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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 190f. THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. C R. PENDLETON, President CRAPS AND PARLOR GAMBLING. T. • inoiru, t :'>(.•* "f J;idg< Uite. o' M.-i.r-J attention in and -.u: o£ the Si.ii*“. .nit) pr.•!».•!> ;. < lusted cqnsterr.a- | 1 o i . i li-tri itno'g many peoi ; • r ?■>. habits H< is >1 u~ -uv- biing ha mli rr.bhng mind .i gu in- nan that 'TELESCOPIC PHILANTHROPY. ” O’ * of the aiding article* in the No rth Am erl'.an Review. January IS, !*• rn U IT . ■• Imk penden. f—When?” T* the Review hy Ju-'-e* .in-. H B • ■ J Ma ••,. .,' ' • request -if \-h or. ‘Telescopic Phiianthroy” is xt aken hy Judge Bloun:. a* Ti . i, chapter in Bleak House' <\> \ bj the author, Charles Dlck- # f ibj< t of Mr?. Jellnby, a Ip i cry r> markable strength of r , rac er. who devotes herself entirely to pu ■ ili ” and he cultivation of ♦ r Af ns :o the neglect of her own r p ami y of htlJrc’: 1 pha «e of Judge Blount’s article Ich ren lerz it especially valuable is t . t if Is wrlitep from the standpoint * n w th he force of one who by pe.-- «or nl •vpf rlencc i<* Intimately familiar vi he condition* and people of tn h j.h he treats. 3Viiting from this pin ndp nint the author says: ’The ex- nt'f' of a genera! snd conscious as- fto M * IO n to r a natural life of their own. thf r«’ il P rrsrmc of a universal long- ins he allowed to pursue happiness In thri r own way and not in somebody #1* f'? TV A} is. to the best of such kn rm*N 'Iko and belief as tho writer ob- n«d rift rr two years' service In the n rrn y that subjugated them, and four th year* in the insular judiciary, one of ibi. most obvious and pathetic facts in ♦ hr- whole situation.” Ho testifies that "there docs In fact exist among all -the propie of the Philippine Islands a con sciousness of rai ial unity which draws them togethor as zgRinst all outsiders, and is not tnnrred by any race problem such as exists In Cuba.” Judge Blount says "the Independence of the Philippines should come about within n few years; that is. as soon as practicable, because it is best for both countries. AVc are governing them against their consent at an enormous cost to both peoples." He urges that n date he fixed for Philippine independence and he pre dicts thn: If such is done “we shall have exchanged a bilking horso for a willing one. Tlie suller. submission of n eonqeuered people will give place to general and universal gratitude toward America.” To convey an understanding of “the present causes of discontent, and how incurable it is except by a promise of Independence at a fixed date," Judge Blount rapidly reviews the “tragedy of errors which we have written In blood and selfish legislation In that unhappy land." and he shows In striking detail how "looked at from the Oriental end of the line, the governing of the Phil ippines hy their supposed friends from ihe antipodes, has been not unlike a game of battle-dore and shuttle-cock between rival political creeds at home, in which the unfortunate inhabitants have been the shuttle-cock." Looked at from the Washington end of the line something of this Is apparent also. Judge Blount gives the following few Instances. For the benefit of American cot ton manufacturers, cheap English textiles, previously worn by and satisfactory to millions of poor na tives. have been shut out of the Philippines by a practically pro hibitive import duty, a surtax of 100 per cent, imposed by the United States Congress. (Act of February 35. 19061. For the benefit of American shipping Interests, the Philippines have been treated by our maritime legislation us part of the United states by extension of the coast wise shipping laws to the archi pelago. For the benefit of American su gar and tobacco interests, the Philippines have been treated by our tariff legislation as foreign ter ritory. Those interests defeated the effort to give to the islands the benefit of a reduction of the duty on Philippine products brought here to 23 per cent of the Plngley tariff, their representatives insisting before the Committee on Ways and Means, nlmost in the language of Mrs. Jell.vby’s critics, that our first duty is to our child ren at home. The leading Fili pinos perceive, as clearly as we Americans do. that in the nature of things this sort of argument will always be an obstacle In the path of their progress, so Tong as human nature retains a modicum of selfishness. The Instinct of self-preservation of our own sugar and tobacco pro ducers would surely be satisfied with a free trade—or at least a low tariff—measure between this country and the Philippines, coupled with a promise of inde pendence