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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, MAY *4, 1WT. THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING ANO TWICE A WEEK BY THE MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH ING COMPANY. 603 MULBERRY STREET, MACON. OA. C. R. PENDLETON, President THE OLO "MOTHER.” Havemeyer, tae man who organized atA operated the Sugar Trust. declared thn; "the tariff is the mother of the trust." Havemeyer knew, because he knew hit mammy. He gave to the world a ooncise truism which will live. .Vow. some of those who operate their processes of thought In a narrow .tneil. imagine that Roosevelt la a good-enough Democrat for the South because he has tackled the railroad octopu*. Hut It does not seem to have occurred to this class of thinkers that the railroads do not como under the head of protected industries—that the President does not raise his hand (not withstanding bis tariff reform profes sions of his earlier career) against one of the children of the Havemeyer ‘'mother/' The Democratic party ha.s won two national victories Jn fifty years only, and both times the “the mother of trusts” was the issue. If the party of Jefferson haH ever stood distinct ively for any one great principle it has stood for “a tariff for. revenue with in cidental protection," or "tariff reform;” and yet the party has been sidetracked again and again on un-Democratlc doctrines which havo sprung up like a spnrrowgrasa, gone down like a hop- pi-rgrasa and died like a Jackass, un wept. unhonored and unsung. The railroads have sinned like all other human agencies, when there was an opportunity to sin. and both parties have sharpened their blades for the sinners; but the Idea that a state of affairs now exists which warrants a moulding of all political parties into one party for the purpose of taking the scalp of the railroad octopus, and to allow the complete escape of all the protected Interests and trusts, Is ab surd except from the standpoint of tljose who expect thus to make good their escape. The whinnying colts foaled bjfthe Havemeyer "mother” and the braying of the jackasses out on the political Stubblefield make a bed lam for the season, but die it must If tho old party of Jefferson. Jackson, TUden and Cleveland lives. ROOT OVERLOOKED THE OB VERSE SIDE. In a iectur« upon "Citizenship' at Yales University Secretary of State Root paid a tribute to the greatness ard patriotism of Samuel J. Tilden. if.". Root said: HONING FOR THE OLD FLESH- POTS. isn Strange, these day popular in' Europe teat every man who tries to head a errrnt must take a trip WiltU -s Mr. Bryan. It hes always seemed to me that Mr. Tilden pursued a very patri otic course when the election to •he President;. was in question be tween him and Mr. Hayes in 1S7C. There were in this country many men of high character and stand ing who urged that Mr. T.idea's title to the office should be i erted by armed force. Mr. Til- den lost the Presidency, but he gained what was of far greater value—the title to the esteem and gratitude of all good citizens. Mr. Barrett, Mr. Jordan and Mr. Smith. Have we no original think ers in America, that we must bor row ideas from our European friends? or. do some cf the gentle men think it a good idea to get a little out of the thing while it is doing, even if it Is only a pleas ure trip?—Tifton Gazette. There is unfortunately a growing i disposition to ape foreign manners— ! dontcher know—and to adopt foreign thoughts and customs. ! It is all right for those who can af- | ford the time and the expense to make I a trip occasionally to the old country, NO doubt Mr. Tilden sacrificed him- , an(J ^ to keep thelr eyes open arJd ; e.r for what he considered the best j learn —jt j s broadening-but It interests of the country. j j s certainly un-American for our He Is secure frow cirticism by | us because we believe he de' elded for the best aa he saw It. But It is possible that If the people had , ownership and controI or busIne3S af- rlsen In revolution against the piece | which belong in a free country of centralized usurpation exercised bj ^ j be individualism of the great in statesmen to go over there and bring j back to our shores the ideas of an ; effete monarchy, such as Government "UNCLE TOM’S” CAREER ABOUT ENDED. For half a. century "Uncle Tom's Cabin” has found a multitude of read ers. Of late years tho multitude has dwindled as the negro came to be less fondly regarded ( 1n the North, but doubtless there are still people who weep over the woes of the unearthly bondsmen, unsurpassed in refinement and incomparable in saintliness, to