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THE MACON DAILY TELEGRAPH: SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 11, 1908 The Macon Telegraph Published Every Morning by THE MACON TELEGRAPH Pl'B. CO. •M Mulberry Street, Maoon, Oa. riant deserve tbelr freedom and wo can not l»ut hop* that nuQgcrla. Ilk*- Norway, will become independent through a peareabi© revolution. 0. R. PENDLETON, PRESIDENT AND MANAGER. THI TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA. TIm Tofogroph can bo found on aato at the Kimball Houte and Piedmont filial in Atlanta. |k w-asiua % HEtMATH HALL. Ottb ot the Tory beat institution* In |U«. fa Hetmoth Hall—a hoarding tun* for young burlneaa women and ijfoaaalo «tudont»—not a charity In tho tsoand aenao; bat a oomfortablo, quiet. ^trad plaeo batonded to giro atrug gljng foanaloa good board at a low rato. Bomo of our pab!1**aplrltod and .•ntarprlelng women aro promoting In order to aid their loot fortunate sta ter* In tho atrurglo for extatanc*. The Soptombor roport mada by tho i ' rlntrndont ohowa that tho Hall I...» twenty*two regular boarders '■ there ara aeren on tho "watting llat/ end marly thirty have boan turned away for want of room. Tho institution, aa ahown by tho re gort, la not quit# aolf-auatalnlng. Thara la a email debt. The Hall nooda to bo enlarged. The officers In charge are atruggllng with It They will not Irt the word ••charity'* bo used In con nection with Helmath Hall, because the young women boarding there pay tho board charged, and ara making fhelr way with each help. This la an opportunity offered to onablo them to l«y their way. But there la a great chance beta for tho well-to-do hu i <nJUrJan to help tho needy ones who ara atruggllng to help them aelvea, which, if the ladles In cbarga will pardon ua for saying, greatest of all oharttles—helping those Reserving ones who aro atruggflng to fcelp themselves. The Idle beggar exhibiting hla crip fled Hmbi la alwaya under suspicion. Tho indolent and slothful person with a healthy body Is desplsabls. Hut tbs struggling young woman tolling for a pittance with which to k»*p body and soul together while she fights the wolf from the door, speotaolo which goes deep down Into tho depths* of all groat hearts and sow la which aro fashlonad Ood*Ukal Who doubts that auoh a contest In a wicked world of unaqual chanoa is •retched with bated breath by th* In arisible guardlana of human kind! To help those who hplp themselves |s tho groat cat of all beneficent dsods. When one feeds the beggar at the •eer ha does not know but what h# fs worming the aap In his bosom. There •an never be any doubt, however, about the deed when the hand la extended Eo a needy one that Is aeon to ba toll ing single-handed and asking n< films Helmath Hall la asking no alma, but get her strugglaa mutely appeal to the humanitarian who can and will pinch a bit of hls affluence to help the struggling poor among our whits re orectablo females. The noble women who ara giving fhelr unselfish efforts to this work tn Macon ara: Mrs. 8. T. Coleman, Jr* groeidentj Mrs. J. C. Hinton, vie* gnsl(V*rM; Mrs. It. R. Findlay, tress tn er; Mrs. T. K. Ryala, secretary; and Ml** Paulino Hudson, superintendent where are other helping handaT If BULGARIAN INDPENDENCE. Although this la an age of oorablna- tlon In government as well as tn busl* um, and aa a nils there Is nothing fur the little fish to do but to submit to bring swallowed by the shark, the American, especially the American at the Booth, Involuntarily sympathises with Bulgaria In hlr determination to throw off the yoke of Turkey. it Is true that Turkey Is repenting mf her sins and la preparing to grant •ocstltutlcnal government a taxes attached to her empire as wall as to her own people, but Independence •e better for a separate people than weaetMutlonel government under feretgn conqueror, and the desire and ••termination of the Bulgarians need mo explanation. tt ts remasfcabte that the event has •ooa ae Wag delayed, for Bulgaria ts sUttif sjid Is said to have long been fax a position to secure her Independ- aooe by force of arms.' Her fighting aOTlolency Is considered by experts to ba Very nearly equal that of Turkey al though based on a P' - ; station only »n«-sixth as large. It Is said that she car. place 110,000 men la the Held art thin ten flays and «an later reinforce thorn with 120,000. This means serious work for Tur key If an attempt to coerce the re volting state should be* mada and the gem# would probably not ba regarded a* worth the oandle but for the dan ger of like revolt on Che part of other bites of the empire The Bulge- HOT SHOT INTO THE Q. O. P. After smiting the Republicans hip and thigh on the subject of the pub licity of campaign contributions and reducing Roosevelt and Taft to silence, Bryan has been pouring hot shot Into the sacred extortionate tariff and ef fectively ridiculing the O. O. P. as the boosted champion prosperity- maker of the universe. The Republicans may continue to hall their party as tha author of the good crops, and therefore of the rain, the fall, and tho tun. but fhey will find it very difficult to answer Bryan if they «re forced to