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THE JOURNAL.
Published Weekly.
COCHRAN, GA.
NEWS Of THE WEEK
LATE NEWS OF THE WORLD
TERSELY TOLD.
SOUTH, EAST, NOATH AND WEST
Notes From Foreign Lands Through
out the Nation and Particularly
the Great South.
Southern.
Theodore Roosevelt made a quick
trip through the Southern states, de
livering speeches at Hristol and Knox
ville, in Tennessee, and at Rome and
Atlanta, in Georgia. While in Rome
Colonel Roosevelt addressed the pu
pils of Martha Kerry's school for
mountain girls and hoys, arid in At
lanta the ex-president delivered three
speeches—one to the Southern Con
servation Congress, which was in ses
sion there; f one before an audience of
*,OOO people, who had gathered to
raise funds to purchase a memorial
for Joel Chandler Harris (Unde Re
mus), a personal friend of Colonel
Roosevelt. In this address the ex
preSident. repudiated the tariff plank
in New York Republican platforfji
said that it was not of his making or
belief. Colonel Roosevelt later ad
dressed a negro audience of about 700
members of that race.
Jap Skein of Corpus Christi, Texas,
who 30 years ago made a wager that
he would not have his hair cut until
the state of Maine again went Demo
cratic and kept the wager, has at last
had the pleasure of squaring the bet.
Gifford Pinchot, deposed chief for
ester of the United States, made a
speech before the Southern Conserva
tion Congress at its meeting in At
lanta and advised Southerners to save
the water power and forests of the
South for posterity.
With delegates from sixteen South
ern states in attendance the Southern
Commercial Congress, which met in
Atlanta, adopted a constitution and
made arrangements for the spring
meeting of the body in Atlatna in
March, 1911.
The second annual meeting of the
Fourth Appalachian Good Roads as
sociation met in Knoxville, Tenn.,
and adopted a number of resolutions
advocating bettor roads.
Population statistics as enumerated
in the thirteenth census give Jack
sonville, Fla., 57,099, an increase of
29,270, or 102 per cent, over 28,429
In 1900.
General advances in freight rates
between New Orleans and points
north, west and east, which were to
have become effective on November
I, havo been suspended by the inter
state commerce commission, ponding
an inquiry into the reasonableness
and propriety of the increases.
Of a score or more of insect prob
lems being worked out by the United
States bureau of entomology, the de
struction of the boil weevil in the
South and of the gypsy and browntail
moth in New England have proved
most difflllcult, according to Dr. 1., O.
Howard, chief of this division.
United States Senator Robert 1..
Taylor was nominated for governor
of Tennessee by tile regular Demo
cratic convention held in Nashville.
Indictments were formally an
nounced in the Untietl States circuit
court at Aberdeen, Miss., charging J.
11. Miller, L. C. Steele and 11. G.
Linde, members of the bankrupt cot
ton flrmj'f Steele, Miller & Co., of
with having misused
in the furtherance of an
alleged plan to defraud through the
Issuance of forged hills of lading.
A wage increase of approximately
$500,000 per month for railroad em
ployees south of the Mississippi and
east of the Ohio was brought to light
by the announcement that the Nash
ville, Chattanooga aud St. Louis sys
tem, at a meeting held in Nashville,
decided upon a wage scale, which add
ed to an increase, effective July 1,
will add $300,000 to the salaries of all
its employees. Practically all other
systems operating in ..this section
have decided upon similar advances. ,
General.
President W. G. Lee of the Brother
hood of Railroad Trainmen made
public a list of the queetions which
has been nailed to all lodges of his
organization, the Brotherhood of Lo
comotive Engineers, and the Order of
Railway Conductors, to be submitted
to all the candidates, asking their
stand on legislation affecting the
three organizations.
The house of deputies of the Prot
estant Episcopal Church of America,
in convention at Cincinnati, passed
an amendment to the constitution pro
viding for suffragan bishops through
out the dioceses of the church.. ■
Frank M. Lepton,' president F. M.
Lupton company, incorporated, pub
lishers of the People’s Home Journal,
and a millionaire, committed suicide
by cutting his threat in the tatthroom
of.his iipme in Brooklyn, X. -Y. The
publisher had been suffering from mel
ancholia following a ‘Ae'ries of opera
tions.
