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MACON, GA, SUNDAY MORNING, DECEMBER 6, 1908
DAILY, $7.00 A YEAR.
Elihu Root, Lawyer
and Statesman
By SAVOYARD.
No state In the union has been aep
resented In the United States senate
by more eminent statesmen than Nejv
York, and it would be exceedingly dir.
ficult to name a state that has sent
to the senate as many distinguished
men as New York has accredited to
that great legislative sanhedrim. Look
on this list: Rufus King, Aaron Burr,
Gouverneur Morris, Do Witt Clinton,
Martin Van Buren, William L. Marey,
Silas Wright, Nathaniel P. Tallmadge,
Daniel S. Dickinson, William H. Sew
ard, Hamilton Fish, Preston King.
Roscoe Conkling, William M. Evarts,
and David B. Hill. No one of these
men had luster shed upon him be
cause he was a senator in congress:
every one of them helped to make -the
senate Illustrious by his service in
that body. One of them became presi
dent of th& United States; many of
them—at least seven—aspired to that
groat dignity and eagerly sought to
uttuin It. and any one of them would
have discharged the duties of chief
magistrate of our great republic with
honor to himself and profit to the
nation—even the second on the roll.
There were twenty years of his life
that William L. Marey was the best
equipped man for president in Amer
ica.
Elihu Root i« as capable a man to fill
the office of senator as any one of the
foregoing list of Illustrious senators
from New York. As great a lawyer as
Kvarts. his speeeches rend as well as
Conkling’s. Marey, Seward. Fish and
Kvarts stand in the front rank oi
American statesmen who held the of
fice of secretary of state, but it ir
doubtful If any one of them equaled
—as certainly no one of them sur
passed—the administration of Mr.
Root that great trust. Loss politi
cian thnn Van Buren, or Marey, or
Seward, or Conkling. or Hill, as a
st.itoyman hoi Is the equal of any
man New York ever sent to the sen
ate.
Elihu Root was born In Oneida
county. N. Y.. In 1846, near where Rns-
roc Conkling first saw the light, and
lit a time when Conkling was a school
boy of 16. At 10 young Root was
graduated from Hamilton College, of
which his father, Orcn Root, was pro
fessor of mathematics. He taught
school at the Rome Academy In 1866,
and In 1867 he was grrniuuted from
the University Law School, of New
York city, r.nd began active practice
Jn the metropolis, a member of tlu
ablest bar then on the western hemi
sphere, numbering on Its roll Charles
O’Conor, Samuel j. Tllden, William
M. Evarts, David Dudley Field, Joseph
H. Choate and scores of others scarce
ly less able. It was not long before
the new candidate for forensic emi
nence discovered qualities that made
him worthy the steel of any one of
his brothers of the profession, and
when President McKinley called him
So Washington Elihu Root, ns confi
dently ns any other jurist, could
cluim the title of leader of the Ameri
can bar.
Mr. Root was first brought into
public notico as the counsel of Wil
liam M. Tweed, and llttlo minds, ns
late as 1608. sought to prejudice the
public against him for undertaking
the defense of that notorious criminal.
The sixth amendment to the federal
constitution reads as follows:
"In all criminal prosecutions the ac
cused shall enjoy the right to a speedy
trial by an impartial Jury of the state
and district wherein the crime shall
bav© beeji comltted. \whfph (district
shall have been previously ascertain
ed by law. and to be Informed ot
the nature and cause of the accusa
tion; to be confronted with the wit
nesses against him, to have oompul
sory process for obtaining witnesses
in his favor and to have the assist
ance of counsel for his defense.”
Thus one charged with crime has
tho same constitutional right to have
counsel to appear for him In court
that he has to a speedy trial, or to
an Impartial Jury, or to knowledge or
the nature and cause of the accusa
tion. or to compulsory process to
cure the attendance of witnesses In
his defense.
Here was a man brought to bay.
