Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, August 27, 1912, Page 4, Image 4
4 THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL ATLANTA, *A_, • VOBTX POKSTTX ST. Entered at the Atlanta Fostoffice as Mail Matter of the Second Class. JAMES *. GRAY, Frestaent and Rdftor. WBSOXPTXOir frxcr Twelve months '"‘ c Six Months j Oc Tti ree Months •••••••• <••••••••••••••••••••••• •' /C ' The Semi Weekly Journal Is published on Tuesday and Friday and Is mailed by the shortest routes for early delivery. It contains news from all over the world, brought by special leased wires into our office. It has a start of distinguished contributors. with strong departments of special value to the home and farm. Agents wanted at every postoffice. Liberal com mission allowed. Outfit free. Write R. R. BRAD LET. Circulation Dept. The only traveling representatives we have are J. A. Bryan. R. F. Bolton. C. C. Coyle. L. H. Kimbrough and C. T. Tates. We will be responsible only for mon ey paid to the above named traveling representatives. 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Mr. Roosevelt's futile bid for Southern votes, The Journal said that ou essential matters of government his pol icies and the South's convictions, his purposes and the South's interests are radically opposite: "His ideas oa those issues that peculiarly concern our people are not only at variance with Southern thought and sentiment. but they are repellant and dangerous. ’ Thia is true of bis position on the rights of the States, on the third-term precedent, on the political status of the negro and especially is ft true of bis position on the tariff. The South is the cradle land of the doctrine that the one rightful object of tariff duties should be to provide a revenue necessary to the maintenance of the federal government That is a principle for which its statesmen have most earnestly striven, and for which its citisens have voted generation after generation. Free trade is not to be secured in a year or a decade nor can protective duties be utter ly abolished at a single stroke. But the South in sists, as it always has. that there should be a sane end effective revision of the tariff downward, with thnmugh freedom of trade as its ultimate goal. This is Inevitably the view of a people whose in terests are so largely agricultural as ours; the Southern farmer naturally resents being forced to pay a tariff tax, not for the support of the govern ment’s legitimate needs, but for the fostering of special interests and the protection of giant monop olies. What the people of this section have always recognised, the people of the nation as a whole have at length perceived—that the tariff as administered by the Republican party is merely a system of gov ernment patronage to the few at the expense of the many. That system. Mr. Roosevelt has always advocated and he advocates it no less insistently today. As president, he stood for a high protective tariff and as a third-term candidate he holds to the same gen eral purpose. During the nearly eight years of bis administra tion he did nothing whatever to revise the tariff in the interest of the consumer; he entertained no purpose and made no effort to that end. On the contrary, he protected the monopolies that go hand in hand with the extortionate tariff and he added to the people’s tax burdens by the most extravagant administration the country has ever known. “The cost of living and the cost of Rooseveltlsm,” it has been truly said, “went side by side.*’ During his last term of office, the government spent three bil lion. five hundred and fifty-two million, nine hundred and eighty-two thousand, eight hun dred and sixteen dollar? —an amount twice the ex penditures of the government from Washington to Lincoln. Here, then, are at least three factors in the oppressive cost of living for which Mr. Roose velt cannot escape a measure of responsibility—the tariff, the trusts and a prodigal waste of public money; and all three of these factors, it should be noted, are intertwined with the tariff as their cen tral branch. This is Mr. Roosevelt’s record. What is his posi tion today on this dominant issue of the campaign? It is precisely that of the Standpat Republicans. He recently told a Rhode Island audience that he be lieved in protecting industries, but also in making the owners of these industries divide their profits with their employees. That means that he would permit the special interests to go on receiving the gains they enjoy under government patronage, but force them —by what means he does not Indicate — to divide their spoils with the men in their employ. What would such a scheme, even were it realizable, profit the maos of the people who are not in the em ploy of the particular interests? Would it benefit the farmer whose Implements and supplies would continue to bear a high tariff tax? Would it help the average family that can scarcely make ends meet because of the exorbitant duties on food and clothing? Os all the devices for class legislation ever proposed, that of Roosevelt concerning the tar iff is the most vicious and absurd. He doesn't pro pose to stop the robbery but simply to make the pirates divide their booty according to a more fanciful plan. He offers no remedy or reform for the tariff evil itaelf, the