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THE twice-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 1907.
TIE XACOH TELEGRAPH
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COMPULSORY EDUCATION.
The criminal Indifference of a certain
rlaj* of wh:t< people to the Interest?
of thoir own • hildren In the matter of
(■duration is fort Inc ma n y thoughtful
r #nplo in tho Pom hern States to favor
compulsory education laws, even where
they were formerly opposed to any
sut-h lntereference by the State in mat
ters supposed :o belong to the domain
• parental authority. Even aniomt
those opposed to the proposition there
|. an admls'lon that the policy must
t.nd will prevail In duo time.
Thus the Nashville Banner says:
‘ Tho Idea of a compulsory education
law for Tennessee, which is beginning
* to meet with growing favor Is an idea
that should be well kept In mind In or
der that tho objects desired may be
promoted, but the enactment of a gen
eral compulsory law by the present
Genera! Assembly W >uld be premature,
for the reason that the general public
school facilities and conditions In the
State have not yet rest lied that ad
vancement which would best conduce
to the proper enforcement of such a
law. If we are to have a compulsory
aw. and we should have one. In due
ttine, it should be made effective and
fiot a dead letter which may be easily
disregarded. To make such a law’ real-
!j* effective there Is yet much to bo
done In school Improvement and In fos
tering the public Sentiment that will
support such a radical departure from
the accustomed methods. The last
Legislature enacted a compulsory
s< hool law to apply to the counties of
Union and Claiborne, but we are In
formed that It lias not been enforced.
A general compulsory school law unen-
for cod would be more hurtful than
helpful. Tin- Idea of compulsory edu
cation should be Industriously Incul-
, ated and school promotion should tend
in that direction, but it would be of
doubtful wisdom to undertake to apply
s drastic law of this kind at this time.”
whenc
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practice of
a competitor
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to
“RUIN OF IT8 COMPETITORS"
"The ruin of Its competitors has
been n ‘distinct part of the policy of
the Standard OH Company In the past,
systematically and persistently' pur
sued. One method has been tho or
ganisation of a perfect system of
espionage over the shipments of its
competitors, resulting in knowledge as
to the destination of every car of oil
leaving the refinery of an independent
company. The Standard agent at the
destination is held responsible If the
independent oil is sold.’’
Such is the deliberate declaration of
the Interstate Commerce Commission
In its report to Congress of the result
of tts investigation of the operations
of the system of Which John D. Rocke
feller Is and has becti from Its origin
the deviser, ehief beneficiary and
responsible head.
"It does not appear that the railroad
companies have directed the furnish
ing" of the necessary "information, or
that the practice has been sanctioned
by superior officials of the road, but it
dees appear that such Information” Is
systematically obtained from the rail-
rend employes. The testimony shows,
that the Standard devoted a fund to
this purpose. "It has frequently hap-
penrd that the shipment" of an Inde-
iwndent company when needed most
has unaccountably gene astray.”
The commission’s knowledge of the
methods of the company, it states, "is
obtained from evidence taken under
oath in this investigation. The Stand
ard was given permission to explain or
rebut the facts,” but the inference is
that it failed to do so. The commission
says of the Standard that "its motto
has been the destruction d competi
tion at any cost, and this policy has
been pursued without much reference
would
ship, but
erects a ta
in that lot
rr. ike the businc s - unprofitable to the
competitor, while prices were main
tained in other localities.” Some of
the methods of the Standard are brief
ly stated os follows.
The Standard has repeatedly,
after becoming the owner, of a
competing company, continued to
operate it under the old name,
carrying the Idea to the public that^
the company was still independent
and competing with the Standard.
It has used such purchased cr in
dependently organized companies to
kill off competitors by such com
panies reducing prices. The oper
ation of such fake Independent
concerns has been dne of its most
effective means of destroying
competition. The Standard has
habitually reduced tho price against
Its, competitor In u particular lo
cality. while maintaining Its prices
nt other places. When competition
was destroyed it resored or ad
vanced former prices. The Stand
ard has sold different grades of oil
at different prices from , the same
barrel. It has paid employes or
independent oil companies for in
formation a - to the business of
those competitors and has paid
employes of industrial companies
to secure the adoption of its oil in
preference to that of its competi
tors. It has followed every barrel
of independent oil to destination.
