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day will r/ji he accused and condemned
to death. London ? seif-indulging rich
whom he denounce? will merely smile
at his ' presumption" and go on In their
chosen way.
The Chicago election cannot In any j GALUSHA A. GROW,
sense be tortured Into a defeat for ■ A remarkable link was snapped be-
mur.icipal ownership or a conkmna- tween the past and the present when
tion of Its principles." quoth the At- Galusha A. Grow died Sunday In Penn-
CU MULATIVE EVIDENCE.
C. R. PENDLETON, President
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SETBACK FOR MUNICIPAL OWN
ERSHIP.
The result of Tuesday’s mayoralty
election in Chicago is a decided setback
for municipal ownership. Two years
ago Edward F. Dunne. Democrat, was
elected mayor on a platform calling
for the Immediate ownership and man
agement by the city of the street rail
ways. to be obtained by condemnation
proceedings if not otherwise. In the
inor, election Mr. Dunne received 163,-
189 votes against 138,671 for John M.
Harlan, his Republican rival. This
The check? were given to Treas
urer BID?, who took them to Chair
man Cortelyou. If there were any
among them of life Insurance com
panies, or other like orgnr..za!i n«.
of course Cortelyou must have in
formed the President. This
amount enabled the New York
State committee to continue Its
work, with the result that at least
50.000 votes were turned In the city
of New York alone, making a dif
ference of 100.000 votes in the gen
eral restllr.—E. H. Harriman in let
ter to Sydney Webster Jan. 2. 1906.
referring to Republican campaign
contributions in election of .1904.
This statement the President
characterizes as "a deliberate and
wilful untruth—by right it should
be characterized by an even shorter
and more ugly word. I never re
quested Mp. Harriman to raise a
dollar for the Presidential cam
paign of 1904.”—Press Dispatches
April 2. 1907.
lanta Georgian. Maj
have been re-elected a
the other fellow who -
pal ownership?
mu?
Dunne
all. or was it
d for munici-
A QUESTION WITH TWO SIDES.
Mr. S. E Kiser, contributing to the
Chicago Record-Herald, discusses child
labor a* follows: •
For a little bread and a little meat.
For two poor soles for h!s~weary feet.
For a tattered coat and a bed of rags
And a curse or a blow If he ever lass—
For the right to live a? a worm may
live—
He gives up all that a child may give.
October 29, 1904, Judge Alton B.
Parker declared with reference to Re
publican methods:
"The trusts are furnishing the money
with which they hope to control the
election. Iam sorry to be obliged to
say this. If it were not true, I would
1 Ere he taste? the joy to which youth is
j heir
; Hi? brow is seamed by the marks of
care;
1 Before he has learned that he has the
right
To set his goal on the fairest height.
He is robbed of hope and deprived of
I zeal
lAnd bound for life to the racking
wheel.
sylvanla. The name is familiar to the
people of this generation merely as a
historic.:: reminiscence. ft is a name
associated with the giants of the ante-
j helium period. All the generations of
school boy? that have gr-r-wn up since
. the great war knerw him as a familiar
| friend through his niche in the “Pop-
I ular Speaker." He was one of the elo
quent orators of that tremendous period
! to which Clay, Calhoun, Webster Ben-
| ton, and later Davis, Stephens, Toombs
i and their contemporaries belonged.
I He entered Congress in 1851 as a Dem-
; ocrat from Pennsylvania and was the
! youngest member of that body. He
: inevitably, perhaps, changed his poll-
! tics to the complexion of the section
: which he represented during the stir
ring war' period and was Speaker of
I the House of Representatives 1861-63.
He played a great role in a great period
and the fact that no infamy attaches to
: his name indicates that he played It
! nobly and well. After forty years’ re-
WHAT WILL THEY DO WITH SAN
DERSON?
In the recent campaign In Pennsyl-
year, after two years’ experience with no { gny ^ g a ) n Presidency or
municipal ownership politics, the result
was Just the reverse. The vote re
ceived by Frederick A. Busse. the Re
publican candidate, was 164,839, while
Mayor Dunne, standing on the same
any earthly reward.”
■November 4, 1904, Mr. Roosevelt de
nounced Judge Parker's statements as
"unqualifiedly and atrociously false.”
"Certain slanderous accusations as to
Our God. we say, is a God of love.
