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Conducted from lftt to 1*13. Forty-eight
jritn. under the Editorship of
WILXlAM WALL.ACE SCREWS.
* *• SHEEHAN . Editor.
CHAB. H. ALLEN .. Publisher.
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elass matter under Act of Congress of March
, 1873.
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Per Annum ....(7.80 One Month ....9 .»
■lx Months .8.80 One Week.II
Three Montha 1.85 Single Coplea •• .01
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able to THE ADVERTISER COMPANY, Mont
gomery, Ala.
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17 .81,088
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Daily Average, December, 1916.. 17,975
3nnday Average, December, 1916 20,771
J. L Boeshans. Circulation Manager of The
Montgomery Advertlaer, being duly sworn,
any a:
Tbe foregoing atatement pf The Adver
tleer’a circulation for the Month of Decem
ber, 1816, la true and correct and complied
after returna and apolled copies have been de
■ ducted.
THE ADVERTISER CO..
J. L. BOESHANS,
Circulation Manager.
Sworn to and subscribed before me, this
Fourth day of January, 1817.
(SEAL.) R. C PHELPS.
Notary Public, Montgomery County. Alabama.
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EDITOR PRICE AND THE
ALABAMA OQLD.
After Quoting from a reoent letter on
gold mlnea In Alabama written by the ven
erable State geologist. Dr. Eugene A. Smith,
Commerce and Finance, ediud by Theodore
E. Price, In |ta Issue of January 10th, aar
catalcally remarks: t
Dr.. Smith may be correct or he may
be overly enthusiastic In his statements.
For a State that has seven counties with
’ gold mines that have been worked or
are working Alabama does not make an
Impressive showing. The total produc
tion of gold In,the. State In 1814 (U. S.
government figures) was 615 ounces of
a valve of $12,800.
There Is a cat farm In Oradell over In
New Jersey that does a business that
also yearly. « .
Raising high class eats Is less specula-,
Uvo than gold mining. %
. Dr. Smith's article makes Interesting
reading and nothing more. Alabama’s
. production of gold never has been Im
portant. Alabama's production of gold
never has been important. The State
’ geologist of North Carolina has not
broken ' Into print about that common
. wealth’s gold mines, yet they produce ten
times the yellow metal that those of Ala
bama do. Even Georgia produces.more
gold than Alabama.
There Is gold In every State In the
Union. We have hadr gold mlnea In the
Adlrondacks., There Is gold in the gneiss
on which New York's buildings rest.
* There has been gold picked out of tbe
rock in Central Park. Any gentleman
who l| patient enough and has money
enough can get gold out of sea water.
Gold has been the lure of the ages but
it will require something more than Dr.
Smith's effusion to etlr capital to in
vest In Alabama’s old time gold field.
There to nothing in Dr. Smith’s moderate,
unpretentious statement to warrant the
rather impolite and Ill-considered comments
of Mr. Price. The long and pre-eminent
services of Dr. Smith as a geologist entitle
him to apeak with greater authority on Ala
bama mineral deposits than Editor Price Is
entitled to'speak. In ^iew of his rather doubt
ful experience with gold. We should say,
off-hand,. that anything Editor Price might
say on the subject of cotton markets, for
• Instance, would be more authoritative and
convincing than hts views on the modest
gold deposits of Alabama—the extent of
which Dr. Smith neither over-emphaslxys
nor belittles.
A food many people eeem to think that
old Abe Martin eatd about all there Is to
•ay on good roads In a few words when he
remarked in The Advertiser recently that
"good roads lead to food towns.”
"Judge J. A. F. Campbell, of Mississippi,
the last of, the forty-nine alfners of the
Confederate Constitution, died' a few days
•go, at the afe of 17.”—News Item. Those
who ordained that constitution did not suc
ceed In persuading the people of the United
States to ratify the document; but they
started a. Federal pension roll that grows
costlier the older It gets. However,, we can
mmj that the Constitutional Convention did
not anticipate such a sequence.