Its agents are instructed to secure
customers at any sacrifice, it has
tampered with the oil inspectors in
different States. Tin- i’ vs of sev
eral States concerning the inspec
tion of oil arc singularly defective,
and this has been turned to profit
by the Standard.
These things have been said before,
first by Miss Ida Tarbell and other
alleged "muck-rakers,” and more re
cently by Corporation Commissioner
James A. Garfield, but it has never
been so lucidly and authoritatively
stated as In the report of the Inter
state Commerce Commission under
consideration. How the men who-have
deliberately devised and carried on this
system against their fellows can main
tain themselves and continue k their
methods In the face of such an expo
sure is one of the unaccountable mys
teries of the age.
pr rieace nl trying to square .
i: of juries with the thooric
b< ks will vie v these venerable maxims
of the law with many doubts as to their
.tfieacy while .he "unwritten law”
though thrown
fluently be relied on to get in somehow
and play -ume part in tile proposition
of exonerating fro-,- -blood-guilt the
mart who walked up behind another in
op yet It es for
problems ar- -
> :i\ it- by -u
it Ann? - the <
will take this
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rate
the price pf oO j t crowded amusement place lutd with-
iut warning shot him to death.
ibnormal
-stlons as ‘Haw old
on of how long it
of progress to get
back :o the span of life which it Is re
corded was allotted to the Jewish pa
triarchs. We are quite willing to take
f court may con- ; Dr. McGee's statement that the aver
age length of human life Is increasing,
and are more than willing to believe
that the American of the future will be
a larger man in inches, in Intellect and
in strength than is the American of
today. Most people are ready to be
lieve statements that please their van
ity as individuals, as a race or as a
nation, and, where all is speculation.
COURTE8SY AND BALD HEAD8.
Shull bald-headed men sacrifice their
lives rather than disturb Die traditions j why not believe that which Is'the most j
of Southern courtesy nr.d chivalry? pleasing and self-satisfying? The world {
THE PEOPLE MUST WAIT.
The new denatured alcohol bill de
signed to do what the law passed at
the' last session of Congress was sup
posed to do has been agreed upon by
the House Committee on Ways and
Means, but It carries a provision that
the measure shall not become effective
until after September 1, 1908. It Is
stated that this date was fixed at tho
request of the commissioner of Inter
nal revenue. Mr. Yerkes, for the pur
pose of granting him adequate time to
prepare regulations for the manufac
ture of alcohol by small manufacturers
not connected with distilleries.
It appears that the present law.
which was heralded as a concession to
the masses by removing the Internal
revenue tax so that they could man
ufacture It, practically permits only
distilleries and factories having large
denaturing warehouses to engage in
the manufacture of the alcohol de
signed for fuel, light, and manufactur
ing purposes, and the bill just reported
by the House committee is designed to
convert their products into alcohol.
It takes a long time for Republican
legislative relief to reach the people.
This is practically the query propound-
d anti pathetically argued with ap
parently personal feeling by the Bal
timore Mews. The News >ays there
have been many cases of la grippe
and pneumonia in Baltimore recently
and not a few deaths from these and
>.ther pulmonary diseases, and it ap
pears to think that the mortality has
been peculiarly prevalent among bald-
headed men. The News says:
A courtesy inborn and distinguish
ing Baltimoreans—a Southern chi
valry which Is more generally ob
served lit this borderland of the
South than elsewhere, jio'slbly—
demands that a man shall give his
seat to a lady in a crowded street
car: that he shall Rive her prece
dence at all times in passing in and
out of hallways, street cars and
elevators: that he shall invariably
remove his hat while in the same
room or elevator with her. This
Is as it should be. We of the South
would not for a moment compro-
Ajise with the strict requirements
of cotirtesy and polite conduct. But
there is a case of a bald-headed
man with a slight cold who re-
- moved his hat in an elevator and
was next day down with la grippe,
next day with pneumonia. His
funeral was attended by a large
concourse of friends. He wa.s an
unsung martyr to a perfectly wor
thy cause, but we are-inclined to
relieve the pneumonia of entire re
sponsibility by finding this man
guilty of a contributory negligence
which should be taken at its full
value.
