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The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17

the plot against Captain Dreyfus. they Will
not at once be punished. They may be
censured in general terms. but they cannot
be called to account for their crime, simply
becaues they are too numerous and too
influential. Practically every leading poll
tician and army officer of 1894 and some
of the subsequent years was a prosecutor
Of the artillery captain. Scarcely one of
them has a clean record in this respect
The entire army of 1894 was against Cap
tain Dreyfus, some of them with knowl-
edge, but more without All are guilty
of completely in one form or another in
the great crime against Captain Dreyfus.
And SO it is in civil life. The guilty out
number in government and military circles
the innocent, and the guilty cannot there
fore be at once punished. Time must do
its perfect work. General MERCER and the
other conspicuous antiDreyfusards must
be shielded becaue they stood at the time
for guilty nation To repudiate and pun
ish them now is asking too much of France
and the French sense of justice. As IN
the case OF the Panama scandal, the Drey-
fus shame must be lived down gradually
and the chief promoters of it must not
be Immediately punished. The nation itself
was guilty, and it is not in position to
select victims at present. The new minis
try will doubtless do all in the direction
of bare justice that it dare do, but 1t will
probably not go far beyond seeing that the
decision of the court of cessation is fairly
carried out.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
Fighting in the Mud and Heat.

The administration is afraid it's standing
before the people will be impaired as the
campaign of 1900 approaches, and it is urg-
ing General Otis and his subordinates to
crowd the Filipinos to the wall regardless
of fevers and sunstrokes and heat and
sacrificing the health of many and the lives
of not a few in its mad desire to crush the
insurgents. forthwith. Until the end OF
August the island of Luzon is a quagmire,
the rains falling, every day, and the sun of
that latitude being very fierce Even Hong
Kong Is within the tropics, and Manila is
only fourteen degrees above the equator,
which passes through Borneo, lying next
south of the Philippines. Havana is cool
in comparison being more than twenty de-
grees north of the equator.
There is no reason why the campaign in
Luzon should be pressed to a conclusion in
such wicked haste. After the month of
August has come and gone the rains in
Luzon will be infrequent, and the great
heat will be lessened. Let the administra-
ton control it's nerves. It's present haste is
needlessly cruel and destructive of Ameri-
can lives. The accumulation of men and
stores for operations in the fall season
should suffice at present. .taSNtfei, OF
eaa,r---,. ss-5,t.s-ail needful defensive opera
lions.
The Filipinos can be crushed speedily
enough when the roads of the island are
hard and dry, and the heat is less intolera-
BILE. AT present active operations are ex-
pensive in every way and not very efficient.
Mr.. Mckinley will make a mistake if he
insists upon operations that put upon
American soldiers tasks that they cannot
bear in the intoerable heat. Even cen
sored reports cannot conceal the truth.
The situation in Luzon is becoming known,
and the more it is understood the more
plainly it appears that the administration is
placing politics ahead of military sense and
military possibilities.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
The New Departure in Books.

The New York Evening Post states that
the H. B. Clafin company, dry goods and
notion jobbers, of New York, has taken
$50, 900 volumes of Kipling's works for the
purpose of marketing them at popular
prices. This is a step in the direction of
that Capitalization which is progressing
rapidly in this period of trusts and tariff
schemes
The department store proposes to wipe
out the old-time book store. Instead of
many dealers, in other words, there are
to be a few department stores which will
sell all kinds of goods. In the book trade
some Clalin concern will simply take an
entire edition. selling the books to the de-
partment stores, thus destroying the trade
of the booksellers, who will be compelled
to sell stationery or other goods, or go
out of business altogether. Today the de-
partment stores are the chief book dis
tributors of the country, and the move
ment towards them and against the book
sellers is still in its infancy.
1t is a question whether in the long run
the publishers will not prefer to deal di-
rectly with the department stores, thus
leaving out the jobbers as we'll as the
booksellers. Concentration and centraliza-
ton once begun knows no limit, except
that of capital and possibilities. Greed and
the breaking down of competition are now
declared by the apostles of the new regime
to be legitimate and laudable, and the next
century may evolve one huge central store
which will sell the goods needed by q
great people, through the utilization, of
course, of numerous branches.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
TO EPCLUDE EXPLOSIVES
Peace Commissioners at The Hague
Will Agree on This Point

