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, the TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1907,
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THE MACON IEIE8BAPH
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THE TELEGRAPH IN ATLANTA.
The Te!«flr«ph can be found on salu
at the Kimball House and the Pied
mont Hotel in Atlanta.
OPPOSED TO IMMIGRATION.
Thera may be good reasons for It,
THE REAL TRUTH OBSCURED.
Ray Star.nard Baker's "The Clash
1 of Races in a Southern City,” pubii-hed
In the May number of the American
Magazine, Is Interesting, is trail meant,
and contains much truth, but erroneous
, Impressions are conveyed in some in
stances because of the "writer's failure
to understand the conditions which he
1 saw. For example, discussing what he
regards as the inconsistencies In
• Southern race prejudice and the lack
; of uniformity in the color line at the
South, he says:
{ "In the North a -white -workman.
1 though having no especial preju-
j dice against the negro, will often
j refuse to -work with him: In the
j South, while the social prejudice
5s strong, negroes and whites
work together side by side In many
j kinds of employment.”
CONSUMPTION OP BEVERAGES.
The British Chancellor of the Ex
chequer ha? made hi? annual report
of the amount of liquors consumed in
the United Kingdom and Incidentally
gtves the amount of liquors consumed
1 in some other
oonr. tries
by way of
| comparison. Th
5 following'
tab!
e, com-
puted in gallons
per capita
on the data
of 1995. sh-3W3
our oens
umpt
ion in
comparison with
that of other nations:
Beer. Spirits.
Wine.
Belgium
.... 4S.S
1.10
1.02
France
.... 7.5
1.37
30.0S
Germany
....26.3
1.43
1.45
United Kingdom ..27.7
.91
.32
Denmark
....20.5
2.42
—
Austria
....14.3
1.99
3.90
United States .
....16.8
1.26
.43
ecutive officer, appointed in a partio- I her case?
ular manner and clothed with pre-jsays:
scribed limited powers. It may be
thought to be of no great consequence
that the President- calls himself, or
that otters should call him, the sole
representative of the people, although
ho has no such appellation or eharac-
Continuing. the Times
This Inconsistency Is the result of
From this it appears that the Bel-
;lans consume more beer, t.-.e Danes
more spirits and the Frenchmen more
wine per capita than the others. There
necessity. Hr. Baker does not under- are some surprises in the above figures, deter, ana call himself the representa-
stand that Southern whites work with a9 the New York World points out. tlve of the 'Thole people, what is to
negroes, not because they do not ob- -That Britons drink more beer than Ilm! t or restrain this representative
matters, words are things. If he Is
the people’s representative, and as
such may exercise power, without any
other ground, what Is tae limit of that |
power? And what may not an unlim
ited representative of the people do?
When the Constitution expressly cre
ates representatives, as members of
Congress, It regulates, defines and lim
its their authority. But if the execu
tive chief magistrate, merely because
he is the executive chief magistrate,
may assume to himself another char-
but ws do not quits understand why
the Georgia Farmers’ Union opposes
immigration. We thought scarcity object to it, but because the conditions I Germans and considerably less spirits 'power la his hands?”
labor and desirable tenants was one of are such that they can not always i j S one 0 f them. Another Is that France, '
tho present trials of agricultural life avoid it and live. Negroes to a large | i n rpite of its great use of wines—in OLD AND NEW FAMILIES.
In Georgia and the South. extent occupy the manual labor field : which Italy and Spain come next with
Rocently the same organization and white laborers are compelled to ' 25 and 18 gallons respectively—France, o-e* esl is sai^ a ut o d am -
passed a resolution favoring the eight- compete with them and often to work where drunkenness is rare—uses more 63 an pedlgTees ’ ut pra< "* _
hour law, which Is all right in the j side by side with them. In the North. ' spirits than the United States per in-, i t ? Cal Gene -‘ ogy teaches anytaing it is j same 'venoered social condition’ that nearly forty years as a journeyman
workshops (and obtains in this shop), on the other hand, white workingmen habitant. Sweden, which used to bft | the nev ' families that count- What tolerates” brutal examples of domes- printer and dled in extreme poverty,
but It is difficult to understand how it practically have everything in their ! the mart drunken nation in Europe. | WC America 03,1 old famUfis t™ 00 J tic cruelty of this class by excusing Had ho been a time server, he might
- to work to the advantage of the own hands and can refuse Industrial L, consumes only a little more spirits 1 the,r tUle t0 arlst ° cracy 2° father : the drunken brute "for his lapses and | j *
In this connection and while on
the subject of an "unwritten law.”
which if ever Justifiably appealed
to would seem to be available la
this case, we are reminded of the
result of a trial of L. D. Strong
at -Macon, Ga., who was recently
sentenced to three years In the
penitentiary for killing one Henry
D. Smith. The facts In the case
were that Strong's sister had
charged Smith with being the au
thor of her shame. Strong waited
three weeks intending to punish
Smith through the law. Finally,
however, he took a gun and com
mitted murder. The Macon Tele
graph. commenting upon the case,
sounds the solemn truth which
Indicts the whole people and lays
the re.sprnsibiilty where it belongs
when it says:
•’Who and what, then. Is the
murderer of Smith and the de
stroyer of Strong?
