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2 the twice-a-week telegraph TV88PAT, MACH 1Z 1907. WORD “ Lx-Governor Montague of Virginia Speaks at Har vard University TEE SOUTH AND ITS BAD LEADERSHIP In a speech before the New York alumni of Trinity College, North Car- w „ . - . ollr.a. at a dinner held in the rooms of CAMBRIDGE. Mass.. March S. A. , Aldlne Association, No. Ill Fifth J. Monrigue. formerly Governor addresa at Harvard w” hhe touch- ot George . _ _ perlor Court, to the grand jury today vraa an interesting one. Judge Cann referred to the duty of the cltlaen to serve on Juries: the duty of every citizen to pay his Just pro-rata of taxes; to the good work of the board of tax equalizers; to the need of a Juvenile court, and the man ner In which one could be secured to the need of protecting the health of the school children. Kald Judge Cann: "The name 'ehalngang' should be abolished from our statute hooks. Certainly within this county II Is but little more than a name and can readily be wholly so. The name Is not nnlv unnecessary and Ignominious as It affects the Individ ual, but la salzed upon with apparent avidity by sensational writers for magazines to unwarrantably heap re proach upon the South. If the name ‘reformatory - need he changed to ‘In dustrial school, 1 as It has been within our own State, why not abolish the name 'chalngang?’ ” r] on the subject of lynching In the South. He said In part: "Some of us are taught to favor lynching, and therefore to fear the strong arm of Federal power. Thu) barbaric malady will not be finally eradicated in America until the peo ple exercise a self-restraint born of conviction and not of fear. In our system of government. above all others there is no place for private or per-onal vengeance. "I think that a strong constabulary Is the best school to teach the virtue nd the beneficence of i avenue, on Saturday night, the Rev. ! Dr. John C. Kilgo, president of the col- t lege, said: I am sure that you have lost none of your Interest In the affairs of the South because you now have your homes in the North. Never before in our South ern history was there so much to quicken the faiths of men. and so much to Inspire their hopes. And I rejoice > to assure you that the South Is fast [ coming Into Its own. Down in that region of our nation we have had a strange and, in no small sense, a tragic history. Many hard tasks have fallen to the lot of the Southern people, tasks that are unique Saumgilhtl ®m ttflne Wlmii By JOHN T. B0IFEU1LLET. A well known Macon lady elf-restraint and the oenencencc ui ; j n the j r history and exceeding co n- anil order over riot and murder, j , . . I give iL as my deliberate opinion, e"are.l by the bulk of the law abiding people of the Southland, that there Is never an occasion where resort to lynch law Is justifiable among civi lized people. Such practices snap the fundamental bonds of society and will eventuate In a government as capric ious and as relentless as that of wild beasts." NEW INDUSTRIES IN THE SOUTH CHATTANOOGA. Tenn.. March 8.— In the accompanying list of new in dustries established in the South dur ing the week ending today, as reported by the Tradesman. It will be noticed ♦hat the State of Texas leads in the number and variety of new invest- merit*. Among the Texas itfiri* will be found oil mills cotton gins, electric and power companies, saw mills, invest ment companies, etc. and a $200,000 cooperage company. Kach of the Southern State* is well represented In the new Industrial list this week. West Virginia has a new electric light plant and telephone system; Virginia pre sent' a varied array, including manu facturing and mining companies: Ten nessee adds a cotton mill: Oklahoma records some heavy Investments, among which are a $l,OOO r OOQ mining company and a $750 000 chemical com pany; North Carolina comes to the front with several new lumber com panies: Missouri is long op construc tion and investment companies; Mis sissippi adds three new lumber con cerns; Louisiana reports lumber and oil companies with heavy capitaliza tion: Kentucky has another large to bacco factory: Indian Territory reports a $2oo,onn oil company and n $1,000,000 power plant: Arkansas swells the list with four new lumber companies and Alabama adds a warehouse company and a cotton compress. The Tradesman’s complete list for the week Is as follows: Alabama. Birmingham—Tile works: $10,000 de velopment company: $20,000 land com pany. Mobile—$10,000 amusarr.ent compa ny; $10,000 office equipment company: $5,000 lumber company: laundry. Bridgeport—$300,000 trust company. Decatur—$7,000 warehouse company. Florence—Stove foundry. Alicevllle—$30 noo cotton compress. Arkansas. Springtown —Development company. I.lttle Rock—$10,000 lumber com pany. St. Paul -$25,000 lumber company. Fori Smith—Shoe factory: $25,000 oil and gas company. Briehtwater—Lime works. Fordyce—Lumber company. Hope—$15,000 lumber company. Florida. Lake City—Cigar factory. Indian Territory. Tulsa—$200,000 oil company. Afton—$1,000,000 power plant. Kentucky. Central City—$4 nno brick works. Louisville — $170,000 development company: $100 oop shoe factory. Owensboro—$50,000 land company. Glasgow—$10,000 milling company. Paintsvllle—$100,000 mining com- pnnv. Hopkinsville—Stone company. Hawesvlllo—$200,000 <obacco fac tory. Forrtsvlllo—$S,noo planing mill. Crofton—$20,000 telephone company. F.lizahrthtown—$10,000 sumac fac tory. Louisiana. y v Orleans—$50,000 Investment err i rv; $100,000 manufacturing com pilin' . $100 000 lumber company. Shreveport—$50,000 lumber compa ny: $50,000 saw mill. Mansfield—Spoke and hantfle fac tory. Jennings —$100,000 canal company. Covington- $10,000 light and power plant. Bastrop—$100,000 oil and land com pany. Mississippi. Hattiesburg — $10,000 amusement compony. Columbia—$150,000 lumber company. Philipp—$200,000 lumber company. Gulfport $10,000 bottling works. Scranton -Cement block factory. Collins—$10,000 Ice and cold storage Ant. Pass Christian—$10,000 lumber com pany. Missouri. St. Louis—$100,000 construction com pany: . , . . $20,000 investment company: $200,000 • passage of intending immigrants or to mining company: contracting conipa- | Assist immigration except by adver- ny: $5,000 constructing company; $12.