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mSa& Strange Doctrines of Federal Duty. Atlanta Constitution. This coal strike and the exigencies it has produced have led to some most curious obsessions of opinions among public men and newspapers. Measures heretofore regarded as rev olutionary, socialistic and destruct ive of the republican form of gov ernment ore now proposed and even urged by those who but recently stood in solid array against them. It is not so long ago that those who advocated government owner ship of natural monopolies and great public utilities were looked ttpou with horror and denouncedas the leaders of semiarchy, if not an archy pure and simple. Any propo sal to give goi eminent the right to control and manage any form of in dustry was declared to be the very aggravation of paternalism and the opponents of such schemes deliver ed most eloquent preachments over the social and industrial advantages of individualism. The idea that the general gov ernment has any right under the constitution to coerce uses of pri vate properties, or to confiscate them under the right of eminent do main except for purely national uses, waB pronounced upon as a long and desperate step toward the worst form of imperialism. A centralized government with power to interfere with the right of the citizen to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in the lawful possession and uses of his individual property has always been abhorrent .to the essential de mocracy of our people. The strong slogans of the past' have been for limitations upon federal authority and not for its enlargement. But the ooal strike has revealed to the people how the liberties of individuals, of unions and corpora lions, may become so oonflioting as to congest their mutual operations, produoe a vast wastage of the powers of production, enforce a famine of public necessaries and es tablish a reign of actual civil war m given districts, as is the case to day in Pennsylvania. The effect on the public opinion, we repeat, is most remarkable. From many quarters heretofore es teemed the most conservative, from public men, from newspapers and h’om political conventions are heard lemands that the federal authori ties act upon present conditions without regard to precedents. It is urged that the government can seize the ooal mines as it took ships during the Spanish-American war, »b it can take railways when the public peril may require, or that congress may take the coal supply in .Pennsylvania as it has taken con trol of the water supplies in the west. These are bewildering times and men who feel the wrong and the * iffering produoed by the coal situ- 4U m are not disposed to parley ver the remedies they seek for re lief. As Lincoln took the authority 'U emancipate the slaves of the south in aid of the preservation of t he union, so many seem prepared to see President Roosevelt seize the «oal mines and save millions from ihe want that is already pinohing ihem. What the end may be no •one seems wise enough to predict now, but certainly there is a revolu tion of publio opinion in progress , i hat may mean some novel and rad- ' il forms of legislation in the fu ture. . . Controlling Everything. Now Orleans 3tates. The present high cost of ('• in be accounted for by the fact riiat all the necessaries of life are u ider the control of the trusts, and frbis is apparent to aud is admitted by every citizen of ordinary intelli- rsnee. For this condition of af- 11 : ”s the republican party is respon- i- • t», and republicans themselves are u.-e(jowledging the fact. A Ohica- ^ i Dispatch to The New York Trib une says: “Shorts made, the un pleasant disebyery today that the Armour interests control every spec ulative article traded in on the board saccept lard, and the Oudahys ham mat. It is the most. peculiar cods dirion known to the trade; every thing controlled by two men with money and power enough to have their own way in the markets to a great extent.” Battled at a Turn of Fortune. St. Louis Republic. . A What law governs progress and decline? Does the-man or commu nity that succeeds do so under an impetus against which the world, the flesh and devil cannot avail? Is there a definite point where acceler ated speed begins to produce col lapse? Is success in good or evil a thing which produces its own an tithesis of failure? There have been plenty of notable instances to illustrate the processes. Call it fate or destiny, the Divinity which shapes our ends seems to do so by a law which varies but little in its application. Once on the rise, honors come easy. Let the grip on things material mental or spiritual once slip, and only herculean efforts will Btop descent. There are men here in Missouri whose political perspicacity has nev er been doubted until the despera tion born of prospective defeat made them fearful. One man who has been accounted shrewd has gradu ally slipped until his every act has denoted political madness. . Anoth er has attempted with arts worthy of a boy to brazen out the criminal difficulties in which he has found himself. The boodling situation in St. Lou is has illustrated the decline whioh comes with a break in luck. A ohief of boodlers has thought to Bave himself by playing fast and loose with every person whose aid he ex pects. On trial for his liberty, he has gone farther than ever before in defying publio sentiment, the law and ordinary common sense. All of these men have stepped from one folly to another. Their ways, deceitful at best, have led them into indiscretions which would not have been likely in the days of their prosperity. But Buooees may break down among the good forces. Only two years ago the people of St.Louis put officials in charge of municipal af fairs whose performances have more than equaled the expeotatsons of fflgl voters. The vigor with whioh ttil have enforced the laws has ou;i. manded the respect and admiration of people living outside of the S <. < Perfection in municipal govoiu- ment has not been