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NEGRO QUESTION A PROBLEM
TO BE SOLVED BY EVOLUTION
Chicago, April 9.—(Special.)—At the an
mal banquet of the Hamilton Club tonight
|he principal address was delivered by
.Henry Watterson, of Kentucky. Mr.
Uatterson spoke on "Peace Between the
sections." He dealt with the race prob
lem, and this address made a deep im
pression on his hearers, who were mostly
•epublicans.
■Mr. Watterson said in part:
"I want to talk to you tonight, not as
• democrat to republicans, but as an
American to Americans. I have always
■esisted and resented the idea that party
lines are lines of battle: that party is
sues are proclamations of war. Our
government rests upon the theory that
R'e are equal shareholders in a common
property. Touching the administration
as this property there will always exist
honest differences of opinion. Good
.'itizenship imposes upon each of us the
luty of entertaining his own convictions
md of living up to them; but he becomes
ittlc other than a bigot who thinks more
>f himself on this account, and loves his
teighbor less, because that neighbor, ex
■reising the same right, does the same
hi ng.
A Very Fairy Tale.
' The ,13th of April. ISfil, Siimter fell.
The 9th of April. 1565. Bee surrendered.
The four years intervening between those
iates. marking the beginning and the
.•nd of the most momentous struggle of
modern times, witnessed such an out
touring of blood and treasure, such dis
plays of courage and endurance, such
sacrifices for opinion’s sake, as stagger
Inman credulity and beggar alike the
powers of computation and recapitula
ion. Never in any preceding war was
there so little of public wrong, so much
)f private generosity; nor ever were the
•esults of any war so complete and final.
Elsewhere upon the surface of the earth
traces may yet bo seen, sometimes yet
urking in the hearts of men sensibili
ties may be found, of strifes, religious,
or racial, international or civil, one, two
Ind throe centuries ngone; in America
not a vestige except what springs from
associated charities and reciprocal min
strations of patriotism and benevolence.
Northern men and women mark and
decorate the last resting place of south- I
■rn soldiers who died in federal prisons, j
Eonfederate officers sit in both houses of ;
congress and upon the bench of the i
national judiciary, and have repeatedly
forced in presidential cabinets and repre
sented the country abroad At least two ;
Confederate generals wear the uniform ;
Os the Vnited States army, glad to bo as- :
fared that the flag which waved over ;
their cradles shill wave over their ,
era \ es. The t hies magistrate of the
Knifed States is half a southerner and all I
n rebel; God bless him. and may the ;
I ord keep him in the path of wisdom and
virtue! Already over the fireside of
many a home hang the swords of the
grandfather who wore the blue and the
grandfather who wore the gray, placed
there by pious hands as priceless merno
-1 inis of love and valor, crossed at last in
the everlasting peace of a reunited
fa m i 1 y.
All of Us Are Yankees.
The better to illustrate the situation
It me relate .in incident that happened
In Tennessee toward the close of the war I
The union General. Lovell Rousseau, of I
Kentucky, found himself encamped oti
the farm of Meredith Gentry, a famous '
orator of the old Whig party. Gentry had
been Rousseau's tile-leader, his political j
id I. a w’hig of whigs. a unionist of union- I
ists; but. swallow. .! by th,, movements i
of the time, he had allowed his district ■
early in 1862 to f leet him to the confed- i
irate congress, lb went to Richmond, ■
found hints. If out of place there, did not I
like it. and returned home, when*, among |
this bo. ks. under his vine and fig tree, he '
.awaited the inevitable. Rousseau, his |
.lie,art . ■ ■■’•flowing with unqitenched affec
tion, thought he would have a bit of fun .
•■ th ■ friend. He caused a feast to be ;
j-.i •■'...r-d. invited al! tin- good fellows ;
he could reach and sent a file of soldiers. I
■with a sergeant and an order of arrest ■
to fetch Gentry info eamp it was all I
re.a! to the imaginary captive. Brought !
tn:.’ tiie pre.-. !-. •• 'f the federal general. ,
•and what appeared to be a drum-head i
••oiirtmarti.nl. the old statesman drew
himself to his full height arc! in sonor- .
ous but broken tones lie -.nid: 'G■••neral j
Rousseau, you know that I loved toe
union. Upon the altars of the union I j
poured out the dearest aspirations ot my ■
voting manhood. 1 grow gray in the set- ,
vice. Finally. the stern-wheel steamboat
?< ,e. si >n" came along. I saw first on*-
neighbor, then another neighbor get. |
aboard, and. when all were aboard ex- ;
eept me. and they were about to haul in ;
the gang plank, 1 cried; " ll<dd on. I
bo--; 1 will go with you, if you go to
hell!'’