- I tisement, will not apply to the Island 000 heating and manufacturing com- Hawaii. In that country the decls- pany: $10,000 mining company: $100.- I lon has already caused considerable 000 Investment company: $50 000 motor Madlsonvllle—Oil mill. Beaumont—$100,000 oil company: $5,000 oil company. Waco—$60 000 hardware company. Brownsville—$50,000 canal company. KIrbyville—Sash, door and furniture factory: $25,000 oil company. Austin—$15,000 creamery. Dallas—$20,000 builders - supply com pany: $20,000 machinery company. id Paso—$25,000 building and loan company. Killeen—$10,000 light and power company. Bonham—$100,000 gas and electric company. Rockport—$25 000 ice and light plant. Creedmore— $10,000 cotton gin. Sherman—$200,000 gas and electric company. Lund—$8,000 cotton gin. Texarkana—$200,000 cooperage com pany. Lufkin—$50,000 lumber company. Corpus Christl—$15,000 navigation company. Cleburne—$200,000 gas and electric company. Winters—$10,000 telephone system. Dublin—$100,000 gas and electric company. Henderson—$10 000 lumber company. Hillsboro—$150,000 gas and electric company. Mexia—Saw mill. San Antonio—$20,000 bottling works; $100,000 land company. Virginia. Clarksburg—$50,000 loan company. Norfolk—$30,000 crematory: $25,000 mining and quarrying company; $10,- 000 amusement company: $10,000 man ufacturing company; $15,000 shoe fac tory. Roanoke- 41 50,000 investment com pany. Petersburg—$150,000 electric com pany.. 'Brookneal—$20,000 land company. Ashland—Ice factory: laundry. Blacksburg—$25,000 lumber, sash and door factory. - * Newport News—$50,000 amusement company: $700,000 brewing and Ice company. Manassas—$100,000 oil company. Narrows—$5,500 telephone system. West Virginia. ‘Pennsboro—$50,000 oil company. Webster Springs—$15,000 electric light plant. Morgantown—$5,000 plumbing and supply company. Green Sulphur Springs—$5,000 teler phone system. Lumberport—$10,000 coal and coke company. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. Examine label on your pa per. It tells how you stand on the hooks. Due from date on the label. Send in dues and also renew for the year 1907. BONAPARTE’S OPINION EFFECTS MUCH PLANNING. NEW ORLEANS. La.. March 8.— Charles Schuler. State Commissioner of Agriculture and Immigration, today expressed the opinion that the de cision of the United States Attorney- General Bonaparte received yesterday, regarding South Carolina Immigrants will seriously Interfere with the plans of his department to induce white im migrants to come to Louisiana during the present year. About 600 Italian agriculturalists wer being arranged for, the State government to pay the ex penses of the new comers and the em ployers of such laborers to reimburse the State for expenses Incurred. An Immigration station for New Orleans j was dedicated only yesterday. r. WASHINGTON, March 8.—It was authoritatively stated today that the recent opinion of the Attorney-Gen eral. In which he held that it is un lawful under the recently enacted im plex in their nature. And If there be those who think that the South might have done better than it has done, they may he abundantly pardoned on the grounds that a problem as an experi ence is altogether a different thing from a problem as a theory. You cannot estimate the«e changes by the political pres? and the words of the professional politician’. It is true that these still seem to triumph, that they still hold the place of leadership: vet I know that they do not voice the deep and growing sentiments of the thinking and working South. In every reformation, sentiments change long before they express themselves in ac tion. For twenty-five years my duties have given me friendly association ■with the best classes of business men in both towns and country, and the one thing that I have met among them all is a secret dissatisfaction with the spirit and the methods and aims of politics. The working South is tired of the old type of leader. It wants a leadership that will express Its faiths and its hopes and its sympathies. Never before was there felt throughout the South by worthy men in every line of work a deeper humiliation than that recently provoked by the rough and sectional utterances of Senator Tillman in the United States Senate. And never did the South more earnestly long for a Southern leader like Lamar or Hill or Vance to rebuke in its name this anti quated voice of strife. Forever has the day passed when the builders of the South will applaud the voice of strife when they will have pleasure in sec tional hatreds, and when they will ad mire the demagogue. What the South needs and what it wants today is a leadership that fullv interprets the soul of its progress. It needs pathfinders—not a type of lend ers that will flatter its weaknesses, that will gratify its shallowest desires, and that will foster its useless tradi tions. but a leader that will fully inter pret what the people ought ta believe and what they ought to do, a leader who has sufficient vision to compass all the movements of the South, and who can direct them in the lines of a larger prosperity' and a surer happi ness. Men who know the South only from what they have seen through a car window or learned from those who have spoken and written for It are yet in deep ignorance of that mighty sec tion of our country and the wealth of citizenship the nation has beyond the Potomac. There is a great unknown South. It is not a talking South, but a working South. If one would know it. he must go away into the fields, where sturdy farmers are making things grow out of the dirt, he must go into the forests where mills are put ting out millions of lumber, he must go back Into the mountafns and see the miners, he must go into the stores and hanks and factories, and there he will And a busy South of which he has heard little and about which he knows little. "The working South is bringing things to pass.” continued Dr. Kilgo. “The marvelous growth in the equip