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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1907.
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
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0. R. PENDLETON, President
REPUBLICAN TACTICS IN SENATE.
The Telegraph dislikes to appear
auspicious, but at this distance it Jooks
as though the contending Republican
wingR in the United States Senate
were flopping together over the negro
discharge order—as they usually do in
the end—over their differences. It Is
nn open secret in Washington that
President Roosevelt for several days
past has been confronting certain de
feat at the hands of his enemies in
the Senate whenever the question of
his legal and Constitutional right to
dismiss the negro troops came, to a
test vote. "Soon after the Senate was
called to order," it is said, "it became
known that President Roosevelt had
invitrtl several Republican Senators to
♦ he White House and had asked them
to support the proposal of Senator
Lodge, his closest persona] and pollt-
cal friend in public life. that Mr.
Roosevelt's action In discharging the
negro troops without honor should be
Indorsed as legal and Constitutional.
From what was said by the Senators
who talked with those of their, col
leagues who had been called to the
White House, the President got little
encouragement from his visitors.”
At nil events it developed to the
satisfaction of the President and his
champion, Mr. Lodge, that the latter's
resolution indorsing the President's ac
tion would he overwhelmingly defeated
when put to a vote. This realisation
Appears to have put the President and
his champion In a "funk" and every :
other consideration Is now being sacri
ficed apparently to save the President's
face. Forakcr has boon induced to
withhold Ills hand, the questions of le
gality and constitutionality are to he
sidetracked for the present and the
committee on military affairs Is to be '
authorized to inquire into the "affray !
at Rrownsvillo” (God save the mark).
How near the fighting factions have
got together mn.v he judged by com- I
paring the compromise resolutions pre
pared respectively by Messrs. Lodge
and Forakcr.
Mr. Lodge's resolution reads as fol
lows:
Resolved, Thatt the Committee
on Military Affairs be, and hereby
1“. authorized to make Inquiry and
lake testimony in regard to the
a Cray at Brownsville, Tex., on the
night of August 13. 1906. and that
it be. and hereby is. authorized to
send for persons and papers and
administer oaths ami report there
on by hill or otherwise.
Mr. Forakcr had prepared and was
about to offer the following resolution
when Lodge anticipated him and Intro
duced his first, causing the Ohioan re
newed anger:
the hench. to declare a law solemnly
cr.acted by the Congress to be 'uncon
stitutional ' "
The law referred to makes the in
terstate commerce clause of the Con
stitution cover national control of li-
bor in the States, and the purpose , f
the measure was to enable the em
ployes of railroads engaged in inter
state commerce to bring suits for dam
ages against their employers when in-
' juries were inflicted because of inade
quate safety appliances or through the
negligence of a fellow-employe. Where
death was caused in thjs manner the
heirs of the person killed were em
powered to bring suit.
The point at issue is not the derira-
blllty of such a law itself, but whether
the interstate commerce clause of the
| Constitution can he stretched far
enough to cove- it. Roth Judge Evans,
of Louisville, and later Judge McCall.
, of Memphis, have rendered dec isions
holding that, however beneficent In it
self. the law as put forth by Congress
is unconstitutional. According to
; Judge Kvans: "Creating new liabili
ties growing out of the relations of
master and servant, on the ore hand,
and regulating commerce on the other. ‘
are two things so entirely different
that confusion of the judicial mind
upon them Is hardly to he expected
under norm.a) conditions.” Judge .Me- :
Call says: "I am unable to bring my !
mind to the conclusion that the liabil- ‘
lty of a common carrier for injuries is ■
Interstate commerce or commerce of !
any character within the meaning of j
the commerce clause of the Constitu
tion.”
The reversal of these decisions by
the appellate jurisdiction is not be
lieved to be probable, and the Presi
dent’s confident condemnation of the
decision of "n single district judge
against what may be the judgment of
the immense majority of his
leagues" seems likely to fall of sup-
sun toning
1,-ast.
administration
lisinterestediiess,'t
the
the
WHAT THE JAPS ARE DOING.
