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J. L Boeahana. Circulation Manager of Tha
Montgomery Advartlaar, being duly sworn.
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tiser's circulation for tha Month of Korea*
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dusted.
THE ADVERTISER CO,
J. L. BOESHANS,
Circulation Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me. this
Fourth day of December. 121*.
(■BAD) ’ R. C. PHELPS. .
Notary' Public. Montgomery County. Alabama
RA8FUTIN, THE MONK 07 RUSSIA.
gy, TIM history of monarchic* and autocracies
la replete with trails Incident* In which
assassination was resorted to as a protest
asratnst the Influence to which the monarch
or autocrat had subjeoted himself. To mur*
| der the person. evilly influencing the ruling
I power, has been the favorite resort of con
ii./aplratorc, who In some eases, In spite of their
§ violence, were friends to liberty and human
progress.,
Gregory Rasputin, a myaterlous monk, who
; for the past fifteen years has been recoi
ls ptsed In Russia as "the power behind the
I? throne,’* died swiftly and suddenly a few
days ago In Petrograd. In spite of the Rue
p elan censorship, apparently well authenti
cated news stories are coming out of Rus
sia to the effect that the monk who poa
| cessed such an extraordinary power over the
| Cpar and the Csarlna wda murdered for, ac
cording to hla assassins, the good ef the
country. These circumstantial stories recite
I the fact that certain powerful nobles, Includ
ing a Russian Prince who la related to the
|' Csar by marriage, after careful preparations
|P went \o the apartment of the monk, took him
||, put and did him to death.
( ’ The story further recites certain details of
the conspiracy to rid Russia of the covered
r L and myaterlous Influence, which. In doml
' gating the Csar. dominated all branches of
the Russian government, including the Duma,
SP A conspiracy which Included the highest
It nobles of Russia, determined upon hts as
sassination and the lot fell to a itusslaa
. prints, who, with one' companion, fulfilled
| the decree of the conspirators, it Is said.
Tho death of Rasputin, either from natural
: cause or from the violence of assassins.
’ removes a governmental figure who seemed
* to have come down from the Middle Ages
P.' to the Twentieth Century. Rasputin was
gn unknown monk when he first appeared
In Petrograd, but In a few years he was not
only an Intimate of the court circles of the
j|; royal palace In Petrograd, but the Influence
|J? Which dominated that circle. It has never
keen known whether Rasputin. directly In
P financed the Csar, or controlled him by con
H trolling the Csarlna. The .Czar, like his
P cousin, the King. of .England, la a muehly
v married man; both are small man In phyalque
HP and perhaps In native mental endowment and
, both are married to women of strong char
P, acter. The more reliable reporta of the
H peculiar situation at Petrograd are to the
y affect that he exercised a strong Influence,
|P both ever the Csar and the Csarlna, but
p with tha Czarina most subject to his la
Si finance.
V . Rasputin. tt la Bald reliably, dealt In a
c sort of mysttoiam, which waa a combination
* of religion and auparatttlon. Ho waa a mya
, tic, with a form of myatlciam which ap
>,,* pealed to the mind of the Czarina. Wield*
•»* •uch * powerful Influence, It waa not
Ions before Raaputin dominated the cabinet
Of Rueala, for no cabinet officer waa named
until a conference had been held with him.
p The audden and Inexplicable changes In the
: Ruaalan cabinet, the reatleaaneaa of Rueala*
eablneta In which nothing aeemed to be aet
tled waa attributed to hia Influence.
But power auch aa Raaputin wielded, haa
alwaya been dangeroua. Indignation and
roaentment agalnat auch power la directed
pot at the autocrat or the monarch, but at
the Individual who rlaea to wield It. Rae
r putln may or may not have been aaaaaelnated.
;K but If he ever read hlatorr to any purpoae,
• ho muet have known that the power behind
P-. fha throne la In conaUnt dangegr. Raaputin
waa charged with being a repreeentatlve of
ji Germany'* Intereeta In Petrograd. The
B polio* claim to have hi* eorr**pond*nce with
B the noted German apy ayatem.
