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The Macon Daily Telegraph P’ SECOND SECTION EIGHT PAGES. 1 ESTABLISHED IN 1826. THIS ISSUE CONSISTS OF FOUR SEC TIONS—28 PAOE8. 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 Take the Place of Money A gifts for your friends and relatives, and you 1ft needn't worry one bit about the paying part If your Christmas money runs a little short, o?o this is just the store to help you ouL Don't A, go without the things you want be- A A causoyou haven't tho ready money 1 Buy what you want, end all you want, and we’ll arrange the paying part of it satisfactory to you. A By the way—if you haven’t M bought your new Winter , Outfit—now is the time. ** $1 A Week Clothes the Family Men, Women and Children. Men's Suits Overcoats Fancy Vests Hats and Shoes Boys’ Suits and _____ Overcoats Women's Suits 9 Separate Coats Skirts and Waists Furs and Millinery Silk Underskirts Children's Coats 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- Copyrlcht 1908. Tht House of Kuppenheimer. Chicago. VERCOAT “luck” used to be proverbial. The man took chances. The tailor or clothier took his money. Maybe the money proved to be well invested. Maybe not. We have eliminated the gamble. We offer Kuppenheimer coats, und give you security for satisfaction. They are absolutely correct in style, for the manufacturers are recognized style leaders. You can prove to yourself in advance their perfection of tit. Wc personally guarantee their quality. Plenty of styles to suit every taste. The two young fellows in the illustration arc wearing two of the most vigorous styles in young men’s garments made by The House of Kuppenheimer. The Star Clothing Co. Exclusive Agents for Macon and Middle Georgia 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.