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THE T^TCE-A-TTEEK TELEGRAPH rmBAY, MAY 10, 1907. IKE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY, 583 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. GA. 0. R. PENDLETON, President TAFT ON TOP, FORAKER TAMED, That man Taft must be a lulu. He went to Ohio, where Foraker was breathing threats of fire and sword tgainst him, made a Y. M. C. A. speech, refused to talk politics and referred contemptuously to the "machine Dosses" and lo! and behold, he was icarcely back in Washington before the machine boss and the State Republican chairman declared ho was the man for the. nomination for President, and For- akar meekly chimed in with a virtual "m«, too.” (Now, how dkl Taft do it? Was he armed with the left hind foot of a graveyard rabbit captured in the lark of the moon, or was It the shadow »f the "big stick.” and the potent In <uence of official patronage to be given or withdrawn? It looks like magic. SHOG OFF. VR. PRESIDENT. When told of Mr. Roose ,-elt’s deter- I mination to see -ha- his client* got exact Justice.” Attorney Darrow sail: ; "Under the laws and Consiitu- i tion. Moyer, Haywood and Petti- bor.e are to be tried in court by a Jury of their peers. The forum is the State Court of Idaho. Under these facts I do not see. what there is for President Roosevelt to do. We have neither a right nor a de sire to ask of him or any person that judges shall administer the law fairly and without prejudice and without influence from the out side.” "That’s the humor of it. or* e.rr.o >em to h tiling R: tg men ond there doe e any warrant for the dicalism which is the i not BRITISH AND AMERICAN RAIL- ; Hearst has told the truth about the pre- WAY ACCIDENTS. | Democracy- Mr. Bryan should regard pre- A RADICAL DESCRIBED. Why don’t bo me of th so people who A man being tried for a crime in a are criticising John Tt mpl< Gray- s A preliminary report by the English it as invitation to tell the truth about j neighboring city pleads insanity at the suggest something better than his Mr. Hearst’s party.” _„ rfi or of revolution. What is the need ; Board of Trade summarizes British of it? Are the people suffering for ; railway accidents during the year 190fi. jhread? Are they threatened of their The / corresponding report for the liberty, except as this same Radical-j United States by the Interstate Com- j i.= m tends to encroach upon it? What I merce Commission has not yet ap- ! is the use to be accomplished? j peared, but a means of comparison be- rederation of JIlners , who is under in- i Mountebanks and demagogues may ! tween the two countries for equal pe- j dictment join tly with Charles H. j rant—It is a very large part of their ’ riods of twelve months is afforded by Moyer> pres t' dent oi the federation, and THE HAYWOOD-MOYER CASE. The case of William D. Haywood, secretary-treasurer of the Western ' profession—but if the people are pros- the report for the fiscal year ended j Georga A p e ttIbone, former member of ! perous. if they are living at home and June 30, 1908, says the Railway Age. j ^ executlve commiU eee, for the mur- Ancient ! in P eace wlth their neighbors, why ’ The comparative figures as given by ; der Qf * ormer Governor Frank Steunen- Pistol would say. "shog oft." Teddy had best JOHN BULL SUPPRESSES “THE , "MIKADO." A revival of "The Mikado” should be the natural result of the suppression of Gilbert and Sullivan's famous comic opera by the. Lord Chamberlain of England. The progress made by Japan tn world Influence is undoubtedly dem onstrated, however foolishly illustrated. In this Incident. It is the heighth of absurdity to suppose the tuneful and mirthful -but Inoffensive burlesque would excite the dislike even of na tional prejudice. "The witty and beautiful little opera has been played and sung all over the world for a score of years without of fense to the most delicate sensibili ties.” says the Philadelphia Public Ledger. "The scene is laid In a sup posititious Japan, as it might have been laid in Baratarla or Sulu or Ar cadia, with equal suggestion of reality. Except for the pretty costumes the ac tion la even farther away from Japan than is Sullivan’s delightful English music, and if tho Japanese have the sense of humor that their artists credit them with they have doubtless enjoyed the fun as much as anybody. Certainly It never has occurred to any one of them that it embodied an affront to their august Institutions.” If W. S. Gilbert could only return long enough to write another little opera on the official obtusenoss and bumptiousness of this censorship, the world would doubtless be the richer for another contribution to the Pinafore series. 