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The age-herald., 1901-03-06
Killing the Export Trade.

In his inaugural address President Mckinley says:
 Our diversified productions, however, are increasing in such unprecedented volume as to admonish us of the neces- sity of still further enlarging our foreign markets, by breader commercial rela- tions. For this purpose reciprocal trade arrangements with other nations should in liberal spirit be carefully cultivated and promoted.
 This means that the Mckinley Dingley tariff is a failure, if it means anything at all. It is known to be a failure in Russia, where retaliation, just and reasonable, is shutting out American goods. Switzerland, too, is retaliating. The reciprocity treaty has expired, and the trusts would not permit a new one to be negotiated. Switzerland has therefore applied her old rates or general tariff to American articles, and all sorts of goods going to Switzerland will have to pay from 30 to 50 per cent. more duty A fur niture manufacturer thus calls atten- tion to the change:
 The fact is now that desks coming from your country pay the so-called general tariff; that is, 50 per cent more than desks coming from any other country. This tariff is very likely to be increased, so that the policy of your government goes toward the ruin of the importation of United States of America furniture, and of many other articles Preparations are already being made to establish fur niture factories of American shape in this country and in Germany. That will not be difficult The American kind of make is now generally introduced. the demand for such make exists, and the customs crisis makes it very difficult to get goods from the United States of America, as the 1uties are becoming quite enormous. Are the large American factories not able to do something in the matter before it is too latef
 The President doubtless saw that his pet tariff was running the coun- try's export trade, and so he asks for broader commercial relations" If he had said flower duties" people would have understood him, but he had not the courage to make a con- fession in plain terms.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
THE ONLY DAILY NEWSPAPER IN ALABAMA
Nicaraqua Bill.

The Nicaragua bill goes over to the Fifty-seventh Congress, as do the treaty relations between the United States and Great Britain covering the subject. Senator Morgan is as confi- dent, as he ever has been, that all the difficulties will be overcome in the new Congress. The trans-continental railroads have exhausted the peoples patience, and there must be-, action next winter favorable to the construc- tion of the canal, or the people will know the reason why.
 Senator Morgan began on Monday last another term of six years, and he will let no day of that six years go unimproved in which he can advance the construction of the canal. He has fought for it twenty-five years al ready, and he will fight for it while strength to fight at all remains to him.
 If before December the administra- tion can negotiate satisfactory treaty with Great Britain, we'll and good. If it cannot, Congress will ab- rogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, which is really obsolete, and proceed free from treaty endorsements The Hay-Pauncefote treaty is dead, expir- ing with the Fifty-sixth Congress-.
 No attention would be paid to Great Britain's pretensions in Central Amer ica that she has herself ignored if the trans-continental Railroads dld not in spire opposition on that account. Sen ator Morgan understands all their schemes and stratagems, and will be ready in December to meet them, and the people will stand almost solidly must be built, and that, too, very behind him. The Nicaragua canal speedily.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06

eusses prosperity as if he had made it, but he is careful not to mention the tariff that he and Mir Dingley con coeted, and he Is especially careful in avoiding all allusions to the billion dollar steel trust. and the smaller trusts that reelected him. There is not word on these two subjects, and yet these two subjects are uppermost in the public mind, and the election of 1904 will turn upon them. They will not down at the Presidents bidding.
 He is equally evasive as to for eign" affairs. He mentions China, but not the least indication is given of what he wants, or is trying to accom-, plish, there. He mentions Cuba, but he gives the Cubans no hope of imme- diate independence. He mentions the Philippines. but here again he deals in glittering generalities, affording the people no information as to his purposes.
 It can be gathered from the address that the Cuban scheme and the Phil ippinesscheme which he and other Re publican leaders caused to be inserted in the army appropriation bill will be utilized to the utmost. Under the two Cuban independence can be indefinite ly deferred, and the Philippines can be filled with carpet-baggers, and this is really what the inaugural address does say, and it is about all that can be gathered from it.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
COMPETITION IN
 ENGLAND'S STEEL MARKET