ments of Southern industries and the amazing increase of Southern wealth bear witness to the energy and wisdom of the working South. But as wonder ful as this record is. it is only a proph ecy of what can and what' will be done. It is to this great army of brave and sturdy workers-that all lovers of the South look for the final solution of all Southern problems and the security of Southern progress. A Revolution in Sentiment. “It Is a great mistake to assume that the only changes which are going on In the South are industrial changes, that the South is only interested in material prosperity. I grant that, under the stress of sore poverty, the South has had to give much of its time to mate rial affairs. But I rejoice to know that this strain has passed, and that the men who have been too busy in the past to study and work at political and social questions are coming to have a deep and sober Interest In all these issues. There is going on in the South a tremendous revolution in the senti ments of serious men of all classes.” Among the qualities which the leader of the South must possess I mention three: (1.) He must have unquestionable regard for the principles of righteous ness. In times past, the South has al lowed party zeal and party success, as well as other Influences wholly con ventional, to set aside other considera tions of supreme Importance. This discreditable policy has been excused his party mocked it as the belated voice of a worn-out trick. The lead ing paper of the South said recently of the reckless propositions before the Legislature of its State: "It is a com mentary that It can be said with truth that a considerable contingent of the people of the State regard their Gen- I ouested me to publish the era! Assembly as a menace.” By thousands of such signs it is made more and more evident that the South will not longer follow a leadership that does not voice the eternal principles of righteousness, and labor to establish government and society upon founda tions that cannot be destroyed. (2.) The future leader of the South must believe and heartily defend the is the motto "Victory or Death." A law ' House. I was feeble, but I think I passed by the Legislature in 1905 says made one of the best speeches I ever has re circum stances under which Francis Scott Key composed the Star-Spangled Ban ner. A recital of the facts just at this time would be particularly appropriate as the press telegrams of yesterday stated that Mrs. George Livingston Baker, of New Brighton. Staten Is land, is authority for the statement that the identical flag which flew over Fort Henry during its bombardment cause of mankind. No man can hope I in the war of 1S12 and inspired Key to to do much with men. no man can hope • the composition of the national ode, is to achieve lasting good among men, the nropertv of her brother. Ebcn Ap- unless he have a faith in men and a pieton, of New York, and that it has sympathy with men. The one unre- been deposited by him in the safe de- Ienting complaint that all men have i posit vaults of a Broadway trust corn- had against monrehies and aristocra- 1 pany. Historical accounts tell us that cles is their extreme regard for their ! when own classes and their utter disregard I ingto for all other classes. And nowhere Is 1 the flag of the State of Georgia shall be a vertical band of blue next to the flagstaff, and occupying one-third of , the entire flag; the remainder of the ; space shall be equally divided into j three horizontal bands, the upper ami lower of which shall be scarlet in col- I or and the middle band white. On the blue field shall be stamped, paint ed or embroidered, the c.'at of arms ! of the State. Every regiment and un- ! assigned battalion or squadron shall. ! when on parade or review, carry this ; flag. It shall not be lawful for any , person or persons to use the State flag I or coat of arms for advertising pur- ! poses or otherwise desecrate or mis use the same. And the controversy continues as to [ | the identity of the man who declared | that he could swallow Alexander H. i I Stephens. Col. Fleming Jordan, of ! Monticello, was quoted in The Tcle- | graph yesterday as saying that all hi* : life long he has understood that Wal- made in my life. This is my opinion: I do not know what others may make of it. I would n>t say this to any other in tlie world but t> you, and to you only because • know you would like to have niy opinion .is well as that of others. Poor Ireland was out in mass. The spirit was in im> and I never spoke with greater liberty and unction. p— wished to know whom I would support for Governor. I told him I would consider the matter. He knew I did tint intend to vote for John son. If Andrews would come out and declare himself in opposition to the two leading articles of the Know-Noth ing creed, I might vote for him. But the contest I was engaged in was one of my own. The Governor's election was a matter that I should have noth ing to do with, except, perhaps to vote. I had my own canoe to paddle, and every man in this campaign must 'tote his own skillet. - " A writer says this “skillet" was a reference to an anecdote, well known to Linton, of the elder G neral Dodge. this spirit of democratic resentment having a sounder growth than it is having in the South. Of this the po litical upheavals In Southern common-, wealths within recent years are infal lible signs. Senator Tillman, in South Carolina. Governor Vardaman, in Mis sissippi. and Senator Davis, In Arkan sas voiced in one form the rising of a democracy, the keynote of which is, "The. rights of all the people.” Tillman Not the South's Voice. cv, 1 ter T. Colquitt was the man. and that i Senator for Iowa. During the war of rZm in - incident occurred in a debate he- 1S12 h e and a number of others were *p?