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the follow ins cities at plncaa named.
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_ SWORN CIRCULATION.
The Montgomery Advertiser euarentaoe Ita
Advertisers tend maker It a part of the con
JtAct when requested! that its dally clrcu
*Atlo« la larser than that ol any m“rn' *
Aewapaper printed In Alabama—and that
He Sunday edition has tho largoet circu
•Atlon it any edition or any uewepaper
printed in Alabamn without ,»e«yUoc.
The figures for January printed below
Pepresent the actual net clrenlatlou. »“ r,‘
•nrne having been deducted v
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j.14.711
• .14.790
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IS (Pun).19,250
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IS.14,101
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Total.
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81 (Sun).19,486
K*4 Total.
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Aw*g*, Jma.' 1999 .
Average, Jan. 1009 -19.107
C. I. Flnlgan, Circulation Manager el
The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly
•worn, earn:
The foregoing- statement of The Adver
ttear's circulation for the month of January.
1909, la true and correct, and compiled af
ter all return* from news boye. newe agents,
•polled and left-over copies have been de*
ducted. C. 1. FINIGAN.
Circulation Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this
12th day of February. 1909.
RICA ALEXANDER.
Notary Public.
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 3, 1909.
There can be no doubt of the fact
that the Republicans are much wor
ried on account of the regular and *a
creasing deficit, but what are th-y go
ing to do about it? They, bought it
^ themselves xrtTT ifiuat bear all the
Responsibility.^ If the executive and
legislative branches of the government
were to be transferred on the 4th of
March from the Republicans to the
Democrats we can imagine the former
laughing in their sleeves at the hole
they weft putting the others in, but
unfortunately for the R.’s it is they
who are in the hole, and they must get
themselves out or sink deeper, in the
main the House and Senate will stand
as it now does; at least, the Republi
cans will have control and must bear
the responsibility. .t seems cruel to
turn such a problem over to the new
President and his associates but they
•re in for it.
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We are told that the first bacteria 1
ever seen by man were discovered by
a Dutch philosopher and came from the
scrapings of his own teeth. He didn't !
know what a vast amount of worry
he was turning loose on the world
When he made his discovery public.
Would it not be something like a
reflection on civilization if a discred- ,
ited nation like Servia, with little hon- j
or at home or abroad, should be able to
bring on a war between some of the
great powers?
i ' ---
They tell us that though the Chinese j
Import a good many pianos they get
them for the foreigners residing ;
among them, the natives themselves i
not having yet learned or wisiied to
learn to pound on the instrument.
TTp in New England when two men !
meet each other on a fine day the usu
al greeting is, “This is regular sugar
weather.” They know «•'..* such weath
er starts the sap to rising in tlie maple
trees.
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At a London ball one night last week
one Lady Granard appeared on the
pcene “dressed almost entirely in dia
monds,” one account says. She must
have been a sight t<> guzt* upon.
We should like to know Just what
Senator Tillman means when he says
he Intends to “keep right after the
president”—meaning Roosevelt. Does
be propose t<» follow him to Africa'.'
We may at least assume that after
Thursday there will be no more doubt
as to the Taft cabin***. V/nfn lie gives
out the names to the newspapers we
•hall feel that it is all settled.
What’s this we find? The New York
Herald printing a list of “the ten great
est living Americans” and not a T. R.
in the bunch! How can the country
survive such a shuck?
Mr. Maxim calls his new Invention
•*th« silencer.” We have read of the
case where “silence like a poultice
rame," and perhaps this is one of that
kind.
fc/ ' Tennessee law-makers hit on a new
Rv plan to block legislation when they
? left their State and went to Kentucky,
la time for julips on Old Kaintuck?
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OBJECTS TO ADVICE.
The people of Montgomery have
more than twice voted In favor of a
bond iaeue for the erection of a Cen
tral High School. The majority wee
about ten to one In favor of the propo
rtion and we aubralt that ie pretty
good evidence that they are thorough
ly In earaeet In the matter. Now cornea
the chairman of the Finance Commit
tee of the City Council and objecta to
expresalon of dealre on the part of Thai
Advertiser or the Board of Education
that ateps be concluded by which the
bonds could be Issued.' Whether or not
The Advertiser was talking about
something It knew nothing of, It does
know that If the matters connected
with the bond Issue when It first came
up had been properly attended to there
would have been no occasion for hold
ing three ^elections and the school build
ing would have been erected long ago. |
The schools will all close by the first
of June and if the congestion Is tb
end work of erecting the new build
ing should commence by that time, but
If the council continues putting off the
adoption of plans for the Issue of the
bonds school time will come again and
not a brick be laid. The chairman of
the committee himself stated In his
remarks, criticizing The Advertiser
for showing its interest in a matter of
great public importance, that the le
gality of the election had been settled. ;
and any stumbling block In that direc
tion' has been removed. It will take
several weeks to advertise for bids, af
ter the adoption of plans for Issue and
sale of bonds and at the earliest
work could1 hardly begin under nine
ty days. The Advertiser thinks It Is
time for the council to act If It ex
pects for the school children to be
properly housed and as a natural
consequence properly taught. Wheth
er., or not It knows as much of finan
cial fhatters as does the chairman of
the Finance Committee It doee know
that there ought to be no more elec
tion! on this subject, and Just as lit
tle delay as circumstances will permit,
go far «s past delay is concerned, that
has been due to mistakes of Council
and others In authority, and not to any
“butting" In of citizens.
