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We Are with You. Colonel Watterson.
Oar valued friend. Colonel Henry
'•< .vitci.son. ot The Louisville Couriei- i
Journal, exercising his prerogative of
■lean <>; the southern press, calls upon i
ihe Constitution by name to "quit i
■hi-jiag ami get down to business ’ I
on I su b.i< tof th< isthmian
Ti. ■ , i; riial n us its synipa Je '
■ :-ui !.:jf it V. ill take the .eed w -
. w f.i',-.\v j: it th*- imUrr u j
be isi .-.-■-. canal question. No gr«at< •'
■-•s.t. oi 1 ...m,■>•,.:> Kind has presented i:
■ls 11. i; ittnf r.atcs ot t:.. south those
It is ttiwayi. a li tpp; privileg.' io us
; 1 'oil iw tiic strenuous campaigns o.‘ I
■mr frl ml on th«> firing line at Lotus
■•'ilk*. We have rejoiced to back him
"■ li.-- assaults on tit; mom y devil, to
ior ...'. when he flays the so
s<-a." -grace.- cf the times and to
l P s.’T behind him when lie de- ■
m ime honest politics and democratic
a tit; v in . yyernmeut
Lot those good leaderships in the
.i.st wo uro prepar; d row to touch el
iw- '■■.•ith him as our file-leader in
1 • end< :r to lorry righteous action
ii tlo ’ it£<.;• e: ita construction o
be uiteioct Jim canal.
Th. Constitution has never believed i
imt th.- managers of the republican
party have ev. r honestly had it in
mind «o build any canal —cither via
Pr.nanit: or via the Nicaragua route.
Their <i<'< laration to that effect was a
piece o: campaign ba last. They have
■ ii the proi’.U'io; :•• and allies ot the .
iranscontinental railway trust aim
»«a-- v held hands off if they have not.
■‘ei'i iiy I 'atily- 'i wide th,- open loL:-
uyists and ( i.nspir itoi i who have con
prevail:Colombian < ■ mgiessional ap
proval out p 1 hdio.r proposals to
e: t stand forth to-
ns > ■■ ■ si;pr im? marplot oi all nc
■ n a tvay to
;.iid ti.- c.iiial if lie were hirnsel
i; iiiiv-i a lorm v o' Lie railwa.-'
■ ■ ■ anal construction
he could do not better service for bis
- ;:;<n he is now doing to
_ si- personal pre.imiices and
. ' i ■: .lUliiiC'cli
\ , ..boinm-ss \.hh which he
.. ... s t._. ■■ i aii t i iinatuin to the
p ■ -a: i ■ ..aspirator- and refrains
;.wii a.... t... Spooner a' tby
~ ~. n .. :i :...jj r.ir : with Nieariiguii
.■ <y. ■■•. yi.-a h» is writing himself
.own it. history as an ■nemy to the
j,. ■,..;. ><. :te.'. r’ec-. ami the ( rush-
T;,- • .-’i «,». till : 112“
W-... ji.u jiid hH paitv managers nu
,;>.sb. ot popular indignation can urge to
b'd'- a ■■'..;■ and no appeal ,rom til :
~: ■;... receivf r< spectiul
■it. T;■ ■;• are cut for the power o.
■>i . ■ a ■ - :■. laii'-y and the profits of oi-
: ■: ■ ; ;i: -. p i .h-.’d spoliation.
. ■ t ■ , -■■:..■ d to the coming
~.■ . .:. . is • otigi. ' donal action
. )U.' th; I ill disturb the pres
■.!• ta-.’t t-ou of canal negotiations.
So )>• ; .:.g. w ihin'.t tin- hour ha s ■
• to.' d' moeratst. in eongres :
wi.i .. n ,uc t i. -s in. i on the plat
form, te ; ■ ■ t i-'v iiuthoi this canal
wry a; ■ : mend th • light to have
: qo h iii d- ' at th ■ oustructionists and
umi a 1 u build this most import
a it Xrr rl an enterprise of the twen-
■- —■
Americ'. in the Far East.
lie. .. an Asia Association
i.-.. - x,’ .’. to a.a.m the thoughttul
!mn oi 'bi- i.oimtry of the treinen
’.'us .:■!• . <t ’ have in me int.erna-
■ : 1.., ;i iristim nis naw pending in
ari'timl o. present diplomacy and
the ( hamp de Mar i
aver v h the bat aliens of many
.•it. 'iy ;:■■■■••■•. may ne contending in
On th<- short., thai border the Pa
ifj. . .an live more thar half th >
inhabitcnts ot the globe. They are li
1 exploited by the people o; civil;-■
ration. Nobouy ran dispur>- that. The
long <'• ntnries th their isolation and
yflusb n weiid budding lorces art
past. Th ‘ European nations are b- n.
a n. 5.,. : -'.ng the mongrel territories,
haul oi Um invaders. And Russian
•ulicv is a compound cl' Tartar tr-. act -
,’n- ami Slavic syndicating of selfisl-
I'l. question is bound to face us
-eonor of later as to whether th j
1.-m-ed Stat’s will submit to be ex
chi led naever irom the markets of
the East now growing and not t
neat way forward to be the most
valuable for foreign trade to surplus--
producing nations. It i.- well foi tn
10 recognize the issue afar oft and d< •
l>ato our future policy while we hav?
peaceful opportunity.
It is our right to share in the vast
, ommercial opportunities <1 Chlm
and other eastern countries. Our
-ailors and diplomats had most to d>
with unsealing the doors of Japai,
China and Korea, and it would be t >
nur everlasting humiliation to be now
forbidden by subsequent interlopers
irom entering into those doors with
our trade. We are not prepared to
believe that the American people will
stand for that sort of treatment.
While we do not care to figure as
land-grabbers, we cannot afford to be
ordered off what we have made
neutral ground by a lot of squatters
from other countries.