■ial A fi
A PERPLEXING PROBLEM SOLVED
S,-cr clary Taft's explanation that the
ordering of till the negro troops to the
Philippines' was in no way connected
with :i:e Brownsville affair doe- not
satisfy the dispatch writers at Wash
ington. They point t> a previous order
is-ue.l some days since urgently di
recting recruiting officers to redouble
their efforts in order to meet a grave
condi: i .n in the army, which has fallen
below its quota, owing to the difficulty
sepds :
the rat
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famur.
be pra
same \
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mi Jr::
. Twin o
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ine to
rail.nil Clark
dealing with
that country.
outage
in dej
ne
;ary nomi
nation may
t. In the
vernment offers the
taxes to those who
de land?, in order to
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It is suggested that the more recent
outrages were concerned in this de
cision even if the Brownsville affair
was not. According to our Washing
ton dispatch writer, "the exile of the
negroes to the Philippines would not
have been ordered if it had not been,
for the large increase recently in vio
lent crimes by them. The riot of the
negro soldiers in Kansas and the at
tack on a white woman by a soldier in
Oklahoma, with the shooting of Capt.
Mackiin at Fort Reno and other occur- 1
fences have made the department’s ;
task one of increasing difficulty.”
Another dispatch writer make
suggestion: "The four negro regi
ments cannot be discharged or d
! 1
j banded; the law requires that they be }
| kept up. At the same time there is :
nothing to prevent their falling below j
| their quota any more than there'is to
s made in the development of
ves of Japan. There is some
? in business circles because
tional debt and the necessity
isod revenue. Among other
. Clark says:
.•otton manufacturing is one
gost Industries of Japan, and
S( are locking to it more '
tlier industry ta change I
! FRANCE’S GREAT NAMES.
The Petit Parisien has been taking
a plebiscite or popular vo'.e in France
on the question of the greatest names
among Frenchmen of the last century.
M< rc than 15.000,000 votes were cast
and some of the foremost names re
ceive more than 1,000,000 votes each.
The surprising feature of the contest is
that the popular Judgment has proven
j on the whole remarkably just and dis
criminating. The name of Louis Pas
teur. like that of Abou Ben Adhem. led
.all the rest with 1.338,425 votes. The
plurality of the voters passed by Na
poleon Bonaparte, the world conqueror,
Victor Hugo, the great author, Adolphe
Thiers, the orator, historian and
statesman, and Leon Gambetta, the
patriot, for "the modest, patient, in
domitable Christian philosopher and
scientist, who gave his life to proving
that only front life can life proceed, to
saving the silk and vine and sheep in-
du-'trios from ruin, and to protecting !
mankind from some of the deadliest of 1
plagues.'' The results aro furiher
stated as follows:
back on than the practice of Gen.
George Washington, commander-in.
chief of the American forces in the
War of the Revolution.
any
of the i
the Jai
than to
their adverse trade balance
plus. Their exports are
and “made in Japan" has
familiar sign in the Orient
to a ssur-
ncreasing,
become a
The ex
prevent any other regiment. If they
co '" j are kept abroad and the losses in their
ranks are not made up bv new recruit-
port. Enquiring whether Judge Evans' j lng ranks thfl probIeln - of what do
Resolved, Than the Committee on
Military Affairs are hereby author
ized and directed, by sub-commit-
lee or otherwise, to take testimony
for the purpose of ascertaining the
fuels with reference to the affray
a I Brownsville, Tex., on August
13. 1906. Said committee is au
thorized to send for persons and
papers, to administer oaths, to sit
during the session of the Senate
at Brownsville or elsewhere, the
expense of such investigation to be
paid from the contingent fund of
the Senate.
A dose study of these two resolu
tions will fnil to disclose any differ
ence except one of grammar. Mr.
Lodge resolves "that the Committee on
-Military Affairs be and Is," etc., and
Mr. Forakcr resolves "that the Com
mittee on Military Affairs are,” etc.
There is a fair opening here for a
spirited and learned discussion as to
whether the singular or plural form
Of the verb used is correct, but no
other issue is raised that we can de
tect. The affair which President
Roosevelt described in various com
binations of words In his answer to
the Senate's request for lnfdrmation
on the subject a* a "dastardly midnight
murder" and “assassination,” is termed
an affraj by both Senator Lodge and
Senator Forakcr. and If we rightly
gauge this meeting of minds, there i*
a whit wash brush of liberal proportions
hidden out In the vicinity of Browns
ville. Texas, with a view to the lavish
application of this favorite Republican
t’uld to the coons in blue who shot up
that town.
