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THE TWICE-A-WEEK telegraph rfltOAY) MAY S, 1907* THE nun TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY, 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. OA. I authority j .‘-'•na! lib* I he pioasei Confucius it Czolgosx, who did i made laws to prevei C. R. PENDLETON, President THE "UNWRITTEN LAW." The "unwritten law" has reached Macon. In the broad light of day, on me of our principal streets, one citizen walked Into the place of business of another and emptied the five chambers of a revolver Into the body of the pro prietor. Stepping to the street, he turned his smoking pistol over to a po lcemnn. asking to be arrested, as he had shot a man. The citizen who did the shooting later said the other had ruined his sister and taunted him about It a« he passed his place of business. The man who was shot being informed that the end of his life was at hand, declared with his dying breath that he was innocent of the charge brought against him. The county coroner promptly organized a jury, and there being no eye witness to the difficulty In Its origin, beside the dead man and /his slayer, the slayer was brought be- I fore the Jury, made his statement to the effect told above and the Jury with out delay returned a verdict of justi fiable homicide. The coroner Is an officer under the laws of Georgia, sworn to uphold the laws of Georgia, and the Jurors empan- neled by him at an Inquest are also sworn to perform their office under end In accordance with the laws of Georgia. The laws of Georgia do not prescribe the penalty or death for the crime of seduction. It happened that this particular case was In the hands of the law and about the ttme the ■hooting occurred the grand Jury of the county returned an Indictment against the man who was slain, naming his al leged offense that of a "misdemeanor.’’ Perhaps a man guilty of seduction deserves the punishment of death. Pos sibly It would be well if our laws vis ited the penalty of death on the se ducer. IBut unfortunately, for this case at least, they do not. Tho "unwritten law,” we believe, does prescribe death for seduction. (But It ia not our pur pose. here to quarrel with the "unwrit ten law.” We wish to point out that even under the "unwritten law” tho man who is to be slain has this claim on his fellows, that ho ho shown to be guilty of the offense charged. In this case the slain man being solemnly warned that he was about to be ushered Into tho presence of his Maker, said with hi- last words, “I am Innocent of the charge preferred,” and then his lips were sealed forever. Tho slayer told the Jury on the evidence of another— hearsay evidence, which would not be admitted In a court of law—that the dead man was guilty. Did this cer tainly establish the dead man’s guilt? His friends say that he "always bore a goad name, as a Christian and moral man.” But thnt Is no certain assur ance that he did not commit tho of fense charged. The Telegraph is not making a plea so much for the dead man as It desires to enter a plea for the living and for tho orderliness and security of our social system. Looking «t this ease in the calm light of the facts It seems not necessary to establish the guilt of the man charged with the offense In question. It is only requi site to charge the offense and shoot him down. The jury says this makes it "Justifiable.” Who, then, Is safe in the community? If we must have the "unwritten law” by all means let us have It. It Is bet ter than no law at all. Let It be codi fied. Let us have some method of as certaining by the evidence the inno cence or guilt of the accused. Society can survive any law, no matter how •evere, which visits the punishment upon the guilty. It could not long sur vive conditions which justified the pun ishment of death without the estab lishment of guilt more surely than by evidence before the jury at second hand. men from doing as they pc ased; that every man has the right to murder any other man he dislikes: that.all crime is virtue and all law is vice: that black Is white and white is black; and no one In the world Is right but Tolstoy.” Poor Russia. Her corrupt, oppres sive autocracy seems to have found its antipode; in the vain - imaginings of Its once great philosopher and prophet. As the Courier-Journal says: "With Tolstoy as the expounder of impractical land theories sensible persons may bear, but with Tolstoy as an advocate of anarchy and the abolition of all THE CANAL AND THE SOUTH. V.':.’ .' the Panama c-anal is completed, ( the shortest route for vessels passing through it on their way to China and ■ Japan will lie within 125 miles of San | Francis re.' according to the figuring of ■ the Chattanooga Tradesman. and j therefore that city w-111 become the j principal port of call not only for ves sels bound for Asia from our Atlantic and Gulf ports but for the great fleet from London, Liverpool, Hamburg. ; Bremen and other European shipping j little except that he lived in his district, and, being a colonel, was eligible. His first battle, at Bel mont, was not calculated to estab lish a military reputation for aim. But then began a series of tre mendous operations, the manage ment of vast numbers of troops, incessant and terrific blows at the Confederacy, the command of all the Federal armies, world-wide fame as a commander, the monu mental and epoch-making success of Appomattox and th.en eight years in the Presidency. His was a truly great career, but it was as marvelous as it was great. There Is nothing so marvellous in i resolutions of any national convention centres. < this train of incidents. If we view them The Tradesman’s article says that | closely. Ulysses S., or rather Hiram San Francisco will become the prlncl- ' Ulysses Grant, if we may use the name pal coaling port for vessels bound both : given him at birth, had had a military ways and that this will be of great ben- ] education at West Point and military eflt to the South, because the Panama I experience in tho Mexican War. The forms of Government very few sane ] canal will bring the coal mines of the ! disgraced condition in which the era persons will have patience. Tho bril- i Southern States nearer to that city j of the War Between the States found llant mind of the great Russian, al- than are other competitive coal-pro- i him, if his enforced resignation from magnificent ruin. His place Is in the lunatic asylum, rather - than the forum, and he Is a fitter subject for the con sideration of pathologists than that of sociologists.” WHAT THE FATHERS "MEANT.” In the course of his speech at James town last Friday President Roosevelt said: "This great republic of ours shall never become the Government of a plutocracy, and It shall never be come the Government of a mob. God willing, It shall remain what our fathers who founded It meant it to be—a Government In which each man stands on his worth as a man, where each is given the largest personal liberty consistent with securing the well-being of the whole, and where, so far as in us lies, we strive continually to secure for each man such equality of op portunity that in the strife of life he may have a fair chance to show the stuff that Is in him.” If it is to "remain what our fathers meant it to be," It will continue a fed erated and not bo gradually trans formed into a consolidated republic, as Mr. Roosevelt seems to wish it to be come. Our fathers believed that home rule, self-government, and individual liberty could be more fully secured and more completely maintained by the people in their organized capacity as separate and largely independent States. They distrusted and even feared such an expansion of the Federal power as is favored by President Roosevelt, and the very last thing in the world they “meant” to do was to convert the States virtually into Federal districts and centralize the Government in the hands of a man, or set of men, how ever wise and well-meaning, at Wash ington. We should be glad to believe that Mr. Roosevelt is really solicitous for this Government to "remain what our fathers meant It to be,” but we are forced to the conviction that he, on the contrary, ardently desires to mod ify it until its form and quality are such as more fully to meet his own approval. ways erratic, seems to be at present a j ducing regions. “There is no reason,” says the Tradesman’s article, "why the mining companies of Alabama, Ken tucky, Tennessee and possibly West Virginia should not furnish the bulk of the bunker coal required fqr all this shipping at San Francisco as well as the coaling stations which will doubt less be established at one or both ends of the canal. This means that a fleet of colliers will be required for han dling coal alone from Southern ports through the canal to the Pacific coast.” All this is interesting, but is It based on a fact 'The Rand-McNally atlas ly ing on our table shows that a straight line from Panama to Tokyo passes through Hawaii leaving San Francisco 2,000 miles to the northeast. A straight line almost due west from Panama to Hong Kong or Manila would leave San Francisco nearly 3,000 miles to the northeast. It may be that the San Francisco route would be desirable for several reasons, but it would not be the "shortest” by any means. The Tradesman’s article suggests other benefits as follows: "The cane plantations of Louisi ana and the Southwest will have a far better opportunity to compete with the Hawaiian producers in the American market. "The car.al will afford an oppor tunity to Increase the commercial relations between the South and such cities as Seattle and Tacoma. What