“It is the veneered social condi
tion. rotten at heart, which toler
ates the seducer by its tender con
sideration of him in the laws as
they are made and executed, and
the false, bloodthirsty sentiment
. wihch hounds on the private
avenger under the name of the
’unwritten law’ to absolve the
wrong thus done to society by a
double and more vital wrong
aimed at the very foundation of
the fabric.”
farmers when applied to farm labor—
particularly on showery days about
fodder-pulling time.
“WILL HAVE TO!”
Senator Tillman is reported to have
said In an Interview In Augusta: “It
looks to me as If the Democrats will
have to nominate 'Bryan for the Pres
idency noxt year.”
It will be remembered that In 1896
It was urged that the free silver ;
platform and Bryan filled the Dem- [
of.rnUc hope because the two suited |
best the Populists. The history j
of the Democratic disaster that year,
end the one following four years later, i
noM not be re-written here and now. |
It is known of all men.
And what do wo see and hear now?
Bryan Is urged for tho third time be
cause he is liko unto Roosevelt—the
leader of the Republican party. Shako
them out of a hag. we are told, and
you couldn’t tell 'tother from which
unless they were taggod—so much
association with negroes without se- j than the United States per capita and
rious or even trifling loss to them- J ] ess than France or Germany,
selves. , "Perhaps the most surprising thingof
Mr. Baker was interested and sur- ; all Is that France and the United
prised to find that the postmaster in States, the two great republics, are the
Atlanta sent negro mall carriers up only nations of any note in which the
Peachtree and other fashionable consumption of alcohol Increases,
streets, while white men were detailed Reckoning the actual percentage of al
to deliver the mall in the mill district cohol presumably contained in the dif-
and other poorer neighborhoods. In- ferent liquors, British consumption of
quiring at headquarter?, Mr. Baker alcohol fell off from 1901 to 1905 by 20
back than colonial times and the Rev- j apologizes for his brutal neglect of
olutionary period. From one to two j those who have claims upon his pro-
hundred years ago their founders were [ tectlon and support."
new people In a new world carving out! —--
i A MARTYR TO DUTY. to the House and pressed to pr.-sage a
i It pays to do the rlg.it thing, regard- ■ b !’.' ^ appropriate to the scxeral Sta es
■ = 0 - 511, 000 n vear out of :.:e procee.-.s or
less of consequences, in the long run the sale of public- lands t r : 1? benefit
j which includes eternity, but it does not' °f their scho-.s of agr.eu tu:e. The
always pay in the long run which In- nTuon^protfidlng “in th” resolution* 1 ^
eludes only time. i acceptance that the money should be
Edmund G. Ross, once United States ' d ‘ v ' ded “wiolt.ibly ***?«««« *£«
races. The Governor of Georgia asked
me to collect the money for the State.
When I went to the Secretary of the
Interior for the proper papers on
which to draw the money from the
treasury he objected to the w;rd
"equitably” in the resolution of the
Legislature, and insisted that it should
be divided equally between the negro
and the white schools. In vain I called
his attention to the fact that an equal
division would be unfair, because in
point of numbers one race represented
52 per cent of the population and the
other 48 per cent. His only reply was
"I want it understood that where the
negro in the S\;uth is concerned I am
for the negro."
Aga'n, for four session? while I was
at the head of this committee tho
somewhat famous ’’Blair bill,” provid
ing Federal cid to educt'on. carrc be
fore my committee. The Republican
members insisted on a provision that
before any State could get any port'on
of the appropriation its Governor
should submit to the Bureau of Edu
cation In Washington a list of all text
books used in the schools of the State.
The Democrats refused to report to a
bureau in Washington, foreseeing to
what it would lead: the Republicans
refused to support the bill without
such •> prevision, and thus tho bill
fal'ed for four sessions.
