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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JANUARY 11, 1907. THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY 8TREET, MACON. GA. 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 He pol famur. be pra same \ W. A. mi Jr:: . Twin o iw the 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 ind Japan is Ing trooj the emit cru 5 pro negro pern ms c-xing am 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. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your p.^- per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. INDISTINCT PRINT