this means to the textile In terests of the South can be appre ciated, bearing In mind the ex tensive market on the Pacific coast not only for cotton manufactures but for the raw material. It is not improbable that the cotton trade with the United States west of the Rocky Mountains will be much more than doubled, since the canal will allow the material to be car ried to this section by rail as at present. “But possibly the chief item of interest to the South through the completion of the canal is the ex pansion which will take place in the Southern iron and possibly steel • industry. It may be needless to say that up to the present time the construction of buildings and other developments in the communities on the Pacific coast has been great ly retarded by the expense of se curing structural steel and metal In other forms. Undoubtedly ship building on the Pacific coast would a«sume much greater dimensions if it were not for tho excessive cost for frame work and hull plates for vessels, most of which is now brought across the country by rail.” That the Panama canal will also add to the South's trade and stimulate its industries in many ways there can be no question. Indeed, it will benefit all parts and all interests of this country, with the possible exception of the WATSON GOES GRAVES ONE BETTER. We get second hand through the Washington Post an intimation that Graves’ bid for notoriety has stirred up competition in a kindred quarter. The Post tells us "Tom Watson has given Ben Butler a certificate of Dem ocracy, and contends that if Roosevelt got his politics from Bryan, Butler was it . ...i , . . transcontinental railroads. the Inventor of it and. entitled to the the army and his precarious circum stances constituted disgrace, would log ically find in him a man of some mili tary capacity, eager for employment and in a state of mind to throw him self with ardor into the work as : relief from his mean and sordid estate. In a time of such tremendous upheaval and demand on the part of the North especially for generals, it was not strange that one so qualified should manage to obtain a brigadier-general ship. In the earlier part of the conflict, when tho contending armies were more equally matched in numbers and equip ment, the reverses of the Federate were so constant and disastrous that Presi dent Lincoln was under the necessity of "trying out” everything available to him in generalship before he reached Grant. When the latter finally forged to the front he had the talent sufficient, coupled with a tenacious, dogged char heter, to hang on the flanks of tho weakening Confederacy and wear Lee out with his ever replenishing armies. The rest was due to the successful is?ue of such a tremendous conflict. It made him President for eight years hut it did not make a President of him ’Disgrace,” we believe, will epitomize his career in the office, as it seems to have attached to his enterprises in private life both before and after tha transformation in his fortunes. His success as a general is the only thing we carf account for by the process of cause and effect: his failure in every thing else the thing for which we can see no rhyme or reason. A great epoch in the current of events found him in desperate fortunes and whirled him to the top as a great epoch in current events had found a young Corsican lieutenant contemplating suicide be cause of the low ebb of his personal fortunes and whirled him to the dizzy pinnacle of a sovereign of sovereigns, and gave to the world the story of Na poleon Bonaparte. TOLSTOY AFFLICTED WITH PRE VAILING MANIA. Count Tolstoy bids all Russians to cease to regard any form of law, and says that ail Governments should forthwith divest themselves of all au thority and cease ail functions, and lhat all mer. should do as they please, or, in his own words, "act naturally.” The once great Russian admits that it is probaale that the world will consider him mad. The LmisvIUft Courier- Journal. commenting on this, "there l< every probability that the world will take exactly that view of hi? case, and that. It will not err in its conclusion." Our contemporary diagnoses Tol stoy’s form of insanity as "the exag gerated ego." it says: "The symp toms arc unmistakable. The world has existed, scientists know not how long. No people has existed without some form of Government. Many countries have been misgoverned and many have been over-governed and many have been we'.l governed, but at no time has *ny considerable number of persons •srlously believed that a civilised na tion or a tribe of savages could get along without vesting authority In Constitution, king or chieftain. Now credit of it. Indeed, Mr. Watson is per suaded that ail the Democracy afloat came from old Ben, and there Is no de nying that he had a large and varied