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THE TTTICE^-WEEK TELEGRAPH
HTOAY, FEBERUARY *Z, 15W,
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
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C. R. PENDLETON, President
n ;• par-** an > • to nay aim ■■
and op^rn:* the a: r-ad?. from, putting
provision in :he act providing for
separate coa'hes and for the ",v*
n **?“ And to this Mr. Williams re-
f.iies: "Nothing—absolutely nothing,
njc.-ep- ron*rr«- itscif. the lack of aril!
upon tite part of at least twv>-thirds of
Congress in each house to do it."
Commenting on this the Post says:
Of course Mr. Williams is right.
CONFERENCE COMMENT.
Ti." onser.sus of opinion among the
speakers at the Immigration conference
> rsierdsv was that of all the public
rath': mcs that any of them had ever
l
attended th.s was the most Important 1
end signifi' ant. Hon. Minter Wimberly (
f:r‘t voiced .: it! hh> splendid address of j
nrieom* on behalf of the city of Ma- i
. President G. Gunby Jordan, in I
I « vigorous and clear cut response in I
i e.ihlf of the Immigration Association,
emphasized the fact. Governor Joseph
;.! Tericii. in his beautiful if incidental
valedictory, congratulated himself that
• ne of the closing scenes of his admin-
»tration af Governor, during which
period Georgia’s wealth had Increased
over one hundred million dollars, was
:he assemblage of many represent
ative citizens of Georgia In a confer
ence which meant so much for the
state ,tnd the South.
The address of Hon. It P. Hlllyer on
- behalf of the Macon Chamber of Com
merce was brief but full of meat and
impressed the hearers deeply. His
central thought was that immigration
would solve the race problem for us.
ftouthern whites are agreed that we
want no more of slavery; that honest
and industrious negroes who know
their place* shall have ample encour
agement; but that they never shall be
our sorlal and political equals. The
influx of white Immigrants would, to
gether with wise luws, force out the
Idle, vicious and dishonest negroes,
who would drift to other sections.
There would then soon be an end to
the race problem. The North and
West will never understand the negro
question until they come in actual con
tact with millions of negroes," he said.
When if Is brought home to them they
will not long worry with the problem.
Congress would never enact a sep
arate roach law. Federal owner
ship would as certainly mean death
for the Southern policy of sep
arating the races on railroad trains,
and in waiting rooms.
Hut how would the people of the
South relish the surrender of their
present power to regulate Intra-
slate rates" It has been repeatedly
-hnvvn that everv Federal a «*•)•' v
having to do with’ commerce has
been dominated by the North and
idministered in the interest of
Northern commerce. An inevitable
result of Federal ownership would
be discrimination against Southern
cities. Southern prducers. Southern
commerce and Southern Industry.
Not only would Government
ownership break down the race
harries of the Southern States, but
it would piece all their commerce
tirtder the dominion of the North
with no possibility of relief. The
South will never again constitute
more than a third of the political
power of the republic. Two-thirds
will tie us up whenevr they can as
they have done In the past.
The Post is greatly mistaken If
the people of Mississippi will ever
consent to the Incorporation In a
Democratic platform of a plaitk
demanding the Federal ownership
of railroads and the repeal of Its
separate coach legislation. The
very possibility is repugnant to
the Southern people and It is in
conceivable that the Southern
Democracy will ever support such
a policy.
While it is not likely that the South
or any Southern States win ever adopt
the Government ownership heresy as
long as they retain their saving com
mon sense. It does not Infallibly follow
that Mississippi will elect the sophis
ticated Williams over the impractical
Vardaman. There appears to be some
thing of an epidemic among some of
the Southern States Just now for send
ing the mod radical of their public
men to Washington, more’s the pity—
and It remains to be seen whether Mis
sissippi has contracted the contagion.
COMPETITION TO COME.
in jn article in th<- Review of Re
view- Mr. Allied Holt Stcne ; ikes the
iersiole view that it ic through immi
gration that the Southern States are to
realize the full development of their
re-ources. He also argues convincing
ly that under present conditions the
negro would be overwhelmingly beaten
in the cotton field if tbe Italian ever
became a serious competitor.
He illustrates his point by the his
tory of a test that was made on a cot
ton plantation in Arkansas, originally
started by the late Austin Corbin as a
sort of foreign colonization scheme,
and utllmately turned over to practical
Southern cotton growers to be operated
by tenant farmers—negroes and Ital
ians. The following table gives the
condensed results of that test during
six years from 1899 to 1905 inclusive:
Negroes.