I cl,am rd to be in Europe a little
whi! aft,r the war Sin it trifling dis
tmctlons ns federal and . .ud !■ rat ■ wore
unknown. All of ns were yankces. Thon .
nnd there I took a b. ■ line j n the direction
of the bunting, and have bvn snuggling
beneath its folds from that day to this.
T .lid not believe in -la very. I did not
believe in seo-ssion. IL tvens. if I had- ’
Rut wliat is the use speculating about in
co lect.iral possibilities? The do trine of |
so a ssion did not originate at the south, ■
hut at the north: it was not Coe south I
that brought the negro from Africa, but
Hu- north. In the very beginning the
s-.-Js of dissolut ior; Wile sown. The
makers of the onstiiution left the exact
relations of ti e federal government to the
states and f the states to Hie federal
government open to a double construc
tion. 1:. ■■: .imine theme the rigid to se
re t,-. Yarn-' y follow-.1 after Pickering.
JrfT- :- >n Havis after Gouvetwmr Morris.
G rionsly epough. this right of --e.-. ssion.
si-eh :i = it may be. stands yet in the con
st it ntio.-i nn< !i.ill' !’.ged and unabridged.
Top said bv act of eongre-s that the black
man should be a wi >:•• man. You confis
cated the debts and the money of the
c■ onfederney. But ton left in tuo consti
tution that fatal double construction to
v.-hfrh. along with slavery, we owed all i
<7nr trouble, and there it is today, so :
1 t if I want to tike Kentucky and uo i
•', t of the union there is no statute In :
l-'.dcr me. and though you may make it
r omfortable for me. you cannot find
|c law to hang me for treason I beg
(at •on will not be disturbed. I am not
The Folly of Recrimination.
’I know tiiat ties ire many northern
■teamen. .'i-■»•!.■ nt i« - and learned,
p einnot ass nt to t his view. They do i
s think it li'-st to tie.-apt so light an j
inure of what they regard as a great i
tie. Bit will not? Recalling Burk’S
, t>rlsm touching his inability to draft
an’ It dietment of an entire people even
. th<j subjei ts of a king- how ma:
millions of free m< n be erimimiily ar
mb bi twenty millions of their fel- I
tizens because of the consequences I
honest difference of constitutional |
ilon. embra. in:- some of tin fore- i
ists. some, of thi puri ,-t patriots, i
kah Quincy and .John C. Calhoun |
-dor H. Stephens and Salmon P. '
i’hy should the north want to
an indictment of the south?
won all. the south lost .all. No
principals survives. Millions of
nerienns have been born and
ed manhood—many of them
-since the last shot was fired
ifllct. Some of them serve in
nd some of them in the navy,
m go the length of describing
as 'veterans of the Spanish
of them are ready, eager to I
he I'atl of their country. Why |
uv thoughtful, patriotic Ameri-
g- PAIR Os EYES,
Take ;
£flfe- Care of
Them ;
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can want to put a blot upon the family
escutcheon of these Americans? Why
should any thoughtful, patriotic Ameri
can seek to discriminate between any
body of upright and brave Americans,
who did their duty as God gave them
the light to see it? What good reason
can any thoughtful, patriotic American
give forth? wish to etablish an historic
line, blacklisting the. people of a. section,
who met defeat so manfully and have
taken upon themselves the renewed obli
gations of citizenship so loyally?
The “Solid South.”
"The justification for this is the politi
cal entity, the partisan quantity, known
as the solid south. It is, let me entreat
you to believe, a specious justification. It
is the fault of the republican party, not
of the white people of the southern states,
that the south is solidly democratic,
from the death of Lincoln to the advent
of McKinley. the republican party.