THE LAST DAY.
Today closes the Roosevelt adminis
tration. perhaps the noisiest and most
spectacular the country has ever known.
President Rooaevelt within the last two I
years possessed In a remarkable de
gree the affection of the people and yet^l
the expiration of his term of service Is
hailed throughout the United States
with general and gen'’4r»e relief.
Not since Andrew Johnson has a |
President retir'd to private li/e in such ;
disrepute with so many members of
both ’-ranches of Congress. Certainly
not since Andrew Johnson has there
existed such bitter feuds between the
President and the Legislative Branch
of government. The Senate notorious- j
ly hard to move was not content to
sit quiet without administering a part
ing rebuke, but it went out of Its way
to deal him the severest and harshest
criticisms on the Steel Trust and Ten
nessee Coal and Iron Company merger.
Even If the report was not adopted It
was one of the severest rebukes ever
put upon a President. In the House the
strictures upon him and his official ac
tions have been so severe that one
speech was forbidden a place in the
Record and that by a Congress un
friendly to him and a second was cen
sored before It was allowed to go Into
the records.
The Judicial Branch of government
no doubt feels enmity of the same sort
to the President, who has projected
his views and hla personality upon the
privileges of the court as well as upon
the privileges of the law-makers. This
is Indicated by the more or less guard- |
ed utterances with which the courts
have now and then broken their usual j
conventions.
Theodore Roosevelt personified the
idea of a central, personal government.
That he wilfully and violently disre
garded the provisions of theh Constitu
tion when they stood in his way; that
he left the pJtmUcs of his own privll- j
leges when It suited him and trod reck
lessly upon those of the Legislatitve i
and Executltve Branches, when it suit- 1
ed him, even his friends will not deny. !
And what made his official career all
the worse for the country was the
fact that several governors of States
taking their cue from him, adopted his
methods and followed his example in
their own sphere of action.
The country will sigh with relief ■
when he steps down to the level of a
private citizen where his indiosyncra- i
cies will not have behind them the :
prestige of the Presidential office.
ONE VICTORY PARTIALLY WON.
The vigorous an«l systematic light
waged by the American Publishers be
fore Congress has resulted In a mate
rial victory for tariff revision and tar
iff lowering in at least one direction.
The Select Committee on Pulp and Pa
per Investigation has submitted a
unanimous report to the House calling
for a material reduction in the tariff
<»n paper and providing for the free In
troduction of pulp, unless, Canada, from:
which country most of the pulp would
'..me, establishes an export duty.
The report Is signed by every Demo
crat and every Republican Representa
tive on the committee, which should,
and no doubt does, give it all the en- j
dorsoment necessary for a passage
through the House and the Senate. The
report, as remarkable as It may seem,
appears to meet with the endorsement
of all the interests effected by the man
ufacture. sale and purchase °* news
print paper.
In submitting it to the House Rep
resentative Mann said:
' I wish to say a word, Mr. Speski r.
In presenting this report, which Is a
unanimous *'opo-t of the comm.tte*, I
only wish to sav that in our opinion It
will meet with the approval of both
the Republican and Democratic mem
bers <»f the Committee on Way* and
Means; with the approval of the pub
i Ushers of the country Interested In the
! subject on one hand and of the mill !
I owners and paper manufacturers on I
i:
the other hand, that It will meet with
the approval generally of the people'of
the United States on one sloe of the
line and of the people of the Dominion
of Canada on the other aide of the
line.’'
This statement was corroborated by
Representative Sims, a Democratic
member of the committee.
Under the terms of the report, which
It Is expected Congress will make
legally effective, pulp Is to be admit
ted free, provided Canada should not
see fit to bar It by an expoft duty. The
tariff on news-print paper was reduced
from thirty cents a hundred pounds to
ten cents a hundred pounds. This is
a sweeping reduction, wiping out as
It does two-thirds of the total of the
figure established by the high protec
tive schedule of the Dlngley bill.
Mr. Sims said: "We feel that we have
won a sweeping viotory." He may well
say It and the newspaper publishers
throughout the country will heartily
concur in that asserted opinion.
This is probably the greatest ad
vance that has so far been made to
wards an equitable tariff revision by a
Republican Congress In recent years.
The report Is yet a long ways off from
a legal enactment but It Is hardly prob
able that a unanimous report made by
a Select Committee after a searching
investigation will be lost In th^House
or Senate. *
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BITTER CRITICISM.
The Ro9ton Traveler clTh be about
as bitter towards Roosevelt and his
acts as any newspaper that comes un
der our observation, and can express It
self as freely and plainly as any of
them. Like most of other Northern
Journals It has never ceased to con
demn the discharge of the negro Sol
diers conected with the Brownsvllld'
affair, and’ the recent action of Con
gress In passing a sort of compromise
bill, by which the discharged soldiers
maj£ prove their innocence and re-en
ltst Is little more pleasing to It than
the original action of Roosevelt, but
It looks at it as some reparation to
those whom it thinks were badly treat
ed.