be found in that remarkable book, which is strong in its aim although its char acters and local color are laughably factitious and unreal. Forty years and more "Uncle Tom” has also appeared on tho stage. We recall a vivid letter to his paper, writ ten by Henry Grady, describing the play as he saw it in New York about the year 1S80. The brilliant Georgian . wrote with some Indignation and much arrow, end to this day we can hear ie hiss of the slave drivers’ whips and snarl of the “bloodhounds” as he depleted them. At that time It would the Republicans In their audacious rape of the Presidency In 1876, we should not In 1907 have progressed so far In the overthrow of our form of Govemrrfent as Is exhibited in Mr. Root's open propaganda of the doc trine that the Government at Wash ington should exercise the rights re served to the States when these fail to exercise them In the manner the Washington Government deems they should do. However, let that pass. But here is a phase which Mr. Root might have amplified to our edification. If Mr. Tilden was great and patriotic for de clining to risk embroiling his country in civil war for the sake of asserting his claim upon the Presidency to which tho people had elected him, what a campanion picture of turpitude Mr. Root could have painted for us in the conduct of his party in taking that risk in order to rob its opponents of this high office and continue itself in power by virtue of Its advantages of posses sion and of superior physical force. The thought is a fruitful one. We wonder at Mr. Root’s moderation in overlooking It. THE "IFS" ARE UNTHINKABLE. Mr. John Temple Graves' long and perfervld letter to the New York World, elaborately defining his "po sition,” is courteously and respectfully summarized by the editor of that newspaper as follows: 1. Xo other political issue approxi mates in imminence and vital import ance to the great question of the re lation of predatory wealth to the rights and interests of the people. 2. Mr. Roosevelt is peculiarly the representative of this issue and is the man best fitted by experience and popular confidence to carry it to a successful conclusion. 3. Although Mr. Roosevelt would not accept a renomination from.the Republican party, neither he nor any other patriotic American could decline a nomination tendered him as a com mon expression of confidence from the people of all parties. 4. Sir. Roosevelt's second elective administration would be another "era of good feeling,” during which time permanent form would be given to this paramount policy of railroad and cor poration regulation. 5. There would then come a new adjustment of party lines, based not on names but on Issues. Tjie radicals could go Into one party and the con servatives into another party. Men would have ceased to be hypnotized by the word “Democrat” or “Republican.” 6. Nothing more wholesome could come to the republic than such a read- dependent masses. The American people, during the Jatter jtert of the eighteenth century, and the early part of the nineteenth century, gave to the world the model Government. They demonstrated the wisdom of the republic, and cast the pattern therefor. There had been no Government like it. There will never be any better this side of the millen nium. That Government is not a fail ure, but the evidence of a disposition to abandon some of its best features, and to go back to European models Is an evidence that our statesmanship, and not the American model is fail ing. When Moses planned, under the di rect guidance of God, the campaign out of Egypt and through the wilder- A CONGRESSMAN’S BLUNDER. The Hon. C. G. Edwards, Congress man from the First Georgia district, appears to rave “put his foot in it” pretty deeply by declining to give an audience to a delegation of negro letter carriers, who had some matter to lay before him in his official and repre sentative capacity, because of their color. The incident has been taken notice of and condemned by a numbs; of prominent citizens of Savannah, in eluding Judge Samuel B. Adams Mayor George W. Tlederr.an and State Senator W. -B. Stephen?. The Tele graph is gratified to observe the promptitude with which these repre senative citizens have taken exceptions to an ethical and basic error committed In the name of the superior race. No blesse oblige is the true note of supe riority that should mark the attitude of the higher to the lower always, with the readiness to deal justly and kindly emphasized. No creature can be so humble as not to merit a hearing, even if the Congressman had not stood to his petilioners in the relation of their representative. But