The Hague, June 16.-The drafting COM
mittee of the arbitration tribunal, which
should have met today, adjourned its
sitting. The cause of the adjournment was
ostensibly the absence of Baron Estiurnelles
de Constant, of the French delegation, who
drew up the minutes. 1t is possible, how
ever, that the delegates had not received
sufficient instructions from their govern
ments to make further progress. The
delegates need few days more time to de-
liberate. The difficulty now chiefly consists
in reconciling a scheme of the powers
schemes and the prospect is more hopeful.
If no agreement should be reached an ar
bitration tribunal will nevertheless be ar
ranged and be open to such powers as are
not able to sign now. In the meantime
every effort will be made to meet the Ger
man views. The naval section committee
met today and received the report of Count
Soltk. A majority of the section will favor
the proposition intending to exclude explo-
sives to spread asphixiating gases and the
use Of rams on warships.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
The French Situation and Capt. Creyfus

The new ministry will without a doubt
be made up with a view to justice
in the Dreyfus case, so far as the vindica-
ton of his honor is concerned. The new
premier and all of his associates and nine
other Frenchmen out Of ten are committed
to that. But beyond that they may not go.
They may not, in the first place, go out
of their way TO bestow upon Captain Drey-
fus the rank and position that would have
been his If vile conspiracy had not been
formed against him. Any bestowal of
unusual honors upon Captain Dreyfus will
have to await the growth of a just senti-
ment and other happy effects of time. If
the ministry move too fast in this respect,
it will itself be removed from office and
power.
AS to General MERCER and the rest Of
the generals and statesmen who were In
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
COMPLAINT AGAINST ATLANTA

Atlanta, Ca, June 16.-Atlanta had a To-
cal Mazet committee yesterday afternoon
for a while, and some interesting facts
wers brought to light. The relief commit
tee of the city council was investigating
the department of the city warden and un-
earthed facts and figures that somewhat
surprised its members.
City Warden ]. K. Hunter was called
before the committee and asked to explain
the expenditure of the city's money APP
propriatsd for his department. He de-
clared that the local cotton factories were
responsible for many of the paupers roam
ing the streets.
Certain Atlanta factories are to blame
for the state of affairs" said the officer.
"They advertise that they are paying good
wages in Atlanta, and they get the city
filled full of paupers, who come here to
work. The people who come to me say
that the factories are paying Thorn starva-
ton wages, and they must get out of town
or starve to DEATH Ninety-five per cent.
of the paupers who want transportation
are women and children, who come here
to get work and find themselves stranded.
They are a dead weight on the city, and 1t
is a question with me whether 1t Is not
cheaper to send them off or bury them"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
HUNTsVILLE's COTTON MILLS

From the Washington Post.
Down in Alabama we are very proud
of Huntsville" said DR.. w. D. Allen, of
that city, at the Normandie, yesterday
evening. "Hitherto the south has been
patted on the back and told to go ahead
and develop itself commercially, but no
one ever seemed to think it mould ever be
a dangerous competitor to the enterprising
NORTH and, specially to New England.
Within the last half dozen years, however,
Huntsville has made greater strides than
any city in the entire south. We have
practically doubled in population during
that time, and we have some of the larg-
est manufacturing plants south of the
Mason and Dixon line.
"Of course Birmingham leads In the steel
and iron industry, but we are to have a
large steel plant, which is coming from
Johnstown, Pa, and it is stated that others
are to follow. But it is in the cotton man.
ufactures that Huntsville hopes to excel.
We already have three of that character,
and one of them the Dallas, has just Sc
cured contract for 5000, 900 worth of cotton
goods to ship to China. The firm was
awarded one-eighth Of a cent more than
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
Trusts Due TO Tariff.