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The Education That Fails.
j The business men of the country
who are employers of the products of
our school systems arc generally com
plaining of the inefficiency of our so
called educated youth in the simpler
and essential details cf daily informa
tion. The Baltimore Sun editorially
■ voices this complaint and very co
i gentiy argues for an honest reform of
' our school systems in favor of honest
i loundntion instruction.
j Nine-tenths of the boys ot This cottn-
> tty are not able to stay in the schools
i longer than is necessarj to pass the
; grammar school grades. r l hose who
' can afford tn go through the high
f schools arc but a decimal of the vast
i army that must be content with an
; average of three to five years’ instrue
| tion iu tin simple forms of an under-
j lying education. The rest they obtain ,
in practical work.
Employers everywhere complain of
the bad spelling, the carelessness in j
reading, tin’ faulty writing and the al
most hopeless ignorance of common ;
arithmetic:'.! calculation characteristic :
j of boys from the schools who apply
> for work demanding a degree of per- '
j feetion in those “three Rs.’
The Constitution lias always con
l tended lor rhe very best training in '
I those essential branches, it has been :
j critici; - ' d by theoretical educators for
! lack of sympathy with the broader and .
higher cdu atioii. But The Constitu- ■
; tion i in favor of broad and higher
' education, but not until proper ground
; and foundations for it have been laid.
' Education can be so broadened as to
'?i too t,’.in am' so clevat< <1 as to crush
its owner with its unbalanced weight.
Foundations ample and deep are need
, ed for al) structures that are broad
■' and high.
The Const it nt ion pleads for the
honest and practical education ot the
millions ot our children in those pri
mary studies who.>e use they will need
in their everyday life and employ
ments. They need accuracy in spell
ing. legibility in writing, understand
ing in r- ading and facility in the han
dling o? numbers and figures in the
simpler calculations of barter and
. trade.
No system of education that fails to
produce these abilities in the pupils,
and produce them before other tads of
study are entered upon, is worth a
tithe of the money spent upon it.
There is a crying need for this very
important educational reform right
here in Georgia. The same complaints
are heard in the business circles of
Atlanta that have become forceful in
Baltimore. If. then, our highfaluting
public school systems do not give us
the desired results, for heaven’s sake
give us back the old field schools el
our daddies.
Cotton Now and Next Spting.
Cotton experts, including middlemen
and pu’ ehm ing agents, agree in say
ing th:u. ’h'.' reason why the incom
ing crop is selling al '-I cents amt frac
tions above is because ot the condi
tions in the money market.
While it is admitted that, there is
money enough in the banks and avail
able to tnem to handle the crop at
19 cents and more per pound, and the
mill people would gladly stock up lor
future m•' at. around that fig tin-, they
cannot get i m ready loan nioney from
,b-..- banks for ti.at purpose. Even
th-.- son’hern mil's are buying in only
small quantities because of the pos
sible conti. gencies of the marie i. and
the tinwi.iiiigness of the banks to ad
vance money lor larger supply stoetts.
Many mills that use from twenty to
titty b.ii..s per day have out orders
to purchase so many day by day, and
urging sales of their goods to supply
cash o r current purchases.
The banks are keeping close watch
on crop report;- and on tin- cotton
goods markets. The latter have been
very tight recently and no great in
crease of demand for the piece goods
is fell even yet, with the oncoming
of winter. Prices do not rise because
the consumption ol the goods has
fallen o's, indicating that 'lit: people
eannot. -r will not pav more lor tnem.
Yet this condition cannot long re
main. '1 Ini cotton is needed ami must
be taken up by the manulact ii er-, a bo
cannot afford to allow their plants to
lie idle Co’toi is cheaper today, cal
culated on the basis of visible crop
and probable demand, at lo cents per
pound than it wa.s a year ago at 59
cents pei pound.
The South Is All Right.
11 any ot The Constitution's readers
are stnl taugied up "ith the notion
mat th-- south is ’ the poor 1,-iation”
of the remainder of the union they sim
ply need the physic of a lew large and
luminous ta ts.
Our cotton crop once was looked
upon as the absol it’.-iy indispensable
means of our bread ami meal, our
boots and breeches—indeed, all the
necessaries of our daily liie. Some
people at’- sill! toting that notion along
in their rummage sacks. But tiie fact
is that it our entire cotton crop were
to fail we have any year other re
sources and industries to be exploited,
that w, did not have a generation ago,
and that would employ. Iced, house,
clothe and enri’-b our people. In the
individual account the tarmer may
' make hi- cotton ii”-.’.;i everythiug:
but in ike general business account it
could be lost, but that loss, while
heavily felt, would not put the south
to tramping and begging on the big
j reads.
Last year the exports from our
southern purls inc,' ised 7.1 ovt.r the
I year before. For tin .-aim- period th--
exports irom northern s ’aboard cities
increased only .30, which is three
tenths of oi.e p<V '•i:tum' N< 19
per (.-‘'lit oi the export trade oi the
countr; goes now through southern
ports —the oilier t> per cent going
through north-Atlantie and Pacific
ports. But live us the isthmian '-anal
and on.' southern ports will drain the
, exports num Ohio to the Rocky moun
. tains
it has not been so many y< ars ago
i since u man asked to invest in a soutii
; i-rn railway would shy around the
I proposition like Mark Twain’s cat,
i once blown up in a blast, fori ver at
! terwards a' oided (-ven a common i>ost
j hole. Put the eatninas of the South-
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION: ATLANTtI, GA., MONDAY, OCTOBER 26,1905.
ern railway, for instance, have in- ■■
creased 155 per cent per annum in the I
past nine years.