But, however, our contemporary may
regard the action of Congress It cer
tainly does not lessen Its >*favoraL>le
opinion of the President; "Public
opinion and public contempt,” It de
clares, "have made an impression In
this matter, even on the defiant occu
pant of J,he White House, and, despite
the discredited testimony of dubious
dptictlves and hie constant fury and
iteration of guilt, he In glad enough
to grasp even this poor legislative
straw as he leaves office for good, but
he can make up his mind the Browns
ville Incident will stand as an ugly blot
In his ’scutcheon as long as he lives.
What Mr. Taft would have done It Is
hard to say; lawyers can kill cat^
without choking them with cream; yet
we question whether his alleged loyal
ty to his political creator would make
him deny Justice to the black soldiers
did the matter come before him."
We have been somewhat at a loss to
understand why there should have been
so much bitterness throughout the
North regarding this affair. The Trav
eler says these negro soldiers were
"discharged and disgraced by the Pres
ident as a sop to the South and an off
set to the Booker Washington lunch
eon.1' This may be a good Yankee
opinion of the business, but It is only
fair to admit that there have all along
been diverse opinions In the South re
garding thte much discussed affair,
there being numbers who havd all
along contended that the troops were
not fairly treated. However, we have
no desire to discuss the matter, merely
referring to It to show a specimen of
Northern bitterness towards Roosevelt.
We are somewhat curios to know
what Mr. Taft Is going to do about that
"farm uplift" bslness inaugurated by
Roosevelt. Will he keep on uplifting
them or let them drop with a dull thud?
March came In sufficiently lamb-like
to set the predlcters to work telling
us how It will go out. We don't know
whether It will make its exit like an
African lion or otherwise.
Tennessee has passed a law to per
mit boxing. We suppose they are wil
ling for the people to have a little fun
when prohibition gets hold of them.
This Date in History
MARCH 3.
1743—Peter Faneull. donor of Faneull Hall,
died In Boston Dorn In New Ro
chelle, N. Y-. In 1700.
1793—William Charles Macready, f*mou»
English actor, born. Died April 27,
1873.
1803—Territory of Louisiana erected.
1815—William II. CrkwTord of Georgia be
came Secretary of War.
1817—Alabama Territory formed.
1837—Independence of Texan recognized by
the United States.
1843—Uongrezs appropriated |30,000 to build
Morse’s experimental telegraph line
from Baltimore to Washington.
1841' — Minnesota was organized as a terri
tory. and Alexander Kamie/ was ap
pointed the first governor.
1*61—The “Crlttendon Compromise defeat
ed In Congress. ,
1875—t'ongress authorized the people of
Colorado to form a State government.
1882— Kosooe Conkling of New Yorkderiln
,.,1 an appointment to the Supreme
Bench. . . , , ,
—George C. IJewey made an Admiral tt*
thi I'nlted States Navy.
Only One More.
Tlte tolerant and good-humored at
tude of a vast, critical and wearied
•etlon of the public Is voiced in the
dlowing verses from The Baltimore
un which were greeted with laugh
•r from all sides, Republican and Dem
-rat when John Sharp Williams read
mm’In the House last Thursday:
Hang the Rig Stlsk In the closet.
Put the megaphone away:
Twine the Ananias members
With the olive and the hay;
Over all the happy country
Swells the tide of coming rest;
Let the tvearv ceasr from troubling
North and South and East and West.
Be the strenuous life forgotten.
Blistering epithets put by;
Tear "mendacious-' from the language:
Let no varlot whisper "lie."
Park "My policies" for shipment.
Take a long brpath once again.
While the land 'get* hack to reaeoa
And the wl’d hear seeks its den.
Take vacation, tired typewriters*
Special messages no more
Burn the air along the highway
Ere they reach the Senate doot.
Put the horses In the stable.
Peace Is dawning, sweet and grand;
Onlv a few more days of Teddy—
Hall Columbia, happy land!
What the State Paper*
Are Saying and Doing
For Jary Scrvlrt,
Opelika Morning New*.
Why are men who can neither read
nor write wanted tor Jury servjcs!
I* It a compliment to the men sought!
We think not.
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A Ur*, Party.
Greenville Advocate.
The noclety columns announce that
MU* Mabel ^trdman, of Washington,
Is going to entertain a large party
during the Inauguration A* Mr. Taft
Is to be her guest the pertinence of
♦he 'large party” becomes apparent.
Married Men* Probably.
Gadsden Evening Journal.
Mobile’s Judges In the congress of
beauties gave the honors to a mar
ried lady, Mrs Edgar Kay, of Tusca
loosa. Probably they were married
men who made the award.
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Cettoa Tails Neat.
Anniston Evening Star.
W* have had Teddy bears and Bllly
'posaums, and now some South Caro
lina crank has sent the President-elect
a rabbit's left hind leg with the pos
sible hope of creating a Wll!lam-'‘Mol
Ue-cotton-tall” craze. What nextl
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Should Be Careful.
Gadsden Tlmes-News
The next extraordinary session of
the legislature should pay more at
tention to the manner In which the
laws are enacted and less to passing a
mass of laws that the people care
nothing about * Some of the most Im
portant work of last session was ren
dered void bv either ignorance or neg
ligence, and the State does not care to
spend Its good money on either
quality.
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Give Them Work.
Thomasville Echo.
The bent way to extend charity to
persona who are in need la to ghve
them work. Don’t give any able bod
ied man a penny or a mouthful unleaa
he works for it. By this the man re
tains his self-respect, and the profes
sion of the tramp Is not encouraged.