I threw out no friendly signal Io the
whites <>f the south, made no effort to
establish itself in the south on any sound
enduring basis. It was known to the
south only through its reconstruction
measures, mtiiuly repressive and hostile,
and its local agents, generally extreme,
too often unclean, employing the negro
vote as a simple asset in congress, in
republican national conventions, and in
the field of the federal patronage, in
most of the southern states there seem
ed a deliberate plan to trim the republi
can minority among the whites down to
the point of just about tilling the lederal
offices precisely as in the old antedelu
vian days of pristine democracy and un
der the'lead of that past grutidmaster ot
political chicane. General Benjamin 1'•
Butler, the democratic party of New
England was trimmed and regulat’d. No
thought was given the predilections, the
prejudices, the interests of tile great
body of the white population. It was
years after the war before such men ns
Meredith Gentry were permitted to vote,
whilst their former slaves were inarched
In droves to the ballot box by political ad
venturers sure to misgovern when in
trusted with [tower. Even tlU’se things
might have passed out of min.l except
that, whenever the chance has arisen,
the old agitation lias been revived by
the menace of force bills to regulate elec
tions by federal statute, and measures
to reduce the southern represent )lion in
congress; all, under the shadow —by rea
i son of the shadow—cast by the uneon
i seating, unoffending black man athwart
the Whole track of American politics
from M ine to Texas. This brings me to
; the only apparent cause of present dis
' turbance—the bee in our bonnet—the fly
in our ointment—the everlasting, ever
present negro qn stion.
The Black Problem.
After thirty years of observation, ex
perience and reflection—always directed
from a sympathetic point of view- 1 am
forced to agree with the secretary ot
war that negro suffrage is a failure. It is
a failure because ihe southern blacks are
not equal to it. It is a failure because
the southern whites will not have it
"If, making a hot answer to this, some
over-zealous and. as I must think, some
'mistaken partisan should say, wc have
the power, wo have the numbers, and
we will compel the whites of the south,
my answer shall be, 'you did. ami behold
what came of it!' And then, if my warm-
I blooded friend should throw up his hands
in despair and with a kind of disgust
turn wearily away, I should continue —
‘may you not have been from the first,
upon the wrong tack? Is there not an
other outlet to these perplexities, another
solution of this problem? After all. is
not your disquietude based upon the idea
that there are one sot. of moral conditions
at lite north and another set at the south,
to which the whole racial trouble is
referable? Believe nto, there is no such
uifferen e Remove every while demo
crat today living In the south and replace
him with a northern republican, and
twelve months hence the conditions will
be the same, mar lie worse, since the
northern republican would not be likely
to have either the patience, or the per
sonal sympathy and knowledge, possessed
by the native soul het n’’r.’
The Only Solution.
"Ge..tlemen, I appeal to you as re
publicans. and through you 1 appeal to
the republicans of the Vnited States, to
have done witli the conceit that, unless
you stand by lite black man. that, unless
you continue him as an issue in partisan
politics, injustice will be done him. In
the bettering of his condition, and In the,
acquisition of [roperty. starting with
nothing, he has made wondrous progress
the last live and thirty years; .ml, rela
tively, greater progress al the south than
at lite north. He could not have done
this without the sympathy and coopera
tion of the southern whites. He has
made little progress in the arts of self
government either north or south, be
cause of the agitation which has kept
him In a state of perpetiia.l excitement,
with no healthful public opinion to mod
erate it. and has been made lite spoil and
prey of political exlg' ney, always saltish,
and with respect to him more ot less vis
ionary ind heedless.
"The negro can never become in any
beneficent, or genuine sense, an integral
and recognized pari of the body piditie
except through the forces of evolution,
which are undoubtedly at work, but
which in the nature of the case must
needs go ex eedingly slow. Where there
Is one negro fit for citizenship, there are
myriads of negtoes wholly unfit. The
hot house process has been tried and It
has failed. If. invested with every right
enjoyed by the whites, the blacks, gain
ing in all things else, have brought oir
ruption into the suffrage and discredit
upon themselves, is it not a kind of mad
ness further to press artificial methods,
which, however justified theoretically
from edue.ition.il lookouts in Michigan,
lowa and Wisconsin, fall helpless to the
ground in their practica! application to
the semi-barliat ous toilers in the cotton
fields and corn lands of Alabama, Geor
! gia and South Karolina?
