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Things Done and Doing Along the Line SPOTS ON “THE SUN.” Where It Stood in 1884 and Where It Stands Now. (Long Branch Record.) The New York Sun’s recent violent attacks upon President Roosevelt’s railroad policy have led the Sun’s contemporary, the World, to examine its neighbor’s files. And a deeply in teresting discovery has been made. The World has learned nothing less than that in 1884 the now ultra-con servative Sun supported Benjamin F. Butler for president of the United States on a platform containing the following radical planks: “We denounce as dangerous to our Republican institutions those methods and policies of the Democratic and Republican parties which have sanc tioned or permitted establishment of land, railroad, money and other gigan tic monopolies; and we demand such governmental action as may be neces sary to take from such monopolies the powers they have so corruptly usurp ed and restore them to the people to whom they belong. “We demand congressional regula tion of interstate commerce; we de nounce pooling, stock-watering and dis criminations in rates and charges, and demand that congress shall correct these abuses, even if necessary by the construction of national railroads. We also demand the establishment of a government postal-telegraph system.” The Sun’s inconsistency is a gem. It is positively cruel of the World to expose it. Even a paper has feel ings. And certainly any paper has the inalienable right to change its opin ions—even to completely reverse it self —in a period of twenty-three years. Particularly should allowances be made for the Sun. It was not owned by a railway magnate twenty-three years ago. CORTELYOU STAKES THEM! The Dublin Times says: “Cortelyou knows where the friends of the admin istration are to be found. He decided Monday to add $64,000,000 to the $30,- 000,000 Shaw had placed with the New York banks, making $94,000,000 to re lieve the depression threatened by the fight of the bulls and bears last Fri day. Cortelyou may not be much of a business man, but he knows where the sinews of war come from.” JOHN A. STEWART COKE s . DAVIS STEWART & DAVIS Life, Accident, Casualty and Surety Insurance 504-5-6 PRUDENTIAL BUILDING. .... ATLANTA. GEORGIA MANAGERS: THE MARYLAND LIFE INSURANCE CO., of Baltimore; THE GENERAL ACCIDENT, of Perth, Scotland; THE METROPOLITAN SURETY CO., of New York. Live Agents in Georgia cities and towns can increase their writing capacity and earnings by communicating with us. Special Inducements Offered First Class Men WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. FREAK LEGISLATION. The output of freak legislation this year promises to be unusually abun dant. The Arkansas legislature is se riously considering a bill prohibiting nonresidents of the state from acquir ing title to real estate within its ju risdiction. The Texas lawmakers are debating a bill making it unlawful for a wage earner to work more than twen ty-six days in any month, under a heavy penalty. In Oklahoma a con stitutional provision has been propos ed in good faith providing for the election of United States senators by the people, and compelling the legis lature to ratify such election or expel members voting against it, and anoth er providing that all persons of good moral character may be admitted to practice law without examination, and allowing persons not lawyers to serve as county law judges. The licensing of piano tuners is a pet measure of a Missouri legislator. In the legislature of that state a bill has been introduced, and gravely urged, prohibiting any one from playing baseball except within an inclosure surrounded by an eight foot fence, under a severe penalty.— Public Ledger. FIVE EX-ES IN EACH. The Washington Herald recently printed a paragraph directing atten tion to the fact that five of Missouri’s ex-governors are living and that this was probably a greater number of liv ing ex-governors than could be claimed by any other state, but it has developed the circumstance that Alabama also has five former governors still alive. They are Rufus W. Cobb, elected in 1878 and 1880; Thomas G. Jones, elect ed in 1890 and 1892; William C. Oates, elected in 1894; Joseph F. Johnston, elected in 1896 and 1898, and William D. Jelks, who succeeded to the office on the death of William F. Stamford and was elected to a full term in 1902. VALUABLE WHISKERS. Whiskers, though not a marketable commodity, have reached a quotation of slOl in Wellston, Ohio, the high est value known ever to have been placed on