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* THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1907* THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. 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.