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THE TWICE-A-WEEK TELEGRAPH
Friday, July 5,1907
THE MACON TELEGRAPH
| Georgia does need more railroads, ratn-
jifylng her undeveloped sections, from
PUBLISHED EVERY MORNING |
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REDUNDANT DEMAGOGISM. overboard altogether, for the poor | in public questions of the hour, but
Did you read the printed programme young man sometimes succeeds in put-j the governors of great universities are
Possum Trot to Waybai k, and from for yesterday’s inaugural in Atlanta as ting money in '.is nur=e while the rich- scholars of a different class. Why
Moccasin Slide to Gopher Hole, where i adopted after some debate by t::e Gen- ling too often squanders or loses his [should they npt And and point out in-
: era! Assembly? If not, here are some ; possessions in a very few years, thus i structive lessons in the events of the
however, by rare bits to put in your scrap book: confirming the old saw that the fool j present as well as in the events of the
—That thereupon the commit- 'and his money are soon parted. More-!past?
there are no railroads.
They should be built
private enterprise, and encouraged, j
MACON TELEGRAPH PUBLISH* j sustained and protected by wise and |
IMG COMPANY. MS MULBERRY) not repressive legislation.
Now, men and brethren, hasn't this;
anti-railroad agitation by vtlanta pa- i
pers and politicians principally, gone!
about to the limit? If Georgia follows
them much further she will be ashamed
of the insanitv after awhile. ;
0. R. PENDLETON, President
OR
RAPE THE CONSTITUTION,
-TAKE THE CENTRAL?”
There has been a great deal of news-
REPUBLICAN PARTY LOYALTY.
If It be true that President
. . ,, i Roosevelt got his politics from Mr.
paper talk In Atlanta about extending | Bryan and [h;U Senator Knox
the State Road from Atlanta to the sea, [ voiced Clevelandlgm in his Yale
the State already owning the Western) College address, where docs the
me ssieio . Republican jrfirty come In?—Wash-
and Atlantic from Chattanooga to At- | ington Post
Janta. But they have found some dif-
Acuities in the way. Of course, the
tee shall bring forward the Gov
ernor-elect from amidst of the as-
sembled people and present him to
the President of the Senate and
Speaker of the House.
• » •
9—That thereupon the President
of the Senate shall in the presence
and hearing of the people announce
and declare the result of the can
vass of votes for Governor and
shall cal! upon the chief justice
to administer to the Governor-elect
the oath of office as prescribed by
the Constitution, in the presence
of the General Assembly and in
the sight and hearing of the people,
11—The Governor shall thereupon
address the General Assembly in
the hearing of the people.
Joe Hail stalled at some of this, and
'over, it is likely that such calculating At any rate, this is a free country,
; prudence will be found somewhat and clergymen surely ought to be wil-
j chilling by even the men of our com-! ling to grant college professors .the
vor to thus delay and be forced j
into compliance with a law against
which they can bring no just and
reasonable objection.
"The decision of the roads and i
the outcome of their opposition
will 'be awaited with considerable !
interest.” j
Now this whole indictment is pred- i
icated upon: “One can easily imag
ine,” "the railroads appear" to be do- J
ing so-and-so, "it seems,” and they |
OLD NAMES AND NEW PARTIES.
Present American politics con
sists
of two forces—conservative
and radical. These are in both
parties, and as antagonistic in the
one as in the other. There can be
but one outcome—the conservatives
of both parties must occupy one
side of the hedge and the radicals
of both parties must congregate on
the other.
Surely, it will come to that.
—Washington Post.
j mercial age and that as a result J same liberty they insist on for them- | " ma y” adopt or do this, that or the. If so, then let the two new parties be
scarcely a member of the society will! selves. There is no difference as to ot rier thing. called the Conservative and the Radi-
i ever rival Penelope In the number of' the matter of right, but as regards! Is *°' v ’ It so happens that the Inter-) cal, for no Democrat would willingly
I her suitors. {the matter of fitness it may be said I stat ® Comments Commission has Issued serve under the Republican name and
I that discussion of current political an 89-page pamphlet on this very sub- | no Republican wishes to be called a
;questions js at least more appropriate and they have sent a copy to The 1 Democrat. During the anti-slateri
from the professor’s chair than from' Telegraph. On page nine (9) of that j crusade the Republican party stood
the pulpit. pamphlet is p. letter "to Carriers” for something distinct and positive,
- : signed "Henry C. Adams" .(the 3ame| an d for nearly a century—until 1896—
ONE NEVER KNOWS. j Adams the Constitution is talking the Democratic party represented >
Mr. James R. Gordon, one of the about). "In charge of statistics and no. clearlv-detlned national Impulse and
State could not build a railroad and
equip It from Atlanta to Savannah or
Brunswick without Issuing bonds for
the purpose, and the Constitution of
Georgia says that the bonded debt of
the State “ahall never be increased ex
cept to repel Invasion, suppress Insur
rection or defend the State in time of
war.”
