noted tended them to dwell!
The general expectation is that Mr. regular source of public revenue, and the Chancellor of the Exchequer used editor of the ICONOCLAST, in the days when his Snowden will find it necessary on to consult leading stockholders as to Teet rested upon this mundane planet, and the statement Sudget Day to impose an additional is as true to uáy as it was when uttered. Imagine for HUSBAN, DS burden of taxation on the country to the best plan for each year lottery.
one briet moment the difference between liberty and the amount of something like 30. After expenses and prizes had been captivity; freedom and slavery; independence and re000, 000. Whom he will select as the paid, the net profit aceruing to the stramt. Ii a man has liberty, he is exempt from the domI seem to have come, in these latter days, into an unknown, immediate bearers of this burden Treasury seems to have varied from ination of others, and from restricting circumstances. far off land, where there are strange creatures. At least such nobody outside official circles yet 20 per cent to 40 per cent of the total If he has freedom, he is free from bondage, he is un is my impression from the current literature of our day. Hussubscribed.
knows, but almost everybody does obstructed and untrammeled. If he is independent, he bands! They used to be such honest, harmless, dependable, know that the already existing high Judged by the standards of comis not subject to, nor dependent upon another for any simple and even lovable creatures! know wherof speak, hav. scale of compulsory taxation is an pulsory taxation, that, of course, is thing he is duly qualified to exercise his own will and ing acquired one years agone; and the only fault can find with injury to the industri of the counnot a big percentage, and it might judgment without the control or dictation of others.
the acquisition is, that by a dispensation of Providence, he had to try and that a further increase will be argued in consequence that a go to what believe is the better land he had deserved.
mean a further injury.
lottery is not an economical method But how different is his condition when he is in suggest that the sporting inof raising revenue. But the staneconomic, industrial, or political captivity? How is it But the husbands of to day, if one can rely upon the writwith him when he is hela captive in all three? In such ings of the day, are strange, weird and incomprehensible, and a stinets of our population should be dards of voluntary and of compula condition, ne is in conrinement; he is in bondage; he is cannot be compared.
wile never really knows it she has him or she has him not.
utilised for the benefit of the public sory taxation treasure. Everyone familiar When money is taken from the taxa captive in the will and feeling of others, and the exerWhat has happened to husbands? The woman now who cise of his own wou and feeling is subject to how those with the immense popularity enjoyed payer forcibly by the State it is obacquires one seems to be doomed to spend all of her waking hours others reei concerning him. He is in slavery; he is existby the sweepstakes which are or viously important that as little as anu sume when she should be sleeping peacefully in holding on to ing under a system of involuntary servitude; he is in ganised every year in connection with possible should be wasted in costs of him. He is so elusive, so apt to fall into any sort of siny trap complete subjugation; he is in mental, moral, and spiritthe Derby and other sporting events.
collection.
set tor nim. He seems to be devoid of the most ordinary common ual bondage. He is under restraint; he is held back Tens of thousands of people eagerly PLEASURE TO PUBLIC Sense and to be led by the most apparent trauds. He has seemfrom acting, proceeding, or advancing; he is kept in spend their money in buying shares lottery for raising revenue is on check and is repressed. He is hindered from enjoying ingly no power of resistance. Having won a wife by frequent and in these lotteries; why should not a a different footing. As the popularfreely the exercise of voluntary action; he is enjoined tervent protestations of unfailing love and devotion, he imme portion of that money be intercepted ity of modern sweepstakes shows, the and Iorbidden to make a single move of his own volition. diately, a. most while the wedding bells are echoing, goes far afield for the benefit of the public revenue. lottery itself is pleasure to the Like the beast, he is subject to guidance by bit and and forgets all about her and leaves her in loneliness and solitude.
There is nothing novel about this public. Even those who do not thembridle the bit of Autocracy and the bridle of Oppression. It a man wete as irresponsible and as undependable and as futile proposal. In past centuries State selves put in money wait with inHe is constrained to involuntary servitude, and restrain in his business attairs, as the popular writers make out the hus lotteries were repeatedly used as a terest to see the results. Those who ed from any effort that would make him free. Figura bands of our day to be, he would be an utter failure and an object means of raising revenue. The first de plank their money down do so for tively, he is compulsorily obligated occupy and retain ut contempt to other men.
the position of second fiddler in the music of the Universe as long as he breathes, and then, he performs under Then just consider the time and the effort necessary to. Elizabeth in the year 1569, and it is for the hope of winning a prize.
hold on to these husbands. Evidently after marriage a woman amusing to note that the drawing From the point of view of the expressure of abridgment and circumscription, hindrance the took place in St. Paul Churchyard. chequer whole question can do nothing else in the world. husband must be saved from and suppression. Thus far, and no further, is the Other State lotteries are recorded in whether it is possible by means of positive command of the Masters, and any are penalized every rude blast.
subsequent reigns either to raise lotteries to obtain a substantial conwho don obey It would seem as if the children, though it now occurs to general revenue or for specific pur tribution to the national revenue.
Beyond all possibility of doubt, comparisons like ine that there are no children in these complications, would not poses.