Mr. Editor, whenever Georgia seeks
and secures aid from the Federal Gov
ernment for her school?, she thereby
pruts them under the control of tie Bu
reau of Education in Washington,
which will be dominated by Ogdenism.
j Senator from Kansas, whose vote was
. largely concerned In saving Andrew
Johnson from an unjust Impeachment,
• has Just died in great poverty and
1 complete obscurity. There were six
other Republican Senators who were
j true to their convictions and voted
j “not guilty." But Ross particularly
, angered the dominant element of his
1 party by declaring that he would listen
j to the evidence and then vote accord-
! ing to his convictions, and he was de-
! nounced as a "traitor” from one end
| of the country to the other. They had
• counted on forcing him into line, ar.d
! his firmness filled them with an in
tensity of wrath that could not fall to
j express itself in persecution,
j Senator Ross had to leave Kansas at
■ the end of his term, and although
President Cleveland made him a Ter-
| ritorial Governor at $2,600 a year, such
1 good fortune was only temporary. He
The Times suggests that it is this was compelled to support himself for
have been showered by the honors and
emoluments of the G. O. P. to the end
learned why. His account reads:
“You pee.” paid my Informant,
"the Peachtree peop.e know how
to treat negroes. They really pre
fer a negro carrier to a white one;
It’s natural for them to have a
negro doing such service. But if
we sent negro carriers down into
the mill district they might get
their heads knocked off.”
Then he made a philosophical
observation:
"If we had only the best class of
white folk? down here and tie in
dustrious negroes, there wouldn’t
be any trouble,"
per cent. German and Austrian by 4
per cent, Belgian by 10 per cent. But
the alcoholic intake of France mean
while increased 27 per cent and that
of the United States 14 per cent.
“With our low average of consump
tion such a percentage of growth In a
Ume of unexampled prosperity is sure-
names for themselves. Any one can j
boost ancestors farther .back than)
that, but for the matter of tracing them,
, a..U names wnica oe.onged to l.ie 'o.d .
! families” then are not known today. I
I In Europe the pedigrees are longer, J
j but compared with the effete East even j
I European pedigrees are brief and un- !
interesting. "The proudest arlsto- j
crats of all.” says the New York !
World, referring to Europe's great j
names, "are perhaps these of Rome. '
The Colonnq. their deadly rivals the |
Orsini and a few other families prove i
to their own satisfaction a continuous '
: nobility of more than a thousand years, i
RAYNER CALLS DOWN BRYAN.
Senator Rayner, of Maryland, has
done the Democratic party a distinct
and much-needed service. There has
been running in a magazine recently a
series of articles termed a debate be-
which will prescribe directly or indl-
of his days. Sureiy It Is to such mar- rectly the text books to be studied, and
tyrs to duty as he that will be said on in two generations our descendants'
.. - . . will, under such training, bel'eve those
the threshold of a new existence. of wb0 baItled for t e preservation
"Well done, thou good and faithful of the Constitution as given us by our
fathers were “traitors" engaged In "a
I wicked and unprovoked rebe'lion.” We
camot afford to pay such a price for
Federal aid. Our percentage -of lll’t-
j erocy Is great, but we are rapidly rr-
A dispatch from Binghamton, N. Y., during it without Federal aid. It is
said that Georgia pays to the cau?e of
servant.”
THE GOVERNOR MOVED..
-si- s' , simo tnn: urorcia pays to me cau?e or
. _ i tells thi» story. Governor Hughes an l eduwUlon d.lrocil.v from her State
tweon Mr. William J. Bryan and Sen- j his military secretary. Col. Treadwell, treasury annually more money than
ator 'Beveridge, of Indiana, discussing I occupied a seat in a Delaware and
Governmental policies. Senator .Bav- Hudson day coach on their way from
eridge is an extreme advocate of cen- j Albany to Binghamton to attend the
tralized Government and holds in ef- j funeral of the Governor’s legal ad-
fect that the Federal Government viser, Ernest Wilson HuffcuL At
should- supervise the internal affairs of , Schoharie Junction they left the seat
the States and “put the screws” on
from
from
Roosevelt and Bryan, and everybody 1 (the prosperous and Influential) treat
el?" on occasion recently urged Bryan the negroes as inferiors, and the ne-
puhlicly, and personally to his face, to groes do not resent it; but when the
put the Democratic crown upon the poorer classes of whites treat them as
head of Theodore; the clear Intimation inferiors, thoy do resent it—that is the
being that thoy are as like as two peas chief difference. This difference of
In a pod, only taat Theodore occupies point of view and of power on the side
the larger part of the pod. 1 of the whites, and of attitude and acts
Senator Tillman added, however, ' on the part of the blacks, explains
that "he [Bryan] seems to be the only much that would otherwise be incom-
loglcnl candidate.” prehensible. If all the whites were
Logical In 1896 because he was so "best people" (rich and influential),
like the Populists, and logical in 1908 and If the negroe3 occupied the entire
because ho is so like Roosevelt, the ; labor field and willingly accepted a po-
laidor of tho Republicans. sitlon of inferiority, "there wouldn’t bo
Wo were trailing after the Populists any trouble”—of course!