This is a right smart sna* In the way
of the Atlanta programme, for it Is an
Atlanta scheme to make Georgia cough
up the dough and give Atlanta another
railroad.
But the Atlanta Journal la ready
with a scheme to dodge and evade the
plain and unmistakable letter and
spirit of the law. It says:
"The plan we desire te suggest
ie this: Let a private corporation
be organised to build the extension
to the coast: let the State trans
fer the title of the Western and
Atlantlo Railroad to this corpora
tion and receive In return all of the
stock of the corporation; let the
corporation Issue bonds on the
Western and Atlantic Railroad, at
a low rate of Interest, to the
amount of ten, twelve or fifteen
million dollars, as may be found
desirable. With the proceeds of
these bonds, let a sum equal to the
present bond debt of the State be
Invested In Interest-bearing securi
ties. national or State, and let these
securities bo deposited in the
treasury of Georgia, to meet the
bond indebtedness of the State.
If possible to do so, outstanding
bonds of the State should be
bought in the open market, pro
vided they can be bought advan
tageously. If this cannot be done,
other acceptable Interest-ibearing
securities can be purchased and the
State would thus have In her treas
ury a sum sufficient to pay off the
entire debt.
"With the remaining funds de
rived from the sale of securities,
the extension of the State’s proper
ly could be largely, If not entirely,
built.
The man who Invented that scheme
to evade the law—a practice about
which the Journal has many a time
and oft fairly exploded with righteous
Indignation—hag missed his calling,
instead of doling out dally his column
of editorial grind at so much per, he
ought to get Into the game In Wall
street, where fame and fortune doubt
less awaits his coming. We feel quite
sure that the Standard Oil people are
already planning to secure his services.
Biff the financial dope writer and
railroad maker and tamer of the At
lanta Constitution has a better plan.
We say better plan, because it is a
shorter cut and a more direct route to
the coveted goal. It is the highway
man’s plan—“take” what you want!
Our morning contemporary, In the
courss of Its spasm on this subject—
the subject of railroads—says with
rare directness and force:
“Why should not the State take
the Central of Georgia and make
of It the extension of the Western
and Atlantic, so much needed— an
extension which must satisfy all
sections and all claimants, since it
would reach not only the Atlantic
seaboard on the one hand, but the
great and rapidly developing south
western section from which it will
ultimately extend on to the Gulf,
catching, in time, its share of the
Immense traffic which must go via
the Panama canal?”
There It la! Who says that is not a
better plan than the Journal’s juggle?
"Take the Central!" Imperial gentle
men of the Georgia legislature, “take”
It! That’s all! That’s it!
The Journal must feel ashamed and
chagrined that it had not thought of
that!
When the Imperial gentlemen who
are urged to do this thing "take the
Central” why not go on and "take" a
few more things—a few more railroads,
steamboats, canals, street car lines,
hotels, dray lines—just any old thing
that Atlanta may want In her business
of absorbing the whole State! All easy
enough. Old croakers may object and
protest, and the rights of property may
Ibe Involved, but the Constitution news
paper will rise superior to the written
Constitution and cry out, "take it
But what are you going to do with
this new State Road extension to the
sea, however secured? Add It to the
•Id section from Atlanta to Chatta
•eoga which is under a long term
lease, and thus turn It over to the Lou
isville and Nashville?
If that Is the plan It simply means
that they are calling on the people of
Georgia to foot the bill for a new line
ter the loulevllle and Nashville from
Atlanta to the sea—-if the Journal’s
plan Is carried out. Or It means that
the people of Georgia are called on to
“take tbs Central” and give it to the
Louisville and Nashville for a rental,
U the Constitution’s plan prevails.