And we preach of glories that are .
above, | tirement he returned to Congress four
But never whatever Death has In store | years ag0 from Pennsylvania, but his
For the little slave when he slaves no
more j day was past. It is given to one man
May the glee of youth he has never j to play a pre-eminent part in but one
known
Or the joy of winning become his own.
platform as before, received 151,718, | Mr. cortelyou and myself,” said the
showing a plurality of over 18,000 votes ; President, "have been repeateed time
for the Republican candidate. The re
sult of the election, while a severe de
feat for municipal ownership, Is not an
tmmlxed defeat for Democracy since
the Republicans won by endorsing cer
tain ordinances passed by the Demo-
and again by Judge Parker, candidate
of his party for the office of President.
. . . There is not one particle of
truth in tho statement as regards any
thing that has gone on in the manage
ment of the Republican party. Mr.
cratlc City Councils and which were Parker’s accusations against Mr. Cor-
made the chief Issue in the campaign. | telyou and me are monstrous.”
These ordinances were submitted to ^ The insurance investigation conduct-
the peoplo and were approved by a ma- j e( ] by the New York Legislature in 1905
Jority of about 40.000 votes. They re- established the fact that the great In
ject municipal ownership, but provide surance trusts contributed *150,000 of
for advantages which will be of great j the stockholders' money to President
benefit to the people. It is conceded . Roosevelt’s campaign fund in 1904 and
that the vote generally showed a de
cided reversal of public opinion on
municipal ownership since the mayor
alty campaign of two years ago. It
would appear that the people of Chi
cago, after fuller consideration of the
subject, concluded It would be unwise
to embark In the street railway busi
ness.
The campaign, it is stated, was one
of the most vicious Chicago had ever
the President now admits it.
Where does he stand?
He may never know that the world is
fair.
And he never may struggle above de
spair:
He is robbed of the chance that he had
at birth
To claim the price that a man is worth.
And, with limbs that ache and with
eyes that plead.
He is crucified on the cross of Greed.
For a little meat and a little bread
And a little rest when the day is
dead—
For the right to live as a worm may
live—■
great epoch. Galusha A. Grow appar
ently lingered superfluous on the stage
of events. And yet though a wonder
ful old man because of the times In
which he lived, he was not so very old
in years, being only in his eighty-third
year. But the life of an octogenarian,
crowded with wars and revolutions,
must appear much longer than of one
passed in the serenity of peace and
quietude.
BAILEY ELIMINATES HIMSELF.
He gives up all that a child may give: Senator Joseph W. Bailey had an
And we speak with pride of the grace j ovation on his return home from
we claim j _ . . . ... ... ...
And with love ’we mention the dear i Washington and did a sensible thing
Christ’s name! | eliminated himself as a Presidential
possibility. He did this by expressing
himself in favor of his colleague. Sen
ator Culberson, as first choice, and for
A PRACTICAL REFORMER.
Mr. Thomas Roseman, of Nebraska,
Is no less an enemy of race suicide
than is a certain illustrious personage
whose name is a household word. But*]
there is a difference. Mr. Roseman
does not preach, he practices; he be
lleves an ounce of the concrete Is worth
known and appears to have been com- , a pound of the abstract. He has money
plicated by the “butting in” nnd active 1 and Is willing to spend it in a way to
participation of William R. Hearst, of j encourage an increase in the popula-
New York, in support of Mayor Dunne, j tion.
"William Randolph Hearst came per- j He is a wealthy retired cattleman of
sonally from New York to take part In j McPherson County, Neb., and he pro-
the campaign, and brought with him j poses to give $50 in gold to each and
cartoonists and editorial writers,” the every baby born in that county and
press dispatches announced. "His pa- j $ioo to every couple married in Me
pers were tho only publications in the j Pherson County, provided they fix their
city supporting Mayor Dunne, all other ; residence therein. Mr. Roseman, ac-
newspapers being for Mr. Busse and j cording to the account before us, be-
the ordinances. Tho papers favoring j lleves that his plan will not only in-
Mr. Busse made much of the cry that | crease the number of children in faml-
Chlcago was able to manage Its own j lies residing in his county, but stimu-
intcrcsts without receiving Instructions j kite Immigration to that favored sec-
ffrom New York.” j tion.