£oner Dr. Wiliam BwnJS? and i Colqmtt and Stephens at For- taken prisoner by a party of Indians. Cey and John S. Skinnqr were ^ Col. Jordan says when he was who in their marching about coinpell- v... a boy it was common talk what Sto- ed the prisoners to carry the cooking Key and John S. Skinnqr were sent by President Madison with a flag of truce to the British commander to negotiate for his release. The British fleet, commanded by Admiral Cock- rane, and a British armv, under the command of General Ross, were co operating. The fleet was to cannon ade Fort McHenry near Baltimore, and the army was to attack Baltimore by land simultaneously with the fall of the fort, Sept. 13, 1814. Key and Skln- "If you ask me what bearings this ner had gone with their flag of truce will have on the bi-racial relations of the South.” said Dr. Kilgo. "I answer that it will have the most wholesome bearings on it. The sentiments of Senator Tillman and the teachings of ‘The Clansman' do not voice the senti ments and the faiths of the South. "I am not here to speak on the so- called negro problem. Of it all wise and patriotic Southerners have long since grown weary. Much of it is but the chat of academic theorists and the night-mare of demagogues. Those of us who do not know the negro from the standpoint of the fields and the aboard one of the British ships before the bombardment commenced and were successful in their mission, but were detained by the British commander, who had prepared to attack Baltimore. The cannonading on Fort McHenry- continued during the night. If the fort surrendered Baltimore would be taken. The bombardment was witnessed by Key and his companions. “From the deck of their ship, nearly all of the night, they beheld the American flag on the fort. The glare of the battle threw light on the scene, but long ore d the prisoners to carry | utensils of their captors as well as their own. At the end of about the third day the General, desperate of consequences, stopped, threw down his burden, and remarked, “Mr. Indian, ; from henceforth every man of this | crowd has got to tote hts own skillet, so far as I’m concerned.” Linton Ste- : phens was defeated for Congress hy I less than a hundred votes, but Alex' I toted his skillet to victory, over L:l- j fayette Lamar, by a majority of near ly three thousand. boy it was common talk what Ste phens said to Colquitt in retort. Per haps Colquitt was the man, but the place of debate may have been Xew- nan instead of Forsyth, and I say so for this reason: Ip 1S43. Stephens and "Walter T. Colquitt had a famous stump discussion at Ncwnan. It was during Mr. Stephens' first race for Congress, and it was Colquitt’s flr^t year as a Senator of the United States from Georgia. Hon. Mark A. Cooper, having been nominated by the Demo crats as their candidate for Governor, resigned as a member of Congress. To fill this vacancy the Democrats put James H. Starke, of Butts County. In nomination, and the Whigs nominated Stephens. Stephens had a majority of three thousand to overcome. In a life of Stephens by Richard Malcolm John ston and William Hand Browne, refer ring to this contest, it says. “Accounts . r , , , ..... ^ . came down from the mountains Into I Llfrht °nd " “tor Company which was Middle Georgia that this youthful chal lenger (Stephens), had vanquished ev- In the golden long ago the mayors and councils of Macon did some things contrary to the general rule of action followed by the mayors and councils of more rerent times. This *_ | thought has been suggested by the annual meeting of the Macon Gas ery opponent who had met him in d< bate; so it was thought prudent to _ the dawn the firing had ceased. The shops and' their churches know" too ! prisoners thus were held in suspense till much of the situation to be sweut the way dawn of morning should tell j send an old hand and proved cham- away by the delusions of those who ! them the tale. It could hardly he j pion to dispatch him at once and get have never worked with him in the h °P eci that the colors could stand j him out of the way. Their choice fell fields or th« shops, or prayed with him in his churches "But the new type of leadership that the South demands will have to stand for justice to all men, regardless of color or condition. The inherent dif ferences of races are fixed In nature, and they are ns assuredly fixed in so ciety. This much of the bi-racial prob lem of the South has been perma nently settled. Arid with its settlement has come the demand that both races shall be just to each other. The white man will continue to pay his taxes to educate the child of the negro, while more and more the white man will give of his influence and means to advance the welfare of the negro. Brit the ne gro is a ghost to frighten the white voter into party lines and party acts is a thing of the past.” The speaker continued: (3.) The third quality which the leader of the South must possess is the spirit of nationalism. It has been often said that the Soutli is provincial. In fact it has become one of the chronic criticisms of the South,.a. criticism ex- through the terrible shower of bullet upon Waiter T. Colquitt, then thought and shell. The watchers in doubt watted long to descry what flag on the ramparts' the morning would fly. Un der tension of patriotism and anxiety for the fate of the fort. Key wrote tile ever-since popular national song. The Star-Spangled Banner. The morn ing light disclosed the Stars ■ and Stripes floating “o’er the land of the free and the home of the brave.” The British fleet withdrew from the scene, while the glorious ensign of our ‘coun try’s liberty continued to float proudly and gaily on the breeze over Fort Mc Henry. Key’s patriotic song was pub lished and sung to the tune of Ana creon in Heaven. It is to Americans what the "Marseillaise” is to the French. the ablest stump-speaker whom Geor gia had produced, and who is still re membered with admiration by those who heard him In the prime of his powers." There were no Congression al districts in Georgia then, and Mr. Stephens ran upon a "general ticket.” "Mr. Stephens had an appointment to speak in Ncwnan." so this histori cal account says. Just before the hour arrived it was found that Judge Col quitt was present, and the Democrats requested that he be allowed to take part in the discussion. The Whigs, somewhat dismayed at the entrance cf this doughty paladin into the affray, were about to refuse, when Mr. Sto- By the liberality of James j phens interfered, declared that It would Lick, who gave $60,000 in 1874 for the purpose, a magnificent monument to Key. costing $150,000, was erected in the Golden Gate Park. San Francisco. Key was a native of Maryland. He died on January 11th. 1843. in his 64th year. The foregoing naturally sug gests the Inquiry—-what was the origin of the “Stars and Stripes?”