No doubt he was a great criminal
but the most odious malefactor In the
land, under the American system, has
the same right to be represented In
the courts of Justice by counsel
the most innocent man falsely accus
ed. Tweed appealed to Root, and
Root undertook his defens*, flad ho
refused he would have been unworthy
the gown of a lawyer. How fur c<
sel may go In defense of a criminal
Is a matter of opinion, just as It Is
a matter of opinion how far counsel
In a civil action may go to secure
a verdict for his client. Technically,
the office of the lawyer is to see that
his client obtains Justice, and that no
injustice Is visited upon him.
Sergt. Talford, most eminent author
ity, gave tho counsel great latitude in
this respect, and Dr. Warren In that
wonderful novel—to be composed by i
layman—puts iq the mouth of the at
torney general In the celebrated cast*
of Titmouse versus Aubrey soniq spec
ulations as to tho duty of a lawyer
to his client that explain with per
fect satisfaction and In accord nfrlth
virtuous human nature the causes and
the motives that Impel the lawyt*
seek, the verdict ns. the solo end of
his efforts. Nobody ever accused Ell-
hu Root of resorting to questionable
expedients to secure acquittal for
Tweed. Neither did William M‘.
Kvarts overstep the bounds of lion
orable practice in his defense of Mon*
roc Edwards.
It was transcendentolly silly for the
democratic managers of the enmpalgy.
Just closed to attempt to fasten o.a
counsel the odium that attaches to
his dishonest or criminal client. Make
that the rule and there will not be
respectable lawyer In all Amcrlcn, or
elsewhere, who has legal learning
enough to conduct a caso In court.
Under President Arthur. Mr. Root
was federal district attorney for the
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FAKLEY 4 GALIN
362 Second St.
southern district of New York, and
in 1894 he was a delegate to the state
constitutional convention and chair
man of tho Judiciary committee. That
of itself is evidence of tho eminent
place he had gained 'at the bar t.1
New York. For more than ten year*
he had been In the front rank or
the elite not only or the New York
bar, but of tho American -bar, and
there la no doubt that he could ap
pear before any tribunal of West
minster and hold his own against the
ablest counsel of Great Britain.
In 1899 Mr. Root became secretary
of war In President McKinley’s cabi
net. Except the short administration
of Schofield In Andy Johnson's cabi
net, and tho four years of Daniel La-
mont. New York had not furnished .the
federal establishment a secretary ot
war in fifty years, not since William
L. Marey conducted that department
with such signal success during the
Mexican war. Mr. Root showed that
if he was a thinker In the court house
he was on administrator In the cabi
net. Over the most bitter opposition
he got authority from congress to
create the general staff of the army,
thereby fashioning our military es
tablishment on lines similar to the
great military nations of Europe, leav
ing out compulsory service, of course.
Transferred to the state department,
which he has administered since 1905.
Mr. Root has shown a capacity for the
work required in that office unsur
passed by any one of his predecessors.
When James G. Blaine reluctantly
himself the architect of a Pan-
America. embracing tho entire west
ern hemisphere from pole to pole. The
death of Garfield awakened him from
the reverie, and Ben Harrison did n
believe In dreams, and so dHaln<
conception. If it was of Ms origin,
and that is doubtful, remnlned a
dream. By and by Grover Cleveland
was president a second time. The
Monroe doctrine was Invented by
British prime minister ns a defense
aaglnst a threatened coalition of the
powers of continental Europe, end It
served his purpose. John Quincy
Adams, secretary of state in Monroe's
cabinet, turned It Into the rhetoric of
a famous state paper, and such It re
mained for three-score and ter. years,
when England and Venezuela fell out
over a boundary and the Orinoco r ?v-
er. Mr. Cleveland electrified the
country and amazed the world by as-
sorting the Monroe doctrine ns a liv
ing principle. It was a work of au
dacity worthy of Danton and succeed
ed admirably and doubtless saved our
nation a great war In the future to
establish what Cleveland secured by
a state paper.
Mr. Root Is also a man of Imagina
tion. perhaps not so exuberant ns
Blaine sr but it Is held In leash bv and
made subject to a mind prodigally en
dowed with common sense. He made
a Journey to tho south and spoke to
the peoples of all the Latin republics
and In the history of diplomacy it Is
not too much to say never was oln-
puence so effective and never was the
promise of beneficent result so abun
dant. One of his speeches that I re
member to have read was a classic—
that wherein he showed thut tho Latin
ramr are ns superior to us In taste
for the beautiful as we are to them
In material achievement. * His dream
Is to engraft on the American the dis
cernment of and the predilection for
the elegant, the refined, nnd tho beau
tiful In nature wid art with which the
Spaniard, the Frenchman, and tho
Italian aro endowed.