John Rogers of Sumter will find that
there Is relatively more profit In 2,000 acres
of peanuts than In the $4 a day one earns as
a. legislator.
The Greenville Advocate notes that Con
gressman Jeanette Rankin has appointed a
woman as her private secretary. Natural,
don’t you know?
Having broken up two cabinets In two
years, Lord-Editor Northcllffe Is now asking
for the scalp of Ambassador Spring-Rice, and
In doing so speaks disrespectfully of the Am
bassador's monocle.
Opinions differ as to which Is the best
newspaper In the world. It Is a subject upon
whtoh there can be honest differences of
opinion. In recent years, no newspaper of
tbs world has made a more startling busi
ness success than The Neil York Times. The
Times, a little modestly states Its .business
success In these terms: “The amount re
ceived for advertising by The Times Is much
greater than the amount received by any
other newspaper In New York—probably
more than by any other newspaper in the
‘world.* • i
THAW'S MONET AND THE COURTS
When Harry K. Thaw waa turned looae
upon aoQlety, after he bad cunningly and
cowardly killed Stanford White, an outrage
waa perpetrated on American law and order.
The unapeakable offenaea of thla wealthy de
generate. alnce hia releaae, are to be laid at
the door of the judgea, the Jurora and the
lawyera, who brought American law , into
dlgrepute, becauae a guilty defendtnt had
unlimited wealth at hia command
mawxisn sentiment ravoraoie to Tnaw.
which existed In many quarter* at that time,
brought American public opinion Into con
tempt. It la not necasaary to review the
unpleaeent detalla of the flrat Thaw caao;
It la only necaaaary to aay that Thaw allpped
up behind a niln’s back, put a platvl to hla
head and blew ’out hla braiha. It la true
enough that Stanford White, waa, in certain
reapecta, without Ararat principles or re
atralnta, but aa bad aa he waa, he waa worth
a houaeful of the man who assasslnlked him.
If White waa bad. In the name of goodneaa
what waa Thaw?
What the American public ahould be In
tereated In, la net the character, or the life
of either Thaw or White, but In the Integrity
of the American «yourta Thaw waa either
In aane or aane. If he waa sans, bla proper
place waa In prison, to exptata a deliberate
murder. If he waa Inaane, aa he probably
waa, hla proper place waa in a prison for the
criminal Inaane. But the Thaw mllltona
dragged their allray way through the courts.
They commanded the aervlcea of the moat
brilliant lawyers In America: they iiiem
bled an army of private detectives, and they
eotabllahed a manufactory for the making
Of false evidence. The millloqa of thj Thaws
so lowered the tone of the American courts,
that the Issue was not, “Did Harry Thaw as
aasslpate Stanford White?" but “What sort
of life did Stanford White lead?" The In
finitely worse life that Harry Thaw led be-i
fore the crime wan gf small consequenoe.
And In time, Thaw walked forth a free
man, with the. stamp of approval of the
courts upon hla freedom. The freedom of
Thaw was and la lasting reflection upon the
courta In which he waa tried.
That Thaw would again return to crimi
nal practices, when he was loosed upon so
ciety, was as certain as anything in human
life eould be. The revelations of hla more,
recent crimes, la but- the fulfillment of the
prophecies of those who knew*hlm beqf. The
whole unpleasant affair has terminated for
the moment in t supposed attempt at suicide
—an attempt which, like every ether effort
made by Thaw In hla life, was absurd and
futile.
If society la not protected from Thaw by
hla. incarceration in an Insane asylum,' wo
will doubt American justice.
TO OtJB TRADE TERRITORY.
The city of Montgomery wants fts trade
territory Interested In the coming “Made
ln-Montgomery Week": it wants the mer
chants and the farmers who trade directly,
or lndlrqctly, through the jobbing houses of
the city, to visit Montgomery and to look
In upon the show which le being prepared.