In the dead of night the aaaaaalna came,
f ‘ The myatlciam which, could play upon th*
% . fear* and prejudice* of the Cxar and Czarina
, W*re powerleaa agalnat the remoraelea*
y noble*, who Bought him out.
y.
Governor Whitman recommend* that th*
Legislature of New York appropriate if..
•00.000 to pay National Guardemen from that
State who *eftt to the border. If the New
York Legislature maintains Its old-time
mood for making appropriations we aupposa
the grant will be made.
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HE. BRYAN AND THE “GATE.
RECEIPTS.” - ;
For ■ polking hi* piece on prohibition and
woman's suffrage at Dothan, llr. W. J. Bryan
received 1104, tho church under whoto'
auanlees ha apoka received 1100, the audl
itfrlam containing the multitude that heard
him at ft and to cento a head—depending
upon the phyaleal point of vantage within :
thl arena—received |7f, and the rest went
for Incidental expensea We gather theao
little detail* from The Advertiser's Dothan
correspondent and from the colurane of The
Dothan Eagle, a newapaper which la po
litically friendly to Mr. Bryan.
About two weeka ago The Advertlaer, In
an editorial paragraph, facetloualy remarked
that Mr. Bryan waa coming to Alabama to
“apeak In the lntereat of prohibition and the
gate recelpta." . t
When Mr. Bryan appeared ht the Grand
Theatre laat Tuesday, he waa preceded by the
Rev. Brooka Lawrence. Superintendent of the
Alabama Anti-Saloon League, who railed, at
The Advertlaer for making thia statement
and taking occasion to deny with great
paaaion and eloquence the report that' Mr.
Bryan was to get money for bis trip to Ala
bama. Mr. Bryan followed and udmitted that
he waa violating his usual rule In such mat
ters, but In order to nail for once and all the
terrible charge that had been made against
him by a newapaper which he said for twenty
years had “maliciously” misrepresented him,
be felt duty bound to say something on the
point raised.
The Advertiser accepted these denials l.i
good faith, albeit this paper confessed its
pleasant surprise at learning that the Ne
braskan for onae was paying his own ex
penses and receiving no money on a lecture
"tour. We attached small importance to the
entire matter, recognizing the right of Mr.
Bryan to apeak for money or to speak gratis;
but not so with Mr. Bryan. He had a hurt
look when he brought up this Impeachment
Tuesday afternoon. We could tell that the
gentleman was very much grieved at the
impression this newspaper may have created
In tlje public mind concerning the considera
tions which Induced him to come to Alabama
to speak at Montgomery and Dothan.
But now, whatr do we see? Before Mr.
Bryan could get out of Alabama he had
handsomely fulfilled the facetious prophecy
ventured In these columns when it was first
announced that he was booked to appear at
Montgomery and Dothan In' the Interest of
wom^n suffrage and National prohibition.
The Advertiser of course is thoroughly vin
dicated; but it is not so much concerned with
that as with the point of view of Mr. Bryan.
Why should Mr. Bryan make an hysterical
attack upon The Advertiser Tuesday after
noon, charging it with doing him a grave
injustice and with "maliciously" misrepre
senting him in regard to his fondness for gate
recelpta, and on that very evening go to an- .
other part of the State and do the precise
thing we had said he would do when he came
to Alabama? Two hundred dollars Is a very
fair compensation for a “free” lecturer who
even pays his own traveling expenses and
hotel bills. Mr. Bryan could afford to pay
his expenses in Alabama, and he could afford
to speak solely In the interest of The Cause
at Montgomery In reckless disregard of the
gate recelpta But can Mr. Bryan afford to
do even a newspaper an injustice?
WHAT ABE THE LOSSES?
How many men have been killed, so far.
in the great European war? This la a ques
tion repeatedly asked, by people who are
interested In the greatest tragedy of all time,
but It is a question which cannot be an-,
swered with certainty and accuracy.