“opinion knocking out a statute en
acted on the recommendation of a
President was influenced In any degree
by the President's severe reflections on
him in a public message,” the Spring-
field Republican makes these Inter
esting remarks:
“We should say no—and partic
ularly for the reason that Judge
Evans, In the present opinion,
seems to hold only to the general
position taken by him in the de
cision referred to by the President.
But It may nevertheless be ques
tioned whether the President's re
cent castigations of certain Fed
eral judges may not have an un
conscious effect in inclining those
and other judges to take none too
favorable a view of the laws
which have been urged upon the
statute books by Mr. Roosevelt.
Is this too harsh a statement?
Well, there Is hardly any question
that Chief Justice John Marshall's
loose-construction views were not
made any less extreme by his per
sonal hatred of President Jefferson
and the latter's well known leaning
to strict construction and to the
opinion that the Federal judiciary
was assuming dangerous powers.
Judges, after all, are only human."
To all this "we venture to add only
that it should surprise no one to find
judges inclined "to take none too fa-
i vorable a view of laws which have
1 been urged upon the statute books by
j Mr. Roosevelt." The point of view of
I Mr, Roosevelt and of Judges and Con-
i stltutional lawyers is widely different.
I Slow judicial processes and Constitu-
i tional requirements often seem to be
j a positive irritation to Mr. Roosevelt
| who, unforunately, has never been a
lawyer. If a thing is right in itself.
| or he thinks it is, he wants it done im-
1 mediately and if necessary precedents,
statutes and the Constitution itself
; may go hang! This is an extreme
; statement, of course, but our point will
be sufficiently clear to all thoughtful
I observers of public events. The Pres
ident's disposition and action in this
matter have been entirely character
istic.
cd in a j
with them will have been solv
measure."
In any case, it is plain enough that
the negro regiments are an embarrass
ment to the Government. What to do
with them "has always been a puzzle,”
says one Washington dispatch, "and In
late years it has been growing more
so all the time." The correspondent
very pointedly adds that there are
“few parts of the country where their
presence is desirable." No part of the
country would be nearer the mark.
To keep tthem in the Philippines
would solve the problem so far as the
continental United States is concerned,
but will make things unpleasantly in
teresting for the Filipinos. The latter,
however, are the children of misfor- :
tune and by this time they are prob- j
ably ready to try to makethe best of !
whatever scourge may be visited upon ,
them.
port of 267.114 bales of yarn during
I 1905 was the largest recorded with the !
this I exception of 1903. when 307,201 bales •
were shipped. For the first half of j
! 1906 the exports were 124,820 bales. ■
Of that total only 3.342 bales j
were above No. 20s yarn. The I
great majority of the yarn exported j
goes to Shanghai for distribution in j
China, where it comes in competition
with the yarn from India and also with
the native yarn made in China, which,
in connection with the Increasing value
j of the tael making exchange higher,
I leads to a decline in the yarn exported
to China from Japan. In the laM six
months of 1903 Japan exported 312.200
piculs (picul, 1 1-3 pounds) of cotton
yarn to China, as compared with 617,-
243 piculs exported to that country by
India. But in the last half of 1905
Japan exported to China only 175,206
piculs and 172.423 piculs in the first
half of 1906. while India exported 509,-
117 piculs in the corresponding time in
1905 and 496.634 piculs in the first six
months of 1906. So far as the export
of yarn to China is concerned Japan
has lost ground.
The exports of cloth are steadily in
creasing. The yarn mills have not in
creased their export as rapidly, owing
increase; in the homo de-
GEORGIA’S LYNCHING RECORD.
The fact that seventy-three persons
were lynched in 1906 and only sixty-
five in 1905 does not indicate that
conditions are growing worse, on the
whole. The figures for the past two or
three years show a smaller number
to the
mand.
The total exports of manufactures
of cotton for the last three years and
for six months of 1906 is shown in
the annexed table.