face prosaic and Inconvenient facta In their order. The other day he said: •The Dempcratfc party Is abso lutely necessary to rastore pros perity. The Republican party has had its chance and It hae failed. We are now in the midst of a depression for which natural con ditions furnish no excuse. Arti ficial conditions are responsible for the present business prostra tion and those artificial conditions originated In Republican policies. The buslnsss failures for tbs nlns months ending on Beptember SO were 11,041 In number and the lia bilities amounted to 9170,000,000. It means that if the assets ara worth In fact the amount at which they are placed there will still be n loss of 900,000.000 to account for. good, and when nature han not withheld her bounty. It comes when the Republicans art. in com plete control They have a Pres I • tha hands of ths Republican par Hr, and a Rspubllcan House or Representatives dominated by a despotic flpeakcr. We can assume, therefore, that they have done everything they could do oonsiet- ently under their policies to pre- vent a panic, -and yet the panic Is hers. "In fact, tha failures of the last nine months exoeed In number the failure* of tha corresponding nine months of 1119, and tho difference between assets and llabllltlta Is greater this year than it wns In 1119. although tha total amount of tha liabilities was greater In 1019 than this year. But it must ba remembered that tha McKinley taw waa still in force In 1109. It wan in foroa until tha summer of 1004. The Wilson bill was not passed until ths summer of 1114. Ths failures of that year wera not at great alther In number or In the amount of liabilities as they were this year.’* Noting that all this has come to rasa while the tariff la so high that even tha Republicans have been forced to make doubtful promises of revision. Bryan went on tn aay: "If we are go ing to have prosperity we must have a reduction In the tariff. The jxopl recognize the Carlff as extortionate. Even the Republican leaders are forced to admit this, and yet they are delib erately planning to prevant any real revision by elsctln* a atandpat Con while ths Republican candidate Is talking about rsvlalon without glv Ing any aaturanee that revision win mean a material reduction. If the Re- publican party wins It will not revise the tariff In the Intereats of tpe con sumer, and that msana that tha prta- ent agitation must continue for four ycara longer.** •The Republican party can not es cape from Its record," thundered Bryan In conclusion. Nor can It. except by dodging tho truth and continuing to deceive fbe people. to carrying Georgia for hie campaign, particularly srhao It le known that the Democracy fhn, If necessary, pollan- atner -100.000 votes. Rome of the Republican newspapers, hard though the duty (a, are honest «Rough to faoe the subject of the al leged Cleveland article equarely. The Chicago Tribune, while admitting that a now "generally believed to spurious," suggests: *1t Is hardly llkaly that the man who sold It made It up entirely out of hla own head. It la barely possible that the article la baaed In part upon conversations had with Mr. Cleveland. In some particu lars It eertalnly represents hie views.** fluch a suggestion U not unreasonable, but this may be granted aa the truth and the article as a whole still remain utteWy false and misleading. Literary Forgeries And Plagiarisms A "Me Toe** Candidate. Louisville Courier-Journal. Tbs ■ pec tad*, unprecedented, unsaem- Iy and unpatriotic, offered by Theodore Roosevelt to hls countrymen at this time, should establish, and tn our opinion It has already established. In the minds of thoughtful people a convincing argu ment In favor of a change of parties In the national government. If w« are to maintain the spirit of re- R Ubllcan Institutions, overwhelming de- tat and prompt rebuke must follow so peat a desecration of the self-govern ing principle, to say nothing about no wanton a degradation of the presidential dignity. * Obvious!; nettl. . . Tha duel between him and the demo cratic nominee for president proves noth in. f— '* Ing except that Mr. Roosevelt seeks make himself appaar to the “wags earn- mors Bryanlied than Bryan, whilet secretly employing the agencies of _ scrupulous power and the resources of corrupting. If not of predatory wealth, to cheat ru' "e opinion nnd coerce reaulta. He waa chosen chief magistrate to servo (lie nutlo.i and all tin- people. When in effect ha stigmatise* half tha p**opla us menacing the national Interest he la ef fect proclaims himself a recreant to Ills oath of offloe. Never before was such an affront put upon a free constituency. Only the rage of a spoiled child, the fury of a berried nnd foolish hoy, could account for the exhibitions which for the moment sre confined to the while house, but which will presently be plaoed on wheels and trollled nbout from one end of the land to the other. Not a despot upon the teal or the rnlmlo seem ever showed Idmsclf mpre lost to self, repression, lesn able to brook opposition. Having at tha outsat exhausted the un worthy agenclea at hls command to torco upon Ida party the nomination of Judge Taft hS