The Standard Oil company through
Us official publicity representative, J.
I. Clarke, has annnounced that the
company "has inaugurated a cam
paign to increase the world’s con
sumption of refined oil,” and is low
ering prices of kerosene in Europe
and the far east. This action follows
that of August last, when the Stan
fined oil in tanks from 6 1-2 to 6 1-2
in barrels 1 cent a gallon from 9 3-4
to 8 3-4 cents at the refinery, and re
fined oil in tanks from G 1-2 to 51-2
cents a gallon. In part the state
ment reads; "The Standard Oil com
pany has inaugurated a campaign to
increase the world’s consumption of
refined oil. The level of prices for
refined oil today in the United States
is lower than at any time during re
cent years, and as a direct result of
these prices the consumption of refin
ed oil in this country is increasing.
The same policy is now being actively
pursued abroad.”
Beaudette, Spooner, Pitt and Grace
ton, Minn., were wiped off the map
by a forest ’fire. The bodies of 75
settlers have been located, and it is
thought the death roll among the set
tlers will be upwards of 300. Wagon
loads of human bodies are being
brought into the railway station at
Beaudette. it is reported that many
settlers, crazed with grief at the loss
of families and property, are roaming
the woods and searching parties are
constantly going out looking for the
injured, the dead and the demented.
A ease of cholera developed in the
steerage of the Hamburg-American
liner Moltke, which lias been lying at
Quarantine, in New York City, as a
possible cholera carrier for over a
week. Dr. A. H. Doty, health officer
of the port, reported the case, with
additional information that another
cholera patient, front tl)e> Moltke is
under treatment at Swinburne island.
This (snakes three cases of cholera
whicif have reached New York.
Entombed by an explosion in a mine
of the Coleroda Fuel and Iron com
pany at Starkvllle, Colo., at least 52
men are the objects of heroic efforts
of rescuers, who worked trying to
penetrate the black depths of the
mine in the hope some, or probably
all, of the imprisoned miners might
he rescued a iove.
W. R. Hearst of New York City of
fers $50,000 for a flight In a heavler
tlian-air machine from the Atlantic to
the Pacific.
Frederick W. Mansfield of Boston
was nominated for governor of Mas
sachusetts by the delegates to the
Democratic state convention, which
met in Boston.
Governor Hughes of New York has
retired to assume his new duties next
week as an associate justice of the
United States Supreme Court. Lieu
tenant Governor White was sworn in
as governor.
As a direct result of the critisms
of the Vanderbilt cup race, which
cost the lives of four persons and
the injury of more than a score of
others, the Grand Prize race, sched
uled to he run over the same course
on October 15, was officially called
off by VV. K. Vanderbilt, Jr., the ref
eree. The race will probably be held
in Savannah, Ga.
There was an active demand in the
New York cotton market with prices
making new high records for the sea
son on the strong showing of the
English market following the settle
ment of the Lancashire labor trouble
and reports that many Southern
planters were holding cotton for 15
cents. The October contracts here
sold SI.SOO a hale above the closing
price.
Deluged by the heaviest continuous
rainfall in some places in forty years,
a wide strip of country, extending
from eastern Texas northeastward
across the northern portions of Lou
isiana and Mississippi and over sec
aons of Arkansas, Tennesee. Ken
tucky, southernn Indiana aud Ohio,
almost to Pittsburg, Pa., was a verita
ble inland sea. Only two lives are
known to have been lost, Mrs. A. J.
Burchfield and her grandson being |
drowned in arapidly rising stream
near Dyersburg, Tenn.
Washington.
Associate Justice William H. Moody
of the United States Supreme Court
tendered his resignation to President
Taft, to take effect November 20.
A tabulation of automobile statistics
compiled for the American Automio
bile association shows that the out
put of automobiles in the United
States for the season of 1910 reached'
a total of SO,OOO cars, valued at about
$240,000,000.'
Portugal has proclaimed a repub
lic. According to the latest Lisbon
advices, Theophile Braga, republican
leader, is the new president. King
Manuel, the queen mother and the
queen dowager are reported to have
taken refuge under the British , flag
at gebraltar.
