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THE VALDOSTA T
THE VALDOSTA TIMES.
c. BRANTLEY, Editor.
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Entered at the Poetofflce at Valdoeta,
Ga., aa Second Claaa Mall Matter,
VALDOSTA, GA., OCT. O', 1905
TWELVE PAGES.
The Macon fair will begin
ness In Macon next week.
Most men do what they do because
they think at the time it is the prop
er thing to do.
The more henpecked a man Is the
more ferocious he tries to act when
he Is away from home.
Insurance companies throughout
the country are getting a few hints
on the value of advertising.
It seems that the real way to get
lasting fame is to bo among those
who are excluded from the Hall of
Fame. ______
Race Rulcide sometimes has its
advantages. Suppose James Hazen
Hyde had as big a family as
Curdy!
The orange crop in Florida Is on
the move, a fact that should cause
rejoicing among all who love that
delicious fruit.
The “blind - tiger" crasade at
Thomasvillo has reached the pro
portions of an insurance iuvestlga
tion in New York.
Now that the frost hafc caught the
top crop of cotton, Harvle Jordan
will probably insist on raising the
price a little higher.
The time tables say that Rosso
■volt will reach Valdosta at 2:30 a.
m., but we can reasonably count on
the train being five hours late.
A cut in all the salaries of canal
■employees ordered by President
Shonts Is likely to cause him more
trouble than the famous Culebra
cut.
"There was never a tariff law en
acted that was perfect," says Secre
tary Shaw, but ho wasn’t face tc
face with Senator Aldrich when he
said it.
Miss Alice Roosevelt will prob
ably bo converted to tariff reform on
vigorous lines when Bhe writes
■check for the tariff charges on her
Eastern gifts.
" The Grand Duke Cyril has just
** been banished from Russia on
count of his marriage. This should
be an Inducement to the Grand Duke
Boris to make some sort of a misal
liance.
Witte has not been received with
enthusiasm in Russia but he prob-
nbly does not care, remembering the
saying of the French Revolutionists,
“Beware the favor of a grateful na
tion."
Persons who predicted that the
marriage recently of the rich girl
and her coachman would end ns
such mnrrlnges have In the divorce
court are to be disappointed. The
man Is a bigamist and the marriage
will be annulled.
If Tom Dixon can get as much
free advertising for ills next two
plays ns tho "Clihisman" stirred up
in Columbia S. C., it will probably
be a matter of indifference to him
whether they are historically accu
rate or not.
NO TARIFF . REVISION YET
According to dispatches which
came from Washington yesterday
th£re is little hope for any efTort at
tariff revision by the next congress
chiefly because the president has
abandoned the position which
professed to have some time ago,
From the speeches which he has be
gun to make on his southern tour
and from other indications which
were shown before he left Washing
ton, he has decided to push his new
hobby about railroad regulation,
JiiHt how long ho will ride this hob
by remains to be seen. The presi
dent has the reputation of being a
great doer of wonderful works, but
up to date he has been more of a
talker and promiser. He appears to
be of the same dirt that the balance
of us are made of—very earthy at
that.
It will be easily remembered how
quickly he took a back track on his
open market—market crusade
the purchase of supplies for the
Panama canal. His ultimatum had
hardly* become dry before he caught.
wink from the protected Interests
of the North and from that day
this there has not been the slightest
whisper about open markets. We
remember, too, how he took up the
campaign which the lamented Mc
Kinley was about to launch, when
death claimed him, in regard to
tariff revision. The world regarded
Mr. Roosevelt as the one man who
was not afraid to beard the lion In
his den, but he became startlingly
silent on the subject and successive
congresses have met, each one of
them to hear some other "para
mount issue" in the president’s mes-
little while ago we heard won-,
derful sermons from this same source
in regard to civic righteousness, "of
ficials as clean as a hound's tooth,"
the "square deal" at all times, but
hot did it all amount to, even
though it thrilled us for the while?
Was the stain of Loomis, Wood and
others of tarnished reputation, wiped
from the administration? What be
came of Cortelyou who received
campaign corruption funds from the
life insurance companies, knowing
that the money did not belong
the men who gave it? Was he rep
rimanded? Not at all, but '. word
.comes from Washington" that he is
to go up higher as a result of the
faithful services which he per
formed.
How long will the campaign for
ra.Iroad regulation go on? Will it
last aftor the new has worn off, or
longer than the republican bosses
put the muzzle upon the president?
