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mm MAGAZINE SECTION. THOMASVILLE, GEORGIA,] ^FRIDAY,^OCTOBER 20, 1805. PAGES 1 TO 4. MONET FOR POLITICS. LEGISLATION TO PROHIBIT COR PORATIONS MAKING CAM PAIGN PAYMENTS. Question of Taxinc Patent Medicines to Be Discussed by Congress-One Method Suggested to Meet Deficit. There are prospects that two pieces of legislation will be strongly advo cated at the coming session of Con gress, both of which, however, will be vigorously opposed. They relate to the EX-SENATOR W. E CHANDLER, practice of making political contribu tions and to the Question of taxation upon certain patent medicines, al though tbls latter Is but a feature of the general subject of overcoming the Treasury deficit. It Is expected that the President will refer in his annual message to the question of campaign contributions, and It is known that there are many Senators and Representatives who would favor prompt action In the en actment of prohibitive legislation. - Chandler’s Bill to Prohibit Con- L. trlbutlons. As far back as 1901, Senator Chand ler of New Hampshire, Introduced c bill to prohibit those national banks or corporations which do an interstate or foreign business from making any po litical contributions, and to prohibit any corporations from contributing to campaigns involving the election of United States Senators and Represen tatives. The bill was almost Imme diately favorably reported to the Sen ate, but It was near the end of the short session and It failed of passage. The evident fact that It could not be taken up and passed may account for the entire lack of opposition to It What strength will develop against such a measure this winter Is problem atical. It Is no secret that many cor porations regularly contribute to both political parties. Mr. Havemeyer, of the sugar trust, has declared in plain language that he has contributed to the Democrats and Republicans alike. Publishing the Donations. ' The discussion next winter Is likely to centre largely around the Presi dent's plan for the publication of all campaign contributions, with a view to framing such a law as will prevent money from being spent for corrupt practices. Every one recognizes that In order to have the great political Issues properly contested there Is a .•ertain need of money. The publica tion and distribution of speeches and all classes of literature Is quite gen erally regarded as not to be condemned, but as of advantage in having tb> questions of the day properly under stood by the voters. Leaders In Congress are but a unit In declaring that It is only when money is expended in order to corrupt voters that the expenditure can be crit Idsed. But it is generally believed that this subject will give rise to an Im mense amount of debate In the next Congress. There are a score of Sena tors and a large number of Represen tatives who will wish to go on record saying things about the corporations and the practice of corporations mak ing contributions to political cam- REAL HEART OF THINGS. Ita Found Not In the Great Cities ■ But In Country Homes. “In time the great dtles may be come dominant, but it will be many years hence, and I would be sorry should I live to see the day,” said James J. Hill, President of the Great Northern railroad. "The national wel fare depends upon the prosperity of the farm lands, the mining districts, the lumber camps—not on the growth of big cities. The agricultural Inter ests In particular represent the great est strength of the country, and will for many years to come. tuele of a metropolis. Let us take New York, as our most striking ex ample—where the visitor gapes at the crowded markets, the endless traffic, the hurrying throngs, the skyscrapers, the roaring factories, the bustle of commerce, all the urban reek and riot, and heedless of what lies behind, the hidden motor power, cries: “Here Is the heart of things; here is the pulse of'tbe national life; here the life blood of the nation centers, life blood which,flowing through the veins of commerce, gives vigor to all the land.” New York, the heart of the country? Rather New York the par asite—the blood sucker. A Giant Exhibition. At best. New York is but a monster exhibit of the products of mines, farms, cattle ranges, mills and factor ies, and of the rural homes where gen ius Is born, nourished and Inspired. What more speaking symbol of these things than the city’s skyline. In It self that skyline of marvelous archi tecture, save as It excites wonder, ad miration and a sense of enterprise and activity amounts to nothing. What It signifies In each nsccntlon and depres sion Is the comparative values of the country's material resources. Concisely, it represents capital, la bor and raw material. Of these three the city produces not one-ln apprecl- '■ material, the able quantity. The raw men to handle It, the gold to buy and sell the finished product, come out of the ground and from the open spaces. " New York, Chicago, Bt Louis, or any other city, has Its Inception In the open country, end Ita existence is and ever will be dependent upon the latter. None recognizes this more quickly than the city man. He knows from experience that the city suffers first, last and most from any national dis aster. To go no further back than the coal strike of three winters ago—New she even produce the men to handle them. A glance at biographies will •mow that her captains of Industry, merchant princes, men of art, profes sions, laborers, are country bred, from A. T. Stewart (to go no further