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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1907*
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
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C. R. PENDLETON, President
ROOSEVELT, LA FOLLETTE AND
BRYAN.
President Roosevelt In one of his
latest utterances refers disapprovingly
to the "idle critics” who are responsi
ble for "a curious revival of the doc
trine of State rights.” There are some
people who, to all appearances, do not
know there Is or ever has been such a
thing as State rights except as asso
ciated with the extinct doctrine of the
right of a State to secede from the
Union, hut as the President cannot be
Included among euch ignorant people.
It is astonishing to find him speaking
of the "revival” of the doctrine of State
rights, as if of something long since
dead, buried and forgotten.
The right of the people. In their or
ganized capacity ^s States, to -local
self-government—this Is “State rights,”
nothing more, nothing less, as it exists
under our dual form of Government,
Federal and State. It Is as old as the
Constitution and It still survives, and
must continue to survive, if the people
are to govern -themselves according to
the plan adopted in thie beginning.
The American system is not repre
sented by the Federal District of Co
lumbia but by the self-governing
States, each with its self-governing
counties and towns. In the discussion
of the formation of our system under
the Constitution Thomas Jefferson
said:
service for
depre-
quired to conduct this
cents, or less than cost,
tendency will be reduc
the quality of the service mu
elate. While a considerable s.
be accomplished by the use of less ex
pensive equipment and much can be
done in this directs ti before it affects
the comfort of travel, there will be a
tendency to take off the least profitable
trains and the public- will have a less
frequent service. While 2-cent fares
may be slightly profitable in the dense
ly settled portions of the East, they are
not so in the West, and it is folly to
compel the railroads of the West to
with a centrlizcd Administration In the
he inevitable hands of one who would exercise his
expen
THE REIGN OF LAW.
virtual engineer of recognized r»spon-
“Cowards” and “weaklings" have be-
that Toombs was the first choice
In his recent address before the Har- j slbility. Maj. Goethals is detailed from come a little stale and “mollycoddle” is j of Georgia, as he was thought to he
and power by descending to fhe regulation vard Union, Pre-ident Roosevelt satat^j the army engineer corps, and It Is an- ; now the term employed to describe j JefTe' oriti: *’ Ca o ;na an i Louisiana.
f individual interests? We would be
ng can if Theodore Roosevelt had his way.
But he won’t.
WHICH HAS THE BETTER TIME?
London is reported to be agitated
over .the question raised by George R.
Sims, a Journal'st, as to which has
the better time, the man or the woman. ,
Mr. Sims takes the position that wo- j
men have a better time in life than '
"States' rights should be pre
served when they mean the peo
ple’s rights, but not when they
me in the .people's wrongs; not. for
instance, when they are invoked to
prevent the abolition of chil\ labor
or to break the force of the laws
which prohibit the importation of
contract labor to this country; in
short, not when they stand for
wrong or'oppression of any kind or
for national weakness or impotence
at home or abroad.”
That amounts to saying that the law
nounced that the work will be devolved those who do not promptly agree with j Mississippi as comm imi
the military forces and
ferred a military station.
hereafter on the army, or words to that the powers that be. The Philadelphia
effect. Why this move? It Insures Press, a faithful Administration or-
against the canal being without an gan, defines the “mollycoddle” as “the
executive head, because there will al- ! chap who sits around and criticizes”
ways be volunteers from the ranks to and i3 "no better than a drone.” Tho
replace any that may fall at the post in ; most critical utterance, as applied to
rson Davis h i-l been selected by
--in-Chief
iiimseif pre-
He was not
in Montgomery when his election was
made and a messenger had to be sent •
to his plantation in Mississippi to n o
tify him of his promotion and to ask
his acceptance.
The biograohv of Toombs states that
. . _ , ... .......... , the sudden selection of Mr. Davis by
future. Is it for this reason that' the i the head of the Administration, that j four States carries a bit of secret his
tory. Old party antagonisms arose at
the last moment to confront the can
didacy of Mr. Toombs. He had left
if ever 'before in the history of the 1 an editorial In this Issue entitled “The j Whig party in isr.O to join the
men. Her home life, ne says, is a j should stand when It benefits a good i world did a great opportunity like this ' Reign of Daw."
system is adopted? Certainly there is we have seen. Is a passage from Wash-
some extraordinary mystery. We doubt ■ ington's Farewell Address, quoted in
It would appear that
Joj denied to the average man. There man but as soon as an evil man finds 'offer without a man being found to George Washington was a first rate
conduct a passenger service at a los3, | no ^ one man in a thousand who finds any degree of shelter under it the law _ grasp and master it or die in the effort.
in the domestic interior that joy of should be abolished and in its place the j what is the mystery?
possession which animates women ( will (or the whim) of a fallible Judge
for the public seldom gets more than it
pays for."