If a man needs help and is able to
work and you are tempted to give hLn
Somethin*, don’t you do it. But In
stead. *lve him work. Odd jobs can
always be found, and set him at these.
We do not advise refusin* to relieve
hunger, but we do advice that It be
done In a manner that will not breed
dependence in men If everyone
wowld do this all over the land, this
country would soon cease to be fhe
paradise for tramps that it has been
A FEW TEARS.
MlacM With SmHes A; the East Official
Function.
Washington Correspondence of Louisville
Courier-Journal.
President Roosevelt, sine# the beginning
of his administration in 1901. has received
the great American public at the White
House, that Is to say. such members of the
public as hold tickets of admission, upon
state ocaslons.
Exactly forty times. President Roosevelt’s
wife has stood beside him at their mutual
post and received the (treat American pub
lic, too. That’s a game record for a wo
Mrs. Roosevelt has never once played
hookey or pleaded sick. This estimate re
fers to the four great annual levees only,
those to the diplomatic oorps, the Judiciary.
Congress and the army and navy, and the
New Year’s receptions for the past eight
seasons, from 1902 to 1909. inclusive. Mrs.
Roosevelt has stood to her gun# as unfllnch
lugly through the scores of other less
stereotyped occasions when her husband has
been host to hundreds.
The army and navy reception was the so
cial wind-up of the Administration. The
Roosevelts now are practically put away In
moth balls, along with the wild animal
heads that have been decking the state
dining room of the White House, during the
present zoological regime. 'A dead circus”
was the apt characterization of the small
hoy, vfewing the mortuary menagerie dis
played in the national banquet hall.
There was a clutch at the hoart of not
a few who participated in the last official
blowout of the present boss of the execu
tive mansion and watched his wife and him
self and their stately retinue In their pro
gress up the marble stairway, after the last
hand had been shaken. The President and
his mate paused a second on a lower step
as applause of fellowship rang out from
hundreds pressing for a final glimpse. Mr.
Roosevelt, drawtffg himself up to the last
lota of hks five feet nine inches as he
bowed and smiled In gratitude, his eyes per
haps a trifle dimmed with emotion. Mrs.
Roosevelt, too, smiled her last acknowledg
ments, happily and a little wearily. She
is glad the game is done She knows the
normal woman In her own home-nest far
from the spotlight, has the fondest fate
after all.
Mrs. Roosevelt has smiled heroically for
seven years. A ”pinned-on smile,” the
caustic lias designated the unrelaxing bea
tlflcness of her facial pose. She has allow
ed herself no moods, no vagaries, no fans.
She hah been an Ideal helpmate to a man
who pr- fers a monopoly In all the family
eccentricities in himself. Like Edw'ard of
England. Mrs. Roosevelt has never made a
single ni stake throughout her entire reign.
There hus been no word of adlverse criti
cism. If ever there was a "perfect lady,”
you see l.er in Edith Kermit Roosevelt.
If thf r-tlrlng first lady of the land lacks
in aggressiveness of characteristics almost
to the verge of being nondescript. It Is at
least a fault on the safest aide.
REC 001X17.1 NG DEMOCRATS.
Hon Republican President# Have
UIm'U Thera a Chance.
Arkansas Gazette.
The truth Is that the Democartlo
party lias not since Cleveland’s day
offered any opportunity to men of ex
ceptional talents save as members of
Congress. And even there their op
portunities are necessarily circum
scribed. At times there are cases
where abil ty and fitness in Democrats
are so obv ous that recognition comes i
at the hands of a Republican Pres!- j
dent. But we doubt whether In the i
history of t ie United States one of the i
two great political parties has ever ■
had so significant a part in the coun
try’s government, and in shaping and
determining the country’s destiny, as
the Democratic party lias had since it
come under the leadership of William
J. Bryan. There are men in Arkan
mas fully c onpetent to hold Cabinet
positions and places of like distinc
tion- But o Democrat Is selected
for such a p isitlon to-day save in the
few cases v\ iere a Republican Presi
dent shows he liberality and broad
ness in filling some high office that
many Democratic newspapers are un
able to show in receiving the news of
such an app dntment. But that Mc
Kinley and Roosevelt and Taft have
at times pa.->ed over all the good
men that were available In their own
parties to mime deserving Demo
crats to hlg and honorable offices,
I the Democrat c party, so far as ad
i ministration • f the republic’s affairs
is concerned. 1 ad almost ceased to ex
; 1st.
’ROOSEVELT AN “AD” EXPERT.
Know* How to Get Widest Publicity
uu Dull Days.
New York Wo: Id.
Dr. Channlng Rudd, an advertising
expert says President Roosevelt is al
so an advertis ng expert- He says he
woukj like to have Mr. Roosevelt in
bis agency.
“Thefe Is a gentleman in Washing
ton who will je President until the
4th of March/' said Dr. Rudd, In the
course of a talk on advertising, 'who
la an advertising man of the highest
order. 1 would like to employ* him In
my agency aft- r the present employ
ment is conclu led. but I’m afraid his
price would be too high.
"He knows i. »w to get the widest
publicity He got a training as an
advertising ma: In his earlier years.
He 'knows how o send out matter for
publication so hat it will reach the
newspapers on all news days and get
: the most possil- • space.
