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was and is, and ever will be, the equal- ity of man. To free the Negro; to edu- cate and elevate the Negro; to seat the Negro in the high places of the land. Was not this the underlying doctrine of original Abolitionism? Was it not the logic of later-day Republicans? Why should not a very Child of the Higher Law, come to his estate, possess the courage of his opinions? Why should he pale before the fire of Southern Rebels or Northern dough-faces? Did not his party for the sake of a great moral lesson purposely keep the seat last occupied in the Senate of the United States by Jefferson Davis vacant until 1t could be filled by a gentleman of color? Revolutions never go backward. It is but a step from the Capitol to the Whit House; from the council board to the banquet hall; from the marriage festival to the bridal chamber; and there you are, prophecy fulfilled! Mr. Lincoln might not have done it. MT. Mckinley would scarce have tried 1t. But shall MT. Roose- welt the dashing Rough Rider, the con- fident reformer, the progressive philoso- DHeTt Qud1l DelOTe HIS Quly IO nuIudll1ty | and Go? Perish the thought.
 We mourn for Booker Washington. He 1t Is on whom such consequences as be- tide this Kindergarten lesson in the ethics of modern life are likely to fall. He in the end will. as 1t were. have to pay the freight.
 In his own character and person Book CT Washington is an honor to his race. As teacher his uses were invaluable. As the founder and head of an institution both scholastic and utilitarian.he held out hope of the future to both the white people and the black people of the south. To be suddenly caught up, as 1t were, by the hair of his head and the seat of his brooches and tossed from the moral sphere where he was doing so well into the seething caldron of politics-of poli- tics at once theoretical and practical to become the chosen adviser of a Presi- dent in the making and unmaking of great men-to be the first of his race to sit at the White House table an honored guest. as well as an equal before the law-we much fear is to rob him of his distinguishing feature as a black man without investing him with any of the distinguishing features of the white man. It Is to suspend him, like Mahomet s coffin, betwixt the upper and the lower heavens.
 When Frederick Douglas married a white woman his power was gone. It did not elevate him in the estimation of white men, It lost him cast among the people of his own race. Booker Washington as head of the, Tuskegee School was ad- mirable. As head. even.. of the Kitchen Cabinet he Is to be pitied; 8. red rag to racial prejudice; an object of envy to those blacks who are intelligent enough to differentlate; an offense to white Re-
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HE WILL BE IN. cABINET-ALL NONSENSE.

and that his work found fruition in the substantial uplifting of the race. No com mentator on the social and political prob lens of the day has dealt more abruptly with the preposterous aspiration of the half-educated, wholly irresponsible and inconsistent leaders who have for years past noisily dem anded recognition to which they are not entitled and which they would not know what to do with if it were offered them. Booker Washington has stood like rock between these peo- pie and their childish and vain desires. He has told them that they must acquire substance of they would exert influence; that they must accumulate property if they would be taken seriously in the scheme of government. He knows-none better-that the worthless, ignorant, and vicous whites are held in as low esteem as negroes of the same quality, and the purport of his doctrine is that ownership of taxable things makes up the value and the consequence of the individual in our social and political equation. The drones, the loafers the inhabitants of the alleys and the slums are not considered by the governing classes, no matter what their
The age-herald., 1901-10-23

publlcans a menace to white Democrats, at the South.
 Truly the President did Booker Wash ington an i'll turn in this business, albeit serving his own purpose early to declare in some startling way his independence alike of political and prudential consid- erations. It is wholly characteristic of the man. It vindicates Mark Hanna's precedence when at the Philadelphia con- vention of 1900 the willy old plutocrat re- minded the lusty braves of the Roosevelt line that fin. nominating a Vice Presi- dent they might be making a President"
 There are two Republican parties--one of sentiment and conviction, the other of opportunism and money. There is the party of Hanna and Platt and Quay, all wool and iron, and there is the party of Roosevelt and Low, all gilt-edge and goo goo. Plenty of rocks ahead for both the ship subsidy, campaign-d -debt-paying grab for one. Reciprocity, seeking to ride two horses Free Trade and High Tariff, around a ring hardly big enough for one, for another. The succession in 1904 for a third, Teddy in the Rocker, but most of the prominent cards in adverse hands; particularly tho Machine" in the State of New York. Already the heavy swells of finance are beginning to discount tho future, to unload on the lambs, and gen. orally to prepare for the rainy day they see to be inevitable. In fine and in short good luck cannot run forever, and both the President and his party are going to find Jordan mighty hard road to travel
 ot f view, Democrats may take not a little comfort to themselves. Whatever hap pens this is not our funerall Out in tho cold as we may be-shivering as we are and hungry, yea, verify. and thirsty yet as we stand around the White House and look in through the windows and see Teddy and Booker hobnobbing over their possum and potatoes, not one of us ia disposed to envy either of them, or to exclaim of either. ''Wouldnt 1t be bully to be him?'
 We prefer to take our chances of the future. We had rather wait till our time comes. Somehow. the look ahead does not seem 50 hopeless, nor the distance so long.
 For there is here a radical inhrmity of judgment-a plain lack Of common sense and, bless the Lord, we are not in 1t! Indeed, the shortcoming implied by 1t means great deal to us. Mistakes, like misfortunes, never come singly They travel in groups and are cum ulous We Democrats have but to get together and to keep our powder dry to carry all be- fore us three years hence; because this young man is a bronco-buster and he is In rai of the very hot place with the very short name to the square inch than was ever raised before in that particular neck of woods. Sursum cordai
 There's a good time coming, boys;
 Wait a little longeri'
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has not yet been formulated, but It's nature is well understood, and 1t will be ready by or before Christmas. 1t Wall doubtless be free from reasonable objections. The United States guar antees the neutrality of the canal in
 all cases except as between this ooun- try and some other nation with which
 It might be at war. In that case the
 United States would close the canal
 against its enemies, but permit free passage to all others. The United
 States expressly reserves the right to treat the canal as a part of it's own coast line whenever 1t becomes neces-
 sary for the actual defense of the
 United States. There is no provision
 at a.4 for fortifying the canal and 1t
 has not even been suggested.
 The Nicaragua canal bill passed by the House did not contain any such provision, and the treaty which was passed in an amended form by the Senate did not even mention fortifica- tlons. The basis of agreement now permitting the United States to treat lne canal as a means of defense of it's own coast line is practically reitera- tlon of the paragraph in the Suez canal treaty, which was unfortunately omitted in the treaty negotiated be- tween MT. Hay and Lord Pauncefote. The Senate amended that treaty by inserting the Suez Canal paragraph.
 The new treaty, it is said, will not necessarily contain specific abroga- tion of the Clayton-Bulwer treaty in so many words, but the single guar antee of neutrality by the United States and the concession of the United States to prevent the use of the canal by my nation with which it may be at war Is in effect repeal of the essential features of the Clayton Bulwer convention.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
GoYernor IeIks Sustained.