them. The figure was es tablished by an award in the circuit court of damages to Samuel Beatty, 76 years old, who possessed a luxuri ant growth until two years ago. Then a gasolene explosion destroyed them, rendering the Southern Ohio Gas Com pany responsible for loss. RYAN ON THE RAILROADS. (Louisville Herald.) Thomas F. Ryan, of New York and Virginia, railroad magnate, has laid down some important points concern ing the railroad situation. These points are well worthy of consideration: The railroads are, says Mr. Ryan, really owned by the people and not by Wall street brokers. They should be taken out of Wall street and stock quotation tickers should be taken out of the railroad, offices. The railroad offices and the practical railroad men charged with the re sponsibility of operating the railroads should be in absolute control. They should welcome every opportu nity to confer with the president, aid ing him in his efforts to reach a solu tion that will be fair and just to the country and to the corporations and insure strict obedience to the law. As to the taking of the railroads out of Wall street the railway corporations can at any moment effect it. Let them do so and they will certainly achieve a gain in public estimation, won by a notable public service. About the absolute control of railways by railroad offices and practical railroad men no objection can be taken provided that the so-called absolute control does not interfere with the public weal. The president wants justice for the masses. All that the railroads and other corpo rations are entitled to is a fair return on their actual investments. The wa tering of stocks is a dishonest prac tice and a menace to the nation’s finan cial security. It should be put down inexorably. The president wants nothing but the enforcement of law. The law is above everybody and not to be used by any one class to the detriment of anoth er. The railroads are powerful. They have rights that ought to be and that shall be respected, but their very worst enemy is he who seeks to array the railroad interest against the people’s cause. Railroads prosper when the people prosper. All real prosperity is based on jusice. NEW FIND FOR FARMERS. Michigan farmers received $4,500,000 for the sugar beets they raised in 1906. Ten years ago there was not a beet-root sugar factory in that state. Now there are sixteen, with a yearly output of 95,000 tons of sugar, worth nearly $9,000,000. Os this vast sum the farmers get half. ROMANCE OF THE BIBLE HOUSE. From this huge building, in Astor place, New York city, authority radi ates to the uttermost ends of the earth. Let the directors say the word, says “The Chronicle,” and cargoes of Bi bles, marvelously printed in the quaint est and most barberous of tongues, will go on camels or elephants crashing through the jungles of Africa and Si am; on queer little llamas over the great passes of the Andes between Bolivia and Peru; on the heads of the cannibal coolies round about the base of the mountains of the Moon, near the source of old Father Nile; on cam elback across the burning deserts of Nubia and Arabia the Stony, or in flat-bottomed boats towed by man with bamboo cables through the deep gorges of the Yangtze river. TILLMAN DENIES. In a letter to a friend in Washington, says the Herald, Senator Tillman de nies outright the report that after his recent lecture at Martinsburg, W. Va., he was embroiled in a sensational dispute at the Berkeley Club of that city. He states that he was never more hospitably entertained than by the members of this club, and that he is utterly at a loss to know how the widespread report gained currency that the members set upon him vehe mently for his more or less harsh criticism of President Roosevelt. MARRIAGE FAILS THERE. A Chicago woman says 95 per cent of the women of that city would sell their husbands for $50,000. The troub le about that is that not 1 per cent of the population would be willing to pay the price.—Washington Herald. GEORGIA LOCAL PRESIDENTS. Have you received a letter from me about the auditing of the local secre tary’s books? If not write me for it, telling me the name of the local union to which youu belong. Don’t fail to give your postoffice address. Write plainly. This letter is very important and should be read to each local union. Yours in the work, R. F. DUCKWORTH. SEVENTH DISTRICT MEETING. The Farmers Unions of the counties in the Seventh congressional district of Georgia will meet in Dallas, Ga., on the 11th day of April, at 10 a. m. A great meeting is desired and expected. 11