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JLU I 111 L 1 W YORK CALL—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 2, IftV. When you BUY from CALL advertisers tell them WHY.
5 0 0 0 REWARDS TO SPIKE FRAUD N VOTE COUNT
HONEST BALLOT ASSOCIA
TION FINDS PLOT TO
C H E A T V O T E R S O F
ELECTION.
to gtr« information of elec ion fraud* From our past experience we are eer-
| tain that the offer of reward al»o will be suffloient to induce criminal*, who have knowledge of repeating and who need the money, to give us the evidence which will make it possible for u.i to send political crooks of their acquaintance to jail. The dissemination of hand bills i* the best possible way of reaching the criminal element of this city and repeaters will have every reason to be nervous and distrust their colleagues in the underworld.
"The association has knowledge of registration frauds which it cannot yet
I make pubMc. because sufficient evi-I dence to make a conviction certain has ' not yet been fully secured. When the information is complete, we will be able to make disclosures that will shock honest, law abiding citizens.
"Within the next few days the association will apply for a number of warrants of arrest for political offender! already caught in the association's mi."
LETTERS COST !TRUST BUSTING 3 CENTS TODAY ENDED 8Y WAR
OLD RATE STILL PREVAILS
FOR MANHATTAN, BRONX
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' The Honest Ballot Association announced yesterday from its headquarters that it is offering I5.WW reward lor reports which will lead to the ar-f»»t and conviction of illegal voters for jrecistering or voting in more than one polling pUce in New York city this year.
The $1,000 will be deatributed in 50 tawards of $100 each to the first N persons whose, evidence shall result in conviction within the next four months. These rewards are not offered to members of the police department nor other public officials whose duty It is to prevent sueft crimes or to prosecute or cause the prosecution of a person < ommitting them.
Today -6.000 printed hand bill.* will he distributed in the districts of the city where registration corruption has been found i>> th*« association's investigators.
"We are offering $.">.0UQ in rewards," said George W. Kessler, secretary of t he association, "because our information indicates that a vast machine for organised fraud is a t work in this city for the purpose of insuring the election of certain 'andidates , regardless «f the voter's will. Our investigators are reporting cases of fraudulent registrations from all parts of the city. Only last evening 30 of such cases were reported in one district in Brooklyn. 1B a district in the Bronx over 2# cases of fraud were reported last night.
"In the 5th Assembly district of Manhattan, popularity, known as the IfcManus district, six fake voters were found to have registered from one house. Five fake names were registered from a factory building in the sixteenth Assembly district. In the lodging house districts our investigators have been kept particularly busy in purging the registration rolls Of padded names. These and other cases of fictitious names which have been registered from vacant lots and loft buildings where nobody lives, are typical of the " eases which the association's investigators are discovering daily.
"I t Is becaure of tin- large amount Of fraud discovered in connection with the registration in many Assembly districts of Manhattan. Brooklyn and the Bronx, and some in Queens, that the association is offering $5,000 in rewards. Many of these registrations are made possible only by the collusion of janitors, and often against their Inclination. We hope that honest Janitors who know of the existence of illegal voters In their tenements will see our announcement of rewards and communicate the information to us. The money is offered as an incentive
PEOPLE'S HOUSE NOW OCCUPIED RAND S C H O O L NEARLY
COMPLETES TRANSFER
OF ALL ACTIVITIES TO
NEW HOME.
Rapid progress was made yesterday i'i moving the Rand !»choo] from its oTd qjjurters on Bast 19th street to the Psople'fl house, 7 East l>th street. By quick work on the part of Mrs. Bertha 'SJUBJSISS-B jo scLioo v put? 4mvgg H the transfer was virtually completed btfsva nightfall.
The Rand bookstore will remain at th,- old address for another week, but all classes will meet hereafter in th£ People's house.
It w:t* announced yesterday that , on acfou.it of the large number of registrations, the class in oral English revdinr, taught by Mis> Alma Kricger,
* Wit] meet in two divisions, a t 1:30 and r, 34 on -vnurday s/tflmoons. Sessions will be h«4d f t the People's house, beginning tomorrow.
David Beronberg's course in literary criticism, which meets in two sections, on Sunday afternoon and Wednesday evening, will also b*» transferred to the new location at once.
Last n g h t Scott Xoaring delivered the dosing lecture in his course on "The Human Element in Economics." Ne=»ring will repeat the lectures later in the season to accommodate the IT r ere number of persons a h o were unable to gain admission to the series Just terminated.
