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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-21
Flower bulbs at Godden's.
81 .oo-sLEEP1Ne CAR RATE B1sa51NG-

HAM TO MOBILE, VIA MERIDIAN
For the convenience of its patrons tie A.
G. S. railroad has arranged for the sale of
Pullman space Birmingham TO Mobile via
Meridian at the regular rate of $500 per
double berth. Parties leaving Birmingham
at 10:15 p. m. arrive at Mobile next morning
at 7:S0. S-16-tf
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-12-21

A complete line of Manicure
Sets. LOUIS SAKS.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25
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is insulting to the American people. 1t is
not put forward in good faith. Those
who protest against speedy and uncon-
sidered changes are in fact opposed to
all change. In their ranks will be found
all those who seek to Geny to the peo-
pie the power to reform their institu-
tions. Every man who believes that the
people. are unfit for self-government,
who holds that whenever the people
complain, the people are wrong, who
cast longing eyes backward to monar-
chical institutions, who see in the pos
session of wealth the insignia of the
right to power, will be found opposing
this plank
Let us take from our necks the con-
stitutional shackles placed there by the
circumstances under which our great an
cestOrs formed the constitution, so that
in the Twentieth century we may not
find ourselves outstripped in the race
towards governmental perfection"
Surely there is nothing un-American
in these manly words. Mayor Quick has
been simply talking plain common-sense
and democracy.
Yet the daily press has sunk so low
in toryism and mendacity that it has
been discharging volleys of abuse at
this stalwart young reformer.
The Sioux City Times declares that
his plank is an assault upon the courts
and demand for revolution.
And the Sioux City Tribune shrieks
that it should be spat upon and that
''the unmeasured seas should be turned
to spittle."
1t was James Russell Lowell who said:
Man is more than constitutions. There
fore our great poet shall be spat upon
by the champion splitter Of Sioux City.
1t was Jefferson who said: THE will
of the majority is in all cases to pre-
vail" Therefore the Sioux City Times
should declare him to be a hobo and
a dynamiter.
II Mayor Quiek's majority rule plank
is SO dangerous, what must the daily
press of Iowa think of the high treason
contained in the Declaration Of Inde-
pendence?
This incident should open the eyes Of
Iowa citizens, and show them the direc-
ton in which this republic is moving
If majority rule means revolution, then
it is clear that we must at present be
governed by the few.
AS to the Sioux City editors, I would
advise them to spit less and think more.
No wonder the mayor of that city is
too Quick for such stick-in- the mud
notwithstanding Nation.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

"If 1 we're directed to put on John
Sherman's opening tomb the inscription
of deepest obloquy that l could summon
to my mind, from among mis- unnumber-
ed deeds Of apostasy to freedom l would
cut into the granite, that after thirty
years of successful Greenbackism,
through two panics under goldbug pres
idents, after elderly men had been born.
had lived, and had died using green
backs, and had never lost dollar-after
all that, John Sherman convinced ma
jority of the voters of America that
greenbacks were not good money, and
that only gold bullion and jewelry, cor
nered by Israel, could be legal tender.
Prodigious triumph of satan!"-James
Otis.
The Maiden (Mass.), Daily Mail, Re-
publican, says: There is no doubt but
that the referendum would be great
check on legislators disposed to be cor
rupt, and it looks as If it were the only
way the people could save themselves
from being sold out to the corporations"
1t prints two columns explaining and
urging the people to study the matter.
And thus from unexpected sources we
see the spirit Of discomfort with the
existing order cropping out, even in the
camp of plutocracy. The social atmoS-
phere does seem surcharged with por-
tentious omens.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

ST. PAUL, Jan. 22-Public Examiner
Pope has issued his first circular to the
banks advising them against the practice
common in many banks and like institu-
tions, of having acknowledgements taken
before notary who is also stockholder
or officer of the bank. In the larger banks
1t is customary to have some clerk or book
keeper made a notary, and that presents
no difficulty. But in smaller banks. seeing
it is convenient to have some member of the
house act in that capacity, the cashier or
one of the officers is usually the notary.
Gen. Pope quotes from recent opinion
of Attorney General Douglas the following
extract:
A notary public who is an officer. director or
stockhoder in state banks. savings banks. trust
companies or building associations Incorporated
under the laws of the state is DISQUALIFIED to take
Acknowledgement of mortgage or instrument in
iavcr of the corporation OF which he is an officer
director stockholder.
You will recognize the importance adds
Gen. Pope, "of this disqualification and its
present effects upon the character or valid
ity of the securities you hold
The attorney general is far from holding,
however, that securities acknowledged
are invaidated. The circular has caused
some anxiety among the banks that have
received it. His opinion and the circular
are intended rather as a caution than as
an intimation that there is any great peril
to the securities falling under that head. In
the full opinion Gen. Douglas cites the au-
thOritleS OF number OF states, bearing on
this point not covered by any decision in
this state, and the Minnesota case of the
Bank of Benson VS.. Hove decided in 1890,
with an opinion by Justice Vanderburgh.
Between the parties the mortgage of other
security is binding even II 1t is not ac-
inowledged Only ifssthere is any dispute
the signatures and genuineness of the
document has to be proved ! 1t is rare
case where that is necessary, but when it is
necessary the proof may not be easy to
get. On the other hand the acknowledge
ment before a notary is proof of the sig
natures and the instrument itself. without
my further question:.
But az regards third parties, if the deed
Is not properly acknowledged, they may
take advantage of it, and apparently an
acknowledgment before an officer OF the
bank is none at all for this purpose.
In the Hove case, however, the supreme
court makes this distinction, that If the
notary Is shown on the face of it to be an
officer OF the bank, the notarys witness in
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