back) to- the Rockefellers, Clewes, Depews, and all the rest of the present day leaders. Even The People From The Country. Dr. John H. Glrdner, an eminent New York physician, said recently: “Build a wall around New York city illow no new men to enter, and In flfl years the city will depopulate ltsell This city makes too many demands those who live and work In It Thousands drop out each month. It Is the fresh country people flocking here day by day that furnish the brains, sinews and pluck to enrry the metrop olis to its destiny. Its success in the past has been due to this out-of-town element and will continue to be.” “Men, men, men,” Is the constant cry that New York sends out over the country and the response is adequate eager and satisfying. It is In this fact that assurance of the city’s stIIL Klske, John C. Fisher, Frank L. Per- a ter advance Ilea flow- tbe coun- -ufacturlng town In the Men attracted from the country have made her financial mistress of the western hemisphere. Cities Not Self-Dependent. open spacesVfor men, material and money, but even for trade. As com pared to tbe amount of money spent in this city by out of town buyers, the sum expended by Its own Inhabitants dwindles Into Inslgnflcance. In recog nition of this, tbe Merchants Associa tion of New York annually arranges with railroads for cheap transporta tion, and with hotels for rock bottom rates, and runs excursions to gntlier in the out-of-town buyers. During the month of August .over 400 buyers from the south and west were In New York, and during Septem ber this number largely Increased, lteckoajpg under the average of past years each merchant spent more than *10,r- 10,000, and thus through tbe efforts of the Merchants Association alone more than *400,000,000 Is left In the city each year. But this' Is merely a fraction of the trade which tbe city receives from the rest of the couutry A conservative estimate places the gross Income at *1,230,000,000. , Each American city Is a clearing house for the rural or mining district surrounding It, and New York the TBE REAL HEART OF THINGS York faced for weeks a coal ftunlne that paralyzed her activities and al most killed her poor. Manufacturers could not secure enough fuel to run their plants and women on tbe “east slde”pald ten cents for as much coat ds would fill a quart pail. Tbe suf fering In this city was out of all pro portion to that of tbe rest of the coun try. All food products come from the outside. New York uses three million Propose Tax On Medicines. The question of the taxation of pat ent medicines, which contain consider able alcohol, is bound to receive serl- i er< ery da/, and beef arrives In rain loads dally. Tbe city must main clearing house for' the whole country. AU tbe mighty spectacle of commerce is merely the dramatic and gorgeously staged representation of the nation's money, material and men, which build up tbe metropolitan mech anism and set It in motion. whole trn go to the country for its building nut terlals, for wool, cotton, everything that Is needed to run its factories, stores and banks. Dependent on the Country. clolly It the present rate of the Treas ury deficit continues. The deficit is running about *5,000,000 a month now, which Is considerably less than last year, still it la possible that It may increase to an annoying qxtent and necessitate some action by Congress. There baa been a number of extra ex penses which has caused the deficit, and there are other extra expenses ahead, while it Is, of course, not certain to what extent Congress will increase or pare down appropriations. A num ber of congressional leaders hare had in mind,\as a partial Increase in the revenue desired, a tax on patent medl- Patcnt Medicine Men WiU Fight. The Commissioner of Internal Rev enue has been called upon for unofficial information and an opinion on these non-revenue producing alcoholics. Tbs patent medicine people recognize that a fight is ahead and they propose to meet It. They will resist efforts to impose special taxes upon them, claim ing with Apparent force that tbe alco hol used in their medicines has al ready paid its tax. Tbe reckless expenditures of the city dweller are continually giving rise to the question, “Where does tbe mon ey come from?” From tbe country, of course. Every wild-cat scheme that Is hatched In New York, from Wall Street to Madison Square, in augurates its proceedings by send ing 'circulars into tbe country, to catch tbe dollars of tbe farmer. Tbe operations of the- stock ex change are all based on the condi tion of the country. A short wheat crop, a slump in the production of grain, or the prospect of one, turns the Exchange floor of -the Exchange Into a pande monium. Year by year tbe eyes of the moneyed Interests are tuned to the earth,' figuratively speaking, and the t minds of the metropolis are keenest speculating as to what success the The results of that speculation I knows what happens in New Yorl when the cotton crop folia The beef strike lost year caused meat to van ish from a million family dlplng tables In New York city. In summer eggs at Me a dozen are too expensive as an article of diet for more than half the city’s population. Material and money she gats from the outside; and rarely, indeed, does Prehistoric Sculpture. An Idea of the small brain capacity of primitive man can be gathered from a crude stone head, now on ex hibition, which was recently found In a field at Moricht#, Long Island. The head, while, crude in its work manship, Is pronounced by ethnolo gists as doubtless