The Savannah tribune. (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, April 03, 1909, Image 1

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Newspaper Page TextVOL. XXIV. DAN SULLY TALKS OF KING COTTON $500,000,000 Is Waiting for the Southern States. TIME TO EMANCIPATE FARMER Through the Possession of Cotton South Should Dominate Civilization Within the Next Twenty-Five Years. Atlanta, Ga. —“Twenty-five years from now the south should, in all probability will, absolutely dominate civilization. Cotton, crude and man utactured, will be the all-powerful and all-sufiicient factor in that domina tion.’’ This is the calm, unemotional and measured prophecy of Daniel J. Sul ly—“Dan’’ Sully, one of the biggest <bulls, certainly the most spectacular “bull,” in the wonderful and varie gated history of cotton. Mr. Sully is in Atlanta for a visit. Introducing “Dan” Sully to the aver age reader would be to perpetrate a superfluity. His was the initiating genius and the engineering skill and concentration that, several years ago, look cotton to 17 cents a pound, the top-notch price since the civil war. Absolute king of the cotton market during that memorable and fevered campaign, he kept a cool and sensi tive finger on the pulse of the great est industry in America. “The southern cotton farmer,” said Mr. Sully, “must first wake up his mind to the naked fact that Provi dence has gifted him with the great est monopoly in history. “The nations might dispense with every other American product; de prive them of cotton, and you would precipitate world-wide panic and star vation. “It is the soul of industry, life it self, over the entire globe. Once the man who produces it gets this idea firmly fixed in his mind, he must see that he is at present almost wholly at the mercy of the intermediaries in marketing his output and securing an adequate and legitimate return for his labor. He must next realize with sufficient vividness to give mo tive-power to his energy, that the emancipating force must come from within himself. Organized endeavor and co-operation are imperative, ini the last analysis, to the striking of the shackles from the farmer. I am confident both will be forthcoming. “I do not regard foreign competi tion in the raising of cotton seriously. I venture to predict that within 20 years 50 per cent of the mills of the land will be located in the southern states. “American capital will also be abundantly available. We are piling up new wealth, creating big surplus es. in this country each year in a wealth, many of these surpluses, will wonderful manner. Much of this new come into cotton mills in the southern states. New England has already per ceived the situation. Much New Eng land money is now in the southern states “A conservative .estimate would put it that the enormous sum of $500,000,- 000 is turned in the direction of the south. As soon as its custodians here become assured of the permanence and safety of their new investments, as soon as they can get their bear ings, so to sneak, this money will be gin to flow into your section. The eyes of the investing world are on thg south today.” TOOK $45,000,000 “Joker” in Revenue Laws Got That Amount From Tobacco Consumers. Washington, D. C—What is desig nated as “a joker” that cost the con sumers of tobacco in this country nearly $45,000,000, was found in the existing revenue law’s of the United States by Representative Dawson of lowa, who at once introduced a bill to correct the error. Under the Dingley tariff law’, the two-ounce packages of tobacco sell to the consumer at 5 cents each, and the four-ounce packages at 10 cents. In 1898, a war revenue of 6 cents a pound addtionai was levied on tobac co. At the same time, in order io serve the convenience of the trade, authorization was given for the re duction of the sizes of packages from 2 3 and 4 ounces to 1 2-3, 2 1-2 and 3’ 1-3 ounces, thus enabling the smok er to procure a 5-cent and a 10-cent package of tobacco “at the store.” In due time the war revenue tax was repealed. Somebody forgot, Mr. Dawson believes, to restore the pack ages of tobacco to the original sizes, and hence ever since 1902 the con sumer of tobacco has been paying the equivalent of the war revenue tax to the manufacturers of tobacco. Representative Dawson figures out that the purchaser of each small package has been mulcted out of a t cent, and the purchaser of the larger of 2 cents, and hence the “joker” ihas cost the consumer almost $45,- 000,000. DOUBifDEALING CHARGED. ■ President Nash Replies to Senator Taliaferro of Florida. Savannah, Ga. —E. S. Nash, presi ;dent of the American Naval Stores (Company, has written an open letter Ro Senator Taliaferro of Florida, in Answer to the statesman’s speech on |the floor of the senate recently at tacking Mr. Nash’s company. ’ He accuses the senator of having ^received large dividends from the Dltlantic Investment Company, a con tern which was declared to be in re straint of trade, and gives