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p THE MACON TELEGRAPH: WEDNESDAY MORNING, DECEMHER 7. 1004. Keep Warm And you’ll always look p'easant “in cold weather.” Outing Night Shirts and Pajamas The most comfortable sleeping gar ments ever produced. NIGHT SHIRTS 50c TO $1.00 PAJAMAS $1.50 TO $3.00 The Dannenterg Company. Nothing Bettor for a Xmas Present. s PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE TO FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS WASHINGTON. Dec. 6.—Following Is an abstract of the message of the president to the Second session of the Fifty-eighth congress: The president begins by saying the nation continues to enjoy noteworthy prosperity. While admitting that the development of the nation Involves In crease of expense, he protests against extravagance saying the cost of doing government business should be regu lated with the same rigid scrutiny as the cost of doing private business. Capital and Labor. He then proceeds to the discussion of capital and labor. He says that th^ abuses in great corporations by slate action. It is difficult to be pa tient with an argument that such mat ters should be left to the states, be cause more than one **aie pursues the policy of creating on e*isy terms cor porations which are never operated within that state at all, but In other states whose laws they ignore. The rational government alone can dea; adequately with these great corpora tions. To try to deal with them in un Intemperate, destructive,'or dema gogic spirit would. In all probability, mean that nothing whatever would be accomplished, and. with absolute cer tainty, that If anything were accom* pllshed It would be of a harmful na ture. The American people need to under present relations of state and continue to show the very qualities un icr . that they have shown—that Is, modcr- federal governments. Interference by the latter should only be in extreme case. He says: “Wage-workers have an entire right to organize and by all peaceful and honorable means to endeavor to per suade their fellows to Join with them In organizations. They have a legal right, which, according to circum stances, may or may not be a moral right, to refuse to work In company with men who decline to Join their or ganisations. They have under no cir cumstances the right to commit vio lence upon those, whether capitalists or wage-workers, who refuse to sup port their organizations, or who side with those with whom they are nt odds: for mob rule is Intolerable In nny form. Employer's Liability Law. The wage-workers are peculiarly en titled to the protection and the en couragement of the law. From the very nature of their occupation rail road men. for Instance, are liable to be maimed In doing the legitimate work of their profession, unless the railroad companies are required by law to make ample provision for their safety. The administration has been sealous In enforcing the existing law for this purpose. That law should be amended and strengthened. Wherever the national government has power there should be a stringent employer's liability law, which should apply to the government Itself where the govern ment Is an employer of labor." He favors medals of honor for life savers, commends the safety appliance f law. “There Is no objection,” he soys, “to employes of the government form ing or belonging to unions: but the government can neither discriminate for nor discriminate agslnst non-union men who are In Its employment, or who seek to be employed under Moreover, it Is a very grave Improprie ty for government employes to band themselves together for the purpose of extorting Improperly high salaries from the government." He says he will presently send a ape clnl message dealing with the affairs of the Bureau of Labor. Corporation!. As to corporations he says. “When we come to deal with great corporations the need for the govern ment to act directly is far greater than in the case of labor, because great cor porations can become such only by engaging In Interstate commerce, and interstate commerce Is peculiarly the field of the general government, ie an absurdity to expect to eliminate they atlon, good sense, the earnest desire to avoid doing any damage, and yet the quiet determination to proceed, step by step, without halt and without hurry. In eliminating or at least in minimizing whatever of mischief or of evil there Is to Interstate commerce In the conduct of great corpora*‘one. Thfcy are acting in no spirit of hostility to wealth, either Individual or cor porate. They nre not against the rich man any more than ngalnst the poor man. On the contrary, they aie friendly