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The age-herald., 1898-11-03
TEXAS RAISES QUARANTINE

From the New Orleans Times-D Democrat.
 We are glad to be able to announce that, from this date, Texas raises her embargo against her sister state. So the last of the senseless Instructions to commerce be- comes thing of the past, and the people of the south may resume their accustomed avoeations.
 It is to be hoped, however, that the movement in favor of a sensible system of national quarantine will not be allowed to flag. After the experience of the last two summers, 1t must be apparent to all except the willfully blind that the existing con- dition of things is absolutely destructive of business interests. When states assume to maintain quarantines for purely commer- cal purposes, as Texas has undoubtedly done, the national power must be inter- posed for the protection of the rights of the citizen and the community. The great est natural resources will become value less, if recent senseless panics and malic- ious or idiotie quarantines are to be re- peated. The southern people must pull themselves together on this question: and find solution that will give the necessary guarantees to both capital and labor.
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Mckinley, very poor men; not one of them had sufficient income to live at the rate of e1.5O0 per year when they retited-only one of them had anything like that-and P. esi- dent Mckinley is said not to be nearly as ''rich.'
 It is not seldom that the most prominent American politicians leave no provision for their families. President Grants book provided for his. Mr. Blaines Twenty Years in Congress- did the same; but for President Garfield's family a public sub scription was necessary. Ex-Presiednt Hayes turned poultry farmer for living Ex-President Harrison and Ex-President Cleveland have returned to the practice of their profession. Secretary of War Stan ton, and his successor, Secretary of War Rawlings, left no provision for their fam files. There is one reason why the most ambitious public men do not seek wealth. 1t is fatal before a nominating convention. No candidate for the presidency, for in- stance, would be thought of who had large income. There never has been com parativey. rich president since Washington (and think Madson), who had Virginia estates. The choice of the people for any high office, and especially for the presi- dency, must have a record of hard work, plain living, simple tastes and honest poverty. The only rich vice-president in our time was Mir Morton, whose extraor-
 dinary personal charm made him a univer- sal favorite and excused his fortune. Some of the extreme western states or small population have sent rich senator now and then, but this class passes away as the states become populous. In short, MT. Editor, there Is no record for honest poverty among politicians in any country comparable to that of the great republic
 Whether 1t be well for the political leaders
 of nation. to die generally as poor as die
 the prominent public men of the United
 States, may be question, but that poverty
 has been and is their lot almost without
 exception admits of no question. I have known many of the prominent politicians of the republic, of both parties, and per haps as much of their affairs as most, and I cannot recall the name of more than one or two who died rich and not one who made anything but pecuniary loss through
 political life. They have had to live upon
 their salaries, and have done so. rarely
 leaving even modest provision for their
 families If the Spectator will investigate
 the facts, am confident 1t will regret the
 words quoted which are bitterly unjust and cannot fail to sting. am, sir, etc.,
 ANDREW CARNEGIE.
 Skibo Castle, N. B., October f.
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SUBSCRIPTION RATES.
The Penns ,lvania Contest.

A revolt similar to the one that put Till manism in power in South Carolina, Is go- ing on in Pennsylvania It is directed against the rule of Senator Quay, who be- came the successor of the house of Cameron. The state has been boss-ruled fully fifty years, with only one or two short and fitful intervals of reaction. The normal republican majority in the state is very large plurality of 15O,OOo votes is by no means uncommon in the one-sided state. Last year the republican candidate for state treasurer received 372,4SS votes, the democratic candidate PAP 2,731 and pr. Swallow, the Independent, boiled 11S962 votes; but the republican candidate for auditor-general received 412,6 ,652 votes. It was year of revolt, and the revolt against Quay has been carried over to the present year.
 There are three candidates for governor in the field. The Quay, or machine, can didate is Congressman Stone; the demo- cratic candidate is ex-Solcitor- General Jenxs, of MT. Clevelands first term, and
 
 sible Swallow. If the anti-Quay vote could be consolidated. 1t is conceded that Quay's man would be beaten; but no such change be effected. The three tickets will be voted for next Tuesday. There are many republican bolters besides MT. Wanama- ker. The Philadelphia machine is disaf- fected. It denounces Quay and his meth ods, and so does the Philadelphia Press, which was formerly edited, and doubtless is now controlled, by Postmaster-General Smith. Candidate Stone is probable win ner, although the joint anti-Quay vote will outrun his plurality heavily.
 The legislature is in haze of doubt, owing to the fact that anti-Quay repub- lican candidates numerous, and many fusion tickets are in the field. MT. Quay needs the legislature and he will doubtless continue his personal fight for reelection, even if an apparent anti-Quay majority be returned He is a man of skill and re- sources.
 The present congressional delegation con- tains twenty-eight republicans and two democrats will gain, in the tumult of the seaction against Quay, some seats. The democrats claim about ten districts, and she republican managers practically say there are nine districts in which the demo- crats have chances of success.
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The Quarantine Problem.