The United States armored cruiser
Des Moines at Gibraltar has been or
dered to proceed to Lisbon, Portugal,
immediatley.
National banks which are shaky
and give no promise of improvement
are being steadily forced out of busi
ness. During the twelve months end
ing on October 1, 113 national bank
ing institution went into liquidation.
public institutions for inebriates;
that prisoners be allowed payment for
tehir work, and a complete investiga
tion into the subject of caring for
mentally defective children with ran
gerous tendencies were provided for
in resolu)JonS*"<Wopted.' fo" the ‘prison
congress in session at Washington,
D. C. ,
DIXIE WELCOMES
THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
FORMER PRESIDENT DELIVERS
THREE ADDRESSES IN THE
CITY OF ATLANTA.
MAKES CONSERVATION TALK
Ex-President Makes Speech at Cele
bration to Raise Funds for Uncle
Remus Memorial.
Atlanta.—Theodore Roosevelt came
into Georgia and found awaiting him
a welcome which was as warm as
that which he has received in any
section of the country during his re
cent travels. On his arrival in At
lanta he was greeted by crowds which
blocked the streets, heedless of the
pelting raiD, and cheered him as he
rode at the head of a parade through
the business streets of the city.
Earlier in the day he spent several
hours at Rome, Ga., inspecting the
Martha Berry school, for poor mount
ain hoys and girls, and in speaking
to another throng of cheering Geor
gians.
Colonel Roosevelt made three
speeches in Atlanta. His first was at
the southern conservation congress,
lie urged the people of the south
to take care of their natural wealth,
and said if the country's resources
should fall into the hands of a mo
nopoly the people would revolt. Af
ter taking dinner with Mayor Maddox
he spoke at the Uncle Remus Day cel
ebration, which is being held to raise
a-fund to purchase the home of the
late Joel Chandler Harris, author of
the Uncle Remus stories, and pre
serve it as a memorial to his work.
After speaking of the achievements of
Harris, Colonel Roosevelt talked on
new nationalism. Then he talked to
the’ negroes of Atlanta, in a negro
church.
Colonel Roosevelt began his ad
dress to the conservation congress
with a reiteration of his faith in the
conservation movement.
“I believe in conservation with all
my heart,” he said. ‘I believe that
the time has passed in this country
when it Was possible for reasonable
men longer to permit the waste of
natural resources. I believe that na
tion and state can co-operate in this
great movement, and there are one or
two impressions which 1 think we
should endeavor to remove from the
public mind.
“While it is our duty to give every
proper reward to the proper exercise
of individual initiative, it is also our
duty to see that the men of excep
tional ability display that ability in
our interest and not against our in
terest. I want to give him all the
reward to which he is honestly enti
tled, hut want that reward to go to
him because he serves, and not be
cause he swindles us.
"Certain of the papers which are
edited in the shadow of Wall street
regard the doctrine which 1 have
enunciated as smacking of anarchy.
1 think it is -really the height of con
servatism. I think it will help the
honest men of influence and wealth
when we discriminate in the sharpest
manner between them and their dis
honest brothers. Now it is peculiarly
necessary to do that in connection
with natural resources, the ownership
of which, if allowed to go into one
hand or the hand of ope great cor
poration, may establish a peculiarly
oppressive monopoly. Let us then
make it the business of the govern
ment, national or state, as the case
may be, to see that the mineral re
sources so far as we still have power
over them, that all similar powers
are ssed under such governmental
regulation as will allow ample profifit
to the users and at the same time
guarantee the public at large in its
rights.
■[ think that is an essential posi
tion for the government to take. 1
do not believe that we can afford
longer to allow of shrewdness and
sometimes with a lack ot scrupulous
ness to get possession of the natural
resources of the country and then
treat them as purely their own to
do with them as they choose, if such
a system of monopoly is permitted
to grow up in extent sooner or later
the people will revolt against it, and
when they revolt against it under
such conditions that revolt will he
very apt to have mixed along with
righteousness of attitude, and the
then holders of the privileges would
run great risks ot suffering the ef
fects of an improper severity because
their predecessors had been treated
with an improper leniency.”
