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STYEE AND WEAR IJV SDPJRIJVO STACY ADAMS $5.00 and $6.00 PAIR. :-: BYBROCO $3.50 PAIR. UNION MADE. BYCK BROTHERS, Broughton and Whitaker SStsu better results to those who receive the service. The interests of the employer and the employed are, or should be, identical and mutual. And where differ ences occur, as are certain, the rights of both classes should be protected and the interests of the public as well. These interests could best he conserved by the impartial hand of the General Government, by , the institution of a non-partisan board of arbitration to settle all differences which arise with even hand ed justice and with all possible haste. Foreign Immigration. “Again, as I did in the last campaign. I raise my voice against the great annual influx of foreign ers into this country. In the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, there came into this country 1,285,349 immigrants; in the year ending June 30, 1906, there came over 1,100,735; in the year ending June 30, 1905, there came over 1,026,499; in the year ending June 30, 1904, there came over 812.870. So we see that there has been an enormous annual increase for each of these years. The 1.285.349 immigrants brought over $25,599,898 or nearly $19.91 per capita in 1907; $22.81 in 1906, and $24.73 in 1904—a steady decrease every year. “Statistics show that the nations which come to this country from the northwestern portion of Europe and Great Britain bring over less than one fourth of the immigrants; bring over nearly one-half of the money that is brought over, and bring over less than three per cent, of the ignorant; while those which come from the southern and eastern sections of Europe bring over three-fourths of the immi grants, about one half of the money and over fifty per cent, of the ignorant people. My friends, this question is the most serious which confronts this Government today, and it should have your serious thought and study. Because, this terrible influx of the ignorant and vicious elements of Europe is a direct menace to our American form of Government. They come here with no idea of, or appreciation for, our form of Government, and their baneful influence will soon menace and threaten the perpetuity of our Government. We are not opposed to the intelligent, honest, upright men of character, with some means, nor are we opposed to the oppressed of Europe who bona fide, intend making this their future home, casting their lot with us in this glorious land o! the free. No. we welcome them to our shores, for some of our very best citizens are of these classes, but we who love our homes, our country and our free constitutional government, do oppose this whole sale, unrestricted influx of the ignorant, vicious and THE REASON criminal elements of foreign countries, who know nothing of our civilization, our citizenship, our cus toms or our government, and who care less, coming here, spreading their contaminating influences and political ‘isms' to the detriment of our American free institutions, and to the debasement of Ameri can citizenship and the injury of American labor. This evil should be stopped, ami our ports closed to all such classes from whatever country or clime they mav come.” « On the corporation and Trust Question, Mr. Sheppard favored legislation that would protect the people and all industry from oppression by them. He put no confidence in the theory that the panic, was caused by recent legislation regulating them. He made it plain that he was a friend to corporations as well as of the working man, but insisted that for their benefit as for the benefit of the people some such legislation as the Hepburn bill should be found in active operation. State and National. The address was one of the most brilliant that Mr. Sheppard has yet delivered and received con tinual applause from start to finish. EMPIRE LIFE INSURANCE CO. THE COMPANY OF THE SOUTH. > /' V \ / !H S:-- ■■£ 1 r V ; fr tn / W FOUNDED ON THE MIGHTY PILLARS OF GEORGIA. SAFE, SANE, CONSERVATIVE. OLD LINE LEGAL RESERVE. WALLIS & ARNETT, GENERAL AGENTS, 410-411-412 Nat. Bldg. 11