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, the TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MAY 17, 1907, "-ML THE MACON IEIE8BAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING AND TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY, 563 MULBERRY STREET, MACON, GA. C. R. PENDLETON, President 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.