foiwet* that Judge Taft ts candidate. With the whoop of an lnd._.. chief he rushes to the front of the battle. With a savage wave of the hand hruahea hts late secretary rudely aside and takes peraonnl leadership upon the firing line. Like Macl*(h in the final in t —like Richard upon Hullshury plain-tie atrikes out blindly. With (lloster he be* holda the darkling of the sun and di vines the causa. With the guilty Scot he Is told that Blrnam wood doth come to Duntlnance and he shouts to Hitchcock, the messenger— ^'Llar^and Slave! If thou epenkcat false. *—i the next tree shall thou hang a... famine ding thee; If thy speech ba Upon Till f sooth, I can- not If thou dost for me . Wherefore? Why. simply draperatlon nd despair—the knowledge that after all ha has said and (lone—the Immolation of friends beneath the steam roller and the mcr Ifice of reputation In the nhnnd- HEARST*a HURRAH. Georgians who should chance to read the report of our State election In William It Ilearst’a New York American would acquire a hint as to the proper amount of discount to al low for anything seen tn that gentle man's publications The account un der an Atlanta date line Is prefaced with these headlines In big type: Yancey Garter Takes Big Rltce Georgia's Hitherto Unspllt Vote- dependence Principles Mike Startling Headway Against Ring-Ruled Dem ocraey.** The body of the report aayst Yancey Carter, the Independence R rty candidate for Governor of orgla, who opposed Joseph M. Brown, the regular Democratic nominee. In tha State election here today, la tha first man to oppost the rock-ribbed, ring-ruled Dem ocracy of Georgia. While the consolidated returns from the Flat# In general cannot be secured tonight, it appears that Cant, carter win receive about 20.000 votes, which Ir admitted by politicians aa being a most excel lent showing, tn view of the fact that all of toe voter* have always cast Democratic ballots hereof*!*. As a matter of fact, from tha fuller rtturns tt le estimated that Carter received 19,000 and Brown 111,000 votes, a proportion of one vole out of nine or ten votes for the Independent oandldate. Mr. Hcarat Is to be con gratulated on hls nbUlty to see "Start ling Headway" for "Independence Principles" "Against Ring-ruled Dem ocracy- la thesa figures. Ths spirit as well as the principles of Indepsnd- ence must be pretty dead In a State here only one citizen out of nine Is tnovsd to rise up and revolt against •rock-ribbed, ring-ruled Democracy" when there U no obstacle but their own pleasure to coating their votes against tt. It will be news, too, to Georgians who have been through tome recent political convul sions la this State tn which the alleged "ring-ruled Democracy" were claimed to have been routed, ate* to Iftrn that Yancey, the bolter. It "the first man to oppose** the "ring* ruled Democracy.** Whatever comfort Ucarst the as sistant Republican, may find In the j Bna«t"n*0t the mm ef Shakeepsare'l . , _ ,, , i characters ts mankind, and its separate Oeoigta returns. It Is aafs to say tlmt! faebwa are the individualities of men. when Mr. Taft learns that there ts ] f^r^J^^toSS^ewSe'ttSf tbi only on* out of • nine voters for! human lira of human brings—a iub.'ect . _ - of seek Immense profound anfl Intricate Hcaret e Independent candidate fort variety that he aleae of all writers, la atl Governor ha will give no more thought| {fyB wtcW ** adequate Illfriline of civil eervl^^l pledgne—the peopla will not permit him to name hla suoceaaor; will not permit him ho lav the precedent for a dynasty: will not lie down on their bellies an«l let the "Big fltlck" lie fiourlRbed over them; that I they are yet free to choose tlielr own ruler* nnd will not abdicate their power! In abort, that Taft, hla legatee, ta hemteii and that l«ryan will be the next president of the United Stales. Tn hla perturbed mind the thought la •xnepamttng. He cannot digest It,-not even reads* It. Hls undisciplined aftd Immature temperament can tolerate no let ta Ua deatres. no hindrance to Ita wilt. The man who gainsays him be comes at once a liar and a scoundrel, whether he be governor of a state—In hla vocabulary a province—or a senator In congrcRs. or a private eltlsen lifting up hla vole* In proper remonstrance. The God he adore* I* Tower. The shrine which he worships ts upheld by the money chests of the preferred classes. Ilia men-at-arma are the Me*are. Kook- I»own. Pras-Out and Company, of the High Tariff League, the Sugar Ring, the Reel Plate Industry, anfl the ** - ■ Trust. Judge Taft, the nomtnes. plays second fiddle. He la attll but tVe fotch-and- carry for Roosevelt. It Is another "MeJ ton.** proposition -a ease of master and man. Truly the Courier-Journal reck oned not without It* host when. Immedi ately after the completion of the work of the steam roller at Chicago, tt deelared that "upon a platform of Imposture the republlcane have set a man of straw.'' What else except a make-shift la the thing an rollers they are trundling about try facing two way* aa occasion I points of the compass may re quire—a kind of patent patchwork ar- "".""StTCSHUm «»«,. A bed hy night, a chest of drawers by ^flay."