The industrial commission that is en-
gagged in investigating trusts heard some
very straightforward testimony when it
called Mr. Henry o. Havemeyer, president
of the sugar trust, to the stand. He told
them that the tariff is "the mother of all
trusts" Ten per cent. is as high as any
tariff ought to be, added Mr. Havemeyer
As the present tariff carries an average
rate of about so per cent, it is plain that
Mr.. Havemeyer sees much margin for
reductions.
Mr.. Havemeyer tells the truth frankly,
even bluntly, when he says:
There probably is not an industry that
requires a protection of more than 10 per
cent. ad valorem, and it is to obtain what
is provided over such percentage in the
tariff that leads to the formation of what
are commonly spoken of as trusts
with a protection to an industry not
exceeding 10 per cent. all menace to the
community by trusts would cease. This
10 per cent. would represent the difference
in cost of production, and likewise act as
a protection against surplus products of
foreign countries being dumped in upon
our local markets, thereby interfering
with the regular and economic working of
might then accrue to such combinations
they would be fully entitled to, and the
public would not be damaged thereby, as
any expansion of price would be met by
foreign competition
Mr.. Havemeyer speaks as an expert-a
trust and high-tariff expert. Il repeat"
he says, "that all this agitation against
trusts is against merely the business ma
chinery employed to take from the public
what the government in its tariff laws says
it is proper and suitable they sho''i2 fave
1t is tho government, through its tariff
laws, which plumbers the people, and the
trusts are merely the machinery for do
ing it."
There is not much more that need be
said. If Mr.. Havemeyer who is in the
trust business, whose trust, too, is q bene-
flciary of the tariff bill-if he does not I'm.
uerstand the tariff-trust scheme, then no
one does His business has been conduct.
ed under it, he has fought for and against
it, and when he describes it's operations, all
may know that an inside man is speaking.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
THE RIO GRANDE
River is on a Rampage at Laredo,
Texas

Laredo, Tex, June 16-The Rio Grande
here reached stage of 50 feet this morn
ing, the highest since 1876. The water
works and ice plants of Laredo were flood
ed and compelled to shut down. This
caused a suspension of work at the Mex
lean National machine shops and several
other concerns which get their water from
the city. Many houses of poor people along
the banks on both sides were flooded or
washed away and their contents swept
down the river. A large brick reservoir at
the water works used for filteTing purposes
gave way during the night and the ter
rible strain on both the reservoir and the
tramway bridge caused the passage over
them to be suspended. Three human bodies
were seen to pass under the bridges, but
owing to the swift current they could not
be recovered. Many dead animals and
large quantities of farm products, etc., are
being carried by, showing heavy loss above
Reports from below also indicate much
damage to irrigation plants and crops The
rains have been unprecedentedy heavy re-
Gently, and a number of buildings have been
undermined and tumbled down. All four
railroads entering Laredo have suffered
from washouts. The Rio Grande and Eagle
Pass, running west, has ten bridges wash
ed away.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
THE WHIRLwIND Road

Edwin Markham.
The MUSES. wrapped in the mysteries of
light
Came in a rush of music on the night
And 1 was lifted wildly on quick wings,
And borne away into the deep of things.
The dead doors of my being broke apart;
A wind of rapture blew across the heart;
The inward song of worlds rang still and
clear;
I felt the Mystery the MUSES. fear;
Yet they went switching on the ways un-
trod,
And hurled me GREATNESS at the feet OF
God.
I felt faint touches of the Final Truth
Moments of trembling love, moments OF
youth,
A vision swept away the human wall;
Slowly l saw the meaning of 1t all
Meaning of life and time and death and
birth,
But cannot tell it to the men of Earth.
l only point the way, and they must so
The whirlwlnd road of song IL they would
know.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
Swapping Gold for Securities.