assortment of all sorts of polities.” Continuing, the Post says: "When Pierce was President, Butler was a ‘doughface,’ chief of that ilk In New England. He was of the extreme pro-slavery wing of the Democratic party, and opposed to Douglas through out the Kansas controversy. He voted for Jeff Davis fifty-seven times in the Charleston convention of 1SG0. He ran for Governor on the iBreckinridge ticket thnt same year. When seces sion, that he had done so much to en courage, came he turned coat and got to be a general in the Federal army. His war record earned him the terrific Philippine of John Young Brown's scorpion tongue that was simply a re flection of the South's opinion of Ben jamin F. iButler.” And they "do say” that ho stole .spoons in New Orleans. “The war over.” continues the Post, "Butler be came a Republican member of Con gress and the most relentless enemy the South had In that body. Most of the plan of reconstruction was his in vention. He was the author of the force bill that James G. Blaine would not allow to become a law. Repeatedly rejected by Republican conventions as a candidate for Governor of Massachu setts, he turned Democrat and was elected to that position only to be says crushlnglv defeated for re-election the following year. ■•Then he appeared In the Democratic national convention of 1SS4 and tried to buy the nomination and pay for it in pensions—that is. AUSTRALIA’S GROWING FOREIGN TRADE. A dispatch from Melbourne says that the Australian imports for February amounted in value to $19,297,678, being an increase of $3,291,282 compared with February, 1906. The exports of mer chandise amounted to $29,676,744, boing an increase of $3,723,651. The exports of gold were $2,841,325, a decrease of $4,477,049, due to special circumstances of exchange. The exports include but ter, S,276,751 pounds, valued at $1,663,- 4S2, being an increase of 1,6G7,GS1 pounds in quantity and of $309,981 in value; wheat and flour, 3,776,506 cen tals (cental 100 pounds), value $4,742,- 433, being a decrease of 315.42S centals In quantity and of $779,258 in value; and woo!, 67.296,305 pounds, valued at $15,675,006, showing increases of 20,- 794,756 pounds and of $4,372,6S1, re spectively. WAS GRANT AN ACCIDENT? The Philadelphia Record, apropos of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s birthday, is disposed to regard him somewhat in "CIRCULATION LIAR.” If we are to credit either or both of the Atlanta afternoon papers, the “cir culation liar” has reached Georgia and is doing a land office business in At lanta. Tile “circulation liar” may be defined to be an attache of a newspa per or periodical who cheerfully and gratuitously signs for publication sworn statements of the circulation of his newspaper or periodical which no one believes or is expected to believe. The peculiar thing about “circulation liars” is that they r .iave no profes sional pride or corps d'esprft. Unlike the augurs of old they refuse to wink at each other’s yarns. Nothing makes a “circulation liar" so furious and de nunciatory as the circulation nffdavit of his rival in the business. Hence it 1= that we see t?he spectacle of the At lanta "afternoons” denouncing each other as ail kinds of "liars’ and "fools.” Meanwhile the public will accept the testimony of both in this instance and go on judging of the “circulation,’’ standing and ability of newspapers by the character of the merchants and others who advertise in their columns, by the solidity and reliability of the paper itself and of the people who daily look to it for the news and dis cussion of public topics. committee o Democratic prior to 1896. The trouble Is that "the average young man under 30,” and a good many even older, know little of tihe history of their country and less of the history and principles of Its political parties. “Only the other day,” relates “Savoy ard”—and the story is pathetic—"I happened to mention the name of Roger B. Taney to a young man of fine understanding and ‘thoroughly up to date' in the newspaper world, and fie had never heard of such a man. This uncommonly bright young fellow Is a Democrat all right, but he Is a Demo crat because he is from the South and not for any belief he fias that was evolved out of a study of Democratic principles.” This naturally bright but ignorant young Southerner is just the sort of youngster to be dragged off the track and led on a wild-goose chase by the advocates of the variegated assortment of new ”)sms." "Well may Savoyard lament that while “the old Democracy was deliberation,” tihe “new Democ racy is frenzy,” and add: Where are the future Thurmans, Lamars, Morrisons, Tuckers, Car lisles, Vests and Vances of Dem ocracy to come from? Such men are not made to order. They studied principles, were permeated with sound doctrines and clung to