true to nature- prehistoric people who lived ages ago. The head Is not a particularly pleas TBEATRB TRUSF WAR. T.HE INDOMITABLE BELASCO GIV ING THE SHOW COMBINE A FIGHT FOR ITS LIFE. Threatened With Extinction, He Has Organized an Opposition Which Has Attracted Some of the Bright est of the Theatrical Stars. David Belasco for a number of the theatrical trust He has been assisted In years past by Minnie Mad- dern Flake, the wife of Harrison Grey Flske, owner and editor of the Dram atic Mirror. This year the Shubert Brothers broke off all business rela tlons with Klaw and Erlanger, the moving spirits of the theatre tru«t,and now a combination with a capital of *1,500,000, of Belasco, Harrison Grey ley and the Shubert Brothers baa been formed, acquiring about thirty thea tres extending from Boston to StLou- Is, in which they might produce theat rical productions without the dictum of the trusts. David Belasco, ever since bis sever- ancc of relations with the trust has made strenuous efforts to acquire a theatre In the nation's capital, as he has found that the cosmopolitan na ture of Its people assists him greatly in determining whether new produc- to actor and manager. The success of this plan opened a larger vista of profit, and tbe securing of all the thea tres in tbe country has led to the de struction of competition with tbe two formidable exceptions noted. In the other theatres the manager has be come the “janitor,” while the syndicate dictates prices, attractions, and other features. Loosing the Dogs of War. But it is now war to the knife be tween the two forces, trust and anti trust, thrust and anti-thrust Wheth er the trust will be successful and absorb the Independents, remains to be seen. Probably not so long as it has to deal with men who know their actor proteges, know tbe method of the trust know how to produce a play with unsurpassed taste and know that the American people will pay admis sion to witness an incomparable pro duction all the more willingly because of tbe herculean efforts made to pre sent it to them. Belasco, In the new combination which he has organized seems to have gotten his knife well In between the ribs of his antagonist and is beginning already to twist it vigor- ously. ENVIRONMENT A MOULDER OF CHARACTER. tlons will be a success or not In Sep tember, however, announcement wns made that be, In conjuntlon with the shubert Brothers, had acquired con tml of the Lafayette Theatre In Wash- Ington, and also bad taken up a 90- yenr lease on the ground on which the theatre Is built, giving them absolute possession of the property. A Famous Theatre Site. Lafayette Theatre is a comparative ly modem playhouse, and occupies the site on which formerly stood tbe Sew ard of Lincoln's cabinet llvi an attempt was made to assassinate blm the same night President Lin- coin was shot In later years the house was occupied by Secretary Blaine. Last year David Belasco found all theatres In the national capital with closely barred doors. He was orrang- ■ng to make the Initial production ol Adrea,” Mrs. Leslie Carter's latesl 'success, and found no building In Washington suitable for a conversion Into a theatre,except Convention Hall, he largest probably the largest auditorium south of New York, and in years previous used for an tbe palace, for six day bl- atblotl cycle races, athletic meetings, and other Institutions requiring great space. This had a ball some 160 feet In length by 123 feet in width, with a roof carried on huge semi-circular ar ches rising to a height of nearly fifty feet above the floor. Such a barn as this Mr. Belasco in a few days con ing bit of sculpture, as it calls up a vision of men and women with small brain development and huge repulsive jaws but a degree above the other Fortunes In Church Steeples. It'ls the opinion of Rev. Dr. Forbes, Secretary of tbe Board of Extension of the Methodist Episcopal Church, that enough money has been expended, or It may be said wasted, In building steeples, to pay off all the church debts of the country. Besides, he says, steeples are a relic of barbarism, and money used In their construction can be more usefully expended. A good many people will hardly agree with tbe reverend doctor in bis opinlqn that cEurch steeples an useless or serve no good end. Qraep-aiid beauty are lent " ds or otherwise common- to thousands place looking towns and dtles by tbs spires rising ben and then from their midst Everything cannot be strictly utilitarian, and if a thing serves to please tbe eyes and senses of hundreds or thousands of people, It Is far from By H. S. BIGELOW. The other dny I saw a group of boys carefully scanning u theatre poster. The picture showed a man in the act of plunging a dagger In the throat of a woman. The boys did not run or scream. Bnt tlielr eyes were big and tbe Intensity of their faces showed that the horror of the picture was not lost upon them. Near by were two younger children playing together in tbe gutter. Their faces were smeared with tbe mud made by the dish water running over tbe sidewalk, and the children were amusing themselves floating cigar stumps In the disgusting pool. Inflecting upon that sad sight there came to mind other childhood scenes. There stood out In memory a little lake that nestled among the hills where sweet-breathed cattle browsed and where tho branches of great trees were mirrored In crystal waters. There were the boathouse and the Bwlmmlng- liole and the spring-board; and there were summer nlgbts, too, when the leaves were still nnd stars were