Last year the southern cotton mills,
for the first time in American history, ■
consumed more of our home crop than
the northern mills. And it, is officially ■
reported that:
Since January ', along the lines of the ,
Southern railway. twenty-seven new j
I manufacturing plants have been estab- ;
- lislitd. inclntling nineteen cotton mills -
‘ anil eight knitting mills, wlih 11 have
; idded to the tula I equlpin 'nt, 20,13-1
I looms and 727.358 spindles, while there
i i’.r.- now under construction twenty-three
; nth'-r mills which will hav ■ an -.'’iuip
] mi nt of 14.025 looms and 500.312 spin-
I dh.--, making a grand total, existing and
in sight, ”f 6-12 mills. 85.738 looms and
5.976.300 spindles.
These are but a. few of the items in ,
Ihe account. They omit the vast oil
interests of Texas, the rapid and
i enormous rice production of Louisiana. •
’ the iron and ste< 1 interests of Birming-
I ham and the phenomenal industrial :
growths of Atlanta, Nashville, Mein
’ phis, Richmond and Newport News.
I Truly the south is coming to her ■'
i own, to a prosperity that will com- I
maud permanence ami a commercial
and political importance that will
fruit in her oil-time national power.
That Tiftfc-triiJi Appendix.
Our always esteemed and interest
ing contemporary, 'due ttpruigueiti rte
i puuiicaii, lanes up The consutution s
review ut Mt. Braxtons monograph
lon me vagarious history oi Lite iit-
■ leemh amendment. Ol course. The
j liepublican repuuiates the whoie con
! tentiou Hi.it negroes can bo excluded
: irom holding oiiu.e, because it says
that thougn such an act. by a state ;
would not violate tne fiiieenih amend- :
■ mem. it wotiid butt up against tho , <
lourteenth amendment, “wnicii lor- I
; bids a state irom abridging the priv- ;
‘ Ueges and immunities tn citizens of i
i the Lulled biates.
But how uuvs our esteemed Spring- i
field contemporary explain the bitter I :
light unit Senator Vv'iisou, aiterwards
vict president, “the NaiicK cobbler t)f i
Massacnusetts, made lor Hie reten
tion iu the iiiteenth amendment oil ' .
Hie words “and hoiti oliice?” it that. >
right was in iy ehiuodied in the terms
oi the fourteenth amendment, way ■
was he and l.i; coile.tgues ia\oriug
the amendment in toto so bent upon
retaining those words? :
M ill our friend read tin debates of
the hour and tell us what, it thinks of '
General Logan s argument, which pre
vailed in the toniercnce committee,
that "the right to say who should hold
office was properly left, by the consti
tution, to Hie states, and would ■
never consent to suit. 'inter it.
Does our contemporary also mean ,
to ignore me historic tact tl'.m Dau- !
iei Webster, “the great expounder’’
of tin constitution, said in the con
stituiional convention et Massachu
setts in 1829, “that no man has the ;
riaht to hold oitice, but tm- people
have the rignt *e define and make the <
terms and conditions upon which of- :
flees shall be Held’.'
Does it also dodge the fact that
Senator \\ iison. voting lor the eon- <
leietice report, Hie fifteenth amend- ;
ment as it now stands, said: “I am
willing now to give them the right to ;
vote, if I carmot gi-t for tnem the
right to be voted ior. 1 will take that,
if I cannot get any more! it will .
find the words in the Congressional
Globe. February 29, 1891), p. 1'127.
Again, our esteemed contemporary
is historically wrong in saying that
Senator Edmunds held th > words
“and hold office” unnecessary to con- :
for that right upon the negro citiz'-n.
The fact is Hint Senator Edmunds .
was the only member of i’ie conicr
(nee committee who oejecte-l to srrik
iirz the words and disagreed to the
report with them left out.
Equally out of concord with good
auihoiities is Th.- Republican when it ,
argues that two-thirds of a quorum of
cither house can constitutionally pass
an amendment to the constitution. -
Senators Garrett Davis am! Thomas .
A. Hendricks protested the vote at
ihc time t'-’i:'.' "' S'.inincr February
1. 1535, offered in th. senate a joint
resolution tb.at -v o-tbirds of the mem- -
iK-vship of both homies would be con
siitutiona 11.'- nt-cessary to adopt a pro
posed amendment. Senators Ed
munds Morton and Pom. roy evident
ly thought the same thing and the
two former refused to vote on the
passage of the fifteenth aiiiemimeiit. (
in the t' .nare ni order to ma: - rhe
vote on it a 1 .ilb)re— -the one b. cause ,
the negro was not given the riv.ht to ,
hold office, and the other because the
benefits of tne amendment were not ,
extended to women of voting age!
So, it seems to us, it is up to The
Republican more than to Mr. Braxton
Good Roads M ike Good Schoo's.
it is to he hoped that before the au
thorities of any county ci consequence
in the stat’ decide definitely not to de
mand their quota of short term con
victs io', road building service they
' will debate the whole matter with im
partial ami business sense.
Most of the counties in Georgia need
good H--idc <l uit « as imperatively as
they need money to support ami eu
laruo their schools. GooC roads iuevi
tably save money to every user ol
tnem, enhance 1 the value of adjacent
properth. s. aim increase population,
and these in combination make pos
sible larger appropriations, local and
ta!. forth" county school sys
' Sim-ply because the rate of convict
hi'e is it'cr-'itsed by the recent bidding
and more money to the counties is
•ironiised from that source, should not
weia'h tor a moment v. ith truly patri
otic bus inc ■ men aga nsi usii g
i-ounty -hort term convicts .n the worK
oi radiating the county with ftrst-cla.-is
- r '- ' '
i in tli'-; end i' will be found that the
refusal to work tiieso *-oiivict.s in mail
ing g< >d roads will prove a self-
- delecting polic.v r-ounty will
' iia’:) loi’ the money and rejoice in
■caching i's youth the lull filigree ciir
. ictilum p«’■•'• -i Hied by "ur modern men
al bcaling doctors of pedagogy Alio! n
co'.imv will build good roads, double
;i’.' ■ nine M its farms, buiid up Hie
'ol*lll’ol'''' oi its towns, film its tetc*
; aucs nio'gi d and its tax rate reduced
-ami tii - cliildren of the first county,
■ .vlien s< bool-fledged, will promptly
' ..jove over into that oilier county and
■rb'-’ the good roads and tlitir conse-
Itienees that their own daddies (tented
diem at. home.