them. They could not be stam peded because they could not be fooled. They tolerated no heresy, 1 however specious or alluring, but clung the closer to the altars of the fathers. They believed that the Constitution of the United States is sufficient and will do as well for a nation of 100,000.000 in the nee of steam and electricity as it did for a nation of 3,000,000 when it was first ordained. It is to be feared that this clear sighted correspondent is only too well advised when he concludes tfiat' “there Is nothing for a real Democracy to do but to fall down and flatten himself on the ground until this typhoon spends its force, the political sky clears and the political atmosphere, purifies." The “real Democrat” who is not ignor ant, and wfio knows why his party was established and what it accom plished, and what it ought to accom plish, can not be blamed if he Is a hit pessimistic: for "the typhoon” has been roaring ever since 1896. JEFFERSON AND THE DEMOCRATS The “Thomas Jefferson Memorial Association” has collected and re issued the works of the father of Dem ocracy in a number of volumes. We do not know who the editors are, but they were clearly unfit for their task, for tfiat veteran Democrat and excel lent newspaper correspondent, "Sa- ’!!!-,"i voyard " report * that they have "thought it necessary to present the the beneficiary of a special dispensation of Providence. "The freak of a despot's favor or the incantations of a magi cian,” the Record says, "could hardly work so tremendous a change in the fortunes of an individual as the change which we, as a God-fearing people, must regard as. the interposition of Di vine Providence in the life of Gen. Grant. It is true that he had the ad vantage of a military education, but its Immortal sage of American Democracy to this generation with a certificate of good character from Abraham Lin coln.” "Savoyard” disgustedly observes that "the Democratic party lias come to the pass that nothing is Democratic in this country that you cannot trace to the first Republican President and is not approved by the present, and, let us relation to his subsequent greatness is j hope> the last> RftpubIican President.” And then this indignant and true dis ciple of Jefferson and the Democratic very remote because he was obliged to ’ leave the army under circumstances favored putting j not entirely creditable to himself, and ex-Confederates on the pension roll, j for several years he barely maintained expecting the tsouth to sell herself to an existence farming in Missouri, haul- him. Rejected there, he bolted and : ing firewood into St. Louis and work- accepted the labor nomination solely j ing in a tannery in Galena.” Continu- with a view to aid the Republican ; ir.g. the Record says: ticket.” Surely this gentleman, familiarly i known as 4 the Beast,” could turn his j coat fast enough for any cf the new lights of Democracy. The Augusta Chronicle says "while Mr. Watterson was in Europe Ken tucky went or, the water-wagon,” and oomss Count Tolstoy—one man among ! it wonders what the "0010001 said when countless millions living and countless millions buried yesterday—to tell the world that all of the Governrrtevfs that •▼w Misted were criminal and that «J1 he reached home.” We can furnish the i Chronicle with the information de- 1 aired. The "colonel” said: "Boys, show I no the side door?” It was hardly more than an acci dent as human heings see events that he became colonel of a volun teer regiment. The commander having proved incapable of con trolling a disorderly regiment, it was remembered that a clerk in the office of the adjutant-eeneral of the State had been an officer in the regular army, ar.d it was decided te try whether he could maintain discipline. He did. and yet his promotion to brigadier-general was no more than a piece of political null. (Brigadier-generalships were being distributed around pretty mueh on the pro rata basis, and Congressman Eiihu Washburn got one for Grant, of whom he knew faSfiers speaks his mind in the follow- ! ing forcible manner: Joseph's coat did not have as many colors as this latitudinarian Democracy has ideas. It 'is an ol!a podrida of everything that can be stood up between "'the resolutions of ’98” and "'the initiative and ref erendum.” What is Democracy? Why. any “damned error” that a sober brow blesses" and approves with a text. Tfiis new Democracy is Jeffersonian. Linrnlnite. and Rooseveltian. Th® truth is that real Jeffersonian Democracy Is as incomprehensible to the average young man under 30 as th® second birth was to Xictdemus. If Bryan should say the word and Roosevelt give the wink, the next Democratic national convention will insert in the p'.arform a plank demanding an es.ablished religion- That is pot half as unthinkable as Government ownership and the initiative