Perhaps the estimate of The New York
Times as to the* losses in the war, are as
nearly accurate as any yet made. The
Times, at least has been more comprehensive
In its treatment of the war than any other
American newspaper.
According to The Times, the losses of the
Entente Allies In killed and in prisoners
have been 3,528,000 men. The losses of the
Teutonic allies in killed and prisoners have
been 3,015,000. In other words each of the
belligerents has lost a million more men
than the entire population of the State of
Alabama. Combined the losses In young
men have bee\i nearly as great as the popula
tion of New Yorlf City, Brooklyn and the
various other towns comprising the city of
Greater New York.
In killed the Entente Allies have lost 2,
818,000 men; the losses of the Teutonic allies
have been 3,015.000 men. The Teutonic allies
were far better prepared for the .business of
killing and better trained in it than were
the Entente Allies. The discrepancy In the
killed was due to the better preparation and
the more efficient soldiers of the Teutonic
forces at the beginning of the war. It is
altogether likely that the Teutonic Allies
will have less men killeS than the Allies, no
matter how long the war lasts and no mat
ter how it ends.
The Teutonic allies have also captured far
more territory than have the Entente forces.
According to The Times the Entente allies
have occupied 10,610 square miles*of Teutonic
territory while the Teutonic allies have oc
cupied 42,048 square miles of captured ter
ritory.
THE STEPHENS MEMORIAL.
The Georgia Division of the United Daugh
ters of the Confederacy have undertaken to
erect an Alexander Stephens Memorial
School at Crawfordsvllle, Ga. The Daugh
ters succeeded In having the Georgia legis
lature pass a.bill making the school a part
of the educational system of the State and
thus exempt from taxation.
It Is proposed to operate ths school on
ths loan plan, we are told, poor, girls and
boys who are students agreeing to pay 10
per cent of their salaries after graduation
until the cost of their education Is paid.
Popular subscriptions are Invited. Mrs.
Horace Holden, chairman of the Alexander
Stephens Memorial School Committee, Athens,
Ga., 'will receive contributions.
The Birmingham Age-Herald, warmly en
dorsing this enterprise as “fitting,” says:
Ths school will be particularly ap
propriate as a memorial to Stephens, as
the Vice-President of the Confederacy
was himself educated on borrowed
money, which was repaid to hla bene
factor, and during his later life ho Is
;V.. t"'i.-5 r: - fi.. .
Mid to Karo sprat' nearly mil his <m*
tnps In educating poor boys.
Alexander Stephens was small of stature,
but largo of mind and Imart. Though op
P«aod to seeeuion, dooming shah a policy
unwise, ho was aulck to east his allog|anet
with hla Stats whon tho crisis cams, and
throughout tho stormy /lays between tho
btrth and death of tho Southern Confed
eracy, gtophsns was a conspicuous figure,
and served his State well and faithfully
after hostilities had abated. ,,
Oup own tested' leaders who are gone
Should be honored In our memories when
there are honors to giro which ‘may go to
'the dead.
TH» BETE1AT OF LAWSON.
Tom Lawson, the Boston speculator and
stock Juggler, 'having startled the country
with a series .of charges seriously affecting
the! honor of the members of the American
Congress, and having swaggered before the
country as an Iconoclast, ready to smash
political Idols, acuttlee out of the country
khen the time comes for him to' make good
his charges The Incident la unfortunately
typical of American life and American af
faire. • *"
Here we have the agitator, Who happens
to be also a financier. In this ease; we have
the agitator who speaks In superlatives and
thinks In headlines He catches the Interest
of the American public by arousing Its curlsl
ty and by making the always popular charge
that American public men are corrupt. In'
this case Lawson, who cleaned up more than
a million’ dollars when the stock market'
broke, following the note of President Wilson
to the belligerents In Europe, announced that
he had received Inside Information which
enabled him- to clean up and that In addi
tion various Senators and Congrensmen, with
others in official life made a pile by using
the secret Information.
