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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1907.
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THE MACON IHBHn
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING
AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE
MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH
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STREET, MACON, GA.
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C. R. PENDLETON, President
BROWN’S MOUNT.
Mr. Boifeulliet’s admirable sketches,
~r>n the Win*." for The Telegraph,
have proven to ba very Intaresting
f.atur.s, and have attracted th* at
tention they deserve. But nothing’ he
has written has been mora Interesting,
perhaps, than the two discussions of
•■Brown's mount” and the evidences of
a prehistoric raca In the "Ocmulgee
fields.”
It Is pretty general? conceded by
»e)entists. we believe, that what wo
call "Indian mounds” are not Indian,
but th“ mounds or burying places of
n race of peoplo who preceded the In
dians and who were probably more
civilised, evidences of which have
cropped our In .a number of ways and
places, and of whom the Aztecs found
In Mexico by the Spaniards were the
last representatives.
<hn the Islands in the Okcdlnolcno
Fwnmp these mounds rise In bold re
lief, because neither the plowshare nor
the trend of men and cattle have cut i
them down. The The writer went Into
some of them once with a force of la- ;
SOMEWHAT DISQUIETING.
Recent events and u -r ”rariep? con
nected with th" Japanese question are
a little dlsquietl, tr. On January
the Japanese Foreign Minister, In a
speech delivered in the House of Rep
resentative .at Toklo, expressed The
belief that the right of Japanese child
ren to attend any school in San Fran
cisco to wh'ch o’her 'arelrr.ers are ad-
! mltted will be conceded. He added
that In the event of an unfavorable
decision "the anti-Japanese movement
in California would he considered to
represent the opinion of tho whole
United State?, which would require
diplomatic adjustment.”
On the following day, January 30,
the Pre-ident. Secretary Root and Sec
retary Merealf, and tho entire Califor
nia delegation, held a conference in
the White Hou:
Hearst’s right to run the rhemocratic | done wi h the one, or quite ready for
side of the H^use, and Hearst has the other, as yet.
merk---d him for defeat and humiliation.
The Now York editor is supposed to be
behind the candidacy of Vardaman. i
who is opposing Williams for the I
STATE PENSIONS FOR CONFED
ERATES.
The Nashville American boasts that
Tennessee gives its disabled Confed-
If Hearst is the Democratic party it : erate veterans better pensions than
will be wen for that fact to become es- , any other Southern State. “Its lowest j orlty of men holding public posl-
tablished se that the masses of Dem- Pension to men.” says the American, t ions here were educated by Amerl-
WAR UNTHINKABLE.
Raron Kaneko. who was formerly a
special envoy to the L T nited States,
says that war with America is un
thinkable.
"The Japanese unders'and Ameri
cans better than the Americans under
stand Japan." he said. “A great ma-
ocrats in the country can know 1L
”ls *60 a year, or 15 a mon.h. M id- cans. Instructed by American lnstruc-
ows of the first class receive *72 a . tors _ and have long studied American
EIGHT-HOUR LAW ON FARMS. - vear > and widows of the second class, ins Itutions. Now, throughout the
The Manufacturers’ Record thinks Only a few States pension wid- present and otherwise they are helping
that the eight-hour law would not j ' Jws - and none pay over *30 a year, or the peo p] e [ 0 appreciate the difficulty
work well on the farms In the South. ; half the rate in Tennessee.” the Federal Government lies under in
and it believes that the ’ Farmers’ Ed- i As regards the pensions granted by controlling the action of the Individual
uca tlonal and Co-operative Union” j other Southern States, the American Sta eg . Hence, after the first phase of
which r'-'-ently convened in Atlanta, j
made a mistake in recammending by j
resolution "what Is known as the na- !
Immediately after- tlonal eight-hour law."
ward the President sent a dispatch to With tart sarcasm the Record says: j
yan Francisco .asking *he Beard of Ed- "There is some lndeflniten’ess about j
ucatlon to come to Washington, and that resolution, but it looks as though i
then the President had a dispatch sent the members of the organization have j
to the Governor of California asking come to the conclusion that the hands j
that all anti-Japanese legislation be on farms should not go to work until ■
held up. $ o’clock in the morning, should have j
Was this an indication of alarm at an hour for rest at noon and should
Washington, or merely of a desire to stop work for the day at 5 o’clock In
employ the utterance of Japan’s for- the evening. Tney probably are aware ;
elgn minister as a means of frighten- that any national eight-hour law that j
ing California Into compliance with could hold water, even if it could be j
Executive wishes? That it may pos- passed, could make no distinction of :
says:
"In Alabama rtiost pensions for
men run from *16 to *1S a year,
and none over *30. In Virginia the
average pension Is *30 a year, and
.in South Caro-ina the majority of
'pensions paid are *18.So a year.