The buUdlhg up of a big manufacturing in
terest In Montgomery will contribute to the
prosperity of the whole trade territory of
the city. Primarily an augmented manufac
turing interest will furnish a better market
for raw material. The trouble with our sec
tion now la that we have too much raw ma
terial and too little manufactured articles.
The section produces any amount of raw ma
terial. largely of products of the farm.
These products in the past have been
shipped North, turned into manufactured
articles and shipped back to sell to our own
people. We have not done well under our
old system. For one thing farm products
have been too low, <and they have been too
low because there has been ho strong local
demand for them. We have already gredtly
Improved conditions, but we have yet a far
ways to go.
Any sensible man can see the folly o'
compelling our own people to pay the freight
two ways on their own products. It Is not
only foolish, but It la uselesa A manufac
turing plant can be owned and operated
much cheaper In Montgomery than In the
North or East. Why? First, because rents
and real estate are cheaper: second, because
power is cheaper; and third, because labor
Is cheaper.
With these advantages existing why do
we not have more manufacturing plants?
The answer Is simple—we do not furnish
the market for them. The channels of trade
have been constructed out of the Northern
and Eastern centers, and our people have
been educatdd Into buying their products.
Montgomery proposes to show In the
“Made-ln-Montgomery Week" that articles
made In this city are equal to those made
In other sections and that prices are lower.
It wishes' to Inaugurate a campaign of edu
cation to Induce our people to patronize our
own Industries. And, as we said before, the
Montgomery business men and the Montgom
ery merchants are not the only classes In
terested In this question—the city’s entire
trade territory, with all Its merchants and
farmers, Is Interested. They are Interested
because they will be able to buy goods
cheaper and because the factories and ths
workers In the factories will provide addi
tional markets for the pr°ducts of our farms.
THE EFFECT AT HOME.
The German government probably had lit
tle hope that Its request for a peace con
ference would receive any favorable reply
from the Allies but thq diplomatic play In
volved in the note was well worth the effort
made.
The Advertiser, In discussing the note at
the. lime of Its Issue,, ventured the opinion
that It had behind It a calculation of Its
favorable effect upon the people of Austria
and Germany, who were getting restless and
discontented, at the alow progress of the war.
Willie their own sufferings IncreaAd.
The note, to the people of Germai^-, was
as though the German govenrment said:
“We told you so. Our wicked enemies
started this war and Ao matter how fair we
are to them, they do not want to stop until
the German people are crushed. So you see,
you must stand Jiy the government."
This view of .the note and-one of its pur
| popes Is confirmed by the really eloquent
statement Imrt fctirtnr by tha German
<Imp«r»r to his people, in'which ha saya the
fintinte Fowara "have admitted their luat
for conquest, the' baeaneae of which te far
ther enhanced hr their caltfmnlous asser
tions., Their aim la the crushing of Ger
many, the dlsmembsrment of the powera al
llei with us, and the enslavement of the
people of Europe, under the same yoke that
Oreece, with the gnashing of teeth, la now
enduring."
/ Every government now engaged In the
war, whether It be among the Entente or
Teutonic Powera, le gravely concerned over
the attitude of Ite own ‘ people towards the
war. If the people behind either belligerent
ahould withdraw support, -the entf of the war
would be In eight. Hot a fed of the think
ere In tha Allied ,country believe that the
economic 'pressure applied eteadlty to the
people of th4 Central Powera will ultimately
bring, the war to a cloae. On the other hand,
the governing powera In Trance and Great
.Britain, . are Concerned over the a (Tecta a
vtgoroua aubmarlne policy would have upon
their own people.' In all the countries en
gaged In the war, perhaps the Auetriana and
Hungarians '-are suffering most. If the war.
In a popular-sense. collapses anywhere, from
. economic pressure, it will first collapse In
Austria-Hungary. ' .
Occasionally, reports come through from
Oermany describing the restlveneaa of cer
tain classea of the people, under the hard
ships -they are forced to endure. A hint of
the situation In Austria is contained In the
article Quoted Saturday In the news from
Vlanna, telling of the petition made by the
families of tramway employes to the Burgo
master ef that city.