6UBSERVIENT SOUTHERN DEMO CRATS. Only the wiser men see their own laults and know their own limitation’s, but probably no man Is wise enough to take pleasure In the pointing out of his deficiencies without Invitation by a painfully superior person. Still the ordeal may serve some useful purpose, and so it is perhaps worth while to quote the New York Tribune's remarks on ihe subservient position occupied by Southern leaders in the Democratic party. It says: "There are many Southerners in public life of more than average attainments. Only a year ago Sen ator Joseph W. Bailey rebuked President Aldermnn. of the Univer sity of Virginia, for Intimating that the South’s standard of public ser- RECALLiNG THE TRUE IDEALS. The “O temporal O mores!” of clear sighted Cicero is recalled by this warn ing utterance of the Richmond Times- Dispatch: •’O people! O American people! O great American people! How much nonsense Is spoken in your name. How solicitous some men are for your welfare. How jealous of your rights. But what are the rights of the people? To be gov erned? To have a guardian? We have not so read tho Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution, or the bill of rights, or the doctrine as delivered to the saints. The in herent rights of the people are the enjoyment of life and liberty, with tho means of acquiring and pos sessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety: the right to be independent and self-reliant; the right to govern themselves and make their own rules of conduct, with no coddling or nursing on the part of the Gov ernment which they have ordained, no interference, except such as may he necessary to prevent trespass. The real friend of the people is ho who encourages, incites and in spires the people to cultivate the spirit of Independence and manly self-rellance; not he who counsels them to look to the Government for everything.” The Houston Post finds in this "the sort of doctrine that inspired Demo cratic effort in other days," and hope fully believes that It is "the sort of doctrine that will appeal to the people of the United State-s hereafter;” but that "hereafter” seems a good way off Just now. "We,” says the Post, "have drifted far away from these ancient ideals. Thera are even Democrats who have accepted all the tenets of pater nalism and are pointing the people to the Government as the tountain of all good. Individualism, the mighty force which created a great republic, is re garded by even many of our great men as an outworn virtue. Those who are not appealing with uplifted hands to the mighty Government at Washing ton are praying to the State Govern ments, which in turn are absorbing powers which were formerly exercised by the communities. ... The old- time Democracy—liberty’s old-time re ligion—Is yet good enough for men who believo in the republic of the fathers. It is needed in the nation. It is needed In the State. It is needed in the coun ty, the city, the home. And some time it will appear to sweep out of power thg charlatans who are playing the devil with the country generally." Perhaps so. Let us' hope so. But it can not be so until more public men and more newspapers stand by their convictions instead of yielding to the temptation to “gallop with the gang” in the hope of sharing in the popular ity and favor of the autocrats of the hour. should professional agitators command ■ it are as follows: so much .attention? : United States. Breeders cf strife—thevare the Radl- berg, is to be called for trial at Boise, Idaho, today. The prosecution claims United Kingdom. . Year 1906. : it will prove beyond the shadow of a , doubt the guilt of the leaders of the * 438 . Western Federation of Miners, known 4.35S as the "inner circle," of crimes extend- ’’9 405 ! in& over a period of five years and in carry out i eluding arson, train wrecking and mur- Year to June 30. 1905. cals—should be put under the ban of '■ passengers killed .. 330 public opinion, and told to "get thee Passengers injured -.10.133 ‘ j Employes killed 3.S07 behind. ; Employes injured ....55.534 This Radicalism is defying the writ- j Total killed 4,223 ten law and revising the revealed ^Vicurltt'empting*’‘tQ 9 . ■U ord. It is seeding to build a temple i con , parisons between things unlike,” j der. The miners, on the other hand made with hands and founded upon the , jays the - 50rne contrasts between j declare the prosecution is only an at- the two countries should be kept in i tempt to break their organization and mind, as for example, great length of j that the detectives have manufactured main lines in the United States—ten ! the evidence against their men. But, times that in Great Britain; vastly j outside of the prominence of the mur- greater length of yard track and sid- dered man, and those charged with the Ings In the United States—50 per cent j crime, President Roosevelt’s “butt-in.” more than the mileage of all kinds of and the subsequent controversy, has time of the act. The kind of a man he I proposition? He who trfiicises ” t is, and the supposed record of his life j do this or some one will think he is quicksands of human intelligence. It will fail. The longer delayed, the greater will be the fall. Hell is radical. Heaven Is conserva tive. Scotch the snake! vice is loweq today than it was in the ante-bellum period. Wo pass no judgment on this contention. Rut if Mr. 