within a decade. This is the only solution which Is at once righteous and practicable. It is the only lever that will lift the Philip pine ship of State upon the ways, and successfully launch it upon the voyage of national life. To all who read Judge Blount’s able article, of which the above is but an Inadequate synopsis, it will he readily apparent that the United States cannot continue indefinitely to hold those Islands in subjection and fo r our ex ploitation except at considerable injury to the people of the Philippines and to the stultification oe „ur otv . n principles of Government. The enfranchisement of these people and the withdrawal or our troops from the i*U„ds should be. as it doubtless will be. * plank In the next Democratic national platform and an issue in the campaign. a parlor .? Ju«l guilty i* a nf»gr r ' That shoots craps. Any • who play> a sr. me of ch*tr. •* >: a stake, be it money or a. chaf- r.g d!*h. Is as guilty a.* a n^cro hat. plays craps. I want you srer.- lemen to investigate i*e question •f sor-i:-; gambling. I have brought bis matter before several grand urtes. but they have either had not a< ked th- veracity to get i: before The gambling that goer on in dr:i v. ing-rooms. and In which society women Like part, must be “topped in my judicial circuit.” Unquestionably real gambling in drawing-rooms is no hotter than real gambling in negro dives, but is it a faci that every form of card playing for ;i prize is real gambling? Is it gambling in laav and in morals to play for an insignificant prize at a progres sive euchre party? "The technical defense." comments the .Boston Herald, “usually Is that when one play? for a score, and Is awarded a prize for the highest mark, he really does not bet on the gafne. He stands to lose nothing, but may win—or be awarded—something. When money 'or other valuable thing’ la staked in a game of cards, it has been held to be gambling in the eye of the law', whether the play was made In a parlor. In the back room of a saloon or in a house kept for that purpose.” Judge Flto’s utterance and the sub sequent discussion will be of service if thereby it shall be clearly established where, under the law. Innocent card playing ends and gambling begins. To confine “parlor gambling" within proper limits is as desirable in its way as putting a check on the demoralizing game of *craps. A MAN AS WELL AS A SOLDIER. I>r I. Z. Am men. former, f a student Washington College. Lexinc•••::, Va., a hib Gen. Let was tire president of i - !n.»!i'.ution. relates in the Balti more Sun, that alth- ug.t the great sol der refused to attend aiumni banquets, a.id it was "impossible to imagine him responding to a toast, he allowed hint s' .{ :o be kissed. or consented to kiss, I retry girls, sometimes even on the public highway. Says Dr. Ammen: "it may not be amiss to say that I Gen. Le' s popularity with the young ladles of Lexington excited no little envy among the students. The girls had an ambition to ’have it to gay* that I Gen. Lee had kissed them. As the general was gallant enough to avail himself of this weakness, there were : instances that were harrowing enough | to the feelings of students who hap- | pened to be in love with some one of . Lexington's pretty girls. The dears not only did not conceal their partial- I Ity to the general, but boasted of it . to lovers to whom they denied like fa vors! I recall an instance of this dig nified osculation on the highway in the suburbs where I boarded. I hasten to ' say that I was not acquainted with I the young lady. She was awfully pretty, and the students agreed that in this case they would have done the same had they enjoyed the general's I opportunity. The Incident seems, i however, to prove that however stern he might be with men. the general , could, on occasion, concede something I to the ladies." J It shows that the General was a man ' like other men as well as “the very greatest of all the great captains"—to ' quote Roosevelt—“that the English- ' speaking race has brought forth.” — i suoterfug that kind The report of the Pr ey met .Bobby ■ mark-, with y- Le tin ■id the B Senate v ig. It ha r.o -ling Lee' POLAND’S DEATH THROES. The conquered Polish nation dies hard, and thus after all these years there is still a Polish problem. In that part of Poland that was absorbed by Gcrmanj' there has been since last Au gust a revolt of Polish school children against German authority. The Prus sian Government had gradually ejected the Polish language from the Polish schools until it remained only in the lowest grade in some of the schools and there only in religious instruction. It was finally decided to do away with this and require six-year-old children to recite their