alike toward rich man and to ward poor man. provided only that each nets In a spirit of Justice and decency toward his fellows. Greajt corporations are necessary, and only men of great and singular mental power can msnnge such corporation* successfully, and such men must have great reward*. But these corporations should be managed with due regard to the Interest of the public as a whole. Where this can be done under tho present laws It must be done. Where these laws come short others should be enacted to supplement them." Suggestions nre made as to the lines upon which the bur^u of corpor ations be extended, especially In the matter of Insurance, rebates of all kinds. He says: “The government must In Increasing degree supervise and regulate the workings of the railways engnged In Interstate commerce; and such In creased supervision Is the only alter- native to an Increase of the present evils on the one hand or &' still more radical policy on the other. In my Judgment the most Important leglsln tlve act now needed as regards the regulation of corporations Is this net to confer on the Interstate commerce commission the power to revise rates and regulations, the revised rnte to at once go Into effect, and to stay In effect unless and until the court of re view reverses It." City of Washington. He cites many things that should be done by congress for the Improvement and further adornment of the city of Washington and the betterment conditions in the District of Colum bla generally. Agriculture. He reviews at length the work of the department of agriculture in Its various branches and points out nu merous Instances of benefits to farm era obtained through the study and experimentation of specialists. In re sp^ct to the soil, the forests and the Irrigation lands. He desires more game and forest reserves in order that the fauna of the country may be pre served for posterity. Pensions. As to pensions he simply says: ‘The veterans of the civil war have claim upon the nation such as no other body of our citizens possess. The pension bureau has never In Its history been managed In a more sat isfactory manner than Is now the case." Postoffice. In the postoffice department the ser vice has increased =n efficiency, and conditions as to revenue and expen diture continue satisfactory. The in crease In revenue during the year was $0,858,181.10, or 6.9 per cent., the total receipts amounting to $148,882,624.34. The expenditures were $162,362,116.70. an Increase of about 0 per cent, over the previous year, being thus $8,979,- 492.36 In excess of the current revenue. Included in these expedttures was a total appropriation of $12,956,637.86 for the continuation and extension of tho rural free-dellvery service, which was an Increase of $4,902,237.36 over tho amount expended for this purpose In the preceding fiscal year. Large ns this expenditure has been the beneft cent results attained in extending tha free distribution of malls to the resi dents of rural districts have Justified the wisdom of the outlay. Statistics brought down to October 1, 1904, show that on that date there were 27,138 rural routes established, serving ap proximately 12,000.000 of people In ru ral districts remote from postoffices, and that there were pending at that time 8.869 petitions for the establish ment of new rural routes. Unques tionably some part of the general In crease In receipts Is due to the In creased postal facilities which the ru ral service hns afforded. The revenues have also been aided greatly by amendments In the classification of mail matter, and the curtailment of abuses of the second-class mailing privilege. The average Increase in the olume of mall matter for the period beginning with 1902 nnd ending June. 1905 (that portion for 1906 being esti mated), Is 40.47 per cent., ns com pared with 25.46 per cent, for the pe riod Immediately preceding, nnd 15.92 for the four-year period immediately preceding that. The Currenoy* The attention of the congress should be especially given to the currency question, and that the standing com mittees oi) tho matter In the iwo houses charged with the duty, take up the matter of our currency nnd see whether it Is not possible to secure an agreement In the business world for bettering the system; the commit tees should consider the question of the retirement of the greenbacks end tho problem of securing In our cur rency such elasticity as Is consistent with safety. Every silver dollar should be made by law redeemable In gold nt the option of the holder. Merchant Marine, especially commend to your im mediate attention the encouragement of our merchant marine by appropriate legislation. Oriental Markets. “The Importance of securing proper Information and data with a view to the enlargement of our trade with Asia Is undlmtnlahed. Our consular representatives In Chinn hnve strongly urged a plnce for permanent display of American product* In some prominent trade center of that empire, under government control nnd management, ns an effective means of advancing our export trade therein. I call the atten tion of the congress to the desirability of carrying out these suggestions.