— now a couch for Theodore aiMlHH baby's cradle for Taft? And. what Is Taft ^ghtte-Rc^m echo the famous words of Thomas ntlller Platt anfl then to wait for another or del Mast before opening Mi llpa serin.— Next to a woman scored, hell hath no fury like a party balked of Ita prey. The republican* take the cue from tnrir ehthf. They, too. are in a rax*. Whichever way they turn defeat stare* them tn tho •ye. the democrats wilt carry New York by a hundred thousand majority. There ta little leas than republican chance tn Ohio. In Indiana the elephant ta hope- leaely down of Ariattc cholera. Already democracy. beginning with Illinois, ■weeps the west like a prairie fire. How eould It be otherwise In the face of what the president I* doing? Liferary forgeries and plagiarisms fs a subject which Is just now prominent In the public mind, by reason of the attempt of one Broughton Brandenburg to rev amp the more or lees wall known sentiments of antipathy the former President Grover Cleveland entertain ed for Mr. Bryan and publish them over Cleveland's name months after he waa dead as a timely expression for tha republicans on the present po litical situation. Horn* of the unduly eager republican journals that gulped the forgery without any qualms on the score of its auspicious source and environments affected to find In It In ternal evidence of Ita genuineness ns an expression of Cleveland's Ideas. Ilut who can really tell where an Idea originates and certainly Identify It with the original author? All great authors have been more or less plegt erlsts, whether consciously or uncon< sciously really does not matter, fiorrte of the finest pee sages In literature and many of the moat eloquent utteranoea of the great orators were based by those who got the credit for them on the Ideas of persons who preceded them. A few of the many Instances may be Interesting and Instructive: One of the most admlibd passages In all literature Is that In which Macau, loy, In reviewing "Ranke's History of tho Pope** in 1140, says of tho Roman Catholic Church: "She may still exist In undl- mlnlshed vigor when some traveler from New Zealand shall. In the midst of a vast solitude, take his stand on a broken, arch of London Bridge t 0 sketch ths ruin of St. Paul's" Macaulcy was so fond of thla beau tiful Image that he repeated the Idea In at least two other Instances, and yet gentle Oliver Goldsmith as far back as 1700 had written "A City Night Pleoe*' In Tha Bea In which occurs the passage: "Whtt cities as great as this, have • • • promised themselvse Immortality? Posterity can hard ly trace the situation of some. The sorrowful traveler wanders over the awful ruins of others • • Hero stood their citadel, but now grown over with weeds; there their sen ate house, ^but now the haunt of every noxious reptile; temp lea and thentres stood here, now only an undistinguished heap of ruins.” And Horae# Walpole In hls "Letters to Mason" In 1774 had hit It off more closely. In words and form. In the sen tence: "At last some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and S lve a description of the ruins of t. Paul's, like the editions of Baalbec and Palmyra." It seems Impossible that so omnl* verotia a reader as Macauiey had not sesn and so tenacious n memory as hls had not retained one or both of these passages. Daniel Webster's famous sentence. "I wns born an American: I will live an American; I shall die an American." In hls speech of 1060 Is but an elab oration of Patrick Henry's terser son tlment In the Virginia convention, more than half a century before: “1 am not u Virginian, but :»n American." In fills second speech on Foote's resolution In 1110. Webster uttered the phrase. "The people's govsrnment. made for the people, mads by the people, and answerable to the people.’ In hls brief dedication speech at Gettysburg, which, for simple grnndeur. purity and brev ity, will remain for all times an Kna llah classic. Abraham Lincoln said, without ouotatlon marks: "Government of the people, by the people, for ths people snail not jiarish^from tha earth.” Benjamin Disraeli said In 1114, "Free trade ta not a principle. It le an exped ient," and Grover Cleveland, referring to the tariff In hla annual message In 1117 said: 'Tt Is a condition which con fronts us—not a theory." a cognate Idea which by the Inversion of Its terms, is freed from any suspicion of plagiarism. Tha famous phrase pop- ularly credited to Cleveland. "Public office ts a public trust." waa. how ever, expressed by varloue persons in substantially the same words before Cleveland mada use of tt. first printed In 1040 and with which Shakespeare wa* doubtless familiar, •is found tha proverb: ''An 111 wind that blowcth no man to good/* In King Henry IV. Shakespeare puts Into the mouths ot those two delight ful rogues. Sir John Falstaft and An cient Pistol, this dialogue: "Fallataff: What wind blew you hither. Pistol r "Platdl: Not the 111 wind that blows no man to good." r » And again in Henry IV. ke^aaysi f Another ot Heywood's proverbs Is: "Tha eat would sale fish and would not wet her feete." Lady Macbeth In her attempt to "screw" Macbeth's "courage up to the sticking place" to murder Duncan, scolds