Colonel Roosevelt then spoke of the
necessity of preservation of the for
ests, and continued:
“I hope that congress will pass the
bill for the creation of the great Ap
palachian forest reserve. The waters
which rise in them often go through
more than one state and it should
Triplet Calves Born.
Jesup, Ga. —F. L. Carter, the owner
of a fine brindle Jersey cow, has in
creased his stock in number to the
unjieard of amount of three fine red
heifer calves, which are now better
than 24 hours old, all in perfect
health, and from one' mother, being
the first and. only set of triplet calves
to have been horn in the state
of Georgia. Mr. Carter shall put
forth every effort to raise these calves
and will exhibit them at the Wayne
County fair to'be held October-18,-19
and 20.
HON. THEODORE ROOSEVELT.
peculiarly be the work of the sational
government to see to their preserva
tion. I hope therefore that your rep
resentatives in congress will bestir
themselves in this matter.
"No portion of our country is go
ing to show a greater rate of devel
opment than the south will show in
the course of the next 30 or 40 years.
I ask you to see that this marvelous
development of the south takes place
in such fashion that it will represent
not a mere feverish growth in wealth
and luxury, or a honey combed foun
dation of morality and good judg
ment, but that it will represent a
solid and abiding and enduring pros
perity.”
ROOSEVELT DISOWNS
N. Y. TARIFF PLANK
EX-PRESIDENT IS NOW SQUARELY
IN LINE WITH THE IN
SURGENTS.
NATIONALISM IS HONESTY
Colonel Roosevelt Asks to Be Judged
By His Speeches, Not By New
York Platform.
Ailanta. —Theodore Roosevelt dis
claimed all responsibility for the tar
iff plank in the New York state re
publican platform, in doing so he re
plied to criticisms which have been
directed against him, particularly by
some of the so-called "insurgent ’ re
publicans in the west to the’effect
that he talked one kind of politics in
the west and another in the 'east.
This criticism was based largely upon
the fact that, while he did not indorse
the Payne tariff law in any of his
western speeches, the tariff plank of
the New York republican platform
commended the bill. Colonel Roose
velt made it clear in his speech that
he had not indorsed the Payne law,
and that he did not agree with the
New York tariff plank. He said that
he would stand on his speech as tem
porary chairman of the New York re
publican convention in which he
commended parts of the Payne law,
hut did not indorse it as a whole.
Colonel Roosevelt’s speech was de
livered at the Uncle Remus Day cele
bration here. He began his address
with an appreciation of the life and
works of Joel Chandler Harris, author
of the Uncle Remus Tales. Then he
turned to his recently enunciated doc
trine of the new nationalism.
"In speaking to you of the new na
tionalism,” he said. “I want at the
outset to answer publicly a question
put to me this evening by a couple
of your journalists as to one feature
as to what I had spoken of as the new
nationalsim, concerning w T hich they
thought i had spoken differently at
different times. These gentlemen
asked me just how I reconciled what
1 had said in the west with the tariff
plank in the New York state republi
can platform. I answered them that
I did not reconcile it; that on that
particular platform I must refuse to
he judged by what the platform said,
but what I myself said.
Fought Militia; Then Killed Self.
Ocala, Fla. —After fatally wounding
Deputy Sheriff Hudson and ex-Sheriff
Gordon at his home near Ocala, Wil
liam Summerlin placed the muzzle of
a rifle in his mouth and blew his 1
head off. For three hours Summerlin
was barricaded in his house, where
he successfully resisted the efforts of
members of the police department and
the local company of militia to ar
rest him on a warrant charging a mi
nor offense. The condition, of the
wounded officers is said to be criti
cal.
“You probably know we had quite
a lively time at Saratoga. I was
elected temporary chairm.an and serv
ed as such with reasonable efficiency
before the platform was adopted.