* Immigration. "There Is no danger of having too many Immigrants of the right kind. It makes no difference from what country they come. If they nre sound In body and In mind. nnd. nbove all, If they are of good character, so thnt we can rest assured thnt their chil dren. and grandchildren will he worthy fellow-citizens of our children nnd grandchildren, then we should wel come them with cordial hospltnllty. “But the citizenship of this country should not be debased. It is vital thnt we should keep high the stnndnrd of well-being nmong our wsge-workers, and therefore we should not admit masses of men whose standards of liv ing snd whose persons! customs and habits are such that they tend to lower the level of the American wage worker: and above all we should not admit any man of an unworthy type, any man concerning whom wo can say that he will himself he a bad eltl- or that his children and grand children will detract from Instead of adding to the sum of the good citizen ship of the country. Similarly we should take the greatest care about naturalization. Fraudulent naturali zation. the naturalization of Improper persons, is s curse to our government; snd It Is the affair of every honest voter, wherever born, to see that no fraudulent voting Is allowed, that no fraud In connection with naturallza* tlon la permitted." Delays in Prosecutions. “No subject Is better worthy the at tention of the congress than that por tion of the report of the attorney gen eral dealing with the long delays and the great obstruction to Justice expe rienced In the cases of Beavers. Green snd Gaynor, and Benson. Were these Isolated and apeclal cases. I should not Originally created to add a touch exquisite to the banquet, luncheon r tea—Ni'bisc': Sugar Wafers have won land-wide favor as delicious confections, their suc cess resulting in th pleasing idea of clothing them in Christmas form. For the holiday season, therefore, the original pack age of red, wh: e and g Id, always beautiful in itself, is now adorned with holly ribbon, under which you find a Christmas _aru with vhich t pa) your compliments. Could anything be more appealing to those who most appreciate kindly remembrance ? For the distant friend, the school boy or girl, the Sunday School class, the teacher, the orphan and all your friends,,what prettier token to show that you have not forgotten them than a gift of Nabisco Sugar Wafers? NATIONAL BISCUIT COMPANY call your attention to them; hut the difficulties encountered a* rcgnrdn these men who hnve been, indicted for criminal practices are not exceptional; they nre precisely similar in kttwl lo what occurs again and ngaln In the case of criminals who have sufficient means to enable them to take advan tage of a system of procedure which hns grown up In the federal courts and which amountH in effect to making the lnw easy of enforcement agslnst the man who has no money, nnd difficult of enforcement, even to the point of sometimes securing Immunity, ns re gards the man who hns money. In criminal cnees the writ of the United States should run throughout Its bor* dors." Forsign Polioy. He wants generous treatment to he extended to the people of Alaska and the Insular possessions and then goes over the range of foreign relations, The Hague conference, etc., and suys: “In treating of our foreign policy and of the attitude that this great Nntlnn should assume In the world at large, it Is absolutely necessary to consider the army and the navy, nnd the gress, through which the thought of the nation finds Its expression, should keep ever vividly In mind the funda mental fact that It Is Impossible to treat our foreign policy, whether this policy takes shape In the effort to se cure Justice for others or Justice for ourselves, save as conditioned upon the attitude we nre willing to take to ward our army, and especially toward our navy. It 1s not merely unwise. It Is contemptible, for a nation, ns for an Individual, to use hlgh-aounding lan guage to proclaim Its purposes, or to take positions which are ridiculous If unsupported by potential force, and then to refuse to provide this force. If there Is no