him for "Letting I dart not* wait upon' would* Like the poor cat i* the adage." In the "Apology for Actors." by Thomas Hey wood (a contemporary of Rhakcsepeare), printed In 1012, four years before Shakespeare died, occurs the lines: “The world's a theater, the earth a stage. Which Ood and Nature doth with actors AIL" Shakespeare's finer line* and more elaborate treatment of this idea In "As You Like It," beginning with the words "All the world's a stage, ^ And all the men and women merely players,** are well known. These examples are recited merely to show that different men may use the same Idea, dressing It up In dlf* forent language as their Uric* may dictate, nnd It Is not meant to Imply ttnt such poetic license or plagiarism 1s In the same clas* with the offense of the forger who Invades the sanctity of tho grave and puts In the mouth of the silent dead words which would leave a lasting stain on hls memory uttered and put forth at the time and under the circumstances of tte Cleveland forgery. Has Georgia Lost Rank in Every 1 Respect Save Population? Roosevelt, the Here of San Juan Hill BY J. H. M. "Inline on tha upper road. And death upon the lower.'* Reflection* of a Bachelor Qlrl. t Hsiao Rowland In Washington Herald. Now Is the tlma of the year whsn a man's amotions begin to tnko a rest and hls conscience starts to work. Men will continue to marry Inferior women Just as long as they build barbod-wlrs fences around their hearts hlch no girl enn climb over anfl only an insignificant little thing with no scruples will stoop to emwi under. A woman could understand a man so much more easily If he would sim ply Ho to hor all of tho time Instead of only three-quarters of the time. A realty clever woman apprectatss tha compliment a man Intend* whan ho calls her "a little fool" because, after all. that*a what he secretly hopes she la. A man always feels as though he had been cheated out of some legttl. mate excitement when a woman') first kt»s cornea easy. The wav to a man's heart may be reached by simple cooking, but tt takes diabolical conning or real brute force to reach hls pocketbook at this time of the year. In love, aa tn gambling, those who coma to play remain to pay thakeepeere and Byron. New York American. To the Rdltor of tho American: Ita—XVe* Byron as great a poet n« Shakespeare? If set why not? F. A. H. (All of Byron'* personage* have the •erne Individuality. *»d It is the tndl- vidusUty of the poet .himself. Reckon “ up. end the ram tufa! ta Lord once quoted by Zeb Vance. North Caro- Una's famous wit In tho United State senate: "Old Grlmea ts dead, that good old man. Wo ne'er shall set him more He used to wear a long blnck coat. AH buttoned down before." Thla Is the only thing thnt Is over quoted from Albert Cl. Greene, a poet who was born In 1002 and dlod In 110*. In Matherne Churchyard appsars the following Inscription to the memory of John Le*. who died May 91, 1853 "John Lee Is dead, that good old man. Wa ne'er nhali see Mm more: He used to wear an old drag coat All buttoned down before." . And In HolltwsU'a Nureery Rhymes of Kngland the *ame rhyme occurs with the change ot a few w ords • Old Abram Brown. Is dead and gone, You'll ne'er see him more. He used to wear a l3ng black coat That buttoned down before." From thla array of elsglao tributes It would be hard -to show who first Immortalised the typical figure of the old man "with the long black coat” of whom every community has more or loss tender memories. Martial In one of hla epigrams wrote: "1 do not love thee. 8abld!us. nor can 1 sav whv: this only I can aay, I do not tova thee.*' Thla waa tong before Tom Brown expres»ed thla familiar In- stinct In the well known verse: •I do not like thee. Dr. Fell: The reaeon why I cannot tall: But this alon# 1 know full wait I do not like* thee. Dr. Felt" Francis Bacon, "the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind." according to Tope, wrote: "Virtue la like precious odor*—most fragrant when they are Incensed or crushed." And the grace ful and loveable Olive Goldsmith nine: •As aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow: But crushed or trodden to the ground Diffuse their balmy sweets around." Bacon tn hi* essay on goodness wrote: "The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall: the desire of knowtedc# tn excess caused man to f.ill" And Pops ta hla ' Essay on Man" "Pride still la aiming at the blest abodes: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods. If angels fall. Aspiring to be angels men rebel." Bacon tn hls essay "On Gardens" •ays: "Oofl Almlghtv first planted a garden." Cowley tn hts essay on the Oarden wrote: "Ood the first garden wade, and the first city Cain." And Cowper ’ In The Task" says: "God made the country and man made the town." Among the nruverbe of John Nor wood. the earliest collection of Eng lish coSoqulal' sayings, which were The observation of Phlneaa T. Bar- nuin, the great showman, that "the Americana lovo to be humbugged" la familiar to every one. Barnum knew human nature Intimately and he prof ited greatly by playing on hta knowl edge of thla weakness. Since Bar- nutn'i tlmo a greater has arisen, one