Annual average lint
cotton per hand .. 1174 lbs
Average production
Italians.
25S4 lbs
per acre
233 lbs
403 lbs
Average cash pro
duct value, per
hand $128 47
$277 36
Values, per acre
26 36
• 44 77
During the brief period the
propor-
tions of the two races
and the
scope of
their operations were changed
by nor-
mal processes as follows:
Negroes.
Italians.
Squad* at work, 1898.
203
38
Hands at work. 1898 .
600
200
Acres cultivated 189S.
.2600
1200
Squads at work, 1905.
3S
107
Hands at work. 1905.
175
500
Acres cultivated. 1905.
900
3000
throats of the Southern States, but
never admitted such doctrine so far as
her own States were concerned. Herein
lies the difference.
New England is now the State rights
champion, aad, in discussing this in
teresting tact. the Washington Post
speaks of it as "a partial fulfillment of
the prophecy of that great man. the
late Henry G. Turner, who predicted
that when the doctrine of States’ rights
queathed u* by our fathers. We can
still take time to be courteous and con
siderate and human. We can still re
member that a man is A man and a
woman is a woman, and that deference
Is due from the former to the latter.
IMMIGRATION OUTLOOK.
The sum total of the conference on
Immigration held in Macon Tuesday is
that those who attended received a
died in our country it would find’ its 1,b « raI education on the subject from
last dltoh in the New England States,
where the principles of home rule per
vaded every community."
all its viewpoints. That the confer
ence will result in great good 1* as
certain as that correct ideas and en
lightenment on a subject is The begin-
AMBASSADORIAL SALARIES. I nlng of Its proper treatment and de-
The London Standard says In a pe- j velopment. Many prejudices with re-
cuniary sense Mr. Bryce, the new Eng- j gard to foreign immigrants were swept
a duty which is peculiarly our own
We would not like a man to tender on
the street a dime to our child on the
ground that we were not ourselves
looking after its wants.”
The Richmond News-Leader thinks
"it all depends on whether Mr. Rocke
feller intends to pose as a boastful
benefactor or a penitent sinner, and
further remarks:
“There is a humorous suggestion
in the matter. We surmise that
the vast majority of our educa
tional institutions will elect to re
gard Mr. Rockefeller on the, peni
lish ambassador to Washington, "will away by the plain, practical. Informed
be worse off, instead of better, by be- J talk of Commissioner Sargent and by-
coming ambassador to the United the liberal views of other experienced
States. His salary as chief secretary
was the curious sum of £4,425. In
Washington he will receive £7,800 a
year, but it is generally accepted as a
fact that it is impossible for an am
bassador to ‘save’ on his pay, large
though the amount may seem.” This
is equal to something like $39,000.
The plum of England’s diplomatic
service, the Standard says, is the Paris
embassy, which is now occupied by Sir
Francis Bertie. It carries with it a
alary of £9,000. "Sir W. E. Goschen
in Vienna, and Sir Frank Lascelles in
Berlin, draw £8,000 apiece, while Sir
Arthur Nicholson's salary in St. Pe-
These figures show, in plain words, J tersburg is the same as Mr. Bryce’s."
Turning to the United States the
that in the same climate and under ex
actly similar conditions the Italians
speakers who have practical knowledge
of the subject. But the promoters of
this great and beneficial movement are
confronted with certain definite devel«
opments which have transpired between
the call for the conference in Macon
and the assembling of the delegates
that may probably modify largely the
proposed plan, of operations. The Im
migration bill suddenly and unexpect
edly revived and agreed on by Con
gress at this particular juncture, by its
wording, prohibits the payment for the
ticket or passage of any immigrant
“by any corporation, association, so
ciety, municipality, or foreign Govern
ment, either directly or indirectly."