But the result of the 2-cent fare j from morning till night.” Woman in should be substituted. In other words,
experiment, if it is true, will depend j the borne rules the man, he says. I the reign of law Is a mistake and what
largely on the course
takes in the future,
quite clear now.
AS TO EQUALITY.
It is taught that all men are equal : of starvation suffering Intensely
“mollycoddle.”
"CURIOUS
Constitutional Union movement. Jef
ferson Davis hr-.d always boon a State
Rights Democrat and had been de
feated for Governor of Mississippi bv
the Constitutional Union party. So it
would seem that at the last'moment
Magazine [ party lines were drawn against Robert
Toombs and his boast that he had
saved the Union in 1S50 probably cost
. him -the Presidency of the Confederacy,
the “prosperity" i “Whatever pleasure there is in absolute I is needed is the rule of a wise man before the law, but the astute observer j cording to him the process, after the There rs a story credited in seme
-- - ... - I 1 * — - — I ‘ quarters that Toombs’ convivial con
duct at a dinner party in Montgomery
estranged from him some of the more
trength lies in her tears. A man’t I Such an arrangement demands the rule ! wav or another, are too often able to • a great relief to the public that has I con s"rva:ive delegates, who did not
° 1 - 1 realize that a man like Toombs had
A writer in the Outing
says it is all a mistake about victims
Ac-
md this is not . Power, that pleasure is the woman's who will respect the Constitution and understands that while the poor ordi- omission of the first few meals, is
and not the man’s." Then “a woman’s the statutes only when he sees fit. narily receive justice, the rich, in one rather a pleasant one. This will prove
OF STATE’ i
REVIVAL
RIGHTS."
How far afield President Roosevelt’s
determined course in invading the do
main of the State governments and
their domestic economy has carried
his thoughts was shown objectively
when he threatened to use the army Sims further says;
and navy to force California to make
tears are his weakness.” If a woman
smooths a pillow she is rewarded with
a smile. “If a man smoothed pillows
all day long no one would dream of
calling him a ministering angel.”
Again. “Her father or husband pays
her bills and his own as well.” Mr.
■'Were this country not already
divided inio States that division
must be made that each might do
for itself what concerns itself di
rectly, and what It can do so much
■better than 'a distant authority.
Every State again is divided into
counties, each to take care of what
lies within its local bounds; each
county again into townships or
wards to manage minuter details;
and every ward Into farms to be
governed each by its individual
proprietor. Were wo directed from
Washington when to sow and when
1o reap we should soon want
bread.”
A departure from the historic policy
if tho United Slates was made when
the annexation of Hawaii was Insisted
on, nnd when later Porto Rico and the
Philippines were taken from Spain and
governed as dependencies “outside of
the Constitution;" but in the conti
nental United States we still have
"State rights,” and, nominally, at least,
that right is unimpaired, although
threatened by the hurrying events of
the time. It is a strange use of terms,
therefore, to speak of a “revival of the
doctrine of State rights.”
“I think,” said Senator La Follette,
in a speech in Brooklyn last week,
“that democracy is on trial for its life
the country is in peril; tho republic is
undergoing a complete change.
Eighteen years ago in writing his
American Commonwealth’ James
Bryce devoted a chapter to corruption
In American politics. Should Ambas
sador Bryce revise that work today he
would give an entire volume to the
subject. It is the growth of gigantic
combinations of capital that has
robbed the people of their power.'
This may perhaps be described as a
somewhat extreme statement of the
President’s own view. At any rate, it
is clear that one reason why he desires
an extension of the Federal power is
that the “gigantic combinations of cap
ital" that have "robbed the people of
their power”—to quote La Follette—
may bo curbed and punished.
Mr. Bryan desires the same thing.
No one will claim that he does not de
sire it as ardently as Mr. Roosevelt,
Senator La. Follette, or any man, yet
Mr. Bryan says In the current number
Of tho Render Magazine:
No assault upon the authority or
contraction of the sphere of the
State can be justified on the ground
thRt it is necessary for the over
throw of monopolies. Federal rem
edies should supplement State
remedies; they should not be sub
stituted for State remedies.
We presume the President will dis
miss this strong and excellent state
ment—the best that has come front
Bryan since his article in the Century
Magazine on Socialism last spring—as
a futile outpouring of another “idle
critic;” but, to our mind, it is sound,
it Is constitutional, and If the proposed
method—which is the method already
provided by our Institutions as they
stand—be properly applied, if will be
fully effective. I
"TWO CENT SERVICE.”