"Every good n lvertiser (and I mean
by that every one who seeks publicity
for ills goods or his messages) knows
that on Monday mornings there Is
usually less of ». rush of news than
on any other da In the week, unless
it be a day following a holiday. Hence
the matter that is submitted to the
newspaper for p lbllcation on Monday
(not paid advert sing, but advertising,
just the same) will receive more at
tention than if It came in for publi
cation on some "ther day.”
Packing the Interstate Commefee
CoiiiiiiIhhIoii.
What if* known as the Steven's MU
has been Introduced in the House pro
viding for the addition of two mem
bers to the present Interstate Com
merce Commission, but It Is being sub
jected to some close scrutiny, because
while on Its face It proposed to add
to the numbers of an overworked body
and thereby reduce the amount of
dutv falling to each member. !t has
other bearings that are commanding
the consideration of Congressmen and
! the commission itself. It is generally
| believed that the main purpose of the
bill Is to provide comfortable places
for two Republican members of Con
I gress who were defeated for re-elec
i tlon last November, end who ere very
I anxious to remeln In public life. In
: thla connection The New York Journ
al of Commerce saye:
"Thle la e procedure always to be
reprobated In politics, but never more
no then when it eifecte Judicial or
quasl-Judlclal bodies. The Interatete
Commerce Commiaaion la auch a body,
for lta function!, though In part ad
ministrative or even in a measure
legislative, have a Judicial character
that practically domlnatea them. Thera
la no department of the Federal gov
ernment. unleaa It be the Judiciary
Itself, where place-making In order to
provide for unattached politicians
should be leas freely Indulged in. How
purely gratuitous the proposal la can
be Inferred from the fact that offi
cials of the commission Itself declare
that no such addition to their mem
thers la desirable. They assert that
the Introduction of two new members
would operate to render the Commis
sion unwieldy and would possibly re
tard business Instead of advancing It.
That thv work now Imposed upon the
commission could be better performed
through a more extensive organisation
| of subordinates reporting to the mem
bers than by an Increase In the mem
i hershlp of the main body Itself Is a
view which Is strongly entertained by
I men on both sides of the railroad
question, and which seems fully war
i ranted by the facts In the situation ”
Another objection raised to the pro
i posed Increase of the membership of
(he commission is the fact that the
body 1* divided on questions of prin
ciple, hence the addition of members
who are In sympathy with the major
ity or minority of the body would he
able to turn the balance on all close
ly contested votes. It Is this fact
which has aroused the suspicion that
there is some ulterior purpose In add
ing two more members-to the com
mission. Moreover there does not ap
pear to be any good purpose to be
served by the proposed Increase. As
at present organized the members of
the commission hold office for com
paratively short terms and are remov
able whenever their action warrants
j such action, therefore If an attempt
I Is made to pack the body It should
1 be defeated.
HAS NO FEAR OF INVASION.
-i
Laurter Says Anglo-Saxons Will Never
War With Each Other.
Ottawa Dispatch to The New York
Press. "
A statement of Canada’s view as to
the Impossibility of future trouble with
1 the Unltnd States was made at an
i ar/lllery lundheon by Sir Wilfred
Uaurier prime minister of Canada. He
' said:
"Canada has little reason to fear that
! she will ever be Invaded. We have
but one neighbor on this continent,
the United States. While our frontier
has been crossed in the past, my be
lief and the belief of Canadians gen
erally, Is that among the great Anglo
Saxon nations civilization has reacned
a point where the shedding of blood
among them would be regarded with
horror equal to that with which a
civil war would be contemplated. There
Is no reason to believe that Great
Britain and the United States will
ever again be at war, or that Cana
dians will ever live In any but peace
ful relations with their cousins, the
great people of the United States.”
Dodging the Water Wagon.
Atlanta Constitution.
“I don't know what's to become o'
the ol’ man ef they keep on votin' the
States dry," said the old lady. "It
didn't cost so much ter him to go to
Chattynoogy, but as Tennessee will be
as dry as a bone lit July, that'll take
him a step further an’ he Jos' can’t
afford the money. Of course, he kin
blind-tiger It In Georgy, but It’s no
longer safe fer him to do so, seein'
that he kin no more kiver up his
tracks, fer ever' time he tries It they
ketch up with min, an' haul him up
before meetln', an’ lie's glttln’ too ol’
now ter risk bein' turned out the
church, fer satan might ketch him on
the outside an' sweep him off 'fore he
has a chance ter git gack ag'ln. But
the States air dryln' up, one after an
other, an' I kin see him buyin' a rail
road ticket as far as Kalamaaoo—an’
I b'lleve that country would bo dry
'fore he lilt It!"
Han Plan for Pence.
New York Herald.
Prof. George T. Dadd, of Yale, pre
sented a novel plan for ending tho talk
of war between Japan and the United
States at the reunion of the Alumni As
sociation of the Western Resenve Uni
versity, of Cleveland, Ohio.
“I would take the best battleship In j
the American navy,” said Prof. I-add,
after discussing at length the Christian j
nations of the Western World, “then I |
would place Richmond Pearson Hobson
In Command, man the vessel with cer- i
tain members of Congress and repre
sentatives of a certain bellgerent press,
andNsend It to the mldle of the Pacific
where It would meet a Japanese vessel
similarly manned by Japanese. I would
let them fight, and, after picking up
the survivors, place them on an Island
where they would be required to live
together for a period. That, I think,
would effecually end all talk of war
in tills country or In Japan.”