lotent’en of nrovfdlnv end of keeping the forec necessary to hficJc up a strong altitude, then It Is fur bet- j ter not to assume such an attitude." { He makes n lengthy appeal for the support of the army and navy and closes with a discussion of the Philip pine question, saying: At present they nre utterly Incapa ble of existing In Independence nt all or of building up a civilization of their own. I firmly believe that we can help them to rise higher and higher In the scale of civilisation and of capacity for self-government, and I most earnestly hope that In the end they will be able to stand, If not entirely alone. Vet In some such relation to tho United Htates ns Cuba r.ow stands. This end In not yet In sight, and It may be Indefinitely postponed If our people nrt foollnh enough to turn the attention of tho Flliplnofc nwny from the problems of achieving moral and material prosper- j Behold. % • * « B \ \ $ Tho Gin thnt ninkos Ity, of working for n stable, orderly, and Just government, and toward fool ish nnd dangerous Intrigues for n com plete Independence for which they nre ns yet totally unfit. 'On the other hand our people must keep steadily before their minds th« fact that the Justification for our stay In the Philippines must ultimately rest [ chiefly upon the good we art able to do In the Islands." BEWARE OF IMITATIONS of FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR On account of the great merit and popularity of FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR for Coughs, Colds, and Lung Trouble, several manufacturers arc advertising imitations with similar sounding names with the view of profiting by the favorably known reputation of FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR. DO NOT BE IMPOSED UPON We originated Honey and Far as a Throat and Lung Remedy and unless you get FOLEY’S HONEY AND TAR you do not get the original and genuine. Remember the name and insist upon having Foley’s Honey andT.ar. Do not risk your lite or health by taking imitations, which cost you the same as the genuine. Foley’s Honey and Tar is put up in three sizes 25c, 50c and $1.00. Prepared only by FOLEY & GO., 92-94-96 Ohio SOLD AND RECOMMENDED BY I, Revolution Imminent. A sure sign of approaching revolt and zerlouH trouble In your system 1s nervousness, sleeplessness, or stomach upsets. Kleetrlc Hitters will quickly dismember the troublesome causes. It I never falls lo tone the stomach, regu- i late the Kldncyn and Bowels, stimulate • tho Liver, nnd clorlfy tha blood. Bun | down systems benefit particularly and j all the usual attending aches vanish | under Its searching and thorough ef- fectlveneaa. Electric Bitters Is only 50c.. and thnt Is returned If it don’t give perfect satisfaction. Guaranteed by all druggists. OUR Spinning Wheel Gin the ick-well, the old-young. By Tht Gallon Express $3-25 Prepaid Four Full Quarts $3-75 Prepaid <r> express’ The Finest, Oldest, Best Gin r >uide Our prico list nnd ontu- igue inuilod^ tree upon np- .ication. i he Altmayer & Flalau g Liquor Co. 504, 508,510.512 Fourth St., Macon, Ga. c Typical Pranch Duel. HENDAYH. France, Dec. i.~M. De- ^ lender In th, French chamber o f depu- tier, fought ft dud willi platola h,rn today. Th, exchange of .hot. had no result. Th, political prominence of th, participant. In the meeting at- tract,d great lnt«r*«t. The Spanish government warned the partle. not to fight In Spain ao the French gov- ernment allowed If. DeRoul.de It houra leave to enter Franca and meet M. Juarea. The duel grew out of tha Joan of Arc controvcrey. Street, Chicago, Illinois. Win. Blaikle. NK WYORK. Dec. Wm. Rlalkle. aged «1. well known lawyer, author and athlete, and advocate of physical culture, waa .trlcken with apoplexy at hla home In thla city today end died before a physician could be eummoned. lie had been In the beat of health. Dr. J. D. Barb,. NA8HVII.LE. T.nn., Dea Dr. James D. Barbe. a leader In Southern Methodlam. Ie dead at hie home here, aged 71 ye.ro. Dr. Rarbe waa for a number of years one of tho agents of the Southern Methodist Publlahlng Houee. Architects, Contractors and Builders. Your attention Ie called to the fact that. In addition to our Concrete Building Blocks, we are manufacturing «'\ I”,.IF and 1$ Hexagonal Tiling for Interior end exterior work: Window end Door Bills: Lintels, Skew-backa. Key-.lonea, Column liases and Cape, Outtren.-cape, »top« of any length all other work of thle kind. We are alao prepared to ute promptly dere for ornamental work of any design. Your patronage '» solicited. Bibb Stone & Tiling Company. Cures Thnt Headache. 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