There is no “nigger In this wood-
9lW‘ perhaps. No. Something more.
There Is a snake or two in It.
We hope and belieVe that the Geor
gia Legislature has more common
sense than either of these Atlanta pa
pers gives It credit for.
Georgia does not need a railroad
ewnetl by the State from Chattanooga
to the sea. We have two or three
evidently thought that
was rather
It "comes in" for the offices and for
the continuation of its power. After
the slavery issue had served its turn ! an unusual amount of redundant dem-
the Republican party became and has j agogism.
continued to be a party of opportun- J
Ists. Unlike the historic Democratic
party, it had no fundamental political
principles to stand for and its leaders
could from time to time adopt any new
policy or policies likely to please the
public and aid in winning the election.
Since Its anti-slavery crusade the Re-
BEAUTIES OF A LONE HAND.
Our engaging contemporary, the At
lanta Evening Georgian, says that the
editor of The Telegraph bought all of
the stock of The Macon Telegraph
Publishing Company so that he could
go to the baseball games without ln-
election—no matter what kind of bait
is used to catch the voters, win the
election.
That Is why Roosevelt can now bor
row freely from Bryanlsm and Knox
from Clevelandism withftut 'being ac
cused of heresy and without the least
fear of being suspected of party dis
loyalty. Republican party loyalty
means simply devotion to the Interests
of the external organization and a de
sire to keep it In power: it is not a
matter ot loyalty to any fixed princi
ples, for they do not exist.
publican party has had no funda- j eurrin S the displeasure of associate
mental principle or policy except that | »tockholders, or words to that import,
expressed in these words: Win the) There is probably this difference be
tween the editor of The Telegraph and
the editor of the Georgian: The edi
tor of The Telegraph would rather see
the show than to’be the show. The
editor of the Georgian would rather be
the show than to see the show.
In other words, the editor of The
Telegraph would rather be a modest
man ’‘among the assembled people,”
than a vain peacock strutting up and
down the minstrel stage displaying his
tail feathers and boasting of them to
"the assembled people.”
Another thing: The editor of The
Telegraph has been his own boss since
1870 when, as a boy not yet attained to
UNCONSCIOU8 HUMOR.
According to the Norfolk Land
mark, three distinguished citizens of
Charleston, S. C., no less personages in
fact than Mayor ‘R. Goodwin Rhett,
Col. Thomas R. "Waring, of the
Charleston Post, and Speaker Richard
S. Whaley, of the South Carolina
House of Representatives, met at the
Jamestown Exposition on South Caro
lina day and definitely decided that
Maj. J. C. Hemphill, the veteran editor
of the Charleston News and Courier,
should be elected as Senator Tillman’s
colleague to the United States Senate
from South Carolina. This was cer
tainly a laudable step on the part of
the three distinguished Charlestonians,
and a touching tribute to the distin
guished editor of the News and
Courier, but the remarkable feature
of the incident is that the esteemed
Landmark perpetrated a piece of hu
mor equal to the "nine tailors of Too-
ley street" in all seriousness and with
out the slightes inclination or Inspira
tion to persiflage.
“THE JEFFERSON OF TODAY.”
In the deliberations of the commlt-
! tee on resolutions of the Democratic
! convention ;n Pennsylvania the other
’ day, Mr. Seibert, a delegate from Pot
ter County, offered this resolution:
"We are heartily in* accord with
• the beliefs and positions taken by
i our peerless leader and statesman,
j William Jennings Bryan, the Jef
ferson and Jackson of the Demo
cratic party of today, and indorse
his candidacy for the Democratic
nomination for President in 190S.”
The committee considered and then
expressed emphatic disapproval by
laying the resolution on the table. No
doubt the more Intelligent members
were moved to take this course out of
respect for Jefferson and his teachings.
Jefferson believed, for example, that
the people could best secure liberty
and good Government In their organ
ized capacity as States and he was
solicitous that the ’F'ederal branch
should be allowed to exercise no pow
ers beyond those delegated through the
Constitution which became. operative
only after it received State ratification.
But Bryan's leading policies all tend
toward Federal encroachment upon
State domain. Jefferson also preached
“Government by the people, acting not
person, but by representatives
chosen by themselves.” But Bryan by
his initiative and referendum would
appeal from the deliberations of the
representatives to the people direct.
And so on.