Victor Hugo came second, with
1.' '7.103 v-tes. which is not sur
prising. Gambetta. whose glory
has not •faded ns much as it will,
was third, with 1,155.672. Napo
leon Bonaparte, once "first and no
second.” was only fourth. with
1.118.034 votes, followed by Thiers,
with 1,039.453. Thus a people sup
posedly devoted to military "glory"
pu: its greatest soldier only fourth
on its roll of fame'and put only
one soldier in the first five immor
tals cf the century! Still' more
Impressive does that feature of the
! voting become when we go further
along in the list. Laznre Carnot,
who organized victory and incl-
i dentally Introduced military con-
I scription, stands sixth. Then fol
lowed in order Curie, with his wife,
the joint discoverer of radium; the
elder Pumas (Balzac is nowhere);
Rmix, the conqueror of diphtheria;
Parementier. the potato planter;
Ampere. :he electrician: Brazza,
the African explorer; Zola, largely
v because of his “J'accuse!'’: Lamar
tine. Arago. Sarah Bernhardt,
Waldsck - RbuFSeau, MacMahon,
Sadi Carnot. Chovreul. Chateau
briand, Pe Lessons. Michelet. Jac-
ounrd, Inventor of the loom: Jules
Verne. ex-President Loubqt and
Denfert-Rochereau, the hero of
Belfort,
On this side of the world there will
doubtleses be much dissent to the
magnifying of the creator of of D'Ar-
tagnan, however, fascinating his ro
mantic stories, as greater than the
author of the "Comedie Humane,” but
it is matter for grave doubt whether the
American public could reach so nearly
a correct decision on the great names
of our history if the question was sub
mitted to a similar test.
HOUSE DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF.
It looks like. Georgia had lost any
chance she had to capture the Sub
treasury. Primarily this is due to the
fact that her delegation in Congress
and the representatives of Atlanta and
of lynchings than during several years j savannah could not get together on
THE PRESIDENT AND THE
JUDGE8.
In an editorial reprinted in these
column* recently from the New York
Sun entitled. "The President and the
Slate of the Country." this question is
asked: "Can a more shocking or dan- ‘
gerous example be set before the peo
ple than that of the President of the
United States rebuking an honest
judge for rendering an opinion accord- ,
ing to the laws and according to his
conscience, which opinion was dis
tasteful to htni. the President, per-
serially?’*
We presume this refers to the fol- j
lowing utterance in the President's !
last message, which we understood to '
be directed against Judge Evans of
the Federal Court at Louisville:
”1 have specially In view a recent j
decision by a district Judge leaving ■
railway employes without a remedy j
HIS PARTHIAN SHOT.
It appears that the retiring Gover
nor of Soulh Dakota. James H. Elrod,
is disgusted with the part played by
his commonwealth In a certain little
matter. This was a game worked on
the "Old North State” to force her to
pay certain bonds which were repu
diated by North Carolina because they
were foisted on her when she was un
der the heel of the carpetbaggers and
the negro in Reconstruction times and
she could not help herself. The bonds I
were in the hands of private parties j
who were debarred by law from suing
the Ftate. This disability does not ap
ply between States as such, however,
and the Government of South Dakota
was Induced through some considera
tion or other, several years ago, to take
over the repudiated bonds and bring
suit in the name of the commonwealth
against North Carolina. The matter,
as The Telegraph recalls, was com
promised by North Carolina paying
South Dakota some portion of the face-
value of the bonds. The sequel of the
story as told in a dispatch from Pierre,
S. D.. in yesterday's Telegraph is in
teresting If not amusing. The dispatch
says:
previous. The tendency is toward a
decrease rathor than an increase in
the annual number of lynchings.
Of the seventy-three persons lynched
last year, only three were white, the
other seventy being black, and one of
them a woman. Such figures show
what enormous factors race prejudice
and negro criminality are in the causes
of these lawless outbreaks. The lynched
In Georgia were all negroes, and the
record Is as follows:
May 12, Eastman, Will Womack,
assault, hanged.
July 11, Swainsboro, Ed Pearson,
attempted assault, hanged.
July 31. Atlanta. Floyd Carmich
ael, attempted assault, shot.
September 10, Culloden, Charles
Miller, attempted assault, shot.