The State may appropriate money out
Standard says "this Government re- it* treasury, it Is held, to make this
produced i2.» per cent, more cotton per munerates the members of its diplo- | Inducement to the immigrant, but only
acre than the negroes, and cultivated
6.2 acres per working hand, as against
5.1 acres for the negroes. Mr. Stone
shows further that the Italians accu
mulated live stock while, the negroes
did not, of the former only 2.8 per cent.
matic corps on a singularly modest | as a State. This interpretation which
tent sinner side. With thirty-two
million dollars in the scale the bal
ance is mighty likely to dip that
way. Also we look for some mod
ification of the violence of those
esteemed contemporaries and in
flamed brethren who have been de
claiming so vigorously against the
Ogden fund and movement in the
South. The Ogden movement com
ing here with fifteen or twenty
million dollars In hard cash to
spend may appear a very different
thing from the Ogden movement
with resources comparatively lim
ited and with far less than enough
to go around among the applicants.
A large part of the fund naturally
•will come South because here- the
need Is greatest and. we are bound
to say. the burden Is heaviest and
the determination for self-help
has been clearest and under the
most trying circumstances. The
people of the South in the last
thirty years have paid out of their
poverty and stress more than one
hundred and fifty million dollars
for the education of the negro
alone, while striving to educate
their own children. For our part,
we would be entirely willing to see
all Mr. Rockefeller’s gift expended
upon the negroes because it would
lift Just that much load from the
white people and leave them with
just that much more money of their
own for the white children.”
WILLIAMS ON JAPANESE QUES
TION.
In his speech in the House Mcnday
on the Japanese question, John Sharp
Williams advenced the soundest rea
sons The Telegraph has ye: seen for
excluding the Japanese from ti*
United States, it is n"t that they are
a superior or an inferior race, he ar
gued, but that they are a different race.
They cannot assimilate with our race
by intermarriage as white foreigners
may. There is bound to be racial an
tagonisms and racial warfare. And
then Mr. Williams made this forcible
point:
Every great w<
Jaw
that this coun-
dated from the
the first slave ship at
i. The very Iliad of all
was that, and had we
enough to do with re-
e negro race in rho hts-
p country what I would
vou do with every other un-
slmliable race we would never
have had war and destruction of
property: we would never have
had parties based on sectionalism
alone: wo would never have had a
fair proportion of this democratic
republic marred by thing* that are
necessary to preserve civilization
itself.
sard tc
ha'
This point is emphasized by the fact
that the Japs, by reason of the little
foothold they have already gotten in
this country, have bpen enabled to
raise a war scare here, and are threat
ening us with consequences If they
are not admitted into full fellowship
with the white people of America.
One of the most enjoyable feature
of the conference was the exchange of
pleasantries between Governor Terrell
of Georgia and Governor Heyward of
South Carolina. The two Governor*
just retiring from office are in the
prime of life and presented vigorous
pictures of militant manhood as they
v'cd with each other in repartee and
argument, advocating the interests of
their respective States and of the
South In Immigration.
Governor Heyward’s address, telling
how South Carolina inaugurated her
work on Immigration, was one of the
feature* of the conference. His speech
was on broad and progressive lines
and illuminated the subject in all its
phases to the minds of his hearers.
Commissioner Sargent, of Washing
ton. who introduced a score or more of
splendid young immigrants to the
audience as specimens of the sort of
people that are being admitted into
the United States by way of Ellis Is
land, won the hearts and the very fre
quent and enthusiastic applause of his
Georgia hearers by his vigorous but
practical and interesting talk.
The speeches, all in all. constituted
• symposium of Information on the
subject which it is confidently believed
will be productive of great good to the
Slate in the near future.
LIGHT BREAKING.
At a meeting of the Twentieth Cen
tury Club in Boston last week Presi
dent Charles IV. Eliot, of Harvard Unl-
vers.t> : President William U. Frost,
of Berea College. Ky and Right Rev.
William l-awrruce Episcopal Bishop of
■Washington expressed themselves as
being more or less in favor of sepa-
FACTS ABOUT APPENDICITIS.
The appendix may be a superfluous
attachment to the human anatomy as
It Is certainly in some measure a dan
gerous one, but physicians by no means
agree that it should be removed when
accessible without further ado. In
fact It is announced that the result of
a "canvass among many physicians as
to whether the appendix.” while still in
a normal condition, should be removed
as a preventive measure was the al
most unanimous conclusion that such
a step is ‘absurd,’ ’unjustifiable,’ or
'without excuse/”
How old the disease now called ap
pendicitis is cannot be stated but the
word AP applied to'it was coined in
1886, the Boston Herald says, by Ur.
Reginald H. Fitz, a Boston physician.
