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k THE TTTICE^-WEEK TELEGRAPH HTOAY, FEBERUARY *Z, 15W, THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BV THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GA. 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. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your p&- per. It tells how you stand on the books. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and ^also renew for the year 1907. i