September 24. Eastpoint. Zeb
Long: disorderly conduct, hanged.
November 5, Wrightsville. Wil
liam Neweome, murder, shot.
November 7, Pelham, Mary
Hicks, murder, shot.
November 7, Pelham, Jack
Brown, murder, shot.
November S, Sale City, J. T.
Hicks, murder, hanged.
James E. Elrod, the retiring
Governor of South Dakota, in his
farewell message to the Legisla
ture today, severely assails the
North Carolina bond deal, by
which South Dakota collected
$25,500 from the Southern State
on paper which had been repudi
ated. He says South Dakota has
no moral right to the money. The
message urges the Legislature to
adopt measures for the return of
the money to North Carolina.
The amusing phase . of it is that
for violation of a certain so-called la- j Governor Eirod should have bottled up
bor statute. It seems an absurdity to ! his disgust and other virtuous scruples
permit a single district judge, against i until bo was about to step out of of-
what may be the Judgment of the im- , flee. His recommendation that the
mense majority of his colleagues on "tainted" money be returned by the
mense i
b
At least one feature of this gloomy
and unwelcome record is a source of
gratification, and that is that, except
j in one instance, the lynchings were
provoked by crimes of the most serf-
| ous character, and even the excepted
i instance was an outgrowth of the At-
i lanta riots. Nobody was lynched in
! Georgia for "carrying a pistol" (as
in Mississippi), or for "theft of a sil-
I ver dollar" or for "stealing a* calf” (as
■ in Louisiana), the crimes, except in
| the one instance noted, being in four
i cases murder, and in four cases felo-
! nious assault or attempted felonious
: assault. The unenviable distinction Is
, fastened upon Georgia, however, of be
ing the only State that lynched a wo
man.
We may appropriately refer here to
the published rer'»rt of the committee
of business men who investigated the
Atlanta riots. The report shows that
twelve persons were killed and seventy
wounded. Of the dead, two were whites
and ten colored; two were females and
ten males. Of the wounded, ten were :
whites and sixty negroes, hive thou- ,
sand three hundred and sixty-three
dollars were expended by the commit
tee for relief of the wounded and for
the families of the dead, of which the
city paid $1,000. The report contains
the gratifying information that no de
cent white people were concerned in ■
the rioting and declares that the “tough
element has crucified Atlanta in the
eyes of the world, and shocked the
moral sense of our people.”
any compromise agreement between
themselves. Atlanta insisted on de
ciding the Georgia city to be pre
sented by a vote of the Georgia Con
gressional delegation of which she had.
an assured majority, and Savannah in
sisted on presenting the names of both
Georgia cities to the Ways and Means
Committee and fighting the matter out
on its merits there. Neither of. the
Georgia factions would consent to go
into a caucus of the delegations of the
States concerned, claiming that the
action of such a caucus would not be
proper or binding. Meanwhile there
was crimination and recrimination be
tween the representatives of Atlanta
and Savannah. They appear to have
exhausted themselves fighting each
other while the delegations of the other
States concerned got together and af
ter a close contest between Columbia,
S. C., and Birmingham, Ala., decided
upon recommending the latter city for
the location of the Sub-treasury by a
, final vote of 17 to 16. It still remained
to present the matter to the Ways and
Means Committee of the House, before
i which Atlanta and Savannah, it is un
derstood. would make each its inde-
1 pendent fight against the caucus se
lection and against each other. Any
further possibility of bringing the Sub-
treasury to Georgia, under the circum
stances, however. Is conceded to be re
mote. The discord may. indeed, have
the effect, as feared, to defeat the
South of Obtaining the Sub-treasury at
al! at this time, since the Republican
members of the Ways and Means Com
mittee arc said to be indisposed to
award it to this section anyway.
Be tliis as it may. The Telegraph
fears the State of Georgia is not to be j
congratulated on the dog-in-the-man- ,
SPEER AGREES WITH PRESIDENT.