in 1S96, and trailing now after the Re- The law must bo obeyed and those
pubileans. A close second to Populism who break it must be punished, but, if
a few yenrs ago, and a close second to we are just, we will not forget that it
Republicanism at this Juncture of af- . is the laboring classes of whites who
f Alr -°- j boar the burden and heat of the day
No man that has lived since 1776 has where this race question is concerned,
done the half that Roosevelt has done There are reasons other than those re-
them when they are not In accord with
ly disquieting. That the French, who; 7 ’ .7, ,7 ' ! the views held at Washington. Mr.
. 7 ^ , . ! Percaps the claim wou.d often be' , , .
already absorb nearly three times as , „ , , , ^ Bryan’s articles were supposed to be
: easier to assail than to defend. I , .
much alcohol each as "Americans, are . , , . . formu.ated in opposition to Mr. Bever-
"No British title goes back nearly to-,. , . , ,, ,
twice as rapidly increasing that enor- .. ., , , .. _ , Idges theories, but Mr. Rayner, who
! the time of W illiam the Conqueror. „ „ . _
mous consumption is a fact to justify'. _ . . . ; has followed the argument, says con-
Nelther Mr. Baker nor his At.anta 1 the grave fears of Parisian scientists i . . * e rom ' 1 cerning the article that 'be is review-
1 t.ie Marquises of WTnchester from , , , ,, „
1 ing that Mr. Bryan Is proceeding to
“a greater extent than Mr. Beverldg®
upon the line of Federal centralization,
and. If their respective names were not
at the head of tbeir respective arti
cles, the article of Mr. Beveridge
would in all probability be taken as
that of Mr. Bryan and that of Mr.
i Bryan for that of Mr. 'Beveridge.”
! Continuing, Mr. Rayner says:
"informant" understood than though that the race which Cor two centuries , .
this is a statement of fact—surface ] ed me world In art and thought and . 6 , ar ‘ S ° nraus U1J "
alike are these political Katzenjammer | & ot-it obscures the real truth and ! intellect Is deteriorating through alco 11442 ’ the Viscounts of Hereford from
kid?. Mr. Graves, for instance—the does the poorer classes of whites an in- holism."
friend of Watson and Hearst and justice. The "best class of white folks'
A SINGLE IDEA.
Following up the suggestion made by
Its editor that Bryan nominate Roose
velt for President—producing a sort | title of 1309.
!of political millennium—the Atlanta
Georgian proclaims:
1550. the Scots, Earls of Sutherland
from 122S. Baronie? for some reason
are older. The Barons De Ros and
Hastings go back to 1264 and the Irish
Baron Kinsale to 1223. The Baroness
Beaumont bears In her own right a j
Once more the Georgian reiter
ates the proposition, from which It
refuses to be diverted by any
thoughtless or captious criticism,
that the supreme and dominant
issue of this era Is the Restraint
and Regulation of Predatory
wealth.
"None of the European royal dynas
ties is very ancient. T.ie Russian Ro- j
manoffs date a? a prominent family i
from 1343, but they married into royal i
rank only in 1547. The reigning Brit- j
ish house is a parvenu, that of Italy
actually dates from 1S70 and the im- |
perial title in Germany from 1871, j
though the houses -of Savoy and Ilo-
Tho Georgian’s idea, as we under- | henzollern are of course much older
stand it, is taat the railroads of the j than than ’But the first Hapsburg Em-
country are head and front of offend- j peror was Rudolph L, 1273, so that
ers in this regard, because Mr. Boose- • luckless old Francis Joseph of Austria
velt has made no particular war on any j was of an imperial family almost 600
other representative of “predatory j years old when he came to the throne,
wealth,” and the fact that Democrats ^ "After these short and simple an-
disagree as to the extent of drastic j nals of the poor upstart kings and no
measures to be applied (and also Re- i bles of Europe, how ancient seem the
"In his article In this magazine
•debate there are statements se
sweeping that attention should be
directed to them, not by Senator
Beveridge, who is arguing for his
party and who. I think, is basing
all of his conclusions upon a false
premise of constitutional construc
tions. but by members of Mr.
Bryan's political faith, so that it
shall not be conclusively assumed
that the doctrines that he Is ad
vocating have become so engrafted
upon the prarty’s creed that in fu
ture no one can question them
without being considered a heretic
and a deserter from the ranks."
any other .Slate in the Un'on, and
many tctcols sunnorred hy the State
superintendent sopnleirentcd bv local
t'>ratl:n are r-ringing un all over the.