The custom of taking off the hat in
an elevator when Itidies are present is
admittedly hard on bald-headed men,
in view of the sudden draughts and
change of temperature encountered,
but if it really amounts to a matter of
life or death with them they will be ex
cusable, we are sure, in foregoing tho
custom. The ladies will not mind the
emission to uncover half so much as
the bald-headed victim will mind tak
ing a trip across Charon’s ferry before I
Ills time for such a reason.
has come. In a large measure, to take
its theology* upon that basis. "Why not ! form
extend it throughout the domain of
speculative belief? Thus far, therefore,
wo are with Dr. McGee. The world is
getting better every year, the span of
human life Is increasing, has increased,
between four and five years in a cen
tury: the race of the future will show
great improvement in mental, physical
and spiritual development: and in all
of this grand march of improvement
Americans will lead the van.”
It seems to be established that the
average length of human life in civil
ized lands is Increasing, but how long
this will continue and to what limit is
pure speculation. It is agreeable to
think that the American of the future
will be stronger in body and mind and
will remain in possession of all his fac
ulties a few years longer, but we may
well hope that our country will never
be burdened with a race attaining the
age of the earliest legendary patri
archs of Israel. For if the birth rate
continued as at present, before many
American Mathusalehs could reach the
over-ripe age of 989 years there would
not even be standing room left on this
continent and the whole race wtjuld die
of suffocation. But we, the creatures
of an hour, may safely leave the mil
lion generations to follow us to tho
care of that .Providence which has
overlooked the million generations that
have preceded us.
BEVERIDGES BILL
Without going into the
child labor legist]
the question as to the desirability or
Undesirability of such legislation by the
states—the Beveridge bill before the
United States Senate Is a mischievous
measure, because it goes to a length
not hitherto gone in the direction of
obliterating State lines. This bill pro
vides that no interstate railroad shall
be permitted to transport the products
of any mill or mine that is known to
employ child labor, or that is suspected
of employing child labor.
It is an indirect but a very effective
and drastic way of controlling the af
fairs of a concern wholly operated
within a State, which is entirely under
the control of the State.
The Savannah News puts it in this
| more profitable,
rits of that they are da;
The reports indicate
g much talking in or- j
without raising | dcr to cover their embarrassment, and j
probably when they are not talking ;
they are praying for a very ea:l.\
spring thaw. At any rate, they are j
doing very little cutting. They com- j
plain that "the regular hands are de-
manding high wages,” and to import ,
new people is expensive. They also |
HARDLY FAIR.
The Pres; lent has bean appealed to.
is stated, "to modify the violence n r'
his attacks
on trusts,” and
ne has
"expressed
his willingness to
reassure
business by
issuing a statement to the
effect that
ho is ont only for
the bad
trusts, and
lias no intention
to harm
a good one.'
”
The bill is a long step In the
direction of centralizing power in
tho National Government. If Con
gress can say that the products of
the mills or mines of any State
shall not bo transported across
State lines. If such mills or mines
employ child labor, it can say that
the products of such mills or mines
shall not be transported by inter
state railroads if they are -manu
factured by labor that works more
than four or six or any other num
ber of hours a day or unless they
are manufactured by mills or are
the product of mire's that make no
distinction in color in the employ
ment of labor. There is no taint
of any kind attaching to the goods.
Hence it would be just as reason
able to say that the products of no
State that required a separation of
the white and colored races in rai-1-
.wny cars or the public schools
should be transported by interstate
raijroads. If Senator Beveridge's bill
should become a law it would
amount practically to a declaration
that the time wasn’t distant when
State lines would he so nearly ob
literated that it would’t be worth
while to contend that the States
had any rights at all.”
A CHECK TO THE SOCIALISTS.
