The age-herald., 1898-10-16

enough has emitted from of1iee-seekers to
 arouse a wholesome prejudice in the pub
 lie mind against the swapping bee for the
 disposal of public places. Governor John
 ston, thus far, has evidently depended on
 results as the ground of his title to office,
 and, that being true, he is too eireumspect
 to honor duns for debts he does not and cannot owe.
 A statesmanlike procedure for the ap- pointment of the standing committees of the house is a crying desideratum. As
 choice of evils, it is better to give their
 makeup to the governor elected by the
 people than to the speaker. Let the public
 ride.
 An intelligent Cuban doctor, fresh from home, made some remarks to reporter at Richmond, Va, the other day.
 Where are the reconcentradoes?' was the question.
 "All gone; none on the island"
 Gone! Where?"
 "The Lord knows"
 "All dead?"
 ':'You say sop
 We can get around our failure to feed the hungry Cubans by our promises to increase the population of the island in natural or der of Americanization. Humanity" con- trols. Expansion of Christianity" is to be looked after, some say, by increase of Protestanism and decrease of that foreign influence, the pope, in American posses sions. The pope is very rich and very old
 How would it serve the Catholic church to remove St. Peters to Washington city? Congress would suspend the tariff applied to all the materials; a young pope would be glad to enter upon an enlarged field and the tremendously augmented opportunity America will not "do'' the pope this time Senator Morgan remarks to The Age Herald correspondent that mo self-respect- ing American can refuse to lend his aid in establishing republican form of govern
 ment the port of New York; until the This is a world of proportions. The United States is not competent judge nor capa- ble builder of government for remote col ored races and untutored peoples. Until the port of Mobile shall approximate in the en- joyments of it's rights under this govern
 ment as the port of New York; until the state of Alabama receives at the hands of the United States the equities denied to 1t
 at Washington I as voter shall not con- sent to release the United States from con- sideration of Mobile and of Alabama by ir- troducing confusing and foreign appeals to the national pride. There is a stopping place to governmental expansion and mag nifcence. Washington city pulsates and bounds forward under the stimulus of the present war taxes, but Montgomery droops as the multiplied warriors tread the land. 1 do not see a surplus of American Thu manity'' and Christianity" for export. l think we, in Alabama, can consume at home all we possess of those virtues unless drained of them by arbitrary and ty- rannical power elsewhere.
 Go to the North Carolina case. It is a case directly traceable to false policies of government forced the United States from Washington. They have there what they call the fusion law" This infamous act provides that white infant stricken to death by poverty from its mothers breast, as a sample case, may be turned over to Shaw Medical and Surgical Negro college as an anatomical subject "Hu manity" of maternal instinct, sanctlty of race instinct, must be suppressed. The Caucasian lineaments in which "Chris- tianity' appeared first, and which Adam and Eve aforetime must have worn, accord ing to the Scriptural geneaogy. appeal in vain from tbe dissecting board of Shaw col lege for rsroes only. Poverty must pay it's price. With saw and scalpel young negro doctors hack the pauper frame pauper, Colonel Bryan thinks, because labor suffers from the rising price of money and the falling price of toil." With saw and scalpel the young negro doctors of North Carolina hack the pauper white anatomical subject and the refuse heap holds the fragments for the miracle of the last day.
 The long evenings toward the north pole, in our neighbor, Nova Scotia, are already aglow with the fires of the hearth stone. An Englishman, MT. A. W. Savary, up there, has entertained his off moments writing letters to the New York anti-jingo papers, defending the learned opinion of the late Lord Broughham, that the thirst for empire which led the United States to strike down the cause of Hbt<sS in the southern confederacy would whet the ap- petite of the nation for universal conquest MT Savary might read the Congressional Record to find comfort for his philosophy in the remarkable incident that hardly confederate brigadier on the floor of the senate, unless it be that peerless orator John Warwick Daniel of Virginia, who ever refers to the government of Jefferson Davis except as positive rebellion. without quotation marks to indicate a borrowed msnomer.
 Humanity and Christianity borne upon the American sword to unexpectant colored races in tropical climes, are children of monopoly. That one-twentieth part of the American people which owns 64 per cent. of all values in America Is the propagator of the humanity and the expansion of Chris tianity involved in the success of the tional arms. If monopoly be the thing, there is no further use for the declara- tion of independence, for the law and the constitution. for Washington and his fare well. The monumental blunder of the ages was George Washington and all he stood for. A written constitution of government cannot survive the pressure of practical utilities. When Mathew Maury taught the world the secret of laying ocean cables, when Morse perfected telegraphic connec- tions, when Bell invented the long-distance telephone, when Edison ground out cleo tricity as an illuminator and motor. when
 Harvey invented the ballistic-proof ar mor the fact of Americanization of civili-
 zation took effect. If civilization Ameri-
 canized can do without the dogmas of Jefferson. it can do without personal liber ty and civic freedom. It can do without the colored races in congress. "Humani- ty' protected among the dark races by Americanization means the fate of the American Indians in Alabama and else xyhare. the fate of the POlyneSian Indians