prayers and learn their religion in German. This was followed by stubborn re sistance, the children refusing to recite their prayers in any but their mother tongue. Flogging and other punish ment being of no avail, in some in stances the German teachers—accord ing to Polish newspapers—brought re volvers into the school room in order to intimidate the determined children. The remarkable tenacity of purpose shown by these heroic little Poles and encouraged by their parents, is thus explained hy the Warsaw “Mysl P.o- laka” (Polish Thought): "Menaced in one of its most im portant citadels, in the language of the communion of the child’s soul with God, In the language of the apprehension of the truths of re ligion. the Polish consciousness had to arm itself with the entire power of the instinct of self- preservation and go forth to a com bat for Its existence. The resist ance of the Polish children to prayer and religious instruction in the German tongue is not merely a feeling of antipathy to the tones of a hateful tongue. The national instinct of the children and of the popular masses correctly appre hended In these new Germanizing regulations the entire menace to the Polish national consciousness of the coming generations. Those generations becoming addicted to communion with God in the Ger man tongue, to the expression of (he most subtle feelings of the soul in an alien language, would have to lose the consciousness of their na tional separateness." \ An open letter of protest to the Ger man Kaiser, written by the great Pol ish author. Sienklewicz. concludes as follows. “"Your imperial majesty's an cestors waged numerous wars, success ful and unsuccessful, just or unjust in the eyes of history, but hard and great wars. In the present times, there ap pears as the greatest war only this war of the entire State, of the entire Prussian power, with children. The arms use! in this war are. on one side. Jail? and rods; on the other—tears! Verily, the greater the victory of the State the greater will be the disgrace." Tragedy in the life of an individual or a single family reaches the fiiend's full comprehension and rouses his sympathy to the full, but the tragedy of a conquered and politically annihi lated nation is too vast for understand ing or for tears: it is the tragedy of the individual multiplied by a million. Youthful cigarette smokers started the fire in Beaufort, ft. C.. which swept sway hundreds of thousands worth of In a few hour*. When the news of the Kingston earthquake was first announced the dispatches said that •Fighting" Bob Evans had put out to the rescue with- out waiting for orders. This proved afterwards to be incorrect. Instead of th-’ fighting" admiral it was the dip lomatic Davis who took charge of af fairs in Jamaica. What lurk! If it had been “Fighting" Bob that Al*x. Swettenham snubbed there would have been a row sure. Charles Francis Adams admitted what wc of the South have always claimed when he said that the South was not whipped, but starved into sur render. Mr. Adams stales a striking truth when he says "Lee was never overthrown.” THE BALANCE OF POWER. Tn several 'Northern and middle Western States the negroes hold the balance of power in ordinary elections. In 1900 the number of male negroes of voting age in nine of the Republican States was as follows. < -s' Connecticut 4.376 Delaware 8.374 Illinois 29.762 Indiana 18,186 New Jersey 21.474 New York 31,425 Ohio 31,235 Pennsylvania 51,668 West Virginia 14,786 In the opinion of Leslie’s Weekly, the swing of this mass of negro voters over to the Democratic side in these States, which have all been carried by the Republicans in recent times, might turn the scale In all of them. “Even.” says Leslie's, "in the tidal-wave year of 1904, when the Republicans had by far the most popular candidate they ever nominated for President, and when the Democrats had one of the weakest men who ever headed their ticket, the transfer of all these negro votes to the Democratic side would have given Parker the electorial vote of Delaware. Under any candidate, aside front Roosevelt himself, whom the Republicans can nominate their margin in all the States named in the table will be far smaller in 1908 than it was in 1904. A considerable defec tion in the negro vote next year might give to the Democrats several States which the Republicans have been win ning in recent contests. Mr. Hughes’ narrow margin for Governor of New York in 1906. and the Democratic vic tories for one or more State officers in such stalwart Republican common wealths as Pennsylvania. Ohio, Min nesota and other States in the past two or three years, show that independent voting is becoming more and more common, and that the