pr. Sanders statement, before the Jeffer- son County Medical society, was more re- markable for what 1t did not contain than for what it did. He showed that the out break at McHenry was promptly detected and sauelched, but he had not word to say as to the stupidity displayed in La fayette county and at Jackson. He did admit the incompetency of the state quar- antine officers at Ocean Springs last year, and he should have gone on and demon- strated that the chief virulent foci in the state of Mississippi this year were in Jack son and Lafayette county, for both or which the state board should be held re- sponsibe.
 Dr. Sanders says the real cause of out breaks in the south is the tardiness with word "recognized'' the word reported should be substituted. Local physicians dependent upon local practice and local prosperity, can never be depended upon to report yellow fever cases. No state quar- antine can compel them to do so. Nothing short of actual paid nonresident observers in every county, or at every point of sus- picion or exposure, will accomplish that task, and no state legislature can be in- duced to appropriate enough money to meet such an undertaking. Why, then, should not the expense of the work be thrown upon the general government? It really concerns the entire country, and is properly a sub- ject of national care and expenditure.
 Dr. Sanders wholly mistakes the situation when he says that all that is needed Is an early and correct diagnosis of the disease. What Is needed is an early report of every suspicious or allied case; and no state sys- tenn that exists or ever has existed in the south, can secure such reports Physicians will protect to the last possible moment the reputation of their respective localities. Nonresident observers could alone be trusted to act differently-Alabamians for example, in Mississippi, and Misslssippians in Alabama. The state board of health has work enough in sight in the direction of sanitation, and in the prevention of dis eases. The state board can be trusted to care for all but yellow fever, but all ex- perience goes to show that state boards are not successful discoverers of early cases of the dread scourge. pr. Sanders really
The age-herald., 1898-11-03
POOR AMERICAN POLITICIAN.
M-. Carnegie Corrects Statement That w ..It
 is Necessary to An American Career.

Letter to Editor of London Spectator.
 MT. Bayard has the honorable distinc- tion, rare among prominent American poli- ticians, of having died poor man." These words we find in the Spectator of October 1, foremost and most pGKerful of all the or gans which labor fort unity of our race. Never were more surprising words written. So far from MT. Bayard being a poor man, as prominent American politicians" go, he was able to accept the ambassadorship to Britain, which very few are, and was quite well-to-do. Prominent American poli- ticians of his rank Cabinet minister, sen- ator, ambassador). rarely die as rich as he. There is not in the senate today more than perhaps half dozen out of the ninety who have the assured income which the lament ed Bayard possessed, and in the house of representatives not, perhaps, more than a score out of the 354. Consider even the past presidents in our day. Lincoln had no fort une, neither had Grant, Garfield. Hayes, Cleveland, or Harrison. These were all very much like the present president, MT.
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Cotton at the Mills.

Cotton at 41a to 5 cents pound is not over-pleasing to the farmers of the south, but nevertheless it has it's compensations. It should lead to the growing of home supplies, and possibly to the production. here and there, of other cash crops. Even plished, the low price works heavily in favor of southern cotton milling, as glance at few figures will plainly show.
 If cotton be worth in the south cents it will bring in Fall River 10 cents in round numbers, or an advance of 1O1a per cent If cotton be worth AZ cents in the south, 1t will bring 51k cents in Fall River. In the latter case southern mills have an advan- tage in raw material of 21 per cent; in the former case of 1O1a per cent. In discussing this subject the Huntsville Mercury perti- nently says:
 with cotton selling for only fraction over 5 cents in New York, it compels the eastern spinners to pay nearly 25 per cent more for cotton than is paid by southern spinnerS who buy thelr cotton at the very doors of their mills. This advantage, coupled with cheaper and better labor, cheaper fuel and better climatic conditions will eventually close the eastern mills and give the south a monopoly in cotton spin ming as well cotton growing.
 "The cotton farmers are not entitled to credit for this blessing for 1t came strictly in disguise. but they have paid dearly for 1t, even though the returns will eventually fer. Under the present conditions it will not be exceeding ten years before the south will have mills enough to spin more cotton than Is now spun, in the United
The age-herald., 1898-11-03
WORTH BAGLEY

From the Chicago News.
 Ensign Worth Bagley, the first Ameri- can officer to fall in the Spanish -Ameri- can war, is to be commemorated by a memorial tablet in the chapel at Annapolis naval academy, "the Westminster of the navy" Officer Bagley was killed on board the torpedo boat Winslow, May Il, in Cardenas harbor, after a gallant en- eagement which demonstrated to the Spanish the kind of men with whom they had to deal. The tablet is of polished brass, with a palm branch and sword crossed at the top and a laurel wreath crossing the palm at the bottom, and reads as follows:
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The Congressional Election.