Socialism in the United Staes is still
a progresisng force, but in Germany
it seems not only to hnve reached its
maximum but to be rapidly losing
ground.
Ever since the election of 1887 the
Socialists have in every case increased
their representation in the German 1 are none now over the child labor on
It would be but one step further to
pass a resolution declaring the Federal
Constitution null and void so far as it
relates to the “reserved” or any other
’Tights of the 'States:” and that State
lines are a memory only.
There is something peculiar about
the discussion of this measure by its
author, and about the general interest
only awakened recently in the North
on the child labor question: and that
is the fact that the whole crusade is
aimed at Southern cotton mills. In
former years when there were no cot
ton mills in the South—when the
North had a monopoly of the business
of spinning our cotton—there were no
crocodile tears shed over the child
worker in those Northern mills. There
show that there Is far less good Ice , to be satisfied with
available than nature would have peo- | and acidly remarks:
pie believe. Indeed, it would appeal
that Dame nature has shamelessly would carry little
Joined In a wicked conspiracy against
the persecuted “ice barons” and is de
termined to prevent famine prices for
ice another summer.
All of which demonstrates beyond
question that it is Impossible for
everybody to be happy at one time.
THE CONSTITUTION.
The Athens Evening Call wishes that
“the word ’unconstitutional’ could be p crsonn iiy an d politically
expunged from the vocabulary.”
The New York Times is not disposed
uch a promise
“An 'assurance
of this nature from Mr. Rooseveli
omfort, first, be
cause it will still rest with him to de-
termine which are the bad trusts, and
his judgment on that point has in the
past been swayed by considerations
having little to do with goodness ot
badness; second, because it Is' hard to
believe that ho will in a year imme
diately preceding a Presidential elec
tion voluntarily abandon the policy of
harassing the corporations which has
ien so im
mensely profitable to him. and, third.
There is one safe and sure way to do b ecau3( , j n every State, nil over the
it, and that Is to join with Roosevelt, t r n ion, he has a multitude of imitators
Root. Beveridge and others, and
punge” the Constitution. When
shall have no Constitution then nothing
will be “unconstitutional.” just as
nothing is unlawful where there is no
law.
-But the country is suffering just now
with a spasm of radicalism which in
vokes a so-called “higher law” than
the plain written law, and it is alto
gether mischievous.
DOMESTIC SERVANTS.
The approaching Immigration- con
vention. to assemble in Macon on the
j 19th of February, should attract wide
spread interest in Georgia, and it ' loses have been most marked, in sev-
Reichstag,- but in -the election last Fri
day, to the surprise of everybody, they
lost eighteen seats, and the prediction
followed that' their boasted 3,000,000
supporters would be halved. Their
LAW OF THE THAW CASE.
The Washington Post has employed
a learned and distinguished authority
on criminal law, Mr. William L. Clark,
reviewing editor of the Cyclopedia Of
Law and Procedure, to tell its readers
just how the Thaw case will be tried
give them the
and determined and to
law that will prevail in the proceed
ings. Whether the prisoner is guilty
or innocent, he says, “must be deter
mined not on the facts which have
been published in the newspapers, but
on the facts as they appear from the
to decency or conscience.’’ The mod- [evidence which may be given
era lion of the commission’s language
will be th-' only wonder after a view
of some of the facts it states. It says,
in bullet-like sentences:
"The Standard oil Company largely
monopolizes the handling of petroleum
from the mouth of the well until it is
s-dd to the retailer, and some times to
the consumer." Estimates made in the
report "show a profit on refined oil
from the Sugar Creek refinery at Kan
sas City of from 5 to * cents a gallon."
The evidence shows little basis for
tlie- contention that the company's
enormous dividends "are the legitimate
result of its enconomles.”
the
! trial, and the question will be decided
j by the jury on this evidence under the
j court’s instructions as to the law. They
[cannot convict unless they are con-
| vinced of the defendant's guilt beyond
j a reasonable doubt, and a reasonable
j doubt as to his sanity at the time of
the killing will require an acquittal.