Indeed, it is hardly possible to speci
ty a mere unwise policy for any pro
gressive count? in Georgia to adopt
than t 1 sacrifice the advantages of the
convict road-building act to Hie pres- j
ent greed for a few more dollars to
be inconsequentially spent, on the pres
ent school system. It is better to let
hot li bonefiis grow together equally.
<•
Ti e Religious Rich.
In a recent address to his Sunday
school class, jhiim D. rvueiveieiier, ar.,
said:
1 tun tolii that neat' the Southern Pa
cific railr.iad ih’..re is 1 grave ot a con-
IV'ikra.e soatier on which Is this epitaph:
'•J ilin Smith, w)m vlie.i ngatmg for waat
he thought was rishi- ' 1 cannot imagine
a better epitaph to be placed on mj
tomiist me than this. We should al! strive
to be strong, hroml-ini’ d'* 1. helpful Chris
tian men. .-’.’eking to help others and for
getting ourselves.
Doubtless there are millions in the
land who, if they should read that ex
tract, would sneer at the utterances
amt revile the man who made them.
Why? Because he is the rich son of
a billionaire father. They are the
people who glibly declare that “no
man eVer earned a million dollars
honestly” ami to whom tne possession
of moneyed wealth is a sure sign that
the possessor is short of every virtue
and capable of ever? sin.
But it is a pertinent question to ask
whether a rich man has any rights
that the less opulent are in duty
bound to respect? Is it a right pray
er in tiic mouth of any man to say:
“God help tiie poor: the rich can help
themselves!” is there anything in the
scriptures, in the teachings of Jesus,
or in rhe Christian life that warrants
the judgment that riches and honest
piety are incompatible? For our part,
We think not.
Because there- are many rich who
are not religious; who are misers or
sybarites; who are hard-fisted or in
different to humane duties; these do
not establish the doctrine that to be
rich is to be damned! There are good
rich men everywhere in the world.
Because their prayers are not made in
the market place and their alms pro
claimed from th-, housetops they sure
ly fulfill th" Lord’s commands better
than iho>-< who give to the church
what they . honid pay to their grocer
ami howl about Macedonit.n massacres
when they ought to be aiding the sick
poc widow ami orphan of their own
congregations.
The ambition of young Rockefeller
is a most coniim ndable one. His ex
ample is worthy of imitation. He
gives study and time to rhe work of
Christian education in the Sunday
school. lii- doctrine that “the man
who gives to good works is broad
minded, generous to a degree, ami try
ing to do oinething for some one
else.” That creed he is following and
so ong as he doos so honestly and
liberally he is doing all that a sane
Christian altrui. tn demands.
There is room h. the house of the
Lord for the rich ami tho poor to dwell
together. He is the Maker of them
ail. It is more Christian In .John D.
Rockefeller, Jr . to do as he says he is
doing limit to give tip .(11 he possesses
to missions, siiperannmited preachers
or church Iniilders, and eschew reli
gion. desert the Sunday school and
church and devot. his Sundays to golf
and polo.
Young Mr. Rock'feller is accounted
a cry sensible, eh :.n and worthy man.
In our bumble opini m lie can be safely
trusted to do what m his conscience is
his dutv and firb-uent upon his mo
tives and method oe wisely omitted.
Production and. the Markets.
An interesting virbai controversy
r.as arisen over Hie follow mg declara
tion from tli ■ r solutions adopted by
the Farmers’ National Congress in ses
sion recently at. Niagara Falls:
The farmers of the t’rlted States h::ve
-■’liv’d the problems of production .uid
• mti-■:.;’) aid i- now ne. m d to find mar
kets, Hot lucre is. o r improve produc-
Soerctary Wilson, of '.lie department
of agricuitur’- wtiich was established
primarily tor the solution of the pr ’l>-
Icms of prodm.tion, quite naturally
tab . ev :->n to such a sweeping
sentiment. The -■ cretary has just re
turned from .j. ten dance upon Hie ses
sion of tit- mrioiial irrigation con
gress. at Ot’d ’it. I'lah. an organiza
tion the d' :■ u of which is to vastly
Increase agricultural production in Hie
i.’nited State.-, atm li" is especially in
terested in the work •>!' ic laimiug the
vast arid arc-is of the west by this
m* ans. If tin- Niagara Falls declara-
Hoii vui’-(c- ; ■* ; ttral interes,ts and
conditions, th- ti the department oi ag
ricultui’i.* is I - *-I * supeifluons and
from a selfish standpoint, inimical to
the American agrieutura producer,
since its function is mainly to in
crease production and multiply the
bugaboos of over-production.
in express in;; his disagreement with
the declaration in qm s’.ion, Secretary
Wilson said in t nt-w.-tc'i)" 1 inte”view:
Ti:. last, cmg -•«.« o(-ganiz- .1 a depart
m.-Hi of eoinni’ •:'■ ’■ th<- very purpose
~f finding ma hets :'eir Aincrica;) goods—
■rod’lets of th ■ farm, the forest and
ml,, . j ... -..f i i i ■ mnm fully :i«fe
with t'j'-.* N::-: -■ - Falls congress in their
m lusion ’at everything has already
■ me that ; - - - - iry to help th(
Th. . me .’lll P-w tbi-gs
:,.ft Th<- sist.-’ e.mr.r--:s ri'.ting at Og
den late.-., was of the opinion that some-
■ in. should b- done to help producers
in : arid r -gions by applying water
ttott’ r v’.T’-ii'o >f are wanted in
”'ariy eve: :-' ~ irt of th.- Thiited States.