The Railway Age is of the opinion
that "2-cent fares will mean 2-cent
service.” The Age says with some
force: “The competition for passenger
business in the United States during
the past ten years has produced the
most magnificent and comfortable cars
to be found in the world. Those built
for royalty in England and Germany
are hardly equal to the costly and
beautiful parlor and sleeping cars
found on many railways in this coun
try. The initial expense for these cars,
the Interest on the investment, the cost
Of maintaining them, with the con
stant depreciation of paint, varnish
and trimmings and the repairs to run
ning gear, the high cost of large pas
senger locomotives and their repairs,
the extra operating cost due to high
speed and maintenance of track, when
all charged to passenger service, would
its public school system to his liking.
But It remained for Mr. Roosevelt, in
his address at Harvard Saturday, to
give expression In words to his views
of the defunct status of States’ rights.
Speaking of the control of corpora
tions, the President said:
"There has been a curious revival
of the doctrine of State Rights in
connection with these questions by
the people who know that the
States cannot with justice to both
■sides practically control the cor
porations, and who therefore ad
vocate such control because they
do not venture to express their
real wish, which is that there shall
be no control at all.”
The President speaks of "a curious
revival >of the doctrine of States’
rights" as one would speak in examin
ing a fossil of the Paleozoic age. Mr.
James B'ryce, the newly arrived and
presented English Ambassador, who
has concededly written about the best
work extant on the American political
system, and who wrote it since the
War Between the States, would do well
bo avoid expressing his views on the
question of States’ rights to the Pres
ident if he would continue persona
grata to the Washington Administra
tion. In the American Commonwealth
chapter 27, Mr. Bryce said:
A State is within its proper
sphere just as legally supreme, just
as well entitled to give effect to Its
own will, as Is the national Gov
ernment within its sphere; and for
the same reason. All authority
flows from the people. The people
have given part of their supreme
authority to the national, part to
the State Governments. Both hold
by the same title, and therefore the
national Government, although su
perior whenever there is a concur
rence of powers, has no more right
to trespass on the domain of a
State than a State has upon the
domain of Federal action.
George Washington, of whom, Jt is
the supercilious fashion of some to say
that he was not a great or brilliant
statesman, In his “Farewell Address,”
managed to cast a wonderfully accu
rate horoscope of the rocks and shoals
which our ship of State and its Con
stitution, successfully launched by him,
would encounter in its future course.
He said, among other things:
“Toward the preservation of your
Government and the permanency
vour present happy state it is re
quisite not only that you steadily
discountenance Irregular opposi
tions to its acknowledged author
ity. but also that you resist with
care the spirit of innovation upon
its principles, however specious the
pretexts. One method of assault
may be to effect in the forms of
the Constitution alterations which
will impair the energy of the sys
tem, and thus to undermine what
cannot be directly overthrown. In
all the changes to which you may
be invited remember that time and
habit are at least as necessary to
fix the true character of govern
ments as of other human institu
tions; that experience is the surest
standard by which to test the real
tendency of the existing Constitu
tion of a country: that facility in
changes upon the credit of mere
hypothesis and opinion exposes to
perpetual change from the endless
variety of hypotheses and N opin
ions.” •
Do Tocquevllle, one of the clearest-
sightel of the critics who have studied
our institutions, “pointed out the dis
tinction between a centralized Govern
ment and a centralized Administra
tion.” This was after his visit to this
country in 1831-32, and he said: “The
former exists in America, but the latter
is nearly unknown here.” He further
pointed out, however, if the two were
ever combined and if, after “regulating
the general interests of the country,”
the. centralized Administration “could
descend to the circle of Individual In
terests. freedom would soon be ban
ished from the New World.” He fur
ther said:
To try and make money is the
ordinary man's task between his
breakfast and his dinner. To
spend it is the ordinary woman’s
occupation during the same period.
The making of money, which is
man’s daily occupation, is always
associated with anxieties. The
spending of money is only woman’s
change of pleasure from tho pleas
ures of home and family. And yet,
though it is a common thing to
hear a woman say, “Oh. I wish I
were a man!” how many of us
have heard a man exclaim. “Oh,
how I wish I were a woman!”