This letter, Which was made public by way
of Holland, says the petitioners declared:
“We are In a deplorable condition. CAir
distress Is frightful and our children are
-pining away."
. One of the most repulsive aspect., of war
is this enforced suffering and privation* upon
Innocent people. It would be wolf to study
the news of internal conditions In the coun
tries at war. Economic conditions will do as
much to bring peace as victories on the bat^_
tlefield.
BOLDNESS OF QOV. STANLEY.
Hon. i A. O. Stanley of Kentucky, la the
right kind of Governor at the right time.
The boldneaa and promptness with which he
quelled a mob bent on lynching a negro vhv
had killed a former polloeman are bound to
add to the reputation of the distinguished
chief executive of Kentucky. People admire
a bold, determined man.
“Hang the Governor of the Commonwealth
first, and then wreak vengeance on the negro
later," was the spirit In which the Governor
rushed out of Louisville to Murray, Ky. Onct*
face to face with the mob, the Governor de
manded respect for the law and denounced
the crime of mob violence. The 300-pound
figure of Governor Stanley mubt have made
Its Impres^n upon ^the mob. One of its
leaders, a brother of the slain white man.
stepped forward and asked the other men to
heed the Governor’s words, and the mob sub-'
elded.
The Governor endeavored to find a com
pany of militia to send to Murray, but learned
that every Kentucky company was on the
border. The Governor would, therefore, have
been helpless In face of men bent on mis
chief but for the power of personality and
a show of earnestness. When the official
spokesman of organised society protests
against lawlessness, right In the face. of
lawlessness, the effect of the spectacle usual
ly Is to achieve its purpose.
Alert and aggressive Governors can re
duce lynching to a minimum in any State
where the Governor makes the experiment.
An aggressive policy on the part of Alabama
Governors has done that in this State. In
several other States of the South the right
kind of Governors have been able to improve
the lynching record of their State. This ex
periment ought to be tried la Georgia and
Texas. —
LINKING UP THE HIGHWAY.
Now that Alabama haa secured one branch
of the Jackson Highway and the branch
which will doubtless be the most popular,
some definite plan should be adopted to Im
prove the last-bad link. In the highway be
tween Selma and Montgomery. The exist
ence, of seven miles of b&d roads near Ben
ton depreciates the value of the good road
system from Montgomery to Selma.
During such weather as we have had In the
past week these seven irflles are Impassable.
There can be nothing like a complete good
road between the two Alabama cities until
this bad place Is linked up. It Is unreason
able to expect Lowndes county to do more
than she haa done for good roads. Lowndes
Is a rural county. Not only are there no
cities, but .there are no real large towns tn
Lowndes. Cities and towns make taxable
values. In spite of the fact that Lowndes Is
a ruralcounty and a farming land county, it
has done well In road building. In truth, it
has seriously embarrassed its own treasury
In the building of roads.
JThe time has come when Montgomery'
county and Dallas county should, as both
have done in the past, piake some contrlbu-.
tion to the building of this last link. Per
haps Lowndes can help some: doubtless the
State Highway Department can help some.
With all these agencies assisting we should
complete the almost finished task of having
an excellent highway between Montgomery
and Selma.
We want to keep this truth In our minds:
the automobile has come to stay and more
and more every year people will travel In
automobiles. And. to that extent good roads
each year become more and more Important.
The Issue which should be out squarely
before Tom Lawson and Congressman Wood
when they appear before the Investigating
Committee, Is "You must now convict some
body, or you convict yourself."
When he thinks of the career of Harry
Thaw, the Devil doubtless reflects that if
he had his life to live over again he would
go Into another line of business.
CORN POSE AND Ml'FFI.VH.
Atlanta Journal.
Southern cooking has long been a subject
for both condemnation and praise. Poet*
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and story tellers have voices Its delights.