Has ho ever defied the bosses of his
own party, or kept up his campaign
after they told him to stop? We have
no doubt that there will be a lot of
talk about railroad regulation, con
trolling insurance companies and
doing other things which the con
stitution does not provide for, but
■ilk will be about all. Like the
many other theories which the pres-
ient lias advocated for a few days
■tTenuously, too—It will pass
nway and, "like the fabric of a vis
ion, leave scarce a wreck behind."
A parson iu Akron, Ohio, declares
that Christians have the same right
to gamble or speculate iu stocks as
infidels. Guess so. Look at Mr.
Rockefeller. Still, we don’t hanker
for pious pool rooms, Christian crap-
games, holy poker and kindred in
stitutions.
I"
tAies,
not one wh
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21 1905.
The people of the North, or most
of them, not only want cotton to
faco ail foreign competition, but
they want to lucreaso the supply in
foreign lands as much as possible.
At the same time, they want a high
'tariff wall around everything they
raise, or have to sell.
Admiral Dewey says our naval of
ficers are too old for their rank and
Dr. Osier has startled the country
'by saying that men are worthless
after sixty. So It Is that the mas
culine world Is beginning to feel a
little of tne sting of age with which
woman has been taunted so long.
The sensativeness of the New
York administration in objecting to
a "dead man’s cousin" as holder of
a "dead man’s Job" must seem pass
ing strange to those Philadelphia
gangsters who have been "voting"
aoldlers of the Revolutionary war.
whose tombs are cracked and moss-
grown.
THAT CHINESE BOYCOTT.
At the first meeting of the cabi-
•t which Secretary Taft attended
after his return from the far East,
he had something to say of the Chi
nese exclusion act and the Chinese
boycott against American made
goods. He stated that the exclusion
act was working Imperfectly, but
that the boycott was on the wane—
that Its backbone was practically bro
ken. Of course, the fact that the
Chinaman are releasing their grip
in i\\p effort to prevent American
goods being sold in that country,
will be good news to most of the
manufacturers , In this country,
who are profiting by that trade.
iVlth the return of the trade In that
quarter, we will probably forget
about the exclusion act and the
hardships which it works upon
worthy Chinese who desire to visit
this country.
But ought this to be so? Ought
wo not as a nation to rise a little
above the mere profits which w? get
from the Chinese people and accord
them the simple acts of justice as
we accord it to the Japanese and to
other pooples who are not one whit
more worthy than the yellow men
of the Flowery Kingdom? China is
a big country and when she awakens
from her long slumber stye may be
a powerful friend or foe to those
whom she likes or dislikes. Assuming
that we have only a mercenary in
terest in this matter, we cannot
treat a country with injustice, day
after day, and not feel the effects
of it in the days to come. Nations are
like individuals, and Individuals arej
not altogether unlike the dumb brutes
in returning good to those who of
fer good. When China gets a little
more of our civlliation among he;
people, she may adopt the weapons
of force, boycotts and discrimina
tions against those who practice
these things against her.
But looking above the question of
trade and the* effects which may
come to us in a material way, there
is a moral side to the question which
we should not ignore. The Times
is not in favor of indiscriminate im
migration to this country, but we
can see no justice in closing
doors to the riff-rafi of one nation
and yet opening them wide *fo the
off-scourings of another. I:
dispatches yesterday was a story of
the terror which Italian brlga’nds
creating in New York and yet these
people have free rights to come to
this country, even when it is known
that their coming is a menace
law and order.
We ought to amend our Chinese
exclusion act, so as to put the Chi
naman on the same level with the
Hungarian, the Russian, the Japa
nese and other foreigners. A re
vision of our immigration law ought
also to be made, so that the bad
element from Europe Is shut out as
effectively as our gates are closed
to the lowest class of Chinese. We
need to be as holy as severe In our
dealings with other nations, not for
the sake of trade, but because It Is
right—-it is the Golden Rule, which
should inspire us in all of our Inter
national dealings.
REFORM IN TWO STATES.
Governor Joseph Folk, of Missouri,
continues his campaign against
gambling, fhe violation of the Sun
day laws and boodleism in that
state, and the result of his efforts
to enforce the Sunday laws have had
the effect of bringing out the rather
weak efforts at reform in the neigh
boring state.
Missouri is a state yhere local
option is the law, while Kansas 1s
the state where prohibition prevails.
About the only effort that has been
made to enforce the prohibition law
in Kansas is that which was made
by Mrs. Carle Nation and her hatch
et. It is said that there are open
saloons in every city in the state
and that there are fifty or mor
Kansas City, Kansas. These saloons
if the reports are correct, have as
little regard for the Sunday laws
they have for any other law, their
business every day, as well as Sun
day, being illegally conducted.