'Bailey's view is the cor rect one. then tho South is to be censured for either indolence or in difference; for the influence of its representative.* in national politics, and especially in the management of Its pet organization, the Demo cratic party, is today not one-tenth of what It was in the closing de cades of tho struggle over slavery. There Is now practically no oppo sition party in most of the South ern States. Tlie Democratic lead er* of the South are never harried by the fear of local disaster. They can give all their energies to the tasks of national politics. But this sense of security at home seems to have enervated them. They have ceased to have a will and purpo*e of their own in national polities, and content themselves with taking directions from others. They have played the opportunist with cynical complacency, swing ing from Cleveland to Bryan, from Rrvnn to Parker and from Parker again to Rryan without the slight est Inward or outward compunc tion. The Tribune’s manner is one of con descending superiority even when it attempt's a word of faint praise, and it is still more offensive when It inti mates thar Southern Democrats are mere opportunists without courage or convictions. But its taunt in A LITTLE SERMON ON RADI CALISM. The wave of Radicajism that is sweeping over the country may have to get worse before it gets better; but it is difficult to see how this Radical ism can get more radical. We have the spectacle of the two leaders of the two great political parties vieing with each other in their Radicalism, and yet a third party led by Hearst slabs off because neither Roosevelt nor Bryan is radical enough for It. This Radicalism, held aloft In the name of liberty, is really a despotism. It permeates other affairs in life. Aim ing at an alleged “higher law,” it strikes at the foundation of the writ ten law—the only real bulwark of free dom. It sets up a law in ethics which was unknown to the sages, and a code of morals not hinted at in the Mosaic law nor in the Apostles’ creed. It Is founded ’on the love of dominion, and the lust for rule. It arrays class against i class, and sons against fathers. It lays i its hands on the sacred cloth, and it en- ! ters the jury box. It makes legislative ; bodies rape the Constitution, and ex- ) ecutive heads tread upon co-ordinate branches of the Government. Afflictions upon the people usually follow in the wake of Radicalism—so history teaches. We have but to go back to a time within the memory of men now living. It fo a queer thing that Radicalism and commercial and industrial prosperity travel along the same road at the same time. From WANTS TO TAX HEIRESSES MAK ING FOREIGN ALLIANCES. Ex-Secretary Morton makes the sug gestion that an export tax should be laid on American heiresses who marry foreign titles. "A tax,” he says, "should be placed'on the Incomes which American women carry to Europe after their marriages to foreign noblemen. Those good-for-nothing fellows marry American girls solely for their money, and some taxation scheme should be worked out to save at least a portion of this outgo. Besides, we want to keep young American heiresses in this country." • The Baltimore Sun thinks this propo sition has merit, "but there would be difficulty perhaps in collecting the pro posed import." it says. "The marriages of wealthy emigrantesses are not mado In this country necessarily, but may be made in Europe, and it is to be feared that heiresses will find foreign wedlock more attractive even than at present if they are taxed. The male tax-dodger is hard to catch, but the dimpled maidens would be a hopeless track in the United Kingdom; greater length of Journeys In the United States, with Increased chance of accident, com pared with the short runs on British roads: passenger train mileage on our roads about double that. on British roads; total revenue train mileage on our lines two and a half times that of British lines: number of railway em ployes in the United States about three times that in Great Britain; American main lines mostly single track, while over half of all British mileage is of two or more tracks; on the other hand, there is vastly greater density of trains and traffic on Brit ish railways than our own. (But giv ing these and all