New York Live* Too Pant.
New York American.
Some Interesting mortality statistics
were giyen at Columbia University by
Frederick L Hoffman, statlsian of the
Prudential Life Insurance Company.
Country life is still healthier than
city life, he showed, the death rate per ,
1,000 being 18.6 In cities against 15.4 In
the country. Bad air, bad milk, nervous i
strain, alcoholism, suicide, and acci
dents caused the difference, he explain
ed. The speed of New York’s life, he
asserted, causes a greater death rate
here than In London. Those surviv
ing the age of 40, he said, are only
770 per 1,000 here, against 836 In Lon
don.
Mere Loral Color.
Atlanta Constitution.
New York ridicules Missouri's pre
tentions to art. and yet there are Mis
souri sculptors who can pot life In tht
lifted heesl of a marble mule
This Is My 47th Birthday
BUWAKD H. BROWN.
Edward H. Brown, executive president of
the National Hallways of Mexico, was born
In Barbour County, Alabama, March 3,
1862, and entered the railway service In
1878 as rodman and chairman of the prelim
inary surveys and location of the North
eastern Railroad of Georgia. For a number
of years he held the position of engineer
of construction of the Richmond and Dan
ville Railroad. From 1880 to 1888 he at
tended college to take a postgraduate
course. After that he became connected
with the engineering department of the
Central Railroad of Georgia. Mr. Brown
first went to Mexico in 1888 as engineer
for the Mexican National Railroad, and was
promoted from place to place until he fi
nally became President of the National
Railroad of Mexico, the Mexican Internation
al and the Texas-Mexlcan Railroad.
Drtinknrda May Not Wed.
Springfield (111.) Dispatch to The New
York World.
Young men who frequent saloons will
not be permitted to enter the matri
monial relations in Illinois If a blU
Introduced In the house be enaoted Into
luw, and It probably will pass.
The bill was Introduced by Repre
sentative Groves and amends the mar
riage laws of the State hy declaring
nn habitual drunkard Incapable of oon
1 trading marriage and deflntnfl an "hab
I itual drunkard" to be a person who
becomes Intoxicated twice a year. The
provides also that applicants for mar
riage licenses shall make affidavit that
! they have not been Intoxicated twice
j In the preceding year.
A Leading Part.
"My brother has a leading part In
that drama."
-What part?”
"He leads a horse across the stage
In the last act.”
San. and Keep. Mum.
Philadelphia Press.
The Governor of Missouri saws wood
In the cellar of the executive mansion,
and like most politicians who saw wood
he isn’t saying anything.
And MtuMHirl. Too.
j Washington Herald.
The Standard Oil Company ^s proba
bly mindful of tho fact, too, that Texas
is a mighty big plave to have to keep
out of
I
WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
By Frederic J. Hatkin.
If tlie brief term of General Grant
ar Secretary of War be excepted. Wil
liam Howard. Taft la the -only cabinet
officer to reach the pffceldency since
the Civil War, and he la the only aon
of a Cabinet officer who haa reached
that station In ttft entire history of
the government Furthermore, there
Is only one other Instance where fath
er and son have graced the official
family of the Presidents of the United
States. Paul Morton. Roosevelt's
Secretary of the Navy for a time. I*
the son of J. Sterling Morton, who
wls Cleveland’s Secretary of Agricul
ture. Mr. Taft also holds the distinc
tion of being the.only former Cabi
net officer whose father held two cab
inet positions. Judge Alphonao Taft
was flrst Seretary of War, and later
Attorney General.
In the early days of the republic
thk State Department was the favorite
training school of Presidents. Six of
the fifteen Presidents who served dur
ing the ante-bellum period had been
Secretary of State before reaching the
Presidential station. A number of
others Who were candidates for the
presidency had also been Secretary of
State. But since the civil war no
'premier of the Cabinet has ever reach
ed the position, of President. When
there Is no Vice President, the Secre
tary of State Is the heir apparent by
succession, but such a sltuaton has
never yet arisen. Perhaps the nearest
approach to It was when President
Roosevelt came within an ace of los
ing his life In the Pittsfield trolly ac
cident
The Treasury Department has never
been presided over by a Presldent-ln
prospect. 1 A number of Its Secretaries
have courted the place, but they have
lost out. notably John Sherman and
Leslie Shaw. The War Department
has given three Presidents—Monroe,
Grant and Taft. Thus endeth the
chapter of Cabinet officers who have
graduated Into the presidency, al
though many of the Incumbents have
heard the presidential bee a-buzzlng.
Mr. Taft has had no legislative ex
perience, never having been a member
of the Senate or House. There was
but a single President before the civil
war who had not se£n service In the
Continental Congress or the ynlted
States Congress. That single excep
tion was Zachary Taylor. the Old
Rough and Ready of the Mexican war.
Since the civil was there have been
but four Presidents who have not seen
service In Congress—Grant, Arthur.