In Georgia a pensioner who lost
one finger is paid *2.50 a year, or
a fraction over 20 cents a month.
The average pension in Georgia is
*30 a year. In Louisiana .he ma
jority' of pensions are 330 a year.
In North Carolina the average is
*25 a year, in Mississippi it is *22.
and in Arkansas *20 a year. In
Texas pensions range from *1 to
*1S a year. It will thus be seen
that Tennessee pays a higher rate
of pensisons than any other State.”
Tet the American admits that Geor
gia actually pays out much more
any other Southern State, her appro
priation being SSCO.OOO a year, while
that of Tennessee is only $250,000 for,
veterans and *25,000 for widows. The
explanation is that Georgia has 17,000 I
the segregation question, the people
gained confidence in the sympathy
which a great majority of the Ameri
cans still have toward Japan. Japan’s
moral system insists tha: a finger shall
never be raised against a benefactor.
Japan owes her position among the
powers to America. The American
Government and people, with England,
are Japan’s best friends. War is un
thinkable.” s
Which shows that Kaneko is a wise
man and we have no doubt he is cor
rect when he says Japanese (the In
telligent of course) understand Ameri
cans better than Americans understand
Japanese. The little bit of sentiment
which he throws into his remarks is of
tne pene’rating kind and sinks deep.
His candid admission that Japan owes
her present position among world pow-
j ers to America is gratifying to Ameri
can pride, and it is also reassuring.
sibly be the former is suggested by weather or seasons: that upon the
the note of anxiety In some of the long farmers would fall the burden of the j money ln Confederate pensions than
editorials ln lending newspapers, in extra miiliuns of dollars of taxes for
which there is a somewhat too pro- the hire of inspectors to see that the
nouncefi effort to convince the Jap- laborers on the farms did not violate
anese that they could gain nothing by the law, and that whether or not the
, ... . , , , _ a war with this country. The New hay was all in at 5 o’clock and a thun- , ,
W.rs armed with hoe and pick, and i^ f<>r examp , 0 offers Japan der storm C0TnInj? on , the hand3 of the I pensioners and Tenessee only. 3.936. MR. SHAW’S “FREE PORT” IDEA.
the benefit of this timely warning: j employers would be liable for proseeu- ! The p °P u,a lon of Georgia in 1S60 was
tlon if they lifted an implement or ! about 50 ’ 000 less than that of Tennes-
j used a machine. The Farmers’ Edu- i yee ’ but the IattG r’-* representation In without Investigation we might con-
catlonal and Co-operative Union of I tbe Confederate army was much elude hat they have a definite policy
| America is evidently prepared to join
the host of beings in the country who
j make a living by farming the emo-.
I tions of their fellow-men and fellow-
women.”
found human skulls which crumbled
Into dust very soon after being exposed
to the air, ard there were found also
the eeit, or stone hatchet, which the
scientists say were the weapons, not of
the Indians, but of a prehistoric race.
Civilization Is fast obliterating these
evidence? of an ancient people, and it
would be a matter of Interest, and por
no ps of u-e, if tho Government Bureau
of Geological Survey could. be induced
to pry tnlo the mysteries Of Brown's
Mount and the Ocmulgee Fields before
time and tho tread of man hnvc worn
them out of sight.
"Nothing could be more fatal to
the hopes of tyer people, nothing so.
destructive of the reputation of her
rulers and chief men. as a breach
of the customs of the family in
which *he has taken her place as a
member and a disregard of the
principles that control the relations
of civilized powers. For should
passion or grandiose notions bred
of the military spirit betray her
into ill-judged courses now, the
world would feel that it must re-ex
amine her titles to recognition as a
great and wise nation, must Judge
again the quality of her statesmen
and her citizens, and in the end
she would almost inevitably find
herself constrained to occupy a
position much inferior to that to
which she now justifiably aspires.”
We hear much of the "stand pat’
tariff policy of the Republicans, and
STATE RIGHTS AS AN ISSUE.