other considerations due weight, it remains that the number of employe* killed in this country ought not to be nine times as great, nor the number of employes injured twelve times as great as on the British railways, notwithstanding their advan tage in double tracks and signaling advertised the case far and wide, and makes it of greater general interest. The assassination of ex-Governor Steunenberg occurred on the night of December 30, 1905. The alleged motive for the crime was revenge for the firm attitude Governor Steunenberg had taken to suppress the riots and out rages during the miners’ strike in the Coeur d'Alene district. The calling out of the militia and other drastic meas ures employed by the authorities had resulted In a victory for the mine own ers, and the miners were forced to ad mit defeat Governor Steunenberg was blamed by the miners for their defeat. Threats weTe hurled at him at all the miners’ meetings, and he was frequently warned by his friends that his life was in danger. After finishing his second term as Governor he retired from of fice and returned to five at his home at Caldwell. Several years passed and the Coeur d’Alene troubles apparently equipment. In respect to safety of tvere forgotten. Then came the shock- passengers, however, our roads do not ln S news that Governor Steunenberg suffer greatly by comparison with Brit- case. The only effect of the law; it Is to be feared, would be to quicken the j isl * roads for the years here covered.” influx of titled fortune-hunters. Zest would be added to the present charm of impecuious aristocracy if the girls felt that by going abroad to marry they would ‘beat’ the tax-gatherer.” LOST MARVIN BOY. Amid the pathos and pity of it, feeling of anger is provoked by the { be allies. Mr. Bryan in his Commoner HEARST GIVES BRYAN "BACK TALK.” It seems that Mr. William R. Hearst does resent the conclusion of Mr. Bryan that “we are going in the same direc tion” and that therefore the Democracy and the Independence League should apparent probability that the Marvin ‘ intimated that it might be folly to start boy wandered around his father's farm for forty hours and fell from exposure and starvation within .half a mile of it while the wholo world was being stirred up and the better part of the United States in a way being searched for him. How could it be within the bounds of stupidity for his father and the searchers, in their excitement, to overlook the little one almost within the sound of their voices and let him sink and die from physical exhaustion? The disposition to persist in the sug gestion that the little one was kid napped in the face of the apparently natural manner of his death probably indicates the trouble. Filled with the a new party when the Democratic party offers to the voter practically the same policies and ideals and with an encouraging “prospect of an early victory." In Sunday’s American Mr. Hearst shows that he floes not take kindly to Mr. Bryan’s patronage. He shows that he intends to' take as much of the Democratic party to himself as he can, whether Mr. Bryan likes it or not. The chances of the Democratic party are not so rosy that any one need hesitate to cast in his lot with Mr. Hearst’s party and do "pioneer work." The American does not see on what Mr. Bryan’s "optimlstc estimate of an early victory” Is based. It reminds Mr. idea and possibly the romance of the -Bryan that he was defeated in 1896 kidnapping theory, they must have by 601,854 votes and in 1900 by 849,790 failed to search throughly the territory immediately in their vicinity. RECREANT PASTORS, Are pastors no better than their con gregations? Do they take their color from the people to whom they minis ter? The Right Reverend Frederick Burgess, bishop of Long Island, preach ing from the abandoned pulpit of the Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, of St. George’s church in New York, Sunday, said to the millionaire congregation, whose marriefl pastor had eloped with a young heiress and parishioner: "You say and you expect that the men who preach the gospel of Christ crucified shall be leaders. "Yes, they ought to be! (But you votes, and that Judge Parker went down in 1904 under 2,545,515 votes. "The movement of the Democratic par ty is therefore rather away from suc cess than toward it.” The American combats the Com moner’s faith that the Democratic par ty’s "platform, its candidates and its had been assassinated—literally blown to pieces by an infernal machine as he was entering the yard of his home. Immediate steps were taken to catch the assassin or assassins. Rewards, public and private, aggregating thous ands of dollars, were offered. Suspi cion pointed to a man who had been in the town for some weeks and who was known as Harry Orchard. He