Since Governor Folk has been
forcing the Sunuay law in Missouri
the "bibbers” on that side of
Kaw river have to go over to the
Kansas side to got their Sunday
drinks. The two cities are practl
cally one, being separated only by a
stream of water, with business
blocks running up to the water's
edge oi. both sides. On one side
the sale of spirltous liquors is for
bidden by law, but very little, if any,
attention Is paid to the statue,
the other side the sale is legalized,
but restricted.
The anomalous result Is that extra
cars have to be put on the street
railways on Sunday to accommodate
topers who flee to the "dry"
town to quench their thirst. What
Kansas needs is either a repeal of
her law or a governor with the back
bone of Joe Folk to make it effec
tive. But. after all, is it not prob
able public sentiment is responsible
for "winking" at the law in Kansas.
There’ll
Come
Time
OBJECT TO THE NEQROE8.
While the northern cranks arc
busily engaged In telling how the
people of the South should treat the
negro, they are losing a vj^y good
opportunity ^^lettiag an
on “fdat line, .'key think It is very
Those "Important matters” which
have been waiting for six months
for the consideration of the cabinet,
will probably have to wait a little
longer while the members make
their campaign speeches In Ohio and
Maryland.
When you will appreciate the values we
constantly offer. Had we a telephone
hitched to your ear we would tell of big
bargains like these:
Eagle Brand Milk 15 cents
Armours Veribest Tripe 15
Emerald Coffee only 20
31b. can Clipper Tomatoes 10
2 lb. can good Tomatoes, per doz 90
10 lb. can Wesson Cooking Oil $1.25
1 lb. best Elgin Creamery Butter 30
Goods delivered to all parts of the city.
PHONE 52.
Stanford & Porter.
107 N. Ashley St., VALDOSTA.
Honesty
Honesty in prescriptions is our watch-word.
However much we may know about medicines,
we never pit our knowledge against that of your
doctor.
We can [conceive of nothing more dishonest
than the substitution of something else for that
which your doctor has asked for.
You can bring your prescription to us know
ing that you will get just what your doctor has
ordered. And that too, at a price that will please
you.
109 Sooth
Patterson St
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wrong for the people of the South
to prefer separate accommodations
for the races on the trains, in the ho
tels, schools and other places, but it
will be observed that as the negro
population increases at the North,
the people of that section become
more anxious to widen the distance
between him and them.
Out In Kansas City, Kansas, where
the negro has been allowed to at
tend the white schools, the law has
been changed so that he must go to
his’ own school In future. Up
Pittsburg, Pa., which Is in the heart
of the region where the negroes’ pro
fessed best friends live, similar
steps are being taken.
Now St. Louis, Mo., which Is made
up of a very large northern popula
tion, has a big excitement caused
by the threat of a Mrs. Campbell to
sell her house to negroes. The
house is located in a section of the
city which is Inhabited almost ex
clusively by white people, and they
have been quick to eutor a loud pro
test against a property sale which
will bring a negro family into their
midst. Of course, Mrs. Campbell
has a right to sell her property to
whom she pleases and the other
folks have the right to. kick, but that
is all.
In New York, not so very long ago,
one or two negro families secured
apartments In an uptown flat, which
caused all of the white tenants to
move out and seek homes in other
places. The removal of the whites
forced the landlord to fill his apart
ments with negroes at lower rent
als, as no white people vrould live
near them. As a result of this ex
perience, New York landlords will
not rent houses in the white com
munities to the colored people.
As the negro migrates northward
and becomes a greater factor In the
communities, the prejudice against
him becomes stronger. "Jimcrow"
cars will be provided for him on the
trains and the holier-than-thou crit
ics of the South will h&ve enough
sweeping before their own doors to
keep them busy all of the time.
■ £ a fall suit that
W in proclaim
your up-to-dateness, and
do it now. Don’t be one of
the loggerheads. Come out in new
cloths in time to wear the late styles
before every other man appears in a
new suit.
The Fall
Kinks.
Longer coats, wider collars and
lapels. More fullness than ever in
the chest. Vests cut slightly lower.
About fabrics--the richest and most
gentlemanly patterns that have yet
appeared in ready-for-service gar
ments. Carsine worsted, Scotch
cheviots in all the new styles. These
woolens are ia plain colors, neat over plaids and modest broken
stripes. You will certainly be greatly surprised to learn what
$10.50, $15.00, $18.00 and $20.00 will do for you here, in buying a
handsome, well cut and well tailored Fall Suit. We handle
High Art and EFF=EFF
?The very best clothing that i9 offered ready to wear. The style and
workmanship has no equal in ready to wear clothing.
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