Dr. Fitz says he "invented It to suit his
purpose of calling attention to inflam
mation of the appendix as an object of
direct treatment. Before that time the
names used had not given the appen
dix itself the discredit belonging to it
as the actual cause of the trouble.”
Continuing, the Boston Herald says:
In 1.000 cases at Johns Hopkins
Hospital foreign bodies were found
scale. Mr. Whitelaw Reid, the Amer
ican ambassador In London, for In
stance, receives only £3,500 a year,
out of which he is understood to pay
£1.000 a year for Dorchester house,
failing to share the community pros- ; Parklane, which he has taken furnished
perity, while of the negroes 44.7 per ! on a lease from Capt- Holford."
cent, found themsehes at the close of j j n view of the fact that the first tion to prohibit the Citizens, whether
the period no better off than when j posts in the American diplomatic ser- natural or artificial, of a State from
they began. j vice are held as a rule by gentlemen contributing money to the f State treas-
The obvious lesson taught the intel- i who have made or inherited fortunes ury to be used for this or any other
ligent and observant negro is that hojand w ho have social aspirations to legitimate purpose. Be the result of
must prepare himself by increasing j gra tjf y jt may -be just as well to let this contention what it may. the Geor-
contravenes Secretary Strauss’ ruling
In the South Carolina case of
Wittekind has been read into the new
bill by the conferees in their report.
On the other hand, it will be claimed,
and it is probably true, that there* is
no power under the Federal Constitu-
How would It “lift just that much
load from the white people?” If the
money were given to different negro
*ke j educational institutions in the South
ern States, would that stop the di
vision of our public school fund be
tween the -schools for the two races?
It is not likely, and it conld hardly be
defended.
“BOASTED ‘CHIVALRY/’’
The Philadelphia Record expresses
the opinion that the “boasted ’chi- i publican membership of
valry, ” of the South is “a good deal of ■ second Congress. For the first time in
SANITY AND UNION THE NEEDS. V
In an editorial headed "The Demo
cratic Decline,” the Nashville Banner
notes some very Interesting and sig
nificant facts. It points out that less
than seventeen years ago. In 1S90, the
Democratic party gained tile greatest
political victory of our-entire history.
Leaving the Populists returned to Con
gress out of the account, the Demo
cratic majority over the Republicans In
the national House of Representatives
was more than double the entire Re-
FRty-
.. efnrten ift, *.1 - - i - la humbug,” and goes on to say: “A our history the majority of the New
s vuicienc} it ne would not have the them bear In some measure the ex- sia Immigration Association will be : couple of years ago it did not prevent | England delegation was Democratic,
coming competition drive him to the i pense of thejr magnificent establish- -tinder the necessity of operating j the flogging of women in the Georgia the* majority of the Massachusetts dol-
I ments, j through the medium of the State or of prison camps, and now it extends the egation was Democratic. Two years
NEW ENGLAND THE STATE j MANNERS LOST IN THE SHUFFLE. I JuturT"pfanTTh” t ^ f ° rmU,atin * ^ * UnWr,ttsa law> OVer a raan and aMowi
rc CUAUDIOM nrtnnij pau pi<iuc-. itlttl
RIGHTS CHAMPION—PROPHECY
OP HENRY G. TURNER.
It would appear that the South is no
this extension of j him to go free, without even a trial.
The Nashville American says “it Is j the contract labor law was injected, as j the indictment being quashed, while a
universally conceded that the people of ; charged, into the conference report in j woman was convicted and sent to the
later the Democratic party elected the
• President, gained control of the Senate.
! and had a big majority in the House.
! to say nothing of the numerous States
At nuuiu apflfdl LiidL Liie oOUUI is no , _ • » , . |
longer the home of State rights and ! the South V® P°Hter than the people the interest and by reason of the jeal- j penitentiary for eight years. In both ! of ‘he ' ! * orth ‘hat had elected Demo-
that the Democratic party has ceased j of ^ Xorth -” Well, if this be so, is ousy of New England with regard to j case s the homicides were socially well | cratic Governors.