He was ready to tell all, he said. He
wanted to go to Washington and to appear
before a Congressional Committee. He
promised the American people that there
would be a great shifting of b^nk accounts
by Senators and Congressmen and that If
the Investigation was ordered there would
not be left In Washington enough Congress
men to mage a quorum.
Lawson Is not such an Important Individual
as he appears to think he lal But bis charges
are Important. What Is more, they should
not be left a* they are. If he carries out his
Intention of leaving for Europe, he should
receive the contempt of the American public.
As a representative of a dry Stats,
Senator Underwood makes a sorry spec
tacle of himself in leading the fight in
the Senate to save the saloons in our
capital city. As a leader in the move
ment in Alabama to take the ballot from
the negro race, he presents a sharp con
trast in Washington In trying to place
the ballot in the hands of the blacks
in easting the deoldlng vote in a great
moral issue, at a time and place affect
ing the entire nation.—Roanoke Leader.
The “dry” State of Alabama was well ad
vised of Mr. Underwood's political faith when
it elected him to the Senate by a majority
of more than 34,000 votea
We are persuaded, too, that It’s the white
vote In the District of Columbia, rather
than the bogey of negro suffrage which The
Leader distrusts.
Will the time ever come' in this land of
the free and the home of the brave when
people will cease to aceept' a politician at
his own appraisement when he poses in
tremulo and exclaims: 'Tm for home,
heaven and mother—give me an office!”
Speaking of Republican Presidential pos
sibilities for 1(20, there’s Tom Lawson
We are having the kind of spring, weather
which makes it too wet to plow.
Say all you will about Mr. Wilson’s pro
pensity for note-writing, the fact remains
that the notes he writes are more polite than
the usual notes which come out A London
and Berlfn.
Don't plant cotton in the front yard this
year. Weevils like open spacea
The Diversified
_Farmer_
Back Again,
Well, good folks, here we are back again.
Back from the land of the home-cured ham
and the Pippin apple, the land of blue moun
tains and silver clouds; back from the Old
Dominion into the Cotton Belt. Gosh, but
It Is a remarkable change in the weather to
flop back from that chilly mountain air Into
first class summertime. We learn, however,
that in these parts they still have the open
faced grates and "free burning" coal.
The ripple.
We brought back frogj homo a couple of
Pippin applea.
Tha Pippin, as we have aald before, la ao
far superior to all other apples .that other
apples can no more be compared to It than
can the ordinary staple be compared to Sea
Island cotton.
The average apple has Its uses, of course,
Just as ordinary cotton has Its uses and Its
price. The average apple from the well
cared for orchard makes quite a show. We
buy apples for their color, their regular
shape, their “tasty" appearance. Uany ordi
nary apples have a fine, Juicy flavor.
But none of them Is anything like the Vir
ginia Pippin. No apple ever produced can
ever be anything like the Virginia Pippin
Virginia Pippins are not sold in the Cotton
Belt. Their price is too high for one thing.
Another thing—the Virginia Pippins are not
known in the Cotton belt and if they were
put on display most any other apple would
catch the eye quicker.
In fact not very many Virginia Pippins are
sold anywhere In America. A large part of
the crop is bought by the English nobility
and they are eaten In the palaces anil castles
and fine country homes of the English no
bility. Queen Victoria would have no other
apple than the Virginia Pippin and the
Pippin has been on the table of royalty In
England for many years
Why Is the Virginia Pippin so different
from all other apples? Well, we will tell
you. Other apples are planted on well-'
drained land In cool climates Their roots
spread out and derive nourishment from a
considerable apace of ground. Sdme of the
fruit Is wonderfully colored and some has
remarkably fine flavor. Borne bring high
prices In the markets, according to shape
and color. The trees grow at a good rate
they reach full maturity in not many years
and then begin to go back unless they are
especially well tended.
But the Pippin has its origin way back In
the dark, cold recesses of the Virginia moun
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phosphate rock has been disintegrating for i
ages upon ages.' Its roots do not spread out |
—they go down deep Into the soil that has j
not seen the light for thousands of years.