.Mnch of t l, >' .’".nitiy has not been p’-o-
v.ib-■ with, -..-ra- -■• s -,nd Icg-imes suitable
,:;r,•--’■’•n: toen'!'!. ■■ Attention should
11 .m •’■ >nr own
nt ■•■•”.-. ds at
tentlon and the Im.-ds in the cot ton-grow
ing .--’l.'ite- in\it-’ study. We should g’-ow
.; ba! ■ "f cotton wla-re we ar-? now grow
. (he aero. A d th!
~ be done by proper management of
the soil, rotating <s. tilling the soli
witl I’.unms and civ ag more attention to
th,, m-uitig am , ."Is 1. w’il be i long
■; ; for. th pr -.-I’ -ns ar. all solv
ed, a there n-i’ic others that have
not: been mentioned.
T;n> secretary added that hr is
.’('.■lily couper.’iing with the depart
ment of commerce in its efforts to
find new and ' i enlargt foreign agri
euitu■ al mark. s. saying thai he has
appealed to S;’cretary Cortelyou to
find markets abroad for
mishels ot macaroni wheat grown in
the- li'.fh- rainfall regions of the west
and .- ;>u.invest thi.- season, but which
:s deprived of a home market by' rea
lm oi the tact that American milters
do not know- how to grind it.
This is certainly a remarkable situ
ation. since a deal of macaroni is man
ufactured in Hie I’nited States, pre
.-'umably i'ct. imported macaroni
■lour. Certainly some way shount
:.e found to interest tin- domestic
milling indtts’ry iu the importance of
mastering this varieiy oi flour rnan
umetui■■?. Surely American inventive
ingenuity ami industrial enterprise is
.-qual to smli an apparently trivial
problem. Our millers should be able
to do what foreign millers can do.
As much as our farmers desire ex
panding markets for export, we do not
believe they will subscribe to the im
i plied idea that, the encouragement ol
increased production through inten-
■ sive methods, under the agricultural
: department’s excellent system of
I helps, is to be discouraged. The prob
iems of over-praA"''Hon will be met
Guuugn ci larged markets and other
wise.
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The Alaskan Arbitration.
Tile announced settlement of the
Alaskan boundary question by the
special commission that has been con
sidering the case in London ior some
weeks past is not only graft!ring, but
significant. Here was u question in
volving the right of Canada or the
t nited .States to a large strip of ter
ritory lying between tiie summit ol
Mt. Elias and the sea just north of the
debouchment of the Portland canal,
ouch a line as Canada claimed would
nave cut across tiie arms of the sea
■ and given to her the heads of the in
lets and Hie two mining ports of Dyea
and Skagway. The American claim
. ran far north and east of the towns
' and inlet heads and included the
Portland canal on the southeast,
■ practically shutting Canada off from
. any outlet to the Pacific ocean north
. of Vancouver.
The commission was a. ibree-to-
■ three body ami at first that seemed
. to bode another failure to reach an
agreement satisfactory to either par
ty. but the presence of Lord Chief
■ Justice Alverstone as tho British col
league of the two Canadian commis
sioners left a fractional hope, and it
seems now that he has been Hie man
who made a. final decision possible.
The finding gives the entire line
claimed by the Americans down to
I the head of the Portland canal, thence
west to the ocean, leaving lite canal
I entirely within Canada.
The Portland canal was not essen
tial to us, but it was of vital import-
I ance to Canada. We have amp] ■* ac
cess to our South Alaskan territory
' and the Klondyke regions by tiie in
lets now left undisputed in our pos
session. Canada gets the Portland
canal ami obtains access l>y it to the
Pacific ocean for the great Gram!
Trunk Pacific railway which she has
undertaken to build across from the
Atlantic ocean to Port Simpson, a
projected maritime port to be built
on the south shore of Hie canal, which
' is actually a large arm of tho sea.
This settlement, wo doubt not, will
be acquiesced in by this country and
the dominion and is a great triumph
for the Angio-Saxon idea of arbitra
tion. In times not long ago nations
would have gone to war promptly
over - proposition of this sort and
probably killed off a hundred thou
sand men who hadn't actually a cop
per cent’s worth of interest in who
owned the land. But this case will
remain as a high and worthy example
’ of the humanity and pure statesman
’ ship of the peaceful process of arbi
tration.
Wilson in the West.
Our genial and accommodating sec
retary of agriculture, Farmer Jim Wil
son, is out west telling the people good
news. He is a republican evangelist
who always suits his gospel to the
needs of the party and the party just
now has use lor the western stales iu
. its business.
it seems that some scientific rooter,
whom Secretary Wilson undoubtedly
believes to be of the demociatie per
suasion, has been out in the arid re
. gions telling Hie people that irriga
tion will raise the alkali on their lands
and make the whole republican
scheme of converting deserts into rose
gardens a sickly blooming delusion.
For that reason some of the folk have
been saying that, it were better for the
desert dweiters to do as did tne people
ot Kansas and Nebraska thirty years
ago—dig up tiie sod, plough the sur
face, plant trees, sink welis and trust.
Mother Nature to do her duty by
. laughing back to them in bomueous.
harvests.
But. that sort of practical philosophy
is too unpolitical t<> suit Uncle Jim and
the party They believe God made
Die country arid just to give them a
chance to use the people's government
money to irrigate it. and so file a
gratitude mortgage on the vob-s of all
the tellows who live below tin* dams
and the aitches. So the unc
tions secretary is out there invoking
■ heaven to witness that the alkali story
is a democratic lie and figuring ali
over th'- barn doors of tiie ranchmen
to prove that when tne repunliean
party turns un tiie water tin ir lands
will be worth irom $2 -0 to ?300 per
acre when new they are not worth
photographing!