was arrested and incriminating evidence against him was found in his room. Orchard, it was ascertained, belonged to the Western Federation of Miners, and had been implicated in several dis turbances and in a train wreck in Col orado. The evidence found in Orchard’s room, consisting of powder, wires and fuses, and other material for making bombs, was strong; but the officers felt that a confession was necessary. They believed Orchard guilty, but were of the opinion that he was the tool and hired assassin of others. All efforts to secure admissions from him failed. Finally James McFarland, a Pinkerton detective who had broken up tho Molly Maguires In Pennsylvania, was called In. After several weeks of care ful work the methods of the master de tective prevailed and Orchard broke down and confessed. In his confession Orchard directly charged President Moyer, Secretary Haywood and G. A. Pettibone, of the Western Federation of Miners, of having plotted Steunen- berg's murder and with having fur nished the money needed. The Steu nenberg murder was but one of a long and surroundings. Are thus given In a “hypothetical question”: “Assuming as true the following: “That a person whose mother had mysteriously disappeared and no account of her has ever been known to her .children of the cause of her disappearance or her whereabouts: whose brother became insane; whose father was a constant drinker of alcohol stimulants; whose head at birth was so de formed that it had to be bandaged in order to overcome the deform ity; who while a youth of ten years was violently struck In the head with a stick, rendering him unconscious: who in childhood was subject to fits; who did not learn to walk until five years of age: who imagined in youth that his brother was persecuting him; who for days and weeks would become melancholy; who when he grew to manhcod became an enthusiastic Populist and Imagined he was per secuted on account 5f politics; who spent several hundred dollars in erecting machinery to discover per petual motion; who imagines he is a detective of greatest importance and advertises himself as such; who forged the name of a bank president of this city to eleven or twelve notes and although well known in this city attempted to negotiate them with the president of another bank in this city; who without motive clothed himself in a hood, blackened his hands, cov ered his head and face and rode on a bicycle in broad daylight to a place where several people were working and then deliberately fired several shots at a negro: who be came Infatuated with a divorced woman, entered a manufacturing plant in this city and in the pres ence of a large number of wit nesses fired several shots into her body, then deliberately walked to his home although there was op portunity to escape, gave himself up to the authorities, was arrested and a bottle of morphine found upon his person, and freely and vol untarily told the police authorities and other persons about the homi cide, and said he would be hanged for the same; has never shown any remorse for the same: as-uming what I have said as true. I .ask you whether or not at the time of ths act in your opinion the person com mitting the act was of sufficient meqtal capacity to distinguish right from wrong?” We would say at least that this man was a Radical. not much of a critic, after all.—Glenn- viilo 'Banner. We are not acquainted with the Giennville Banner—haven't got a fine on Its politics yet—but we do not mind suggesting that the nomination by the Democrats of any old thing would be better than surrendering body, soul and liver to the enemy, by nominating the worst Republican of two generations of Republicans. ” ’Walk into my parlor* said the spider to the fly.” When the Democrats look the spider in the face, they just won’t walk. “How many mute aspirants for the Republican Presidential, nomination bade their fond heart* be still while they waited to see just what the labor unions would do to President Roose velt,” says the New York Evening Post. But "the disappointed men waited only to learn, what they should know well by this time, that the Prov ident gets into a hole, only to crawl out in agile triumph.” The members of the labor committee were charmed with the way he talked to them. That is it. With all his bluff and pretense the President is all things to all men. The most adept of politicians. “It is said that President Roosevelt is preparing an address once more put ting the third term behind him.