and referendum would have been to the A WARNING FROM MEXICO. It Is known in the United States that President Diaz is practically a dictator, but it is believed that he has proved a wise ruler and tfiat Mexico has pros pered under him. It Is supposed that, although his re-election at the end of each successive term is purely formal and he Is likely to remain in the seat of power for life, he nevertheless re spects the Constitution of ibis country and has not interfered with the liber ties of the Mexican people. It may be that this view is based chiefly on the events of his early ca reer and on the worthy acts of fiis first two or three terms, and that the American public knows little of the radual development -of the past ten or fifteen years In Mexico. However that may be. it Is startling to read an account in the New York Sun, signed “A Mexican,” of the woeful penalty now being paid by Mexico for its folly in surrendering to one-man power. Says “A Mexican": During his first term President Dias was really a skillful, energetic and beneficent ruler, keeping his characteristic modesty. In his sec ond term he appeared as an able statesman and gave many proofs of his great patriotism. But at the end of fils second term ambition caught him, and he amended the Constitution, which forbade his immediate re-election. The Mexi can people had the weakness to approve of what he (had done un der the shameful pretext that Por firio Dinz was a "providential man.” Diaz, the patriot, the hero, the statesman, the republican leader, also believed in the "provi dential” nature of this mission and •his evolution toward tyranny be gan. From tfiat moment the Mexi can people lost their liberties. Diaz was no longer a ruler, but a mas ter, because the country which puts itself absolutely into the hands of ,one man, no matter who that man is and no matter wibat the circum stances, spontaneously forges the chains of its slavery. Porfirio Diaz was not satisfied with his third term: he desired a fourilb and a fifth. He again had the Constitution amended, enlarg ing the Presidential term from four to six years; and now he will not descend from the chair unless death decides. To become dictator he began by corrupting justice, so that now there is no more Constitution and no longer any code of laws except ,his own will. He persecuted and killed the. liberty of tfie press, cre ating and subsidizing subservient Governmental papers, sending to jail every man who had the au dacity to express his own ideas; he suppressed all elections: he in augurated a political system known in Mexico as “the politics of bread and stick.” that is. of money and rewards for his partisans and ac complices, and ( of jail and death for every one wfio is suspected of dis’oyalty. Diaz has ruled by terror, and such is the dread with which he has filled the mind? of the Mexi can people that t/bey have abdi cated their rights, not only in act but in speech: not only in speech, but in thought. If today you ask a Mexican what time it is. he will answer you with out hesitation: "1116 time that the King should say.” The Mexicans call President Diaz "the King” and he accepts the title. How much unbiased truth there is in this and how mucfb partisan exag geration—if any—we are not in a po- I sition to say. But we can say that it because to do so is to tear from film what has become a part of himself that is loved even more than himself. "We may rest assured that there is more than enough truth in "A Mexi can's” account to give great force ar.d significance to fiis further remarks as follows: General Diaz would have passed Into history as a spotless man had not the Mexican people made of him a tyrant because of Its fears. It must be borne in mind that tyrants are not of spontaneous generation. There is no sponta neous generation in the world. Ty rants are engendered by folly and fear. Many centuries ago Titus Llvlus wrote an aphorism that every country should bear in mind: “Tfie way to maintain liberty consists in limiting rulers in the term of their government.” Washington, by in tuition, professed the same princi ple and put it in practice, setting an example which hitherto no Pres ident of the United States has dared to disregard. If tlbe American people want Theodore Roosevelt to follow In the footsteps of Porfirio Diaz it is only necessary to declare President Roosevelt a “providential man" and give him a third term in spite of his pledge to respect the tradi tion founded by Washington and affirmed by McKinley. Let us not forget that each coun try has the government it deserves. President Roosevelt may keep fiis pledge and not accept the nomination that will be tendered to him next year, but to what end, if he is to insist on choosing and controlling his successor in order that “my policies" may