BRITISH IN P0SSESS0N OF PROMISED LAND
The increase in postage rates on first-class mail matter will go into effect today. After t ha t time postage on all letters to be delivered outside of
' t he postoffice district in which they [are posted will be three cents, and all (postal cards to be delivered in any I district will cost two cents.
The new rates as announced by Thomas G. Pat ten, postmaster for New
I York city, a re as follows: Letters and other first-class mat te r
j (except drop-letters), three cents an ] ounce.
Drop-letters, two cents an ounce. A "drop-letter" is one that is mailed
for delivery from tha postoffice a t which it is posted.
The district of the New York post-office consists of the boroughs of Manhat tan and the Bronx, Pelham and Pelham Manor; all letters mailed in that district for delivery within the district will be subject to the two-cent rate.
There is no drop-rate on any matter except letters.
Letters and other first-class mat ter addressed to any other postoffice in the United States, or to any other destination to which the domestic rates apply, will be subject to the three-cent rate.
A letter posted in the New York postoffice district for delivery in Brooklyn will cost three cents, as will a letter posted In the same office for delivery in San Francisco.
Post cards to any address will cost two cents.
This applies to the cards which are issued by the government. It is a fixed rate whether for delivery within the district in which it was mailed or any other district, and regardless of whether the messages are written o. printed.
Post-cards (private mailing cards), bearing written or typewritten messages, will be subject to two-cent postage, to any destination.
Post-cards (private mailing cards), which are in print, or which bear no more writing than the name and address of the writer, will continue at the present rate of one cent.
Contrary to a report which has been circulated, letters to the United States expeditionary forces abroad or to the fleet are subject to the regular three-cent-an-ounce rate. In other words, a letter mailed at the New York post-office to a soldier in France will cost three cents, as will a letter to a soldier in Yaphank.
SUPREME COURT WANTS TO DODGE BIG CASES UNDER SHERMAN LAW T I L L PEACE COM iS.
M i i i n t t f t * * M ( ) I U ^
LONDON, Nov. 10.—Beersheba, of hallowed Biblical memory, was occupied by British forces yesterday, according to announcement from the Egyptian expeditionary force today.
Beersheba is 40 mil^s southwest of Jerusalem, in Palestine. I t was the southermost city of the "Promised Land" of Moses' time.
Phila. Milk Boosted To 12 Cents a Quart
PHILADELPHIA, Nor. L—A 1-cent boost in milk prices affective in the next few days, was announced by Philadelphia milk dealers today. The new price will be 12 cents a quart.
GIL SOX G A R D N E R .
WASHINGTON. D. C Nov. l —The | United States supreme court does not • care to hand down any anti- trust deci-| sions during war time. The five leading cases brought under the Sherman law have all been restored o the calendar for reargrument
One of these, the government case against the International Harvester trust, has already been argue l twice, so the next time will be the third; then the court will have to ponder these arguments, which may postpone t e decision until Germany has been defeated.
The leading cases for the supreme court are this International Harvester case, the United States Steel <. >rporation case, the prosecution of the I ilted Shoe Machinery company and the so-called anthracite cases against tl e Lehigh Valley and Reading railway . brought to sever the connections bet ween the railroads and the mining industry.
The government charges that control of both mines and transpor ation enabled these railway companies to monopolize the coal supply and to charge exorbitant prices*.
The Shoe Machinery company Is charged with monopo'iring the shoe manufacturing industry by its control of patents on shoe machinery which is leased rather than sold to I >iose who use It.
The suits against the steel trust arc based on the familiar charge that the United States Steel corporati n is able to restrain trade by reason of its control of ore beds, steamship ines and railroads, as well as of the m lis which fabricate the finished article.
For years, it is charged, the steel corporation has fixed the price and controlled the market.
The supreme .court proba ">!y feels that wartime Is no time to h ind down decision.^ in " t rust busting" prosecutions. The war has radically changed every condition touching these industries.
These "trust out of date as railroad train.
The government has assumed direct control of the coal industry all over the country; so why fuss about the connection between the Rea ling and Lehigh Valley railroads and tl e mines? The government is fixing th< price of steel by decree under spe> ial war laws; so why at tempt to rest >re competition in the steel industr> for the purpose of regulating the pric e?
The government has used very incentive to increase agricult*»-al products and is prepared to go into the market and subsidize agricult jral machinery if necessary; so ^ hy fuss about prices charged by the Harvester company?
In view of these facts, t h i United States supreme court has a ked the solicitor-general to reargue th leading trust cases.