But there are left to Italy the skies
And purple sunsets of her prouder
years.
Mr. Root sowed seed below the equa
tor, the hnrvost of which will be reap
ed by coming generations—Saxon and
Latin alike.
New York owes It to the country to
make Elihu Root senator. He hns ad
vanced some Ideas ns to tho force nnd
effect of treaties nnd the soopo nnd
effect of delegated powers nnd the re
served rights of the states that It would
he for the public wen! to have thrash
ed out In n grent debate In the sen
ate.
In Joseph W. Bailey he would find
an adversary worthy even his steel,
nnd it would ho the greatest constitu
tional dohate since Calhoun and Webs
ter.
AND BEST AT SIXTY
AMELIA E. DARR, AUTHORE88, 8AY8
QIRL8 ARE F00LI8H WHO
WON'T MARRY.
NEW YORK, Dec. 6—"A woman hns no
right to a 'career* until she has find chil
dren. I know, for I have had fifteen.
"The girl who doesn’t marry If she has
the right chance Is a fool.
■'At 66 or 60 n woman should find her
self at her brightest and best.
• Genius Is a luxury; It’s the plain citi
zens who keep the world going, not tho
—duses.
'I believe In the Rlhle from cover to
cover but I declare I don’t know shout
the church and the m'nlstera.”
These gems from the wisdom or exper
ience were uttered today when n reporter
dropped In to see Amelin E. Barr, that
promising young authoress who wrote "A
Bow of Orange Rlhuon.” and now, though
barely ROTyears of age. hns Just publish
ed her fifty-ninth succressfui novel. This
Is not meant to be flippant, but she Is
aueh a dear. gay. young old woman, her
full, rounded brow Is so fair In Its fur
rows of bitter and sweet experience, that
somehow It seems a discourtesy to re
spect her lace cap and glasses with un-
‘ luted seriousness.
She was In her room at the Hoffman
"I am afraid.” said Mrs. Barr, "that
we should find New York’s patriotism
disappointing If It came to a test In these
days. Behind patriotism lies principle,
and behind that lies the sense of rever
ence. And the men of New York—and
even of the smaller places —have come to
reverence nothing—neither CJod nor their
fathers, nor the memory of their father’s
n *’ Bible Is Not Read.
"New York doesn’t read Its Bible, it
no God of righteousness, no faith In
the power of principle. Its reverence Is
good citizens unless vou^havejrood chil-
they
dren; yon can’t have good children unless
Yorkers trained up In their apartment-
.ure life? The father ts flippant. Sian-
-. Irreligious nnd laughingly tolerates all
these qualities In his child. The moth
er has her head full of theaters, shop
ping. luncheons and society fol-de-rol.
I loth are connoisseurs In cocktails. Pard
playing for money is a commonplace of
tbs evening st home
"|.et me tell you." declared Mrs. Barr,
with s Map of her capable old hand on
the table, ^that when a llttls etrild In Its
nightgown «>*•»*"« t«* k’ss Its mother and
father good night and finds them plny-
Inr pofcer. wlf« lun’ulers alongside of the
chips, you can’t expect Idm to grow up
Into a go*I citizen. If bo doesn't rever-
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The two young fellows in the illustration arc wearing two of the most vigorous
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matinee girl?" she waz
nuked, “with l.cr stage Idols, hor violet*
and soda water and her Haturday pronie-
you l.„
of view .
"No," said Mrs. Barr emphatically.
Hie matinee girl Is all right Her
..Ivollty, or whatever you choopo to call
It, Is only the unthinking, unformed en
thusiasm of youth.
Value of Marriage.