Mr. Sims argues on the theory that
all the pain and the anxiety is in the
making of the money and all the pleas
ure is in the spending of it. But the
sum of experience would probably
leave the balance of pleasure on the
side of the man in making It and the
balance of anxiety on the side of the
woman in spending it. But as to the
main question the true answer we
opine is that both men and women
have a better time in their respective
spheres than either would have if they
could change places. The cares and
joys of each are best adapted to the
tastes and capacities of each and any
comparative estimate of the sum total
of the advantages of one or the other
is out of the question.
of a wiser and better man than can be ! buy mercy. The religious journals, ; been watching with anxiety the prices versatile and reserved powers and that
found this side of heaven and over- which wisely preach contentment, are j of everything eatable soaring out of Toombs at the banquet board was a
looks the fact that in the Constitution ! apt to take the accepted view of theo- reach under the magic touch of the
EXPERT TESTIMONY.
That expert testimony is more or less
a farce is the candid conclusion any one
must come to who observes that the
expert mostly swears to just ex
actly what the side which employs him
wants, no matter how much hair
splitting he is called on to do, as for
example in the testimony of Dr. Evans
In the Thaw case, whose function, it
appears, is to prove Harry Thaw both
insane and sane. The New York Fi
nancial review says:
What Is called “expert” testimo
ny is the most dangerous testimony
ever allowed in a court. If an ex
pert is employed by the defense,
and of course paid for his testimo
ny, he probably earns his fee, but
if in another case he is employed
by the prosecution and the same
question is put to him he will
swear directly contrary to what he
declared upon the first case. It is
up to the court to instruct the jury
that no attention ought to be paid
to the so-called expert testimony.
This fact has been exemplified in
scores of cases, but the Thaw case
shows most conclusively that ex
pert testimony is at best merely
opinions of the witness who is
already biased by the fee he re
ceives in advance. There should
be some limit fo mere hypothetical
questions in which for the most
part there are suggestions to the
witness as to how he or she should
answer.
An upright judge who seeks only
facts should always instruct a jury
that expert testimony Is only val
uable when the sourrounding or
attendant circumstances prove the
truth of their hypothesis.
The only value of such “expert”
evidence when it' will be reliable Is
when the State pays the witnesses
and they are put upon their honor
as to the facts and the deductions
whicli experience leads them to
form.
There has never yet to our
knowledge been a criminal case In
which expert physicians in almost
every respect, have not disagreed
in almost every respect, and the
Jury as well as the court has been
left in a maze of technical terms
which mean nothing to them and
which hinder the course of justice.
and the statutes is the collective wis
dom of many wise men.
The “people's rights” and “State
rights” are really synonymous terms,
for tho latter means precisely the
rights of the people In their organized
capacity as States. We cannot afford
to abolish or impair these rights even
in order to regulate child labor or
check the abuses of monopolistic and
predatory corporations. We must deal
with the evil in some other and less
costly way. and, unless our whole sys
tem Is a failure, another and a suc
cessful way can be found.
Those high officers who are too
much inclined to substitute their own
judgment for the Constitution and the
laws would do well to reflect upon the
following passage from Washington’s
Farewell Address which was read in
the Senate on Friday of last week:
“It is important. likewise, that
the habits of thinking In a free
country should inspire caution in
those intrusted with its adminis
tration to confine themselves with
in their respective constitutional
spheres, avoiding in the exercise of
the powers of one department to
encroach upon another. The spirit
of encroachment tends to consoli
date the powers of all the depart
ments in one, and thus to create,
whatever the form of Government,
a real despotism. A ju?t estimate
of that love of power 'and prone
ness to abuse it which predomi
nates in the human heart is suffi
cient to satisfy us of the truth of
this position. The necessity of re
ciprocal checks in the exercise of
political power, by dividing and
distributing it Into, different de
positories. and constituting each
the guardian of the public weal
against Invasion by others, has
been evinced by experiments, an
cient and modern, some of them
in our country and under our own
eyes. To preserve them must be
as necessary as to institute them.
If in the opinion of the people the
retical equality, but the New York , trusts.
Christian Advocate speaks very plainly
on this subject, as follows:
It is said that in our country the
poor and the rich are the same be
fore the law. So they are In the
ory. Perhaps it may be said that
so they are. without adding “in
theory.” But consider what money
will do. Money will hire experts
of the most expensive type. Money
can employ the most skillful de
tectives; money will make it pos
sible to scour the whole country for
evidence, true or false, for the de
fendant, or for the plaintiff, when
the plaintiff is a scoundrel and try
ing to ruin some one or unjustly
to secure a divorce. Money can
employ not only one lawyer, but
half a score and bring the hypno-
tizer of Juries across a continent.
Money can cause articles by the
thousand to be published through
the whole country and work up a
tremendous sentiment.
a fferent man from Toombs in a de
liberative body.