"f appeal to von equally in what I . op
crive the true interest of the black peo
ple along with the white people of the
South: nay. ord of the north as well, for
nil our interests are indissoluble, inter
changeable, and th it can never be good
or bad for one section which is not good
or bad for the other section. Modern in
vention. which has already annihilated
time and space, is surely erasing sec
tional lines !i ought not to leave so
mueli as a reminiscence of sectional
i strife, if that dread spirit should come
again, iis evil winds will not blow be
tween lite north and the south, but be
tween the east and the west; the horns
of the dilemma presented by extremism
involving a new irrepressible conflict be
tween capital and labor. May that day
never come, tint in case if does the con
servatism of th? north will need the con
servatism of the south. The law-loving
forces of the north will need the law
breeding instincts of the south. The
'.meri. mi-m of the north will need the
Americanism of the south. Thon. in
deed. shall both sections barn what ra
cial homogeneity no-ins and know for
certain that blood is thicket than water.
The Nation's Destiny.
"1 have seen too much of the past to take
have seen too much of the past to lake
many fears for the future. I counsel no
man to drop the oars and to go to sleep;
I urge upon each still to keep the watch,
still to sit steady in the boat; as for my
self. I long igo. c ased to worry and to
L walk the floor. The mysterit s of Provi-
I donee ar.' hidden from you and mo; why
. the negro was brought hither from the
I wilds of Africa and scld into slavery, his
redemption thence, and all his redemp
: tion cost us; but, .assured that behind
I these mysteries lay some vast design, 1
I feel that God has been always with us
! and is with us now. Why Washington,
the patriot, instead of L*f . the adven
turer? Why Lincoln, the seer, instead of
I Seward, the scholar? If it was not the
I will of heaven that the confederacy
j should fail, that the union should pre
vail, why were all the accidents of the
| war with the north and against the
| south, the fail of Johnson at the critical
| moment at Shiloh, the death of Jackson
at the critical moment in the valley of
Virginia, the arrival at the critical mo-
I ment of the Monitor in the waters of
THE -WEEKLY <X)JSSTJITUTIO7S : ATLANTA, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 13, 1903.
Hampton Roads? If it be not the will of
heaven that we shall carry the Chris-
Ilan’s message of freedom and civiliza
tion to the ends of the earth, why did
not the Lord send Dewey home? No, no,
gentlemen, as God was radiant in the
stars that shone over Washington at Val-
• ley Forge, over Lincoln at Gettysburg.
• over Grant in the Wilderness, over the
fleets in Manila bay and the ‘bullies’ in
• front of Santiago, does His radiance
shine upon us, brothers in blood and arts
i and arms, whether our knees go down
. amid the snows or the flowers. L’lng
ago the south, forgiving all. accepted the
verdict in perfect faith. It is for Ihe
north, forgetting all, to seal it in perfect
; love."
LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE
John Burgess.
1 Editor Constitution: I write to ask
you to aid me in my effort to find some
• I one who saw John Burgess honorably
discharged from Johnson’s army. He
was a member of company E, Fourth
Georgia, cavaiary. This is in the inter
est of his widow, Mrs. N. A. Burgess.
J. H. HOOD.
• Wehadkee. Ala.
I Indian War Veterans.
i Editor Constitution: Want to know the
address or whereabouts of John Dixson.
Jim Dixson. Howell Wasdon. William
Polk and Dan Polk. They w't'e in Cap
’ tain Asa A. Steward's company in the
i Indian war at Big Cypress in Florida in
the year 1557. Last hoard of* was at
Zero J*. 0., Appling. Georgia. Any other
veteran that was in same company is
’ requested to write the undersigned.
P. M. YARN.
Gctsinger. C’dleton County, S. C.
Widow Wants Information.
Editor Constitution: I wisli to commn
-1 nicate with some one who can give me
information of my late husband. Joel
W. Walker, who was a soldier in the
civil war. I desire to ascertain His com
pany and two comrades who can vouch
‘ for his faithfulness as a. soldier. His
regiment was the famous Thirty-ninth
Georgia. lie enlisted either from West
Point, Newnan or Ga. I will
thank any one who can and will furnish
me this data.
MRS. M. WALKER.
; 2313 Avenue F, Birmingham, Ala.
“Bill Arp” at Home.
Editor Constitution: Recently 1 met
, for the first time Major C. IL Smith at
, his pleasant home in Cartersville. People
generally do not know it that he is sick
and not able to leave the house. that
they don't know this- is shown by the
great number of letters lie receives daily
asking for information, help. etc. Nearly
every mail brings him applieatiins front
boys and girls in this and other states
for speeches and essays for approaching
commencements, to read before Epworth
Leagues, etc
We have all come to think of Bill Arp
as a walking encyclopedia, a store house
of general information and he is as near
tills as any man in the country, but he
is hum.m just as other people, and the
■best machine must some time have rest.
