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k THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1907. oi a THE MACON IHBHn PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY, 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GA. r' * 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 X J< \ '< 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?