Let men believe in and applaud
Bryan’s policies, even the most radical,
talking! the Democratic party
about), “In charge of statistics and ac- I clearly-defined national impulse
leading and most patriotic citizens of j counts” for the Interstate Commission, purpose as to which there was never
Richmond, Va.. has appealed from the
sentence of a magistrate’s court fining
him for violating the "Jim Crow" law
in declining to change his seat at the
request of a conductor. Mr. Gordon
appeals on the ground that a’street car
conductor has no authority to require a
man to change his seat. It is well nigh
inconceivable that a public man and
citizen of Mr. Gordon's type would test
and possibly overthrow a regulation
fraught with so much consequence to
the entire South from personal pique
—but then one never knows.
his majority, he began a modest news
paper career on his own individual ac-jif they wish to, but let them not still
count. When he came to buy The Tel- | tlfy themselves by proclaiming :him as
egraph he wanted the whole outfit and j “the Jefferson of today.”
he got it. No one has ever pushed him
out as Graves was pushed out on more
than one occasion, and may be again.
AN UNSAFE LEADER.
The Nashville American says It is
opposed to the nomination of Mr.
Bryan because it is firmly convinced
that he can not be elected. “He has
been twice nominated,” says the Amer
ican, “and twice defeated, the second
time overwhelmingly. Popular orators
are never elected to the Presidency.
Henry Clay and James G. Blaine were
brilliant orators, but the American
people refused to elect them to the
Presidency. Mr. Bryan first came into
prominence as the champion of a
financial policy which was repudiated
and the imue which for a single cam
paign was so absorbing and exciting is
now as dead as slavery. Instead of the
predicted ruin of the country if Mr.
Bryan's views were not enacted Into
law, the country is noi^ more prosper
ous than ever before in its history. As
a prophet Mr. Bryan has been com
pletely and thoroughly discounted.
Added age, study, travel and experi
ence should have made him wiser and
more practical, but he Is as much
of a dreamer and visionary as ever.
Returning from his trip abroad he as-
astonished his friends by declaring for
Government ownership of railroads.
From all over the country protests
from Democrats were heard, and near
ly every Southern Senator expressed
disapproval. Mr. Bryan found that he
had raised a storm and began to hedge
and explain, but his explanation and
reference to the ultimate ownership of
railroads by the Government cannot
be otherwise than unsatisfactory to the
South, which is, or should be, unalter
ably opposed to such a policy, for ob
vious reasons."
The American might well have added
that Mr. Bryan has also proved himself)
to be a radical and unsafe leader by!
his advocacy of the initiative and ref- I
erendum which would virtually destroy j
our dual system of Government and
substitute consolidation and centraliza- I
tion (with all their dangers and cor- i
rupptions) in its stead. The fathers
of this republic rightly believed that,
individual liberty and good Government,
could be better secured by the people,
in their organized capacity as States j
than as members of one vast consoli j
dated republic. The genuine Demo- |
crat believes so still.
THE YOUNG LADIES' PROTECTIVE
ASSOCIATION.
In the old-fashioned fiction dealing
with the fortunes of a manly but im
pecunious fellow, as In the well known
“Romance of a Poor Young Man” by
Octave Feullet, the hero, after receiv
ing many hard knocks, always inher
ited the title and vast estates of a dis
tant relative, and then the people who
had enjoyed themselves cuffing him
around got down on their knees and
kissed his feet—figuratively speaking.
In modern romantic fiction the poor
young hero either finds a Klondike
mine, or makes a fortune speculating
In Wall street, or receives incredible
returns from the sale of a popular
book.
But in real life the worthy poor
young man in nine cases out of ten
does none of these things, and merely
goes on to the end of his days drawing
a comparatively modest salary or re
ceiving the moderate returns from the
profession he has chosen. Certain as
tute young women In the State of In
diana, looking out upon life with a
discerning eye, have carefully noted
this interesting fact in human expe
rience, and have prepared to face It
with intelligence and resolution. In
order to defend themselves against
the wiles and winning smiles of poor
young men, they have organized the
“Young Ladies’ Protective Associa
tion,” which is said to be rapidly ex
tending throughout the State.
These world-wise virgins are consti
tutionally opposed to lo”e in a cottage
and the occasional fiishwashtng neces
sary between the noisy departure of
the last rooklady and the arrival of
the next who, like her predecessor, will
grow ugly in proportion to the number
of the signs of a lack of wealth and of
a desire to economize. In a word, j
the young ladles of the association are!