reaohed. It re mains for the people to see that the high standard is not lowered. The ratio of progression must not give way to the speedy decline which fol lows a truckling to the vicious ele ments. Once begun, the decline will be faster and faster. The cru cial point seems to have been reaoh ed. Only the determination of the people will prevent a relapse to depths lower than from which the city was rescued in 1900. Educational Progress. Certain northern educational “ex perts" have been reoently asserting that education given by public schools in the south is at a stand still, or e% en retrogressive, and pro posed to take it in hand in a patron izing way. Such persons cannot but be shocked , with the record of the last census on this point. The last census shows that the percent age of southern children from 10 to 14 who can read and write has in creased in the last decade by an av erage advance of 7 per cent, and in Louisiana, Georgia, North and South Carolina by nearly 10 per cent Hence it follows that the public schools of the south are vastly more efficient than they have been repre sented to be—Baltimore Sun. There is a movement on foot to erect a monument on the outer point of Cape Cod to commemorate the adoption of the pilgrim com pact of government. The pilgrim compact was probably the earliest charter of a democratic government adopted by the people known to the world. A rugged obelisk, 200 feet in height, placed upon Un eminence on the outermost point of-Cape Cod, where all pasaing and repassing at sea may see it, will be, it is thought, a fitting memorial of such a land mark of hitory. To Cure a Cold in One Day ■ Take' Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the Money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove’s signature on each box.25c. America’s Famous Beauties Look with horror,on Skin Erup tions, Blotches, Sores, Pimples. They don’t have them, nor will any one, who uses Bucklen’s Ar nica Salve. It glorifies the face. Eczema or Salt Rheum vanish be fore it. It cures sore lips, chap ped hands, chilblains. Infallible for Piles. 25c at Holtzolaw’s drugstore. A Growing Problem. When the president of the United States finds himself unable, either by legal power or moral suasion, to avert a dire coal famine at the threshold of the coming winter, it seems to us that the time has about come when the congress of the United States should enact legisla tion to meet such cases. It is urged that this is a private, business affair. Is it? If the strike affected no one except the striking miners, and the coal operators, it might be waived aside with the dec laration that there is nothing to ar bitrate, and the balance of the world might sit on the fence and shout: “Go it, Boots, your daddy’s riohl” But who is not interested? Who is it that is not touched? What business does not touch the great manufacturing, ralroading and steamboating interests of the coun try? How can they do business without coal? Suppose a great na tion should declare war against the United SbateB, how could our navy turn a wheel without coal? Oould a petty controversy between the min ers and the operators be permitted ty put us at the mercy of our ene mies? Would we not be forced to find a way to put an end to the strike? That way must be found before war comes. It should be found be fore suffering and paralysis to busi ness comes. * A court of arbitration could be safe-guarded as thoroughly as any other court, and required to hold the balance even between the em ployers and the employed, when it beoame necessary to appeal to it; and there may be no appeal except when the general public welfare is at stake as in the present case.—Ex. New Name for the O. E’s. Little Elsie was a faithful attend ant at Sunday school, and had lis tened earnestly when plans for a ootaing Christian Endeavor conven tion were discussed, her interest in- <* • using to enthusiasm over the n serious affair when she learned 1 ‘/it her auntie was to attend as a • iclegate. Coming into the library one day, auntie saw the little maid busily engaged in writing a letter to a cousin with whom she kept up a juvenile correspondence, according to Harper’s Magazine. She scrawl ed industriously for a moment, then stopped. There was a puzzled ex pression on her fat, ink-stained face as she dangled her short legs and wiggled uncomfortably on her high peyoh. “Auntie,” she said, “how do you spell devil?” “Oh, Elsie!” said her auntie, “I am shocked. Why are you using such a word as this in your letter? Nice little girls never say such things?” It was Elsie’s turn to be shocked. “Why, auntie!” she. oried, “I’m only telling her about the Christian and devil con vention,” A puny child is always an anxiety to the parents, There seems gener ally no reason why the little one should be weak when it is so well fed. But the fact is that it does not matter how much food the child takes if the stomach cannot extract the nourishment from it. No benefit can be derived from just eating. That is the condition of many a sickly child. The stomach and or gans of digestion and nutrition are not doing their work, and the body is really starving. It is little use to give fish foods, like cod liver oil and emulsions, in such case, because these also have to be digested; they may lighten the stomach’s labor, but they don’t strengthen it. Strength is what the stomach needs. Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery strengthens the stomach, nourishes the nerves and .increases the action of the blood-making glands. It is superior I o every other preparation for children’s use, on account of its body building qualities, and also be cause it is -pleasant to the taste and contains no alcohol, whisky or other intoxicant. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are a valuable aid when the bowels are irregular. They are small. Children take them readily. IF YOU W-A.3STT Books, “Periodicals, Stationery, Art Goods, call or write. 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