who Is as essentially a showmen ever Barnum was, who employs Bar- num'a methods aa successfully, though In a different sphere and on a wider stage. When ths verdict of history shall have been made up Theodore Roosevelt, Instead of figuring as one of the greatest presidents that he does In the popular ayea of hls time, will be set down oa a spectacular showman and humbug. Already under the fire ho has been recently subjected to, the whitewash Is peeling off In spots nnd Is tietcaying tne true color of the ele phant beneath. Roosevelt, the spieler before the scenes of the grrnt moral show, can never square with Roose velt. the "practical" man and wire puller behind tho scenes, and more and more as the truth of history un folds the sham will he exposed. There has Just been Issued by the Broadway Publishing company, New York, a timely and clever little volume entitled "Roosevelttan Wict and Fa ble." from the pen of Sirs. Annie Riley Hfle. Tho author dlsseots with a keen knife and la very successful In ths discrimination of the Roosevelt In fact from the Roosevelt of fable, as he ts best known to the popular mind. The chapter on "The Snn Juan Hill Myth" Is probably as striking an example of the material out of which Roosevelt's greatness Is made as enn be cited. Kvery one will remember that after the Spanlsh-Amerlcnn war Theodore Ilooaevelt. colonel of the Rough Riders, waa popularly declaimed everywhere ss ths hero of Pan Juan Hill, who led tlje charge up the hill and captured the block house, Hts feat wa* Immor talized In song and story. The llmn- er*a art was brought Into requisition and Vereschagin, *ne Russian military painter, came to Washington and put the scene of the battle on canvaa„ un de^ the eye, It la said, of the hem, tusking tho colonel of the Rough Riders on hls charger waving hls ord the central figure. Jacob Rita, Roosevelt’s Boswell, enthusiastically declared of the scene that "It will live forever In the American rnlnfl." I‘ was on this "war rocord." saj** Fran cla Leupp, one of hla historians, that Roosevelt "made bis campaign for ths governorship of New York." The ve racious account of the charge up Ran Juan Hill, as quoted from the New York Run of date, July 4, 1000, will serve to show how Col, Roosevelt and hta Rough Riders monopolized all thfl glory of the affair. Bald tha Bun'a r port: "When they came to the open, smooth hlltalde, there wag no pro tection. Bullets were raining down at them, and ahot and shells from the batteries were sweeping every- ‘"fis- When wa get very zralous to pro mote some good cause, we often say extravagant thing# which' convey a wrong impresricn. Only a short whlls ago our leading papers la their teal to accomplish a laudable reformation said, things about our dear state that were calculated to do her great harm. Now eotnee the statement ot a good lady that GeorglA sine# 1890. accord ing to census bulletins, has lost rank in every respect aava population, and we find the statement quoted In the New York Post. Now let Us see if this assertion ta not a little too strong. In 1890 In the estimated true value of all property four southern states. Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas, were ahead of Geoigla. The same four outranked her in 1800. Ac cording to a United State* census bul letin of 1904, Georgia had passed Ten nessee and was pushing Kentucky close. In 1890 Georgia ranked second of all the otates in the production of cotton. Her rank was the same In 1900. Georgia ranked third In 1902 and In 1903. In 1904, 1905, 1900 and 1907 Georgia ranked second, being surpassed by Texas alone, a state many times larger. In 1890 Georgia ranked fifteenth among all the states of the union In the production of com. and in 1100 her rink was twonty-first. Georgia ranked twelve in 1907, being ahead of tho great corn states of Michigan. Wisconsin and Minnesota. If next season Georgia should fall back to number t twenty-one In corn production. It would not indicate lack of enterprise or of intelligent woric. but lack of good seasons. In the year 1899, the one reported In the census of 1900, Georgia made a very poor show ing as a fruit state. Yet Georgia's falling off was not due to unskillful management of orchard men, but to tha worst fruit season that Georgia haa aver known. In 1899. the census year. Georgia produced 84,082.280 bushels of com, valued at 817,160.818. Each year the United States govern ment Issqcs Information concerning the various crops, and Georgia has advanced each year until her com crop of 1907 wa* 67,588.000 bushala, valued at 248.789,000. In th© census year Georgia produced 1.800,000 balsa of cotton and the total value of a’l the products of this crop was 848,981,682. There haa been a steady increase above those figures up to 1907, when Oeorgla produced L- 991,570 bales, with a value for all the products of that crop amounting to 9110.790,680, tha lint alone bringing 9101.084,842. The total value of that crop exceeded that of her closest rival, Mississippi, by a little over 120.000.000. and came within 127,000.009 in value cf the crop of the vast atate of Texas. If Georgia should be brought down from that high rank this yeir