“out for the stuff” and wish It distinct- durinfr rush seasons they are wlIlin « to
GOOD LIVING IN TEXAS.
The Houston Post recently declared
that in Texas a man who earns two
dollars a day “may enjoy such luxu
ries as melons, vegetables, chicken:
and fish in abundance, and yet sal
down $5 or $6 a week.” Being accused
of romancing by several newspapers
published on the Atlantic sea,board, the
Post, replies as follows:
Now, then. The farmers of the
great cotton region of Texas are
offering as much as $2 a day and
board for men to chop cotton and
it seems thtft the supply of labor
is inadequate at that price. These
farm laborers who accept this em
ployment, assuming them to be
white, live at the homes of these
planters and eat at their tables,
which are loaded down with such
luxuries as the season affords, and
no one doubts that Texas produces
a greater range and abundance of
farm luxuries than any State in the
Union.
What a man saves depends upon
his common sense and thrift. But
an industrious Ellis County cotton
chopper may get up with’ the roost
ers In ihe morning and sit down to
a breakfast consisting of canta
loupe, ham and eggs, mutton chops,
buttermilk biscuits, fresh tomatoes,
corn meal 'batter cakes and milk
and coffee. He goes into the field
and works until noon. Then he
has a dinner composed of soup,
roast lamb, baepn and boiled cab
bage. radishes, roasting ears,
greens, asparagus, tomatoes, corn
bread, buttermilk, strawberry pie,
and several forty-pound watermel
ons. He returns to the field arid
works until quitting time and then
he has a supper composed of fried
yellow-legged chickens, English
peas, sliced tomatoes, hot hoecake
with Jersey butter, peach pre
serves, pie, bpttermilk, coffee and
fifty-pound watermelons. About 9
o’clock, after listening to the
sweetest music that wild mocking
'birds can possibly make, he is sup
posed to rip Into another water
melon as large as he likes and
then retire.
Such Is the routine of farm life
in Texas where farmers are offer
ing as much as $2 a day and board
for cotton choppers. ’ The cotton
chopper must furnish his own to
bacco and that is all he needs to
buy with his $2 a day. The Post
has not exaggerated the situation.
The facts presented by the Post show
that Texas farmers live well, and that
ly understood that no poor man need
apply. Their tender affections are re
served for the wealthy, and according
ly their by-laws require that they be
promptly informed of the financial rat
ing of every’ young man who dares to
come a-courting. At what precise mo
ment he is to exhibit his title deeds and
his bank balance, whether immediately
after his introduction or only when he
shows a desire to become a steady vis
itor is not stated: but that he is to be
dismissed as soon as he is found want
ing in the only essential particular Is
the resolute aim of the association.
These knowing young women are ac
quainted with the nonsense In the
poets and romancers on the subject of
ll"love.” They have heard that it makes
. heroes of men and heroines of women,
enabling them to bear and to suffer; i
that it ennobles the commonplace, fills 1
the world with beauty, and begets a!
Joy in the mere sunshine and rain and
in a thousand other blessings which I
money can not buy but which never- '
theless are new every morning. But!
they dismiss such fancies with a su- !
perior smile, being convinced that love |
It seems that the “tent trust” is about | is an aI i°*etrier practical matter, that
to feel the heavy hand of the Govern- ! U is * Imply th * sale of a young woman
ment, which is the chief purchaser
BE JUST AND FEAR NOT.
There can be no objection, so far as
The Telegraph can see, to a fair, free
and above board investigation by a
competent legislative committee of the
recent sale of the Central Road to
Messrs. Thorne and Perry—if the in
tention is to get at the truth about it
for the sake of the truth. IBut the
avowed purpose to force a forfeit of
the Central’s charter without an in
vestigation is the most radical, not to
say reckless, piece of legislation ever
proposed in Georgia. Should the Leg
islature take that view, it would mean
revolution, and the destruction of the
greatest single piece of property in
this State.
At present Georgia is enjoying a
great degree of prosperity, greater
perhaps than any one State in the
South, and relatively as great as any
State in the Union. Our schools are
gaining ground, our children are being
educated in the modern acquirements
of noble citizenship, and the land is
flourishing under the high noon of
modern progress. But a cloud of radi
calism is looming up, and there is more
or less danger ahead to Georgia’s ma
terial Interests.