How much Mr. Hearst contributed Such a belief is eminently reasonable,
to Mayor Dunne's defeat there is no j The promise of *100 In gold on the
way of estimating, but It was a bad | wedding day and $50 for every baby
d«y for Hearslism as well as municipal ; born surely ought to increase the num-
ownership. j ber of> marriages and stimulate the
growth of families among people of
These pathetic and appealing lines
describe child labor, or child slavery,
In some <of its phases, accurately
enough. The boy or girl who works in
a factory from sun to sun and from
year’s end to year’s end, with no time
for play and no strength left for school
even when night schools are within
reach, is a pitiable object and one
which organized society should not tol
erate.
But there Is another side to the ques-
W. J. Bryan, for $Vhom he has not al
ways had a friendly feeling, falling the
other. The wisdom of Mr. Bailey’s
course was not so much In his choice
of substitutes as in declaring himself
out of the running. Senator Bailey
nyiy well congratulate himself on the
fidelity of his constituency and hi?
triumph in the fight that was made on
him. while not presuming too much on
CAT AND DOG WORSHIP.
A cable dispatch from the BTitlsh cap
ital indicates that Father Bernard
Vaughan, a “fiery-tongued Jesuit,” is
out on tho trail of London society with
a sharp stick. He has been preaching
sermons on "The Sins of Society,” and
society ha? been flocking to hear him,
whether for mere entertainment or
with serious purpose Is not stated.
Before beginning a recent sermon
Father Vaughan made the following
itatemont iri regard to the "cat and
Jog worship” which he had denounced:
"Many correspondents have told
limited means in that part of the
world. If Mr. Roseman keeps it up,
he may die poor, but he will have as
sisted in bringing into existence many
human beings who might otherwise
never have seen the light.
fne that what I said In prev'ous
aermons about cat and dog worship
among silly women Is not true. I,
therefore, refer them to the serv
ants who have to stay up half the
night petting and nursing these
little beasts; to the cooks who
have to cater for th^m: to the
veterinary surgeons who have to
take care of their diseases; to the
undertakers who have to furnish
their funerals.
"If this is not enough, let them
go to the printers who Issue me
morial notices edged in deep black
inviting friends to a memorial ser
vice In the drawing room, with the
notification that It is not to say
‘adieu.’ hut ’au revolr’—Whatever
that means. I suppose It means
that they are all going to the dogs.”
STILL AFTER THE BOLL WEEVIL.
j Current dispatches from Washington
convey the information that the De-
1 partment of Agriculture this season
| will experiment with two new enemies
, to the peace and health of the boll
: weevil. "Chemicals and insetes which
: for a time have given promise of help-
i Ing the planter to suppress the pest
I have repeatedly disappointed the ex-
| pectations of their sponsors, and it
i would be injudicious to rely implicitly
! on the present plan of using red ants
and the larvae of a certain fly as de
stroyers,” as the New York Tribune
s
says.
The South will naturally be pleased
| to see that the Government is contin-
! uing its efforts in this direction. The
i Tribune truthfully says that "the area
j in which the weevil makes mischief has
j increased, sometimes slowly and some
times rapidly, until it amounts to one-
The last excellent sentence quoted 1 third of the whole region suited to the
shows that Father % nughan ha^ quick- ; cultivation of the great Southern sta-
ness of wit and sense of humor enough p i e . There 1? no telling where the
to attract crowds even of those who go j trouble will stop. If the Invasion of
to church without serious purpose. "I new territory could be prevented and
have no patience with these people," the prevalence of the evil could be mln-
he added, who ought to be dandling imized where it has already obtained a
children In their laps and nursing their foothold an Immensely Important agri
little ones instead of scandalizing every cultural industry would be vastly ben-
eecllon of the community by pouring 1 eft ,ed. It Is gratifying to observe,
out their love upon these creatures that therefore, that Secretary Wilson’s de-
are not meant to be treated as their partment does not vet consider the
own offspring. Fie upon them, end ; ca se hopeless. The weevil is only one
upon those who encourage them. I C f several obstacles with which the
have been sent a lot of trashy garbage co tton planter is obliged to contend.
tion. We entirely agree with the prin- , them _ Qn Ws re{urn tQ h , g home tQWn
clpal of the Chicago public schoo! who ( he dr£uvp by four mllk _ whlte
contends that more discrimination ; horses j Q a carrfage of , avender and
should be shown in the agitation
against child labor, or the labor of per
sons of any age up to 14 or 16. School
ing Is necessary and play is, too, but
the Chicago educator rightly argues
that the habit of work must be formed
early in life or it may never be formed
at all. He might well add that a cer
tain amount of labor in early youth is
both physically and mentally whole
some aside from its value as indus
trial training. "Four hours of school,”
he says, “and four hours of work alter
nating will make every child self-sus
taining after the age of 10. Society
and the law have prevented the boy
from getting work that really is work.