of questionable effect. While If It does not
appear on the face, even though the notary
Is a stOckhOlder or even cashier, the ac-
Acknowledgement Is Of valid effect. So that
the cases where there would be any ma
terial difficulty would be very rare.
In several legislatures, acts have been
passed to cure the defects In such instru-
ments. 1T would seem to be simple
measure" says Gen. Douglas, III the legis-
lature wishes to have that done, to enact
that such Acknowledgements shall always
be valid. This is a matter for legislative
discretion and 1 am not offering any ad-
vice on that point. 1t may be wise public
policy to disqualify the notary In such cases
as the law now has it,
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

one can escape. You do not like the
thought of that? The aggressive forces
of capital are pushing their issues into
very narrow passage. Why should
labor stand it? Why should labor be
patient while Judge Hammond entoins
it? Do you believe the Virden episode
has only cursory significance? You are
deceived. 1t is protest from under
ground.
Do you who hold the legal bond over
vast properties accumulated by the labor
of many men imagine that these men
will always be satisfied with existing IT,
ties? Many feel this thing who yet
have not thought it. When they finally
both think and feel to the same purpose
your proud title will be obliterated
The strike that you suppress with your
guns is not failure. A strike is a
question. Society must answer that
question. Brook Farm did not vanish
with Brook Farm. 1t still gives harvest
You hang the agitator, but you do not
hang the agitation.
The questions are not local, not of one
man to another, not of clique ranged
against clique, but of the system, the
whole fabric, nerve and bone, leaving
no particle of life unaffected. Honora-
BILE judges, benched against the people.
Purchased editorial writer's, to whom
judgment rolls from the face of a coin,
A weak kneed literature estheticised to
degree which precludes an understand
ing of social conditions. An art dedi-
Gated to decoration. Singers aligned
with prettiness. These do not deter
mine the case against the heart of man.
When the heart speaks everything else
is silent. When the heart is vocal your
reason asks to be pardoned for being
present. The law of the state may be
written by the intellect. But the laws
of man are written by the heart. A lit
tie more pressure added, dead judges
and jurymen, and you have fueled your
victim for fire which will melt prison
bars and your lettering chains. The
visible protest of labor is just as harm
less as you think it. But labor's in
visible protest penetrates your sinew and
makes light of privacy. possession and
renown.-H. L. Traubeli in The Conserv-
ator.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

Let him who would move the world
first move himself.-Socrates.
The altar cloth of one aeon is the door
mat of the next-Mark Twain.
The first springs Of great events, like
those Of great rivers, are mean and lit
tle.-Swift.
The labor question will not down. 1t
cannot be silenced by the Injunction OF
by the bayonet. 1t cannot be suppressed
by force.-Debs.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25
THE vIRDEN COLLISION.

No doubt a respectable voyager, who
saw two express trains about to collide,
would feel the alarm proper to the
situation. If he chanced to be on one
of the trains perhaps his alarm would be
increased. Yet this is no exaggerated
analogy of the situation in the industrial
world. And the fun of the thing is that
the observer must be on one or the other
of the trains. When the shock comes no
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25
ANGLO-SAXON MEDLEY.