Conservatism has always been one
of the essentials of sound statesman
ship, and any great lack of it in the
administration dt pu'blic affairs will
produce evil in the land.
Corporations, like the individuals
who compose them, and like individ
uals who. do not compose them, have
their faults, and must be amenable to
wise and just laws, and the adminis
trators of those laws are pre-supposed
to be wise and just. If these are not
axioms established by the experience
of men then government is a failure,
wisdom a mockery and anarchists are
right.
It is too easy to raise a clamor for
the life of a corporation, which, like
the life of an individual, interests
others than the life sacrificed or
snuffed out. A very large amount of
the Central’s securities, for instance,
are owned by widows, orphans, and
charities, and are a part of many en
dowment funds. The private fortunes
of the salaried operators of the aver
age large corporation, like the Central,
are not always involved. A just criti
cism is always healthful and in place,
ljut an unjust assault, if it accom
plishes anything, does untold injury to
a large dependent part of our popula
tion, to say nothing of injustice to
other Investors.
Here is a case in point: Several
days ago—Monday it was—the Atlanta
Constitution made some very serious
charges against the railroads of the
country, alleging that—
In that, letter and over his signature
these words appear:
It is eminently appropriate that
public acknowledgment should be
made to the Association of Ameri
can Railway Accounting Officers,
and to the standing and special
committees appointed by that as
sociation, for their hearty co-op
eration in working out the details
of this classification. In no other
way would it have been possible
for the commission to avail itself
of that special knowledge and ex
port experience necessary for the
successful accomplishment of the
task undertaken. With one excep
tion, the Classification of Operating
Expenses herewith promulgated
conforms to the recommendations
of that association. This excep
tion refers to the treatment of per
diem and mileage payments be- '
tween carriers on Interchanged or
loaned equipment, and. in view of i
the great variety of opinions ex- }
pressed by railway accounting
officers, as well as by certified ac- |
countantg and others, relative to |
this point, it seems proper to sub
mit an explanation of the reasons
for the rules here promulgated.
So that this uniform system of keep-
any doubt or possibility of mistake.
Now il is different. The Republican
party is frankly opportunist, and, on
the other hand, a bewildered public has
good reason for asking what is Dem
ocracy.
If the disintegration of both is to
come according to prediction. let the
old titles go and new ones come. Let
the Republican party pass into history
and let the Democratic party—f.-.e up
holder of the Constitution and the in
stitutions of the fathers. »he parent of
individualism and th" true freedom
that made this country great., the de
stroyer of the paternalism ami Gov
ernment-stifled conditions that crept in
from Europe under the Federalists -let.
our illustrious and beneficeent .Id par
ty rest In an honored grave.
We did list pick out the Hon. Charles
R. Pendleton in "the assembled multi
tude" in Atlanta.—Savannah Press.
No. In the first place, he occupies no
ing accounts which "one can imagine" | official position which required his
is causing the railroads to “appear” to presence, nor is he seeking nnv. In
<ac resorting to all manner of schemes, the second p, ace j, e is n poor han( j at
“it seems,” to defeat It. was the plan doing henv.v-standing-around on pub-
proposed by the railroads themselves, ■ , ic occasions, showing off new clothes
and Mr. Adams finds that "It is eml- m his M l ad days iie djd sucb , hingf; .
nently appropriate that public ac-! sometimes, hut more serious things are
knowledgment should be made to | tq done each day now.
them for their work in assisting Mr. j
Adams and the Commission to work out: Former Governor Pennypacker. un-
a problem required by law. for "In no der whoso administration the grafters
other way would It have been possible j robbed Pennsylvania of $9,000,000 in
for the commission to avail itself of I connection with ihe new Capitol, con-
that special knowledge and expert ex- ! gratulated his hearers from the wit-
perience necessary for the successfulj ness stand that he had saved the State
accomplishment of the task under
taken.”
On one detail only the railroad peo
ple could not agree and this one the
Commission had to decide for itself.
This Is not particularly any of our
affair, except so far as fairness and
$80,000, double the amount of his
entire salary for two terms, in
beating down the contractors’ com
missions f’’om 5 to 4 per cent.
What a great thing it is to be able to,
look on the 'bright side of n subject.