Every child ought to work every day
of his life. He Is born Into a world
which requires work, and he ought not’
to be permitted to form habits of Idle
ness and shirking. Child Idleness Is
worse than child labor.”
This does not make the needed pro
vision for play, but as a general prop
osition the Idea is sound. The difficul
ty is one of practical arrangements.
How are four hours of school and four
hours of work "that really 13 work”
(remunerative) to be provided for
either the poor boy or the son of pros
perous parents? The latter has the
usual number of school and play hours
and does, or does not, as the case may
be, the few tasks appointed for him In
and about the home. The poor boy
feels the need of employment as well
as of schooling, but in order to secure
the former, under prevailing condi
tions, he must labor more than four
hours. Reconstruction of methods Is
necessary before anything approximat
ing the Chicago educator’s plan can be
practically applied to any large extent,
but the plan in itself Is excellent
Children, that Is, boys and girls, the
former especially, should be taught to
work and to regard labor as necessary
all through their coming lives. Dean
Russell, of the New York Teachers’
College, rightly declares that a mistake
is made in this country in teaching the
young that they may reasonably expect
to occupy the highest political and
professional positions in the laniJ—
that they “can do anything but earn
a day’s wages by a decent day’s day’s
work." The ambition of the excep-
white, over the town, followed by six
bands, the local fire company, the en
tire population of Gainesville and many
visitors from the surrounding counties.
His reception is thus further described:
Every business house in Gaines
ville was closed, the day was made
a holiday, and when the Senator
arrived every steam whistle in the
town was blown and every other
noise -making arrangement was
turned loose. A special train filled
with his friends met the Senator at
Fort Worth and brought him in
triumph into Gainesville. The fes
tivities lasted all day. There was
a big reception,.in which the entire
town took part. . First at night
there was another reception at the
Elks’ Hall, and later on there was a
banquet Senator Bailey spoke for
two hours in the afternoon, deliv
ering a blistering attack on his en
emies. He scored every enemy he
has but surprised every one by
coming out for the first time in his
life for his long-time political rival
and foe, 'William Jennings Bryan.
Bailey declared unequivocally for
Bryan for President and took him
self out of the Presidential race.
This was a surprise for ever since
Bailey and Bryan served in Con
gress together, over twelve years
ago. they have been politically un
friendly. This unfriendliness was
displayed at the Chicago conven
tion in 1896. when, after the delega
tion from eve»y Southern State had
snatched up its banner and was
marching around the hail wildly
cheering for Bryan. Bailey held tho
Texas delegation stolidly in their
seats. Bailey has since consist
ently opposed Bryan. Last August,
when Bryan returned from Europe
and made hi” Government owner
ship speech, ‘Ba’,!ey showed his dis
gust by rising from his seat in a
box and walking out. Ten days
later he withdrew his aecenlance of
the invitation to attend the B'ryan
reception at Louisville, because of
Bryan’s Government ownership
speech.
Speaking of the fight that had been
made on him. Mr. Bailey said:
“These men. my countrymen,
thought they were eliminating me
from the Presidential equation of
this country, I have long since
eliminated myself. I know that I
can never be President of this na
tion. but that is not true because
of anything they have said or done;
it is true because of things I have
said and done.
“The fact that my name has dis
appeared from the list of ellgibles
is due to their hellish work, but
their work will not last, for I will
so serve my people and my country
as to restore my name to the posi
tion It occupied before this cam
paign. These kind of men cannot
prevail against an honest man who
tells the truth to the people.”
Vania. Treasurer William H. Berry
charged that there had been prodigious
and ahameleers graft in the furnishing
of the new Capitol building at Harris
burg. Governor Pennypacker and the
rest of the Republicans big and little
were deeply shocked, for Berry was a
Democrat, am! with voices shaking
with indignation they made the coun
ter-charge that It was all a campaign
sensation to mislead and attract un
wary voters.
Berry was not ready with the actual
proof, and the Republican gang was
established in power more strongly
than ever, but his outcry led to the
legislative inquiry now going on, which
more than justifies his boldest state
ments. According to a Harrisburg
dispatch to the Philadelphia Record, a
general summary of the main features
disclosed since the investigation began
shows the following remarkable fig
ures:
What State
paid Sand
erson.