Cleveland and Roosevelt. The latter
was VIoe . President and presided over
the Senate for a short while. If he
be Included among those who have
«d.Jegi*lat,ve exPecience, only five
of the Presidents have not seen ser
vice In Congress. Mr. Taft being among
that number. At the same time Taft
can go all Ills predecessors one better
because he Is the only Jurist who ever
reached the presidency
afW Waft's first public office, soon
after his return from college, was
ton1 efunt8 Prosecutor of Hamil
ton ceunty, Ohio. “That position "
t8f„n J“dr T%ft; V conversa
thl5. fi? a friend, “was a splendid
rning for me. It gave me a rough
anJ-tumble experience In the law^at
It Vmw»°f ,"fe "hen 1 ready fo^
facts and8howU?o gethethemCTity °'
d°encearV°r ^ and* £ val^eTl
Truth—that is what
me ever since. ..„wl_
th^•oWn,^la,J,eed,' a" the “ate.
No President of the United State. h
ting ,ha?Ha>5reater P-SacRy for get!
T^t.t0^e^“r °f 'han Mr.
J.fh J* “Mr. how strenuous the
days work behind him. no matter how
complicated the questions presented In
flMd,n*8’ Taft n*v*r per
\ actlon on ‘hem unless he
himself had mastered the intricacies
ChieefCohf^dli‘d,Ual C“Se- G*n"ral Beth
official fr ^ ,7' learned th,s early In his
official relations with the then Secre
tary of War. “I think If you will read
the conclusion contaJned In the Judge
Advocate’s memorandum." he once said,
handing the papers In a court martial
case to the Secretary, "you will not
need to go farther into the details.
“No." was the reply, “I prefer to go
through court martial cases myself."
He came across the Judge Advocate's
memorandum. It recommended clem
ency. But he kept on. He went Into
every detail of the trial. Suddenly he
straightened up In anger. “Why, 'the
fellow lied,” he shouted; "lied out
right. The sentence should be car
ried out.” And it was. There was no
recommendation for clemency. "I can’t
take another man’s Judgment In judi
cial matters,” Secretary Tait explained,
semi-apologetically. “I've never dons
that sort of thing In my life.”
"His love of Justice," said Judge
William L. Dickson, of Cincinnati, who
was one of hls classmates, "was made
manifest In the most striking man
ner when it came to the election of a
claiss orator. Will Taft was elected
to that honor by a majority of Just a
few votes. In some manner he learned
that an Irregularity was Involved. It
seems that more votes were cast at tha
election In question than there were
voters present In the room. As soon
as the situation came to Taft's atten
tlon, he called another meeting of the
class. In a brief address he resigned
the post of honor to which he had
been elected. Hls sense of Justice and
fair play would not permit him to ac
cept It In the manner In which It had
come to him. But we made !t difficult
for him to get out of It. Hls splendid
performance made a deep Impression
on hls classmates. We held another
election and conferred the honor on
him unanimously."
A close friend of Mr. Taft's states
It as hls belief that the new President
will not make a record for witty say
ings during hls term as President. He
ts appraised as humorous rather than
witty. It Is said that during all hls
campaigning he did not make a single
"come back” at ajiy one which had ths
snap of wit about tt. If bluntness
characterized Grover Cleveland, suav
ity William McKinley, and strenuous
lty Theodore Roosevelt, bubbling hu
mor without the sting of wit will be
characteristic of Taft.
Mr. Taft is the second man who was
the eon of a Jurist to reach the high
station of President. John Tyler was
the Other. The men who have given
sons to the Presidency have largely
come from the soli. The two Presi
dents who were sons of clergymen—
Arthur and Cleveland—served the one
after the other. Three of the Presi
dents had merchants for their fathers
_Buchanan. HayeB and Roosevelt.
Only two of the Presidents had an
ancestry which hailed from elsewhere
than the British Isles. They were Van
Buren and Roosevelt—both of Dutch
extraction. Mr. Taft adds another to
the list of those who have come down
from English ancestry. There have
been only nine Presidents who have
been Inaugurated at an uge younger
than Mr. Taft. The flrst of these was
Tyler, Polk, Fillmore and Pierce
were younger than he Lincoln was
the same age. Grant. Garfield, Arthur.
Cleveland and Roosevelt are the others
who assumed the Presldmitlal chair
under 52.
The friendship that is largely re
sponsible for the succession of Wil
liam H. Taft to the Presidential chair
began during the Harrison administra
tion.1 Theodore Roosevelt was ‘then
Civil Service Commlhsloner, and Wil
liam H. Taft was Solicitor-General
of the United States. They were boon
companions In spite of their great dif
ference of disposition, and they have
been "Theodore” and "Will” to one an
other every since. W’hen Roosevelt
was yet Vice-President he wrote a
tribute to Judge Taft, In which he said
that the Buckeye statesman had every
quality that would make a great Pres
ident of the United States or a great
Chtef Justice of the 8t»preme Court.
One of the prettiest Incidents In the
life of the new President occurred just
before his departure on hip round-the
world trip. His mother was then la
111 health, and did not expect to lire
long:. Before determining: to go, the
son went to her for counsel; he did
not like to go so far away when tho
days allotted to her deemed all but
spent. But she told him the rillplnees
looked up to him and put their confi
dence In him, that It was his duty to
live up to his promise to attend the
opening of their assembly, even If It
cost him the Presidency• Itself to go.
Taft went. Before he got home the
mother was dead. But she found, con
solation fof his absence In the though)
that he was away at the call of duty.
The new President Is more of a fam
ily man than Mr. Roosevelt himself,
even If the latter has been the world's
greatest preacher against race sui
cide/ Charlie Is his father's boon
companion, and the incoming Presi
dent Is always ready to take up for
the son when that lively youngster
tires of the restrictions thrown about
the children of the great. A good
Illustration of this occurred on the
globe-trotting trip which, by the way.