The Omaha Bee relates story which
beautifully illustrates the singular purity
of the Anglo-Saxon blood that courses
in the veins of "us Americans" The
incident occurred at the exposition.
A drunken Italian entered the res
taurant and gave an order for bowl of
spaghetti soup. 1t was served to him by
Swiss waiter girl The Italian found
fly in the first spoonful and grew furi-
Gus. He threw the bowl and contents at
the girl but she ducked it and it
struck an Arabian seated at the next
table.
The Arab got up and punched the
head of Turk behind him, thinking he
was guilty Of the act. Arabia and Tur-
key Immediately mixed things and the
fight started general melee. An AS
syrian and an English porter took sides
with the Turk, while the American CASH
ier and a Russian guest pitched in and
aided the Arabian, who was getting the
worst of it.
The French cook and his assistant. a
Swedish woman, made frantic attempts
to separate the combatants.
A plate thrown by one of the fighters
went through one of the front windows
and struck Chinaman on the back and
careened on the head of an indian from
the Wild West show. The German pro-
prietor of the place was frantic over the
wreck the fighters caused, and, after try
ing in vain to stop the scrap, ran
to telephone and called the police.
When the wagon arrived an Irish blue
coat, followed by his comrades, Jew
and a negro, alighted, and, after
liberal application Of locust, the COM
batants were separated and loaded in
to the wagon and driven to the station
by the Austrian driver.
This morning the cosmopolitan crowd
will be given a hearing by Judge Cor
don, a Scotchman.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25
One of Many.

In one Of our exchanges this week
we find the following very suggestive
item, which with two others in the
same line, are said to have been Cleaned
from one page of a New York paper:
Charles Schmidt voluntarily delivered
himself into the hands of the police, re-
questing that he might be committed
to prison for the winter. II have an
swered countless advertisements" he
said: Il have walked miles every
day, and although l have perform
ed menial services in my constant
search, have been unable to
obtain position that will keep
me from starvation. l have no friends
or resources. The cold weather makes
sleeping in the park an impossibility.
am hungry, weary, half ILL" The mag
istrate granted his request and sent
him to prison for six months.
And yet the great and good man who
presides over the destinies of this great
and good nation, only the other day
was congratulating open-mouthed thou
sands congregated to see his person
and hear his voice, on the return of tn
dustrial prosperity, where instead of
men having to now seek employment
the employment was seeking them. And
the open-mouthed thousands cheered the
erring statesman.
Our contemporary has this to offer on
the cases quoted:
Had society been differently constitut
ed from what it is, all these poor men
might have lived joyous and beautiful
lives. The present social system may
be fitting one for fiends, but can it be
tolerated for one signle instant longer
by any person of humane and generous
sentiments? .....-.--.
Oh, yes, there are thousands Of per-
sons of humane and generous sentiments
all around us who cannot only tolerate
it for an instant but for years with
out the desire to lift finger to change
it. They have been educated to believe
that it is all right-that is, that
the industrial system is, and of
course there's 10 help for it's
results. 1T always was and al
ways will be-" is their philosophy, and
those interested enough to call atten-
tion to the saddening conditions are
rewarded for their good intentions by
the response of calamity howler."-
Hartford Examiner.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

My God! when l read DER the bitter
lives of men whose eager hearts were
quite too great to beat beneath the
cramped mode of the day, and see them
Knocked at by the world they love, hag-
Cling with prejudice for a pennysworth
of reform which their hard toll will
make the common birthright of the age
to come-when I see this, spite of my
faith in God, 1 marvel how their hearts
bear up so long; nor could they but for
this same prophesy, this inward feeling
of-the glorious end.-LOwell.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25
Signed and Operative.

Gov. Leedy signed the railroad bill on
Tuesday and it went into effect yester-
day on its publication in the Topeka
Advocate, the official state paper.
This is only one Of the splendid bills
that have been passed and become law
transit-extra, but it is the one that
will make the extra session memorable.
The bill itself Is unique-the only
one OF it's kind in the world, passed by
the only allwool- yard wide Popu-
list legislature on earth.
1t will serve as model for each of the
IS states, and meets every objection TO
maximum rates." reasonable profits -
and ''confiscation," raised by the federal
courts against state legislation on the
railroad question.
The only thing the federal courts can
do now is to throttle the state judi
ciary' and annul the autonomy of sepa-
rate states.
In view of all that has transpired in
railroad litigation since the regular ses.
sion two years ago, more especially the
extraordinary Nebraska decision re-
fently given, it is fortunate for the Pop
party, and a thousand fold more so for
the farmers of Kansas, that no railroad
law was passed at that time.
The federal courts have literally
trampled the life out of state legislation
dare they apply the same anarchistic
and destructive methods to the state
courts?
The passage of this bill places Kan
sas in the forefront Of progress.
The members were assailed by the
most formidable railroad lobby that
ever met in Topeka, but never man of
the grand phalanx wavered, and Bailey
Waggoner's thumpers fell back in dis
order, taking only the shams of defeat
and their bags of Doodle they brought
with them.
The Kansas tips it's beaver to every
supporter of the bill from John Leedy,
to Jimmie Cassin.-Pittsburg Kansan.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