evil that corrupts pol itics, that chokes competition, that intrenches monop olies and burdens the households ot all the nation. Mr. Roosevelt, following in the steps of President Taft and the Republican Standpatters, adopts the foolish scheme of making the tariff duties equal the difference between American and foreign cost ot production. This was one of the avowed principles in his “Confession of Faith” at Chicago. It is ob vious in the very outset that such a difference can not be determined. It varies between factory and factory and In the same factory from month to month. Under such a device, the beneficiaries of the tariff would be Incited to costly rather than economic methods of production. They would demand, and would get, protective duties to cover all possible dif ferences in cost; and so in the end the people would be no better off than they are today. The truth is, Mr. Roosevelt’s policies in this particular, which are precisely those of the regular Republicans, are too absurd even to be considered and are put forward merely to deceive the voters and to divert their at tention from the real evil to be dealt with. Such are the past record and the present attitude of the third-term candidate toward the one great issue of the day, an issue in which the South is es pecially concerned. With what grace or logic, then, can he appeal for support In this section? Even if he did not champion the centralization of power in the federal government at the expense of the rights of the States, even if he were not seeking to over ride the third-term precedent and establish himself virtually as a dictator, even if he had not insulted Southern sentiment on the negro question—he would still be barred from any political consideration on the part of our people by his anti-Southern and re actionary stand on the great question of tariff re form. No matter what else Mr. Roosevelt might or might not represent, he is not eligible to the suf frage of this section ao long as be stands for a con tinuance of the abuses and injustices of the present tariff system. It is to the Democratic party and the Democratic party alone that we may look for relief from this one underlying source of public ills. The South stands today where it always stood on this cardinal principle of good government and in the present cam paign its Democratic loyalty sweeps forth with un usual vigor to Woodrow Wilson who declares: "It is obvious that the tariff changes toe make should be made only at such a rate and in such away as will least interefere with the normal and healthful course of commerce and manufac ture. But we shall not on that account act with timidity as if we did not know our own minds, for we are certain of our ground and of our ob ject. There should be an immediate revision, and it should be downward, unhesitatingly and steadily downward.” The old guard apparently doesn’t feel called on to explain its contributions. THE RAILROAD COMMISSION'S PLAIN DUTY TO THE PEOPLE The traveling public and the business Interests of Georgia look to the State Railroad Commission for relief from that unjust mileage rule, which the railroads, with the aid of Governor Brown, have fastened upon them. As a body established to see that the people are given a fair deal at the hands of public service corporations, the Commission’s duty is clear: It should repudiate the arbitrary action of the Governor in vetoing the mileage bill, which the Legislature had overwhelmingly passed, and grant this demand to which the patrons of the roads are legally and justly entitled. Within the past few months, the Commission has had unusual opportunities for studying the merits of this cause. It has been directly petitioned by a great body of commercial travelers to annul the foolish rule under which the roads now require an exchange of mileage for special trip tickets before it can be used. There was submitted an abundance of testi mony, showing how this exaction entails a loss of time, and frequently a loss of money, upon the travel ing men and the important interests they represent. It was shown, furthermore, that the great railway systems of the east voluntarily accept mileage aboard trains and find it thoroughly in accord with their interests to do so. While this matter was pending before the Com mission, a bill, seeking the same end as the petition, was introduced in the General Assembly; whereupon the Commission naturally suspended its own pro cedure. After thorough consideration, and with the advice of able lawyers in both houses, the Legisla ture passed the mileage bill. That measure would be a law today, had it not been for the arbitrary and indefensible action of Governor Brown. Regardless of the wishes and the rights of the public, regardless of the carefully considered stand of the people’s rep resentatives, he vetoed the bill and offered, as his sole excuse, an empty quibble. In so doing, he not only denied the public a com mon right but he also denied the courts an oppor tunity to pass upon the law. He assumed the pow ers of the judiciary as well as the executive. If the bill had been unconstitutonal, that would have been for the courts to have said. The truth is Governor Brown and the railroads were both afraid to let the law reach the courts because they Knew well enough