Hygienists In cold analysis have sought to
show Its detects, but it_j>erslste and its de
votees grow not less In numbers or In devo
tion. Out ot its many products, from beaten
biscuits to a certain sort of just-right fried
chicken, corn bread seems to stand forth
as its moat characteristic and distinguish
able feature. On the merits of. this article,
too, there are those who say aye and those
who say no but the ayes sftm to have It.
The Indians potinded corn between stones
and evolved oorn bfead. The cooks of the
Southern plantations perfected It from hoe
cake to muffins and now It Is Interesting to
note how this rough-grained pastry Is find- j
lng favor outside the limits of Its old home.
The New York Commercial In discussing
a proposition before Congress to permit the
mixing of corn meal with flour In order to
lower the cost of bread, opposes it as work
ing detrlmentHo present pure food standards
and declares that corn meal should be sold
^nd. corn bread consumed on their merits and
that they have merits a-plenty. Continuing,
The Commercial joins the ranks of those
who appreciate the substantial and grateful
qualities of the maize pone, thus:
“Corn bread Is wholesome, highly nu
tritious and palatable. * * * In the best
liotets' and restaurants the demand for
• corn muffins is large and some pf the
' most famous eating places in New Tork
specialize in them. An educational cam
paign might Induce foreigners who are
not used to corn to eat more corn bread.
Ketall bake shops do not sell corn muf
fins and bread as freely as they might
because they charge cake prices and try
to make extravagant profits. In a few
Oases bakeries go at it the right way by
advertising in their windows that hot
corn bread and muffins will be on sale at
a certain hour every day. Several estab
lishments have worked up a larg. trade
In this way and this proves that the peo
ple will eat corn food products If they
can get them at fair prices."
This New York paper also.caUs the atten
tion of the American housewife to the fact
that the Department of Agriculture has is
sued a cook book which contains fifty recipes
for making good things to Cat from' corn
meal. If the high cost of living shall serve
to introduce more people to the delights of
corn bread, surely it will not have existed in
vain. •
1 ^ Letters to Editor
approves the glover letter.
Thomaston, Ala., Jan. 11, 1917.
Editor Tl.s Advertiser:
An article written by Mr. W. E. Glover^
that appears In. The Advertiser of January
11th should be read by every citizen of
Alabama who loves and appreciates the homC
life. I trust that those who failed to see
and read this piece will send and get that
number» even If it should cost a quarter.
Let us Kelp Mr. Glover to fight against wo
man suffrage, and preserve peace and hap
piness in the home.
Tours,
, ED BUCK.
THINKS ‘the ALLIES AltB GETTING
INTO TROUBLE.
Nodasulga, Ala., Jan. 11, 1917.
Editor The Advertiser:
Is the war In Europe approaching its end?
Is peace near at hand? Are the belligerents
of Europe, after two and a half years of
ruthless human slaughtering, untold suf
fering an,d destruction, ready to discuss
peace? An<Mf they are, under what terms?
These are questions daily thought and asked
by all peace-loving people, be they neutral
or not. Because the whole world, with a
j few Individual exceptions are buffering from
this war. From a careful study of happen
ings In the last several weeks leads me to
believe that peace Is not yet In sight. After
reading the allies1 reply to'Germany's peace
proposal, and the Allies' reply to President
Wilson, peace In the near future seems an
Impossibility. All efforts from neutrals as
sisting in obtaining peace will be fruitless.
The Allies wish to continue the war. They
refuse to recognize the fact that Germany
so far is victorious, and It Is natural to sup
pose that peace at the present war map Is
Impossible. It is the Allies wish to crush
German mllltaryism, and then hav* peace on
terms suitable to the Alllee. But is there
any hope In crushing Germany of Its n^lli
tary power? In my opinion, there Is as
little hope of doing this as In the destruc
tion of English naval power. Germany is
victorious and she is anxious to end this
horrible war, but discussion of peace caqnot
start on terms such as sugges'ed In The
[ London Spectator, at least not as long as
J Germany is victorious. If the war Is going
| to end as some predict, on dne aide or the
other being exhausted, we may aee thla war
w on for several yearn,/because both sides
have plenty of resources. About i.ext spring,
we may hear of battles fought as never
before, and some day the Allies may regret
their refusal to discuss peace.