when it is re memhered that the people to whom the Congressman denied a hearing be cause of their race constitute so eon siderable an element of our population his blunder assumes a character little less than criminal. It would be an absurdity too great to entertain for moment to suppose that the millions of blacks in the South could be denied any representation or medium of com munieation between them and the Government. The white men of the South are determined that it shall be a -white man’s Government, conducted and administered by white men be cause white men are best fitted for the task and for the conservation of so ciety. But a general assumption of the attitude taken -by Congressman ness to Canaan, the project was never Mwards toward the neffr0 race wouM a failure at any time -because there be a confejsIon ct lncompetency that were revolts and cries to be led hack ! wou , d sure]j . foreshadow tte failure to the fleshpots of Egypt. Those who j Qf our purpose _ Let re presentativ lust for the power of a centralized Government get a whiff of the savor of it in the record of that old Pharoh who knew Moses. They also get a taste of it In our effete monarchies of the old world. The particular flesh- pot that Bryan hones after, for In stance, is Government ownership. And there are others. But we do not think there is any danger to Georgia In recent excursions "across.” have been confidently predicted that as long as Eliza and her baby were j justment of party lines at the end of chased by "bloodhounds" across the I an “era of good feeling" in which Re broken and floating ice of the Ohio ! publican energy would not be dissi- rlver. as long a? the snake-like whip : pated in attempting to reconcile a of the devilish Legree curled round Roosevelt with a Foraker, and Demo ths mutely eloquent shank3 of the nn- gellc Uncle Tom—through five long nets—the play would triumphantly hold the American stage. But we can never be absolutely sure In this changeful world. For one rea son or another people—the people of the Intelligent classes—wearied of “Ur.ele Tom.” and finally the dusky saint and martyr was able to make his bow only In the third-rate theatres patronized by the foreign-born and the uneducated classes. Probably this explains why a new "Uncle Tom.” spoken of as a "recon structed" and "expurgated’ versloni was put on at the Majestic In New York this week. It Is ?ald that the ''sensational" features are left out— there are no bloodhounds, no river of floating ice, no donkeys, and the whip of Simon Degree does not perform In publie. It is no surprise to hear that the piece Is pronounced dull and tire some. for It is thus robbed of its for mer "appeal* and little Is left but sen- cratic energy would not be exhausted In trying to arrange a compromise be tween a Bryan and a Belmont, a Ryan and a Hearst. There would be point in this If predatory wealth" were the only issue “BISHOP OF ATLANTA." The Albany Herald, after many years of friendship and admiration for* the so-called pluck of the Atlanta news papers, and for the “Atlanta end" of every story started under the sun, and printed in those papers, is getting, in Its old age, quite critical. For in stance, note this: The perpetual, self-assertive nerve and bombastic egotism of Atlanta, as exemplified by the newspapers of that city, Is ridicu lous when it isn’t disgusting. It is Atlanta thi?, Atlanta that, At lanta everything when notables or sensations are under consideration —in the Atlanta newspapers—and no sort of notrlety is too shady or disreputable for Atlanta to attach her name to it—in the Atlanta newspapers, especially the Con stitution. But here is an instance of Atlanta egotism in connection with men and an occasion both no table and respectable: We have before us Sunday's At lanta Constitution, on a page of which is exploited a meeting of bishops of the Southern Method ist church to he held In Atlanta In June to promote what Is known as the Wesley Memorial enterprises. The ipictures of the bishops of seven Southern States are arrayed on the page, each except B siop Candler, of Georgia, being prop erly tagged. All are designated as bishops of the States which they respectively represent, except Bishop Candler, who. instead of being designated as Bishop of Georgia, is held out as “of Atlanta.” Thus the array of bishop is printed in the Con stitution. the titles of the bishops being given under their pictures: "Bishop A. C. Morrison, of Ala bama: Bishop J. S. Key, of Texas; Bishop E. R. Hendrix, of M-ssouri; Bishop Galloway, of Mississippi: Bishop Seth Ward, of Texas: Bishop Atkins, or South Carolina.” Bishop