This is a very large bribe to hang
out over the nos s of people who are
eating sage hens, canned goods and
always hoping ior rain. The irrigation
graft, is purely a political use of tho
people's money for the purchase of
votes for the republican party, but
“what is the constitution and fiduciary
fidelity” when the g. o. p. needs votes?
Our Western Trade Shut Off.
The necessity to the south of build
ing an isthmian canal was never more
forcibly put than in the meeting re
cently at Louisville of the tranic men
ol the Western and Southeastern Traf
fic Associations. It was shown there
that the abolition of through billing
rates to the Pacific, requiring double
rating, had increased freights from the
southeast to San Francisco from an
average of? 1.45 to ?i.'.ii per I t>
pounds and that this had resulted in
th ■ suspension of westward shipments
Hom southeastern mills. Ninety cot
ton mills on the Southeti’ railway lines
v. ore reported as thus affected and
many of them, whose trade is with tiie
oriental countries, have been obliged
to shut down. Jhe ex.ia Height late
. destroys their margin of profit.
Another meeting is to be held in At
lanta soon in an endeavor io secure
such rates as will enable the southern
mills to resilin’* their transcontinental
and trans-l’avifie shipn ems. But it
must not be torgotten that tiie western
toads are largely contrclled by' New
( England directors ami -iat it is to
: their interest to malto >w through
I rales from Boston to 'F.isco for the
cotton goods of tiiat region and not es
sential to them to handle tin compe
titive goods (*1 our ( arolina and Geor
gia mills.
Here is another reason why our
southern representatives in congress
should make tin canal question a par
amount issue in the coming extra and
regular sessions. Nothing will ever
give the south a fair deal in the Pacific*
trade bur the building of the isthmian
I canal.
“Songs of the Soil”
By -RANK L. STANTON
An Old-Time Dance.
; De Banjo sorter gits me. 'twel I never
wants ter res . . .
En I'm happy w en a fiddle is a singm
of its bus’;
Don it's • (Tar (ie wav. my honey, Him
de ringin’, eas’ ter wes’.-
En dance ’tw-1 de Daylicbt sau
inawnli;'!'
I don’t keer el' I settin’ in de meetin’
house, so still.
A-lookin* at de luightn;on de l°P el
Ziun Hill.
I De, singin’ era fiddle mak- me los. my
way en will.—
I'll dam-e 'tw.-l de Daylight say, "Hood
mawnin !”
It’s dat way in de Summer. Wen de
dr -imy days begin,
En de Lizard think he runnin’ c-r a race
he got ter win;
; But l has de reelin' wus.-er wen «e
Cliris'rnws time coni'.' in.
En we .lance ’twel de daylight say,
Good mawnin’!"
i Den it's never min’ de weather, wid he
slingin' er ue sleet,
. Wid de music des n-nrnk ■■’ si. ‘ a fidget
in yo’ feet;
I Chris’mus, cn a fiddle—oh, dey mighty
hard ter beat'—
En well dunce twel de daylight say,
“Good mawnin’! ’
No Trouble There.
j “They say it will soon be cold enough
to freeze th’ whisky, Major."
i "Yes. sir,” replied the major, "but this
thirst of mine will thaw it!”
?4« « *
Brother Dickey’s Philosophy.
li s mighty hard : r make a. comfort
aide livid linein' fault wl-t de bes’ worl’
you ever w iz hi.
I'. picture's ’ie Angels show '-hi
] always on de wing , but ti.'in’ will be
J too hard work fer in. -es ever 1 gits dar.
De Rainbow is nullin' m • (.••’•' 1' : S "in
de Storm pullin’ on his !>>•••)’ elozc cn
sayin’ he s-.*rry it happ'm l-
: El you can’t git Touif Tt > 'bh t>y gwlne
de footpath, de bes’ thing you kin ‘io is
ter meet him in de middle er de road
en have it out wid him.
It's a. good idee lev lay by f 1* da rainy
clay, kaz < ' n es de rain n v-r ( Ornes,
you’ll still ue. a halleluia time hi de
: sunshine.
1 D” w -’.l”in ct Solomon would be too
■ much fer folks In dis day en time. Ail
I want:- is des enough ter show me how
V*r steer clear ct de fool*.
Its funny dat some folks dat knows
ail er out ‘b- stars aliove us, can’t nnd
dey way in dis wort' two miles film
h'. me.
The Hard Road.
Hard road ter travel—
Underneath de sky;
Ralihlt good on runnin .
En Tui'l'oy ro'.s' too iiig:L
Oh, belfevd's.
Let yo’ lamp shine bright •
Long road en lonesome
Befo' you strike de light:
Hard road ter travel—
Look out how you go!
Summei tine* is over,
En yonder come de snow!
Oli, beltev’-rs,
!.<t "o' lamp shin-.' bright!
L"Hg road en lonesome
BC'LT you strike de light!
His Christmas Assessment.
“Mister William," said tiie old diiikey.
"I done made yo' assessment f. t Chris'-
''M v assessment ? ’
"Yi suh--.l'- -- lledui" WlU’l I ->t :tS
, "Wcdl. let's have it!"
“In de fust place—l.-nim ■ see now what
1 want'."! y "i ter give me in de fust
p'.ae’?:—(Blei-s God, I ’Ts'ti forgot!) Web.
I wants—O'u. pshaw! 1 '.in't collect my
'm.'mb'ince :. r save me! Des ::■> ah. .id,
Mister Widiam, g - me dvs .'.I you
got ter give nr.—film de biggest down
An Unfortunate Brother.
Trouble conic ter see ni .
En howl or. ever’ han';
!>■ Airtb'i’.'ake shake my .
En swaller ..ill de lan'!
1 holler: ’ Mister Virtiei iak-
What Work is dis y-.u do?”
He s iy: "N. xt Hm • 1 hong. .