From this age-old soil they bring a flavor
found In no other apple In existence. The
red apple Is just like some people—a fine
show but without Stamina bedded In the rock
of character. The Pippin Is like some people
—not much chow but lasting quality. ' The
Pippin Is irregular In shape. It makes no'
display as to color. It is not "Juicy.” But
what character It has, what solidity, what
earthly flavor! And the older the Pippin
tree gets the finer Its fruit. It .stands the
test of time as no other fruit. No other
apple has Its lasting qualities. No other has
its hardiness. No other has Its peouliar
flavor because no other sends down Its roots
so far Into the earth.
The Pippin Is Just itself, like the oak bf the
Northern forest, or like the granite slab.
Its territory, naturally. Is very limited and
Its production limited. Its price is high,
because the truly best Is always highest In
price. Victoria, the solid old German Queen
bf England, knew the rare Pippin flavor and
something of Its character and the English
nobility have since found the Pippin. Amer
ica has yet to discover the Virginia Pippin
and Its true character.
During the Christmas week our ma hgd a
ham that was two years old. It was hard
to cut but when you once got a slice of It on
your plate you had something. Incidentally
we were telling our ma about "free burning”
coal. She laughed. “You can’t tell me any
thing about It," she said. “Didn’t I spend
one winter down In Georgia? I thought at
first that the grates were full bf rubber
from the way that coal eUsled and melted
together.”
The preserved figs we took home made a
hit. A few Jars were handed out to the
neighbors who had never eaten any. We
still hold that as a dessert the preserved fig
stands at the very top—second to none.
The Uli Banka.
Well,'with the way the Farm Lean Board
districted the United States for the Land
Banka, it does not seem that there could be
much kiok on the places selected for the
location of the banka As our district in
cluded Louisiana, it would seem natural that
the bank should go to New Orleana This
easily makes It up to New Orleans for her J
not petting thOsFederal Reserve Bank, over
which she felt deep disappointment. The
putting of a bank in Baltimore for Maryland,
Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia !
makes it up to Baltimore for her disappoint
ment in not getting one of the Federal Re
serve Banks. The main thing is that the
banks are now being established and the
great system, backed by the government, will
soon be in operation. Only time can meas
ure the value to the people of this great
economic fnove. Some changes will prob
ably be necessary as the system begins to
be established, as it cannot be made a per
fect system from thi lump. Nothing on
God’s green earth ever starts perfect, and
what’s more, nothing ever really attains
perfection. One feature that is fortunate is
that each farmer who borrows will have to
take so much stock in the bank. This in
time will give the farmers complete owner
ship of the banks. Another worthy move Is
issuing the bonds in small denominations.
This will give the little investor an abso
lutely solid bond paying four per cent.
Doubtless many of the bonds will be bought
by farmers. We understand that bonds will
be issued in denominations as low as t25.
The main thing is that the present Federal
Land Bank Board has the right intention.
It will do Its work the best It can. If there
are deaths or resignations, It Is pretty certain
that these vacancies will be filled'by Presi
dent Wilson With men of equally good in
tentions toward the system.
Tes, wool is worth a good Zeal more than
cotton. —I* M.
1 Letters to Editor ~~
“INSIDE GERMAN EMPIRE."
Editor The Advertiser:
Doubtless all of us have wondered what
in the world Is going on today Inside the
German Empire—back of that battle line
over the land whence no real light has come
In spite of all war reports. What are they
do(ngT How are they doing ltt What are
their plans? How are these plans being car
ried out?
And just yesterday we saw a book adver
tised which seems to answer these questions
that all the world Is asking. The title of
the book Is “Inside The German Empire In
the Third Tear of the War." The advertise
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ment says: “A fascinating portrayal of tha |
Inner workings of the tnoat completely or
ganized aoclety in the world—Germany at
the outset of the third year of the war. On
the pages of the book stand oyt the marvel*
ouj foresight, the almost perfect unity, the
Jron discipline which make seventy millions
of men, women and children a great battling
force whose vanguard is the army and navy.