Senator Rnyner made a suggestion ' and havs evidently been given on the
tne other day that Is worthy of con- | principle that a half or a quarter loaf
sideration. He is convinced, as are ; * s better than no bread. Doubtless the
j iurge numbers of other peop’.e, that j Southern governments have believed
J President Roosevelt, by overstepping i they were doing as much in this
j lws authority is establishing a danger- ; Particular as they could afford. Bur-
And now it seems that the Presi- ' uus precedenL He complained that j dened with the necessity of supporting
dent’s proposal to reach a solution .Mr. Roosevelt dominates Congress, that ! separate schoois for the negroes and
through a new treaty of mutual exclu- ho “interposes his office into the law- j contributing.-through taxation in va
smaller than the former’s chiefly be- ; well defined Jn all its aspects, to which
cause east Tennessee contrlbu ed no they adhere with a unanimity factional
less than 30,000 troops to' the Federal
army. '
The pensions received by Injured
Confederate veterans in mist of the
Southern States are pathetically small
GULF STREAM AND THE
WEATHER.
Tb* other day Tho Telegraph dis
cussed the announcement from the Hy
drographic office at Now Orleans, that
the Gulf stream had abandoned its j slon * s Tlot "' c l come fi either in Japan making power, assuming legislative rious forms an aggregate for the whole
beaten way and was pushing a new I or ln country. According to Tokio rights to a greater extent than he South of fifty millions a year toward
path through gulf and ocean. Of
course wo knew nothing very much,
if anything. About the. effect of this
view departure, bnt some suggestions
were tentatively made by way of spec
ulation.
Discussing this article the Dublin
Dispatch gives some Interesting facts
about the great ocean river:
The Gulf stream is one of the
strange freaks of nature. It start
In the Gulf of Mexico between the
coast of Florida on the one side
and the Bahama Islands and shoals
on the other. With a breadth of
about fifty miles In its narrowest
portion, it has a velocity at times
of five miles an hour, pouring along
like an Immense torrent. This
great ocean river flows northeast
along the American coast, gradu
ally widening Its currant and di
minishing ln velocity, until it
reaches the Island and banks of
Newfoundland, when It sweeps
across the Atlantic and divides Into
two portions, one of which turns
east toward the zones and const of
Morocco, while the other laves the
shores of the British Isles and
Norway.
The waters of the Gulf stream
are of deep indigo blue, tho bottnd-
ries sharply defined against the
light green of tho seas through
which It passes In its early course.
As this great stream pours out of
the Gulf of Mexico, it has a warmth
of fit degrees In summer, being
four degrees higher than that of
the o,-ean at tho onuator. In mid-
AtInn!ic. opposite Nova Scotia. It
has fallen at all seasons only about
fourteen degrees, while the British
Islands and northwest coast of Eu
rope. at a distance of 4.000 miles
from the Gulf are hathed in waters
heated by a tropical sun and have
their temperatures raised in win
ter about thirty degrees above the
normal frjnperatme of the lati
tudes. In mid-winter, off the in
clement eoasl of North America
between Cane Hatters a and New
foundland. ship? beaten back from
their harbors by fierce northwest
ers until loaded down with ice and
*V» danger of foundering, turn their
prows to the east and seek relief
and comfort In the Gulf stream. A
bank of fog rising like a wall
caused by the condensation of
warm vapors meeting a colder at
mosphere. marks the edge of the
cream. The water suddenly changes
from grem to blue, the climate
from winter to summer, and this
change is so sudden that when a
ship Is crossing the line it Is de
clared that a difference of thirty
degrees of temperature has been
marked between the bow and th©
stem.
We have had a few cold "spells" this
winter, but th© fact remains that from
Montana across east to the St. Law-
ranee the winter has been very severe,
while in Georgia and Florida It has
been unusually mild. Why, we do not
know, but the first things to pop Into
suggestion are the South Sea earth
quakes and the pranks of th© Gulf
Btream.