Major Smith is one of the noblest type
of ante-bellum gentlemen who have
served their day and generation well.
With the tender care which his family
and friends give him he has many years
before him.
Bis writings and witty sayings have
carried sunshine to many homes. His
sympathy has been a soothing balm to
many aching hearts. His courage has been
as martial music, to this country in its
i dark days. ''Bill Arp" is a familiar
iname to every child in Georgia, and the
i memory of this grand man will live on.
; exerting a potent influence after he has
'"passed over the river to rest tinder
the shade of the trees." His name, a
i name without a blemish, will ever ap
pear with the names of the great men
lof tills country. The cause ot the people
of this southland has been his cause;
'their battles bis battles, their sorrows
i Ids sorrows, and their prosperity his de
' light.
; To sit in his presence and hear him
■ talk makes one feel as if in the pres
i ence of an autumnal golden sunset with
i us serene beauty, lovely grandeur and
(celestial purely. Ills words are words
of wisdom. His language chaste and
I pure. His bearing that of the polished
i gentleman. Noble in speech, profound
In sentiment, brave in culture, he is a
(living monument of the old south, and
i atl .inspiration to the new.
I While lie is all this, yet he does not
I live in the past, but he lives, walks
land breathes in the progressive present.
: While lie is w’ il grounded in the history
■ of tile past, lie is thoroughly comersant
with th<- history of the present. His
I'm ilitiis for knowing the present ate per-
■ haps better than that of any other man
iin the south. While he has the advan
j tage of books, papers, periodicals, et -.,
I his greater advantage lies in his reeeiv
ling letters by every mail from every
I class of people in (he country and retai
ling to every subject with which people
ar?, concerned. This gives him a knowl
edge of people, their conditions and
I wants, their knowledge and need of
, knowledge, their status in progress or
'lack of progress that cannot lie secured
from books or newspapers. His clear in
: sight and logical discernment, together
with these advantages, makes him one
of the leading monos thought of this
I age.
1 In time to come when Major <'. li.
I Smith shall have joined the galaxy of
great men beyond the sunset glow, thou
sands of children all over this southland
I will be glad of the opportunity to con
trlbute to the erection of a monument
to this grand nt.tn whose memor.v will
I live ns Jong as there Is a south.
I Major Smith has a wife worthy of
'himself It always does me good to
I meet these mothers of southern chivalry,
i They, like the June rose when its beauty
I begins to fade the aroma of its fra-
I grange, becomes the sweeter. They, as
i the'beauty of youth fades and the even-
I Ing shades of 'age come on, become
■ more devoted in that sweet, sympathetic.
I Ghristlan affection s > characteristic of
( our noble southern women—the noblest
j women in the world. Mrs. Smith is a
i typical southern woman, true, noble and
■gland, nnd the household is one of love
I and culture
W. H MINCEY
I Cartersville, Ga.
•
Dougherty for Philippine Bishop.
J’hiladelphin. April 7 Rev Dennis
' Doiiglitei t v. professor of dogmatic theolo
, gy at the seminary of St. Charles Boro-
I nieo. this city, lias been appointed by
I Pope Leo XI 11 one of the bishops in the
J’hllippincs. Father Dougherty will sever
his connection witli the seminary at once
| and sail for the Philippines as soon is
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ROOSEVELT FOLLOWS
HANNA'S LEAD.
His Addresses Prove That He Fol
lows the Lead of Those Who
Cry Staritt Pat Babcock
Warns the Republi
cans of Danger.
By Jbs: Ohl.
Washington, April 7. —(Special.)—Presi
dent Roosevelt's strenuous declarations
that the removal of tlic tariff which pro
tects trusts will not cure the trust evil,
supplemented as they wore by Secretary
Root’s “sta'nd [tat" speech delivered be
fore the Home Market ('lull at Boston
theother night, arc taken as indicating
the whole [tower of the administration
will be against any tariff revision by con
gress until after the presidential cam
paign. That means, of course, that, the
president lias joined hands with the
"stand pat" element in the republican
partv in opposition to the so-called lowa
idea and all other movements in favor of
reduction of the tariff..
The talk of revision of the tariff "by its
friends" after the republican party is
again entrenched in power is, of course,
political bun orahc. nothing more nor less.
The republican party has just as much
intention of revising the present tariff
schedules as it. had of promoting bimetal
lism to which it was pledged in its plat
form of 1896.