pictures of the checks used in paying these div idends. It is charged that the sena tor remained in the company until he ^iras made to withdraw involuntarily. ^auannali Sribuur. FOLK PREDICTS WAR. Says Continent of North America Will Become One Republic. Asheville, N. C. —That the whole of the North American continent will eventually become one great republic, under the government of what is now the United States, was the prediction made by former Governor Joseph W. Folk of Missouri in an interview in Asheville. Governor Folk declared that a clash between the United States and Canada is inevitable, and that it will come in the not distant future is his belief. The great in flux of Americans into the grain field and the region of southw’est Canada, each carrying with him his natural allegiance to the United States, is the leaven w’hich, he thinks, eventually must cause the clash between the United States and her sister country on the north. MILITARYPIUSONDtSTROYED By Fire; Convicts at Fort Leaven worth Were in Terror. Leavenworth, Kan. —The military prison at Fort Leavenworth was de stroyed by fire. The prisoners were removed from the cell houses under a heavy guard of United States troops and confined in a stockade. The fire broke out in the tailor shop, and soon it was seen that the ma:i building was doomed. A great outcry at once broke out in the pris on, the convicts fearing that they would be burned to death. They bat tered on the doors of their cells as the light of the fire streamed through the windows. Many screamed in ter ror as the authorities for the moment refused to remove them. A strong cordon of troops was thrown about the prison and every precaution was taken to prevent es capes. All the soldiers that could be spared from the ranks of the fire hgnters were detailed as guards, and then the delivery of the prisoners was begun. When the bolts of the cell house doors were shot back the flames had reached the main building. If every thing had not been done in perfect order lives doubtless would have been lost. The prison building was valued at $200,000. TO DESTROY AIR WAR FLEETS. Lewis Nixon Has Invented Shots Flame That Strike. New York City.—“The aerial war fleet of which we hear so much, the oretrically, is doomed before it has had a real start,” said Lewis Nixon, inventor and shipbuilder, speaking of his new shanpnel shell, intended to destroy objects from one thousand and five thousand'feet up in the air. The new destroyer is an old six pounder, throwing three or five-inch shells, with a new filling. Besides the usual quantity of bullets, it^con tains semi-liquid matter, the confposi tion of which is Nixon’s jeaiousiy guarded secret. “Airship and aeroplane builders smiled when German and French gun makers threatened to bring down their craft by bullets shot from guns vertically aimed,” continued Mr. Nix on. “Perhaps they had a right to smile at the imperfect destroying ma chines invented in Europe, but they won’t laugh when they hear of my invention. “The shell,” he explained, “con tains, besides the bullets and motor power, glutinous matter, adhering to the bullets and bursting into flames the moment the bullets strike. When the discharge comes into contact with a balloon a sticky fire is thrown over it and all inflammable parts, par ticularly the envelope, will instantly ignite.” THE WEEVIL INVASION. Pest Reported Rapidly Migrating North. t Jackson, Miss. —An insect believed to be the Mexican boll weevil has been found in Winston county, ac cordding to reports from Louisville, the county seat. Agricultural experts here seriously doubt whether the insects found are^ the genuine weevil, however, regard ing it as very improbable that the pest could have reached that far northward in its migrations. Specimens, it is stated, have been sent to the Mississippi agricultural experiment station and the verdict from Starkville is being anxiously awaited. • It is yet too early for the boll wee vil to reach maturity in large num bers and weather conditions have been very much against thetr propa gation. The boll weevil experts of the United States department of agricul ture, bureau of plant industry, figure that the weevil will not reach Win ston county until the summer of 1910, unless its migration is very greatly accelerated during the present year. Elkins to Help South. Washintgon, D. C.—Declaring that the “interests of the south are being crucified” by the manner in which, the tariff.bill is being framed, Sena tor Elkins, republican, of West Vir ginia, surprised the senate by assert ing that he is of the south, and in tends to stand by senators from that section in protecting its interests. Big Colony for Florida. Jacksonville, Fla.