The New York Sun prints a special cable dispatch from London on Amerl- can competition in the English steel mar ket. It says:
 Engiand's industrial panic at sight of the great invasion of American competi- tors continues to grow and now claims the attention of all classes. These in- clude. at last the most short-sighted all classes in this countryside trades unionists. It has required the gigantic spectacle of the American steel combine to bring q dim realization to some of the labor leaders that their policy perhaps, has had something to do with the im- pending disaster to British industries.
 One reads with astondshment this week an article by Keir Hardie, M. P, for Ns- thyr-Tydvil, and editor of the Labor Leader, in which the writer makes the vital admission that although wages in America are double those of the Eng fish workingmen, yet the cost of labor in making steel in the United States is only one-half the cost in England. This admission is an exact equivalent to a confession that the British workman is
 
 ness
 It Is desperate condition which will wiring such a statement from a man of Hardie's prominence in labor councils and 1t signifies also that trades unionlsts are beginning to understand at last that British workmen must do more for their wages or go to the wall. It will require a revolution in trades unions, however, before the reversal of tho policy of a generation can be accomplished, and 1t can hardly be doubted that the reform will be too late.
 The closing of iron and steel works, which has already begun, will become general within few months, and trade once lost will not be regained when Americas great natural advantages are also In the opposite scale
 The press Is filled with comment and advice on the situation. Some of these comments are sensible, but most of them are absurd. Yesterdays Commercial h. telligence, leading industrial Journal, offers this counsel of despair:
 There Is one thing left for the British manufacturer before he settles down into the fantalistic belief that the suc- cess and final triumph of America is in- evitable in the worlds great industries.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
RIVERS AND HARBoRS.
House Committee Has Started on Two
 Trips of Inspection.

Washington, March 5.-The House com mittee on rivers and harbors today ar ranged the details of the two trips of inspection which they will make. The first will be to Havana. The members will leave tomorrow evening. In June they will make a trip to the Pacific coast, go- ing first to Galveston and other Gulf ports; then to Los Angeles and north ward, visiting all the harbors as far north as Puget Sound. The committee has no official existence and the members go as private individuals. All, however, are members of the House. and will doubt less be on the committee in the next House.
 The members of the naval committee of the House. it Is said. also have sim liar trip under contemplation. Although the bill to create special committee of the insular affairs committee to visit Por- to Rico, Cuba and the Philippines failed Chairman Cooper and several of the members are contemplating trip to the islands at their own expense.
 No definite decision, however, has been reached.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
DROPPED FROM THE LIST.

From the New York Tribune
 P. P. Haskins of Cincinnati told the following anecdote at the Everett House to illustrate that phase of human nature which leads people to claim to possess knowledge on any and all things. "At a dinner party given some time ago in a western city," said Mr. Haskins, ''one of the bachelor guests turned to his very beautiful hostess and asked Mrs Blank, do you know what causes the milky way in the heaven?' Why. l did. but I've for gotten,' was the answer he received. That's a great pity said he, sadly shak- ing his head. TO think that you, the only person in all this world who knew the cause of that phenomenon of the heav- ems. should have forgotten it. :" And he actually had the cheek to feel injured because the women took him off her vis- iting list
The age-herald., 1901-03-06

introduced and got passed by the House the State printing bill, requiring the pub lie printing to be done in Alabama, al- though similar bills had failed in the House for years He voted in committee for favorable reports on the two bills ad- yocated by the State Press Association. and which a powerful lobby killed to the outrageous wrong of all newspapers; and 1t was his privilege to cast the vote In the Jefferson delegation that defeated the bill affecting the Inferior Criminal Court, and which threatened a loss of $40.0Oo to the city of Birmingham. He assisted in defeating the Pettus antitrust bill because he held 1t to be too radical and sweeping. and to be unfrlendly to organized labor
 Tn short. MT. Leath carried out the dictates of his judgment and his con science, and he has the best of reasons for being proud of the record he thereby made. And now that he appeals to his people again, am confident that the peo- pie will respond with the answer that he is one of the best of men to send to the Constitutional Convention. But, apart from other reasons, MT. Leath's high po- sition in organized labor entities him to the nomination he seeks
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
THE NIGHT SINGER.