AMEND THE CONSTITUTION.
To the Editor of The Telegraph. Two
It is said that the lyceum company
that has engaged to pay Senator Till- ‘ Ile ' v amendments to the present State
man $200 a night for lecturing has
Constitution would help. First, a new
. , . _ . , basis of representation. Instead of the
booked him to appear largely in South- counties being the unit, let the number
ern cities. We forsee financial disas- I of Representatives in the House bo
ter for the company unless the Sena- j limited to 160 and the State be divided
tor abandons his favorite topic of-the into assembly districts without regard
race question wh6n in the South.
to county lines, and let there be one
I Senator to every four assembly dis-
j tricts, making the unit of representa-
Mr. Roosevelt says he does not want i lion the quotient given by dividing the
population of the State by the last can
Harvard or any other college to turn
out mollycoddles. Still, the molly
coddles have frequently been known to
live longer and be heard of oftener
after they were turned out on the
world than the survivors, of the athletic
field.
Texas has put a new crimp into
methods of investigation. The State
Senate appointed a committee to in-
i vestigate Senator Joseph W. Bailey,
! the committee investigated, and the
All this is unquestionably true, and
the knowledge of it should incline us
away from too harsh a judgment of
that "rancorous envy” of the rich on I
the part of the poor which President j Senate discharged it before it could
Roosevelt saw fit to denounce in one of
his state papers some months ago.
distribution or modification of the
constitutional powers be in any
particular wrong, let ’ It be cor
rected by an amendment in the
way which the Constitution des
ignates. But let there be no change
by usurpation: for though this in
one instance may be the instru
ment of good, it is the customary
weapon by which free governments
are 'destroyed.”
This utterance may seem very old-
fashioned to some persons, and may
even suggest In some quarters the sen
timents of those "cowards” and "weak
lings” of whose incapacity for the
strenuous life we have heard so often
in these latter days; but It impresses*
us as the powerful statement of a great
mind—one that looked forward through
the mist of a hundred years and fore
saw the dangers of the present hour.
WHAT IS THE MYSTERY?
What is the matter with Panama
canal? Notwithstanding the President
has gone and seen it with his own
eyes; notwithstanding he returned to
assure the country and the world in an
elaborate message, accompanied with
photographs taken on the spot for ocu
lar demonstration and corroboration,
that the canal is all right; notwith
standing he has been enthusiastically
and loyally echoed by all his lieuten
ants who have gone and seen and re
turned to tell about it, that the canal
is all right, the fact remains that there
is some terribly fatal mystery con
nected with the canal. Chief Engineer
Wallace went, saw, enthused and grew
eloquent on the subject of the glorious
undertaking—and incontinently threw
it up, at the cost of a public reprimand
The suggestion that the State should ... ~ , , .
by Secretary Taft for ingloriously de-
, sertlng his post of duly. Chairman
make up his opinion without bias to . .. ,, , . , ,,
" i Shonts burned the midnight oil writ-
CURE FOR CONSUMPTION.
Dr. Thomas Bassett Keyes, in Medi
cal Brief, holds that consumption is
primarily a disease of malnutrition and
that the cure for it is to induce the pa
tient to eat plenty of fats. 'Outdoor
exercise is chiefly valuable in giving the
patient appetite. “People," he says, “who
have consumption do not eat fats, oils,
and cream in sufficient quantities. The
first requisite in an attempt to cure
tuberculosis has been for many years,
and particularly of late years, to feed
the patient on various oils, and the
most successful sanitariums have
adopted a process of fo>od forcing,
using the fats of meats, butter and
cream as the principal foods to be re
lied upon to effect a cure, each article
of diet being^selected for Its fat-pro
ducing and strength-giving proper
ties.”
Dr. Keyes says it is impossible to get
the average patient to eat enough fats,
and a person who eats plenty of fats
never has consumption. Further, he
says:
A person who has consumption
is the one who leaves the fat t r orn
his meat, eats very little butter,
very little of cream and milk. He
does not and has not lived upon a
proper nourishing diet. When a
patient is far advanced in the dis
ease he is unable on account of this
loss of appetite and nausea to eat
sufficient,food to maintain nutri
tion, and, therefore, gradually de
clines as the disease advances.
It will be a great relief to persons
who are fond of butter and fats and j
make its report.