Trusts To Retain Protection.
cariff revisionists inside the part.v
Governor Cummins and all others -arc
put on notice by the speech’ s of President
Rosevclt and Secretary Root that the
party intends to remain the party of the.
trusts, supported by trusts, tuid con
diluted for the trusts.
While the president is sneering at the
alleged futility of tariff revision as a
means of striking at th. trusts, he is
saying nothing at all about the action of
the republicans in congress in removing
the duty upon coal, because, as they ac
knowledged, this duty operated to the
benefit of the coal trust. Perhaps no in
stance ’-mild have been found by which a
trust secured less direct benefit front the
tariff schedules made tn its fa'or titan
this; but the action of the rei>nbliea.ns w a.
acknowledgment of the principle that the
vvat trusts of tiie country are losi-reo
bv the exborbitant. tariff duties levied in
their behalf; and in the face of this a
- ITesident Roosevelts talk
about the tariff nm aiu cimg u.. >. ■■■■ ■
political balderdash.
Secretarv Root's speech is .■onstrue’i bt
politicians here as bringing out two main
ideas: First, tiie inadvisab.lity ot reiising
the tariff at all while prosperity reigns;
second th" desirability of postponing re
vision at all hazards until after Hi" pres
idential campaign.
Have Come to Hanna’s Position.
Both the president and Secretary Root
have come around to tile views of Senator
Hanna, chief of the stand pat element.
Some lime ago the president undoubtedly
sympathized with the revision sentiment
so strongly prevalent in the tu’st. litis
was known to all men. Al that time Sen
ator Hanna and others who had the te
merity to declare that the republican par
ty should stand pat apou the Dtngley law
were regarded very mm.'h in the light of
insurgent, enemies of tii.- a dm,."-11 a lion.
Men who posed as mouth pieces of the
administration were doing some pretty
strenuous talking around Waslnngton,
and through certain prominent! republi
can newspap'ts. about Hanna and th"
other stand-patters hove taken their po-
St.ton titnmgn a destn- to embautss he
a,(ministration. These lalt’-r geuthrtmu
gave indication of no inclination o wak
en in their position, however, and the net
result is that President Roosevelt and
bi- ||. utenants-chief among them Seere
lury Root hive, come around to lit'- stand
is the logical position
for the ro[>ui licans to take in the (■onl
ine camo tign Tariff r. ilsionists inside
11),. republican party might just as w>.l
j,,, lin to th,, stand-ijat band wagon
tight now i'.Tttiln . mim nt polit t-iatis
of Hl" West have manifested a strong < is
poiitiim I" tak" ihe oilier side ot t.h<
argument, but the', will lie Kreed as
th., pit-sith '■ l ■' iu-' ii loi - ' ed, to
front.
Rule the Republican Party.
The protected interests have b o strong
a hold upon the republican party for
those who honestly believe in revision to
have ant grounds for lh« hope ol relief
at republican hands.
The cltie.f issue in the coming campaign
is to be the tariff in its relations to i lie
trusts. Nothing can be mote certain.
Hundreds of thousands of men who be
lieve in the revision of the present tariff
s< hedules will find that their only cham-e
of securing revision, even in those sched
ules which hive built up Hie gigantic
monopolies, is through th.? democratic
I arty.
Bat x itlier the president utterances
nor those ot Secretary Root have oper
ated to drive from their adtocacy ot re
vision certain eminent r.-publii ins of the
west who illite had their ears to the
gtouitd and who t’-alize that tiie masse:,
of the people have become restive under
lite burdens placed upon them by the
tariff-protected trust;-. (Ixt erno:- , Cum
mins, of lowa, is one of these gentlemen.
The governor has reached his present
position of power in the republican party
o< his stat’- by ids earnest advo acy of
tariff revision. The old-line ;>olitiel:ins
who had been so long m Washington,
v here they have been under direct In
fluence of the prut, -ted trust;-, and who,
therefore, lined up with Hie stand-pat
ters, hate gone down one by one before
the onslaught of Governor Cummins, who
has the republican masses of his state at
his back.