■\Vh3t brought to
end this tvnn-
to be the acknowledged champion of | i‘ no ‘ rather more courteous to leave the growing manufacturing Industries | connected and prominent. The man
that principle. The strongest protests ! the assertion of such a fact to North- j the South is doubtless correct and it i xvho goes free is a Congressman-elect. ' devful prosperity of the party which,
against the threatened expansion of j enters? wilt doubtless hamper the new South- j and the woman who Is in the peniten- | tinder the present conditions, seems al-
the Federal power have been coming ! The American goes on very pointedly ern immigration movement. But ob- ; tiary is the niece of a United States j most Incredible? The Banner says it
from New England, and as for William’j to observe: “The people of the North stacles thrown in our way will simply j Senator The man shot a doctor who ! W0K ‘ bo amalgamation with the Fopu-
J. Bryan, supposed to be the leader of i are less polite than they once were, ' tend to stimulate our energy in over- j had defamed his wife, and a Louisiana i ,i3 ‘ s ’ an d if anybody has a better ex-
rat* schools for whites and blacks. !
"President Flint," rends the Boston ]
dispatch, "defended the separate school j
system of the South, and said that
tit* thirty colored students now at I
Harvard nr* not enough to make an •
influence for evil on the student mass
of the university. He said, however, I
that if the number increased to any !
extent t.e should favor a separation,
lhesid'-nt Frost described the condi- !
t ; "ts nnd methods of conducting Berea
College, where the races are separated, i
B shop Lawrence agreed with Presi- I
drat Filer to a certain extent. He i
thought that there might he separate
institution* when the two populations |
were nearly equal."
This show* that there is always |
just ideation for the hope that the reign
of reason and common sense will come
at last, even though it b* necessary to
wait long and patiently for its begin- |
nine.
in only four. In many cases the
contents of the appendix resemble
fruit stones, but they aro aro
really organic matter and salts.
Violent exertion and blows are
causes of the disease far more
often than is generally supposed.
A long bicycle ride, a leap from a
street car. an hour of swimming,
exposure to cold, a blow of the
fist, a kick, a fall, a bruise, or any
one of a hundred other applica
tions of force may bring about the
disease.
Pins are the most common and
most dangerous of the foreign sub
stances. For small, heavy objects,
like bullets, and for all pointed
bodies the appendix is a sort of
trap. These foreitrn bodies may be
direct onuses of the disease.
Of 4.028 autopsies performed at
the Boston City. Johns Hopkins,
and Rhode Island Hospitals, ihere
were eighty-six case- in which
acute inflammatory disease oe the
vermiform appendix caused death,
directly or indirectly. About 66
per cent were males. About 43 per
cent of the deaths occurred in the
second and third decades of life.
In some of the cases the symp
toms of appendicitis were not dis
covered until after death. The
larger percentage of cases among
men and boys is explained plausi
bly as being due to the greater lia
bility to exposure to injury and the
greater tendency to errors in diet,
and. in part, perhaps to excessive
use of tobacco and the consequent
digestive disturbances.
"The explanation given for the
relative exemption of negroes is
that their diet is simple, they take
a great deal of outdoor exercise,
and they are free from digestive
disturbances.” says Kelly. In the
Johns Hopkins Hospital, where one
negro Is admitted for every four
white men. only one negro is Oper
ate 1 on for appendicitis to twelve
white men.
the Democratic party, he may be said
to rival the most pronounced central-
izationist of the past or present.
Mr. Samuel W. McCall. Republican
Congressman from Massachusetts, on
the other hand, defends the principle of {the politenes
State rights with a boldness and vigor
that would have pleased Thomas Jef
ferson. John C. Calhoun and Alexan
der H. Stephens. In his speech in New
and this is also true of the people of coming opposition. To offset this ban- {judge has quashed the indictment. The i P' ar >ation of the disaster, we should be
the South, except in the smaller com- dicap The Telegraph yesterday printed j woman shot a doctor who had defamed sIad t0 5ee 11 br0 ''S ht forward. Some-
munities. Modem civilization is not the following dispatch under a Wash-
conducive to politeness. As Southern ington date:
cities grow their citizens show less of
vhich once was a
marked characteristic. They haven't
the time. Electric cars, swift elevators, ,
crowded streets, the rush of business. .
the hurry and bustle of city life, rapid i
.The House Committee on Natu
ralization and Immigration decided
today to make a favorable report
on hills providing an appropriation
of $70,000 each for immigrant sta
tions at New Orleans, Galveston
and Charleston. S. C.
her, and twelve citizens of Mississippi (thing has driven from the part}' a large
York last week Mr. McCall quoted Sec- ! transportation schedules, the “move
rotary Root’s statement that It Is use- ' n n” requirements of the pressing
less for the advocates of States’ rights | throng which is unwilling to wait for
to inveigh against the extension of na- j bows and handshakes and ‘after you.
tional authority in the fields of neces- ! sir.’ and the display of various little
sary control when the States them- ' courtesies and polite considerations
selves fail in the performance of their ! which retard rapid movement."
duty: that in such cases constructions ; Our Nashville contemporary finds
of the Constitution would be found to : that “even among the leisure class
vest the power in the national Govern
ment.