Break The Camel's Back This Utter was published in yesterday's edition of The Call:
To The Call: Herewith please find our latest list containing hundreds of
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now" until election dav, and I am sure I need not point out lo you the importance of giving the matter immediate attention when so much good may be accomplished towards the success of the Socialist campaign. Perhaps the votes that the partv will get through the new readers of The Call will be the decisive blow that will" "break the camel's back'*—the back of the damnable capitalist system, the system that has for ages oppressed and destroyed the human race. Perhaps the new voters may be the means by which a Socialist system will be established where each human being will have a chance to live as human beings should live, in happiness and contentment, receiving a decent wage to enable them to live m comfort. When this is attained no worker will hate or kill a fellow worker, the world will be a paradise to live in instead of the world today ~-a hell on earth.
I enclose check for one hundred and fifty dollars ($150.00). Please credit my Call mailing account with this amount.
You will greatly oblige me by stating, through your paper, why some of the people whose names I sent in have not received The Call, as I got some letters complaining that the paper has not been received. I do not want your readers to think that I am not living up to my promise, for it gives me great pleasure to keep my promise always, but more especially is it a pleasure in this case, when I realize the greatness of our cause and the consequences of its result. Yours for the success of Socialism,
H. S. F., for the F. & S. Store, Southeast Corner of 84th St and Thh4 Avenue.
Victory Is Within Reach At last our strenuous efforts to give this city a clean adminis
tration is bearing fruit. Let us all put our shoulders to the task and make it a striking victory. As the fight becomes hotter, the campaign committee needs money worse than ever. Here is an opportunity for you to contribute to the campaign fund indirectly, not costing you a cent.
The F. & S. Store makes a special offer to those readers of The Call who cannot tm^ o the campaign any more than they already have:
WE WILL CONTRIBUTE
10 PER CENT OF EVERY SALE TO THE CAMPAIGN FUND.
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It makes no difference whether it is a suit, overcoat, hat, underwear or anything in the line of men's furnishings thajt you will purchase, we will give you a 10 per cent discount slip. Inclose it in tn addressed envelope and you, yourself, mail it to
THE GREATER! NEW YORK CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE, SOCIALIST PART!. PEOPLE 'S HOUSE, 7 EAST 15TH ST., N E W YORK CITY.
This offer stands good until November 6, 1917, but we urge you to take advantage of it immediately, as the Campaign Committee needs money NOW.
Open Evening* TIU Nine THE F. & S. STORE
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deprive The New York Call of its mailing rights in direct violation of the rights guaranteed a free press in the Constitution of the United States will issue from the press in about ten days. It will be sold at ten cents. All profits from its sale will go to a Free Press Defense Fund, to be used not only to defend this paper in its constitutional rights, but to defend other victims of the high-handed methods now being used against those who dare stand up for the basic principles of Democracy. The issue on which the next congressional campaign will be waged will be the rights of free speech, free press and free assem-Wage in the United States. Every congressional district should be flooded this year with this book, the contents of which are taken entirely from the official transcript issued by postoffice officials, with the reply of The Call by its editor, as well as the masterful speech of Morris Hillquit
before the officials at Washington and the legal reply by the attorneys in answer lo the official transcript of the postoffice.
In this book is included certain "crimes" not published in the series of articles printed by us under this title. Lack of space compelled us to omit some of these "crimes." Nothing that the government named as an offense is omitted in the book.
The attempt to take from The Call its rights guaranteed by the Constitution promises to make this case the most famous one since the imprisonment of Matthew Lyon, 1 Vermont editor, in 1798, who was persecuted under the infamous Alien and Sedition laws. The attack on a free press resulted in Lyon being sent bj an indignant people to represent them in Congress and in the election of Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, as president of the Unit, d States. The Fed- 1
eralist party, which was responsible for the passage of these laws which Jefferson declared he would not obey, was repudiated so thoroughly at the polk by the people that it was never resurrected. All citizens, Republican* Democrats and Socialists, should know the true story of the attempt to throttle The Call. And particularly &*M they know the story of the editorial, "Capitalism," wife* is named by the postoffice officials as one of our offend In naming this editorial, officials of a department of the government have deliberately arrayed themselves on to* side of plutocracy.
Spread the story in every town, village and haw in these United States, and help elect to the next Co***** representatives who believe that the Declaration of to" dependence and the Constitution of the United State* are still valid in the government of the people of thi* **«» country.
THE M" WW 4%> ES > > OF THE CALL By CHARLES W. ERVIN, Editor of The Call
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