I l-’lease. Go I. I’ll swaller you:
j Eu den I don’t say nuttin ,
Though troul’l’ mak.* me ni"...;
Kaz. wisdom is v'.tin'
Os bad enough, ;>1 me!
(f e- 0 * ;»
A Doubtful Prospect.
“Dat wnz mighty poor comfort dey
give Br'er Thomas on his sick bed,’’ siid
Brother Dickey.
"What dey tell him?"
“preacher t-'t’ him dey wuz a bright
prospect ahead er him."
s •En what he say t-r dat? '
“To!’ ent dot what wuz n.-worryin’ er
him—it wuz so bright it wuz blazin'!
e e ft ♦ c
Life in Billville.
' Th: Literary Supper last wening passed
off quietly. Ail the gm sts ed
at the door, and their rai. irs takwi from
them.
Our Great American Novelist was run
Over by a railroad t ain rewutly; but be
' will g-l enough, in dam m- s. to h.tve his
’ new novel out for the Spring trade.
The Moonshine Distillery f our lead
ing poet was seized by .;overn:neiit de
tectives on Tuesday ev.rdng last. Seven
i’.irreis of Old Rye were <m.:ti.- ated, and
he doesn't know where he’ll get Inspira
tion for his poetical work, in future.
Major Jones was *..’. ✓ wounded in
the hit 1 g. at the Lite >iry Danei . on
Tuesday evening. Brethren, this Literary
cutting and slashing rmisl stop!
»«>>«• ®
Leave a Slice or Two.
Pretty good country
From springtime to fall;
Some of it’s yours,
But—di-.i t reach for it a;l’
Dear Days of Autumn.
Dear days ol Autumn—skies tli.d bend !ti
blue;
Yet m*V’.-r:i)oie dm s. dear as when
Loy., walked with you!
A.- whin Love walk'd with you. love, a
world tb.it w i Ids own,
And a Lily was an altar, and g meadow
was a throne'
Dear days of Autumn—al! unshad-jwed
light,
■ D et :■'. M i'll*, .re a day like that wa.-n L-,-.-o
ki.-s. 1 (i-’.vn the mghi!
And ail the b-omn and brightness of
the days and years
Ar-, but tin. dreams T what hs- bc.-n—
--sunlight that streams through .:.-a !s !
DON’T MISS A SINGLE CHANCE!
Agents know that a personal can
vass is best in securing- subscriptions
to The Weekly Constitution. Every
I intelligent man in your community
’ is a possible subscriber. Don't fail
i to ask each and everyone to join your
i club. Write your orders plainly.
Plunkett's Letter
T HERE is Uncle Remus’ ’
\/\/ Is the question oftenest askt-.i
V V by the young readers of The
Constitution since the departure of that
dear old friend to them ali. Bill Arp.
“Tell him to come again just as he
used to come,” is what they request of
me by letter and by word of mouth.
t is easy for me to tell these young
foils that Uncle Remus is principally ;r
his home in that portion of Allan
kno vn as “West End." but this wo if
not satisfy them, for what they want
is ti know that lie is again appear r.
l n tl • columns of The Constitution, j: .-.
as I : used to appear, and this. I think.
i comp les with the many requests for nw
to te 1 him to “come again just as he
used ’<> come,” for tne mention impli ■
! that I mvself would be as glad to giv
, him a am as any of the children.
It w >uld not do for me to afj. ct a
familia-'ity with "Uncle R< mu--,” but l
was fa nillai with big Bill Cunningham,
who kn w him so well and loved him ai.-i
rejoiced at ail his happy achi-vernei.
till I tl Ink it not out of taste to t. !.
some things J learned from Bill to pl ' ■
these young people who ask abot 1 ■ -t
Remus 30 often of late. And the sea.- ■
invites mj telling as Bill
the most of it was about th..? wither!
of chestnuts, hickory nuts, circu -.-
ties and such things as lit the season
that is now upon us.
According to Bill Uncle Rem 's w
never hurt with beauty—this might ba vt
been envy in Bill, for it is a w< :!
fact that Billy Cunningham was am
bitious to be the prettiest boy of I
Ins class an-1 this ambiti-jn clung to Liu.
through life. But Billy avowt d tha
Cl- R un IS w 'S fi-eckied-fa’.-’-d, ■ -I-m-.ci- .
and alwiys r-.impcd iu boylmod "itli .
t.f etches leg roiled above tin kn< -■
the other about half way between :
loot awl ki ee- and in this i.ght < ■
outrun a d. er. especially if h.- was i■-
ning to overtake the proeessi-.n wh.-n t ••
band began to pla.v- Billy tnat -■■ .
hinwelf was a fleet runner, out L n-m
Remit ’ with a quarter sweatit ;
nclied I ■ - ■ :
'.it the high places He bonm - d Ilk. -i
rubber lull when the band h.-,at: to piuj,
not ' boy in middle <’. Aa ■ -l'i
hold hit i ■' Hsbt as t runner it. .-.U'.n a.
time.
W.wi it come to gathering a--t.. a
and hie u-ry nuts in thos<
avows hat Uncle Remus w-uld - -ini.*
the tree and want out on limos to .
down tl ■ burrs in such twirl- .-s .s
would b iv" m.idv him the ehaiupi'.’ii
-linemet” if b-lephone and t-I’-gr.-,.-..
poles hal I’ccn th’-n -'s tne? ire r. .w. 'I ,
truth D that Uncle Remus, a ..- -rding : ■
Billy- was ;<■ success as a at wi-.i'
,-vcr If undertook, just .is h«- h;>.s be-r.
-op.--- *.ve have known him in litera .
pursuits.