Maybe we will know some day.
dispatches, the feeling there is that ”a could if he were a member of that body, *^e support of of Union veterans, the
solution must be effected on Japan’s dismembering the Constitution and ex- j Southern State governments have not
treaty rights pure and simple,” and ac- ercising precisely and identically the been as liberal in pensioning the in-
cording to Washington dispatches, tho j same power and control as if the Con- Jured veterans of the Lost Cause as the
Senate will never dare ratify a treaty 1 stitution had declared that Congress majori’y of their citizens would have
excluding from Japan American la- shall pass no law without the consent liked. But now that increasing indus-
borers or any * other single class of of the President." ! trial development and prosperity are
American citizens. i Mr. Ravner’s interesting suggestion 1 coming our way, is it not possible to
It can be readily understood that no to which wc have referred was ex- • do more? t
American politician would like to he j pressed as follows:
caught voting for such a treaty. It J '
I be’jeve if the Democratic party
would take up as its batt'e cry
the reserved rights of the S ates,
and the inviolate constitutional
distinction of the legislative, tho
judicial and the executive deoart-
men s. we could rally around the
doctrine the intelligent suffrages of
our countrymen.
must be said, however.- that such a
concession (of mutual, exclusion of la
borers) to Japan would be far less
costly than to take away California’s
right to regulate her own schools and
thus revolutionize the American dual
system of government. Only a few j
American laborers of the highly skilled
WHAT AILS THE SAVANNAH
PRESS?
! With all due respect to our contem-
! porary. The Savannah Press, we can
not find In pur files the remark at
tributed to us. to-witt that Senator
Bacon "stands half way between
: Roosevelt and Watson.” The words
It really looks as if the State rights quoted are put in quotation marks as
class would ever find it of advantage question might be mode a practical being our exact words,
to seek employment in Japan, and be- issue, when we recall the criticism of What we said was this: "His steady
sides, if Congress has the right to ex- Secretary Root's centralization speech, hand is against the extreme phases of
elude, so has the Mikado. the. exci'ement in Callfronia over the Rooseveltism on the one hand, and
But Japan objects also, it Is said. President's threat to override that Populism as accentuated by Watson
If this be so. the matter is indeed dif- State’s school regulations, and other and Hearst on the other.”
ficult of adjustment Now that the events of a similar significance. The | Tbe Press says:
! President appears to have abandoned desire to maintain our dual system of j
| his first seeming intention of ignoring Government as provided for by the j
I California's rights, the sympathy of Constitution, and to resist undue cen- !
tho entire country will be with him in tralization of power In tho Federal
his efforts to find an honorable solu- branch, is still strong and widespread, ‘
Democrats can never hope to imitate.
But there Is one section of the tariff
ques ion on which the Republicans by
no means stand together, and the con
tradictions of the various speakers are
really amusing. Somebody ought to
decide what the party should think in
this particular, so tha: tho bewildered
rank and file may think and speak ac
cordingly.
It is well known that American goods
of various sorts are sold by their man
ufacturers at cheaper rates to foreign
ers than to home consumers. Yet the
facts are indignantly denied by some
Republican speakers and joyously con
firmed by others. Mr. Hepburn, for
example, has dismissed them as the
inventions of wicked Democrats, while
Mr. Daizell has gloried in the fact that
we sell abroad cheaper thun at home,
arguing that it is a blessing to Ameri
can consumers to pay high prices for
articles the foreigne.r gets for low
prices. We presume this is an echo
of the time-honored Republican theory
that it is much more respectable to pay
high prices than to pay low ones, the
purchaser of a cheap coat being defined
by one of the party’s orators a good
many years ago as “a cheap man.”
Now comes Secretary Shaw with a
remarkable plan for keeping the Amer
ican consumer respectable by compell
ing him to pay the same high or higher
prices, and further degrading the for
eigner by furnishing him American
goods at. cheaper rates still. Mr. Shaw
proposes to set apar: three areas on
the Atlantic coast and one on the Gulf.
WHY DO SOUTHERN PEOPLE
APOLOGIZE?
Hon. Charles H. Grosvenor. Con
gressman from Ohio, delivered in the
House on th© 20th ultimo, an address
"on the life, character and public ser
vices of linn. William >H. B'a e. late
Senator from the State of Tennessee,
which deserves to attract widespread
attention in the South particularly, and
which ought to make some of our
Sou hern politicians and public men
sit up and take notice.
After paying a deserved tribute to a
great Southern Senator, and sketching
his life work, particularly that part of
It which related to Gen. Bate’s con
spicuous work in the war between the
states, Congressman Grosvenor con
cludes with these striking words:
Another thing I wish to say:
Why should not a man like Bate
have been a member of the Senate
of the United States as a repre-
senatlve of the great S ate of
Tennessee? He had lived In the
State and had fought for the State.