138.7
779.472.96
155.369.60
80,748.80
69.408.00
1.619.20
02.416.40
3.256.80'
2.796 80
2.281A0
Glass mosaic friezes
In the rotunda...$
Baccarat cut glass.
Painting and deco
rating
Designed woodwork
for 14 rooms
Rostrums for Sen
ate and House
caucus rooms....
Thermostats
Bootblack’s stand..
Woodwork for Sen
ate postoffice and
other ante-rooms
Barber's case in
Senate toilet
38 mahogany
clothes-trees ....
31 umbrella stands.
Woo d w o r k for
Governor's suite.
50 desks for Sen
ators
208 desks for Rep
resentatives
'Medicine” chest
for room of Pres
ident pro tem. of
Senate
Desk for Lieuten
ant Governor
Chan d e 11 e r s and
bronze ?taea«-d-_
including $137,600
for models 2,187,122.96
According to 8a’on
Sanderson's broth-
er-In-1 aw. the
comparative figures
on the chandeliers
alone are 1,612.572.56
Electric lighting... 71,833.60
Cost
to Sand
erson.
28,759.20 $ 7.224.26
2S.0S4.34
174.962.00
28.170.00
2.060 00
24.835.00
125.00
6.145.00
323.00
456.00
434.00
94.208.00
13.230.00
59.432.00
16,080.75
3.250.00
16,224.00
239.20
349.60
75.09
130.00
550 000.00
17,825.00
tition when the aging and less efficient
man, unlee* In command of a business
of his own, must inevitably drop out
of the race.
MARK TWAIN AND THE SOUTH
ERN ATTITUDE.
Mark Twain - * Southern habits and
Southern attitude in certain matters
are brought to light quite vividly now
and then in his autobiography in the
North American Review. Recently we
noted some of his remarks in favor of
old-fashioned Southern cooking and
against certain “fussy superstitions" at
the North in regard to the Imaginary
dangers of hot bread, etc. Later on we
find this kindly reference to the ne
groes, revealing an attitude typically
Southern:
“All the negroes were fr'ends of
ours, and with those of our own
age we were in effect comrades. X
sat- in effect, using the phrase as a
modification. We were comrades,
and yet not comrade?. Color and
condition interposed a subtle line
which both parties were conscious
of. and which rendered complete
fusion impossible. We had a faith
ful and affectionate goad friend, ally
and adviser in 'Uncle Dan'I,' a
middle-aged slave, whose head
was the best one in the negro
quarter, whose sympathies were
wide and warm, and whose heart
was honest and simple and knew
no guile. He has served me well
these many, many years. I have
not seen him for more than half a
century, and yet spiritually I have
had his welcome company a good
part of that time, and have staged
him In books under his own name
and as ‘Jim.’ and carted him all
around—to Hannibal, down tho
Mississippi on a raft, and even
across the Desert of Sahara in a
balloon—and he has endured it all
with the patience and friendliness
and loyalty which were his b’rtli-
righL’*
As he came up to me he said. I
wsnt to know what you mean by
such an answer as that.' I told
him I meant just what 1 had said
that It was a free hall, and a man
had a right to be .iust where he
pleased. 'Sir,' said Keitt. I will let
you know that you are a black Re
publican puppy.' 'Never mind, said
I, 'I shall occupy such place in this
hall as I please, and no negro
driver shall crack his whip over
me' This angered Keitt and he
made a grab for my throat, and I
struck him.
"This proved to be the signal for
a rough-and-tumble fight. The
Southerners who were sitting near
rushed r> Keitt’s assistance, and
ame to mv .aid. Barksdale.
3ls?lppl, who essayed the
a peacemaker, caught hold
Potter, thinking that
: ; e meant me harm, hit him.
:!e di 1 not know who it was
him. but supposing it was
ithers
\V.
Cat
Wi
lg the
bed
assault on hi?
;arli
:ff his wig. Barks dart
picked If up and put it on wronc
end foremost. This made him ap
pear so ridiculous that all burst
oui laughing, and in this way the
affair ended."
Tho
house:
linas
?e were warm times in both
: of Congress and South Cam-
representatives appear to have
been as ready with blows then as some
of them have been in more recent
times. It will be recalled that it was
another representative of the Hotspur
State, Preston S. Brooks, who about
the same period struck Charles Sum
ner for the latter’s attack on his rela
tive. Senator Butler, in the court' of
a political speech, an incident which
fired the blood of both sections at the
time. But in view of the tremendous
conflict to which the agitation led up.
it is marvelous on the whole, how few
personal collisions there were among
the leaders of the oppes ng elements.