Candler, "of Atlanta!" Where is the Bishop of Georgia to come in this Important conclave of the Southern Methodist bishops? Of all their sins, this one is the least white men of the South deny the ne gro representation through themselves and he will surely obtain it in another direction and to our cost. The Tele graph endorses the words of Judge Samuel B. Adams, in a letter ad dressed to the editor of the Savannah Press on the subject as the correct expression in the premises. Judge Ad ams says: “The committee, which addressed a polite communication to the Congress man, represented a body of intelli gent, useful and respectable citizens, They did not expect to make a social visit, or to do anything that involved in any way the ethnological or social question. They were employes of the Government The - Congressman Is a national representative. They desired to present to' his consideration some claim that they thought they had upon the Government as to wages, or some other matter which concerned them as Government employes. They had a clear right to a hearing. Their rebuff does not tend .to allay race prejudice and its manifest evils. It does not advance our reputation among fair-minded and just people of other sections. Some of the great monarch's of the world have often gra ciously granted audiences, upon their petitions, to their humblest subjects. I And they did. not compromise their dignity or besmirch their reputations.' I submit that even a Georgia Con- ! grefsman, 'high and mighty though his office, might condescend to do like wise without loss of dignity or stand ing, or real injury to political pros pects. The sooner the white race real Izes that there is no higher evidence of racial, or individual, elevation -than ■the doing of a simple justice and ex hibiting to all men, under all circum stances. kindness and courtesy, the more quickly will race and other troubles be settled wisely and perma nently. We can never demonstrate racial superiority by any other course, of vital Importance—If no Democrat j committed by the Atlanta press this could be rolled on to stand for the week. people on that Issue as sincerely and’j - vow , 48 a niatter of fact, the Epls- vigorously as Roosevelt—If there were , copalians have a “Bishop of Georgia,” no fundamental differences of policy ; a *®Urhop of Tennesse,” a “Bishop of and creed separating the two parties— j *^ ew York, etc., and so do the Cath- if, in a word, the party of Thomas ! olics, but the Methodist bishops, like Jefferson were extinct and all It stood j Methodist preachers, are itinerant, for were dead without hope of a res- , and bound down to no special locality. urrectlon. The “ifs" are unthinkable and insur- | Speaking of Bishop Candler, he is properly designated by saying that be mountable. No sane and self-respect- is a “Bishop of the Methodist church.” ing Democrat believes that “predatory though speaking of him in reference to wealth" is the only issue of vital im- . hls home - 11 18 Proper to refer to Mm as "Bishop Candler, of Atlanta.” But he is neither “Bishop of Georgia," nor portance—or that no leader of hls par ty could be trusted in this particular— or that there are no fundamental and "Bishop of Atlanta, vital differences of policy and creed separating the followers of Jefferson and of Hamilton—or that the great tlmentallty ar.d preachments related to j historic Democratic party has breathed a dead issue. This new beginning is its last breath and is no more than so really only a hastening of the end. | much carrion to be carted off and It may be that a return to the time- j dumped on a dunghill, honored !a?h and the orthodox ''blood- j No sane and self-respecting Demo- •hound" may still draw a crowd from I erat believe* It, or can believe it. or the unlettered and the foreign element | will believe it. and therefore the prop- to the cheap theatres, but It remains i osition. however honestly meant, may to be said nevertheleai that “Uncle be justly likened to a bray from a don- Tom" has had -his day on the American ! key’s Bedlam. The Democratic party . I . . » . ,, ^ .. , , i but when it is up to him to take the is not as dead aa Mr. Graves thinks. ’ r I If this sort of stuff Is pressed to its F ets ; lips much longer It will have a fit of I vomiting that will cause a sensation. | IT DEPENDS WHO THE JOKE IS ON. The sense of humor is not very well developed in Graves. If it were. Pendleton thinks he would cave seen the funny side of the Washington Herald’s story about hls efforts to connect up with the ! White Houte.