From the Los Angeles Herald. When the sun has fled OCT the noun
 tains gray And slid down the golden west, And the birds of the day have flown away In their own home nests to rest, How sweet to the soul are the notes that
 roll From depths of the darkened vale, When falls on the ear, entrancing and
 clear, The song of the nightingale. When the sun has fled OCT the noun
 tains gray And the shadows gather near, Comes the sober thought, with a sadness
 fraught, And sense of gloom and fear, From the sky of night falls the dim, cold
 light or the far-off planets, pale, And the heart is chilled till wit
 filled By song of the nightingale. Then bless.d be the bird
 notes are heard, When the gloom-wrap'd
 creep Like grave-loosed ghoul to
 soul1 With ita chilling shadows Who weaveth a song tha
 strong That maketh the sad hear Who voices it's cheer in mel From depths of the somb
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
AUTOMOBILES FOR HIRE.

From the Electrical World and Engineer.
 The development of the electric auto mobile hire system has been quite rapid, and is the causse of considerable activi- ty in regard to the new plant or stable of the Electric Vehicle Transportation Company in this city. At the present time of one electric make alone there are in use in the various cities, plying for hire, the following number of vehicles, as nearly as can be ascertained: New York City, 360; Boston, 230; Newport, R. l.. 50; Philadelphia, 55; Chicago. 115; Washington, no; Atlantic City, N. J., 3; Mexico City, 90. There are also consid- erable number of the same make in St. Louis, San Francisco and Detroit, as we'll as in Paris, London, Brussels and Berlin.
 Such a showing Is most laudable, It rep resents courageous investment and an in- finite amount of hard work and ingenu- ity and, of course, does not include any of the work done in introducing and ep- erating private electric vehicles.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
Joys of the Farm.

Concerning the golden glory of sum- mers splendor in fields and woods and by the brimming rivers side, Tom Pounds talked in the icy blasts of yes- terday, one of the coldest, windiest, dust fest, and most utterly miserable March days experienced in this valley in three or four hundred years. more or less.
 Tom Pounds is as everybody knows, a locomotive engineer. an expert in his work, and an acknowledged and highly. honored leader amongst the thousands of railroad men in Jefferson County, and one of the best fellows who ever drove a loco- motive. Like all men born and reared in rural communities. he remains fondly attached to 'the country" to life on "the farm,' to the pure air and freedom of the fields and he owns splendid farm on the Coosa river in Talladega County.
 ''I am longing for my summer vacation on the farm he meditatively said as he tried to remove teaspoonfuI of Birrn- ingham dust from his left eye yester- day.
 T work hard on my engine eleven months in the year, and enjoy my work as we'll as the best of the boys-as well as even Harry Glenn-but when my rest ing time comes in summer 1t is then only that am fully, freely, frankly happy. I am then like country schoolboy allowed to go fishing on Saturday. have sure enough good time am Just as happy as any young farmer riding with his sweet heart to church on Sunday.
 Last summer we-Mrs. P. and the beautiful and stately Miss F., aged 2 years-had forty and odd guests at our place for eighteen days and declare to you we were never before so happy in our lives. Everybody had good time, for the reason that everybody did as ev- erybody pleased, and there weren't any company manners in forty miles of us There was fishing, hunting, driving, hay riding, swimming, dancing and all kinds of fun. Fish! My the flsh The river teens with them, and we have some large traps that catch 'em by the hundreds. I sold last season $6O0 of fish from those traps to one mining company near Bir- mingham.
 '.It is eat and drink, and sleep and mGTT1nenl OH our IdTul Wn61l get my time off in summer. Everybody looks out for everybody, and there Is the greatest fun you ever heard of. for everybody has sweetheart, everybody says as the song goes. You know you don't think much of any unmarried man who hasn't got a sweetheart; such men are mighty scarce; and so, of course, the girisEbut what's the use of talking! We all know how it Is.
 "I truly get more out of all my work aday life from that farm than get from anything else; and what surprises me is that every man who can afford it doesn't have a farm, big or little. according to his means. I have to work for my liv- ing, and my farm is part of my living. It is to me an astonishing fact that there are many men of wealth in BirIning- ham, men who could afford princely places in the country, who are content to live all the year round in the city, and seem to care nothing for the pleasures of fered by farms to which they could go for three or four weeks restr'
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
ALABAMA'S ALLEGED DEBT.
From the Chattanooga Time,