or next It will not be due to lack of Intelli gence among her farmers, but to un favorable seasons. The rank of any state is liable to fluctuation by reason of unfavorable conditions; but. such fluctuation cannot be set down to ths discredit of that state. In ths production of sea island cot ton Georgia still holds first rank. Of the total amount of 00.895 bales of this finest cotton Georgia furnished 44,719 bales, or over half, atid the value of Georgia's crop was $4,217,638. We know enough of what Georgia orchard men did this year to say that Georgia ranks now higher than ever as a peach growing state The exact fig ures are not yst available. In commercial growth. Georgia haa made tremendous strides. But this article is long enough already. AH the figures that I have given art official, taken from United States bul letins. Georgia has a larger negro population than any other state In the union and therefor© must expect to make a worse showing In llHteraoy than any other. I have traveled In mxnv states, north, east, west and south and have found the very best of people and many of them In them all, and never yet have I been obliged to blush for Georgia or her people. JOSEPH T. DERRY. Statistician for the Georgia Depart ment of Agriculture. velt and the Rough Riders belonged, but by the infantry. Col. Roosevelt and hls Rough Riders were not on San Juan Hill when the charge was mado, but were on Kettle Hill. They did not participate Significant, Indeed Hawkins, stormed San Juan Hill and captured the blook-house. Algeria History of the Spanish- American war (the author was secre tary of war for the United States at the time of the war) is cited on page l-'Virwarfi. charge. Col. Roosevelt led. waving hi* sword. Out tn the open tha men went and up the hilt Death tn every man seemed cer tain. The crackle of the Mauser rifle* wes continuous. Out of the brush came tho Rldera. Up. up they went with ths colored troops alongside of them, not a man flinching, and forming aa thsv ran. Roosevelt was m hundred feet In the lead. Up. up they went. In the face of death, men dropping from the ranks at every atep. The Rough Rldera acted like veterans It was an Inspiring sight and an awful one. . . . The more Spaniards were killed, the more seemed to take their place. The rain of shell* and bullets doubled. Men dropped taster and faster, but others took tbelr places . * . Recaevelt sat erect on hie borae, holding hie sword, and *houttng for hts men to follow htm. Finally hls horae wa* shot under him, out hs landed on hts feet and continued calling for hls men to advance, "He charged up the bill afoot It seemed an age to the men who were watching, and to the Rough Rldera the hill must have seemed miles high. But they were un daunted. They went on. firing as fast a* their runs would work. At could atm have annihilated Americana, but the Yankee dsrtng dated them. They wavered for an Instant, and then turned and ran. "The position was won. and the block-house cartured. In the rush, more than half of the Rough Riders were wounded." This la the etory a* It was copied ar.vl published and tqld all over the country at the time and aa tt Is popu larly believed today, despite the efforts of legitimate history to overtake ana correct It Notwithstanding the par tiality and elaboration of detail with which thla story ts totd. however, there are a few Important points tn which the authentic history of the af fair contradicts tt. The assault on San Juan Hill was not made by the cavalry, to which Reoee- which first attacked Kettle Hill, did not advance on San Juan Ridge at the time of tho assault by Kent’s infantry division Th* First Vol unteer Cavalry, under Col. Roose velt, as wall as parts of the reg ular regiments which captured Ket tle Hill, did not join the Infantry in It* charae on Sen Juan block house and that portion of San Juan Ridge to the left of Santiago Road, commonly known aa San Juan Hill.** •The military reports of General J. Ford Kent, of Captains A. C. Mark- ley, Henry Wygant and Ch'arles Dodge, of the 24th Infantry all of whom took part In the Ban Juan Hill charge, make no mention of Colonel Roosevelt or the Rough Rldera." says the author. Captain Herbert H. Sargent’s book on the Santiago campaign, and Gen eral Shafteria (commanding general) Report in 2898 establish the fact that Laa Guaalmas was a cavalry fight, but that the victory at San Juan was due primarily to th© Infantry. • • Dis interested civilians like ‘Bonsai say the Infantry took the Hill and the cavalry came after." Rut any doubt concerning the truth of the mRtttT Is precluded by the tes timony of the hero himself. After he .waa elected governor of New York Mr. Roosevelt wrote a history of the Rough Riders tucked away In which, on pages 184-136, Is this statement: “No sooner were we on the crest -of Kettle Hill than the Spaniards from their line In our front where they were strongly entrenched, opened fir© upon Vs with their riflles and two pieces of nrtlllery. . . .On the top bf the hill was a huge Iron kettle, probably used for sugar roflnlng. Several of our men took shelter behind this. W# had a splendid view of the charge on San Juan block-house