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G THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1905. TU Vw.jOSTA TIMES. C. C. UKANTLEV, Editor. E. L. TUrttlER, dullness Manager. VALDOSTA. GA.. FBB. iB, 1*05. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, *1 A YEAR. Entered at the Postoffice at Valdosta, Ga., aa Second Claaa Mall Matter. TWELVE PAGES. Vegetarianism haa prospered under the beef trust, but the organization of a fruit trust In Baltimore reduces the menu. J. Pierpont Morgan has bought street railway in Chicago. Mr. Mor gan knows that great It* from little nickels grew. The peace rumors in the Orient aro about aa hard to trace to a head as It Is to Identify tho assassin of the Grand Duke Sergius. "Is polygamy dead?" asks a morn ing paper. Not quite, but It has had a severe blow In the Imprisonment of the multi-married Iloch. Senator Lodge says that the gov ernment seeds aro a humbug. A good many people who have planted them aro of tho same opinion. The Missouri supreme court say a farmer Is not a hawker or peddler, consequently needs no license to re tall his produots In town. They say that you can usually tell a candidate for re-election by the amount of weeping which he does over the rapacity of the trusts. If President Roosevelt were to make a speech on tho Golden Rule, he would wind up with an appeal for great navy and a big standing army. March 4th ends the holiday for many congressmen, and they view with regret tho opening of tho season when they will have to go to work. With FaVmors Brown and Smith In tho gubernatorial race, Editors How ell and Bsllll are going to have enough work to do to keep them busy for tho next year. Five thousand fraudulent ballots was one. of the fruits of Osbornelsm In Savannah at the election last fall, and yet he comes forward and seeks to purify the politics of the state. OoL Bstlll's campaign for the governorship of Georgia, the quicker tho Colonel repudiates him, the hotter It will be for the Colonel. Be not deceived, brethren. Cotton goes up every year about this time It Is a trick of the bears to make the farmers Increase their acreage, and many tberevbe who aro deceived thereby. If the spirit of~Deorge Washington had been In hearing distance of Pres ident Roosoyelt's Philadelphia speech Wednesday night, the fluttering wings of Its departure would have drowned the speaker’s voice We fool much kinder toward Col. West since Billy Osborne cut entire ly loose from him. As a frlond of the Colonel, wo wero never very much pleased with tho Savannah "boss’ alleged friendship to begin with. Illinois otters to 1oab~Kansas *1,- 000,000 without interest to light "that merciless octopus whoso tentatcles now encircle ovory stato In tho Union." This is tho Kansas way of describing tho Standard Oil Company. Tho "mercenaries" aro" those politi cians who have obtained ofllces In the state, and the "reformers" are those who want' to obtain thorn. In other worda, the "morcohr.rlea" are tho "Ins” and tho "reformers" aro tho "wanMo-get-lus." The Panama canal commissioners who admitted irregularity In drawing salaries and payment from the rail roads at ono time probably thought confession was better than being caught Gen. Bristow Is down there on a tour of Ins portion. The amount of blstwng - and pray ing that has been done over the mur dered Grand Duke Sarglqs, of Rus sia, would Indicate that the religious end of the government regarded him ns n lit subject for post mortem cere monies. The Kansas legislature “proposes to have Its convicts work the oil refin eries la opposition to the Standard Oil Company. According to Tom Lawson, the competition will be be tween mca who are In the peniten tiary and those who ought to be. haa Governor Hoch, of signed the bill giving separate schools to' whites and blacks In that state. The governor expresses sympathy tor the negroes and for Roosevelt, bat he cannot face the people of the stato attar refusing to sign the measure, last why he wasted to lug Roosevelt's name Into It while the president was on the “stool of repentance'' we do not anMntaatf. . A COTTON BEAR’S QUERY. Theodore H. Price, the great cotton bear, who some time ago had pictures taken of the cotton fields throughout the South and of street scenes where cotton was piled high, to be used In depressing the price of the staple. Is lau|hlng at the talk which the farm- era of the South are now Indulging In about reducing the acreage of the star pie. He tblnka the recent rise lu the price settles the whole business, so far as the next crop is concerned. In recent letter to Mr. T. E. Massen gale, of Norwood, Ga., he writes of former efforts to reduce the acreage in this style: "Your assertion that the acreage de voted to the royal plant will be cut 25 per cent., I should take ae gospel truth did not my memory warn me to be cautious. After you made the first 11,000,000 crop you assured the world of a reduction in acreage of 2o per cent. You got up an enthusl.st'c meeting at Atlanta and went home to carry out your resolutions. Of a na ture innocent and confiding at