No doubt America is the most convenient
market in which gold Can be procured by
the banks of Europe that need it; but gold
cannot be had by anybody for the asking;
and at time when the balance of trade
is heavily in favor of this country, the
question arises as to the cause of the ex-
port of gold.
Beyond all doubt the higher prices of
American securities are inducing very con-
siderable realizing for profits by foreign
holders. This, together with the nervous
ness that attends a presidential election,
are the causes that are leading to the send
ing back of securities. These securities do
not pass through the custom house, and it
is absolutely impossible to obtain accurate
information of the movement, but it is
known that home capital is absorbing all
new issues, and that old issues are coming
home. Seven experts recently went over the
subject, and their figures of the net re-
ceipts since January, 1885, range from $685.
100000 to still higher figures.
This country, like France and England
and Holland and Germany. is becoming rich
enough to own it's own securities, and to
the return of such securities, more than
anything else, is due the current movement
of gold across the sea. The gold by the
way earns nothing in the bank vaults,
while the securities are constantly earning
money. These earnings will soon go exclu-
sively into American pockets.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
When Alfonzo is n Man

A writer in London Telegraph tells the
following story about the king of Spain
as throwing light on that royal lads life:
One day, during his history lesson, the
king asked his professor to tell him how
Spain came to lose Chile, Mexico and other
Spanish colonies. The story was narrated
SO thrillingly and artistically that the
royal boy listened spelbound and contin-
ued after it had ended to sit absorbed in
meditation.
AT last, though having struck him, he
looked up to his professor and inquired:
What must do in order to get back those
countries for Spain?'
1.-THE first and most important thing"
replied the professor, sis that your majes-
ty Observation-Disclosures up to be man.
When you are a man."
Him." muttered the lad, dlsenchanted.
"When am a man it is not a history pro-
fessor's advice that l shall be asking.
shall then have prime minister to tell
me-"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press. r
A woman likes to have a man the way
she likes to have him without any reason
for it.
Not one woman in a thousand ever did
anything but scare man to death in her
bathing suit
1t wasn't that Eve ate the apple, but that
she put on clothes that made Adam begin
to wonder about lot of things.
No married woman ever feels that a
mans friendly relations with another mar
ried woman can be quite as innocent and
harmless as they are with her.
When a woman wants to find out what
you think about a man, she asks you about
all his friends, and thinks you are fool
IL all your answers are not about him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
UNpERwOoD LIKES nENDERsoN

From the Washington Post.
Colonel Henderson has made the most
wonderful speakership campaign in the
history of this government" remarked
Hon. Oscar Underwood of Alabama, at the
Riggs. Il have yet to see the first demo-
cratic representative who is not pleased
with the good luck of the genial gentle
man from Iowa. Having served on the
same committee with him, 1 am especially
pleased at his elevation to the second
highest Office in the land.
1.-THE coming session of congress is GO
ing to be one of the most important this
country has seen in years. The one meas
ure that my people are interested in-the
Nicaragua canal bill-'nas been delayed 100
long, and being of national importance, the
project cannot be pushed too vigorously"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
SENATOR MORGAN 0N WE STUMP

Correspondence, of the Nashville American.
Senator John T. Morgan returns to Ala
bama in a few days and will remain at
home several months, during which time
he expects to get close to the voters by
speeches and visits. This means that he
has determined to make a fight against
Governor Johnston and many others who
are understood to have an ambition to sue
coed him in 1901. 1t is conceded that he
will take vigorous stand for a constitu-
tional convention and align himself with
the state executive committee in the an
tagonism to Governor Johnston, who
caused the repeal of the constitutional con-
vention bill.
The result of the proposition is that the
fight for control of the next general as
sembly will begin at once. Johnston has a
fine organization and Senator Morgan,s
prospect is one of great activity to combat
the Johnston faction. Senator Pettus is
said to be preparing to adopt the same
course as Morgan, and is one in sympathy
with him.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
ALABAMA REAl. ESTATE is BOOMING