not suffer? - If we are to have, the sub stance of one-man we may as well have tfie form. If Theodore Roosevelt must still continue to guide and lead, then this country is as hopelessly de pendent on him as Mexico is'on Por firio Diaz. DOES NOT AGREE WITH US. The 'Dublin Courier-Dispatch does n<rt agree with The Telegraph that the Democratic party is “at the Rubicon without a leader”’ Our contemporary thinks that Mr. Bryan measures up to the need of the hour as a standard- bearer. If the Courier-Dispatch has been keeping up with The Telegraph it will have noted that we conceded all along that Mr. Bryan seemed at present to hold the corners—and that the Demo cratic chance was reposed in him. But we have been hoping for some thing better—a man on whom ail the Democrats could unite; or, if we must go down, that we would be per- Thc pity of it Is. great Democratic leader; are about ns scarce as jaybirds on Friday. And .some of the would-be leaders are about as wise as the aver age jny on the other days of the week. But John Temple is all right. He is not always saddest (nor maddest) when he sings. COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION. The Bureau of Statistics of the De partment of Commerce and Labor gives a smmarization of the year by ports, showing that New York continues to handle about two-thirds of the entire foreign commerce of the United States, its aggregate trade in 1906 having been equivalent to 66 per cent of the whole, compared with 7 per cent for Boston, 6 per cent for New Orleans, 6% per cent for Galveston, 5 per cent for Phil- adelphia. 4-i per cent for Baltimore, nearly 3 per cent for San Francisco, 2)1 per cent for Savannah, 3 per cent for Puget Sound. 1 1-3 per cent for De troit, and a little over 1 per cent for Buffalo, In a total foreign commerce of $2,970,000,000. Considering exports only, the rank of the various ports or customs districts and the percentage, of the total exportations sent through each are aa follows: New York first, with about 35 per cent; Galveston sec ond, 9)4 per cent; New Orleans third. 8 2-3 per cent: Baltimore fourth. 6 1-3 per cent: Boston fifth. 5 2-3 per cent; Philadelphia sixth, 494 per cent: Sa vannah seventh, 3% per cent: Puget Sound eighth, a little less than 3 per cent: San Francisco ninth, 2 per cent, and Detroit tenth, 2 per cent. The general currents of the oxport trade may be inferred from the figures showing the exports by principal sec tions. Atlantic coast ports are cred ited with 61 per cent; gulf ports, 21 per cent; northern border and lake ports, 10 per cent; Pacific coast ports, 6 per cent, and Mexican border ports, 2 per cent. Many cities conducting a large business in the commodities entering into the import, and especially the ex port, trade do not receive credit there for, ns their receipts or shipments in the foreign trade must of necessity be credited to the ports established for the offioial measurement of that com merce. “What ails the Democratic party,’’ observes the Washington Post, "is the ‘putting of the man before the idea.’ There are 4,000,000 Democrats In this country who are resolved that no Dem- mitted to go down battling under the J oerat who was not a Bryanite in 1S96 leadership of a Southern Democrat, j shaI ) ever be president. There are 2,000,- Mr. Bryan has been defeated twice, j 000 Democrats among us who never He led the fight for free silver; but j wan t ( 0 see a Bryanite President of the he did not make that issue. It was not j united States. That is what is the of his creation. His statesmanship did I matter with the Democratic party, not evolve it. j That is what re-elected McKinley in He proposes the Government owner- j 190 o and defeated Judge Parker in ship of railroads. This issue he did jn04." The 2,000,000 anti-Bryan Demo- not develop. He borrowed it from the j cr -t s •would willingly turn to Bryan, Populists. j the man. if he would only let Ooyern- He also advocates the initiative and j m ent ownership, the initiative and ref- referendum. This, too, *he got from j erendum and other un-Democratic the- the Populists. These are the three things that have distinguished Mr. Bryan’s career. No one of them were original with him. No one of them were advocated by either Jefferson, Jackson, Tilden or Cleveland. The Republicans discov ered the one and the Populists the other two. If he is a wise statesman his wisdom consisted in 1896 in select ing his creed from a discarded doctrine of the Republicans, and his present hobbies from the disbanded Populists. IBut a Democratic party—a party in opposition to the Republican party— led by Bryan is better than the John Temple dream of a single party in a republic, with Roosevelt as its prophet. OUR EXPORTS OF MANUFAC TURES IN MEXICO, The Mexican official statement shows that American