\s goe 1 and generous as 1 know tiie
lamented B-iiy '-W -ningnam nate -•* • 1 ,
i think 1 s-’iii' times gave bi u pleasure 1
• now th; I Uncle Remus ha 1 an imp-di
".i.-nt in its speech wnicii put him at i
disadvan ag< in striving to talk or sing
. -,,..-.-ia;.;. io sing. Bale being a spl-mt.
talker atid singer, rejoiced and rath’::'
;■. .’■.,i:i'.iZ’- Uncle Remus upon th'se in ■ .
and i'■ used to tell a story about a tiin
at a party—“a country ginerround"—when
lie Hio'ignt he mid l.;i..ie Remus awl i
di-1 not turn out that way. As Billy to!-
the S’Oiy I expect It was about the first
partv (iiat I ncie Remus had over ar
‘.i,-l. d. .’iid he looked to Bill to see him
through. Billy, seeing that M- frieiui
Kent hiinse'd back in the eorn;-: and took
r... part in tt>3 plays, wen s t° him and
loki iuui ti l - iir at 1 sonw fun.
’'t’kiHi Ur Rcnri .
Billy pointed out a girl and told him
to go and ask 1« r to be hi ■ pa' -
th,, nix', play. and. according to iw-'tiu.-
vons, Uncle Remus arose, pulled down
th..- short coat that lie wore, walked ever
to the g;r! and Slid:
“Billy Uiw.ningtiam says for x'ou to walk
ai’. and with me in tl’.e t ext play.”
As it iwppened the girl wis one of
ol Hane wk county and graciously ae
the pr-.’p-'sitl’.n wit i at a bint of
tin"- awiiwni’t manner. But some young
. >ir.s near—t’O\ 1 expect—not being so
pinite as the ia.lv, laugned and had tun
over it. Anyhow, Uiwie Remus was soon.
Having such a peasant tim-.- and rec’-iveti
so much atienilon irom Hie ladies that 1
mink Biltv was sorry that b- started
ii.’ii. me.igli be neither l.m-.- d n- r sang
M -ag wim tilt, r- st,
Uncl-a Remus could laugh, he i" n laugh
iaughwa up’ his sle>?w. at tin boys an.
• specially ut B'hy, who had necome
r. ’i".is and wno had j.-'oße l ’ iat ho
would inake Unci’' Remus bw.. ins pres
tige l.'.v having him to .-mg a <■’-■;■. H
ing oiit r-.'-tier (' flip girl o tm- part;..
Bil ' ami ner conspired l-> hound Unci
It’.-iiius uov.n uni;! tie wrai.l j ■-t have t--’
' smg or talk one, either ot wlrn/n he could
hardly .’iceoniplish. To tim surprise
Billy,’ and to every one pr.-sem as to
that Uncle Remus made no hesitancy
when asked to sing, but began at once:
"It ra-rt-rains and it ha-h.t- t‘it - and t s
co-co-eeld, stormy weather,
.Mong co-co-eoines tiie far- tar-fa * ri.-.w
drinking all the ci-ci eider.
Oats lor to re-re-reaf and who will be the
bi-bi-binder,
L lost my ti u-tru-trw; love, but right lie- --
1 li-fi-lind her."
On ending, one of the svict ,-t girl.-' o:
: old Hancock took h,s arm aii-i togeth- ;
they walked into the supj r wh-eli ha--,
be.-ii announced, Uncle K.'inut with
princely stride and she like (q : n. From
that night Unck litmus began to gre".
in favor and still h<. has gi-own till i:
'. loved there as perhaps no <■: *-i live
umr. is lovtd and tne satn. kirn Iy a
lection and admiration has wie-i-’d awl
spread till it covers '.he Er. ;!ish speaking
world and will keep on till it covers ti ■■
whole world. It is no surpris, th;.' ■•-
mana tsk* ' ''■ here is Unci’ R ■ .
“teli’ him to come again just as he us- t
to come.”
In closing my reference tc him, I d. s.: ■*
to pay a loving tribute to th; memory f
hi” Bill Cunningham. He was not on
the life-long friend of Uncle Remus, be
friend lx
came in contact These two spent their
boyhood days together and remained in
close touch as long as Billy lived. (.)"-■
excelled as a conversationalist and *
"hale fellow well met," while the otic ■
< xceli id in literature and quiet
loving kindness. Billy (.’iinningli-r
never had so many dollars to give, b
his unselfish and gemrous nature maw
him proud of his frit nd an 1 to rep ic
without coveting the generosity ~f Um
Remus P (co to the ashes o: i
ma s- a long life and happiness ■ bo : : !
with Unci- Remus.
I had Intcmded to close here, but I
sure that J mie of those who have 1 ;
quired of Uncle Renr.is since the death
Major Smith will be disappol ted if 1
should have th'- impression that ’• ■ :s
such i stringer to me that I must d
petiel upon what Billy Cunning. tarn - ■*
about him to hint li s characteristics-
I do know him—all who hive coil’.'"
and gone about The Constitution off!-.'
for thirty years know him. and ev-’.?
o:-.' from janitor to th-- big’i st in au
thority have b. i n rejoiced at his jov; tl
and kindly nature He was ti>, lit. ■:
tho i (litorial romns for years. ,i tho
wlin might think tiiat ho cow l not talk
shoul.l have heard him in hoots ■;' rel <x '
tion and rest, and flits-.? who miu’it think
■hat b - wa clu'nsv from the bulk of le
person or the careless don't-'-arc striie
as he walks the streets, should 1- ive seen
lim ■-■- hen '. joint
■'Fishet's Horn Pipe." or "Sehef ish.”
. jig or to "cut tin- pigeon's wing." H
; is as supple as he is jolly .
is mod’ st. and he llv <1 awl lives t -
. make people feel better bv his co ‘
Like old Br'er Rabbit.’ l'i: '. R''■ -
; is laying low now, but pr ;t - s >on, I
: exp, ,-t. he will break out with <■-mething
that will please as his othet •>. wks have
, I'l used ami pay u s ill full w-11 tor his
recent silence.
I SARGE PLUNKETT.