Replying to this extraordinary prop
osition, Mr. McCall pointedly inquired:
"How are constructions to be found?
Who are to decide, in the first instance.
nnd in the drawing-rpom and the home j
and in the ordinary social intercourse j
out of the swiftly flowing human
stream, manners have be.en more or i
less affected by the exigencies of !
crowded everyday life and contact with
what are fields of necessary control? ] the remorseless current. Conditions
have simply smothered many of the
c-ourtesio3 and graces that once
thrived. It is worse in the larger cities,
where one has to almost fight his way
through the streets, and where in the
struggle for the homeward-bound cars
Obviously the gentlemen who wish to
exercise the control. When was there
j ever a usurper since time began who
could not justify his acts by the same
plea? This theory, it is needless to
say. would erect usurpation into a
constitutional system and would invite
evils compared with which those re- i t a he the hindmost.”
suiting from the failure of a State ' Similar expressions are quoted from
here and there to perform its duty a correspondent of the New York Sun,
The consummation of the objoct
here stated, it appears to The Tele
graph. would more than counterbalance
the- drawback from the other source
stated above. While it would no.t in
volve the selection of immigrants con
templated in the new Southern move
ment, it should have the effeet in a
measure to turn the tide of the Immi
gration so "sadly needed in the South
in this direction and would devolve
upon the Federal Government much of
the burden—rthe labor and the ex
pense—which it is proposed for Geor
gia and other Southern States to take
upon themselves in their effort to get !
a share of the immigration which has j
been exclusively diverted to the North
ern tier of States heretofore.
found her guilty and a judge sent her
to the penitentiary for eight years.
According to -Southern chivalry a wo
man's honor belongs to her hueband.
He may kill the traducer of it, but she
may not."
portion of its old membership. In
stead of fourteen Democratic Senators,
outside of the solid South, who sat in
the Fifty-second Congress, there will
bo but two Democratic Senators fnfTn
the North in the Sixtieth Congress, nnd
Without taking up for consideration j both of them were Republicans in l$»5
that exaggerated story about the treat- —one a Senator from Colorado and the
ment of a woman in a Georgia prison ! °t bel ' a Representative from Nevada,
camp, an isolated instance, we may ob- J Gn the tariff question both are high
serve thM a convict camp is hardly protectionists to this day. M ell may
the place to look for “chivalry," and, tbe B anner ask:
moreover, we don’t think there was
e.ver a time when anybody “boasted"
that the quality named was possessed
in bountiful measure by every male
creature without exception who hap
pened to be born south, of .the Potomac
and Ohio riverj.
THE DECISION IS EASY.
They say that money itself talks, and
it is the strongest to the fore and devil , u was to be expected that the Rocke
feller gift of thirty-two millions for
“Disorders of indigestion have the
most important influence in determin
ing an acute attack of appendicitis.’’
says Kelly, an authority on the sub-
would be insignificant.”
We may well -believe that there was
wrath in the White House when its
distinguished occupant read Mr. Mc
Call's further utterances as follows.
I writing of conditions in the congested
| mefropolis:
WILLIAMS AND VARDAMAN.
One of the chief issue* discussed by
John Sharp Williams and Governor
Vardaman in their contest for the Mis
sissippi Senatorial prize is the question
of Government ownership of railroads.
Th* Hbuston. Tex.. Post says if this
issue 1* to prove th* turning point of
th* contest, “the Governor i* very apt
to run seoond.” ?.Ir. Williams has made
the paint that Federal ownership
•would result In repesttng the separate
coach and separate waiting room laws
of tbe Southern State." What this re
sult alone would mean for the Southern
States is readily understood. Governor
Vardaman replied to this point by ask
ing: "What la to prevent Congress,
j "In some places, the hospital of the
( Johns Hopkins Medical School for in- 1
, stance, i: is th* custom to examine the !
j appendix whenever the abdomen is
j opened, unless the condition of the pu-
tient is such that the inspection would
| be an added danger. Of seventy sur-
i georts who were canvassed by Kelly on
I the question. When the abdomen is ;
opened for other causes, and the per- \
fectly norms! appendix is easily acces
sible. is it your rule to remove it?'
forty-four replied against and the rest i
in favor of doing so."