"With respect to the law there can
be little question,” he continues. "In
the first place, it Is perfectly clear that
the so-called ‘unwritten" or ‘higher'
( law. in the sense in which the terms
i have been used in connection with this
J case, lias no place in the law of New
should be largely attended.
To thoughtful observers it is appar
ent that we In the South are upon the
eve of what must prove a revolution in
the unskilled labor world. In other
eral of the large cities, including Bres
lau and Lelpsig.
The Socialist power lias been greater
ill Germany thanqkny other country of
.importance. Its sudden and rapid de
words the field occupied hitherto by clinc there would seem to Imply that
the negroes as laborers and servants is 1 radicalism in this form has seen its
being rapidly deserted by them. How j best days and will now go the way of
this increasing shortage is to be sup- J other passing enthusiasms. But even
plied is one of the great problems of pf the party itself should dwindle away,
Germany's gigantic paternalism with
the Kaiser at its head is in some res
pects an embodyment of the. Socialistic
principle.
The large development of a Socialist
party in most of the other countries is
yet to come, and 'in the United States
the battle between this “ism” and in
dividualism Is still to be fought out.
the day. It will not down. Skilled
labor is scarce enough, but the un
skilled is scarcer. The servant ques
tion Is ever present We naturally look
to the importation of white servants,
but they do not as yet come to the
South. Something migth be done in
the direction of developing white help
of this kind among our own people, if
the cotton producing farms—no, -bless
you, the North wants more and cheaper
cotton, but no more spindles and looms
In the South! It depends on whose ox
is gored.
The cotton crop of the South has
been a golden fleece to the North for
many years. Now that the South is
retaining some of its own, the Bever
idges are getting busy. What do
States' rights, or the rights of any
body, amount to, when they stand in
the way of certain avaricious maws?
people in poverty could be educated out ! former years the Democratic party
of the erroneous idea, that it is de- ■ stood squarely for individualism, while
LET THE WHOLE TRUTH COME.
The report of the Interstate Com
merce Commission on the Standard Oil
Company,, from which we quoted ex
tensively the other day, and upon
which we commented, contained the
following, which will interest every
reputable newspaper publisher in the
country.
"The ‘Standard buys advertising
space in many newspapers, which
It fills not with advertisements, but
with reading matter prepared by
agents kept for that purpose and
paid for at advertising rates as
ordinary news. The assumption is
that this literature furnishes many
of the ideas touching tho great
benefits conferred upon the public
by the Standard Oil Company.
In justice to the reputable press of
the United States, the commission
should publish the names of the
“many” newspapers that have thus
taken the Standard’s money and de
ceived the public in the Standard’s in
terests.
The same may be said of the rail
roads that have connived with the
Standard to crush the latter’s compet
itors.
Let the guilty be uncovered in both
cases so that the innocent may be re
lieved of unjust and hurtful suspicion.
We doubt not that the Standard Oil
Company is a harmful monopoly, and
we believe that it should bo hedged
about with proper restraint and pun
ished for every infraction of law, but
we protest against these general
charges, in the case -of newspapers, and
railroads as well, without such specifi
cation as will justly set apart the sheep
from the goats.
The report is a condemnation not
merely, of the Standard but indirectly
and
j “many newspapers,” so that it is rather
j a ridiculous anti-climax when nothing
| more is recommended than the fixing
of rates. “Under these conditions.” the
i report mildly concludes, “It may be-
i come necessary to the uprooting of
! established wrongs and tile prevention
! of others that the Government shall fix
in the first Instance the rates and reg-
ex ~ i who, observing his astonishing success.
' ve ! have adopted his policies and would
not abandon them even if he should
suddenly resolve to cease being a rad
ical.”
A President who acts hastily and at
tempts to solve so many difficult prob
lems in a single fortnight deserves
sharp criticism and is bound to get it.
but criticism is more effective when it
docs not impute bad motives. ,
Wallace, Taft and Shonts come and
go but the canal will go on forever.
“All coons look alike to me,” the
President declared, but not for publi
cation, at the Gridiron dinner.' What,
not excepting Booker, with whom he
dined?