—Americus Recorder. It was so serious with him, that amusing story, that he fairly wept bitter tears over It, thereby Inducing , the Herald to acknowledge the Jest, j and The Telegraph to print his denial: stage. sting out of the false eharge that the editor of The Telegraph “was born a Republican,” but that he had “lived many years in the South”—intimating W. E. Corey and his bride were that he is a carpetbagger—Graves’ Ups ways he might take a whack at some known to their fellow-travelers as the are locked. Fortunately it Is beyond When President Roeeevel through raking Jack London and hi fellow story tellers for describing im possible animals and their improbable OUR TRADE WITH GERMANY AND FRANCE. It Is gathered from the report of the Bureau of Statistics that the trade of the United States with Germany and France aggregated last .year about 3572,000,000, and in the year which ends with next month seems likely to reach nearly or quite 3700,000,000. About three-fifths of this large total trade occurred with Germany and about two-fifths with France. In the trade with- Germany, exports to that country are much greater than the imports therefrom, but in the case of France the exports are slightly less than the imports; In the nine months of the present fiscal year for which the Bureau of Statistics is able to supply detailed statements, the exports to Germany were 3207,000.000 and the im ports therefrom 3123,000,000 in value, while in the same period the exports to France were 391000,000 and the Im ports therefrom 399,000,000, these fig ures being in round terms. France Js one of the few important commercial countries of the world to which our exports are less than the Imports fiscal years the imports from France have amounted to 3783,500,000 and the exports thereto 3783,000,000; in the same period imports from Germany amounted to 31.017,000,000 and the ex ports thereto 31.826.000,000. AN IRREPRESSIBLE TRUST. The story of Standard Oil is an old one but it is one that will bear repe titlon many times .before becoming stale and uninteresting. The career of the trust began forty years ago in the violation of the laws of equity and justice for its own advantage, and de spite the investigations that have at tended its -course and the legislation aimed against It, the trust today, ac cording to the report of Henry Knox Smith, United States Commi-sloner Corporations, is as Impudently defian of law and authority as ever. In his report Mr. Smith says: The history and present opera tion of these Standard interests show throughout the last thirty- five years a substantial monopo lization of the petroleum industry of the country, a deliberate de struction of competition and a con sequent control of that industry by less than a dozen men. who have reaped enormous profits therefrom. The commercial effi ciency of the Standard, while very great, has been oonsis'tently di rected. not at reducing prices to the public and then maintaining its predominant position through superior service, but rather at crip pling existing rivals and prevent ing the rise of new ones by vexa tious and oppressive attacks upon them and by securing for itseif most unfair and wide-reaching discriminations in transportation facilities and rates, both by rail road and by pipe line, while re fusing such facilities so far as possible to all competition. Commenting on thi3, tho Baltimore Sun says: “The Congress, in an at tempt to restore competition, embodied In the rate law of June 29, 1906, the clause making the pipe lines common carriers and subjecting them to all the requirements and penalties incident to the conduct of that business Mr. Smith contends that the Standard Oil Company has substantially failed to comply with the act It has, he says, failed in most cases to file the rates as required by law and in other cases it has nullified the law by placing im possible restrictions upon shippers, re quiring, for example, single shipments to be at least 75,000 to 300,000 barrels in amount and by fixing unreasonable rates. Indictments against the com pany are now pending in various parts of the country, charging no less than 8.000 separate offenses. In Chicago the company has been convicted upon 1,462 counts. If in all these cases there should be convictions, fines to a pro digious sum could be imposed. But what of that? Payment of the fines would probably be made by an increase in the price of oil. In that way the people would be placed in the position of punishing themselves by prosecuting the Standard Oil Company.” It does seem if there were sincere determination on the on the part of Mr. Roosevelt and _ hls administration to break up the trusts they might at least do something effective