There were a number of men who
voted for me for temporary chair
man who were in harmony with me
on all of the most vital points at is
sue, who yet disagreed with me on
certain points, on one or two that 1
regarded as of great importance. And
so my speech as temporary chairman
HON. GIFFORD PINCHOT.
put my position as accurately used
language could put it, and on any
point where what I said in my ad
dress differs from what what was
said in the platform it must be under
stood that I personally must be
judged by what I myself said in this
matter of tariff plank,
’That fight, as I regarded it, was
primarily a fight for the great fun
damentals of citizenship. It was a
fight against corruption, against what
is the absolute negation of democ
racy, and that is against bossism and
a fight for genuine popular rule. We
carrnied the issue to a triumphant
conclusion and in our platform em
bodied all three planks and on that
platform, sa a crandidate, we put a
man of unflinching coufage and high
and stainless character.
"To achieve that great good I work
ed with many men, who on one or more
other points did not agree with me.
We laid no emphasis on our condi
tions as regards the points that m
that particular district were minor
because it was absolutely essential to
good citizenship that we should win
on the vital issues.”
Unwritten Law Saves Girl.
Pittsburg, Pa. —Katherine Betti, a
girl of 12 years, who slew her godfa
ther with an axe and red-hot poker
in avenging his theft of her honor,
was cleared of criminal charges on
the ground that the homicide was jus
tifiable. - Judge John M. Swearingen,
in charging the jurors, after a two
days’ recital of testimony,-upheld the
unwritten law.. The girl had -faced
the trial with confidence that her act
was warranted, and sue went to her
home free, but tojtacg motherhood
soon.
HON. GIFFORD PINCHOT
TALKS OFCONSERVATION
! he SAYS THE SOUTH IS VITALLY
CONCERNED IN CONSERV
ING RESOURCES.
FARMERS ARE CONSERVERS
President Barrett of the National'
Farmers' Union Addressed the
Conservation Congress.
Atlanta. —Gifford Pinchot, at the;
i meeting of the southern conservation
1 congress held in this city declared
that the south is as vitally con-,
j eerned with the movement for the.
| conservation of the nation's natural
resources as is any section of the
country and he warned the southern-
I ers that the big corporations alreadyi
were actively working to secure a :
| monopoly of the resources of this
section.
"Your water power resources here;
| in the south are so completely in the;
i hands of the Duke interests and of
the General Electric interests,” he
j said, “that it will be almost impossi
j ble for independents to break into the
water power market.”
i Mr. Pinchot said in part:
! "Conservation ought to appeal more
j vigorously to the south than to any
. other part of the country. Some
places in the west have a larger field
| for conservation, but altogether there
| is no place where questions of con
servation are more pressing th.»n in
; the south. You have natural re
sources in the south in superabund
| ance. You have a body of southern
| men determined to carry conservation
principles into practical effect and
their numbers, character and deter
mination makes the outlook for re
sults most hopeful.
’Practical problems facing conser
vation,” Pinchot enumerated, ’is wa
ter power, forestry and erosim of
soils.” Of water power he remarked:
Your water power resources here in
the south are so completely in the
hands of the Duke interests and of
the General Electric interests that it
will be almost impossible for inde
pendents to break into the wateE
power market.”
Mr. Pinchot predicted, however,
that ultimately water power rights
will be distributed for the benefit of
the entire population.
As the representative of more than
2,000,000 farmers, Charles S. Barrett,
president of the Farmers’ union, be
fore the southern Conservation cos
gress, stressed the necessity of con
serving men first .rather than the re
sources of the soil. "If you conserve
the nation's raw resources and neg
lect the nation’s men, you will meet
disaster and ultimate defeat in youi
undertaking,” he said.
He said the government should
spend fifty million to one hundred
million dollars annually to check the
trend from the farm to the city by
providing commos school and scien
tific agricultural facilities in every
county, in easy reach of the farmer’s
children. He would provide against
'the contamination of the corrupt
alien strains that sow seeds of unrest
and disruption that may ripen into a
ruinous harvest”
Extravagant Living.
San Francisco. —A tale of extrava
gant living was told to the police by
Caesari’o Munez, who, with Alfonso
Garcia, is under arrest in this city,
charged with robbing J. M. Summaga,
a millionaire mine owner eff the City
of Mexico, of $50,000 in jewels and
nearly $2,000 in cash. Munez says
then G arcia proposed that they set
about spending the money without'de
lay They did so. Munez estimates
that during their waking hours they
lived at the rate of more than $75
an hour.