—Sa vannah Press. If he pursues his usual process of boxing the compavs on the subject it will end by getting before him. Miss (?) Ellen Terry, the famous English actress, at 59 takes for her third husband James Carew, 35 years of age, and her leading man. It is to be hoped that James will pull well in leading strings. WE BEG PARDON! Gray says Seely is a “common fakir.” Pendleton said the same thing about Graves. Of what kind of material are these Atlanta news paper men made, anyhow? Amer- Icus Recorder. We did not say it. Graves a fakir? Never! organization will appeal to the con science and judgment of the reform series of crimes that Orchard charged element of the country.” regard j iggo this countrv reached its to Southern subserviency to the will of Northern Democrats, however un pleasant to hear, is in a considerable measure deserved. Such subserviency was necessary for many years after 1865, and the habit once formed, it has not been as easy to thrown it off as many Southern men would have liked. But the excuse for lack of self-asser tion on the part of the Southern Dem ocracy has grown less and less for years, and now may be said absolutely to have ceased to exist. will find that in all times and in a'l places—from the very beginning of things—the priest has always taken his color from the people to whom he ministers.” The Rev. Jere Knode Cooke, it ap pears, was a bouse painter before he became a minister. He was possessed | of a fatal fluency of speech and this, doubtless, with the facility for pleas- | ing his congregation, made him a pop- I ular minister, followed and flattered, i The bishop said that Cooke “was a weak man” and that he never approved : of him, but he applied the yardstick to him and said, "As It is with people, so : it 1? with priest.” The Irreverent cynics that this ! opinion appears to echo could not be . more severe than this good bishop, in his hitterness, denouncing society as the cause of the recreant pastor's I downfall. But he, perhaps, said more I In his grief and anger for the shame that had hefalien his diocese than he meant. The occasional downfall among highest point (until now) in prosperity. That was also our greatest era of Rad.- icalism. The revolution of the ’60's— war and reconstruction—was the curse that followed! Trie mad rush for money—the for ward leap in the greed for power—the flout of wealth, and the resentful atti tude of the poor—these things are claiming the attention to* of thought ful patriots who love their country. who love peace and who .wish well all , A Roosevelt-Fairbanks Club, while classes and conditions of men. I endorsing the President, says we feel Revolutions are sometimes necessary ' that It win be fatal to Mr. Roosev. It says: The Democratic party was radi cal in 1900, conservative in 1904, and it now sits stiff and motion less, apparently holding its breath lest some word or action will alien ate either the radical or the con servative element. It is hard to define the principles of a party which Is first for radicalism, then for conservatism and then for com promise. And what is its organization? It is led in tho House of Representa tives by a railroad lawyer and in the national Senate by a convicted agent of the Standard Oil Trust, and is represented by a professional gambling house keeper as, chair man of its national committee. It is represented in New York by race track gamblers and ballot box stuffers and fraudulent office holders. The New York Tribune suggests to Mr. Bryan to Imitate Mr. Hearst’s frankness, “now that he is clearly in formed that Mr. Hearst is organizing a movement hostile to his party and to his personal ambition,” and speak out regarding the Independence League. "He could rejoin something very tart about Mr. Hearst’s new party, its In corporated organisation and its prin ciples.” says the Tribune, and it con tinues: against the Federation officials. "With startling minuteness he told of the at tempts made on the fives of ex-Gover nor Peabody of Colorado, Chief Justice Gabbert of the Colorado Supreme Court, D. H. Moffat and other promi nent men. The confession of Orchard was fol lowed by tho arrest of Steve Adams on a charge of complicity in the Steu nenberg murder, and he also confessed. It Is upon the conffessions of these two men that the prosecution will depend to a great extent. The case of the de fense will be helped by the fact that Orchard's mind has weakened since he made his confession, and he probably wifi not be able to take the stand. Moreover, Steve Adams retracted the confession he is said to have made, so that it will not be of much value as evidence. It is expected the Haywood trial will take at least a month. No, Graves Is a songster, and we do so love "good vocal singing,” as Cousin Pete, or Sut Lovinggood, or some of those old fellows said, or were made pi say. Notwithstanding his disposition to peck sometimes Graves can thrill you with his trills, or trill you with his thrills. He is not a fakir, but a very lovable fellow. As an old-time piney- woods parson once said of himself, Graves “was born'd with a looseness of the tongue and the fidgets," but ho can’t help that. The charm of his voice as well as his person outweighs any little disposition to fret and peck some times. We accept Mr. Bryan's word for it when he says of Willie Hearst, "Wo are going in the same direction," hut why, then, did Willie split off? Is it possible he objects to Mr. Bryan's com pany? “Macon is already getting out timber for anothev horse show," stays* the Press. The pleasure cf the one she has just had put the Central City on its mettle. If the jury should say Moyer and Haywood are innocent men Teddy would have to go down on his marrow bone3 and apologize outright. A VAIN DESiRE. From the Chicago Record Hevald- I want to go back to the old homo place And swing on the old front gate: In the cool, clear spring I would lave my face. Forgetting the proud and the great; I long to kneel on the springhouse floor And drink of the rich, sweet cream. And sit on the step by the kitchen door And dream as .1 used to dream. GINSENG. We sometimes have inquiries about ginseng, something we know very little about, but responding to an inquiry j from the United States regarding the It takes the Democratic party four j sale ginseng in China, Consul S. L. years to turn from radicalism to con- ! Qracey, of Foochow, says: 'BARKIS IS WILLIN'. Referring to “a long editorial” in a Richmond newspaper “giving the story told by a colored minister in Spring- field of his failures to find lucrative employment for negroes in that city, due to racial prejudice,” the New York Independent says: “We do not doubt that every word is true. There is a great deal of it North as well as South, but It does not follow, as that Journal says, that ‘the negro likes the South better than he likes the North.’ That is a question easily settled by the census. The tide is all In one di rection, and so strong is it that North ern cities have these newcomers by the tens of thousands, and they will not go back. They find even the Northern discrimination in business a relief from lynchings and Jim Crow legislation. B’ut it is -bad enough even here, where it is difficult for negroes to get a home in an attractive location. But they are making good progress and feel encour aged.” The truth of this matter Is simply that, although the negroes enjoy a wider industrial opportunity in the South, they find the color line in some respects less rigid in the North, and many of them prefer to stay there on that account. It is well that the migration “tide is all in one direction,” as the South has already more than Its share of the race to take care of, and it is better for 11 want to go back o’er the long, lany^ way; > To stray through the orchard aisles. Forgetting the price that a man must pay For the poorest of fortune’s smiles; I want to escape from the noise and mirk And the scheming of money-mad men— But they’d probably want me to go to ■ work If I wandered out to ere again. PEOPLE IN POLITICS, Mr. Cannon aveqs that he®has made no deal with Mr. Fairbanks, and it is now up to Mr. Fairbank? to take water, or start a little Ananias Club ~f his own.—Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune. If Mr. Wadsworth fails to mnke the landing as the Prodigi us and Pluper fect Prevaricator of the Ancient and Amalgamated Assembly of Ananinses after all his talk, the country will prob ably regard him merely as the Hanpv Hooligan of the Hierarchy of Has- beens.—Houston Pest. Governor Hughes’ idea that a Gov ernment should be more responsive to the sentiment of the people is a fine theory, but there is a fear that it would, in practice, seriously damage the political business as a “good thing.” —Indianapolis News. An Indianapolis correspondent speaks •of Fairbanks’ “boom." Everybody who has heard the reverberations from the river on a very cold night appreciates the reference.—Philadelphia North American. (Because one New York Governor was “kicked upstairs” into the White House. It doe* not follow that, the same process would be equally efficacious for another.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Our Gov’nor doesn’t want to fight. But. by Jingo, if he does. He’s got the strength; he’s got the pluck To make the old thing buzz. —Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. So Mr. Hearst is really a Lincoln Re publican, but a far different man from Lincoln. It is just as weil South Caro linians did not run after Mr. Hearst. He may be all right in his way, but his wav and his poli’ics are . . the general interests of the negroes j South Carolina’s way and South Caro- themselves that they be pretty well | 1,na ’ s brand of politics.