From the Chattanooga Times.
 Governor Johnston of Alabama left to his successor Governor Sanford. now in office. a floating debt. or rather def icit," as some are pleased to call it. of s1S5,0o0 and with the tax levy up to the top notch of the constitutional limit Governor Sanford tells the Legislature that 1t must cut its appropriations, limit expenditures and practice economy so as to conduct the business of the State and pay this deficit. Governor Sanford doesn't want any bond issue to meet the deficit; wants the Legislature to run the affairs of the State as they would as prudent men conduct their private busi- ness. He urges them to pay their debt by limiting expenses to the absolute ne- cessities of the government. This is sound advice, and applies forcibly to the Board of Aldermen of this city,
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE


 Astrologer Raphael's prophecies for this day, Wednesday, March 6, 1901:
 Doubtful; be careful"
 Thy birthday is very quiet one, and thy affairs will proceed as usual.'
 A child born on this day will have q quiet career, although much will depend upon the hour of its birth. If female unfortunate in wediock."
 Vast Movement in History Studies.
 The air is redolent of thoughts of his- tory and history making The State has called one of the energetic young men of Birmingham to go down into the base ment of the dear old rookery on Goat Hill and there make history. While Dr. Phillips writes in eulogy for the press of Browns History of Alabama for Schools, even another History of Ala bama for Schools is going through the press in the east written by Birming- ham man; and pre-eminently well-writ- ten, wisely planned is this latest his- tory, which will be in the hands of the public shortly
 Said citizen yesterday. q we'll remem- oSA AiAS 5RiiSC O1 SuIpiiSt dHQ SGbpliClSiil combined when, being then a school boy, a lady notable for her accomplishments said to me that the proper method In teaching history was to begin with the latest aspects of the science and teach backward in orderly retrogression of facts What! teach United States before Greece and Rome? Just so was her sys- tenn. She was the mother of a little girl, an only child that had never gone to school, and the mother was the wise teacher. the brave, thoughtful teacher.
 ''I have been amused to see this early lesson reproduced in Dr. Phillips printed eulogy of Browns History He recom- mends that the later history, that is the general history of the United States, be taught In the public schools as a basis Of the earlier history of the separate states-the later in order of chronology to come before the earlier. The state his- tory, of course, antedates the federal or national history, inasmuch as the state entity preceded in fact of existence the final federal entity. For example, Vir- ginia had a Legislature at Jamestown in 1919, one hundred and seventy years be- IOre the government or the Unlted states was established under the present con- stitution.
 '"rhe government of the United States and tSe State governments were mod eled alike upon the English constitution that took effect with the accession of William and Mary, in 1888, in the char acter of three departments-legislati judicial and executive. The American colonies had that kind of government and ole States with lrrI1e change contin- ued it. When the United States consti- tuition was framed the States that made T merely went back to their own sys- tems respectively, for a model that had come in fact from England.
 "So Dr. Phillips idea for studying United States history first and Alabama history later Is precisely upon the line of the common sense precedent, that a child will improve on study of history from the top to the bottom better than vice versa
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
President Mckinley to the People.