Mark Twain feels and speaks on this
subject precisely as does the average
Southerner of the older generation who ! GLADSTONE AND THE PEERAGE,
was closely associated with the ne- It is a popularly accepted tradition
groes as slaves and later on as family concerning William E, Gladstone; tile
servants. The attitude may be de- great English commoner, that he de
served as one of protecting kindliness cllncd the peerage and remained a
and. friendship on the part of a supe- | commoner by choice. This tradition i?
rior toward an acknowledged inferior. ! somewhat Spoiled by "Marquise d?
All of which clearly indicates that
to live in Pennsylvania, and “get in on
the ground floor” with the Republican
gang pays better than to be the owner
of a dozen "Klondike mines.
KAISER A FINE DRUMMER.
Emperor William of Germany missed
his vocation, as the popular phrase
has it. He has the talents of the mod
ern commercial traveler highly devel
oped. He showed a bent in this direc
tion soon after he came to the throne,
it is said. In his frequent journeys to
foreign countries he always bore in
mind that he had great business con
cerns at home, like Krupp’s, which
would be very glad of big orders, and
especially from the Sultan he managed
to extract quite a number of valuable
orders for steel rails and cannot!. One
of the latest evidences of this bent Is
told In the following:
Now he has gone a step further.
In a walk through his estate at
Cadinen some time, ago he hap
pened to notice that the clay in a
certain district looked remarkably
like clay he had seen somewhere
used in making pottery and porce
lain. Ho had specimens examined
by experts, who declared It good.
Then he lost no time. He had a
factory built, ordered designers and
other skilled workmen from the
porcelain factory at Charlntten-
burg to the new works In Cadinen,
deviated a great deal of time and
money to the enterprise and in a
few months the factory began to
turn out articles in majolica which
he pronounced better than anything
of the kind produced abroad. His
tiles for flooring he was particu
larly proud of, and he began -at
once to solicit orders from friends.
When he went to shooting parties
or visited any of his magnates he
was loud -in praises of the Cadinen
manufactory, and numerous were
the orders he got.
He is also fond of saying a good
word tor his farm produce, his
prize bulls, boars, fowls, arid is im
mensely flattered if he gets orders
for stock.
The emperor has a habit of not
ing his orders on his shirt-cuffs
with a scrubby bit of lead pencil.
No doubt if the Emperor had been
In the private walks of life he would
have vied with Harry Lehr as an am
bassador of trade.
The venerable author’s mention Of
his use of “Uncle Dan’I" as literary
material In “Huckleberry Finn” and
other works Is of especial interest to
Southern writers of fiction, all of whom
have from time to time likewise drawn
upon their recollection of some negro
or negroes with whom they were fa
miliarly acquainted (without being on
terms of equality) in early life.
tlonal youth may be usefully stimulated
in this way. but the average boy is j The South wiH ap P laud Mr - Bailey
harmed and too often learns to scorn | for his manful s P lrlt and sympathize
the only means of making an honest ! with him in hl? work o£ P ersonaJ re
habilitation.
living that matches his limited .abili
ties.
—I cannot call it literature—on this
The expected has happened. The
lunacy commission has decided Thaw
Is sufficiently sane to advise his coun
sel. Jerome says he will now push
.... weather Is another, though its ef- j f or a conviction. But as he has not
subject of the intelligence and of the fects varv from sea5on to season Me _ 1
souls of dog. and of cats. Why do | teorological conditions are bevond hu-
they not go on to rats and mice? If Mn control , but a , arse desree of SUc _
one animal has a right, all others , cess hag attended the war on the pests
equally have it. which attack fruit, tobacco and other
In another recent sermon, according „. ops , and a simIlar conquest mav
to the dispatch. Father Vaughan boldly j FOlne day be effected ln the cotton
“declared that the elite of London
though nominally members of either j
the State or the Catholic Church, were I
i fields of Texas and Louisiana.'
been trying to prove Thaw guilty of
murder the question naturally arises. ,
what sort of a conviction will he push j
tor?
According to an Indianapolis news
paper. an educator of that city, the
head of the "Technical Institute,” Jour
neyed to Washington to invite Mr.