—A party of Chi cago capitalists have bought 55,000 acres of farm lands within nine miles of Jacksonville, the investment rep resenting $500,000, upon which they will -colonize thrifty western farm ers. THE TRIBUNE OFFICE REMOVED TO 462 WEST BROAD STREET. SAVANNAH, GA., SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1909. LATE NEWS NOTES. General. Owners and proprietors of moving picture shows in Pittsburg, Pa., and in Sharon have been ordered not to produce pictures showing the kid napping of Willie Whitla, under a penally of forfeiture of films and li censes. Under the direct supervision of Mrs. George W. Vanderbilt, two ex pert weavers are instructing the women employed on the Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore, N. C., in the va rious forms of weaving. The two experts were brought from Neew York at Mrs. Vanderbilt’s expense, and there are fifty women in the class at the present time. So far the chief work of the Biltmore weavers is the manufacture of white and blue counterpanes of old-fashioned design. With one of the most unusual char acters in Atlantic coastwise history, the three-iqasted schooner, Denna Briggs, sailed for Philadelphia from Providence, R. I. The schooner for the next six months will carry snuff between Norfolk and Philadelphia, the charter calling for two hundred’ tons on each trip. Tobacconists esti mate that each pound of snuff is good for two thousand six hundred and six teen sneezes, and that on every trip the Briggs will have between her decks fore than one billion sneezes. Ai a meeting of the Pastor’s u,nion, of Jackson, Miss., a resolution was adopted declaring that hereafter the pastors belonging to the union, which includes practically all of this city, will not officiate at the marriage of any couple where one or both of the parties have been divorced, no matter what grounds for the divorce may have been. The pastors state that they have been too liberal on this point heretofore, but that in the fu ture they will adhere strictly to the terms of the declaration contained in the resolution. Some interesting facts concerning wireless telegraphy were brought out in the balance sheet of the Marconi company of America as of January 31, 1909. The secretary says: “Receipts for short distance; that is, shore to ship, within a radius of three hun dred miles show an increase of about $5,000 in gross, but on the other hand receipts for long distance transmis sion have fallen off considerably, partly because some of the steamship lines could not, under the depressing circumstances, afford the luxury of daily news to their passengers and partly because our long distance re ceipts depend to a great extent on the traveling public.” Joseph Petrie, Oscar Caulkin and George Geelman of Columbia, Ky., are truly religious men, and not one of them has ever sullied his lips with a blasphemous oath. So they were old Eli Christian’s pallbearers at the church in Columbia. Christian nam ed them for that service before he died. All his long life Christian ab horred profanity and shunned any man who swore. Often he declared profanity a crime, for which there is no excuse or forgiveness. Often he said he wanted to be carried to his grave by those who were clean-soul ed and clean-lipped. He knew Gel man. Caulkin and Petrie came up to his standard. Washington. President Frost, of Berea college at Lexington, Ky., has invited Presi dent Taft to be at the Lincoln farm May 30 to take part in the memorial services and plant a memorial tree in honor of Lincoln. President Taft has the matter under consideration. Frost is at the head of a movement to raise $400,000 for a negro school to be established in Kentucky and which now lacks only $16,000. It will be called the Lincoln Memorial insti tute, in honor of President Lincoln. Representative Edwards of Georgia is tired of drawing $7,500 for his ser vices as member of congress. He is willing to hold the job for $5,000 a year. Accordingly, he introduced a bill to reduce the salary of members from $7,500 to $5,000. “Do you know why President Taf/ named Philander C. Knox for his sec retary of state?” asked the southern colonel, who is a walking dictionary of strange and wonderful information. “Easy enough, because he is one of the greatest lawyers in the country,” replied Mr. Congressman. “Not pl to gether. He liked the name. No, not ‘Knox,’ but his first name, ‘Philan der.’ Look it up. It means a South American ’possum.” The colonel was right again. It has been estimated that the amount of wood annually consumed in the United States at the present time is 23,900,000,000 cubic feet, while the growth of the forest is only 7,- 000,000,000 feet. In other words, Americans all over the country axe using more than three times as much wood as the forests are producing. The figures are based upon a large number of state and local reports collected by the government and upon actual measurements. Representative McCall of Massa chusetts believes the Philippine is lands should have their independence and that if they were independent they should be neutral territory so as not to become the theater of wars between foreign powers. According ly he has introduced a resolution re questing the president to open nego tiations