“Contains the tremendous lessons for evury
American dtlsen—lessons of two kinds—leV
eona as to what to do and what not to do.”
—A. B. C
CHURCHES Aim THE WAR.
Editor Tlie Advertiser:
Has Wall atreet subsidized the American
clergy, too? One would think so, from the
astounding telegram In today's paper which i
states the attitude of a number of promi
nent clergymen of many denominations about
the movement for peace. It la curious Indeed j
—more-than strange when one knows no ,
Question of patriotism exists for their excuse
—that these men, whose duty, particularly
at this season, should be to preach “peace
on earth," give their names as opposed to
President Wilson’s movement to stop the
hideous destruction of the war.
One clause In their statement is worthy
of note: ' “The right and wrong should be
considered—the attempt to array • Moslem
against Christian.”
Are these divines (?) ne'utral? Are they
aware that the followers of Mahomet who i
fight with the Central Powers, are not mors
numerous than those of the same faith from
Northern Africa who aro with the Allied
Powers? The “wrong” of this, seems surely i
squall -■
As for the Hindus, and the Japanese, who
actually, and unofficially, are figtitlng Chris
tlana, they are ignored!
The sophistry of their argument Is—
"strange upon my honor!” And it seems ts
an unprejudiced mind that churchmen who
put themselves on record in this Way, open
the question not only to their Inward
spiritual grace, but to their practical Chris
tianity as well.
INQUIRER.
New Tear's Day.
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The Federal Principle
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Editor The Advertiser:
•With the pribgress of the science of civil
t government purl passu with the moral ana
Intellectual life of the Inhabitants of the
planet, we turn to the atrueture of the gov
ernment of the United States with reverent
contemplation.
E Pluribus Unum means an entity and
when understood la the dam .'acy that Jesus
taught first. It Is a democracy that Is an
evolution from Jhe design of God. It means
the man himself, the responsible nature that
comes out from the mind of God. One star
dlfferli from another In glory but every star
is a competent part. So with the members
of the human family as all are related to
the divine plan In the beginning. That is a
beautiful thought of Hugh Miller, that as the
'physical world, or the material World Is di
vided i-to six parts and six periods of
creation, distinguishable' to science, the
seventh time Is the Sabbath of the Creator
consecrated to the development of the thing
made that is like unto God Himself.
•The exemplar of men la Gpd mainly |n the
duty of law and order. The wonderful
mechanism of the human band, the wonderful
power of electricity, the marvelous- Instinct
of human 1 ova (that we cee It In oharlty
meted out daily about usj are demonstrations'
of law and order from above Intended for
Imitation by the human life.
This political system of the United States
Is of divine origin, inasmuch as It la of the
latest refinment of tpe science of human
government. - 1 ■.
Christianity was taught by Thomas Jef
[ ferson when he taught the principle of in
dividual responsibility to' government. In
dividual responsibility Is the theory of Chris
tianity; responsibility to the scheme of or
ganic life.
Let us go back a little to tho birth of the
controlling American Idea that seems to
have been born from the very promb of time
A certain phase of feudalism settled the
British American colonies. Virginia was a
royal iolony, Massachusetts was a charter
colony. South Carolina was a proprietary
eolony. The ’original colonial characters,
distinct as they were, merged’Into one char
acter that came to be American. There was
no political precedent of the Amwjcan char
acter. In Europe feudalism war abolished
when the Inhabitants appeals' to the king
to save them from the lords. In America
feudalism fell when the Inhabitants re
pudiated the king and the lords alike, to
govern themselves by means of repre
sentatives chosen by themselves under writ*
tsn law to ba read of all. ~
It la a beautiful and complex theory of
government set up by the British American
colonies. The English statesman, Gladstone,
so far misunderstood It as to declare it had
been “struck oft at a given time." On ,thSe.
contrary. It was a growth maturing through
the annals of recorded time. x,
It le growth or It Is mushro'tn.