President McKinley's inaugural ad- dress was directed to his esteemed fellow-citizens, but if one of those fel- low-citizens can get from it one bit of information they will do very well indeed. The entire address is plainly the work of slick Ohio politician. There Is not definite statement in it from beginning to ending. There is evasion all along the two columns of newspaper space it covers. He dis
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
Are the Lawmakers Responsiblea 2

From the Conecuh Record. Every time you take up a newspaper to read, you can see accounts of several fiendish crimes perpetrated on innocent, unoffending people. Then next in order is the lynch law. The lawmakers of each state ought to take up each of these criminal acts and make or adopt some method of conviction that would be just punishment to mete out to such out laws.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Life would not be worth the struggle unless there was love to make the strug- gle harder.
 A man can always get on with the woman if he can make his voice tremble whenever he wants to. ! If woman has nothing else to trouble her she will worry for fear her children's brains are developing too fast
 A woman that talks politics is about as attractive as man who knows the names of all the different crochet stitches. -[- t
 If woman had to change her clothes every time she changed her mind. she would never get chance to look out of the window.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
DAY OF HANDsHAkINe.
congressmen and Visiting Governors
 Kept the President Busy.

Washington, March 5.-This was a day of much handshaking and little busl- ness at the White House. Members of Congress and the Supreme Court, visit ing Governors and their staffs. clubs and other organizations gave the President very busy day. He began at 10 o'clock by giving reception to Troop A of Cleve- land, O., which acted as his personal
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
Probably a Dark Horse.

From the Mobile Item.
 Who will be inaugurated as President four years from today? Hanna is doubt less wondering if he Is not the man, and Roosevelt also may be hoping against hope. Four years work a great change in events, and it may be Cleveland, or Hill ,or Bryan. but most probably it will be some one not thought of now.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
FEW AND FAR BETWEEN.

From the Chicago News.
 A woman who seems to think she Is competent to advise her sex, says: Don't marry a genius" For the encour- agement of those contemplating matri- mony 1t may be said the danger of mar rying a genius Is so small as not to be worthy of serious efforts at prevention.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
WooIen Concern Loses Money

London, March 5.-A dispatch from Glasgow announces that a large woolen firm there has called a meeting of it's creditors. An intimation has also reached Glasgow of the failure of a bigger com- pany. The loss through the latter occur renee is estimated at 300 GOO pounds
The age-herald., 1901-03-06

The Charleston exposition appro- priation went down. although only $250,00O was asked for. St. Louis asked for s5,O00,0 ,000 and got it. There was nothing picayunish about the dead Congress.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
The Press.

From the Winston Herald.
 The Age-Herald has magnificent new s25,000 press. It Is % feet long 12 feet high and weighs 63,0Oo pounds This press Is claimed to be able to print 4s,000 com plete newspapers in one hour, counting them automatically and throwing them out of the folding machine in bundles of 5o It is a perfect and in everp respect up to date.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
About Persons.

Col. Sam Tate of Memphis, who was a conspicuous figure In the great develop ment of Birmingham and the district twelve or fifteen years ago, is at the Met ropolitan Hotel. His firm of contrac- tors built large sections of the Kansas City and the Central of Georgia railroads entering Birmingham. He Is now com pleting large contract in Mexico
 Col. H. D. Merrill and Mrs. Merrill of Cleburne County are in Birmingham Maj. A. P. Howison of Bibb County is in Birmingham.
 Former State Senator Hall of Mrashall County is in the city. He quit politics for business and is prospering
 Gen. R. M Nelson of Selma is spend ing a few days in Birmingham.
 William A. Davis and John M. Cald- well of Anniston are in the city.
 
 Capt. c. E. Wilson, leading man of growing Russellville is in town.
 Henry c. Davidson, one of the most noted business men of Montgomery, is in Birmingham.
 General Manager J. B. McClary of the Birmingham trolley lines of street rail- road has returned from New York
 Maj. A. A. Mabson of Montgomery, formerly register of the United States land office in that town, was in Birming- ham yesterday.
The age-herald., 1901-03-06
Candidates are Shy.

From the Choctaw Herald.
 Several aspirants are quietly tapping the bushes. with a view of being sought after" and forced into the field as can didates for delegate to the constitutional convention but they are rather shy about poking their heads above the under growth