to this ancient hoary-headed law-breaker. But it will be remembered that when the Repub licans were tinkering at the rate-bill under the President's supervision it was the Standard Oil Trust of all oth ers that was permitted to obtain an individual advantage in the final fram ing of the law, having itself made a common carrier for such purposes as would .benefit It, and at the same time being excepted from provisions that would have forced It to do Its duty to the public. COMES DOWN ON "NATURE" WRITERS. President Roorevelt is greatly wrought up over the scandalous irregularities of the “nature fakirs.” For the time being sen tence is suspended on the unde sirable citizens, the mollycoddles and the weaklings and cravens, and In turning on its axis the world is permitted to stick to its own rate of revolution. A writer for Everybody’s who has interviewed the President finds him outraged beyond measure at the shameless way the private life of beasts of the wilderness has been misrepre sented. Some of our most popular authors he considers no better than muck-rakers in their disregard of lamentable error;’ and hi* course was an insuit to the South and 'looks un questionably in its results to the ag gressive assertion of an impossible so cial equality, and to a political equal ity which, by the records of the North, as well as tho South, is equally im possible.’ ” Commenting, the Observer says: Since the letter was written the President has had Dr. Booker T. Washington to luncheon at the White House and within the past few weeks has appointed an Ohio negro politician to an important position in Washington—a position in which he has white people— men and perhaps women, ns sub ordinates. Yet now, according to Mr. Graves. Mr. Roosevelt is good enough to be the Democratic can didate for President next year. Is he any better now than he was in 1903? No. Does he hold views as to the race question modified in any measure from those of four years ago? Not at all. He can not have been then what Mr. Graves thinks him now. An apol ogy to the President or an ex planation to the public is in order. Using argument on Editor Graves Is a waste of ammunition. Only one with an insane craving for sensation and notoriety could dream of advocating the selection by Southern Democrats of a man for President whose course In 1903, and since, was “an insult to the South,” by Mr. Graves’ own declara tion. If there is any sincerity in Mr. Graves he will promtply offer an apol ogy for the double insult he has offered the South. as mad can be. The Mahatma Agama Guru Paramaharrsa is in his own per son a lesson and a warning. We are not entlre.y familiar with the surroundings of the affair between Congressman-elect Edwards, of the Savannah district, and toe negro mail carriers, of Savannah, but It seems to be a case of a cheap bid in bad taste for notoriety on the part of the young Congressman. We do not believe that Rufe Lester, or Tom Norwood, or Ju lian Hartridge, or Henry R. Jackson, or any of the preceding Congressmen would have denied an audience to a committee of negroes in the Govern ment employ, or not in the Government employ, upon the sole grounds that they were negroes. His action really magnified the Importance of the negro. It is rather an unfortunate affair. THE NEGRO IN NEW YORK. It has never occurred to white men —so far as we know—to employ race prejudice as a means of making money. It has been reserved for the “Afro- American Realty Company," of New York, to appeal for subscription to its stock on the ground that it proposed to “turn race prejudice into dollars and cents.” And apparently it is succeeding fam ously. “It buys,” says the New York Sun. “or leases apartment houses In exclusive neighborhoods, notifies the white occupants to move and adver tises for colored tenants. Owners of adjacent property have either to ac cept a depreciation in the value of their holdings or prevent the threat ened invasion by buying out the Afro- American Realty Company. The con cern is said to he prosperous and is no doubt much admired for its aggres siveness in upholding the right of col ored folk to live where they please.” But while a few “smart” negroes are making money in this questionable fashion, the masses of the race In New York are worse off materially than they used to be, and seem to ;be stead ily losing ground. Says the Sun of May 19: ' Exploits like the Afro-American Realty Company’s tend to create ■distrust of the negro as a citizen, adding heavily to his burden of Following up the suggestion of “little Mr. Graves, of Georgia,” the Nashville American remarks that “it now remains for