to our left and a third of a mite to the front, where the Infantry of Kent, 1 led by Hawkins, were climbing tho hill." This paragraph In Roosevelt's book le almost lost In th© book which la so p«rvaded with Roosevelt that aa Mr. Dooley said It should have been named "Alone In Cuba." Possibly It waa for convenient reference placed on file to turn to some day when the truth of history should be made known to show that he never had claimed that he was tn the 8an Juan charge. But he |s quoted aa elsewhere stating that, at a certain stage of the battle he "found himself at the front In com mand of all six regiments of the cav alry division" and John W. Bennett rsks "what had become of Wheeler. Sumner and Wood? Not to apeak of ths other brigade and regimental offt cera. many of whom, down to Lleuten ant colonel, must have outranked Roosevelt? Did they all think them selves In command ef all six regl menta?" 'By the time the Bth army corps wera mustered out on Long Island in the summer of 1898,* says the author. "Theodor# Roosevelt commander of 600 men In an army of 16,000, loomed bigger than avery living soldier in the republic" How did he do It? Did he hypnotise the war correspon dents and cause them to see things that did not exist? Perhaps the disgusted New York Sun could tell something concerning the methods of It. On June 28. 1908, some ten years after It, among other news- K pera. had first circulated the glow- 1 picture of Roosevelt at the head of tha Rough Rldera charging up Ban Juan Hill, and later, when Ms horse had been shot under him. leading the charga- on foot tha Sun In an edi torial under the heading "Once More the Old Fiction" denounced the Ban Juan fable which waa revived every time a Rough Rider died or was ar- rested and charged Roosevelt with be ing responsible for th* circulation of the misleading picture. The Sun call- ••i n t'-.o ir-'! 1-MU to "either Mipp.rs* the picture, or courageously change the mendacious title." But as Secretary Loab for the presi dent says of Jude* Psrkeris charge that Cortelyou got $100,900 from Standard Oil In 1904 for hls campaign fund. )t _ an old story and does not call tor A reply." The average resistance of th* human body from the feet to the hands, when the soles of the shoe* are saturated with water and the hands axe wet, ts about 5.000 ohms, and may be repre sented approximately by the resistance of a copper wire about two-two-hgn- dred-and-flfty-fourth of an Inch In dtameter and 7,710 In length. Wall Street Summary (Rep.). ■ Mr. J. J. mu tells us that In all hls the 1 experience, he ha* never seen party lines Uj so thinly drawn as they are at present and, consequently, ah astlmate of the po| lltlcal situation is Impossible. We be| lleve this to be the opinion of many Independent thinkers who do not permit Impulse or partisanship to sway them. Mr. Bryan Is Immeasurably stronger now than at any time heretofore. He will run better In the west than In hls previous candidacies. Hls trip around the world. I Chautauqua lectures, and writings In the last tight years have contri-utM to the formation generally of a better opinion of him among the people *t large. Hls platform save In regard to bank deposit guarantees end labor Injunction* Is harmless If vacuous; while hls theoretloal radicalism Is not believed by many to approach the actual performances of Mr. Roosevelt. He Is and always has been very much In th* "public eye," and hit chance of leading to the polls a monixed democracy la fairly good. BMP these things are In hls favor. On the other hand, Mr. Taft la regarded In many quarters aa a secondary figure, merely a proxy of President Roosevelt, who con centrated in himself the attention of the entire oountry until a few days aro, by the contentious correspondence which he carried on with various gentlemen, sup- jposedly in the.Tsft Interests, butr |emlng which not * few have vtawe.. marts with alarm and misgivings. :em!ng which not a few have viewed hls .efforts with alarm and misgivings. It was Bryan and Roosevelt: It has never been Bryan and Taft. Despite the splen did attainments of Mr. Tart, hls honor*, ble anl «— ^ * —~ Taft. Despite the eplen- of Mr. Taft, hta honor*- distinguished public service ‘ * ' “ he of the pnb- —.., nils campaign I has been mismanaged—shamefully mis managed, In our opinion: and. to mnke matters worse, some republican states are laboring with party dtasenstons. This Is notably Ihe case in Indiana and Wis consin. and In New York, and. probably In Ohio th# outlook tor republican suc cess would be stronger If th* loyalty ot tome party leaders was above suspicion. Disregarding, totally, the handicap or the panto, which by the unemployed and discontented Is laid at the republican’s door, tha situation dispassionately re viewed Is hard to unravel. At the worst It Is an equal fight, and that augurs badly for At signing of declaration of Independ ence John Hancock raid gravely: 'We must all hang together." “Yes," agreed Franklin, half jocularly, "or we shall as suredly all hang separately." "Have you made any freak election beta?*' “Yes, one." •What ar* th# terms?" 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