In breaking ground at Albany, Ga„
and holding there the first session of
the United Stntes Court ever held in
Dougherty County, Judge Emory Speer
charged the grand jury on its functions
of presenting persons accused of
crimes against the Federal laws. Judge
Speer took occasion to quote from ar
ticle 5 of the Federal. Constitution
wherein the duty is imposed on the
grand jury of passing upon criminal
matters, and incidentally he noted the
exception made as to “eases arising in
the land or naval forces.” The pro
vision in article 5 quoted. is that "no
person shall be held to answer for a
capital or otherwise infamous crime,
unless on a presentment or indictment
of a grand jury, except in cases arsing
in the land or naval forces, or in the
militia, when in actual service in time
of war or public danger.” Commenting
on this provision with unmistakable
reference to the issue raised in con
nection with President Roosevelt's dis
charge of the negro troops involved in
the "shooting up” of Brownsville, Tex.,
Judge Speer said:
You observe that from the lan
guage I have rend you. thlst does
not apply to cases arising in the
land or naval forces. This means,
of course, the army and the navy.
A different method of punishment,
it is possible, may be inflicted by
the President, who Is the com-
mandcr-in-chief, if the crime be
committed by members of the land
or naval forces.
He might, perhaps, in such a
case imitate the example of Wash
ington, when In command of the
patriot forces at Long Island. The
"Connecticut Light Horse,” on
having been requested to mount
guard like other soldiers, grew
restless and uneasy. They pro
tested that they were expressly ex
empted from staying in garrison,
or doing duty on foot apart from
their horses. Washington disposed
of the matter in the following
note:
"To the Colonel and Field Offi
cers:
“Gentlemen: In answer to yours
of this date, I can only repeat to
you what I said last night, and
that is. if your men think them-,
selves exempt from the common
duty of a soldier, will not mount
guard, do garrison duty, separate
from their horses, they can no
longer be of any use here, where
horses cannot be brought into ac
tion, and I do not care how soon
thev are dismissed.”
The patriot • did not spell the
word “dismist." as would our pres
ent Executive.- but the order "got
there" just the same.
DIVIDED ATTENTION.
A writer in the Philadelphia Ledger
laments that it is no longer the fashion
to read and master the best books, and,
although a prodigious amount of read-
1 ing Is done, it is aimless and indiscrim-
| inate. "A score of years ago.” he says,
! "educated men read Carlyle. Macaulay;
; they knew their Boswell and Burke:
they followed Matthe
keen interest; they rejoiced in the pos
session of the words of that doughty
champion of free Government—Daniel
Webster: they read Ruskin and Mill,
and recognized in Cardinal Newman
the exquisite model of academic purity,
the modern master of prose, the exem
plar of the scholar and gentleman.”
But now, “speak to an ordinary
group of educated men of these au
thors. and it appears that they are but
names. Shakespeare and Milton ‘have
gone out of style.’ and a reference to
them is not readily apprehended: Dry-
den and Pope are myths; Goldsmith
and Addison are only thin ghosts; the
philosophers are unknown; history is
voted dull: the great novelists have
been thrust ast(\e, and the conversation
is directed toward the possibilities of
certain mining stocks or to the chances
of certain railroad securities.”
The trouble Is not merely that this is
a more commercial age, but that there
has been a multiplication of interests,
pleasures' and duties. The Ledger
writer might well have cited Philip
Gilbert Hammerston’s letter to “a gen
tleman of leisure who complained of
being hurried and driven" to show that
divided attention, in the case of the
average intelligent man of this age,
is what chiefly prevents a real knowl
edge of good literature.
But the same idea Is pointedly Illus
trated in the Ledger writer’s story of
two brothers. "The one, upon leaving
college, embarked upon business In
Philadelphia. He played a little tennis,
dabbled in amateur photography, read
the usual new novels, turned over his
share of the magazines, went to the
theatre as often as the average young
man, dipped into the usual social di
versions, and thus his leisure was pret
ty well taken up. The other brother
went West to look after some timber
interests. He was in a remote spot,
and was ‘deprived of all the advan
tages of a civilized life.’ He had a
number of good books with him, and
these he read and re-read and mas
tered. When he returned to the East
and civilization. To! he was the civil
ized man with a well-stored mind,
j pra.ctloed in Independent thinking. It
was evident that he had parleyed with
wisdom; that he had a grasp of gen
eral principles, and that altogether the
results of his ten year's diversions had
been the maturing of his mind and
judgment. The other brother, of equal
natural ability, was not a cultivated
man; he had frittered his time away
and knew nothing at all.”