Rut let me tell you one Uilqg," eng-
tlnued Mrs. Harr, earnestly. "the matinee
girl has no future unless some good man
inn ken her fall In liwe with him and
makes her marry him. The home girl Is
tho only ono thut Is worth while, nnd the
girl who doesn't mnrry If she gets the
right chance Is a fool. Only that way
lies happiness. And by tins right chance
I don't mean money and automobiles
and tho chance to be idle. A salary of
11,600. $1,200 or even $1,000 u year Is
enough, and more Ilian enough for any
young couple to live happily on, I don’t
•C who they are.
■A girl has no business to go trnpeslng
off to an offleo or a store unless It Is. Hi
mutter of sheer bread and butter. Hhe
has no business trying to carve out a
so-called •career’ for herself.
"It doesn’t matter whether sho Is a
gifted woman or not. A woman has no
right to u 'career* until she has ——
fifteen children. I am prouder of them
than 1 am of my lx>©ke.
"At 60 life assumes a truer perspective
for H woman. She begins then, and hard
ly before then, to sen the great vital
truths of Ilf** and character In thrlr
proper proportion*. * , , , .
"Therefore. 1 say to the girl who
dreams Of a career, 'Marry; Ian your
lesson before you try to tench It.* ,
"And let no girl set herself tip as too
precious U Jewel of gt-PlUS to marry
what It may please her to consider a
commonplace man. A man whose every
waking moment Is given to his ambition,
who has no time for the dear Interests
of home and for genial hobble* and di
versions, Is not the one —* **“
contentment to hi* wife
children to his country. ..
"Genius Is a luxury. Give me rather
the Plain man. who lock* up his ambi
tion when he closes his d«sk at night,
and takes only his own »ocd. beloved self
home to his wife nnd children nnd make*
them the salient pert of his life. 1 tell
you." raid this wlae old lady, "that na
ture loves the sane, the normal, the
commonplace. If you will. It s the plain
Junoia Dentistry.
Uhtrngo dualists are going to hear from
Dr. Frank Derby Pierce presently how
monkey* and gray squirrels In Africa fill
Itv
medv. The
often
kills llie offending uer\e.—New York
THE PRESIDENT
AND RELIGION
Baptist Ministers Discuss Res
olutions Rebuking the Chief
- Executive.
•ej etn IV-’J ’»»a ’VIIM r !3KHnflM
cent meeting of the Philadelphia Baptist
Ministerial Association, resolution* re
buking President Ruosevclt for his re
cent open letter on religious toleration
In politics Wore discussed. The resolu
tions In question were brought before Hie
association by the Itev. A. H. Hobart,
professor at u local theological seminary,
and aro as follows:
"Whereas, the president of our country
has seen fit to denounce from his high
office as unwarranted bigotry the action
of some of our elllsen* who refuse to Ig
nore religious tenets In connection with
their voting; therefore, he It
"Resolved, That ns was our fundaman-
tnl teaching we steadfastly mnlntaln that
man's religious faith, that Is. his attltuda
toward God, should not be made a teat
for any political office, but his moral and
Intellectual fitness ah »—-—'■*
en d, leaving him sis
ly religious matters.
"Resolved, That. ~
Roman . ...
Its clergy and Its member* not
only ror submission to.ecclesiastical au-
perlors In mutters of oplnkin, but In all
matter* of dally life, nnd has for centu
ries, whenever It was possible, sought to
visit physical psln* and penalties on tho
disobedient, and hns until now and atlll
continue* to teach bitter hostility to our
public schools and our separation of
church and state, and seeks to get from
our government a recognition at Wash
ington as a rorelgn political power entb
tied like other pov I '
satin... — _ ..., .... — — - j
mighty political organisation, controlled
from abroad by I *“* 1 ‘
miliar with nor ...
governmental Idea*.
"Reeolvei* * “
president.
rant of chi - ... .
cooled off and lietter Informed.
"Resolved further. Thai It Is not In i
of private Judgment In matters of ao
much Importance as their vote."
a thirty-year-old horeo. driven hy
ty-three-vrer-oid tnan. wilt be rend With
peculiar Internet.—Bouton Globe.