Up to the end of the eighteenth know they had a mother, so occupied would the poor woman ben.
these disclose a fact a glaring fact which is, that any PARISH PRAYERS FOR SUCCESS century the answer to this question existence without Liberty is the equivalent of actual holding on to their elusive father.
Few people who visit the British was apparently an emphatic Yes.
death. Patrick Henry in his day and time said with a. Of course, know it will be regarded as an echo from the Museum today are aware that it But in the nineteenth century a reacthe fervor within his soul, give me liberty or give me stone age, but like to think of a husband sharing the cares that owes its foundation to a State lot tion began. The reaction seems to death. To him, death was preferable to existence with wust inevitably come into married life. What time would a hustery in the year 1753. The managers have been based mainly upon what out liberty. For him there was victory in the grave, band have or what desire to seek other pastures than his own, and trustees of this lottery were the (Continued on page 5)
and there was no sting in death. To lay his mortal body if he stood with his wife, beside a crib, where a little life was ebb in the grave and so, go back to the dust from whence he PODO ing away, when even in his own heartache, he could hold the DO 10 DO came and for his soul to take its flight upon the wings mother in his arm and try to comfort her? Then if spared the of the morning back to the God who gave it that was dread shadow, like to think of the husband coming home to the a better state for Patrick Henry, and a better state for waiting wife and being swamped by a horde of noisy youngsters, you who read this, for me, and for all mankind.
each clamouring for papa first kiss, and surrounded as he is, For if there is no organic differences among menhe stoops to take the tiniest tot out of the unequal struggle and NOW THAT THE ENGLISH TEAM if the different races of men are varieties of one comgive it the coveted first salute.
mon stock if men differ from one another in color, feat hear the jeets of the superior, sophisticated young genHAS TOURED THE WEST INDIES ures, habit, and character if, in the union of the phy eration, and perhaps should apologize for boring them with sical and moral elements of life they are essentially one such an archaic picture. know will be laughed at, told that Get a copy of the. then it is true that all men were created equal, and Mamma would probably be at a bridge party and that Papa would all men are equally entitled to the exercise of unrestrain be attending a show to be followed by a rollicking supper and that ed Liberty in his pursuit of life and happiness.
the children, if any, would be sent terrified to bed by a nurse who None therefore, should be compelled to carry on his has her own social affairs to consider.
hand fingers that are weary and worn from physical Of course, realize that there are ideal husbands in all strata and read the records of past slavery, nor on his face eyelids that are heavy and of society and, having by marital bonds and ties of kindred known swollen from wear and tear. None should be made to this type, feel like rushing to the defence of the husbands as picCricket Veterans exist in poverty, hunger, and dirt. None should be re tured in our popular fiction. really believe that the erotic quired to hunt for bread from the cooing of the early AND weaklings of our modern literature are no more true pictures of bird in the morning stillness till the crowing of the cock life than are the precocious youth of both sexes whom we would at sunset, and then, only to receive one half a loaf at the find very troublesome and disagreeable in real life.
hands of his Industrial Master. Yea, and in all these cirA Wonderful Work of 240 odd Pages cumstances, it is supremely preferable to accept with all will say this. For one wobbly, fugacious husband in speed, an introduction to the fanthom of grisly bones, fiction, there are at least ten good, honest, steady props to the death. than to shoulder the beastly burden of a lifehome, and for the one woman with time and money enough to Summary of Contents: long fast, inflicted upon the disinherited sons of men spend at cards, dances and silly movies, there are at least a dozen History of West Indies Cricket for 60 years through the wanton cruelty of the demigod, the autodevoted, industrious wives and mothers. It is like the divorce Full Particulars of 1900 Tour, crat, and the destroyer of human life!
evil. For every press blazoned divorce, where a man was moneyInteresting Report of the 1906 Tour, Liberty then, is the original heritage of all mankind inad and his wife with so much idle time she got into mischief, Magnificent Records of the 1923 Tou, there are dozens of happy homes that never see or want to see which no implement of torture or oppression can rightPhotographs Jof the Teams and 16 Individual the notoriety of the newspaper.
fully take away nor can the distortions of the autocrat Players and despot legally fetter. Sooner or later, the principle of There are fashions and changes in everything. It seems Váluable, astructive, Historical, accurate, Complete and human equality is bound to be recognized. The fight husband weak and ridiculous. Perhaps the next fashion will to be the fashion now, in our popular fiction, to make a man as a Interesting by the common people against autocracy must eventually drive it from its stolen field of activity, and place de bring a welcome change and we will have again in our literature Price 50cts.
mocracy upon its pedestal, there to function so that the men who are real men and women who are real women.
earning of bread, and the procuring of rags with which to cover the nakedness will not be contingent upon serSo, perhaps, after all should alter my question of What Copies to be had from the office of the WORKMAN vitude like prisoners work for crime!
is the matter with Husbands? to another query, What ails our Panama Writers. Henry Ruffin in America.
recorded was in the days of Queen the pleasure of taking a chance. is CRICKET! CRICKET. West Indies Cricket History CricketTours 1900, 1906 1923