Those who have no more serious in
tellectual alms than conversation in a
•drawing room can afford to fritter
their time in this way, but the states
man, the clergyman, the lawyer, the
editor, the author and the public
speaker must concentrate his attention
and consent to be a real student of the
best literature if he would rise above
the ordinary level.
all. as Harry Thaw may be prevailed
on finally to adopt the insanity plea,
which those informed on the question
appear to take for granted will result
in his being quietly "railroaded" to
the asylum for the insane.
Such a result would doubtless enure
to the public 'benefit in preventing the
spectacle of the scandal being aired in
the courts whatever might be the jus-
j tice of it on its merits.
“Ml L LION Al RE PHOBIA.”
Chancellor James R. Day of the
Arnold with | Syracuse University has again taken
the field in defense of the great cor
porations and multi-millionaires as
against the multitude of demagogues
whose disease, he says, is "millionaire-
phobia.” In a recent article in Les
lie's Weekly he says, in part:
For some time we have been in
the grip of this mighty spasm over
“corporate wealth" and "swollen
fortunes." These current phrases
are from high sources. All of our
national ills aro being stated in
this formula. All use it, and the
people say amen. Down with the
rich. Puncture the "swollen for
tunes." Make the rich poor and
all the poor will be rich. Destroy
the corporations, hamper them, ob
struct them. Sue them in the
courts. Assail them in the press.
Tie -the strings of the Lilliputians
to them in Congress and bind
them, and the individual ran have
a chance. . . . Oh! it will be
a great world to live in when we
get great salaries or wages for
everybody and nobody has /l'wol- 4
len fortunes" to pay them. will
be the acme of statesmanship
when we shall have discredited
business, especially tlio greatest
forms of business, by regulating it
tha't men of commercial genius will
•be filled with fear and distrust,
and refuse to put the utmost of
their powers into the development
of our resources and the making
of our innumerable forms of in
dustry and labor. . . . "Cor
poration. ” "swollen fortunes,” "mil
lionaire” have become synonymous
with commercial tyranny and
heartless selfishness, cartooned as
•beasts preying upon the "ordinary,
people.” This process of education
has been going on until men hide
every fallacy behind those words.
If a man damns a corporation he
is a friend of the "ordinary peo
ple:” if he sneers at “millionaires,”
and warns of the danger threat
ening from "swollen fortunes," lie
will he elected to Congress. The
political lenders of both great par
ties have played into the bands of
a dangerous saelalsm. condemned
by all sober, thinking people a, half
decade ago. .
ger exhibition that has been made by
the representatives of its two largest
cities in this instance, and hv the evi
dence of their inability to be influenced
hv considerations of patriotism beyond
the corporate limits of their respective
cities.
President Roosevelt’s attention is
called to the fact that Postmaster-
General Cortelyou resigned the .chair
manship of the Republican National
Committee without paying back the
money taken from the stockholders of
the big insurance companies without
their knowledge or consent.
Foraker's foghorn has taken a lower
note since Capt. Bill McDonald of the
Texas Rangers emitted a blast of war
an his bazoo.
While Judge Speer does not say so
in so many words, it seems apparent
from the course of his remarks that
he is of the opinion that the President
did not proceed without authority,
' and certainly not without precedent,
in his now famous “discharge without
honor” order, since he had the exam-
I pic of the Father of His Country for
j what he did. It is true that at the
time the incident occurred at Long
Island, with the “Connecticut Light
Horse.” the Constitution had not been
formulated and adopted, but as the in
strument when it came to be adopted
expressly excluded “cases arising In
the land and naval forces” from its
provisions, it is fairly to be presumed
that it. the said Constitution, left these
rases right where it found them, and
for the purpose of locating where that
was there is no better criterion to fall
U. S. SENATE MAKES PROGRESS.
The Republican euphemists in the
United States Senate are now terming
it the “affray” at Brownsville. This
is a new name for a midnight raid of
assassins on a sleeping town. Black-
stone defines affray as “the fighting of
two or more persons, in a public place,
to the terror of others.” If the Senate
with the facts as laid before It has
arrived at this view of what occurred,
it is very liable to wind up any fur
ther inquiry by solemnly declaring that
the people of Brownsville blacked their
faces, appropriated the negro soldiers'
uniforms and shot themselves up.