with the various nations of the globe looking to an agreement for the neutralization of these islands and the recognition of their indepen dence whenever it is granted by the United States. The preamble to the resolution sets forth that argument for not giving the islands their inde pendence has been that if the United States abandoned them some other nation would take them. LEADERS ASK FOR AID “Standpatters” Are Up Against It On Tariff Bill. FREE COTTONBAGGING, TIES And Duty on Egyptian Cotton are Of fered If Southern Democrats Will Quit Fighting the Measure. Washington, D. C. —The latest and most interesting rumor in connection with the tariff debate is that the re publicans may agree to .put cotton bagging and lies on the free list and place a duty of 5 cents a pound on imports of Egyptian cotton, if the democrats will not insist upon free lumber and certain other amend ments. These changes in the bill, which the republicans no^y offer as a concession, have been urgently advocated by sev eral of the most thoughtful speakers on the democratic side. They show that the Payne bill places onerous, burdensome and seriously unjust du ties on the cotton farmer. He buys what he needs in a protected marke.t; he sells his crop in competition with all the world. He fights at both ends of the line, whereas the manufacturer is protected in making both purchases and sale. It is understood that the above overtures were made to Represen-a tive Broussard of Louisiana, who is a protection democrat. They are being discussed by the democratic members. It remains to be seen whether they are willing to accept the proposal. Senator Simmons of North Caro lina staled that every senator from the southeast, except one, would vote for the old duty on lumber. There is no question but that the republicans are uneasy and apprehen sive. The treasury deficit has reached $89,000,000. If last month’s rate is preserved, the end of the fiscal year will see a deficit of over $100,000,000. With this huge and constantly grow ing deficit staring them in the face and a turbulent and divided member ship in their own camp, the leaders of the party in the house are in a quandary. It was said that President Taft had been directly appealed to by Speaker Cannon and Leaders Payne and Dal zell, when they spent more than an hour and a half with the chief execu tive at the white house. CHILD LABOR LAWS. Greatly in Need—Many Recommen dations Made By Conference. New Orleans, La. —The southern child labor conference, at its sessions hA - e adopted resolutions embodying a number of important recommenda tions for legislation on the subject of child labor in the south. The following are the recommenda tions in substance: The employment in factories of no child under the age of fourteen years. Tne employment in a mine or quar ry of no child under the age of six teen years. The employment of no child un der the age of sixteen in any gainful occupation except agricultural and domestic service, unless such child can read and write simple sentences in the English language. That no boy under the age of six teen nor girl un^pr the age of eigh teen years except in agricultural or domestic service, be? 'employed be tween the hour of 7 p. m. and 6 a. m. An eight-hour day law for children under 16 years of age, and for all women. Employment under the certificate plan. The employment by the state of proper officials for the inspection of all mines and factories, with the pow er to prosecute violations. Thorough sanitary and safety regu lations. The provisions for such are set out in great detail. Making the conference a permanent organization. In connection with the recommen, dation for employment under the cer tificate system, the provisions of the Kentucky law are indorsed, and it is further recommended that a law re quiring the registration of all births be adopted by every southern -state to insure a proper issuance of certifi cates. POST FOR ELLIOTT. Taft Will Send Howard Scholar to Court of St. James. Washington, D. C. —President Taft, speaking at a dinner tendered to President Charles W. Eliot of Har vard University, in this city, an nounced by direct inference that Dr. Eliot had been tendered the appoint ment of ambassador to Great Brit ain. Senator Root of New York had pre viously indicated the selection of Dr. Eliot, and President Taft made the announcement stronger by declaring he endorsed all that Senator Root had said. JEFFERSONDAVISFARM. Will Be Bought— $2,000 Has Already Been Subscribed. Louisville, Ky.