May not the Information here given
furnish the explanation of why ao many
New England forma have gone out i f
hu'lneee* Th# Ides seems to be getting
abroad that farmers must keep up with
the prof-emilim If they aspect t» step
In touch with prosperity,—Chattanooga
fflM /
CHRISTIAN AND JEW
SHOULD NOT MARRY
6AYS RABBI RYPIN8, LEADING
JEWISH AUTHORITY OF THE
NORTHWEST.
BT. PAUL, Minn., Dec. 6.— H l am
radically opposed to the marriage of
Jews and Gentiles," Rabbi Isaac L.
Ryplns, tho leading Jswlsh authority
of the northwest declares, and In sup
port of Mis position he asserts that 96
psr cent of such marriages are un
happy. R'abhl Ryplns has performed
muny marriages of this kind, blit ex
plains that they are sometimes neces
sary.
"If young couples would come to me
In the early stages of their courtships
it would save unhappiness," ho says,
"hut they do not. Love between it
Jew und a Christian Is usually a clan
destine affair., because both parties
look for opposition from their fami
lies. They also think that the entire
universe hinge* on their affairs nnd
that other things amount to absolute
ly nothing. If I were to refuse to
marry them, I«would probably he
branded a bigot and might lose them
from the church. If I marry them,
and as a moral tencher seek their
friendship by kindly counsel and ad
vice f frequently bring both parties
Into the church, or at least the one
remains a Jew.
Must Remain in Sphere of Life.
"But I am opposed to such mar
riages. Of course there are men and
women who can so raise themselves
above their natural environments and
atmospheres ns to make such mar
riages successful. Not all marriages
result so happily. Environment Is
powerful and when persons of differ
ing tendencies and relations and of
opposing racial, social and religious
distinctions marry they marry to face
mighty barriers. What right has any
man to take a woman from her own
aphere of life and Into practically an
other world, only to make her unhap
py? On the other hand, what right
haa a woman »« aak a man to unmake
all his convictions and beliefs and ac
cept her views wholly. Marriage#
against such barriers are unions
which Invite unhappiness, discord and
dissension. I advise against them and
atronglv disbelieve In them. My ad
vice, If I am permitted to give It In
tlma. Is strongly against the inter
marriage of Jews and Gentiles. Nine
ty-nine per cent of such marriages re
sult unsatisfactorily, even unhappily.
They sre unfortunate for both of the
contracting pocllgs,” _
CONCRETE AGE
THIS REALLY IS
Varied Uses Found for Co
ment Products Bring it
to tho Front
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 5—Rome one
In tho cement business has said that
this Is the sge of concrete, Just as
twenty or thirty years ago the elec
tricians were saying that It was tho
agn of electricity, says the North
American. A very little observation
shows that tho cement man’s view is
based on fact.
Never before was so much concrete
used and never before haa It been em
ployed In such a variety ot ways. You
may build a factory or a chicken
house out of It, n railroad or a. place
of statuary, a canal, except the wa
ter, and a boat to rall upon It; a
churcch, even to the decorative frieze
and the Image* of the saints.
In fact, there Is no end to the pur
poses, both useful and ornamental, to
which cement and Its big brother, con
crete, may be put.
For the benefit of those persons who
still believn that Portland cement comes
from Portland, Me., or from Portion*,
Ore., and for the benefit of all other#
who doubtless know cement and con
crete when they sea It. but havo no
Idea how It arrives at Its computed
state, a few historical facts ara In
order.
Concrete Is a mixture of sand, aton®
nnd cement. Given these three ingred-^
lent* and mix them proprly and you
gt all the concrete you want
The point I to get the right propor-*
lion and to put tho ingredients to*
gether under proper condition*.
And right there comes the differ
ence between good and bad concrete
and also the ability to adapt It to a
variety of uees.
The Important factor In making con-
crate la Portland cement. There la no
secret about this, either. Roughly
speaking. Portland cement Is two-
thlrda limestone and one-third alum
inum elay. Simple, Isn't It? Juit
two things mixed In a known propor
tion.
Art of Making Cement.
Bnt as the manager of oae of the
big cement companies expressed It:
"It looks very simple td make ce
ment. but there Is an art about IL **-
peclally when It cornea to making good
cement. It le Just like a drugglat put.