Mr. Day also expresses the opinion
that the complaining legislators are
the least qualified of all the met in
this country for the control and su-
i pervision of corporations and "swollen”
fortunes, and ho declares that “any
proposition from that source to super-
( vise and control the wealth of the land
, Is a gigantic piece of impertinence (hat
j to coming generations will he incred
ible of an intelligent age like Ibis.”
Would Chancellor Day suggest college
, professors such as himself as better
| fitted in a practical way for so per-
, plexing a task?
j It is true that there are demagogues
! in plenty and that they are industri-
| ously using to their advantage the
j clamor against corporations, but Chan
cellor Day hurts the cause he chain*
| pions when he fails to admit that there
aro abuses that must bo chocked. “We
J have laws enough,” he says, “and al-
j ways have had, without special legis
lation to protect the rights of every
man, and guard all commerce and all
business, against dishonesty.” It may
be that we have always had the laws,
but we hnve not often enough had
their enforcement. There's the rub.
THE HARRY THAW TRIAL.
The sensation-loving people of
New York are looking forward to the
Thaw trial on 21st inst. as a rich source
of enjoyment, but they are liable to be
disappointed in so far as the case to be
developed by 'the prosecution is relied
on to furnish it. From the prosecu
tion’s standpoint, it is said, the trial
will be a short one. A few witnesses
will be introduced to establish the
killing of Stanford White by Harry
Thaw as the former was sitting quietly
at a table looking at the performance
at Madison Square roof garden. It
will be a simple story of the tragedy,
showing that White was killed without
warning or chance to defend himself.
What the defense will offer in ex
planation of the killing may or may
not open up the anticipated sensational
features. A great many wild theories
have been advanced, until it would
seem that there is no room for sur
prise left, but it is now hinted that
the defense will be a startling story
which has not been touched upon in
the many that have been printed.
Be this as it may, it is said that “the
district attorney’s office has in its
possession information concerning
every move made by Thaw and his
wife before they were married, and
the relations of White with Evelyn
Nesbit before she married Thaw,” and,
in short, is prepared to meet and rebut
any new line of defense offered by ac
curate information on every stage and
phase of the relations of the parties
to the tragedy.
There is a suggestion beside that
the case may never come to trial at
“NEW LINES FOR “AMERICA.”
A new version of the national hymn.
“My Country, ’Tis of Thee,” has been
I offered by a New York publisher, on
I the ground that “in the old form the
j local allusions are applicable to New
' England only,” and that such allusions
j should be more general and more de-
I scriptlve of ‘the country as a whole.
With the laudable object of producing
I a really pan-American hymn, the fol
lowing lines have been added:
I love thy inland seas,
Thy siveet magnolia trees,
Thy palms and pines;
Thy canyons wild and deep,
Thy prairies’ boundless sweep, *
Thy rocky mountains steep,
Thy matchless mines.
I love thy silvery strands.
Thy Golden Gate that stands
Afroret the West;
Thy sweet and crystal air.
Thy sunshine everywhere;
O land beyond compare,
I love thee best. '
This may not equal the original In Y
literary form, but the South and West
are included, as they should be. The
“palms and pines” and “sweet mag
nolia trees” refer directly to the. for
mer, and to no other section is the
“sunshine everywhere” so applicable.
This revision of “America” is cer
tainly more to be commended than (he
“reconstruction of the “Star Spangled
Banner brought out by a Northern
publisher soon after the war of 1861-5,
wherein the genius of Oliver Wendell
Holmes was necessary in order to per
form the miracle of causing Francis
Scott Key, during the war of 1812, 10
sing of the freeing of the slave and the
conquering of the Southern States half
a cen'turv later.
The Shah of Persia has apparently
concluded to reconsider the question of
dying. Must have been “stumped”
when he undertook to make a will ta
please his 800 wives.
Cleveland is reported 'to be without
gas. This is Cleveland, Ohio.
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