He had made sacrifices. He had
been -hot and bruised, his property
had been destroyed His people
sent him here, and under the Con
st! ution they had a right to send
him here, and their action was su
preme and conclusive. No man
can question it. Upon the broader
plane of national politics, is it wise
for the peop'e of the South to con
stantly appear to recognize and
cons antly signify an admitted dis
ability in the great political contest
of the day of the men who fought on
tho Confederate side? Why should
they, the people of the South, place
conditions of dlscoun upon the
men who stood in the battle for
them? Why limit the honors to
be bestowed upon heir fell: w-citl-
zens and the men who did not fight
in the Confederate war? What is
there ln the view of the people of
this country today th©t pu s upon
the Southern man who fought In
the army of the Confederacy a d's- j
ability In any particular with rela
tion to he action, hi’torv a-d
movements of the United States?
W^en the'Eres’-’ent of the TT-Ited
Ststps. and he has my nn-'roval—
I have not had an epportuni y to
know who else approve- it—when
our President. A R”publican. a
Northern man. writes such a let
ter as he wrote to the assembly
last night, met in honor of the
blr hday of Gen. R'hert E. Lee,
the time has come when the South
should quit apologizing or explain-
i”g or adv»r*isinsr disabilities and
stand upon the front line of their
political ideas, rfec'cnizing no dis
ability, turning their backs upon
tha pa't, and hailing the present,
and such a position would be the
best vindication thot the South
could give to men like Bate.
Yes, Indeed, it is time to quit apolo
gizing. When The Telegraph has
A LIMIT TO THE “SQUARE DEAL.”
After a!!, it is not likely that a negro
will be appointed surveyor of customs
at Cincinnati, according to a news ar
ticle in the Washington Post.
And why not? “It is understood,”
says this authority, “that the President
has heard from some of his friends in
Ohio and they advised him that public
sentiment is strongly inimical to the
s-lection of a colored man for that
office." We are further informed that
”in view of this development in the
situation.” the President "has prac
tically come ‘to the conclusion to name
a negro for some other Federal office,
although he has not determined what
it will be.” Presumably it will be
some minor office whose occupant will
come in contact with the Ohio public
less, and to which the appointment of
a negro will cause less public dis
pleasure.
Ohio was filled with righteous indig
nation at the opposition to the appoint
ment of a negro as collectr of the port
of Charleston, but Ohio will not have
a negro as surveyor of customs at Cin
cinnati, and however greatly the Pres
ident may desire to dose. Foraker with
some of the latter’s own medicine, he
must consider the wishes of Ohio after
snapping his fingers in the face of the
wishes of South Carolina.
Did it ever occur to the President
that this sort of thing is diametrically
opposed to his "square deal” doctrine?
If the blacks of the South have a right
to high office, so have the better edu
cated blacks or Ohio. If the whites of
; Ohio have a right to object, so have
j the whites of Southern States. The
I only difference is that the South has
! been a disconsidered section ever since
i the nightmare era of so-called recon
struction. and its influence at Wash-
i ington is still—as Uncle Remus would
; say—-‘powerful lackin'.” Perhaps the
President would argue that in this
i hard, practical world the strong must
| be conciliated and the weak left to take
j their medicine. At any rate, this is
! precisely the theory on which he acts
in this particular. The "square deal”
is limited by circumstances.
A VIRGINIA YARN.
A remarkable bear story was tele
graphed from Afton, Va., to a New
York newspaper the other day. The
story gees that James Ingram left
.home early in the afternoon, proposing
urged a Southern man for Pre-ident we to bis wi ^ e * ater and &° with her
were '.old that the time is not yet, and t0 a dance a neighbor’s. It was
then always followed a lot of apolo
gizing.
In the course of Sir. Crosvenor’s
speech he related the following Inter
esting incident: “It is not worth
while," said he, “to plead ‘not guilty’
where there is no indictmenL The
agreed that he should meet her at a
fence near a small wood and take their
child and go with her the rest of the
way. The woman started later than
she intended, and it was dark and cold
when she reached the feqce, where she
saw, 'dimly, a figure on the other side.
world has settled hat question. The She greeted her supposed husband and
world has looked on with wonder at handed ove r the infant preparatory to
the reuniting of the jwo great wings of ! cJim bing the fence, but to her aston-
this country, the North and the South, j ishm ent the figure disappeared without
In 1890 I was a member of an official j a word> takin F th e baby with it. Short-
commission which was sent to Europe ! ,jr r.Rerward Ingram, coming along the
for certain purposes connected with
the Chicago Exposition and with rela
tion to the consular service in Europe.