- The Con- cepdintrlv •“ “AT, , or tile "stars ana stripes: - xne uon- of Southern P 'nJir».-» h t S® rtail ? S ass ' Gnental Congress appointed a com- that the"SJE**"* * not , d 7 n , y mlttee to confer with General Wash- Perhans all ' ington and "design a suitable flag for and ,11„ p ° 0 p *L ? re ’ t? c f P r ! the nation.” The committee and «ee that ® ut 1 to ! Washington met and agreed upon a de- ° J. - any more pro- j sign, and-one da- they called on a Mrs. rhTVi'oetnn 31 !* EnffIani3 - °f that R 0 ss, an upholsterer, residing in a Boston The South Is^nrnvlnMai ^0° ! bouse on Arch stret, Philadelphia, and , paying the men engaged in Nelsoi are the North S Rnd h the West and i requested her to make a flag according • Florida exnedition. by resolution of t and ! to the -design which they had selected. | House. The judge glanced at the xaminatlon give him pleasure to meet the judge, and cordially invited the latter to share in the debate. It is probale that - the judge so far under-rated the abili ties of his antagonist as to be less cautious than his custom. Some one. we are told, had furnished him with a copy of the Journals of the Legis lature marked at those votes of Mr. Stephens which it was thought might be used against him. One of those votes was against the payment, by Georgia, of pensions to her soldier' who had been disabled in the Creek War. and to the widows and orphans of those who had fallen: another was paying the men engaged in Nelson’s J ; held on day before yesterday. On i March 1. 1853, fifty-four years since, the City Council of Macon subscribed $10,000 to the capital stock of this cor poration. The Council “wanted light.” and no constitution of 1S77 reared its massive front in the way to prevent them from getting it. Councils In whoso days were almost prompt to subscribe to public enterprises and utilities, because thqre was no constl- i tutional inhibition, as now exists. The ‘ Macon Gas Light Company was or ganized in 1S53 with a capital stock j of $42,000, all of which was subscribed - in this city. In 1S57 the amount was j increased to $65,000. Mr. A. J. White was the first president. This gentle- 1 man is well remembered as the presl- : dent of the Macon and Western Rall- ; road Company. In 1S76 the name of ; the Macon Gas Light Company was I changed to the Macon Gas Light and Water Company the present name. .The capital sto-k of the corporation has Increased from $4 1 000 In 1853 to ; $727,724 in 1307, and a large amount of j bonds. The late J. M. Boardman was j president of the company’ for more than a quarter of a century, and his son-in-law, Mr. H. T. Powell, has : been holding the place for some years, | and his son. Mr. A. E. Boardman, who has been connected with the or- 1 ganltation officially at least thirty j years, is still a member of the direc torate. EaSt ’ nlo 1 nrovinci7l il,CUmStanCeS ma ^ e I to-wit^Twrteen red and white stripes! I ^tUy, Jithout^suffTci’ent ex.-i’* tV ^ out patriotism ln oouin we have our Southern sun points and folded a sheet of paper and and flowers and forests and rivers produced the pattern by a single cut. and speech and song and ideals. Is ! This was approved and shp finished a this a shame” Is it treason to love 1 flag the next .day’. Congress resolved them? Must we forget Lee in order i on June 14, 1777, “that the flag of the to admire Lincoln? Must we despise ! 13 United States be 13 stripes alternate $10,000 construction company: j migration law for a State to pay the on the grounds of pressing necessities.. car company: $40,000 lumber company. Kansas City—$10,000 paper box fac tory; $500,000 structural steel com pany. Webb City—Concentrating mill. Columbia—$25,000 mining company. Oartarvllle—$32,000 mining company. Joplin—$20,000 mining company. North Carolina. Henderson—$25,000 supply company. Durham—$50,000 knitting mill. Shelby—$30 000 furniture factory. Stanton—$10,000 canning factory. Charlottee—$100,000 land company. Plymouth—$5,000 lumber company. Raeford—$28,000 lumber mill. Oklahoma. Butler—$5,000 cotton gin. Waklta—$1,000,000 mining company. Omega—Telephone system. Hydro—Telephone system. Oklahoma City—$20,000 development company: $100,000 Investment compa ny; $200,000 piano factory- Weatherford—$200,000 oil and gas company. Yale—$25,000 telephone system. Guthrie—$750,000 chemical company: (800.000 awing company. Pawnee—$40,000 oil company. South Carolina. Chester—Laundry. Tennesaoo. Naahvi’le—$160,000 lumber eompanj*. McWilliams—$55,000 oil, gas and mineral company. Bristol—Power plant. Tullahoma—Tobacco factory. Harms—$75,000 cotton mill. Johnson Oily—Telephone system. Taxaa. New Boston—Plow works. Waxahatchle—$150,000 gas and elec tric company. Fort Worth—$25,000 manufacturing company. Houston—$5,000 oil company: $15.- 000 Investment company; $100,000 con crete company: $3,000 development company. Hamlin—$50,000 oil and cotton com pany. Midland—$300,000 loan companv. Burleson—$25,000 mill and elevator company. agitation, as under the auspices of the ; territorial Immigration society, lmmi- [ grants are being brought to the island ; from Europe and the Azores to taka ; the place of Japanese laborers on the ; sugar plantations. This has been sanctioned by the United States ; Government and a ship load of lmml- : grants recently brought from the Azores Islands have proved very sat- I lsfactory. SEMI-ANNUAL DIVIDEND OF 2V Z PER CENT ON PREFERRED STOCK ALLOWED. NEW YORK. March 9.