—Thomas D. Osborne, secretary of the Davis Farm Associa tion, which has undertaken the pur chase and care of the farm upon which Jefferson Davis was barn, at Fairview, Ky., states that each mail carries many requests for subscrip tion certificates from southerners who have subscribed in sums varying from $5 to $lOO. In all, according to Mr. Osborne,, about $2,000 has been subscribed and at the rate at which subscriptions are coming in, the fund of $3,000 necessary to close the option, will be in hand when the option expires. INDIANS ON WARPATH. Creeks and Half-Breeds Cause Trouble in Oklahoma. Oklahoma City, Okla. —In a pitched battle at Hickory Ground between a posse of five officers and twenty Creek Indians of the Snake clan. Officers Ed ward Daum of Checotah and Herman Odom of Checotah were killed, and Frank Swift of Muskogee fatally wounded. The posse of officers went to the home of Chitti Harjo, chief of the Sni&e clan of the Creek Indians, to serve a warrant on him. The officers, having heard that the Indians and negroes were peaceable, approached the cabin di Harjo, near Hickory Ground, without fear of any trouble. As they were in the act of entering the chief’s yard twenty guns were leveled upon them from as many men in the house and around the cor ners; and the battle was on. Oklahoma City, Okla. —(Later.) — Chief Crazy Snake and 100 followers retreated before five companies of Oklahoma militia, thus deferring an expected battle. Hastily setting fire to his tepees and tents, the Indian leader, with his mixed company of redskins and ne groes, fled from his blazing camp as the troops advanced. He took up a strong position between the North Canadian river and Deep Fork creek, about 7 miles east of Henryetta. Crazy Snake and his braves will be offered a chance to surrender. The militia officers believe Crazy Snake wants to reach the Tiger moun tains with his followers before en gaging in a general fight. That the old chief is striving to stir the Creeks to an uprising, and strike for what he conceives to be his duty, was evi dent from the smoke from three sig nal fires on adjacent hills just before sundown. Old-time frontiersmen de clare this is a sign which always ush ers in Indian troubles. BLACKS TURNING WHITE. Interesting Lecture Delivered in Lon don on Changing of Colors. London, England.—Professor Karl Pearson, in a lecture at the Royal Institution, made the startling sug gestion that it was scientifically pos sible that existing white races are descended from a dark-skinned peo ple of the negro type. He was lecturing on “Albinism in Man,” and in one of his demonstra tions he showed on a screen a number of “piebald cases.” In one instance he showed the painted cast of a pied baby, the head and upper part of which was black, and the rest of the bod> white. Certain negroes, ’continued the lec turer, had gradually turned white in places. This was what was known as leucoderma. In such cases there was no pain whatever. The ordinary view of the medical profession was that it was a disease acquired during life; but he doubted that view. Not only, he argued, was the pie bald condition inherited, but cases of “going white” were also inherited. In many instances, the father, chil dren and grandchildren turned white. Among the curious representations thrown on the screen was that of a mother, son and daughter, all with a white patch on their heads. A few years ago, continued Professor Pear son, there were three sister on the music hall stage. They were known as “The Three Striped Graces,” and each of them had a white patch on her head. They used to perform ac robatic feats. Often, added the professor, as the white came as a variation on the dark skin, he could find no case of a copper or black child being born to white parents. He showed on the screen one white after another born to the negro race. One case was a negress, with a perfectly white child; another was a case of a black mother with a white baby. A third case was that of a white Zulu. NEWSY PARAGRAPHS. Jesse Powers of Wendell, Mass., while suffering from melancholia jumped from the steeple of a church 111 mat city to the ground below, a dis tance of about seventy-five feet. He struck on his feet and the heels of his shoes made dents in the ground about two inches deep. His ankles were fractured. More limited liberties for clergy men were urged by Dr. J. A. Adams, editor of the Advance, at a meeting of Chicago ministers. He said: “Public official are required to take an oath of office, hence ministers should be under some rule. Every preacher should not be allowed to preach anything he may see fit.” Archdeacon Emery, who for almost a decade has presided over the mis sionary field of California jurisdic tion, has resigned. The notoriety coming at this time through the mar riage of his daughter, Helen Gladys Emery, to Gunjiro Aoki has been a source of great worry to the clergy man, and, because of the criticism it has caused, he thought it best to re sign. Buried six feet deep in a wagon load of cotton seed, the dead body of an unknown white man, badly de composed, was found at Clinton, S. C., by a negro, who was driving the team from the ginnery of the Clinton oil mill. A pistol and over $2OO were found on his person and a shotgun was by his side. The bill to repeal the Sturgis law for the better enforcement of the pro hibitory liquor law was passed with out debate in the Maine house of rep resentatives, despite