Mr. B ibcock’s . Views,
Anoth' i man who lias been prominent
in this revision movement is Mr. Bab
cock. of Wiscon-in. chairman of the re
publican eongression il < ant|iaign commit- i
ter. Mr. Babco.k -who is undoubtedly !
one of Hie most influential men in the :
house, and who would naturally bo on
ihe other side of the question, were it
not for his conviction that ihe people oil I
Hie northwest states r. i’i lie.ms and
democrats alike-are demanding Hie r<-
mi.val of the tariff which enable.- Hie '
great trusts to sell their products abroad ,
cheaper than they are sold at home—is
out in an interview taking distinct issue '
with the stand-pat declaration ot Secre
tary Root.
• ( regard the fifty-eighth couFf-s ; s ,
pledged to the revision of tin', tariff. '
says Chairman Babcock. “This pledge
ought to be carried out. It ought to have
been carried out at the last session *
congress, bi.t it was blocked by the <
apposition of eighteen republican sen/,-
tors, who declared positively that noth
ing should be done."
Mr. Babcock had not at the time he
gave this interview road the tariff ut
terances of President Roosevelt. He had
not been informed of tiie latest change
of the presidential mind. This is evi
dent, for he declares '■it wis the earnest
desire of .President Roosevelt." to have
the. pledge of tariff revision carried out
by Hie last congress. Tiie president, ac
cording to the Babcock idea, was thwart
ed by these eighteen wicked republican
senators above, referred to.
A Warning to Republicans.
Whim it" is asked what will be the re
sult. politically, if nothing is done,
Chairman Babcock says:
"At the last congressional election the
republican [tarty lost practically every city
district in the country. The generally
A Trust Builder
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ROY DUDLEY is the ••Promoter” of a “Trust”
Composed of school boys in a Virginia city. In organizing his “combine” he displayed the energy and
ingenuity of a Morgan. His dividends amounted to #38.20 the first month.
A few months ago young Dudley started to sell The Saturday Evening Post. He got
permission to call upon the employees of two department stores and from 45 of them secured orders to
deliver the magazine. The next day he secured 30 more orders from
business men. His chum, “Taffy” Wood, became a little envious
and wanted to do the same thing, but young Dudley convinced him
that to do so would mean “ruinous competition.” Instead, he
offered to re-sell copies to “Taffy” and to turn over to him a part of
the customers already secured, with the understanding that he would
get a certain number of new customers. 1 hen he made the same sort j.?'- w'i'Lj
of a bargain with Taffy’s younger brother.
Three other boys had started to sell The Post before
the “combine” was organized. He asked them to join his _ ‘.’lk
combination, but they refused his terms and serious trouble was £ ?
threatened. Next week Master Roy secured 14 new customers in the 4 , . * . W
territory in which his rival was working. 1 hen he offered 1°» *.' : .; •
“absorb” his competitor by giving him these new customers, pro-EA^pv/?»i,• W I
vided he would get some more new ones and thereafter buy his copies & 4 j' 1 A
from the. “monopoly.” The remaining two boys “compromised
and started work under Roy’s direction the following week. ;. .
Then Dudley wrote to the publishers explaining what he hadß'r , it;
done, anil offered to place a standing weekly order tor three months, W
provided no new boys were appointed during that time. \\ ithin two X V'' 4
months he was selling 350 copies a week. One week he sold a a jji. y.,- A
thousand copies. This is the record of a boy in knee trousers, y ■'
ten years old. |
rr W... T* we will send the copies and every- i.i’,: f
1J YOU LULU, Try It ■ Mia.'.!- f I
Little Booklet, in which twenty-five out nf more than six thousand B .* t>
bright bovs tell in their own wav just bow they have made a success of Y.* , •
selling The Saturday Evknin<» Post outside of school hours. ■
Some of these boys are making $lO to sls a week. y., .jr
You can do the same. NO MONEY REQUIRED TO L’ < SRhv" < ' 4
START. We will furnish ten copies the first week free w; j
of charge, to be sold at five cents a copy. You can 5L ,5 WMI
then send us the price for as many as you
find you can sell the next week.
IN EXTRA CASH PRIZES
CJz Jw Asr will be distributed Next Month among our boys
The Curtis Publishing Company. 4-11 Arch Street. Philadelphia. Pa.
acceptor! ex-planation wan thnt the price
of commodities had gone up, that the. city
man was the salaried man, and 111;-: wages
had not kept puce with tho cost ot liv
ing. In the country that condition did not
prevail. But imagine what would happen
if the American cereal crop should fall,
or if the European cereal crop should be
unusually large. This city condition
would then be practically universal.