—The direc tors of the Southern Railway today de clared the regular semi-annual divi dend of 2H per cent on the preferred stock. A statement of the company income for the six months ending December I that no MudltVon o»u1d Increase of Free Voters. The standard of morals In public mat ters has been, “not what is best, but what is most expedient. - ’ So, unright eous means have too often been ap plauded because they brought the cov eted success. In the practice of this evil the South has not been alone. It has been the evil of American politics in all sections of the nation. There is not a large I American city that has not its political scandal, not a commonwealth that has not fallen under evil leadership. But I want to tell of what I think is going on in the South, not what I think of other parts of the country. | The evidences of this wholesome re- 1 form in the South are manv. The j growing outcry of the public and the I strong opposition of leading papers to ! all forms of election Irregularities and : the deeds of the mob, are Infallible to- | kens of Its growth. No other section 1 rtf the nation was more deeply humil iated by the riot of Atlanta than the 1 South. The whole South regarded it ; as a shameful outrage upon soclety nnd a disgraceful outbreak against law Klng’s Mountain. In order to love Con cord? Must we turn away from our history of New England? Should Lord Rosebery forget Burns if he would ad mire Tennyson” Provincialism is the guardian of local history, the security of local character. And the provincial ism of the South will abide as the pro vincialism of the North and the East and the West will abide. . But provincialism should flower in nationalism, not in sectionalism. The Southern people are Americans, and they have grown weary of every as sumption tllat they are not Americans, or that they are Americans with an apology. I grant that Southern his tory has been sectional history. I grant that the South was trained from the establishment of this republic - to sus pect the integrity of the nation. Jef- red and white: that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field, represent ing a new constellation.” It has been asserted that the design of the flag was borrowed from the coat of arms of the Washington family but I have never heard that this claim was estab lished by. any proof. The 13 stars of the flag of 1777 were arranged in a circle. It is recorded that Mrs. Ross was given the position of manufacturer of flags for the Government, which de scended to her children. A few years ago I read a statement that the house—No. 239—In,which Mrs. Ross made the first flag, was still standing, but I am unable to say whether it yet remains as one of Phil adelphia’s relics of Colonial days. The flag of 1777 remained unchanged till 1794, when, on motion of Senator Brad votes to tlte man who would have re fused a pension to those who suffered, and to the. helple's widows and chil dren of those who died in defence of the country. The effect on the audi ence was powerful. ferson made the South fear that there j le >'- ot Vermont, which State, with was a deep scheme to overthrow re- 'Kentucky, had been admitted into the publicanism and establish monarchy. His successors fostered the same fear. The South loved liberty and believed Continuing, the account further says: . i Mr. Stephens in reply called attention ^ J ‘ to the fact that these persons were on- <k. i titled to pension from Congress, pen- ‘ sions to be paid out of the common treasury, .to which Georgia as well as the Other States contributed. That while he heartily approved these pen sions, he did not see the justice of Georgia paying special pensions to her soldiers, who wore already provided for bv Congress for services done to the United States, while he was also pay ing her full quota, not only to these, but to. the pensions of all the soldiers from other States. As to the payment of Nelson’s men, he had voted against it because It was proposed in an un constitutional form by a mere resolu tion instead of a regular bill: and he showed that when the same measure In local self-government, and resisted every tendency, real or imaginary, to destroy that for which it had "con tended. E’ut those issues have been settled. That this nation shall be a republic, the world’s defender of free dom has been recorded in the blood of battle. ssr«1».rssFJKiBSi a.Li; lit... IfP’ 3 ''"'-, -Vr- Stephen. he,l pent for the Senate Journal, and after making the above explanation, added, that j whether his vote was right or wrong lit was not for his opponent to.cen sure it. since the Journal in his hand the judge and his friends were utterly j of the i ea ,n n g attorneys of • ! Lap income from operatfon; a decrease of $875,570. in total Incomes and a de crease in the total balance of $1,554.- 000. The statement declares that the dividend on preferred stock has been earned and that the operations of the company for the first six months and of the present month reflect extra ordinary conditions, which it is be lieved can be improved except as the company may be affected in common with other roads by an increase in wages and higher prices for material. POWHATTAN BOULDIN, AN OLD PUBLISHER, DEAD. DANVILLE. Va.. March S.—Powhat- tan Bouldin. the founder and publisher of the red Danville Times, a weekly Democratic newspaper he published for twoaty-niiie years, here after the Cioll War uied today at his home af.er a long illness. He was born In Chari itto County in 1S30. and prior to the war wa~ .1 wllely known lawyer. Si no. the war he has lived In Danville but ha' cngigeo in no active business since ’.'34 or. account of failing health. Mr. Rou'dIn wrote "Reminiscences of John Randolph" and "The Old Trunk.” two publications which were well received ! The steady and o.ulet increase of the 1 independent voter In the South indi cates the unwillingness of men to act : longer In public matters against the dictatess of their consciences. This vote does not represent a tendency to organize another political parti-, but it does represent a stubborn determin ation to express one’s own conscien tious rights and duty. The scratching of ballots at elections is steadily in creasing, not only among the more in telligent voters, but among voters of all classes. Nor w'll the old party lash deter these voters from doing the