 The democrats of the Seventh district should not forget that they may be decid- ing who shall represent the Fourth dis Seventh may make the next house dem- ocratic, and in that case the democrat elect in the Fourth would not be unseated. republican house would mean the re- seating of Speaker Reed, and an elections committee that would promptly restore MT. Aldrich to a seat wholly regardless of the votes and returns in the district. Let every democrat in the Fourth do his full duty next Tuesday. Let him turn out, and take his neighbors with him to the poIIs Every vote is needed in both the Seventh and the Fourth, and in all the other districts for that matter.
  gressional committee is claiming repub- lican majority in the house of the Fifty sixth congress of twenty-seven votes. He forgets the customary reaction in the middle of a presidential term, and he also forgets the blunders and waste of life and treasure of the war office incompet- ents now known as Algerism. He for gets all these things, and he makes claims that surely cannot be fulfilled. The coun- try is surely in no mood to indorse Alger and Hanna and Quay Alabama should do her part towards a condemnation of the whole republican outfit.
 A democratic house means a democratic speaker, and democratic speaker would take steps to secure an interoceanic canal. something that the south surely needs, es- pecially the state of Alabama. demo- cratic house would, too cause a thorough investigation to be made of the conduct of the war It would uncover all rottenness, and partiality and meanness, and the re- port of such an investigation might pow erfully promote the election of an honest democrat in 1900. It would enable the peo- pie to have voice, as we'll as the man. ufacturers, in the coming changes in the tax schedules: for war taxation will soon be preposterous. The treasury is full. It will put an end to the laoSs'~ of the treasury for all sorts of shsszszss The fight for democratic house should be pushed with all possible vigor, and no one in this state should for moment think he is not in the fight. The voters of the Fourth and Seventh districts are very thoroughly in it, and there is scarcely a district in the state in which it is safe to stay away from the polls.
The age-herald., 1898-11-03
DIXIE DOODLE
Margaret
 1rI-I-

Margaret Andrews Oldham, in Leslics Weekly. A century of peace has dawned; the north
 and south are plighted, And all their lovers quarrelings have been
 forever righted. There is no north there is no south, no
 Johnny Reb, to bandy; No feud, no scores to settle up--no Yankee
 Doodle Dandy. What have we, then? A land serene. uni-
 ted, heart to hand. sir, Which, like a sum of numbers, never yields
 but one true answer. Who have we, then, in this great land,
 above It's bonded poodle, r With northern pluck and southern nerve?
 His name is Dixie Doodle. Then hip, hurrah! for this brave youth,
 unbought of bond or poodle The conqueror of future worlds-tho grow
 ing Dixie Doodlei
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m the Montgomery Journal.

From the Montgomery Journal.
 Miss Annie Kendrick Walker, in her ex- cellent work on The Birmingham Age-Her- aid, is winning new laurels and increasing her already achieved success as a journal ist. Miss Walker Is an easy, graceful writer, and her articles are all suggestive of a bright intellect, broad culture, and ex- hibit a delightful charm particularly her own
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In Memory of WORTH BAGLEY, Ensign United States Navy,

The first American officer who fell in the Spanish-American war. Killed on board the torpedo boat Winslow during the bombardment of Cardenas, May II, 1898.
 "I have fought a good fight; I have finished my course; I have kept the faith. Timothy, iv, 2.
 This tablet is erected by the of- ficers of the Atlantic torpedo boat flotilla.
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Two Years from Now

From the Montgomery Journal.
 The boys, that is the young democracy are talking about the present popular state auditor for governor two years hence State Auditor White is making capable and faithful state officer. Higher honors await him. T-7te 5.ft
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The good people of North Birmingham certainly know that taxation in Greater Birmingham can not exceed one dollar per each one hundred dollars of assessed val- uation, and no city can have urban ad- vantages at a lower rate.
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The North Birmingham anti-annexation- ists do not know that annexation would not increase tax value of their property. They are forecasting.
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Snow in Alabama

From the Wedowee Toiler. Considerable snow fell in this county
 Wednesday. We notice it was quite
 heavy little farther north.
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States. Then the prices will be made here instead of New York and Liverpool, a1fd the cotton farmer will get the benefit of the change"
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Up in North Carolina they say that if they must have negro officers, they prefer to send the negroes to congress, and keep white men on duty at home.
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The south and the west are now prac- tically solid in demanding the retention of the Philippines. The south has cotton goods to sell, and the west flour.
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The Negroes Repudiate Aldr;ch
m the Eufaula Times.