■VFith a number of the members of tha:
commission and another commission I
had the honor to be present In the city
of Berlin at a dinner given by the
vice-chancellor of the German Em
pire. There were present on that oc
casion a colonel of the Canfedera e
army, a major of the Confeder-
path, met his frantic wife, and calling*,
help searched for his child in vain.
Next morning the tracks of "an im
mense bear” were found leading up
into tho’ mountains.
This story strains credulity almost
as painfully as that North ’ Carolina
tale of wild turkeys that flew up and
carried away the robf of the barn in
which they had been trapped. We can
believe that a bear might stand on its
tion.
HEARST VS. BAILEY.
Mr. Heart’s New York American
makes the following indictment against
Bailey, Williams and Taggart:
although centralization is nowadays
rampant among Democrats as well as
among Republicans.
But it appears to us that State rights
as a paying, practical issue at the
present time is somewhat doubtful ow
ing to the fact that the average man
cares much more about his daily bread
than about the farm of Government
under which he lives.
It begins to look more and more as
if the masses of the people in this
country are convinced that their daily
The re-election of Joseph W.
Bailey to the United States Senate
does more than disgrace the Legis
lature which committed the crime
and humiliate the clean; citizenship
of Texas. It gives just cause for
resentment and alarm to every
honest man throughout the coun
try. and adds heavily to the bur
den of discrediting associations
which the Democratic party carries— j bread is threatened. There is just
—a burden It mii't be rid of before [ enough truth in this to make the mat-
M th© court can swallow the legal
proposition laid down by Thaw’s coun
sel, that he was waxy only on the sub
ject of killing White, and having dis-
poaed of his subject he is sane and In
nocent to and for all other Intents and
purposes. It Is clear that Thaw was
wiser than the other members of his
family when he s cod out against a
straight out plea of insanity.
it can hope for the people’s respect
and confidence.
There is no man in our public
life who is more utterly bankrupt
in reputation than Joseph W. Bai
ley. He is at the service of any
one who needs him and is willing
to pay the price. . .
How can the American people be
expected to trust and come to t^e
support of a norty which permits
itself to be officered by such men
as now achieve consolcuou’ness
and power in the Do-oocre.tie or
ganization? Its official head Is
Tom Taggart, chairman of the Na
tional Committee, a dive-keeper
and corporation tool. Its Ie-dcr in
the House of Representatives is
John Shorn WVliams. a railroad
lawyer, and Baliev, Standard Oit
agent and lobbyist is prominent
and influei‘ : o] In the Senate.
The machinery of the nartv is in
the hands of the enem’ns of D’tn-
oeraev—the Interest* w'' , o*i nomi
nated Porker for the Pr©sf' , encv
and s-ught for him the support of
the pi’laging trusts: the Interests
that oppose the nomination and
eteotion of real Democrats and get
s->’id!y behind such pretended
Democrats as Baiiev and Williams
and Parker.
1 ter serious, for the tariff-nurtured mo
nopolies undoubtedly do squeeze trib-
; ute out of the people, and they do it
: by permission of the Republican party.
While the people appear to believe
1 all this, they also seem to regard Prers-
id-nt Roosevelt as their champion. It
appealed to against their suppose^
champion in favor of State rights,
, many of them would scoff at the la ter
as an old worn-cut fake and confess
. to a willingness to keep him in office
| for life if he will only protect them
| from the all-devouring Octopus.
; “The real critics of the- President,”
significantly remarked the Washing on
Pest tho other day, “who think they
rerceive a decline in his popularity,
and who are even ready to accuse him
of a leaning toward tyranny ln his ef
forts to correct great corporate abuses,
“The Democratic contest for the
nex ten years is going to be for
the proper and legitimate . control
of the great corporations and
trusts - for th<» rule of the people;
for the integrity of he States:
f-r the we’fare of the masses: for
the suppression of special privi- ]
i lege: for the reduction of the '
tariff and for the retirement of |
bounties ar.d subsidies. I will |
need an aer-essive fjs-h*er. a man
thoroughly lde-tified with the peo
ple. ready and resourceful in the
l upper house believed to be domi
nated by the represent”t’ves of the
i special lnteres s. If Fenator Ba-
1 c”n is enlisted in these ranks he
win be Just the man to be m”-i e
lender. The faint pr”‘?e of The
Macon Telegrmh would indicate
, that Senator Bacon is not such a
champion.”