S’ato. We shoo’d rr't. In considering
the matter of 11 'Ifjnncr. les? ? ! cht of
the fact thot Georgia has within her
herders rrer? ne-roes t'"'n anv o'her
State ’n the world, and that two score
to send a telegram, and on returning ye-rs ago nearly one-half of cur pop-
they found It occupied hy a negro wo- ulati-m were rte*r©e?. ?9 per cent of
. . ,. wheme were wholly illiterate. Many of
man so large that sae took up both these Sfirre neirroes ar „ sM -, deluded
places. j in our percentage of illiteracy.
’’My dear madam.” said the Cover- j » n <* do to -} ak * fh * infill law
as a precedent. Tills Is a prop?slt on
nor politely, ."this seat contains my
valise, overcoat and umbrella. May I
ask you to take another seat?”
Swelling with Indignation and In a
voice that filled the car. the intruder
replied:
to donate to the schools of the State
out of the national treasury money
wrung from the people by an onerous
system of internal revenue and tariff
taxation: that was a law to pay to
each State for the U3e 'of Its schoois of
agriculture and the mechanic arts
money derived from the sale of the
•Deed Ah ain’t a gwine t’ move.! Public lands the property of the pco-
. pie of all the States, purchased win
Ise jes as good as you, an' Ah don't the blood and treasure of all the States,
take no back talk from nobody. You The?e lands, therefore, helms to the
. , , . ... , ■ . people and are held bv the Federal
jes take youh things an moVe youh- : £ ov P rnn2ent . not « n f<!e fiTCT5 , e hut only
self.” j in trust, for the people of the States.
The Governor moved. ^ us ‘‘ ma H ' B ¥ i(S 1 S thls
| matter and not. Esau like, sell our
It would appear that the negro in - birthright for a of pott?
New York is in a position to enjoy !
himself to the full, and yet, strange to
say, the newspapers of that as well as
other Northern States are laboring
hard to convince him that he is better
off and should stay in the South.
ALLEN D. CANDLER.
Atlanta, May 13, 1907.
to establish a hard and fa ?t centralized iatlng to individual character why the ’ publIcans ^' ,eads our excitable con- I first families of the East. Mutsuhlto,
Government at Washington, destrue- poorer classes of whites come into vio- I teir ‘P° rar 5' to exclaim that “nothing j Mikado of Japan, is descended lineally
Uve of the rights of the States, and lent conflict with the blacks so much less than a reorganization of political
violative of the life, letter and spirit more often than do the representatives i P arties can rneet the needs of the hour,
of the Constitution. No man has so of the “best class of white folks.” The I and put Pilem u P° n a coherent and
exemplified tho spirit of King George former have to meet the negro on an j de ^ n * te basis,
which went down in the struggle of equal footing, or as a competitor In
the Revolution when the American pa- I the labor market: the latter meet him
trlots triumphed. He has gone far be- ; only as a servant and an inferior. In-
yond the dream of Hamilton. 1 evltably the results are vastly dif-
But Bryan has not Sad the same op- 1 ferent.
portunlty. i The Southern ■white laborer is
Senator Rayner is one of the promt- ' scarcely less a victim of oircumstancos
than was his grandfather who was
subjected to the necessity of compet-
But suppose the railroads become
subdued, and there are signs now that
nent Democrats left that grasps the
situation, and calls a spade a spade.
Only yesterday we quoted him as say-
tng, and well worth repeating here:
ing with slave labor. This side of the j bas!s ' 1viI1 be ^one
"In his [Bryan's] article In this
magazine debate there are state
ment* eo sweeping that attention
should be directed to them, not by
Senator 'Beveridge, who is arguing
for his party and who. I think. Is
having all of his conclusions upon
» false premise of constitutional
constructions, but by members of
Mr. Bryan’s political faith, so
that It shall not be conclusively
assumed that the doctrines tha*t
he i« advocating have Vcome'so
engrafted upon the party's creed
th.-it In future no one can question
them without being considered a
heretic and a deserter front the
ranks.”
complex question is too often ignored,
not only by Northern investigators but
by prosperous Southerners who forget
the provocations, the conditions, the
inevitable friction, which lead to vio
lent conflict between the laboring
classes of the two races.
| The Georgian is exploiting a single
Idea—an emergency call, as it were—
upon -which it proposes to build a new
party.
Moreover, in this hour when in
numerable follies are being perpe
trated In the name of Jefferson. It
Mr. Rayner summarizes the policies
of Mr. Bryan as follows:
First—Ultimate ownership by the
Government of all the interstate rail
roads. of the United States.