It Is announced that the “unwritten
law” will not figure in the Thaw trial.
This will be resented by the amateur
lawyers throughout the country who
have tried and settled the case under
this authority.
After twelve years’ negotiations the
negro who owned the cabin on the
Biltmore place that “Vanderbilt
couldn’t buy” has sold out to the owner
of Biltmore for 52,000, which is $6 500
less than he was originally offered for
the place.
It seems that it takes a conference'
of the lawyers with the entire Thaw
family connections and various other
persons to decide upon the line of de
fense to be pursued. A case so con
ducted ought to be “pie” for the other
side.
grading to do dofnestic work about the | from the outset the Republican party
house, or garden, or to drive a plow.
There are many -boys and girls com
SENATOR BACON FOR LEADER.
Reports from Washington indicate
that the contest for the leadership of
the Democratic minority—If there is ! also of the railroads in general
to be a contest—will be between Sena
tors Bacon and Culberson.
Senator Bacon has haE long expe
rience in tho Senate, having been first
elected to that body in 1S94, and he
was unanimously re-nominated last
August for another term of six years,
which term will not expire until March
4. 1913.
Long before his experience in the I illations for the transportation of this
When asked some questions about
his new position as head of the New
York Traction companies, Mr. Shonts
said he “knew nothing about traction
matters, blit I expect to have a pleas
ant time.” Ho knew enough not to get
too deep In the canal Job for hiS health
and pleasure. ■>
Speaking of her prospective visit to
the United States, Ellen Terry is re
ported to have said: “We shall not
leave the civilized parts of the States.
Our tour will not take us farther West
than Chicago.” Chicago will be puffed
up some more when she learns that
she is civilized.
Senate hegan Senator Bacon won Ills 1 traffic. This method has been adopted
spurs as a parliamentarian, having by the Legislature of one State. It
lng to work age—the age of use,
might'more properly say—in our or-' ington. Now a strong impulse in the
phan homes, as well as in- the homes * socialistic direction may be discovered j
of poverty. These should be sought * n both parties. The reason for this
: York. The innocence or guilt of one
"The Standard buys advertising i w », 0 k j]|
space in many newspapers which it
Alls, not a-ith advertisements, but with
reading matter prepared by agents
kept for that purpose.''
“At the basic of the monopoly rests
the pipe line," which, the commission
says. Is about the only "legitimate ad
vantage" the Standard has over its
competitors. "The cost of piping a
barrel of oil from the Kansas field to
tho Atlantic seaboard would not be
much, if any. above 30 cents.” "Pos-
seaslon of the pipe lines enables the
Standard to absolutely control the price
of crude petroleum and the price which
its competitors in a given locality shall
pay. It can raise the price In one lo
cality and obtain its own oil from an
other. and reverse the process when it
desires to do so.” Th. ptp* line sys
tem of the Standard "is not a natural,
but rather an artificial
another depends entirely
j upon the application to the facts of the
j law established by the statute and ju
dicial decisions of the State. Of course,
it is possible fer a Jury to disregard
the law as laid down for their guidance
in the charge of the court, and this is
ali there is to the idea involved in this
use of the term ‘unwritten law.’ but in
New York jurors are not the judges
of the law. but of the facts only, and
under their oaths they are required to
decide according to the law as given
them by the court.”
All thia will sound very familiar to
frequenters of the courts of Georgia
and other States as well as those of
New York, and such will gcnrcely feel
fhe need of the law book editor step
ping down from his ponderous and
weighty tome to tell us about it. But
the application or nen-appl!cation of it
Will appear more clearly when j
out and induced to take positions in
private families, as helpers to the heads
of those families, and taught that it
is no disgrace to work with the hands.
All men cannot “live by their wits,”
nor can all women go the pace of
"society.” Some must work with their
hands.