it would be sustained. In these circumstances, the petition to abolish the tyrannical mileage rule la again before the Railroad Commission. The course for that body to pursue, we repeat, is unmistakably defined. In favor of abolishing this rule, it has heard directly from the merchants, the shippers, the manufacturers, the com mercial travelers and the traveling public at large; while to the contrary, it has heard but two voices, that of Governor Brown and that of the railroads. Let the Commission choose without hesitancy be tween the Governor’s quibble and the people’s rights, between the selfish and unreasonable plea of the railroads and the common interests of the State. THE ATLANTA SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL, ATLANTA. GA.. TUESDAY, AUGUST 27, 1912. THE FARM AND THE MAItfCET. All sections of the country, particularly Geor gla and the South, have cause for hearty satisfaction over the Senate's passage of Senator Hoke Smith’s bill providing for what is termed “a division of mar kets” in the Department of Agriculture. It will be the object of this new division to gather and dissemi nate information as to systems of marketing farm products both in the United States and in foreign countries; to investigate the demand for farm products in various trade centers and also the current movement of such products; and, after having thus secured specific data con cerning suply, normal demand and prices, to distrbute this information among the farmers them selves through dally bulletins. In this connection, the language of the bill itself is interesting: "It shall be the duty of the chief of the bu reau of statistics to collect through the said di vision of markets, by any expeditious method, as by telegraph, telephone, mail or otherwise, compile and report to farmers, farmers’ organ isations and societies of consumers daily bulle tins or telegraphic reports of such information and statistics as will enable them to adopt plans of marketing that may facilitate the handling of farm products at a minmum cost; provided that when such reports or statistics are requested to be furnished by telegraph or telephone, or by methods other than the United (States mail, the person or associaton making such request shall advnace she fee for the cost of transmission, which shall be deposited to the appropriation for the maintenance of said division of markets.” Such a service as this will be of specific and far reaching value to farmers and, indirectly, to con sumers as well. It will keep the producers of the country closely and continuously in touch with trade movements, and will thereby reduce the chances of congestion of products at seme points and shortage at others; it will place at the farmers’ disposal a sorely needed knowledge of market conditions and 'will thus do much to establish our syfctem of agricul ture on a businesslike basis The past ten years have witnessed a truly won drous awakening to the importance of scientific methods of cultivation. The gospel of intelligent, as contrasted with haphazard, farming has fallen upon fertile ground and is bringng forth abundant results. As a consequence, the soil is yielding larger and better crops, a fact which means that the people as a whole are better off. But we shall never attain our due measure of progress in agricultural affairs until, to the methods of science, there have also been added the methods of business. When a crop has been raised and harvested, only half its story has been told. There remains the all important chapter of its marketing and it is just at this point that sound business methods become in dispensable. It is the purpose of the division .of markets to supply every farmer in the land with the accurate and ready knowledge necessary to apply such methods. Senator Smith’s bill is,a practical stride toward establishing and maintaining an adequate system of agriculture; and surely this country has no need that is more vital. France and Germany and other world powers have spent billions of dollars toward developing the business and the science of farming. That is why European land that has been sown and harvested for a thousand years produces today from two to three times as much per acre as the average American farm. This is a very disturbing fact. It is due not to any natural condition, but simply to our government’s failure to assume its full respon sibility In rural problems. < These problems touch not only the farmer but the public as a whole; they ramify through every field of our economic and social interests. It is a disquieting circumstance that the population of the United States is fast outstripping its supply of food. Each year there are hundreds of thousands of new mouths to feed; but there is no proportionate in crease in the production of bread and meat. To this condition, is due, in part at least, the steady and burdensome increase in the cost of living. It might logcally be expected that a comparative scarcity of food would result in better prices to the producer. Such, however, is not the case; for, while the farmer’s expenses have been steadily growing, his net income has not appreciably advanced. Here, then, are two problems existing side by side: The need of more food products and the need of fairer profits on those produced. The