Republicans can no longer rely on their sweeping su premacy of 1904, when Roosevelt was their standard bearer, and when black as well as white Republicans were solid for hint. Although the country may have forgotten this fact in the recent liigh-tide of Republican success, the negro is an important factor in poli tics, and this will hardly be overlooked when the Republican national conven tion meets next year to elect its can didates.” The "country may have forgotten this fact,” but the Republican leaders have not, nor will they, "fheir anxious consciousness of it accounts for the outcry against the President’s dis charge of the negro battalion concerned in the Brownsville affair. JOE BLACKBURN’S COUP. In the sparring for position on the Brownsville issue in the United States Senate, “your Uncle” Joe Blackburn scored the neatest coup yet made. He offered an amendment to the Foraker compromise resolution calling merely for an inquiry into the facts of the Brownsville "shoot up.” the said amendment expressly disclaiming any intention “to question or deny the legal right of the President to discharge without honor enlisted men of the United States Army." Senator Foraker immediately declared bis emphatic op position to this amendment and Sena tor Beveridge, on the other hand, gave notice as emphatically that he would not be a party to any agreement on his side of the poiitical line to vote against the Blackburn amendment. Once more the Republicans were at war among themselves. The President threw himself into the thick of the fight. Saturday he called in some of his friends and "told them in emphatic terms that he stands squarely on the Blackburn resolution and that all his friends in the Senate should vote for it. He said he would consider a vote against the Blackburn resolution as not only against his course in the Browns ville affair, hut also as against his whole general policy. He would con sider a vot* to lay the resolution on fjrced -m him by the Senate; he had pieke.l u:. the gauntlet and will fight to the en i. H said he hoped . .bis fiends' In the Senate would support Ills position and fit- had no doubt they would; still, if the Sen ate is opposed to him and his pol itics. there might as well be a showdown now as any other time, and he would be glad to tve the Senate go on record. So acute did the situation become that a "midnight caucus," it is alleged, was held by the Republican Senators with the result that on Monday Senator Foraker introduced a substitute reso lution for his pending compromise res olution wherein ho proposed himself to do that which he had avowed he would never do by inserting the gist of the Blackburn amendment into his own resolution *nd reciting that the in quiry would be conducted “without questioning the legality or justice of any act of the President in relation thereto. It is possible that Senator 'Blackburn introduced bis amendment principally with a view to keeping up the fight among the Republican Sena tors with a view to partisan advantage, as Senator Tillman insinuated in his “burnt cork” skit burlesquing his fel- iow-Senators. but the alternative effect of driving the Republican Senators to gether in support of the President’s legaj right to “fire” the negro assassins and their aiders and abettors from the army was obviously in plain sight and this in effect it did accomplish. So score one to the credit of Kentucky’s veteran Senator. PROMISE TO THE EAR BROKEN TO THE HOPE. The Telegraph the other day com mented on the silence that had over taken the subject of denatured alcohol since the act purporting to relieve its manufacture of the Government tax had become effective. The Baltimore Manufacturers’ Record says that when it "pointed out nearly six months ago that the so-called tax-free denatured alcohol act as passed by Congress would by no means meet the expectations, as to greatly enlarged opportunities for the, manufacture of alcohol and for its use in the arts and industries, that had been behind the movement for the new legislation, attempts were ' made in some quarters to rule the. suggestion out of court. Subsequent develop ments, however, including a bill intro duced in the Senate, designed to give the act the character hoped for by many of its advocates before it was denatured, have demonstrated the soundness of the original criticism, in spite of arguments to the effect that there is nothing to prevent any farmer from going into the manufacture of denatured alcohol. The situation is indeed emphasized by the significant statement from Washington the day after the act went into effect that ‘at the outset the denaturing plants will be few and necessarily limited to the alcohol-producing States, New York, Ohio. Illinois, Indiana, Michigan and •Louisiana.’ The expectation of the mass of supporters of the movement was that, under the act, the number of alcohol-profiucing States would be largely increased. Congress is able to make a realization of that expectation possible.” It is to be hoped that Con gress will do so, but experience teaches that Republican legislation in the in terest of the masses generally ends where this appears to have done in the interest of the fortunate few. IF LEE HAD JOINED THE NORTH. The New York World suggests a somewhat novel and pregnant thought in its editorial on the centenary of Robert E. Lee. “What would have been the course of American events since 1861 if Robert Edward Lee, the one hundredth anniversary of whose birth was celebrated yesterday, could have seen his way clear to accept com mand of the Federal army which Lin coln virtually offered to him through Francis P. Blair?” the World asks. “There is little profit in crying over the spilled milk of history, yet a cor rect estimate of Gen. Lee’s abilities, achievements and influence cannot be made without considering this ques tion.” The dual thought Immediately sug gested is that the South would have been more quickly and easily defeated with Lee in command on the other side and that there would have been no Re construction horrors for the South had he been in a position of influence with the victorious side after the cessation of armed hostilities. Continuing, the World says: That Lee became commander-in chief of the Confederate armies, to conduct the most masterful de fensive campaigns in modern war fare, was little more than an acci dent. plus the incapacity of the Buchanan Administration. . He opposed secession. Like Stone wall Jackson he believed the Southern States should stay in the Union and battle there for their constitutional rights. He was not a supporter of slavery, and would have welcomed any form of eman cipation that promised an amicable settlement of the differences be tween the two sections. Concluding its article, the World says: Lincoin and L«e are the two great figures o( the civil conflict eonrerning whom today there is ‘he least difference of opinion North or South. But if the North is now- generous in paying tribute to Lee's character and genius, it must he said that it has never been ungen erous. Grant testifies in his mem oirs 'hat “it was not an uncommon thing for my staff officers to hear from Eastern officers, Sr - ". Grant ■taps some shtment. that isc was s- ur. led through out the i-nilro North after every ic- ti m in which he was engaged.'’ If there has been any change of Northern sentiment in the last for ty years r -ward Robert E. Lee it is to regard him less and' less as the defeated comrnander-in-chief of a rebel army and more and more as one of the great military figures—perhaps the greatest mil itary figure—of American history. This is praise enough of the South's great chieftain, coming as it does from our friend the enemy, to satisfy the re quirements even of Southern patriots ism. LADIES WHO REMAIN UNMAR RIED. The North American Review la ac cused of suggesting that the Interstate Commerce Act be employed to tax la dies who remain single. “Spinsters.” it is quoted, “are proverbially peripa tetic and flit from sister to sister, and from brother-in-law to brother-in-law with the facility of an awestruck Sec retary of State passing from Washing ton to New York in five short hours: so we may assume that they could readily be brought within the pro visions of the act relating to inter state commerce, and be compelled by suitable “constructions' of the 'Consti tution to meet their just obligations to the rapidly disappearing, human race.” The Review is further accused of re garding the state of spinsterhood as the result of sheer obstinacy and as a subject so grave as to warrant a “spe cial message.” In lieu of such insolent humor, a jurist of Wilkesbarre, Pa., offers ven eration and homage. In his view, spin sters are such not from obstinacy but because of rare courage. It appears that Miss Margaret Farram, confiding in the strength of her youth and the power of her physical charms, “wilfully and' maliciously” called Miss Mary Cassidy, of Wilkesbarre, an “old maid” in the hearing of the passers along a public highway. When the unusual case came into court, the jurist re ferred to argued as follows: “The offense in this cause is a serious one. A good woman, as a reward for a noble and courageous Act, is covered with public odium, obloquy and opprobrium. The plaintiff is called an old maid, and the term is employed as one of re proach. B'ut the thing in itself is not reprehensible, but honorable. To be an old maid