Tours very truly,
■ , ' S. GORDON.
PAT’S PRIZES STOMACH.
Editor The Advertiser: * '
Reading in .this morning’s Advertiser an I
article from The Annlstog Star about the
transplanting of stomachs in the 'human
body reminds me that they are twenty years
behind the tlmpe. About twenty years ago
there was a multi-millionaire who was a
great sufferer from dyspepsia—his physician
having done everything for him possible
With medicine, told him that if he could buy'
a stomach he (the physician) could trans
plant it. He advertised and soon an Irish
man came and asked what fie wanted wllfl
a stomach, "I- hve a good one and will take
$5,000 for It If you say you can put one back.”
said Pat. The operation was successfully
performed, and about a year afterwards the
Irishman met the rich man again, the fol
lowing conversation taking place: “How is
my old stomach getting on?” said Pat "Fine,
I have not had any trouble since—but how
Is the one you got from me?” said the rich
man. "Sure, I have' traded that off again
and got $5,000 to boot—when yours plays
out call on me, for I can furnish any old
stomach that will fit,” said Mike with a l
$10,000 smile. .
—READER.
The Diversified
Farmer _
BlscultvIUe next stop. , ~
Missed The Drlfht.
We were Interested in a Tuscaloosa
brother’s comments on the “confiscation” of
land in England. Now, brother, we didn’t
mean for the land to be “confiscated” or any
thing like that, although in the beginning
the land was confiscated by the Norman in
vaders. '/hat we meant to say was that
the landlords, acting with the government,
will have to divide up their, land and sell
it off t'o people who will" cultivate it. The''
English, as a rule, are good farmers—their
mastery of the livestock industry is known
the world over. The trouble has not been
the lack of people to go on the land, but
lack of land available for these people to go
om This lack of land for cultivation Is due
to the fact that such vast estates are used
as hunting preserves. The English will
work out their solution to their land prob
lem but It is inevitable that the great estates
will be broken up and tilled by people who
want to own land, build homes, enjoy family
life and get something out of life as they
go along through it.
He’s A Good One.
Our good friend A. C. (Cilo) Davis has
been presented—without any solicitation from
him—as Alabama director of the Land Bank
being established at New Orleans. Alabama
could hardly do better in- presenting Mr.
Davis's name for this responsible place.
Here is a business man of ability, energy and
vision. Probably no private citizen has done
more in Alabama in a practical way for the
farming interests than has A. C. Davis.
Needless to say he is not a politician, has
never been, and we trust, never will be.
Men like him will make the work of the
Land Banks start right and keep right. (No,
A. C., we don't expect to borrow any money
| from you on the strength of this.)
Get ready to attend the farmers’ conven
tion 'in Montgomery January 26 and 27.
We Admit It. f ‘
Miss A. E. Tate called the other day to
inform us that Wilcox county was on the
map. We at once admitted the fact. Last
month Wilcox dipped more than 17,000 head
I of cattle—more than were dipped by any
| other county except Marengo. Wilcox is
jealous of her place as a cattle raising coun
ty and vjes with Marengo In the number and
quality of her cattle. This sort of rivalry
between counties is hwalthy and progress
ive. We were glad to see Miss -Tate and
hope she will call again and write often,
j Take your pen in hand, and tell us of this
! and that some of your progressive farmers
are doing.
Why shouldn't the prltes of livestock be
regulated by supply and demand, and not
by quotations in a far-off center? Room for
thought in this.
Pink Ball Wens,
The following has been received from the
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United States Department of Agriculture:
Since the discovery 'early in November thht
the Egyptian pink botl worm Is present in
the cotton' fields of the Laguna District of .