solution of the fanner lies in scientific methods of agriculture and that of the latter in businesslike methods of ag riculture. Both these ends will be attained when the state and federal governments duly apply their means and energy to the task of making farming in this country a science and also a business. This can be done through agricultural schools and colleges, through farm demonstration work, through bulletins and expert agents and, particularly, through such a system of regular market advices as that for which Senator Smith’s bill provides. This measure is especially important for the reason that it supplements the general educational work in which the government is now engaged and goes directly to the farmer’s business needs. Present indications are that the intervals be tween drinks in Georgia will continue to be com paratively brief. In the fall of the year the thoughts of the work ing men turn to another year’s work. There are some peopletwho are howling for rain, forgetful of how much we had earlier in the year. O, yes, and there’s the mayoralty race coming on, too. . NEW YORK TIMES SHOWS THE FOLLY OF ROOSEVELT'S CLAIMS IN THE SOUTH (From the New York Times.) To obtain at first hand information as to how the south regards Theodore Roosevelts third party candidacy for president and what foundation there Is for the claims put forth by his supporters here that he will receive a large share of the Democratic as well as the Republican vote in the southern states, the Times telegraphed recently to some 40 southern leaders and editors, asking them what foundation there was in their respective sections for the colonel's claims, and what the chances were for the realixatlas of hla hope of a large southern vote. The 32 replies received are printed below, some of the Inquiries having failed owing to the recipients' absence from home. The answers, It will be ob served, show a Well-nigh unanimous belief, among those whose experience should make their forecasts worth while that there will be no vast rising In be half of the Progressive ticket south of Mason and Dixon’s line. Views of Gov. O’neal. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aug. 17.—There is no dis affection in the Democratic party In the south. It is united, aggressive and confident. In my recent visit to the east I discovered no evidence to support the claim that Mr. Roosevelt would draw any con siderable following from the Democratic party there. Jn my judgment the platform, the character of our candidate and Governor Wilson’s admirable speech of acceptance not only guarantee a united Democracy but justifies the belief that our ticket will have support of a decided majority of American people. EMMETT O’NEAL. D-mocratic Governor of Alabama, United States Dis trict Attorney in Alabama under Cleveland. No Chance in North Carolina. ASHEVILLE. N. C-, Aug. 17.—Colonel Roosevelt can have no reasonable hope of carrying North Caro lina or any southern state. In the support of Gov ernor Wilson the Democratic party of this state and of the whole south is united, determined and enthu siastic. Factions have disappeared. There is no dis affection anywhere. Every Democrat in this state will support him, stimulated by a hope that we hate not known since 1892. Some who have heretofore voted the Republican ticket will support him. It is freely admitted by intelligent men of all parties that the Democratic majority In North Caro lina this year will reach high-water mark. There is no pretense of any claim to the contrary. Demo cratic conditions and prospects could not be bettor. Taft and Roosevelt conditions and prospects could not be worse. The Republican party, or what was once the Re publican party, is hopelessly divided. President Taft hag a following, but the great majority of the old Republicans are now for Colonel Roosevelt. The war between these two factions Is fierce and relentless. Each will cerainly put out an electoral ticket. They will fight each other to the finish. The claim by Colonel Roosevelt’s managers that he will get support from the Democrats of the south Is ridiculous. No such claim Is made by any «.f his supporters in this section. The nomination of Governor Wilson eliminated him. In the present po litical situation there is no place for him, certainly not in the south. Governor Wilson, with the platform of the Balti more convention, is the logical representative and ex ponent of the real, earnest, progressive thought of the age. The nominee of the Democratic party meets the demand that, we must have genuine reform without revolution. We believe that he is safe, wise and courageous; that he will without fear or favor per form his trust. We know that he is under obligation to no particular interest and to no faction, and we have the faith that to hirp the ideals of Democracy should be the real controlling force of this govern ment. He will certainly carry North Carolina by a very large majority and I believe that he will be elected by the greatest majority that any president has received since 1872. LOCKE CRAIG. Lawyer, and unanimous choice of the Democratic Party for Governor of North Carolina. Kentucky Sure for Wilson. LOUISVILLE. Ky., Aug. 17.