The negroes are not wholly to blame
for deserting the farm, the kitchen and
the washfub: nor are the poor whites
to be expected to seek eagerly after
these deserted jobs. There is consid
erable blame at the door of Mrs. Money
and Mr. Wealth. Rapidly Increasing
exhibited the socialistic tendency to- I
ward putting almost everything into i
the hands of the government at Wash- ! Se, '' ed ! e ™ ra ^ rn,s as s P eaker of the j Probably will be found necessary to
Georgia House of Representatives. For I disassociate In the case of oil, as in
j years he has been regarded as an au- I that of other commodities, the function
j thority on parliamentary law. Tact- j of transportation from that of produc-
ful and able as 1 a debater he will prove tion
A speculative "gent” of the West who
looks into the future with a far-seeing
eye and prophesies amazing things
to come, selects John D. Rockefeller
as a type of the magnificent “evo-
luted” American of the new golden age.
This provokes a .“robust kick” from tho
Montgomery Advertiser, which is “not
willing to believe that our descendants
wiil dll be bald-headed billionaires.”
among Democrats, is not inherited in
stinct or party tradition, these being
altogether on the side of individualism,
but a new, yet none the less a very
real fear of the power of multi-million
aires and great corporations.
and distribution. What other
The Amalgamated Association of the
Lonely has Just been organized in New
York, it is said. It probably includes
GULF STREAM PLAYING PRANKS.
s
The announcement has been made by
the Gulf Division of the Hydrographic
office at New Orleans, in charge of
Capt. John C. Soley, that ’’the Gulf
stream has changed its course.’
The dispatch says further that these
changes are noted between the time
prosperity and wealth has turned the j the stream leaves the north coast of
heads of men and women. They leave
off the simpler life, too often, and set
a pave of extravagance and show, which j is to issued next month.
: South America until it enters the At
lantic. A map indicating the changes
in turn upsets their socially ambitious
but poorer neighbors, and away they
Whether these changes produced the
recent earthquakes, or the earthquakes
go! A place in the society columns of , produced these changes, or that -they
the daily newspaper is more greatly to j were in any way related as cause and
lx- desired than a sound mind in a ! effect, no one will probably ever know;
healthy body which comes as the re- ( and yet the thought involuntarily
ward of useful employment in the day I spring up with the information as to
and restful sleep at night. j the coincidental facts.
The indolence of ease is not only '< It was reported some weeks ago,
harmful to those indulging it. but it is • just before the Jamaician earthquakes,
harmful also to others. i that the Gulf Stream was' abnormally
The discussions at the immigration warm. There is little doubt, perhaps,
convention should lake a wide range. . that these changes in the current and
a worthy foeman of the best talent on remedies in adition to those already | the lady who made au unsuccessful at-
provided it may be necessary to pre- j tempt to become acquainted with her
scribe can be better determined in the ; next-door neighbor by sending the lat-
the Republican side.
More than this, in these days of radi
calism run mad in both political par
ties. Senator Bacon would be justly
conspicuous as a minority leader for
his conservatism. He is one of the
few left who stand hard apd fast by
the best traditions of the old Demo
cratic party, and by the principles
enunciated in the beginning by the
fathers of the Republic. His steady
hand is against the extremer phases of
Rooseveltism on the one hand, and
Populism as accentuated by Watson
and Hearst on the other.
His many friends and admirers in
Georgia would be pleased to see him
put forward as the minority leader by
his Democratic collenmies.
NOT AN UNMIXED BLESSING.
near future by the results of expe
rience in administering the present
law.”
We are of the opinion that the coun
try has had enough of expensive inves
tigations without tangible results fur
ther than the filling of the public mind
■with suspicion of the Innocent and the :
ter a present of a plate of hot biscuits,
and had them returned to her with
tho message that gifts from entire
strangers were not acceptable.
When Mr. Wallace deserted the canal
for more agreeable employment the
President was indignant and virtually
accused the retiring officer of being a
guilty alike. Let the evil be uncovered | traitor to his country. Now Mr. Shonts
and the doers thereof punished, and let i kas d° ne the same thing and retiriuj.
the ban of suspicion be removed from j the President’s blessing.- Is this
the innocent even though demagogues
may thus be robbed of a large part
of their stock in trgde.