Roosevelt to deliver an address at the
unveiling of a monument to the late
Gen. Lawton. In the course of the in
terview with the President the educa
tor stated that the "Technical Insti
tute Is a place where we teach our
young men how to beat swords into
One point which Mr. Harriman failed ! plowshares.” This beautiful metaphor
to elaborate sufficiently i? how did the • from Holy Writ did hot produce the
$200,000 raised by himself and friends I usual effect, for it brought out the
turn 50,000 votes. Were votes quoted
at $4 each in New York in 1904?
Pres'dent Roosevelt says he "never
as dovod of Christian ethics as the ! requested Mr. Harriman to raise a dol-
heathen: In fact, worse, because they ■ lar tor the Presidential campaign of "Ryan. Root. Roosevelt” Is the allit
had the light, but hid in the darkness i 1904.” No, indeed. Roosevelt would 1 eratlon which binds together the latest
of the worst vice* of antiquity.” j never have risked his chances on the j political combination, according
This free-spoken Savonarola of our I “dollar fund" proposition. J Harriman.
quick response: “Your young men
should also be taught to beat plow
shares Into swords.”
That waa a cruel April fool joke
to 1 Easter played on the ladies with their
i bonnets and costumes.
SAVINGS BANKS IN THE SOUTH.
The Washington Herald quotes C.
Thomas C'oombs, of Chicago, whose
business brings him in touch with the
banks of a large section of the United
States, as saying that “the most inter
esting phase of banking is the great
development of savings banks in sev
eral of the Southern States, especially
North Carolina and Tennessee.” And
further:
“It has not been so many years ago
that people of the South hardly knew
what savings banks were. The thrifty
habits of the people of New England
were unknown south of the Potomac:
but all that has changed, and now you
will scarcely find a town In .the cotton
belt that will not accept the dimes and
dollars of wage earners.”
The observer quoted attributes the
change in part to the establishment
of factories. “The employes of the va
rious industries are more apt to put
away money than laborers in a purely
agricultural region. At High Point. N.
C., which has more than a hundred
furniture factories. 1 was told that 90
per cent of the operatives had money
in the local savings banks.” It is
added that “in a good many places in
the South the negroes are beginning to
see the wisdom of saving and are or
ganizing bank*.”
The saving* banks Is a mean* of lay
ing by for a rainy day. or rather for
the unproductive period toward the
close of life, which no poor man or
woman can afford to neglect, particu
larly in these time* of intense compe-
PLENTY OF ENCOURAGEMENT.
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
having several times called upon the
South to lead In Democratic counsels,
the Nashville American asks if the
former is witling to express an opinion
as to what would be the result, and
the Record replies:
Yes. A winning campa'gn In ?90S
on the old issue of individualism
against paternalism and centrali
zation of power in the Federal
Government. The country Is gov
erned too much, and with rank fa
voritism.
Let the South name a Democrat,
not a dreamer, and stand him on
an old-fashioned Democrats plat
form. The time i? ripe tor a re
turn of the Government within (he
fold of the Constitution. The South
is in a position to demand the
leadership. She has stood by the
Democratic colors through thick
and thin and earned recognition.
And the New York Sun of the day
before remarks: "The South is In a
position to dictate the Democratic
nomination in 1908. No candidate dis
tasteful to the Southern delegates is
likely to be seriously considered. If
they present a firm front against Mr.
Bryan or any other man, he will be
dropped as unavailable. No man can
be the logical candidate if the South
doesn’t want him, although it will be
in the minority in tho convention’. The
section for Mr. Bryan to canvass with
his sample case containing the pana
cea of ultimate G-o% r ernmont ownership
Fontenoy,” who, writing in the Wash
ington Post, says:
Lord Liverpool's death serves to
recall the fact that it was as Earl
cf Liverpool that the late Will am
E. Gladstone was at one moment
on the point of being raised to the
peerage. There was a time when
he was not only willing, but even
anxious to wind up his wonderful
career in the house of Lords, pro
viding that the- earldom bestowed
upon him could be that of Liver
pool, a city with which he was so
greatly Identified by family and
political association?. It is claimed
that only when he. found that there
were insuperable obstacles to his
taking the title of Earl of Liverpool
that he declined to consider any
further the idea of accepting a
peerage, and made up his mind to
die a? he had lived, plain Will'nin
E. Gladstone. The obstacles wore
in the form of objections raised by
the last of the Jenkhj >on earls of
Liverpool's maternal grandson. Ce
cil George Foljanibe, who, in 1S93,
was created Lord Hawksbury. It
is a matter cf unwritten law In
England that no newly-created
peer should select as his title one
which has belonged to a family
which is still In existence, nnd
which has expectation 'of having
the dignity in question revived in
its favor by the Crown. These ox- ,
pectations were realized in the case
of Lord Hawksbury. For on being
appointed lord steward of the royal
■household on the accession t>
power cf the present Liberal ad
ministration, the Earldom of Liv
erpool. last held by his mother's
father, was recalled Into existence
in his favor by King Edward.