"The republican party should lay the
foundation tor its future perpetuation
while the country is prosperous. It
should abide strictly by its fundamental
principle of protection. This means that
If it costs one dollar to manufacture an
article abroad and one dollar and a quar
ter to manufacture that same article In
the United States, the tariff on that ar
ticle should be 25 cents.
“The minute the tariff exceeds the
difference in cost of manufacture be
tween the two countries, that minute
it fosters monopoly.
Two Typical Illustrations.
"The iron and steel industry is the
great example of this fact. Heavy cast
ings in steel and iron can be produced In
the United States for less money 'than In
any country in the world, yi t there is a
tariff of nearly $8 <a ton on these same
products. This means that the American
consumer of sUi'l is required to pay to
tiie Amettean producer of steel at least
on each ton purchased, in the aggre
gate this amounts to over sSa,ooo,<i9o a
"The glass industry presents another
example on the same line. A few years
ago sou could buy a box of glass for
something like 9t> cents. Today it costs
in Hi. neighborhood of $3.7i0.
"When conditions change to the ex
tent of fostering such conditions as these,
it fs tit' part of political wisdom and
patriotism to change these particular
tariff schedules. When the true principle
of protection is maintained. Hie country
will lie prosperous. This has been ilemon
str.-Hed ov r and over again.
“The evil of over-protection, how
ever. must be recognized as an evil,
and should be corrected.”
Take Away Over-Protection.
That sounds a good deal like the talk
which will be hoard from many demo
cratic campaigners In the next fight Un
less all indications fail the democratic
fight for tariff reform will be made on
practically the same lines ns outlined here
by Chairman Babcock.
Speaking about Hie sentiment of the
people of the country, SO per cent of
whom It’ 1 thinks ar’’ protectionists, <’’na:r
m.'in Babcock continues:
“They do not want, the tariff placed be
low the point of protection, but they do
want it maintained precisely at the point
of protection. When the conditions change
so that it gives the manufacturer a profit
over the foreign made article, that is
where th” monopoly g» ts iis foundation.
Take awav the overpr.itection and you do
away witli Hie monopoly."
Chairman Babcock has just returned to
Washington from a trip through tiie
northwest and he says tiiat ills is’itding
of the sentiments of that section is tiiat
tariff action should lie taken at once.
Analyzed, this declaration undoubtedly
m an'> that unless the republican party
heeds lit'' warning whielt comes trout
\\ iseo.isin, Minne ota. lowa. Michigan :
~.,,i other northwestern states. Hie I"'"!’ I ''
will desert il and go to Hie party which
may be relied upon to grant revision.
Men Represent Special Interests.
Chairman Babcock takes a parting fall
out of some of itis most eminent republi
can associates when lie says:
"Our great trouble is that we have
men in congress who represent spe-
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' | but what is self-evident, is that these
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' I They have, apparently. been strong
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In conformation with its policy in pur
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site in Atlanta for a great freight termi- |
nal station, and its already avowed pur- j
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■ Federal Judgij Refuses Injunction in
Southern Pacific Case.
Cincinnati. (>., April 6. At I p. nt. to- I
day Judge Lorton eoncliided the reading j
of his opinion in tin? suit making appliea- I
tion to restrain the Union Pacific from
voting its 900,000 shares in Hie Southern ’
Pacific election thnt had been set for i
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The opinion, which was quite lengthy, ,
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ment that the t’nion Pacific was expend- :
ing the receipts of the Southern Pacific '
in betterments on the Central Pacific, I
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with a view to the ultimate purchase
of that road, the court held that all this
was specifically denied by the defend
ants and that, even it true, It could not
be sustained except on a showing that
thu action v.as ultra vires. On the
whole case the court held that the bill
be dismissed.
Senator Foraker, who represented the
complainants, minority stockholders of
the Southern Pacific, gave notice of ap
-1 peal to the United States court of ap
i peals, and asked that pending the hear
ing of this appeal the election of diree-
I tors of the Southern Pacific, set for
I April ?. be stayed. Lawrence Maxwell
' and Judge Humphrey, representing th*
defendants, agreed tn thi ord-r, inas
much as to do otherwise would rondt r
the appeal ineffective.
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may meet as arranged and elect a
chairman and then adjourn until called
by the chairman after the appeal has
been disposed of by the court of ap
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he will deliver a .-’cries of addresses on
political subjects in the states of New
YoYrk. Connecticut, Rhode Island. Mas
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