The Press sta‘es what ought to be
the Democratic position in strong lan
guage. and truly, just as we would
have stated it if we had gone further
into the discussion of the ques
tion: but we emphatically dis
claim any purpose to indulge in
"faint praise” which “would In
dicate that Senator Bacon is not such
a champion” as the Press would have
for a Democratic leader in the Senate.
If Roosevelt, or Hearst, or Watson,
stands for "proper and legitimate con
trol of the great corporations ,and i
trust: for the rule of the people: for
the in egrity of the State: for the wel
fare of the masses: for the suppres
sion of special privileges: for the re
duction of the tariff and for the re
tirement of bounties and subsidies,"
we have not read heir records right.
Of course all three have blustered a
where manufactories shall be estab- j ate army, a captain of the union j hind ,e S s a fcnt -e, and that It might
iished and allowed the blessings and j army, and myself, all members of the
advantages of absolute free trade in j same commission and all bearing the
raw materi”ls that are imported, to
be fashioned into goods, wares and
merohandi-e for the foreign trade,
theugh the same articles of commerce,
if sold in the American market, are to
bo taxed on the raw material the full
appointment of the Government and all
co-operating in the purpose of our
mission. Caprivi, the then chancellor
of the German Empire, the successor
of Bismarck, himself a soldier of
mighty renown, said to me tha , in bis
amoun’ of the Dir-g’ey rates. In his opinion, the most wondmfui feature of
recent address before the New Hamp
shire Board of Trade. Mr. Shaw ex
pressed himself in Dart as follows:
Without a'tempting a lenghty
elaboration of the idea. I content
mreif with throwing out the sug
gestion. Suppose, ins’ead of a
bO”ded factory, we bond a we’l-de-
fi-ed section of land con alnlrtg. if
you nlease. several thousand acres.
Within this bonded territory* "11
kinds of factories cou'd he built,
and Into this zo-o an v’-ac* n- —■ *v
material could be entered Wth
ou t :he payment of duty. This
port should, of course, co-taln no
dwellings. I would allow free coal
and every other element of man
ufacture. except labor, to be en
tered free In other word-, this
free port “hnu’d be a great con
sumer ef Ao-erieon labor, the pro-
due’ of which, tinder the mo=t en
couraging conditions, should he
for export, and for export onlv. If
it was removed from the port for
the ournese of domestic censump.
t'on it should pay he same duty as
if imported from abroad.
Undeniably two classes would ben
efit by this “free port” or free zone
arrangement. Foreigners would get
our situation and one that he could not
even accept a proffered baby and carry
it hway without remark. But that a
mother should be a party to such a
performance passes belief. Mothers do
not recklessly pass their babies around
in tho dark.
In a part of the country where ail
women are afraid of strolling negro
men. Mrs. Ingram would have hailed
her husband as soon as she sighted the
understand was the presence upon that of the hear - and no b3by wou!d
commis'ion of men who had served on
either side of he great war. He said
that would not be tolerated in Europe
—there would never be such a gather
ing as that The men who rebelled, as
he called It, and I call It—and I see
no reason why to call it so should be
offensive—would be relegated to eter
nal oblivion politically. He said to
me. *Do you people over there treat
these men just as well as you do your
own comrade??’ ’Yes,’ I rep’ied. 'and
sometimes, with a li tie touch of sym
pathy in our actions, a little better.’ He
again assured me that it was the most
wonderful thing he ever knew and that
he could no: understand It.” ,
This speech, which will be found In
full in the Congressional Record of
February I, will prove interesting read-
inw and study for lots of Southern
folks.
have been passed over that fence until
the mother was assured that human
hands, and white ones at that, were
outstreched to receive It. If the story
is true, then either Ingram is dumb
and was not expected to speak, or Mrs.
Ingram is unlike other women.
The New York Times addressed a
American goods at lower rate? than telegram “directly to the Imperial Gov-
ever and the manufacturers would reap ernment” of Japan, asking to be in-
larger profits than they do now on the formed whether that Government’s in
goods they sell abroad. But where tendons were war-like. Strange to
would the third class, composed of the say. the “Imperial Government” con-
great body of the American people, j descended to reply that Its intentions j and g:fts ’ *- 9< H.919, and from all o her
good deal abou: some of these things, come In? They would continue to pay j "’ere “absolutely pacific.” If the Jap- | sources. J2.127.I50. The officials of the
In a preliminary statement on the
wealth, debt and ’axation of the United
States for 1902. i'sued by the Census
Bureau this week, an interesting sum
mary is given of the receipts and ex
penditures of national, State and local
governments. The aggrega e receipts
were *1,778.352 930. and expenditures
*1.773.959.369. These totals, it is stated,
include the amounts- paid by one di
vision to another, which results ln a
duplication of approximately 563,222,-
019. The character and the total re
ceipts from general revenue* are shown
as follows: The genera) property tax.