I. then wat, I spread the news all over the world. Before me Ilea a marked let ter published by my firm on March 10, 1898. On tho authority of 8outh orn correspondents I said: 'Much of the land In Georgia and South and North Carolina usually devoted to the culture of cotton has been planted in grain. The acreage of tobacco In tho Carolines will bs largely Increased at the expense of cotton, He then alleges that the farmers of the South made the world believe that there was a reduction of 20 to 25 per cent. In acreage, with a decrease of 30 to 35 per cent. In fertilisers, until nearly June of that year, when other reports Indicated that the decrease was not greater than 11.4 per cent. This decrease dwindled down until It became an Increase of 2ft per cent, over the former yoar. "I give you credit for honest Intentions," he says, 'and attribute the'lncrease In the cot. ton acreage that year to an Increase of about five-eighths of a cent a pound for tho staple In February.” Then comes this climax: "An advance of flvo-olghtho of a cant made you turn a proposed reduc tion of twenty-five per cent. In the aereaga into an actual Increase of 2>/ 2 per cent. .Query: What will the proa- ant advanca of o' This shows conclusively the game which the cotton bears are playing. They aro not buying much cotton and can afford to let prlcea soar high In the cotton quotations. They may need ;ittlo of tho staplo to fill In with, but their main object Is to encourage the farmers to do what they did In —plant a larger crop of cotton Instead of cutting down the acreage, It Is a shrewd game they are play ing. but wo hopo tho cotton growers have read too much In the book of experience to be caught in the trap. to collect their debts In a leas agreea ble way. That would mean that they would appoint themselves as receiver, which would give them claims prior to any that we might hold, and would also give them almost permanent oc cupancy of the inland. I When one considers the precedent: which we would establish by assum- lug responsibility to Dominican cred-l Itors, or by acting as receiver tor that republic, the danger of the president's proposition can be realized. There are a dozen or more governments to the south of us that are In nearly the same condition as Santo Domingo, and when we start out to running their affairs and settling with their credit ors we will have considerably mor, than our share of the “white man's burden." The president's, last propo sition Is a straight back-down from the first which he made, and reatl) ,-l! for speaker. Potts wrote West asking him to support Morris, but West did not support Morris. He was cbairiqan of Mitchell's committee and put l(im In nomination before the house/ The trouble with Mr.. Osborne is that he has found out that Mr. West Is aobody’s man Friday. That It all of it. West did not belong to Osborne In the'flrat place, and he did not trade off for any other owner In the second place. Notwithstanding Osborne’s attempt ridicule the virtues which are West's, the senator from the Sixth district Is beyond the reach of the Anger of suspicion which bis late friend" now points at him. The only discreditable thing about the Potts letter is the public parade Osborne made of it without the con- sent of the writer, or of the person to whom It was written. Certainly It Is no reflection on the man to whom it was written. West. If he trusted it with Osborne two years and a half divides authority between himself ag0 _ misjudged the character i poUft' and the senate, but that fact relieve it of the dangerous In which we put ourselves, after bar lug once established such a precedent as he seeks to put us In taking charge of the tangled affairs of the Dominican government. THE UNITED 8TATE8 SENATE, The differences that have aidant up between the United States senate and the president Imre directed aj ten UNCLE SAM A8 RECEIVER. The United States senate does not seem to bo In very much hurry about making Uncle Sam tho receiver and sponsor for tho stranded republics to the south of us. President Roosevelt has laid before that body a newly- drawn proposal with Santo Domingo, and asks the senate to please ratify immediately. The proposition one by which the United States Is tq_ oxurclsc n sort of receivership ovor Dominican affairs, chiefly financial, but both domestic and foreign, until tho country's obligations to various foreign countries shall be stralghten- out, and the republic of Santo Do mingo gota la a position to take care Itself. Tho plan Involvos a consid erable stretch of the Monroe doctrine, and If the senate should confirm It, It may go down In history by the side the Monroo Instrument as the Roosovolt' proposal." Tha prealdent believe* that we are honor bound to take a position of this sort as long as we rigidly enforce the Monroe doctrine. He says In his re cent note to the senate, "The justifi cation tor the United States taking this burden and incurring this respon sibility Is to be found In the fact that It Is incompatible with International equity for tho United States to refuse allow other