With all his ability for accumulat
ing railroads, Mr. Harriman might well
sus by 1GQ. and providing that the dL-
trlcts be changed .by the first General
Assembly, based on the ratio of 160.
meeting after each census. This would
do away with the rotten boroughs and
give tile people control of their Repre
sentatives. The second amendment
should place the creation of new coun
ties in the hands of the Secretary of
State, who should have the power to
charter them as he does railroads and
State banks, upon proof that the coun
ty sought to be incorporated has suffi
cient property to provide the necessary,*
county officers and county expenses
without exceeding the minimum or
State taxation for all purposes. Thus,
say the State tax is 5 mills on the hun
dred, the county tax for all purposes
must not exceeds miffs and providing
that a county whose tax, rates exceeds
this shall forfeit its charter and Its af
fairs be liquidated as in case of State-
hanks. This might do away with some
envy Mr. Fish the candor, suavity and > of tbe present counties as well as pre-
. , vent the creation of new. ones, but
ease with which he answers ,ne j would prevent the abuse of the taxing
charges Mr. Harriman brings against ; power and have a tendency to rai-<j
him.
The United States Senate appropri
ated $100,000,000 in fifty-two minutes
the other day. And yet some people
believe the Senate can never do any
thing in a hurry.
It is plainly evident that the Presi
dent stiff finds the Constitution ;
troublesome obstacle to the proper ad
ministration of the Government.
taxable values to something like their
true amounts.
Yours for a representative Govern
ment and as low taxation as is com
patible with true progress.
ANDREW P. RrVES.
Springvaie. Ga„ Feb. 25. 3007.
How Standard Oil Survives.
Wall Street Summary.
Standard Oil has been condemned
again, and in no uncertain language.
The greatest monopoly of all monopo
lies, unscrupulous and despicable, is
the summary. TJie purpose of this
• I editorial is not to superlatively arraign
Legal investigations nowadays are | £*£ wrong in1°USin
devices resorted to by persons resting ; esse, words will neither add to its sin-
under charge of wrong-doing to expose i fulness nor mitigate it. M e consider
.. , , the practices and methods of Standard
the moral obliquities of the other fel
lows.
Maj. Goethals, it appears, is the man
who will really dig the canal. Destiny
is a strange thing. B'ut for the canal
we might have lived and died in ignor
ance of Maj. Goethals.
Mr. Stephens’ Retort,
To the Editor of The Telegraph:
A few days ago you referred to the
reply of Alexander Stephens to the
gentleman who professed to be so anx
ious to devour him. You are correct
in saying this passage of arms was
,-naft between Tombs and Stephens.
They were then and always the Damon
and Pythias of Georgia politics. Nor
was it Mr. Cone, who years afterwards
had a serious difficulty ‘with Mr. Ste
phens in Atlanta. The facts are as
follows:
Mr. Stephens had made a speech in
the Georgia Legislature of which he
oils to be assured that they can never j was then a member, and at its close
become consumptive, while those who ‘ ^ Ir ’ , J ’ 9; ?• Alford, a Democratic
: member, decided at one blow to anni-
dislike edibles of this class would do | hilate the young Whig orator. Alford,
well to proceed without delay to ac
quire a taste for them.
employ the expert and require him to
make up his opinion without bias to
either side is a good one. It would also ■ .. ....
i ing dissertations on the subject and
be a good proposition if the insanity j , ...
I discreetly separated himself from it
plea is to be introduced in any shape - , . .. ... __ .
J | the first opportunity that offered. The
or form to compel the reference of the
issue to the lunacy commission.
BLACKBURN CHANGED HIS MIND.
gallant young Stevens sprang to the
front, and like Longfellow’s youth with
the strange device, took up the fallen
The output of freight cars for 1906
■in the United States was 233,241, and
of passenger cars, 3,078, says the Fi
nancial Chronicle. Canada manufac
tured 7,059 freight cars, and 83 passen
ger cars, while Mexico contributed 203
freight and 6 passenger cars. The to
tal output for North America, which
is 240,503 for the year, Is an Increase
of 45 per cent over the record-breaking
output of 1905, and an increase of 259
per cent over the output of 1904. Can
ada’s production represented an in
crease over last year of 230 per cent.
Most of the companies manufacturing
cars still have on hand orders for more I President for the Confederate States.