It might be we'll to remember that,
all governments derive their just or un-
just power from the consent of the peo-
ple-the governed.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

plod,
They go to church on Sunday;
Many are afraid of God
And more of Mrs. Grundy.
Frederick Locker.
Justice is lame as we'll as blind among
us.-OtWay.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25
MUST GOOUTSIDE
PUBLIC BANK EXAMINER POPE IS
SUES HIS FIRST CIRCULAR,

AcknOvv alYments Taken by NOtaries
Who Are Officers Advised Against
They Would BE Found Defective
if TeSted-AttOrney General DOur-
las Holds the Same View-In Its
Workings the Rule Will Princf-
pally Effect the Smaller Banks of
the State.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

A Prominent Minister aad Teacher Both Given
Up to DIE. WIRE Cured
Ey the new treat rent9 Names and addresses
given at the ST. Pauf Medical and Surgical
Institute, Fifth and St. Fteter streets, ST. Paul,
home.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1899-01-25

Bring or send the abowc. lad. and your case will
be assured prompt atteation.--Ed.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-09-01
THE BOOMING O p

A Pittsburg dispatch says: John
r. Mckinley, former vice-president of
the Philadelphia Natural Gas Com
pany, has closed the purchase of an
immense tract of wheat-growing land
In Mclean county, North Dakota. The
tract contains about $4,000 acres and
is valued at about $15O,OOO. Mr.. Nc
Ginley made the purchase for the pur-
pose of subdividing the land into
farms, which will be sold to settlers.
They survey has been made already.
There are 200 farms, each contain
ing l6O acres, and a number Of farms
have been sold by Mr.. McGinley's
agent in North Dakota. The pur-
chase was made from the Northern
Pacific railroad, and, contrary to
this company's custom in disposing of
land. the sale was made outright, as
the Pittsburg capitalist wished to sell
1T again according to his own ideas.
When e yesterday in regard to
the purchase, Mr.. Mckinley said:
There is a strong demand just now
for properties of this description.
Young farmers of Missouri and adj
joining states are going farther west
to locate. This tract in Mclean
county is one Of the finest in North
Dakota, the greatest wheat-raisine
district in the country. The Northern
Pacific railroad has a peculiar method
of selling land, but 1 bought this tract
outright and can dispose Of it accord.
Ing to my own plans. The farms will
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-09-01
HASsBRoUGH AT SEATTLE.


The Seattle Post-Intelligencer says:
United States Senator H. G. Hans
brough Of North Dakota arrived in
Seattle last evening by the Great
Northern overland, and secured rooms
at the Rainier Grand. AS has already
been published in the Times, the SEN
ator's visit here is occasioned by a de-
sire Of the people of his state to nave
the returning volunteers from Manila
for that state return by the shortest
and quickest route from the coast.
| Minnesota is also DESTROYS that her
volunteers return by the shortest route
and that route is via Seattle. The
troops will soon he in San Francisco
and an arrangement is trying to De
fixed up in season. This forenoon
| Senator Hansbrough was absent from
his rooms and in consultation with
prominent men Of the city.
Ex-senator John L. Wilson of this
state, who is in the city, escorted Sen
ator Hansbrough about the city
Among those he visited was President
Graves Of the chamber of commerce.
and at midday the senator dined with
President J. D. Farrell, ]. S. Goldsmith
and others.
It is understood that the Dakota
senator is negotiating with the Pacific
Coast Company for transportation OF
the troops from San Francisco tc
Seattle. From here they will travel
over one of the overlands. Upon ar
rival at San Francisco the aid O. in
terest Of the war department in the
matter ceases, except that travel e
penses are allowed.
Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1899-09-01
THE HORSE MEAT PLANT.


The proposition for the establish
ment Of a packing house at Medora,
for the slaughter and packing of horses
meat has not been abandoned. A
company composed Of Boston capital
lists will probably put the plant in op-
Grafton this fall. The necessary cap
ital has been subscribed, railroad rates
have been secured, the horses are run
ming wild IN the ranges and there is
no further reaso for delay aftur
Nov. 1.
When the projectors first talked of
picking and canning horse meat it
was their intention to engage at once
in the business. This was very early
in the spring, after the horses had
passed through a severe winter. ard
they found that it would be much
more to their advantage to do the
packing in the fall and winter months.
when the animals We're fat from 7heil
summers feeding OH the ranges. Since
that time the projectors have decided
also to establish IL horse market 70.
the sale of the ore desirable animals
to be found on the prairies.
During the past three months the
price of desirable horses for r:,:yine
and heavy work have materially aG.
vanced, and by culling from the herds
the best stock it is estimated thai tie
company will be able to lind severa
thousand horses that will % mc..
valuable for sale in the marked tl,a1
tl:ey will be for food.