things that are most righteous in their sight. And the one thing all this seems to Indicate is that the solid South will find in the future its bond of union in that which is patriotic and right in stead of finding it In the fear of social disparagement and political persecu tion. Another evidence of this change ap pear? in the growing distaste. I came near saying growing contempt, for the demagogue. A few days since a South ern leg's’ator said In a speech: "There are no second-class people in this com monwealth." His audience heard it United States be fifteen stripes alter nate red and white, that the Union be fifteen stars, white in a blue field. "This was the flag used in the war of 1812- 14. Other States were gradually be ing admitted into the Union In 1816, ■ showe(J that he (Colquitt), in his place nfinlirpTo in the Senate, had voted against the niittee was appointed to Inquire into reso i ution _ just as stenhons had the expediency altering the flag. Capt. d jn th Iower house This entire Political sectionalism is far behind Samuel C. Reid recommended the re- ? turned t h 0 table* The triumph the growth of nationalism in the South. ; Auction of the stripes to the original 1 oa One no longer hears the real South ! thirteen, and the adoption of stars ^ „ ilu lll=> through the voice of the sectional poll- ! equal to the number of the States, I discomfited*! 'and^the C Democratic ma tician. It is in Southern Industry and , formed into one large star, and a new - j 0r j^y j n the county was overcome. Thi* commerce that Southern nationalism j star to be added on the admission of , campaign placed Mr. Stephens at once has its surest growth and soundest ex- ! each new State. On April 4, 1818, a. among the acknowledged leaders of the pression. Southern capital and North- 1 bill embodying these suggestions, with j whig party throughout the State, and ern capital have met in our factories, I the exception of that designating the : age of thirty-one Mr. and banks, and railroads, and furnaces, J manner of arranging the stars, was ^P- Stephens was chosen to rooresont hl c and at these altars the sons of Amer- i proved by the President. Until then . native state in the Federal Congress ica have found a new meeting point j the stars and stripes were equal, and | and a now national fellowship. They ! a star and a stripe were added with j In the pu b? shed life of Mr. Stephens \\ ill no longer tolerate a spirit that i the advent of each new State. The ; referred to above., appear the following seeks to profit by sectional strifes and I flag threatened to become too large ]i nes> j n connection with this Con ti di\ ided nation. And there is noth- j hence the action in reducing the stripes • ^ressional racer “In this campaign he . lug of which the South has grown less ' to thirteen, representing the original j with various humorous advent- tolerant than the cr}’ of the sectioned 1 Union, and the stars were made equal j u^eg t and was more than once mis- Demagogue, whether he has his home . to the number of States. No change 1 taken for a mere boy, and treated as ! in Texas or in Ohio, whether he comes has since been made except to add a such; a misconception which he always j from the South of from New England, star whenever the Union Increased by . enjoyed, as there was generally ail The South has found its place in the ’ the admission of a State. There are ; amusing scene of discomfiture when i nation and more and more will it fill . now forty-five stars, and the number ; the error was discovered.” In view of ; its place in all of our national tasks. : will be Increased to forty-six on July i this, and all of the foregoing. Col. Jor- ' The nation has a wealth of citizenship 4, 1907, when Oklahoma is admitted fian may have located the man who i beyond the Potomac whose patriotic to the Union. ■ said 'he could swallow Stephens. service will prove to be one of the ; . It also seems to be a mooted ques- • chief forces in helping this American j Just as it was a patriotic woman tion whether Stephen's words used.in i republic to fill its mission to mankind, j who made the first flag of America, . retort to his antagonist, to wit: “Then And no other thought is more inspiring i even so the first flag of the South- y OU would have more sense In vour to every patriotic man of the South. | ern Confederacy was made by noble belly than you have In your head. -- I rejoice to know that there is not j women. Forty-six years ago this very | were original with the Great Common growing In any section of our country ; week, the convention Jn Montgomery h worthier type of Americanism than adopted a de'ign for a flag for the that which exists between the Poto- 1 Confederate States, and within two mac and the Rio Grande. j hours after this action the ladies of “Truth and candor require me to say i Alabama's fair capital had completed that your alma mater has had, and a beautiful merino flag after the new still has. a unique place among South.- design and It was at once raised amid 1 He employed ern colleges In doing her part to help much rejoicing over the State house. ; and effectually forward this worthy reform ” concluded I notice that a press dispatch says ex-President Grover Cleveland has 1 gone to South Carolina to visit Gen. 1 E. P. Alexander. This means some excellent sport as the general has fine ! on South Island. Georgetown, where he on South Island. Georgeton where he is a rice planter. Gen. Alexander is I well known in Macon, having been j the president of the Centra; Railroid. and at one time a leading spirit in the I Louisville and Nashville Railroad. when that great combination first Ift- j vnded Georgia in its movement to ob tain railway supremacy in th ! s State. I Gen. Alexander is a native Georgian, and has had quite an eventful career 4 , j more- so perhaps than the average j reader la aware. Ho was born in I Washington. Ga., Mnv 26. 1335. Grad ! tinted at West Point, and was ap pointed second lieutenant United Corps: resigned In 1561. entered the Conf*-dere;. army, captain of engineers: served in the army of Northern Virginia, surrender a - Anpiomttox in chief of ordnance and later dier-genernl of artillery. L< corns; professor of mathematics and engineering !: the University of South Carolina. 