Second—The initiative and referen
dum.
Third—Congress to have the right to
arbitrarily fix the total product of all
Interstate corporations, quasi public
and private, and to destroy their bus-
i iness if they transgress the congres-
the seventy-sixth generation from ^ iona , , [mlt
Four "hr—The supreme power of Coh-
gress to prescribe tho terms upon
peror Ho-hang-ti, reckons back W* | whlch alI . inters t at e commerce shall
ancestry for more than 4.500 years. j be conducted> and wheneve r Congress
"The Holy Duke sets an excellent ( * hlch> of courw _ means the doM ,_
example to the proud parvenus of ( nant party) conceives lt be agalnst
Western aristocracy. An imperial de- , pub]lc „ Hey lt shaU have the right
cree last year raised Confucius from j a ^ iutely to prohiblt commercial in-
the level of the sun and moon • to the
from the great Jimmu Tenno. who
conquered the island kingdom 2.567
years ago. And all other records are -
beaten out of sight^ in China, where
the "Holy Duke,” tho lineal descendant
in
the receivers appointed by the courts j Confucius and in- the one 'hundred and
may be operating them before long— forty-first generation from the Em- j
suppose a single congress puts the
gaffs as deep as the Georgian could
desire—then what beoome? of the new
amalgamated party jointly led by
Bryan and Roosevelt? The "definite
CANDLER ON FEDERAL AID.
The Atlanta Constitution Is now en-
0 j NEW YORK. May 15.—New York made
gaged *11 3» propaganda in behalf of welcome tod'»v to Oen. Par'm K’» , ro u i,
Federal aid for education In the com- ! t^e hero of the Tolu and othe- battlefietds
of the Russwn-Japan.ase War. He is
mon schools of the States, all of which - here as the representative of the Janmeso
. . ... .. . ! Government to the Jamestown Exoo-
seems svund enougn on the surface, j s j»i on Baron Kuroki and^ party were
The first blush looks good. But Die | joined this afternoon
T.iuin and staff, who came Into port on the
danger lurks more than skin deep. Japanese cmfeers Tsukuba and Chitoae.
__ _ . „ _ _ _ so that New York tonight is In friend'y
Ex-Governor Allen D. Candler, who ! possession of both arms of Japan's fight-
may be termed -by some of the new earllc-V^e
faddists and latter day Radicals as an : afternoon. The carriages containing t’’o
,, . , , . _ party swept ftp in front of the citv halt
old-fashioned Democrat, writes to the j ^ itb tb „ horses -at a swinging gakon.
Constitution protesting against the j *^ d Ku t r ’ k, th ° e u1 ^
movement. His position Is the correct ! McC'ellan was out, but w»? sent for -at
, . . I arrived w'thtn a few minutes. After,
one, and we print what he says in an- t be formalities of an intraduetlon nn? a
other column His experience in nub- 1 f“w words Ba— on Knro-ri. with staff,
otner column. experience in puu 1 ]pft for tbe HoteI Astor. w’-ere they
lie affairs, fils knowledge of our laws j at once went to their rooms to .rest,
and our Constitution, and his famil- J
iarlty - with out American institutions,
renders him fit to pass in judgment on
this and other proposed radical depart
ures from the old and well beaten
paths trod by our fathers and from
which we should not depart.
Federal Aid to Education.
Editor Constitution: I have read
GEORGE W. GLOVER’S
LETTER [0 MOTHER
said on a subject bearing directly on
this line:
“Agriculture. manufactures, com
merce and navigation [there were no
ENTHUSIASM OF THE FOREIGN-
BORN.
Another “Roosevelt League” has
been heard from. Its president is a
gentleman of the outlandish name of railroads then] the four pillars of our
Bela Tokaji who is said to be a dep- national prosperity, are th* most
uty county clerk of Brooklyn. In tho thriving when left most free to indi-
| course of his speech at the meeting vidual enterprise.”
Mr. Raynor summarizes the policies of foreign-born Americans who formed The Telegraph believes that we had
the league, Mr. Bela Tokaji yaid. i better suffer the ills we cannot cure
“My friends, we have met here for than to commit suicide. But there are
the purpose of making the league ef- no ills that cannot be cured by lawful
fective In its work and its Influence and constitutional means,
felt, after whom the league is named
has made his work felt and appre
ciated. It is rny heart’? desire that we
may prove as honorable and fair in
our dealings with the people as our
standard-bearer has proved himself in
hi* dealings.” Mr. Tokaji also re- I
mignt be well to see what Jefferson 1 head of the oldest family in the world
of Mr. Bryan a* follows:
First—Ultimata ownership by the
Government of all the interstate rail
roads of the United State*.