*706,660,043: special property and bus
iness taxes, 162,327,400: poll taxes,
SJ6,579,786: liquor taxes. *55.241 306;
other licenses and permits, 519.S41.343;
fines and forfeits, $7,962,322; subven
tions and grants. $60,984,892; donations
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active relization of their rights and
powers and has shown them tha - a
struggle to bring corporations to ac
count need not be made in vain. The
It is charged by Bailey, and believed
by his friends in Texas, that Hearst is
behind the war that is being made on
him in his home State, because in the
Senate Mr. Bailey declined to recog
nize Hearst as a pre-eminent leader of
Democracy, authorized or able to give great corporate, organized wealth of
orders and direct things on the Dem- the country has been taught a lesson
No. the defense in the Thaw case is 0° ra tic side of the Senate. by President Roosevelt that it wilt
tot relying on the "unwritten law.” ,Bai!ey bas made mistakes, but no never forget”
The "unheard of law" is more like It i ert,T!lnal mistakes, and no* even his State rights will make a more ef-
______________ I political opponents will endorse the fectlv© Issue with the trasses of
Attorney Drlphin M. Delmas. leading terrific arraignment mad© by Hearst. Americans after some solution of a
counsel for Thaw, has a Napoleonic 1 In regard to Williams, It is nearly more "burning" question has been at-
trouL Ha alao ku a Napoleonic case, j the same story. He did not reoogalxe talned. They do not seem to be quite
overlook :he fact that he has person- but lbe radicalism of each at different the same high prices for American ane*e Government were quietly pre- j Ccnsus bureau explain that the figures
^ , , , j u j ... .. ... . » for* Rffltpc. ffttlnHoq ora r? oillnn : _
ified the popular demand for th“se re- ar.g.es has gone beyond the bounds manufactured necessaries which they
forms and has done more than any outlined. j are compelled to buy. The only way
oth.-r mao or agency to bring them The Press should declare which of to benefi them would be to extend the
about. He has stirred the people to an ^ be three, if any or all of them, plumbs free zone from the Atlantic to the Pa-
the line laid down.
Tho?e cub muck-rakers, Hankj and
Harrlman. who thought to put Teddy
wise on the Interstate Commerce Corn
eille and from the Canada line to the
i Rio Grande.
Mr. Shaw’s plan is solely for the
paring to go to war over the California for Stntes ' counties and cities are in
school question, of course It would | a11 08568 com P>!ed from reports of
promptly confess everything at the re- ' ac - uaI receipts and payments. Those
quest of the New York Times. So now j ^ or conLaining less :hon 8.000 in-
the Government at Washington and , habitants and for other minor civil
the entire country may rest easy. If j divisions are in - part estimated.
any American citizens living along the I
benefit of the American manufacturer Pacific coast have crawled under their ;
and the foreign consumer, but we j beds in order to save their skins, they
mission’s shortcomings may as well J doub: not that it wllI be hailed by the j may now come out. By paying the
Republican masses throughout the ‘ cost of a cablegram and applying to 1
country as one more of the many and j headquarters the New York Times has :
great blessings rained down upon them l removed all cause of further anxiety. |
by the G. O. P. It Is worse than idle to | The Albany Herald thinks it worth i
seek to follow the mental processes of ; while to keep pegging away at tt, as it
order their headstone with this epi
taph:
"If so soon we were done for.
Pray what were we begun for?”
The Jacksonville Tlmes-Union wants
It is jus’ as we feared. Richmond
Pearson Hobson has broken loose. He
predicts war with the Japs, and he
foresees that they will er.t us up. This
from the hero of the Slerrimac. Alas#
to know "who will grow our cotton?” t the average Republican where this j has been doing in behaif of “hog, hom-
' subject of the tariff Is concerned.
Same old mule and darky.
bay and hay.”
Is shoe-peg type the privy signet of
Democracy?
If the Gulf stream didn’t temper the
rind upon our shores, what did?