presupposes, not moral turpitude or criminal negligence—but courage!” While we would not render this o gallant view any less impressive, we feel moved to suggest that courage is also required to enter matrimony. This was otice illustrated at a “Pilgrim Fa ther’s” banquet by the toast offered the "Pilgrim mothers” because of the hard ships they endured and, above all, be cause they had to stand the Pilgrim Fathers.” BEN BUMPED FOR BUFFOONERY. Ben Tillman’s buffoonery in the United States Senate had an anti-cli max Monday that apepars' to have re stored the South Carolina mountebank in a measure to his senses. The spec tacle of a United States Senator, with out provocation or purpose, except to amuse the spectators in the gallery, deliberately and premeditatedly under taking to lampoon, man by man, his fello'w-Senators and hold them up to public ridicule and contempt, Is possi bly without precedent in the world’s history of legislative bodies. The re buke delivered by Senator Carmack to Senator Tillman for his performance is one of the most brilliant utterances that has ever fallen from the lips of that brilliant Southerner. It is worth reproducing in part, at least, as a model of dignified yet scathing oratory. Mr. Carmack said: "The Senator from South Caro lina saw fit to allude to the fact that I had been defeated for re- election. It was a retort so ob vious, so easily within the reach of the most grovelling controversial faculty that I am not surprised that it should have been suggested to the intelligence of the Senator from South Carolina. "The Senator from'South 'Carolina did not need to lift his belly from the dust to attain to the height of that great retort. I believe it to be true, Mr. President, and I say it with pride, that the fact that my service terminates is a matter of regret to nearly every Senator upon this side of the chamber, and I be lieve to most of the Senators upon the other side of the chamber. I doubt very much whether that could be truthfully said 'with re spect to either side if the Senator from South Carolina were in my position. . "Mr. President, the Senator from South Carolina says that my spear is broken, and that I have taken a garland of flowers upon that broken spear to the White House. • Broken or unbroken, that spear has never been dipped in the filth of the gutter. I am glad to say that that shattered spear will be with- • drawn from here unstained with dishonor or unstained by any act of mine with anything that ap proaches that name.” What reply Mr. Tillman would have essayed to this stinging rebuke will never be known, for when he got up to answer the Senate as a body gave him another and severer rebuke. It turned out the spectators for whose benefit Mr. Tillman does the most of his talk ing and closed its doors and went into a two hours' secret session. What his brother Senators did with Mr. Tillman during those two hours may not be known publicly. B'ut the effect of it was seen in the "profuse apology” which Mr. Tillman made to each one of the Senators he had lampooned, in his promise never to attempt to he "funny” again, and in the announce ment made that the "minstrel show” he had attempted to conduct in the Senate had been expunged from its records. Shades of Havne and Calhoun! What a spectacle in one occupying the seat each of you once adorned! "GREAT” GERSHUNY. The more we know about Russian “reformers” and their views the easier it is to understand how an antiquated and rotten imperialism can hold its own in their afflicted country. Maxim Gorky came to the United States and went away sorrowful because ho found that American freedom did not include “free love" and respectability com bined. The latest Russian to come to this country and talk anarchy is one Gregory Gershuny. who is raising money to promote revolution in his fatherland. Gershuny Is reported to have said recently to a Chicago Interviewer: “The Czar will be killed before my re turn to Russia. I only regret that my engagement in America will prevent my participation In his death.” Ger shuny said further that hf was under death sentence in Russia, that his sen tence was commuted to life imprison ment and that he made his escape. “I may say with without egotism," he modestly commented on the commuta tion of his sentence, "that I made the name of Gershuny so great that the Government did not dare to kill me of fear of a popular uprising.” Proba- ably there are a few Americans suffi ciently unsophisticated to accept this as literal statement of fact. Being asked whether he felt sure the American Government would not interfere with him and his utterances, he answered: “I have every’ confidence in the American people. They believe with me that the