Second—The Initiative and referen
dum.
Third—Congress to hove the right to
arbitrarily fix the total product of all
Interstate corporations, quasi public
and private, and to destroy their bus-
lnesa if they transgress the congres
sional limit.
Fourth—The supreme power of Con
gress to prescribe the terms upon
The new idea that the President is
i everything and all-powerful. Is another
latter day heresy that ought to be
smothered. On this subject Daniel
Webster once said some interesting
things now pertinent, to-wit:
"In some loose, indefinite and un-
ferred to the league’s patron saint as known sense the President has been
“the man who has beaten down the : called the representative of the whole
pleading hands who were bleeding the American reople. He has called hlm-
public pur.-e, enriching themselves at so repeatedly and been so denom-
whlch ail interstate commerce shall
be conducted, and whenever Congress j the hands of the people through public ■ inated by his friends a thousand times,
(which, of course, means the domi- franchises, a man fearless of nature,
nsnt party) conceives it to be against bold and rash in tho right, who has
public policy it shall have the right accomplished much, but has still more
abso.utely to prohibit commercial in- ; to accomplish.”
tere-ourse between the States upon the Mr. Toknjl's sentiments In general
indicated article, as Is fully exemplified are commendable enough, but It is to
In the provisions of the child labor bill, be feared that he Is not any better ac-
And yet, as between Bryan and qua-inted with American ideals and
Roosevelt, The Telegraph would pre- ■ American constitutional Government
far to take the chance with Bryan. ( than he is with the English language.
But there are a great many Democrats in the use of which he also Is "bold
that would stand for a better and truer end rash." Tils would in part explain
Democracy. Rayner Is cr.e of them. j his enthusiasm.
WHEN WOMAN TAKES THE LAW
INTO HER OWN HANDS.
A Mayesville, Ala., man went home
drunk, as told in the news columns of
Tho Telegraph, chased his wife and
children from their home and threat
ened to kill them. His mother-in-law
procured a pistol and killed him while
in his drunken debauch. She was ar
rested and jailed on the charge of
murder. We do not know whether
there will be pleaded in her behalf any
"unwritten law" or not, but we can
not ccnceive any stronger excuse for
the crime of murder than for a mother
to see her own daughter and her child
ren helpless-at the mercy of a drunken
brute who Should be their protector.
We agree with the sentiment of the
Chattanooga Times when it says: “If
there Is an ’unwritten law' to justify
Acts for which no specific authority men in taking lives in ‘defense of
has been found either in the Constltu- j honor and homes’—as it is called—
tercourse between the States upon the with much interest in Sunday's Con-
level of the heavens and earth, con- j ' , ... „„ stltutlon an extract from the Manufae-
... indicated artic.e, as is fully exemplified tiers’ Record and your comment on
ferred upon h s spin honors of the ; ln the prov i s jbns of the Child Labor j the same under the caption “Not Stag-
highest grade and. in the effort to beat b ,,. j nation. But Progress.”
back the' wave of modern science ini w f . „ _ i *£ ir.se.dom that I have had to differ
' We agree with the Baltimore Sun -. radically from the Constitution on any
When it says: "It is difficult to con- important question, but on this I can-
. ■ • not ar-«e with 't. I have aiwa’-s b=en
ceive a statement of policies more rad- an ardent advocate of the education
icaliy ln opposition to the recognized of the masses, and still am, but there j col £,n°‘ East'I* learned'‘“facts'“whiiTh
doctrines of the Democratic party as .^hLstle/’ and a^eaSTln : convince me that steps should be taken
held and taught by Jefferson and the which, If your policy is adopted, we
other fathers of the republic. More ^'ould pay too much. The tederal
Government was formed to do for the
China, set aside $75,000 for the per
petuation of his teachings. But the
CONCORD. N. H . May 13.—Addi
tional affidavits were filed by the
plaintiffs in the Eddy accounting suit
in the Superior Court today. One Is
the affidavit of Wm. E. Chandler, con
taining the letter which Geo. W. Clov
er wrote to his mother, Mrs. Mary
Baker G’over Eddy, dated Waahlnton,
D. C., February 25. 3907. In this lat
ter, which is addressed “My Dear
Mother,” Mr. Glover says:
‘Just before I left home and after
sensibly urges that Confucianism shall
be linked with modern learning.”.
than this, the adoption of these policies
would be to revolutionize our form of
Government and to inaugurate a new
one. To change our republic into a
monarchy would not be a more com
plete change.”