bright and tbe spirit of tbe child looked up in silent wonder. In tbe race of life, in the contest of physical endurance, In the moral testa that come, that child has not a fair chqnce who has sprang out of the mad of the streets. To know tbe breath of lilacs and tbe rustle of autumn leaves; to be up with the lark, to wet one’s feet In tbe dew of tbe pasture, to go to bed with the song of the whip-poor-will—these mem ories are like guardian angels. The children whoso horizon is a brick wall, who must play on cobble stones and go swimming in the canal and be chased by the police, If they do not grow up to be Ideal citizens, shall we, of boiler memories, sit In judg ment upon them? Shall we not remem ber their bonds? MARY, MOTHER OF WASHINGTON Handsome Monument Erected by Patriotic Citizens. The monument of Mary Washing ton, tbe mother of George Washing ton, stands on tbe western side of Fredericksburg, Virginia, almost- und er the shadow of Marye’s Heights, of bloody Civil War memory. Mary Washington died of cancer, August 23, 17S9. It was In April that year, that Washington rode from Mount Vernon to say farewell—a final farewell— to his mother before starting for New York to be Inaugurated first Presi dent of tbe United States. In a let ter to bis sister Betty Washington, who lived in Fredericksburg, Wash ington wrote, after learning of bis mother’s death, “When I wns last In Fredericksburg I took my final leave of my mother, never expecting to see her more.” Neglected Tomb. For a hundred years the grave of this good woman lay unprotected, on what had been part of the farm of her daughter Betty Washington, but which became a common of tbe city of Fredericksburg. For half a cen tury tbe grave was marked by a little stone slab, but tbls disintegrated, nnd disappeared. Various fruitless efforts were made to build a monu ment, and In 1830 a New York bank er, Silas B. Burroughs, offered to give an elaborate monument. The corner stone was laid with imposing cere monies by President Andrew Jackson, but Burroughs met with financial re- 1 ' Worse Than Tobacco Cigarettes. London Is reported to be In the throes of a new vice-a vice which Is not only getting society into a turmoil, but la also attracting tbe attention of tbe medical fraternity. It is the tea-leaf cigarette habit—one In which women STe becoming the chief adepts, and which they find great difficulty in over coming. Once tbe taste for tbe new “weed” is acquired, it Is said tbe sen sation of smoking tea cigarettes Is quite pleasant Dizziness is caused by constant smoking and tbe victims clutch madly for Invisible and imaginary objects to support them selves. They finally drop In an ex hausted and stupefied condition, and then follows that wild state of dream land said to be as varied os that caused by powerful narcotics. MONUMENT TO MARY WASHINGTON. verses and the work on tho .monument was suspended. In 1889 somo patri otic women formed the Maty Wash ington Monument Association, and by subscription erected the monument after buying tbe land In which the bones of Washington’s mother rest A Story on Balmac. The French alienist, Esqulrol, on being asked by a student, la there any sure test by which tbe sane can be distinguished from the Insane? Invited bis questioner to dine with him and observe. When the student entered the dining room two other guests were present one an elegantly-dressed and apparently highly educated man, while tbe other was somewhat un couth, n^lsy and extremely con- tbe pupil bid bis host good night, he remarked: “Tbe prob lem is < ■’ “ — very simple after all; the quiet, well-dressed gentleman Is certainly distinguished In some Hue, but tho other is evidently a lunatic, and ought to be locked up at once." Smiling at bis pupil, Esqulrol told blm that be was wrong. “The quiet well- dressed man,” he said, “who talks so rationally, ha* for years labored under the delusion that he Is God, tho Father, while the other Is M. Honors ic, tbe greatest French writer of the day.” DAVID AND OOLIAIL From Life. verted Into a modern playboui through the magic touch of gold, which be has found to be tbe most of fensive and defensive weapon against the combine. ’Money Spent Like Water. The regulations of the District of Columbia to- protect theatre patrons against tbe danger of fire, are ex tremely rigorous, and It was these that tbe _ trust used as a weapon to thwart Belasco in bis endeavor to have this last production first appear In Washington a* have other plays, which are known as general successes. The burden of expense for tbls work did not fall upon tbe owners of Con vention Hall, but upon Mr. Belasco. who paid, in order to make this hall Into a modern fire-proof theatre, an amount aggregating nearly *28,000. Tbe present theatrical combine or “trust,” bad first conducted a legttl mate booking syndicate, charging the service five per centof the prof fer Its; an enterprise advantageous alike Every reader of this paper should have this book. Cut off the coupon and mail to us with $1.50. Illustrated by Ernest Haskell Eugjtne P. Lyle, Jr. Published August 1st The Missourian Tbe roosntie adventures of Jobs Dinwiddle Driscoll (Sfchaeaied “The Storm Ccntn at ttM Court of lUximfllu In Ueslco, whm hie secret i with that ot the beautiful JtcqueUec, The beet foment! “Hoewhetee/ewo/«ectasspossess, the eleewate by i*MtUpatn$ 0/detail. vtridniUtude, novation.' “■* mssrlell,gist look of tpic breadth, carried tkrcuiku eveningly. A trthiaef efory.’’-N. V. Time. 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