—Columbia (S. distributed throughout the country—\ C "' > J so as to excite less race prejudice than i SIGNIFICANT NAM-ES FOR GUNS. they are apt to do when too much con gested in one section. On the other From the Army and Navy Journal. the wearers of the cloth onlv proves servat!sm anrt four more to turn back; The prices here at presentof Amerl the rule which shows them to be in a ” in ’ = nd a stickIer for . insist- ; can ginseng range from $4.50 to $8 gold lt appears from a Norristown, Pa., the main what thev purport to be and ency cou ’ d crU,ctee such a slow chan £ e -l per pound, the figures depending upon dispatch that “Teddy’s Army” (cr one should be. the exemplars of their flocks of faith ' But Mr ’ Hearst’s league is | the quality, size, color and shape of the j oi his armle8) is in disgrace. It being ightning change artist politically. ! r00ti t he larger roots being more desir- j discIoEe(3 that if waE more concerned It is anti-Tammany one year and it is a b!e. .The wild root is worth 20 per ! about 5eIIin 2' a 30n S, entitled "Teddy, j tan—to’convey an i'dea^of the power of hand, •such undesirable congestion In the South tends to prevent the greatly needed immigration of whites. We should be entirely willing for the Northern press to convince the negroes that they can do better north of Mason and Dixon’s line. , in spirit and in morals. ( At the Fort Pitt foundry. Fort Pitt. Pa., were cast in 1867 for the monitor j r>, tr i»an torn 20-inch euns. which Cant. : W. C. Wise, then chief of the naval j bureau of ordnance, proposed to call poton and Lucifer. This proposition ! called forth a protest from the pastor of a Presbyterian church at Pittsburg, who characterized it ns “most unseem ly, if not impious.” His letter was re ferred by the member of Congress to whom it was addressed to the depart ment. and finally came Into the hands of Cant Wi*e for reply. In answer he called attention to the foreign cus tom of giving to vessels such names as Jupiter. Juno, Vulcan. Venus. Jug gernaut, Inferno and Lucifer and Sa- pro-Tammany the next. It pictures | cent more than the cultivated article. *?• ™ and TrUe ”^ 25 ™ a CO f’ j Sod canted Murphy in stripes one year and it helps r The prices of American ginseng have i thaa a * out kee Pmg “the greatest ruler not Jnt er.ded for peace and the s him elect his ticket the next. It raves been dropping of late as the Korean in tbe worI<i ’’ in th e White House for j utterance of zrned will toward men. hut an indefinite period. i to as muen misenie, and ce- | struction on human beings in time of ar as their namesake, the devil, trie If they had known of the phonograph Jn ancient times we might have the );,nd heave n-born; but they are more j popularity if “Democrats are appointed at the corporations one year and the j prod uct Is generally preferred. Gin- pleasur* of listening to Demosthenes ,imcs wicked and hell-born. The j over Republicans to positions of any next year it does its best to defeat a ser.g for shipment to China should be himself deliver the “Oration on the ' message that was ever deliv- kind, especially on the pretense of their bill to regulate the corporations. It packed In strong boxes, with heavy Crown” or Cicero deciaim ‘How long, i ered t0 man was the Xew Command- having a higher grade on the civil s ?r- has elected very few men to office, but j wire or metal protection to prevent O Catline?” ment. It was an Injunction of peace, ; vice lists.” The President should look three of them are now under indicet- , theft. • love and fraternity—not a dogma of to this. says , the New York Evening ment. These things and many more! the New York Commercial. The break- j of time was the birth inti the world "We ore consuming our forests,” says hate. The greatest event in the anr.als Post sarcastically. "Something must j like them Mr. Bryan might say, if he be rotten in Denmark if any Democrat only would, and if he felt the need of _ _ can get the highest marks in a civil ( being specific in hia efforts to prevent j >'°n. What does Henry James think j The Telegraph has a contempt for I ven'hj'tb'? u*e' of 3ib!ical nom fast foods have com* to stay, it ap- .Him who laid down that law. — service examination.” She prqselyting of Democrats. Mr. I * be V should thank him for? The Fitzgerald Leader Is surprised ) j- 0 d r> at a’l times. He further remind- to read it In The Telegraph that "Ma- I ed bis clerical c-itio that a number of . „ I clergvmen had witnessed without pro- . con is enjoying a street snow, and i j e5t ji!s act of “zhr’etening" in pr=?- thinks “Macon must have fallen from i rr.ee of a large assembly of ladies and | her high estate." Our contemporary j H-wr-v'-. beard an American woman say "Thank ! probably read it in the "ad.” column, i tb» argument did nor nr“vci! for ro- " ctlve in pre- nckta Henry James says that he never average "street show,” ture. indistinct print