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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 ; Our Chart You fit Yourself at Home ; 1 , the jev. filer's or optician's profit g Warranted ■mUHe kx Spectacles, $ 1.00 : ■m). clcs. - - $2 00 »r our fitting Char*.—FßF.f Imfl d optical company ! Erl i street. TOLEDO. OHIO • 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. 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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 in. Knee Trousers 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- A <ireat Discovery DROPSY (TK FD with vegetable remedies, entirely harm less; removes al! symp toms of dropsy in 8 to 20 days; SO to 60 days ef fects a permanent cure. Trial treatment i u r - Dished tree to every Min- rer; nothing fairer, or circulars, testimon bl a, etc.. apply to Dr-H.H.Green’s Sons, Box A, Atlanta, Ga _....... _ To Cure a Cold in One Day I Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. C Z on every I ■ ! cial interests. They view the sltua- tion from the standpoint of the good ■ of those Industries and when there is a large profit being made 1 nhtose lines through the operation of any particular tariff schedule which changing conditions may have made possible, they stand squarely in the way of changing those schedules, , i even though the good of the whole . ■ country demands it.” | What Chairman Babcoek docs not say. ' | but what is self-evident, is that these in‘*n who stand for special interests ab- I solntely dominate and control the repub , I liean party in congress. ' I They have, apparently. been strong enough T” force tiie president to join ■ their ranks. Consumption Cured. An ”bl phvsieian, retired from practice, had [■[;.(,. 1 in ills hands by an East India tnlsslon ' ary the formula ot a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent cure of Con sumption. Bronchitis, ('atarrh. Ast.ima and :.ll Throat and hung Affections; also :i positive and raiilcH cur- for Nervous Debility ami all Nervous Complaints. Having tested it*s won derfel curative powers in thousands of cases, and desiring to relieve human suffering, I vvi'l send flee of charge to all who wiVh It, this recipe, in German. French or English, with full directions for preparing and using S.-nt by mail by addressing, witli stamp, natnn.,* Illis paper. IV A. Noyes, 847 Pov.ers’ Block, Rochester, N. Y. ANOTHER LINK IS PLANNED Wetmore, Tenn., and Dalton, Ga.. To Be Joined by Rail. In conformation with its policy in pur chasing a five-h und red-thousand-dollar site in Atlanta for a great freight termi- | nal station, and its already avowed pur- j p >se of having through trains running I into this city from Cincinnati by Jami- i j ary 1. ITU. tile Louisville .Hid Nashvii!" ( j railroad, as announced recently, will ‘ I build a connecting link from Wetmore. ! I Tenn., on Hie Atlanta. 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The deci sion was a refusal to grant the injunc- ( tion and to afford the relief asked. , The opinion, which was quite lengthy, , was against the contention of the com- ' plainants that Hie l.’nion Pacific was a I necessary or actual party to the suit, i even though Chairman Harriman, of : tiie Inion Pacific board of directors, mad" an ailid.ivit in Hie case. Being a : mere witness in the < ase did not amount to an appearance by the Union Pacific : as a party in the suit. As to tho aver- , ment that the t’nion Pacific was expend- : ing the receipts of the Southern Pacific ' in betterments on the Central Pacific, I I 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. It was agreed that the stockholders 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 peals. No Statement by Keene Men. York. April f>. Tui.'ii .1 i. y’Dr eV Co . br.'kt rs for .bunt s b K- d*’ dined to discuss the decision wr what further sfpps, if any, would be taken. At the Union I’m it’- ; H'T'i 'p .d! • ing- in the way of an offiu-ul aternent was inadi*. Reports arc that Kuhn. 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