Republicans generally express great
justness is a matter of general public I con tempt Tor James Buchanan, the last
concern, but we cite it to show how of the beforo tho war onal
much recklessness characterizes some Presidents> but they w ,„ thlnk , ess , jf
of the radicals of the present day. him tban ever slace a , atter wrltten
It is a matter of general knowledge ; by hlm 1859 has coffie to light , n
to those who keep informed that as
soon as the new Interstate Commerce
law- became a part of the law of the
land the railroad interests appointed a
committee of twenty-five competent
men and experts to confer with the In
terstate Commerce Commission with
which he declined to accept a free rail
road pass because he had conscientious
scruples against it. .
The school board of Nashville has
decided not to give employment to any
but Southern negro teachers in the
the expressed desire to arrive at an! negro schools of the city, on the ground
that those from the North “are not
familiar with Southern traditions and
sentiments.” That is a polite way of
saying that the imported teachers are
apt to stir up trouble.
share their good things with satisfac
tory laborers and pay them $2 a day
besides. But the showing can hardly j
be said to support the general asser
tion that any man who earns $2 a day
can live in the style described, for the
average Texan must pay his own rent
and buy his own food, fuel, clothes and
a thousand other things.
and. therefore, the chief sufferer. The !
average man isn't troubled about the 1
. of
he promise of an unlimited amount
luxurious ease and sensuous
pleasure.
We are still old-fashioned enough
railroads bow covering that field. But | stick.
, nuroM
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cost of tents. What bothers him is the j to hope that the “Young Ladies’ Pro-
price of meat, coal, foodstuffs, clothing, 'tective Association" will not extend to
etc. He could tell the Government i Georgia. We should hardly be ready
w.hich trusts to go after with a big, to recommend It as a practical pm pe
tition, even if we could cast sentiment
THIS 18 A FREE COUNTRY.
In an address at the oommencement
exercises at the Boston University a
few days ago Bishop Goodsell sharply
criticized certain presidents of leading
seats of learning for their discussion
of public questions. Drs. Eliot, of
Harvard. Hadley, of Yale, and Wilson,
| of Princeton, were condemned by name
i for their "pernicious activity” in this
I particular. Bishop Goodsell said, in
part:
We cannot imagine one of these
oldtime scholars blowing a blast
from a trumpet on all great ques
tions, as does the president of
Harvard College: suggesting him
self 'by political and .historical
knowledge as a candidate for Pres
ident of the United States, as does
President Woodrow Wilson, of
Princeton: becoming an authorita
tive source of economic knowledge
like Hadley, of Yale; cheerfully ad
vancing vigorous and commanding
prejudices, like Day, of Syracuse.
I doubt whether any graduate of
that older school would not have
| been stripped by that older edu
cation of the joy in hitting well-
selected heads, which at present
exhilarates President Roosevelt.
It is true enough that “oldtime"
scholars devoted themselves to their
specialties and did not have either time
or inclination to interest themselves
When the Interstate Commerce
Commission notifies the roads that
a uniform system, devised by Pro
fessor Adams, for the keeping of
railway accounts in a uniform
way, must be put into effect in
order that the public may know
the law is being observed, there is
a howl. One can easily imagine
the accounting officers of the.roads,
who will be held responsible for the
correctness of the accounts, making
faces and uttering fearsome anath
emas.
No open revolt among the rail
roads has as yet developed, al
though It is recognized that the
putting into effect of the new law
on July'l will establish a prece
dent of tremendous consequence.
The roads have represented to
the commission that it is highly
injudicious; that the changes are
drastic and in some respects im
practical. Railroad men say the
continuance of railroad statistics
will be seriously Interfered with
and It will be impossible to make
comparisons necessary to continued
economical operation.
The Constitution then says that the
railroads “appear” to be very much
displeased at “the prospect of keeping
accounts that investors and stockhold
ers and the public may comprehend,
and therefore they are considering, it
seems, three courses, in the event they
can secure no modification of Profes
sor Adams’ plan, which the commis
sion has ordered into effect:
“First, they may adopt the plan
and hope for some future develop
ment to furnish relief.
"Second, they may apply to the
Federal Court In the district in
which any principal accounting
office is located.
“Third, they may entirely disre
gard the commission’s order and
await the action of the latter to
enforce compliance with the Gov
ernment's demands.