.. .. . . ... . , The question is not a practical one.
cars than they have built this whole but j n the light of the truth of his-
a very large and portly man, casting a
contemptuous glance at Stephens, said
in a very pompous tone: “Mr. Speaker,
if some one will kindly pin back the
ears of the gentleman from Taliaferro
and grease him well I will swallow
him whole.” Stephens springing to his
feet interrupted Alford, saying: “If
the gentleman does he will have more ! Krag sharpshooters in its forefront,
brains in his stomach than he has in with a body of raw rcruits armed with
his head.” The ridicule cast upon Al- nntiouatod Springfield rifles. In other
ford by this incident ended his political words, that' the advice and assistance
career and he was never heard of more i of eminent counsel be sought whenever
Oil shameful, unfair and prejudicial to
this country’s interests both at home &
and abroad. We should be glad to see
them restrained and checked for all
time, and to n possible discues-ien’of a ' 4
means to that end do we now address
ourselves. Many attempt- have been
made heretofore to do this thing, and
an important suit is now pending In
which the Government is a party, but
the Standard has weathered the storm
in every case -ard Its nefarious and
unscrupulous methods have continued
without rebuke or puirshment. In
genious counsel have seved it at the
bar and daring lobby! = Is in the hails of
legislation. This gives us something
to work upon. The prosecution of this
monopoly has invariably occurred in
rural communities, where inexpe
rienced prosecutors faced it. Opposed
to them was an array of brilliant law
yers skillful cross-examiners, eloquent
advocate-, all shrewdly alert to possible
technicalities and the result was never
in doubt. When an adverse finding
was secured, the “exceptions” were nu
merous fer a review—and a reversal.
Now, an amateur district attorney in
a rural community is no match for the
professionals on the pay-roll of Stand
ard Oil. His. chances of success are
not superior to the proverbial snow
ball in sheai. It is time that the entir9
country took serious cognizance of the
abuses of Standard Oil, and whenever
possible undertook to correct them. It
is also pertinent for the people to be Jg-
prepared for the affray and to see that
they do not engage an enemy with
in public life.
S. L. MANN.
(We would be glad if Mr. Mann
would cite his author'ty. We would
like to see the .matter finally settled.—
Editor Telegraph.
a prosecution of this monopoly is se
riously contemplated. Many such can
be retained, and no expense should de
ter the people fro msecuring them
Popular subscriptions would pour in
from every section of the country for
such a public purpose, if asked, and,
once soundly whipped, the faff of this
gigantic monopoly would be as inevi
table as it would be surprising.
In regard to the pernicious lobbyist
year, with their plants working at their
maximum capacity.
The output of locomotives and cars
“This point deserves attention:
for if a democratic republic simi
lar to that of the United States
were ever founded in a country
where the power of one man had
previously established a centralized
administration, and had sunk it
deep into the habits and tile laws
of the people. I do not hesitate to
assert that in such a republic a
more insufferable despotism would
prevail than in any of the absolute
monarchies of Europe; or, indeed,
than any which could be found on
this side of Asia.”
And here is Theodore Roosevelt, by
Senator Joe Blackburn, who is about | banner and went forward with the cry I in the United States during 1906 has
to retire from ihe United States Sen- j “ E *celsior,” only to falter In “the face passed all previous records. This re
sult was very largely due to the great
ly increased production of the last
three months of the year, according
to the Railroad Gazette. Early in the
ate and become a member of the Pan- I of the mountain pass" and drop out as
ama Canal Commission under the pro- 1 suddenly and more unexpectedly than
posed reorganization, is something of . the otheTS > lf possible. Even the New
a wit. He is a member of Toraker’s j York Tribune, which has an almost
committee investigating the Browns- ’ child-like faith in the religion of Pope,
ville “shoot up” from the standpoint of 60 far as the Republican Administra
te negro soldiers. After hearing sev- I tlon ls concerned, that "Whatever is is
enteen of these testify he admitted ri S ht '” is certainly dismayed at this
that his mind had undergone a change. tu rn. for "certainly,” it says, “no man
“After hearing the testimony of these * n su ch a place could have had every-
men,” he said. ”1 am convinced that ! thln * conceded to his demands more
the man who was killed committed sui- ; than had Mr. Stevens. The plan
cide. that the horse which was killed ; of the canaI in general and in detail
kicked itself to death, and that the TCas made to conform to his peculiar
The Confederate President,
Savannah Press.
There is a great deal written from
time to time about the selection of a 1 an d secret legislative acent. his labors
are comparatively ended. Hostility
and indignation at their betrayal have
made the people more solicitou- in the
last twelve months about legislative
happenings, and steps have been taken
to elminate this parasite in many
tory it may be just as well to settle
the mistakes whenever they occur.
For instance, a recent article in the .