Thus we will once more have to re
sign the illusion that a man was found
who was too great to bow to the blan-
j dishmenls of honors nnd titles.
WOMEN AND BABiES.
“A kind-hearted woman lately ‘held’
a beautiful baby in a Manhattan de
partment store to oblige 'a perfect
lady/ who assured her 'she'd return in
a minute.' ” says the Brooklyn Eagle.
"The ‘perfect, lady' fai’e-d to return at
is the South, and not New England— 1 all, and the
:e hav<
icd to take
impotent and barren New England.
.Mr. Bryan, of course, knows this; but
he would like to go down into the
South with as many promises of dele
gates from the North as he can mus
ter, realizing that the South is cold to
him because It will have none of Gov
ernment ownership, the mere sugges
tion of which fills it with the gloomie..= t
forebodings.”
The South again may not be allowed
to lead, or may not try, being loath to
assume the responsibility; but if the
latter, it will not be for lack of encour- j
agement. The foregoing are but exam- i
pies of numerous utterances of a sim
ilar character.
charg
about
kind
of the 'beautiful baby.* This
the hundredth instance of i
i two years, in this c'ty. Ev<
one of them has hr op published hut
kind-hearted women seem not to learn
anything from them." What does the
Engle expect the “kind-hearted'’ wo
man to learn? To un!c-,rn her love of
babies beautiful or ugly? To view
them with distrust or suspicion when
offered from any source? Rather Ft
them be themselves "kind-hearted - ’
and ignorant or gullible still.
Both Carnegie and Rockefeller are
larger contributors to charity than Mrs.
Rus'ell Sage, but the latter Is a larger.
IN
ANTE-BELLUM FISTICUFF
CONGRESS.
Galusha A. Grow, who has just died,
though he entered Congress at a period
when the great triumvirate. Clay, Cal
houn and Webster, was being broken
up by death, and who was a familiar
friend of Thomas H. Benton, used to
relate In the following words the story
of his famous fight with Keitt, of
South Carolina:
i contributor to the tax collector than
either of the others. Mrs. Sago pays
taxes on $7.or>S,000 while Carnegie pays
on *7.300.000 and Rockefeller pays on
a little more than $3,000,000.
Having
did or are
harm Mr
said things
supposed to
Roosevelt is
vhich
much
“It was during the debate as to
whether Buchanan's message on
the Lecompton Constitution of
Kansas should be referred to the
Committee on Territories, which
was Democratic, or to a select
commmittee of ten. I had pre
viously been chairman of the Com
mittee on Territories while Cank-
was Speaker, and was then a mem
ber of the committee, and. accord
ingly, had charge of the Republican
forces. The House sat until long
after midnight. About 1:30 I
crossed over to the Democratic
side to consult with John Hickman
as to the best means of protracting
the session until morning. While
I was lalk'ng with Hickman Gen.
Quitman arose to sneak We did
not want him to talk, but to keep
on voting, and I objected.
"Keitt. who wan sitting near
where I was standing, broke out.
'If you are going to object, go hack
to your own side of the hall.’ I re
plied that the hall was a free one,
and every man had a right to go
where he pleased. Keitt then arose
from his seat and came around to
th« aiele tn which I was standing.
recently
tave don
expected at an
early date to say something to the
: contrary which will undo the harm.
: He will S3y It. all right, as there never
j was a question up yet that he did not
! get on both sides of it. But will it un-
i do anything? Hardly.
The Roosevelt-Harriman episode
may be regarded as Indicating a good
reason why Theodore Roosevelt will
not venture tor a third term. Tt was a
lulu hand the President played on the
corporations that furnished the money
for hi? election which, it is obvious, hs
could never play again.
The Old Dominion is cg't.ating the
question of incorporating the "unwrit
ten law” among her criminal statutes.
We don't need it down this way. The
hip pocket pra- tice and deadly gun
play are sufficiently developed as it Is.
Poor old Depew saj-s somebody did
say something to him about the French
ambassadorship, but he isn't kicking if
they will let him alone in peace.
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