1866-70; general manager and president of various railroads, two of which I referred to just now: was one of the commissioners that erected the State capitol of Georgia, in Atlanta: member of hoards on nav igation of Columbian River, Oregon, and on ship canal between Chesape-i ;o and Delaware bays. 1E93-4: Govern ment director of the Union, Pacific Railroad Company. 1885-7: engineer ing aribtnitor of the boundarv sur vey between Costa Rica and Nicara gua. about 1900. Gen. Alexander has always been regarded ns a genius it. mathematics and engineering. The general will be seventy-two years old this coming May. and on the ISth dav this month the ex-PrcsldenJt will round out his three score arid ‘on. T n the language of Mr. Cleveland's old friend Rip—may they live long and prosper. until the 1365, ft' as br'ga- ■vngslreet's I o Hon. John R. Irwin, of Dawson, one neys of Southwest visiting in President Kilgo. “Unh'ndered hy po litical all'ances or political patronage, bound only hv the necessities of truth and righteousness, she has been excep tional in her efforts to promote every generous spirit and patriotic faith. And It is with pride that she watches the wise and broad spirit of her two sons .While I am on the subject of flags something about the flag of Georgia might not be amiss. The Cyclopedia of Georgia says that the first State flag of Georgia, of which»any authen tic account can be found, was after the adoption of the State seal of 1799, when the design, the arch of the Con- In this connection it may bo well to say that there Is another sentiment usually credited to Stephens as its au thor, and with which his name will always be associated in the political phraseology of this State, at least. ‘: very appropriately there Is no doubt of that. I allude to the phrase—“tote his own skillet.” Mr. Stephens used the saying on the stump as a quota tion. hut many nersons think that he originated it. The expression appears in a letter written by Mr. Stephens on June 30, 1855, to his brother Lin ton, who had been nominated in that month as a candidate for Congre: Georgia has be several days. He graduated at Merer University in the class of ISSl. Among some of his classmates who have hold political nd judicial office .are: Wil liam C. ♦ inn. of Cedartown, n member of the 1 Vt State Senate: Beverly D. Evans, of Sandersvllle, formerly in the General Assembly and judge of the I middle circuit, and now one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Geor- | gia: William .T. Nunnally, ox-Solicitor- General of the Rome Circuit. Among other professional men that were in Col. Irwin's class are: Dr. .1. F. Ander son. of Clinton: Dr. R. B. Barron, of Macon: Prof. Charles C. Blackshear of the Woman’s College, of Baltimore: Ptlaf. Lawson Brown. Rev. John F. Eden. Dr. George F. Ford, R"i - . Thomas Vi. Fuller. Rev. Julian Rod- ges. Attorney John T. West, all of Georgia. The members of the class who entered business life are: E. B. Burke, Robert L. Finney. Thomas Grier, William W. Solomon, of Macon: Thomas Hawes. Augusta: John Jones. Marsh McAllen. Drury .T. Powers, of Atlanta: Newton McBride, Rockmart; George W. McCall Hawkinsvllle: Rowe Price. Tallapoosa, and William Worthy, Americas. Col. Irwin was a member of Governor Atkinson’s staff, and was Solicitor-General of the Patauln Cir cuit for several years. He married a daughter of Major C. D. Findlay, of Macon. who now represent North Carolina in etilution, supported by the three pil- the district adjoining Mr. Stephens'. when issued. He leaves five children, i with silent sarcasm, while the press of part in the nation’s work.” lars. Wisdom. Justice and Moderation was emblazoned on the State banner. The Cyclopedia further says that when the ordinance of secession was passed in 1861, this flag was unfur'ed over the canitol. No other State flag was of ficially adopted, thoue-h In the nation al flag mu'eum at Washington is an proved to Southern colleges by her ' ensign bearing in the center of the heroic adherence to her faith that a \ union the coat of arms of Georgia sur- colieve owes service to society, and It , rounded bv a circle of silver stars, is a joy to know that she ha? made it j On one side are the words “Presented possible for them to have an active | by the Ladies of Henry,” and on th the United States Senate. By the terms of her Constitution she is bound to serve a? far as possible every interest that looks to national prosperity and social purity. For all that is worthy In the new Southern spirit she has gladly made her share of sacrifice and ; patiently borne her share of pain. She I bfl In that same year H. V. Johnson and Garnett Andrews were pitt -d again each other for Governor. Johnson | thi had been renominated by the D:-mo- crats. and Andrews was the Know- Nothing candidate. Alexander Stephens was running as an independent candi date for re-election to Congress. He wrote to his brother as follows: “Jun' 30th.—I have just returned from Raytown. We had a good time there today. A large crowd present from Augusta. "Washington. Wnrrenton. other “Lackey Rangers,” below which 1 Greensborough and Columbia Court The Telegraph stated in an editorial yesterday that the Sprinefield Repub lican a Massachusetts newsnaper. rec ommends Alexander Stephens' "Consti tutional View of the War Between the States" a-- a reference book for Repub lican statesmen of the anti-Roosevelt brand. It may be a matter of public interest to note that Mr. Stephens re ceived about $35,000 from the sale of work. It Is said that he was paid royalty of 25 coots per volume the work being in two volumes This would Indicate a sale, of 79.0090 cop ies. Mr. Stephen' lost $20,090 of thi,? sum in the publication of the Atlantfi Sun. "Living always at Crawfordville, he had not been able to keen an eye on the business mnngerrent of the paper, and was astonished to find that more than hot: hi? fortune had been sunk In It. This loss by the Sun left him