AN UNFINISHED STORY.
j Apparently the desire for wordly
| honor does not always end with death.
Delightful winter weather” is re- According to report, a gentleman resid-
ported from all our States that touch ; n Kokomo, Ind., has just died and
i because the President is a man of
| mdods and there is no telling what ho
| may do under given conditions, or be-
[ cause Mr. Shonts was less prized than
Mr. Wallace and really did not earn
his fancy salary of $30,000 a year?
MAN PROPOSES.
According to Dr. McGee, of the St.
Louis Museum, the American of the
future is to be a giant both in Intellect
and in bodily development and will
live much longer than men of today,
returning gradually toward the longev
ity reported in ancient times. He cites
In support of his argument that the
average length of human life has in
creased within half a century from
twenty-seven to twenty-nine years, a
century ago the average being between
twenty-four and twenty-five years.
Commenting, the Portland Oregonian
observes: "We leave to those whose
temperature of that wonderful moving
- body of water, has had something to do
I with the remarkably mild winter wc
i have so far experienced in the Atlantic j able circumstances.
: and Gulf States. Cold wave after cold
j wave has appeared as usual on the
i northwestern Canadian border, but they
i have steadily refused to come down
I this way. Something has caused them
| to travel eastward along the upper
j lakes and out by the St. Lawrence
' route.
; The scientists have not yet begun to
! solve the mysteries of the earth and
! air. They are perking at the pebbles
on the sea shore with the unfathomed
ocean before them.
the Canadian border. This means that .
the snow lies thick and dry and grainy 1
as granulated sugar, that the continual
sound of sleigh hells is In the air, that
the lakes and rivers are frozen hard
deep down, and that wagons laden with
merchandise as well as the skating feet
of happy youth pass over them.
It also means a struggle to find suf
ficient means to kep warm on the part
left $50,000 to the church he frequented
on condition that his spirit be elected
a member of the board of trustees and
be permitted to attend its meetings.
This is one of the many stories that
are disappointing because of being
"clipped off in the middle," so to speak.
Was the gentleman’s spirit elected a
member and has his immortal part yet
attended a meeting and insisted on
of the poor as well as fine crisp air j takinf . a fan part in the discu<
and good health for those in comfort-
To the former we !
would say: Pack your bundles and ;
come South where a warm welcome
will be yours as well as a balmier cli- j
mate, and where the fight for a com
fortable existence is so much l^ss
strenuous.
Lastly, the old-fashioned winter | .
weather in the States referred to is a ] The New York Times has printed a
sore distress to the "ice barons.” Na- j letter from "A Contented Y.’orking-
ture’s bountiful store of ice for the [ man," but withheld his name and ad-
coming summer is not to their liking, dress, doubtless fearing that he
sion?
Or did the other members beg to be ex
cused and cause the church to sacri
fice fifty thousand good dollars rather
than be scared stiff by the presence of
a ghost at their conclaves? It is a
| crime to excite curiosity in this man-
, ner and then leave the story unfin
I ished.
People—or those of the feminine gen
der—dote on a wedding ceremony, and
it Is not a surprise to learn that em
ployment of one to fill the seats of a
theatre In Hagerstown, Md., was high
ly successful. The alert theatre man
ager paid the generous sum of $25 to
the bride and bridegroom themselves
for the purpose, and in addition paid
the minister, the hack hire, and gave
the hride a bunch of flowers. The poor
est of plays might be made to succeed
in that way—at least for one night in
every small town.
X
fupposeri scant supply of manufae- be overwhlemed with letters
would
asking
$u:cd ice at high prices being much j him for the precious secret.
We have more good ships than good
sailors, it would seem. The new bat-
| t eship Connecticut, only just turned
! loose from the hands of her builders
for a career of marine adventure, has
already been run upon a reef while en
tering the harbor of Culebra Island.
As a result there was a break fifty Toot
long in her forward plates. The ves«.-i
will have to b decked for repairs.
Phir- that cost from five fo ten mil
lions eijght to litivr a fen : ■ -1 sailors
an board.