—There are no Demo crats in Kentucky so far as I know who are Intend ing to vote for Roosevelt. Among the hundreds of people with whom I have discussed the results of the coming election 1 have never heard any Democrat say he would vote for Roosevelt. On the other hand, many Republicans nave declar ed that they propose to vote for Wilson and Marshall. In this city and state the majorities of Wilson and Marshall will, in my judgment, be unprecedented. BENNETT H. YOUNG. Lawyer and Commander-In-Chief United Confederate Veterans. Can’t Get White Support. SAVANNAH. Ga, Aug. 17.—Roosevelt han no fol lowing in the south so far as I can see. His third term stand and his one tithe partiality for Booker Washington snd Dr. Crum have deprived him for all time of all a chance of white support. Roosevelt's family came from Savannah, and yet he has never had any following here, and he never •visited the city, even while he was president. Taft Is stronger here, and will get more votes than Roose velt. Woodrow Wilson’s nomination has cemented Georgia Democracy. The same is true of the Caro linas, Florida and Alabama and Mississippi. Texas, of course, has always been strong for Wilson. Nev er was the south more united or confident. Savan nah business men returning from buying trips north and west report Wilson a long favorite. Taft has friends in Augusta, because his winter home was there, but Augusta was also the boyhood home of Woodrow Wilson, and will go to him overwhelmingly in November. The only Republican who will get any considera ble number of votes in Georgia is Taft, and Georgia will give Woodrow Wilson the biggest Democratic majority in ten years. The state is ablase with in terest. Everybody is subscribing to his campaign fund, and Colonel Roosevelt will limp along a poor third in the race in this section. PLEASANT A. STOVALL. Editor the Savannah Press. Lack of Enthusiasm in Florida. JACKSONVILLE, Fla.. Aug. 17.—The Roosevelt third party movement in Florida is devoid of enthu siasm, and the indications are that It will have a very slim following—not enough to make It a factor In the campaign. The negroes were ready to join the movement, but they consider their treatment in Chicago as an insult, and will do all in their power to oppose the thirl party nominees. C. H. Alston, one of the negro dele gates who was barred from the Chicago convention, is holding public meetings and advising the negroes to vote for Woodrow Wilson. A few disgruntled Democrats have joined the Moose movement, but they are not men of prominence *nd cannot draw votes from the Democratic party. The inauguration of the third party movement will make no change In the usual result In Florida.’ In fact, many believe the Democratic majority will be even larger than ever before. WILLIS M. BALL, Editor of The Forida Times Union. Solid South for Democrats. NEW ORLEANS. La., Aug. 17.—1 tis perfectly safe to put the solid south in the Democratic col umn. Roosevelt will probably take sufficient votes away from Taft in the north to insure Wilson's elec tion by a large majority in the electoral college. THOMAS G. RAPIER. Editor New Orleans Picayune. Hopes Will Be Dispelled. NASHVILLE. Tenn., Aug. 17.—The hope of Mr. Roosevelt's managers that he will receive a large Democratic vote in this section of the country, will be dispelled when the votes are cast in November. There are some men in Tennessee who have hereto fore voted for the ex-president, but they are few and far between. In Tennessee Roosevelt will get a good vote, but it will not be polled by Democrats. His vote will be almcst entirely Republican, nor will he have more v«>i In Tennessee than Taft. The Democrats in Ten nessee, despite factional conditions, are almost to a man for Wilson. The Jersey man will carry the state by 26,000 or 30,000. Taft will be second because many of the most prominent Republicans in the state who supported Roosevelt before the June convention in Chicago which nominated Mr. Taft have since that convention declared for Mr. Taft, and will support him even as against their favorite, because they want to be regular. The Democracy will unquestionably win all through in Tennessee this year. A Democrat will be elected governor, the legislature will be Democratic, . and a Democratic United States senator will be re- ' turned In place of Senator Sanders, who is a stand pat Republican. The last Legislature was controlled by the Fusionists, that is to say, a combination of Prohibition Democrats and Republicans. W. J. EWING, Managing Editor Democrat. Claims to Georgia Absurd. AUGUSTA. Ga., Aug. 17—As for Roosevelt get ting any Democratic votes in Georgia worth spaik ing of, the claim is absurd. His race is scarcely be ing noticed here. I know of but two white men in this county who will confess to a leaning toward Bull Moosery. One of these was a Taft disap pointee, while the other is just “queer.” A great many old-time Georgia Democrats, (con servatives,) however, will vote for Mr. Taft, partic ularly here in Augusta, where he is so well known . and genuinely liked. The fact, however, that Wood row Wilson is also claimed as an Augustan, he hav! Ing spent his boyhood here, may keep Mr. Taft from carrying this county. The state, of course, will go for Wilson by a safe majority. I don’t, know how it Is In other states, but if any considerable number of Democrats are Inclined to swap the Donkey for the Bull Moose. It must be be cause they have cause to feel that • there is some* thing in their old party emblem that is entirely toe personal to themselves. IMy observation, however, has been that most Democrats seem to regard the colonel merely in the light of a particularly peevish person, who simply kicked a hole in the Republican boat because they would not let him do the steering. For which hs may have the thanks of very many Democrats, but not their votes. THOMAS W. LOYLESS. Editor the Chronicle. South. Solid for Wilson. ATLANTA, Ga, Aug. 17.