“The time is ripe for a warning.
But the warning should be aimed
at the tendency to overthrow the
balance of the Constitution and to
regulate each and all of us from
Washington. That there is such a
tendency is too palpable to be de
nied. The most common thing in
interstate commerce promises soon
to be the affidavit necessary for a
citizen to move his goods jfrom
State to State. If a power clearly
belongs to a State it is to be de"-
stroyed by the perversion of some
national power, and under the pre
tense of doing one thing a differ
ent and prohibited purpose is ac
complished. E'etween hypocritical
ly purloining and Ik,idly usurping
power, the moral difference is in
favor of the latter. For my part.
1 can see no reason for the highly
centralized paternalism which is
threatened', and which will engen
der a servile dependence upon Gov
ernment and destroy the fiber of
our citizenship."
Where is the Southern
statesman
disposed to speak almost directly to
the President of the United States in
this manner and on this subject? As
for the supposed leader of the Demo
cratic party, Mr Bryan, he joyfully
commends every centralizing proposi
tion that emanates from .the Whit*
House. During the period of revolu
tion extending from 1S61 to lS76 the
people of the South were forced to rec-
i ognize the Federal Government as ab-
Provldence actually placed the pisto! ! soiutely supreme and virtually to ae-
in Harry Thaw’s pocket so that at the | knowledge that tire States had r.o
particular psychological moment when rights which the Federal power was
it should direct him to kill White there ! bound to respect. And this had its
would not be wanting the instrument . inevitable effect. New England
The tremendously accelerated
speed which characterizes the
movements of all latter-day traffic,
except the passing of pedestrians,
necessarily creates a habit df hus
tle and bustle, having always for
its rrime object the least delay
possible.
ThP exigencies of haste no longer
admit of politeness standing hat in
hand while a lady slowly climbs
into a lumbering coach and gets
herself comfortably seated before
Jehu.Starts his pair.
There is another element which
perhaps conduces to a growth of
indifference of the male human to
ward his womankind—the enor
mous army, of feminine bread-win
ners. numbering perhaps tens of
thousands where formerly there
were comparatively none or only a
few. have become themselves hus
tlers, parsimonious of time, sub
jecting themselves to the same
rough-house treatment accorded
their male co-workers, so that if a
lady Is rudely jostled she is as
often j 'stied by one of her own
sex a< by a brutal masculine as
pirant to standing room.
There is fairly good evidence
that the subsidence of a politeness
once deemed a prerogative due to
the gentler sex commenced wlthip
the last two dot ades and may.
therefore, be definitely traced to
the initial introduction of out-
rapid transit system and materially
hastened since the advent of the
subway.
The promotion of mechanics to
so important a soe.oe in our present
eoonomlcs. while decidedly increas
ing the creature comforts of ]jfp.
is quit<~ unlikely to prove a source
of moral elevation and seems Im
potent to supply even a superficial
ly thin veneer of politeness as a
redeeming feature.
What is to be done about it? In the
crowded centres nothing can be done,
But w* who live out of
educational purposes would be some-
i what productive in editorial loquacity.
Among Southern newspapers there
. seems to be a pretty general admission
; that this big pile of money is not with-
| out its “taint”—that the man with
| well-developed olfactories, in fact, can
i smell it a good way off—but still the
; consensus of opinion appears to be that
nobody offered any of it is likely to
have enough Roman firmness to re
fuse.
The Greensboro • (N. C.) Industrial
News concludes that it will not be be
neath the dignity of any Southern
State to accept its share, and argues it
out in this fashion:
It may be admitted that the issue of
the Birdsong trial was unexpected and
must be described as unusual: but
even if the expected had happened, the
tone of the Record’s writer begets the
suspicion that he would have been no
less critical.
Are the Democrats going to
make an honest effort to get to
gether In 190S, or will they again
nominate a candidate and pro
nounce in favor of other radical
Issues likely to *;tili further divide
the party? Will they run after the
chimera of Government ownership
of railroads, or tr.\ to work back
into wholesome unity on sound
policies that brought success in
former years?
