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Nelvs and Vie Ips From All Around SOUTHERN HISTORY. (The Tampa Tribune.) A book entitled “Half Honrs in Southern History,” has been read with very great interest by the Tribune’s editor, and should be placed in ev ery southern library, great or small. This book is the work of John Leslie Hall, Ph. D., professor of English and of general history in the old college of William and Mary, Virginia’s first great institute of learning, the alma mater of many of America’s most distinguished statesmen. Prof. Hall traces with skilled hand the effect of southern men actuated by the principles that first led this country to declare for liberty and tear off the British yoke, upon the history of the United States. His reasoning is clear, his language classical and chaste. He discloses with unanswer able logic the facts that demonstrated that the south from the very beginning of the government, throughout the bitter struggle of the sixties, clung with unflinching tenacity to the grand ideas underlying the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of 1787. We have not the space to give a resume of this excellent contribution to American history. It should be pur chased and read by the present gener ation and placed in the hands of the children wh owill succeed us. And in this connection the following ex tract from the book, in the chapter headed “The Homes That Made He roes,” should appeal strongly to south ern men and is a good index to the value of the work. The author is writing, as the chapter heading shows, of the influences in the early history of the south that in stilled into the growing men and wo men the principles to which we have alluded. “This old southern civilza tion,” says he, “has never been under stood, but has been misrepresented, maligned, and travestied. The stage has caricatured it. Poets have prosti tued their gifts to vilify it. The muse of history has been degraded from her high office and made the mouthpiece of the traducer and the slanderer. Fic tion has lent her artful and seductive aid, and books, unfair and disingenu ous, if not purposely maliciously, have made the southern planter’s name a byword and a hissing among the na tions; while children in schools (note this), where the Bible was lying on the table as the standard of life and of morals, have been taught, by precept and by pictures, that a planter was a man whose daily business was to mal treat and lash the negro.” Professor Hall instances, in support of this, “a text-book long used in certain schools,” and he claims that the lying state ments of such books have “cut the south off from the sympathy of all mankind.” Indeed, Professor Hall’s book, as a whole, is a plea for the use of such books in our schools as will tell the plain truth about the south, untainted by the malevolent influences that would destroy among our children the high respect and honor they should feel for their illustrious progenitors. WHICH IS A DEMOCRAT? (The Portland Oregonian.) The New York World should revise its question “What is a Democrat?” With the names of Bryan, Hearst, Par ker, Cleveland, Watterson, Taggart, Tillman, and Murphy before It, the World might better ask “Which Is a Democrat?” WATSON’S WEEKLY JEFFERSONIAN. •wWa x 'S Oi -W Q V gH ■■ W If® Ml a& HnBH. ■ ; o Jr h BRIGADIER GENERAL E. A. GARLINGTON, WHO RECOMMENDED THE DISGRACING OF COLORED SOLDIERS. General Garlington is the son of a Confederate soldier, General A. C. Garlington, formerly a lawyer and journalist in Atlanta, and is the only son of an ex-Confederate to attain the rank of general in the regular army of the United States. A DESPERATE DEMAND FOR COM PETENT LABOR. (New York American.) Current disclosures of a peonage system in the turpentine and lumber camps in some of the southern states show how urgent is the demand for labor. There is nothing that can con done the inhumanities revealed. Crim inal prosecutions of the employers have taken place. But it is also shown that trains filled with laboring men on the way to these places of law less imprisonment were beset by agents of reputable firms who tried to persuade them to stop and go to work. Entirely aside fronv the moral prin ciples involved, the use of bloodhounds and mounted scouts to bring laborers back to camp is a graphic picture of present economic conditions. It is to the honor of Alabama that a flagrant case of peonage was exposed by the editors of a Southern journal and that the men guilty of the bar barities inflicted upon labor were ad vnturers from another part of the con tinent. Unfortunately, the abolition of this new system of slave-driving does not solve the labor problem. Throughout the American continent there Is de mand for competent workmen in many fields. An interview was published in Washington recently, stating that the Commissioner of Agriculture of the state of New York had discovered that fifty thousand farm hands are needed in this commonwealth at once. The South and West are in even greater need of labor. This is one of the inevitable results of expanding prosperity. It is, in fact, a part of a world demand. The Chilean government has just voted 550,000 pesos to be expended in securing immigrants for that republic. Their passage is paid to Chile and em ployment is found for them upon ar rival. A home is being built for them at Valparaiso in which they will be temporarily housed. It is hoped to get ten thousand immigrants during 1907, if possible, and if the program is suc cessful the appropriation for the same purpose will be increased next year.— New York American. STANDARD OIL REBATES. (The Philadelphia Ledger.) It seems that the Standard Oil peo ple took rebates without knowing it, and it was mean to fool them so. OUR SAFETY ASSURED. (The New York American.) The president has told an Ohio vis itor that he wants Taft to succeed him. The country had suspicions of that sort before, but to have them thus officially confirmed lends a sense of security. It saves such a lot of bother to the American people to have their rulers thus chosen for them. ANOTHER STIRRING YEAR OF SUC CESS. Mr. Hearst’s New York American admits that another stirring year of American success is assured. So enormous and unprecedented is the demand for iron that iron scraps of all kinds and variety are eagerly seiz ed on and shipped without delay to the famine-stricken furnaces. The junk man and the iron scrap man are hav ing a profitable inning. The iron ore beds have not been exhausted, but this tremendous consumption, due to an ever advancing prosperity, has made it necessary to supplement the products of the mines by the contri butions of the scrap piles. The predictions of stock manipula tors that popular criticism of railways would force the transportation corpo ration to inaugurate a policy of re trenchment is controverted by unpre cedented orders for steel rails and structural steel. The large independ ent producers of iron have all sold their output for the coming year. Consumers, who have not yet had their orders placed, are wondering where they can get them filled. The Tennessee Coal and Iron Com pany has, it is said, refused to consider new contracts. The Republic Iron and Steel Company cannot, according to Wall street advices, undertake ad ditional orders in 1907. One company, has made an advance of fifty cents a ton on iron. There are American rep resentatives of iron interests now in Europe purchasing iron. But iron is in brisk demand in the old world also. The mammoth plant of the United States Steel Corporation is breaking all its records in the mass of material it is now turning out. It is freely pre dicted that even this powerful corpo ration, with its firm and widespread grip on supplies, will run short of raw material. The orders going into steel mills are from 20 to 30 per cent in excess of those of last year. A UNION OF ROGUES. (The New York Evening Post.) But there was a tell-tale rallying of the worst men on both sides to thwart Gov. Hughes’ honorable effort to make the public service efficient and pure. When Raines strikes hands with Gra dy, when Allds embraces McCarren, when the solid phalanx of Black Horse Cavalry Republicans are found riding cheek by jowl with the Tammany sen ators, honest men know that they have before them a union of rogues. It was triumph of “Raines Democrats” and "Grady Republicans.” THE ROGUE’S LEAGUE. (The New York World.) A situation exists which is unparal leled in the history of New York. Three political machines are allied with the public-service corporations against the public. The Republicans in the senate have allowed their or ganization to pass into the hands of a shameless minority. This minority is in league with the Democratic organ ization and is abetted by the Independ ence League organization. There 13 no previous record of such a coalition of political and corporation corruption, THEY STAND WASHING. (The Milwaukee Sentinel.) Nevertheless, our alleged soap-plugg ed, shoddy-built battleships have been making some remarkably good heavy weather, long-distance seagoing rec ords. PAGE THREE