From the Eufaula Times. The negro republicans of the Fourth dis
 trict have indorsed Robbins, the democratic
 candidate for congress, alleging that
 Aldrich, the republican candidate, has shown that he designs to eliminate the negro from his political horizon.
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Not Dangerous Here

From the Sheffield Reaper. A little learning may be dangerous, but | the dangerous classes are never found in l the primary schools of Alabama.
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Speed the election day, so that the wires may be relieved of the daily mess that the star-chamber whitewash board sends out.
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STRAY THOUGHTS
 OF STATE EDITORS
The Sunday Edition

From the Montgomery Journal.
 It might be well to remark in passing that the Birmingham Age-Herald of Sun day was model paper.
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yellow fever cases. It has not had case in sixty days. Sanitation is everything.
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Think of 1t! Not a single cotton mill of any size has been built north of the Ohio or the Potomac in two years.
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A SAFE DISTRICT

From the Chicago News.
 Nobody will blame General "Joe'' Wheel CT for induging in a itte overcontidence in his congressional lRmpaign.
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Esterhazy, the forger, Stas sought the customary asylum of political criminals across the English channel
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It took four years to bring the Dreyfus case before the court of cessation, but once there it was acted upon promptly.
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The drift is against the republicans, and no one can forecast the results of next Tuesdays elections.
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Colonel Waring's death should point the road this country should travel. Havana must be cleansed.
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GOT THERE FIRST

From the Boston Herald.
 We lift our hat to the sweet Sunny South. Alabama has had snow storm ahead of us.
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A New Aspiraut

From the Roanoke Herald.
 Once only in many years has East Ala bama been represented on the state ticket, yet she always comes up smiling with her end of the log. The democrats of the red hills of East Alabama will present the name of a democrat whose name and in fiuence are we'll known in every nook and corner of the state. A democrat whose watchword is forward with a quick step in everything that tends to the material ad- vancement of his state, section, county and town. A democrat who is ever in the foremost rank of the vanguard when work is to be done for the party. In the name of the unterrified democracy of the hills, we nominate William A. Handley, of Ran dolph, for the next governor of Alabama.
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Peace jubilees for advertising purposes are becoming tiresome
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Our new possessions should begin to buy their Thanksgiving turkeys.
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Premature peace jubilees. and Algerism, and whitewash evidence continue to vex the public ear.
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Postoffices on wheels are latest devel- opment of a developing country. .
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The principles of historical development are more to us now than the landmarks of the fathers. rgn-
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Sweet Alabama T~-I

From the Selma Journal.
 This morning the rumor was rife that w. H. Williams, better known as Sweet Alabama, had failed in business. The ru- nor was occasiened by the movements of several wholesale grocery men on yester- day and last night, and the absence from the store for the past few days of MT. Will Hams, who has been sick. There was two attachments issued by Clerk of the City Court Evans for about $450 each, but the sheriff was met at the door of the store this morning by the merchants who had sworn out the writs and told not to serve them, that MT. Williams had returned to the store and at meeting of his creditors satisfactory explanations had been made, and he would be given ample time to pay all he owned, which they felt very certain he would be able to do very shortly. Mr.. Williams was seen by a representative of the Journal and received from him very manly statement Of the condition of affairs. Selling with as close margin as he does ,and having been in i'll health for the past year, net being able to give the business his per- sonal attention, leaks occurred which tenn porariiy embarrassed him, but his friends are delighted that Sweet Alabama will not be compelled to close lis business and will continue as heretofore at the old stand.
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The eventful day in the Seventh district approaches.
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The Spanish cartoonists are making the lives of Spain's military officers burden.
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The whitewash board is preparing to re- port that the dead soldiers killed them selves. cae
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This country should buy a shop-right in Frances plan for getting rid of secretaries
 of war. c-
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France is more on trial now than Cap tain Dreyfus.
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The Women Are Moving

From the Decatur Vitascope
 The campaign for the. proposed new school laws is being vigorously waged. The Federation of Woman's Clubs has taken hand in the matter and petitions are being circulated all over the state of Alabama calling upon the representatives in the legislature to vote for the education al bill If there is any profit in aggressive work the promoters of the increased school appropriation scheme ought to win. If Alabama does not do something to reform her public school system she deserves no better than to be left out in the cold i'll this era of industrial improvement. The mat ter lies with the representatives of the peo- pie. Let us hear from you, Messrs. Hon. O. Kyle and s. P. Rather. These columns are open to you.
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OUR SOCIAL COLUMNS

The political arithmetic man is over worked.