From the Centrevi1le Press.
Never in its history has the real estate
of the country been SO sought after Real
estate brings good price, and purchasers
are easily found. This is a good indica-
ton, it shows the country on the up grade,
and that people are taking an interest in
agriculture.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
can bugler,
~ his kindred in

when, shortly after the fall of Calumput,
General Macarthur sent a detachment
against some insurgents who had thrown
up breastworks on a shrub-covered hilloek,
the Americans crept forward just before
dawn, and while heavy rain was falling
With the first CLEAN of daylight they rose
to their feet and ran forward silently until
a hurried, nervous discharge of musketry
told they were discovered. Then they
yelled and fred and redoubled their pace.
Suddenly they heard the Filipino COM
mander cry out in fairly good English:
Come on, boys-give it to emf! AT the
same time abandoning the position and re-
treating on a dead run.
The bugler declares the Slogan was
as effective in Filipino camp as in an
American-only in quite a contrary man.
ner; flor they no sooner heard these
words-which our officers most always en-
ploy-than the last beggar of them hoped
out of the intrenchment and skurried
away"
This" concludes the soldier, 'is in line
with the general Asiatic habit of doing
everything backward"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
HE KNEW 1T

From the Columbus Journal.
The betting would have all been in favor
of Jim Jefries if it had been generally
known that he was an Ohio man. In war,
peace or the roped arena, the Ohio man is
not to be fooled with
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17

Senator Morgan, Senator Pettus and
Fighting Joe Wheeler are three men who
are needed in this state when the campaign
against Reorganization is begun. There
are others but these three are particularly
needed.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17

With Christiani and Patty the Clam in the
penitentiary, and Dreyfus going home on
cruiser at the nations expense, French JUS
tce is herself again. She had been on a
long vacation.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
From the Eutaw Wing and Observer.

From the Eutaw Wing and Observer.
General Wheeler is being urged to become
a candidate for governor of Alabama.
Should he consent to do SO he would with
out doubt be nominated and elected, and
none would support him more cheerfully
than this paper. There is nothing small
about him but his stature. He is a broad
minded, chivalrous and worthy citizen of
a great commonwealth which he has ably
represented for many years in the halls
of congress. We need just such man as
our chief executive.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17

The Scale Register frankly and manfully
admits that 1t did Senator Morgan injus-
tice when it stated that he preferred bonds
to greenbacks. The mistake arose from
newspaper missta tements.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
raa@as

H4.. n -..nu that General Joe Wheeler
should make the race for governor next
year continues to grow. The concensus of
opinion is that he could unite the discord-
ant elements of the democratic party as
no other democrat could possibly do. His
decision in the premises is awaited with
interest.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
Two Duels over Dreyfus Case

Brest, France, June 16.-As the outcome
of quarrels over the Dreyfus affair two
duels were fought here today between two
officers, naval and artillery, professors at
the public schools. One of each profession
was wounded.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
From the Fort Payne Journal.

From the Fort Payne Journal.
Certain papers in the state seem deter
mined to force General Wheeler, nolens
volens, to make the race for governor next
year. Should Little Joe" take to the idea
all other aspirants might just as well call
off their dogs, for Joe would have a walk
over. But we submit that the general should
be allowed some voice in the matter He
certainly is entitled to that much consid-
Grafton.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17

From the Kansas City Star.
The claim of General Joe Wheeler that
the American soldier has--no equal in the
world is ~r-5deously called theory. 1t is
an incontrovertible fact.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
FULL or HOPE, ANYWAY

From the Prattvlle Progress.
With no fruit on the trees and garden
sass below par the country housewife Is
often in sore distress these dry days But
there's comfort in the thought that chick
ems are growing fast.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17

The Uitlanders propose to become Beers
by naturalization. and then to become Brit
ons again by annexation. Father Kruger
does not see 1t in that light.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1899-06-17
TWO AMERICANS

From the Troy Press.
James Jeffries says he is an "Amerscs7
born and bred" So was Sitting Bull.