"The roads, individually or col
lectively, may decide to adopt one
of the two i-^‘->r plans, but it will
tn in the public fa-
amicable plan by which the railroads
would ibe able to comply with the new
law. This committee brought about
the co-operation between the Associa
tion of Railway Accounting Officers
and Mr. Adams, which resulted in the
adoption of the plan which Mr. Adams j Ben Tillman use< ^ to make a point
thanks them for suggesting, and which i of ,yin& c '°" n on t,le grass by the boys
he and the Commission adopted. ! untiI the chairman announced that the
It is to be hoped for the sake of the! United Statea Senator "’as next on the
general good that the Georgia law pros ’ ram: tl,en ,;i0 woulcl K et up and
makers will require these radicals to j thc sta nd an d deliver his address.’
“show" them before they adopt an> - says the Savannah Press. Yes, but the
drastic suggestions made by those who| c ' lief interest ’ n trie show did not begin
are radical from ignorance or by some| until Ben came on -
design I * ’
Mr. E. H. Harriman claims he did
POPULARITY I not rinow he was violating the laws of
THE
PRESIDENT’S
IN EUROPE.
the game when he was arrested in the
I Yale-Harvard' boat race. The trouble
Col. George Harvey, of Harper’s j wUh Mr .Harriman is that laws of any
Weekly, who has Just returned from sort concern him so little he does not
Europe, agrees with Thomas W. Law- j take ordinary trouble to familiarize
son and other travelers as to the re-j himself with them.
markable popularity of President
Roosevelt on the other side. But as | “John Temrle Graves’ idea appears
there is nothing “frenzied" or sentl-i to b e to keep at least one foot In every
mental about Col. Harvey and he is band-wagon,” says the Richmond
always inclined to look below the suf- |Timea-Dlspatch. Yes, but he has only-
two feet and he
band-wagons.
sees at least three
Sherlock Holmes shuffled off the mor
tal coil in good time. If he had lived
he would most likely nave wrecked his
reputation trying to locate John D.
Rockefeller when the courts are in ses
sion.
more
Louis
face, the reasons he finds for that
popularity are different.
Col. Harvey perceives that the elec
tion of Mr, Roosevelt for a third term
would encourage autocracy in Europe
and that is why It Is “particularly de- I
sirable” to the Emperor of Germany.)
European rulers discover “a peculiarly;
pleasing sign” in what they regard as i
a reaction against democracy in Amer-1 « The lncreased ^ of j lving baa
ica, a reaction revealed in the disposi- | niade our honpst goId cojn a 50 . cent
tion to give Roosevelt a third and j dollar: sometimes it is not
fourth term, to displace local self-gov- j tban 40 cents » morm i lM s the St
eminent and bow to the decrees of a I Post-Dispatch. It Is fast coming to
distant central power, and to aulbstl- j look Uke . thirty cent s" to us.
tute the rule of a man for the reign of 1
■ a ^- | The "Black Hole of Calcutta,” we
So much for t>.o “upper” classes.! are told on authority, was a foul dun-
But the President has also "the sup- : geon, eighteen feet square. In this
port of commercialism In England, ! place were crammed 147 British, of
France and Germany,” and Mr. Har- which number twenty-three were alive
vey declares that “not even in our ’ the next morning.
haunts of populism” is Mr. Roosevelt’s i —
crusade against the great American ; We cannot W greatly admire the
corporations so heartily applauded as vir B* nia type of manhood and honor
among the commercial classes of the ; that sacrifices a daughter’s good name
countries named. A keen desire for j an< ^ possible virtue to save a father
the crippling of American rivals In the | from thft consequences of his deed,
marts of the world is the obvious ex- j
planation of this excessive enthusiasm. 1
They have now got the “unwritten I
law” cinched to this extent, that one)
man can kill another upon the suppo- |
sition that the dead man committed an j
offense against the living man s h >nor , J ;
and the courts cannot inquire into the
truth or falsity of the dead man’s al
leged offense. The sanctity of the liv
ing man’* honor denies equity or jus
tice to the dead man's memory.
President Roosevelt's naval aide is a
bolder man than his superior—be ar
rested Edward H. Harriman just as
coolly as if he had been an ordinary
offender.
Maj. Goethals. the third chief en
gineer to undertake the job of digging
the Panama canal, Is reported to be
in a humor to “chuck” it all.
A Minneapolis physician says kissing
must go. It does "go” in Georgia.
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