Mexico, about 200 miles south of the Texas
border, the Federal Horticultural Board of
the United Ctatei. Department of Agricul
ture has taken all possible steps in Texas
to make sure that the destructive pest has
not entered and does not enter this country.
The four hundred or mere carloads of cotton
•seed which entered the United States from
Mexico last year have been traced to oil mills
In Texas and the attention of the operators
of these plants has been called to the de
sirability of crushing the Mexican seed ml
soon as possible and of thoroughly cleaning^
thSlr premises to make eertatn that none of
the Insects survive. Moat of the Imported
seed already has been crushed, .but a few „
consignments which arrived early In the
season have been covered with large amounts A
of domestic seed and will not be reached 'j
until later.
The Federal Horticultural- Board plans to
have Its Inspectors keep close watch over
these establishments to minimisj ' the pos
sibility of the escape of pink boll worms or
their motha It is also planned to have In
spectors carefully examine all cotton fields
in the neighborhood of these establishments
during the coming growing season in order
that any of the insects which may escape
and establish themselves on cotton plants
may be early detected and destroyed.
The .inspectors of the- Department of Agri
culture so far have not discovered Infested
seed in Texaa A number of carloa*-! of
seed in which the Insects were present have
been found, however, on the Mexican side
of the border awaiting entry. - A quarantine
against all cotton seed from Mexico was
placed in effect early in November and neither
the infected seed discovered at the border
nor any other cotton seed originating In
Mexico has since been permitted to enter
this country. •
ENFORCING PATRIOTISM. / i
Sioux City Tribune.
It seems remarkable, to say the least, that
there should ever arise the necessity of fore-.
lng a citisen of the United States to remem
ber the things which patriotism naturally en
joins . This is an unusual role for the majes
ty of the law, but its majesty is not to be
trifled with In that direction, any more than
In others and if a man wittingly transcends
the bounds he must expect to be called to
account and to take the consequences
The Tribune referred editorially several
weeks ago to the peculiar suit before the
Supreme Court of the State of Washington in
which one Paul Haller was the central fig
ure. Haffer, it will be recalled, published an
article severely censuring George Washing
ton for alleged drunkenness and other con
duct unbecoming the father of hli country. '
The article aroused much popular indigna
tion in Tacoma, where Haffer Uvea and where
the article .was published, and straightway
there was filed against him a suit for crimi
nal libel. He lost In the lower courts and
immediately appealed to the Supreme Court
of his State.
The latter tribunal has Just handed down
its decision, sustaining the findings below.
This means that Haffer will have an excel
lent opportunity, during four months’ hi-'
carceration in the county Jail at Tacoma, to
ruminate sadly over the consequences of
libeling him who has been and is regarded
as the greatest American of all time.
The Haffer defense was that it was Impos
sible to libel the memory of a deceased per
son; but the Supreme Court, unfortunately for
him, takes a directly contrary vlaw, holding'
that it is entirely possible to hold the memory
of a decedent up to public ridicule and con
tempt, and that it Is not necessary to show
that relatives and friends were Injured by
the attack.
After Haffer’s release it seems reasonable
that If he has uncomplimentary views of
his own regarding George Washington’s
private life he will keep them to himself.
BE SHIPPED A “V” TO THE KING.
Sacramento, Cal., Bee.
According to Harry Meyers, postmaster
at Yuba City, Cal., many Hindus have ac
cumulated sufficient wealth In the Orchards
and vineyards of Sutter county this season
to Justify their retiemeni to India, where
they and their families may enjoy a life of
idleness upon the earnings.
In the last fortnight the sum of $12,000 has
been received by the postmaster for money
orders, ranging in amount from $100 to ft,.
300. There was one at the latter figure.
One Hindu bought a $5 mbney order, pay
able to King George of England, explaining,
through a letter written to the ruler that he
is a loyal subject of EnglKnd and a sym
pathiser with the Allies. He t:. n purchased
a suit of American clothes and also a tlcTibt
on the largest steamer for Calcutta.'^ '