—Mr. Roosevelt enjoys considerable personal popularity in the south. Hla half-Georgia origin, his undoubted ability, his fre quent visits to this section, and his rather pleasing manners have won for him the friendship, and to an extent the admiration, of tae southern peopfa He will get some votes in Georgia and every other south ern state- Any other Republican candidate would get the same, but Roosevelt will get few if any more than any other well known and well liked Republican. | He will make no .Inroads whatever upon the Demo cratic strength, and the idea that he may be able to carry a single southern state is preposterous. . The south is Democratic and conservative. It will not indorse the things for which Roosevelt stands. The Democratic platform and the Democratic candidate well represent the views of the southern people. Their votes will be cast solidly for the Dem ocratic ticket. Wilson will carry every southern state overwhelmingly and Georgia will lead them oil in the sise of her Democratic majority, at least east of the Mississippi. No ticket in many years has been so acceptable to the south as Wilson and Marshall. And if Mr. Roosevelt and his party depend upon the south to contribute tb his election, they will find themselves greatly mistaken. JAMES R. GRAY. Editor Atlanta Journal. Republican Break Kelps Democrats. ATLANTA. Ga, Aug. 17.—50 far as the south IS concerned, nothing has happened to indicate that there will be the slightest break in the Democratic solidarity of this section. On the other hand, all in dications point to the fact that the break in the Re publican party has strengthened Democratic hope and insured Democratic co-operation and activity to an unprecedented degree. Whatever defection there may be on account of the personal admiration In which Mr. Roosevelt »• held will be more than compensated by the recruits obtained from among those who for the past few years have been affiliating with the Republicans in national elections. Wickersbamism and Hitchcocktam will drive more votes to Wilson than Roosevelt win get from the Democrats. This condition seems to prevail throughout ths south, which Is more solidly Democratic this year than at any time during the last quarter of a century. CLARK HOWELL. Editor the C«»uiftitution. r / Kot Even Interest in South Carolina. CHARLESTON. S. C- Aug. 17.—There Is no evi. dence in South Carolina of any practical interest tn Colonel Roosevelt's candidacy and not the remotest prospect of his obtaining any number of votes. It is not even certain that his party will have an elec toral ticket in this state, but if one is put out it will not attract the support of Democrats. There is practically only one party in South Caro lina. and the naming of Democratic electors is a fore gone conclusion. The regular Republican organisa tion will put up an electoral ticket, but It win have no formal significance. In the preliminary contest o* the Republican nomination there was considerable Roosevelt sentiment among South Carolina Republic ans, and Colonel Roosevelt had at Chicago seven of the delegation on the early votes, though sixteen of the eighteen delegates finally voted for Taft. Colonel Roosevelt will get comparatively few votes of Democrats in any part of the south. His proscription of the negro Is read in the light of his action in the Crum appointment and the Indianola case and of his repudiation of the Lily White Repub licans movement which had a promising start in ths early days of his administration. T. R. WARING. Editor Charleston Evening Post D’sgustcd by Attitude to Negroes. BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Aug. 17.—There is not the slightest evidence that the third termer’s candidacy * is making any serious impression on tne Democrats of Alabama. Here, and there may be found a few erratic, visionary persons wno have Colonel Roose- r . velt at his own valuation, but the great mass ol southern people are distinctly conservative and take no stock In his platform of socialistic appeals ts the discontented. His attitude on the negro question disgusts south ern people, who see no practical difference between northern and southern negroes, save the power of the northern negro to vote. When the West Virginia ne gro delegates to his convention were the equal of thsir northern colleagues, he virtually said they were the equal of southern white men. The leopard hw not changed his spots. Alabama Democrats are delighted that a typical southerner In ability, culture, and char acter Is the Democratic nominee and they are going to support Woodrow Wilson enthusiastically. This is unquestionably true of Alabama, and it is bellsvsfi te be true of all other southern states. FRANK P. GLASS, Editor The News •