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Show C. V. Hansen's Philosophy j The nation was shocked last week when a young woman was L slain in her berth on the train in Oregon, by a Negro who was second cook on the train When questioned, he confessed that he had been drinking, making this statement: "I walked through the car and saw the girl resting on her berth. I went to bed and when I woke up I lay there half asleep, and still , half drunk. Then the girl in lower 13 came into my mind, I entered the berth, I guess I cut her. I was all loaded and it was all in a fog to me." There is no doubt but what if the Negro had not been drinking, the life of a beautiful young wife would have been spared In the opinion of many seriou8 minded men and women, those who sold the Negro the liquor that made him drunk ;ire responsible for the horrible death of the young woman. Those who voted to license the V. sale of liquor are also responsible for the murder, as also those wl,o manufactured it. |