manufacturers have found a remunerative field In that country. Of the total imports into that republic, amounting to $108,598,506 in the six months ending December 31, 1906, the United States ;ent $67,275, ories alone. But he won’t do ft—a brand new suspicious and disruptive’? ”ism” every two or three years is ap parently the necessary meat for him to feed on. Frequently the introductory speaker outshines the orator of the occasion. The Virginian-Pilot modestly hints that this honor was achieved by Henry St. George Tucker at the open ing day exercises at Jamestown. Judg ing from the length of Mr. Tucker's effort he must have mistaken his part of prologue for the whole performance. We agree with the Virginian-Pilot that it was able and eloquent, but we fear that this was lost on the President, who was waiting to orate some him self. The Bureau of Labor at Washington admits that the cost of living has gone up some more. The Bureau is not ready with its statistics relating to re tail prices, but in the matter of whole sale prices it shows that the increase in cost of 258 commodities in 1906 over 176, or 62 per cent. Especially worthy j 1905 was more than 6)4 per cent, and of note among the imports is the rail- j compared with J897 the rise amounts way equipment from American pro- 1 t0 36 )i P er cent—considerably more ducers. For eight months of the cur- j than one-th.rd. The commodities in- rent fiscal year American locomotives | elude food, clothing. Implements and have been placed there to the extent of i utensils and building material. What $388,698, which compares with $198,000 ; Is to become of the consumer if these for the eight months ended February, j piping times of Republican prosperity 1906, an increase of $799,696. Steel- i continue indefinitely? rail orders placed there have been $739,855, which compares with $1,120,- 613 for the eight months ended Febru ary, 1906, which was a period of ex ceptionally heavy steel-rail orders. The year 1905 was more, than normal, showing an aggregate of $317,593 for eight months. Up to March, 1907, from July 1, 1906, orders for passenger and freight cars were $1,520,941. This compares with $6S0,244 in 1906, and *.j would have been a Democrat In $410,283 in 1905. Considering these j Jefferson’s day and a Republican in items, the total value of Mexican rail- j Lincoln's day, but whether I can prop way equipment filled in this country , erIy be classified as a Democrat in the during the past eight months reaches j pre s e nt day. is a matter which I ad- nearly $3,250,000. | mit is subject to legitimate doubt,” says William R. Kearst. Don’t worry President Roosevelt said to Lieuten ant-Governor F.llyson, of Virginia: "I want to tell you. Governor Elly son. that the most delightful recollection I have of any visit I have ever paid is the one I spent in the hospitable city of Richmond," and the Governor was just as pleased as if the President had never said such a thing before. 'NOT AS AT PRESENT ADVISED.” The Herald-Journal, of Greensboro, asks: "Will The Macon Telegraph kindly state If it wouldn’t prefer ■ about it, Willie. You are "it” and there 1 is only one of you left. "Our best families are being reduced Roosevelt to Bryan, if that paper had I ( Q poverty” was one of the telegrams to choose between the two? , •)■■ f ] from New York at tfie White In the language of Mr. Bryan, Not j House during the recent financial “un is an extremely plausible tale, and that j as at present advised.” pleasantness” in the effort to induce In it history repeats itself—or the tes- This question appeared in the same : the Administration to come to the re- timony of all history tends to confirm I issue of the Herald-Journal with this: : ijef 0 f tyall street. Ill the South "best it. No republican society of men ever i “Hon. Temple Graves is with us this families” and poverty frequently go continued one person indefinitely in the chief office without discovering at last that it Ciad not only struck a heavy blow at the integrity of its own in stitutions but had corrupted the idol on whom it had lavished its favors. morning.” Under the inspiring presence •of the | eloquent word painter and sky gilder, j we have no doubt the editor of the 1 Herald-Journal felt for the time quite | together. But who ever heard of a “best family” being poor in New York? Cork legs are not mad® of cork at all, but are called so because the ln- persuaded that Boosevelt was a great : ventor of the modern artificial leg was | The man who rules many years and i Democrat, worthy to accept the sur- pamed Cork. This will prove a "corker" ' whose power continually increases, j render to him by Bryan of the leader- to ninety-nine out of one hundred per- ^ never willingly lays down the sceptre, j ship of the Democratic organization, j sons. hidistinct print