the fact that the ibill had been defeated in the senate. The Sturgis law has had much to do with Maine politics the past four years, but will not change that law unless the senate recedes from its position. AIMED AT THE SOUTH Bill Introduced in Congress to Reduce Representation. DISFRANCHISEMENT OF NEGRO Is the Cause of the Agitation—Validity of the Fourteenth Amendment Is Questioned. Washington, D. C. —Representative Bennett of New York has offered a bill for the amendment cf the appor tionment of the sixtieth congress, le ducing the representation of states which deny to negro citizens the right of franchise. Mr. Bennett’s bill specifies reduc tions he would have made, giving Ala bama five instead of nine representa tives, Arkansas five instead of seven, Florida two instead of three, Georgia six instead of eleven, Louisiana four instead of seven, Mississippi three in stead of eight, Texas thirteen instead of sixteen, Virginia seven instead o£ ten and South Carolina tnree instead of seven. Senator Money of Mississippi would have the validity of the fourteenth amendment to the constitution tested. This amendment regulates the fran chise and has been constructed to au thorize the reduction by congress of the constitutional representation of states which deny the voting privilege to some of their citizens. It has been frequently invoked by the authors of bills reducing the representation of sotuhern states. Mr. Money intro duced a resolution directing the attor ney general to submit to the supreme court all the information available rel ative to the method of adopting the amendment so thal the court may de termine whether the amendment is binding. CHARGES NOT SUSTAINED. No Low Grade Cotton Shipped to New York. Washington, D. C—Declaring that there appears to have been no sub stantial basis for the allegations made by officials of the Farmers’ Union Cotton Company of Memphis, Tenn., regarding the shipment from the south cf low grade cotton to New York, to depress the maiKet, Vicior H. Olmstead, chief of the bureau of statistics of the department of agri culture, in a report to Secretary Wil son, recommended that the whole matter be dropped. Recently B. G. West of Memphis, general manager of the Farmers’ Un ion Company, wrote Secretary Wilson that he understood a lot of cotton was “headed” for New York, and the inference was that it was “dark blue and black, low grades, to be used in depressing the market.” Letters of similar import also were received from officials of the Farmers’ Union Commpany at different points in the south. The secretary ordered a thorough investigation of the allegations to be made by six special agents of the bu reau of statistics in the south. They reported that they were unable to se cure any tangible evidence in support of the charges. । f ARMIES ANDNAVkSBpBUPT EUROPE So Foreign Secretary Gray Tells the English Commons. London, England. — The house of commons refused to express lack of confidence in the government’s naval policy. The motion on which the notable debate hinged was proposed by Arthur Hamilton Lee, conservative member of the house from Hants. It sets forth “that, in the opinion of this house, the declared policy of his maj esty’s government respecting the im mediate provision for battleships of the newest type does not sufficient se cure the safety of the empire.” The debate was one of the most momentous the house has listened to for years. A. J. Balfour and Mr. Lee accused the cabinet of incompetency, and demanded that eight Dread noughts be laid down immediately. Secretary Grey’s speech was by far the most notable contribution to the debate, because of its remarkable can dor. He dwelt on the diplomatic as pects of the British-German rivalry and the hopelessness of expecting any cessation of the race for armaments, and he predicted eventual European bankruptcy if it continued. TRAINED NURSE DEAD. From Poisoned Kiss of Infected Patient. Cumberland, Md.—Having become infected from a kiss bestowed by re quest on a patient dying of blood poi soning, Miss Marion C. Spier, a train ed nurse, died at her home here. Miss Spier attended Mrs. Virginia Callan Carder, a prominent society woman at the Allegheny Hospital, and the latter asked the nurse to kiss her, as she was dying. The request was granted, and in a few days Miss Spier was stricken with the same malady* TALKHmn^ President Taft Says He Will Oppose Tax on Poor Man’s Breakfast. Washington, D. C. —President Taft is opposed to any attacks on the breakfast table. He favors cheaper commodities for the table and will use his influence against any tax on the poor man’s breakfast table. It is said he desires an income tax to increase the revenue. These views were expressed by the president in a conversation with sev eral western senators on the tariff. The president would like to see cof fee, w’oolen goods, lumber and shoes on the free list if possible. He inti mated that he was much concerned, over the reveneus. NO. 28.