The gratitude of Democrats every
where are due Senator Rayner for
challenging these theories being prut
forts* In the name of Democracy. It
brings, or should bring to an issue, too,
the question as to whither we are
drifting. Suppose Mr. Bryan was put
up and elected on these lines by. the
Democratic party or in its name.
What good would it do Democracy?
There wquld be no Democratic party
left.
people only those things which it can
do for them better than the individual
States can. Education of the masses
was not one of the objects of Its form
ation. The State? and local communi
ties can do this better and more sat
isfactorily than the general Govern
ment. The truth Is that there has
been for nearly fifty year.? a studied
and well directed effort on the part
of that political party which has been
ln control of Federal affairs to concen
trate In the Federal Government p:w-
ers never delegated to it. Every means
ha? been resorted to to accomplish this
end. and that bait of Federal aid to
concerning your property in the way
of legal proceedings which will satis
fy everybody that you are being loy
alty served by those whom you most
implicitly: trust in your present bodily
and mental weakness natural to your
advanced years.
“For many years I have thought that
persons to -wnom you had given your
confidence, and who had surrounded
you and taken complete charge of your
affairs, were not deserving of such
faith as you appeared to have ln them
and such power as they assumed in
your name."
The letter then refers to difficulties
that Mr. Glover says he and hi3 daugh
ter Mery had experienced in trying to
not
will not che same apply to a woman
who, rendered desperate by the bru
tality and cruelty of a debauched
Warned by the belated status of the
Jamestown ter-centenniaj, New Or
leans proposes to begin at once the
preparations for an exposition to cel
ebrate the completion of the Panama
canal. The projectors say eight years,
but it may be twenty—In any case they
will have plenty of time. There is
■head of the house,' ends lt all with a i nothing like taking time by the fore- preme. Some of_ these People ?how
tion or laws have been justified on the
ground that the President is the rep- i
resentattve of the whole American j
perple. Certainly this is not const!- |
tutiona! language. Certainly the Con- i shotgun? There should be no such j but j, there n ot also a possibility
stitution n3where cal’s the President j thing as unwritten law to avail any- ! of more expositions than a Jaded pub-
tr.-.e universal representative of the ) body for immunity for blood-letting, ; dc „„„ stand?
people. The constitutional reprerent- I but as it is invoked in so many in- — • !
stives of the people are in the House J stances by men with very much less j “Does it pay to advertise?" asks a
of Representatives, exercising powers cause than this Maysvlllo woman had, 1 onntemporary. Ask Teddy Roosevelt,
.... , visit his mother in Concord, as far
education is one of the means relied back as 13 r 3 and coming down to the
on present year, says:
Let the Southern people swallow this ! "° n January 2 Mary and I went to
bait and in a few short years our com- : Concord and had an interview with
mon schools will be completely con- ! *' ou an ^ P a:n ^ u ^ dounts which had
tro’led by the Bureau of Education at j been excited :n my mind were
Washington, and this bureau will be j overcome by that interview,
dominated by the General Education j "Various notions o. yours seemed
I Board and Ogdenism. The people who j strange to me ar.d especially vrnen
'inaugurated this board and its hys- you said that you believed that your
students and the men who gave you
that pair of beautiful horses wanted
them to run away with and kill you;
that men had broken into the house,
and stolen your will; that the wili was
missing when you went to look for it
in the place where you had put It, and
that you on the same day mad» an
other will and placed it in Mr. Street
er's strong place, you not remember
ing Mr. Streeter’s name until I sug
gested it.”
The le-ter then tells of the return to
Washington of Mr. Glover and his
daughter and of alleged efforts of Mr.
Farlow and of Mr. Tomlinson of the
teric-l crusade against illiteracy in
the South me? - be honest and desire to
stamp -out illiteracy, but they are, at
the s"me t'me. the tools of others who
are educated only by a desire to do
through this same mean? what thev
failed to do ln four years of bloody
war, wipe out State lines. Thsv c.->r»
nothing for the education of the
mas«ej, but they want a consolidated
Government whose power shall be
i UK&OCI
four years the writer bad the honor to
act as chairman ot the committee on
* 1 1 edueat'on ln the National House of
lof legislation. The President la an ex-| who shall say it should not apply to | Ben Tillman and "Bugs" Raymond. J Representatives. As such he reported
great partiality for the r.cvro and th'nk
thev love him. but they do not. Thev
mistake the'r hatred for the S-'uthorn
white man for love for the negro. Men , -
in hirh official pos’tion have, on m^ny 1 Christian Science Church to secure
occasions, made tb : s fact manifest. For from Mr. Glover letters which had
been sent him by his mother and of
letters he received signed by his moth
er’s name urging him to give up the
letters.