Russians should have freedom. I do not think much of your President, but the people at heart are with the Russian movement for free dom. Popular indignation will restrain the President from returning me to Russia." We do not share the “great” Ger- shuny’s confidence. The Russian "re former” who permits himself such ex cessive freedom of speech as to declare publicly that to assassinate a king is a noble act is in danger of being booted out of the country by order of the au thorities. of an even m to definite character than that at present existing. The Count expressed the belief that the latter solution is preferable. This was Inevitable. Having the prejudices of his class, he naturally prefers even an aristocracy founded merely on dol lars to the monotonous level to whit h socialism in practice would reduce the world. To be delivered from both the Seylla of socialism and the Charybdis of a dollar aristocracy should be the prayer of every patriotic American. President Roosevelt and the United States 'Senate have settled their squab ble by agreeing to call the Brownsville “shoot up” an "affray,” at the expense of the victims of that dastardly out rage. Senator E'ailey goes back to the Sen ate from Texas, but he will not be mentioned any more in the Presiden tial class of 'Southerners when that subject is up for discussion. Ben Tillman's head had become so swollen by the applause that had greeted his antics that he undertook to give a Gridiron Club performance in the United States Senate all by him-' self. Ben’s head is not so big now. "ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL.” The only people who are distressed over the outcome in the Senate of the Brownsville episode are the doubtless well-meaning but misguided folks who believed that the negro soldiers did not have a “square deal” and who hoped for some sincere action on the part of the hypocritcal Foraker and his asso ciates In the effort to make political capital for themselves out of the inci dent. Of these the Philadelphia Pub lic Ledger is an able representative. The Public Ledger says of the “Sen ate’s Compromise”: , The result, or non-result, of the long discussion of the Brownsville incident is not in itself imnortant, since the insincerity of it all was equally aparent on both sides. Neither side cared anything about the discharged soldiers or about the principles involved in the dis charge. Those who attacked and • those who defended the President were but “playing politics,” and in such a game the advontage was all on the President’s side. The battle raged with apparent fierceness for many days, with many changes of front each new combination ma- : neuvering to put the others “in a j hole.” The President had nothing., j to do but wait and trust to the Senate’s prevailing indecision. The j result was easily foreseen. The | Senate “compromised” by resolving i not to "question" the action which j had been the whole subject of de bate, and the President once more j comes out a winner. The resolution of the Senate real ly decides nothing. It expresses no opinion. If it can be interpreted as approving the President's notion, 1 then those who have been attack ing him show their insincerity in ' : voting for it. It is simply a com promise upon tho basis of evasion, and the eagerness with which Senators took advantage of the Tillman episode to cover their re treat but accentuates their feeble vacillation. If tho Senate were the dignified deliberative body it is j supposed to be, a person like Till- ' man would have little opportunity I to occupy its attention. To those of us who see in the j Brownsville matter the race question . involved to a dangerous degree the | saying will naturally come that “All’s j well that ends well,” notwithstanding I the devious ways and questionable 1 methods by which the end was brought j about. SUPERLATIVELY ENDOWED. Mr. Brisbane Martin, of Scranton. Miss., has chosen a running mate for Mr. Bryan on the Democratic ticket of 1908 in the person of Hon. 3V. G. Te- bault, of New Orleans, and has Issued a circular front the “3V. G. Tebauit vice-presidential headquarters," de scribing his hero's qualifications. He says that Mr. Tebauit is of good family, is a successful business man. and & life-long and conscientious Democrat. And further: He is a scholar of rare ability, a diligent student of Shakespeare, whose works he can repeat from memory from cover to cover, and a careful reader, whose general reading embraces every publica tion of note in the English lan guage. And what is more signifi cant he has the Happy faculty of retaining and assimilating what he reads. Me. Tebauit. in spite of his acquirements, is modest and unas suming, and, except to a few friends, has lived an almost seclud ed life. His voice is soft and mel lifluous, but when stirred and ex- 4 cited has a force, volume and dig nity that impresses and rivets the attention of his hearers. To this may be added a marvellous mem ory, and a natural elocution im proved by study, pronounced to be perfect by eminent and learned critics North and South. Such is the man, such 'his qualifications. Far be it from us to suggest that any gentleman who has a .