MYs. Taft made without taking a sin
gle maid or servant. Chdrlle had
come to dinner with a dirty face, ex
cept where he had washed around his
mouth. Mrs. Taft felt worried and re
minded Charlie that he ought not to
carry real estate around on his face
while aboard ship or at dlnndr. At
this, Mr. Taft interceded, saying that
she should not be "too hard on Char
lie” as he himself got tired of forever
priming up.
(Copyright, 190#, by Freddie J. *
Haskln.)
Tomorrow—Inaugurating a Haler.
DRIFTWOOD
Fools rush in. but messenger boys
take their time.
h- *
Experience is a good teacher and
the best part of It Is she doesn’t In
struct through a correspondence
course.
“All the world lojres a lover,” be
cause he is such an' easy mark. The
confectionary store, the livery stable
keeper, the florist, the Jeweler, to say
nothing of the little kid brother or
sister who has to be bought off with
gifts, all profit by him. No wonder
all the world loves him.
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Just think how appropriate it was of
Mr. Taft to select a Tennessee man for
Secretary of War. Tennessee is a war
like little state all right.
*T* *4
Parson Jones says “there are lots of
people in this world trying to eat soup
with a fork.” This is another way of
disbrlbing the square peg in the round
hole. In other wordB a misapplication
of ability. Are you one of these kind?
Do only that for which you are fitted.
You would look Just as comical trying
to eat steak with a spoon.
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Our friend John Wrells points out the
fact that on page 97 of “St. Ives’
Robert Louis Stevenson used the word
“molly-coddle” before Roosevelt ever
began rolling up his Rough Rider
record.
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Tomorrow Washington will undergo
another presidential Inauguration.
Historic old Pennsylvania Avenue will
present a spectacle to the world auch
as Is only seen once In four years and
people will allow themselves to be rob
bed by the graft that is part of the
game.
Mr. Taft said he was going from
Philadelphia to New York to get some
rest. Now If he had said from New
York to. Philadelphia, it would have
been nearer the truth.
Humming-birds’ tongues are to be
served at a banquet in San Antonio.
Shades of <Three-Flnger Pete! Has the
old West come to this; serving a mol
ly-coddle menu!
“Better to have run and lost than
never to have lectured to crowded
houses."—Words and music by W. J.B.
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A hen-pecked husband Is the slall- I
est thing In the world. Women have
no respect for him and neither have
men. liven the pup growls at him and
the rooster files up on the fence every
time he comes round and seems to
crow over him.
They have racing automobiles these
days that can go like a streak of
greased lightning, but there is noth
ing in this World that can go as fast
as money. x
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The reason some men have a head
like a tack Is because some women can
drive them.
And now the Bower1 House of the
Arkansas Beglslature has passed the
state-wide prohibition bill amid much
confusion and excitement tliat ad
journment waa necessary! The legis
lators no doubt were forced to go out
and get something to quiet their
nerves.
There is a story going the rounds
that a Tennessee farmer In a Jry ter
ritory sold his tract of land for a quart
of whiskey. This Is hard to swallow
however, when one stops to think how
tame and docile are the blind tigers'
these days.
“Who are the ten greatest living
Americans?” was asked The New York
Herald, and in reply The Herald enu
merates the following: Thomas A. ,
Edison, Andrew Carnegie, J. P. Mor- v
gan, J. D. Rockefeller, Mark Twain,
Admiral Dewey, Charles W. Eliot, Car
dinal Gibbons. Henry Clews, Alexander
G. Bell.”
A man in New Jersey has just died
of drinking water. Its all right to get
into practice before moving away to a
dry state as this man no doubt was
doing, but there is no sense in over
doing the thing.
Don't dodge your taxes—It is a
violent and often a disastrous form of
exercise.
Ex-Governor Glenn of North Caro
lina is to go on the lecture platform, d
one of his subjects being "The Race 9
Problem.” The only race problem that
ever worried us was figuring on which "
horse would come in to win.
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The Ananias ,Club will only be a
historic memory after tomorrow. Mr.
Taft may start something vastly dlf
ferent.
A Buffalo man has haa hla house
stolen “plank by plank.” When If
gets to the point where thieves make
away with our dwellings what are we
to do’ Between the thfef and the con
tractor a man In moderate circum
stances might as well give up and
quit. +
This Alabama Sunshine.
With this Alabama sunshine jes a
siftin' thro' your soul.
Don't it make you feel a longin' jes
ter grab a flshln pole.
Fling your coat aside an' wander
somewhere 'long a quiet stream.
Set your line out then Jes settle down
an’ dream, dream, dream!
Oh the Alabama sunshine stoops to
kiss the vl-olets.
An’ a feller as he feels it jes forgets,
forgets, forgets,
An' he eaint help feeltn' happy—don't
kere how hard he may try,
When the green Is In the foliage an’
the blue is In the sky!
Oh, this Alabama sunshine—it .feels
mighty good to me—
An' there ain't no music dearer than
the buzsln' o' the bee—
An' there ain't no perfume sweeter
than the blossoms In the tree'
Oh. I ain't no poet feller, but I'd like
to make you see
The beauty o' this suashine, siftin’
thro' the soul 0’ met