Mr. Roosevelt to sug gest a man for the Democratic nom ination.” The New York World lights the President’s way as follows: “Mr. Tillman is more radical than Mr. Bryan and Mr. La Follette Is more radical than Mr. Roosevelt In case Mr. Bryan persists in nominating Mr. La Follette for President in tho Re publican national convention, Mr. Roosevelt will have no choice but to nominate Mr. Tillman in the Demo cratic convention.” disabilities in the comretition for a livelihood. At one time colored men in New Y-ork were employed In the best paid grades of domes tic service, they were favored bar bers and waiters and were engaged in a number of occupations on the border line between the skilled and the unskilled trades. From virtu ally all pursuits in which brute force Is not a prime requisite the negro has been expelled by white labor or,.by Chinese and Japanese. (He has held hls place only where brawn counted In the- struggle against the physically inferior im migrant from southern and eastern Europe. A remarkably large pro portion of the negro men of thi3 town now live on the earnings of their womanfolk, whose work is likewise restricted to the coarsest drudgery. The- traveler from the South sees a In 4 Duncan Clinch Heyward for United States Senator South Carolina would have on the floor of the upper house of Congress a figure combining the character, grace and prestige of the Old South with all the vigor, ver satility and enterprise of the new. As the antipode and yet kindly yoke fellow of Ben Tillman, the inbred man of the masses, the representation of o’ur neighbor in the Senate would be historically rounded and complete. It appears that it was up bo the Con gregational minister, not Episcopal minister, as we erroneously stated, who performed the wedding ceremony for W. B. Corey, a divorced man. to apol ogize for his course or lose his job. Self-interest appears to have actuated him in both instances. In view of the proposed 15 per cent advance in hosiery, the Americus Times-Recorder exclaims, “Thank heaven, in this mild climate people can go barelegged.’’ As soon as crinoline advances It would be just like the Times-Recorder to advocate abbrevi ated skirts also. John Temple Graves has written an article In the New Tork World telling why, in hls opinion, the Democracy should support President Roosevelt for another term. He does not mention the President’s “insult to the South” in. his politico-social equality treat ment of the negro once resented so flamboyantly by Mr. Graves. In the Gould divorce suit revelations will be made, it is said, which will shock the country. It won’t do to be too sure of ithat. There Is a limit to the country's capacity for being shocked and it has been pretty thor oughly tested already. good many prosperous-looking negroes in the Northern cities, and is apt to wonder if the pessimistic accounts cf Industrial conditions among the blacks of that section may not be In part traced to the manifest desire to check ‘Afro-American” migration from the South t-o the North. We doubt not, however, that the Sun’s view is essen tially the true one. The American ne gro who wishes to be both honest and Independent will find hls best and al- the facts.—New York World. ’io a certa.n extent we think the j most hls only field in agriculture. President is right' The Seton-Thomp- eon class of “nature” writers idealize the wild animals and make them not Gen. Eonilia declares he will have nothing more to do with politics in Honduras. If he knows w.-.en he is well off he will have nothing more to do with anything in Honduras that may require his presence there. All the world loves a lover, but the contempt of honest husbands and wives everywhere will follow the man who in the sunshine of prosperity abandoned the true woman who shared his early struggles. only almost but quite human In their Instincts and feelings. This Is not only false but harmful to young readers, we think. But it does not appear to us that all the “nature” writers offend in this way, or if they do the offense Is in many cases too slight to do harm. Yet the President is said to include them all in the ban. Undoubtedly the Presi dent knows a good deal about wild an imals himself, but it is only the hunt- A WARNING TO THE COCKSURE. It does not pay to think too highly of onesself or one’s own opinions, even though one be a gifted President, a “silver-tongued” lecturer, or a ward politician. It not only does not pay, it Is dangerous. Megalomania has many forms and there is no telling what undesirable fate it may bring upon its victim. There is a Hindu In New York who calls himself the Mahatma Agamya