powers to take the only means at their disposal of satisfying the claims of their creditors and yet refuse itself to take any such steps." The fact of the business is that cer tain European nations have recently been Intimating to our department of state that unless the United States took the Dominican affairs In hand tlon to that body. Every schoolj boy knows that It Is composed of two Sen ators from every state In the llljled States. Rhode Island and Nevada each send two senators, and S'i York does not send more than t The senators are elected fox? years, and they consequently over two years longer than the ident, and are eligible to re-elo|t|lon as long as the state Is disposed tlnue them In ofllce. Those who have been long In office, like Allison, of Iowa; Hale, of Maine; Platt, of. Ora- nectlcut, and Platt, of New York, have great Influence on account: of their seniority. Others like Spooner, I-odge and Aldrich are influential by force of ability. There are others like Depew, of New York, and Bevor- lai will in* pres- ld « e ' ot § (Hill i nomqt tSflowa, jrbo hare abil ity, but, lacking tbe prestige ot long continued service, are without the in* fluence to which their intellectual weight entitles them. | We have not mentioned certain Southern and other senators’ ability and reputation as orators and states- men, because, being In the Demo cratic minority, they are, of course, always voted down. The senate Is frequently out of accord with the sen timent of the country. It should hare passed the Olney-Pauncefote arbitra tion treaty, and the only reason why it did not do it was because it was the measure of a Democratic admin istration. It is now out of accord on tbe subject of railroad rate legisla tion. There are among tho senators those who represent not so much their states as they do gigantic corporate interests. They were able for a long time to postpone the Panama canal purchase, and they will possibly be able to defeat or to modify the Each- Townsend bill as to render It practi cally nugatory. of the man Osborne’s attempt now is to prove that he and West are related to each other as pot and kettle. And when it gets down to that the jig is up with him. It Is all over. Of course he can continue to talk, and doubt less will, but little attention will be paid to what he says. — Macon Tele- graph. The Nebraska senate has passed a law that organ grinders’ monkeys shall not be worked over eight hours a day, on pain of fine and Imprison ment of both the monkey and his owner. That is a stride In the right direction, though a better step would make It a crime to work the little wretches at all. Colorado farmer writes: ' “We are now raising mules, and one very good thing about the business Is that buyers come around after them and pay the price we ask, so that we do not have to hunt them up. If a farm er is not. a very good rustler for a customer this Is a .big object.” There are but two doctors of medi cine in the entire congress of the United States, and both of these are In the senate. Almost every other oc cupation from log rolling to pugilism Is represented In the lower'house. The mschlnery of the Kansas legis lature worked like a charm as soon I as-Stsadsrd.Qlfwas,Introduced. I When Your Doctor. Writes a Prescription He will not worry about it if you tell him that the prescription is coming here to be filled. From long experience with our prescription work.the doctors of Valdosta have come to rqly absolutely upon all medicine bearing our label. IO9 S. 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The j tale he tried to tell was discredited i on its face It amounted to Innendo. { That which was apparently straight-j forward to no way damaged the good: man he attacked. J He claims to have been West's! ‘manager.” If we have been correct-, ly informed. Mr. John Bennett, of I Waycross, was chosen by Mr. West's’ friends as chairman of & committee to: look after West'a Interests. j By printing a private letter, which by some chance fell Into his posses-' lion. and which was not his property. —a letter written by Mr. Frank Potts. I of Atlanta, to Mr. West two years and { half ago—Osborne seeks to put West to a false position to regard to ; that they would tie forced to prooeed the contest between Morris and Hitch- Have You Missed What’s Been Going on Here the Past Thirty Days? It is too bad if you have, for none but tramps and millionaire can afford to miss the money saving opportunities offered by our Great Clearance Sale. This sale will positively end on February 25th. Your chance to secure any of our present bargains dies at that time. Our Clearance Sale has been the greatest and most successful sale of clothing any store in this locality ever held. That is be cause our garments are at the top in ’ merit and our discounts are fair and honest in every way. We do not exaggerate. We tell customers exactly what they wish to know and all they want to know. We are positively offering great and unusual Clothing Bargains. Fair warning—last call. Take advantage of this opportunity. Davis Bros & Valdosta, Georgia.