MR. STRAUS’ CONSTRUCTION.
A Washington Dispatch says:
“If It is good to give it follow*
logically that It cannot be evil to
receive, for if none receive then
none can give. True benefaction
knows no geographical lines and if
the poor boy or girl may properly
receive an education at the hands
of generous North Carolinians then
we see no reason why this same
boy or girl may not with equal
propriety receive an education
from the hands of men from
Maine or California.
"If Rockefeller’s gift or an}' other
man’s gift comes to us in the na
ture of ‘hush money’ or bring*
with it the condition that we our
selves are to do something of
which our consciences do not ap
prove then we are irrevocably op
posed to accepting one penny of it;
but if it is simply a question of
receiving ’tainted money’ or 'ac
cepting gratuities' then we say by
ajl means take it and be glad to
get such valuable help in a cause
so near our hearts.”
Senator Bacon today called on
Secretary Straus of th? Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor, and,
after a full conference, expressed
the assurance that the construction
which the department will place
upon the immigration law recently
passed by the Senate will not pre
vent Georgia and other States from
proceeding under the South Caro
lina plan to secure desirable im
migrants. The main point to be
Observed is that the transactions
must be through the legally ap
pointed and recognized agent of
the State.
In the discharge by a State agent
of all legitimate means to attract
immigration no point will b* made
by the department as to the source
from which the State's officer re
ceives money to carry on these op
erations. Under this plan Senator
Bacon is positive there will be no
violation of the contract labor laws
and each State can restrict immi
gration to the most desirable class
if It chooses.
Union, sanity and standard policje*
are all that are necessary. As the
Washington Post observed th* other
day, "there is enough Democracy in the
country to rule it if all of it could be
caught and organized: but it is scat
tered from Dan to Bearsheba, and until
some great leader comes it will re
main the broken and discordant mob
it has heen since it deserted Grover
Cleveland and enlisted under the ban
ner of Populism.”
"The G. O. P..” remarks the Wash
ington Post, “put out a campaign book
i last autumn in which the farmer was
l congratulated on the increased cost of
what he had to sell—grain, beef, pork,
mutton, butter, eggs, cheese, poultry,
cotton, tobacco, vegetables and things,'"
and in the next paragraph the salaried
man was felicitated on the fact that He
bought all these thine-e the former sold
at less price than ever." Th* wonder
ful G. O. P. may always b* trusted to
write everybody down an ass in that
manner and then cover it* tracks sc
pkiifuily that the majority is kept
j fooled.
This construction of the new law I
puts a much more hopeful face for the {
appa
Summoning every atom of Roman
firmness and Spartan virtue that it can
command, the Charlotte Observer re
plies: "There is no call upon any
other State or people to educate the
children of North Carolina. That is
of execution.
i-as : the great rush of metropolitan life need i our business. To be blunt, ws resent
active In ramming this down the ; not turn our backs on the manners be-.j the offer of other poopie to discharge
Where are the sea captains of ro-
South upon the immigration situation ! mapee and tradition who go down with
than the construction which Senator 1 their sinking ships after putting afloat
Lodge, interested from the New Eng- i in the lifeboats as many of the passen T
land standpoint in emphasizing the re- j gers and crew as they will hold?
strictive features against the South, is Where now are the sea captains of
naturally disposed to give it. The ! reality, indeed, for they have in almost
South is therefore to be congratulated i all cases been wont to be the last to
upon the fact that the interpretation I leave their doomed ships? Captain
of the new law will be the province of i McVay of the lost Larehmont does not
the friendly Secretary of Commerce
and Labor and not that of Senator
Lodge.
The Roosevelt Third-Term League is
determined. "We challenge,” it shrieks,
“his right to refuse to accept the Pres
idency of the United States for a third
term in the face of the people's de
mand.” The challenged may fight for
his right and wrestle with the League
in a most vigorous and spectacular
maimer, but this Is one time when he
is likely to succumb—-if the Leagus
keeps It up long enough.
appear to bo acquainted with cither ro
mance or history, for he left his pas
sengers to drown or freeze while he
paved himself in the first lifeboat, and
now. with al! the courage of his shame
he brazens it out just as if he had done
nothing unusual.
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