New York Sun alludes to Mr. Alexan- j States. Those that have not yet don-
der H. Stephens, of Georgia, as a can- ' so, should give the matter considera-
’ " " e lobby-
Of course
n in
head of the Confederacv i tion; for the suppression rf th
had no such intention ! its is a reformof magnitude: O
didate for the
Mr. Stephens had no such Intention.-
He had given his allegiance to tho f be whole question cofne
movement only at the last moment. He j !aR t analysis to the moral character of
was a prominent Union man. His own citizens themselves. If legislators are
preference was for his neighbor and ! corrupt they will lend themselves to
personal friend, Robert Toombs. The ; approach and bribery. In such a case
latter had ied the Southern movement j they supposedly reflect the tendencies
from the beginning. He was fuff of I of their electors. The ia;:
^ have to
year the railroads ceased to order he- j fi re and of menlal~and physical"vigor* \ beer the odium and the disgrace and
cause they could not obtain deliveries I R e was a man of affairs and had very I should know how to deal a th such
. ... .. . . . ! practical views on finance. When th “-- J — ‘
for six or eight months ahead, and j t; me came in Mllledgeviile for the c
prices’ruled so high that many railroad cession convention to elect delegat
officials thought it best to defer their j ^ ‘bfl ^ovisional Congress at Mont-
| gomery, Robert Toombs was unani-
orders. About the end of summer, t mously selected as the first deputy
however, orders again began to pour i f rom the State-at-large. He wrote the
. , ... , | address to the people of Georgia in be-
m, and are being filled for deliveries . be lf of the convention. When the Con-
nine months to a year hence.
The latest proposition is a marriage
gress met at Montgomery it is not too
much to say that Mr. Toombs was
offenders. A healthy, vigorous, moral
citizenship cannot produce scoundrels
of this type: but such a body cannot
be evolved by denouncing wrong, but
by doing right. Every doctrine that
conflicts with this is false and danger
ous. Evil does not raise >lts head in
an upright community, and individual
character, by force of example, is a
more potent factor in civic life than
all the vilification and denunciation
most conspicuous in the public eye. ever uttered. It’s n time
qualification for voting, and, strange to j Georgia was naturally looked for to I duct and sound thinking.
■ sane con-
Rome was
ccumulated
the votes of the people President of j policeman who lost an arm bit it off not i° n8 * it was made clear that he .
the United States, in the year of our hlmse if. I am beginning to doubt if j was t0 have the f^est of hands in the.j say, the Woman's Suffrage Association ; “SS, p Jj 0 t f h | e ^ r "t 1 es”lecte?at h Milled^! abuses’'‘o^our ‘ mo^ono!^ hw"
Lord 1907. running amuck among our j lher e is such a place as Brownsville. : ^hole enterprise. That, just as every- j Is pushing It—strange, because most I v ni e advocated the election of Mr. S^e- developing through several years. W
Institutions and undertaking to regulate ! an(J am abs0 i Ute ly certain that there thlng ' nras arranged precisely as he
a United States soldier i wanted u - he sh ould suddenly resign
| must in the absence of fuller explana-
• | tions be regarded as extraordinary.”
not only the affairs of the Federal Gov
ernment and the affairs of the indi
vidual States, but the affairs of pretty
much every other department of life on
the American continent. Are we
doomed to the fate which De Tocque-
probably show a cost per mile exceed- I ville foresaw for us when the central-
ing 3 cento per passenger. When re- j ixed Government should be combined
was never
there.”
An Iowa banker is being sued for ■ But whoever else is surprised, the Ad-
$4,000 by a girl whom he tickled under : ministration evidently is not. There
the chin. The Washington Pest is of are no more lectures, public or private,
the opinion the girl will be tickled all j There is significantly, perhaps, no at-
over if she gets the money.
tempt to replace Stevens with an indl-
woman suffragists are supposed to be phens, in spite of the fact that the lat- j cannot expect to eraoicate them Im-
' ter was not in symnaty with seces- i mediately. We have .lone something
Our understanding is that Mr. in two years: we have throttled cor-
the porate intimidation: we have exposed
he . hypocrisy and imprisoned its votaries,
would accept it if offered with unan- • and we hove tested our court •* and
ter had to choose between woman suf- 1 imity. When the Davis movement de- found them resnonsive. All this is
unmarried. "Those who are in the
confidence of the bachelors,” says the j Toombs was approached about
Baltimore Sun. "assert that if the lat- i Presidency- and announced' that
frage and qualifying themselves to vote ! '"eloped, Mr. Toombs advocated Ste
, : phens for Vice-President as a deserved
by marriage, they would give the vote tribute to the Union element, and this,
to the ladies and remain single and j of course, disposed of his own claims
I for President.
ffhe fact was, politicians of that day
disfranchised."
much. Two years hence we probably ^
will have clarified our business and . ,
political atmosphere to a much greater v
extent. Prudence, optionee and vigi
lance aided by right living, will hasten
our deliverance.