Guru Paramahamsa, and says the name means “the Great Mind, the er’s knowledge. The man who goes -on ! Fathomless One, the Preceptor and the the chase and shoots the wild beast j Highest Cod." This remarkable per- on sight sees animal life from a nar- j son told a Sun reporter that he was rower and far less comprehensive j “above all gods and superior to all re angle than the man who goes peace- i liglons,” and gave further description Mr. Roosevelt’s young men are “offi cially” working over the Standard Oil ground covered by Miss Ida Tarbell’s “muck rake” and giving It the Roose velt stamp, without which no facts can. be genuine. The Savannah Press always sees the silver lining. Commenting on the partial failure of the fruit crop it re flects that the boys who sit under Hoke Smith’s plum tree seem to be reasonably sure of a good harvest ably into the wilds, watches, waits, listens and studies “the folk of the for est” for weeks at a time. This is what the most successful nature” writers are believed to have done, and their dicta will not be lisht- dlsputed by tho follower of the chase who is both an Intelligent and a modest man. of the human fiction writers and their Impossible creations. science eomewhat by disgorrtng the loot. "Pittsburg prisoner*” in their trjp hls power to do the editor of The Te.e- i-.cross because they remained locked graph any harm In a oountry where Still. Ab* Ruef might ease hi* con- up in their state rooms the entire time, he won his scars in the battles for k Possibly they had the grace ashamed of themselves. be Democracy before Johnny Temple quit I fishing for doodles, There can be no serious objection to annexation now. The conditions in the j city which were objected to several years ago have very much improved. The old city—the fairest of them all— the jewel among the old red hills—is doing nicely, thank you. Our debts are decreasing and our wealth in creasing. 'With one voice let us all rise and sing—her praises! "AN INSULT TO THE SOUTH.” The Charlotte Observer has taken the trouble to resurrect the "open let ter” to President Roosevelt printed by John Temple Graves in 1903 in the late Atlanta News, of which ha was the ed itor at that time, arraigning the Pres ident "in severe terms for having re versed the policies of hls immediate ! ions, predecessor which he ‘solemnly swore ; excellence and infallible wisdom, he above the deathbed of a patriot-states- 1 presently imagined himself a god-like man to perpetuate,’ especially in that ’ being. Phantasy succeeded phantasy he had reopened the sectional and race until he reached his present pitiable division which President McKinley had and ridiculous plight—not crazy in the healed. This the President had done, ! ordinary sense, perhaps, but consumed as he was told by Mr. Graves, ‘perhaps ! by self-worship, and, so far as all ra in mistaken honesty, but certainly is j tion&l reflection is concerned, as mad of his own supreme greatness and ex cellence as follows: "I am not what you zee here. I am everything. I am Krishna. I am the god that pervades every thing. I am the ocean. Men are but bubbles, breaths of air to me. I am the blossoming flower, the silent flower, the silent stone, the woods and forests. I am the maiden's .-igh and the deep- throated call of the young men. I am the beginning and the er.d. I am all that occurs between them. . . . No man can stand against me. I have but to think and stretch out my right hand and I would paralyze the strongest man who lives. They do well to call me the Tiger Mahatma." This man evidently began by being too cocksure and conceited, by think ing too much of himself and his opin- ConvJnced of his own super- The VIdaiia Advance says Hoke Smith is too great a. man for the Vice- Presidency. Perhaps Smith will be able to find a job big enough for the editor of the Advance. Funny about Abe Hummel, who has been sent to Blackwell's Island to work in the bakery. He will knead the “dough," notwithstanding he has plen ty of it. Abe Hummel collapsed and had to be sent to the hospital the day he was scheduled to begin work at Blackwell's Island prison. An honest day’s work is something Abe never bargained for. The Haywood case simply refuses to take the stage as the reigning sensa tion. In real life as in fiction it is hard to make a story without a woman in it interesting. The Houston .Post says a woman can’t button her shirt waist down the baric. And yet we thought the Post man was married. Suppose you don’t nominate a Dem ocratic President this year!—Mariett^. Journal From present Indications, we are not very apt to. Col. Henry Watterson has got 'em guessing.