The thirteen British American oolontea,
each of its own responsibility and knowing
no guide or authority beyond itself, assem
bled in Congress at a church In Philadelphia •
in June. 1774. The deputies marched in
double rank from their hotel to the church,
They made Mr. Pendleton of Virginia Presi
dent. A preacher, a missionary, was taken
up from the street and persuaded - to bo
secretary.
The State’s rights principle was immediate
ly put in effect. The question arose, how
Shall the deputies vote? It per capita. Ig- t
noting colonial lines;.if by population or-by t
wealth; if by colonies each with, one vote. 1
Patrick Henry exclaimed: "I am an Amor- 1
lean." Virginia had more population and 1
wealth than several Colonies combined, hgt
he was "an American."
Patrick Henry laid the foundation of the
federal system. Virginia was . eady to make
Delaware or Rhode Island an equal member
of the Congress with herself. The rule was
passed,, giving. each colony In '.ho first Cos- U
gross one vote.
Two years later Mr, Jefferson wrote the
Declaration ’ of Independence. If the curious
student will turn to the Declaration as
.photgraphed in Volume 1, "Messagos and
Papers of the Presidents," 'he will see ..the
title of the' government written “united
States," the letter "u” lower case, or small
and not a capital. I was so Impressed with
the type used that I wrote a letter by mall
to Representative Richardson, ths editor of *
the book, to call his attention to it. I have*;!
his answer before me. He admitted that,h<H*j
had never observed the type, but it was corfl
rect ee found in ths book. It would appea*.
that Mr. Jefferson considersd the Congress of
States of 1776 used the phrase "United" In
the fame meaning that ths Congerss 'of
colo^pe had used it two years before..
Elkarieh Watson, a young American, a New
Englander, happened to hear King George
III deliver hie speech in the House of Lords
in 1743, announcing hig signing of the
Treaty of Paris acknowledging the inde
pendence of the lstatea.' He said he had made
a treaty of independence between the former
colonies, ' "Massachusetts. New Hampshire,"
etc., to the end of the thirteen. He nowhere
used the phrase United Sta..s He had made
a treaty with each of the thirteen oolontea.
Ths nsrratlvs of Mr. Watson la supported by
the text of<the treaty Itself. England never
had a treaty of Independence with the United
States. '
J. W. D.
LET THE CONSTITUTION ALONE. ’,4.
Reno (Nev.) Gaxette.
To make It taller to amend the Federal
Constitution, Representative Chandler' of New
York has Introduced a proposed amendment
In the House. The present system fc cufnber
eome, he says, and It la too difficult to make
necessary changes. *7] ■
But who Is to be the judge of whether the
changes are "necessary” or notf Ultimate
ly. under the Chandler plan, the people would t
pass on the questions directly, but as the votefj
would still />e by States, nothing would be 1
gained. Otherwise It would still be Con . J
gross that would say whether the amendyl
ment should ever go before the voters. Con|w
gress, therefore, would remain the Judge of,
the expediency of submitting the ponstltu
tlonal changes Just as It IA at, present.
But why alter the metfmd of . amending
the Constitution at allf The system has
worked satisfactorily In the history of 121
years of national growth and. thanks to it,
we have a fundamental law that Is the id
miration of the world Instead of being a
thing of threads and patches as would have a
been the oase had alterations been made with
facility. Of course It has not pleased the •'
hotheads and the faddists, • but they are the
vary people against whom it is necessary to *
erect defenses. We do not want a constitu
tion that can be shifted at a moment's notice -
to please someone who thinks the coudtry la
going to the "demnltton bow-wows.”
We want our constitution to he the! rock
that it lii. For It was written 1— men whose
creed was that "a house built on sand cannot
stand.” as the great American people Still
believe. . , V ' '
.ANOTHER PROBLEM SIXPLIFIEIK
Huntsville Mercury-Banner.
Perhaps now somebody will find out what
to do with the Warrior river. It’s close tu
the new oil fields and a new olty may be
j built near IL ‘ 1
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