“mellifluous voice” and can repeat Shakespeare backwards would not’ make a good vice-president, but we venture to think that Mi’. Martin protests a little too much. His style recalls that of the “society” reporter for the Wilson, N. C., Times who, in describing a gor geous social function of the recent past in that locality, said: The elegant home of that spark ling little jewel. Miss Elsie Moore, who is a s pretty as a picture and as bright as an icicle and as pure as a dewdrop and as sweet as a. flower, was a sparkling scene of radiant loveliness last night, for this beautiful little maiden and her handsomely and magnificent form ed sister had invited a number of their friends to assemble in honor of the beautiful and bewitching Miss Neda Taylor, and the charm ing and fasbinating Miss Rosalie Setzer. who are now dispensing their charms and witcheries in Wilson and making so many hearts drunk with 'the inebriating potations of their intoxicating graces. . . . As said above, it was a brilliant scene of joyous festivity, for the lovely faces of our glorious little maidens were as radiant as the pure and stainless gloamings of a crystal rubbed over in sunbeams and burnished with the dazzling strikes of quivering lightning. Mi. Tebauit may be as rare and lH- diant in his own particular way as are the "glorious little maidens” described above, but the superlatives of Mr. ■Brisbane Martin do not make it clear that he is endowed with all tho quali ties we are accustomed to look for In candidates for statesmanship. DIAMOND CUTTING IN SOUTH AFRICA. According to the African World, of London, cable messages received in that city have revived in more definite form the report that the De Beers man agement is considering the estab lishment of a diamond-cutting in dustry in South Africa, which will give employment to fifteen thous and white laborers. A colonial cor respondent points out that uncut stones to tho value approximately of $35,000,000 are shipped annually from South Africa, and says that the com pany loses a large sum of money which could be made by c.uttina the diamonds on the spot. The reports say that the several Governments in South Africa are to be approached with a view of adding to their financial policy a clause im posing a duty on the exportation of uncut stones and thus assisting in building up a cutting Industry. When Senator Tillman undertook manage the Rate bill in conjunctic with President Roosevelt, Teddy ar his Republican enemies got togethi and left Ben out in the cold. 3Vhc Mr. Tillman undertook to cnllabora with Senator Foraker against tl President, again a secret conferent was held between the Republics friends and enemies of the Presiden and again Ben was left cut in the col But it is a mistake to think he i S n useful. By out-Heroding them t keeps the Republicans from doing the worst. SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS. The.Comte de Mandat Grancey de livered a lecture In Paris a few days ago on “The American Aristocracy,” i and as this scion of an aristocratic French family spent twelve years of : his life on a ranch in the West, he is not wholly unacquainted with his sub ject. His chief point, according to the cable dispatch, was that the two thous- | and millionaires who possess one- j quarter of the national wealth of the United States constitute a real aris- ] tocraey, which he defined as the claps j which establishes superiority for itself j by capacity for producing riches. The solution of the present social iiroblem j in the United States would, be said, I be either socialism or aristocratic ! domination by the very wealthy class j Replies to Secretary Root's “central ization'’ speech are still heard. On Friday of last week Hon. 3VilIiam Pinkney Whyte, speaking in the Senate in favor of the rights of the States, de clared that the United States is not a "nation.” except in its relation :o for eign countries, but a federated repub lic, and he quoted weighty authorities in support of his views. When John Bull gets through with Sir Alexander Swcttenham, Governor of Jamaica, he will know the meaning of the term “sweating” by experience. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pV 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.