The press of the State has freely discussed the incidents connected with the Jim Brown case, and every paper in the State that has expressed an opinion at all has sustained and ap- proved Governor Jelks' entire course in that matter, always excepting the Fort Payne Journal If any other dis sent has gone into print it has escaped the eyes of The Age-Herald's exchange reader. It is plain that public senti- ment overwhelmingly sustains Gov ernor Jelks in his brave and unfinch- ing efforts to put an end to lynching in this State. We cannot forbear quoting the comment of the Russell Register;
 Governor Jeks Is eminently on the right line. When the sheriffs of Alabama be- come impressed with the fact that the Governor of the State will stand to them and protect them in the discharge of their duty, we will find that there will be much less hesitancy on their part to discharge duties, for the doing of which they may for season incur unjust criticisms The Governor well says that if he should fail to respond when such call Is made upon him '1t would be notice to the sheriffs that the Governor of the State was pre- pared to desert them in their troubles" And he concludes with the unequivocal xxyiIl m any such notice.
 That's right Governor. and the law abiding, the best citizens of the entire State will stand to you to a man. Law and order must rule in our fair State or we shall retrograde instead of progress. The great mass of the people are for law and order, and the puerile attempts of the Fort Payne paper to carry the matter to the polls is a swagger of the most pro- nounced type Let him do so if he will and the Governor will be vindicated by the whole State
 Alabama has hao enough of lynch law, and she proposes to do away al once with dishonest elections and mob rule. Governor Jelks stands for both and the State stands firmly behind him, and he can depend upon having the. support of all good men in the State in any step he may see fit to take looking to the consummation of these two desirable reforms. The State wants no more dishonest cleo tions and no more lynching bees. As a deterrent the lawful execution of Jlm Brown was worth a dozen lynch ings, and it led to no demoralization of the youth of the State.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
THE IMPOSSIBLE ADDlcks.

From the New York Evening Post.
 Addicks, of course, will not give up his attempt to control the federal patronage without a hard struggle Governor Hum. who represents the would-be buyer of a senatorship, went to Washington yester- day to insist upon flair show for the Addicks office-seekers, and to threaten the President with causing the loss to the Republican party of both the Senator ships from Delaware unless the demand shall be complied with. The Addicks am- bassodor to the White House will not be able to make a favorable report to his employer. MT. Roosevelt made 1t plain to his caller that he will not permit the federal offices to be used in the promotion of an interruptions millionaires attempt to debauch a commonwealth.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
Cotton Is Dull and Lower.

At present the heavy movement to- wards tIe ports, and the failure of killing frost to put in an appearance, are combined to render buying slack and prices heavy. Although there is almost a cotton famine in England, yet foreign buyers are not buying freely. They are looking for lower prices, and their expectations will become stronger the longer the com ing of killing frost is postponed.
 The stock of American cotton in Liverpool is exceptionally low, and the entire statistical position calls for higher prices, but the lack of frost, and a belief that the crop may prove larger than has been predicted keeps prices down. No cold wave is in sight, and killing frost may not come until November. This will increase the crop, and yet all observers agree in saying the top crop will be small in- deed. In some sections there will be no top crop, and in no section will there be an average top crop.
 The crop in sight Is about 100000 bales below that of last year, and if the total crop is to come up to that of last year the weekly receipts must exceed those of corresponding weeks of last year. English spinners still say the crop will be 100000 bales, while close observers in this country say 1t will not exceed 100000 bales. The truth lies between, but at what point between no one can at present say.
 me Age-Herald still believes pro- ducers should continue to consider 8 cents minimum price, and by or be- fore February it will command that price. The crop in Texas is confess edly short, perhaps as much as mill lion bales, and the gains in the other States will not make that loss good.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
IT Is DEMOCRATIC.
From the Decatur News.

From the Decatur News.
 If the new constitution is not Demo- cratic measure, in the name of common sense. what is 1t? The call of the conven- ton was made by the Democracy of the state; the convention was authorized by a Democratic state convention; the in- strument was prepared by as good Dem ocrats as ever cast ballot and the cam paign committee for it's adoption was ere ated by the State Democratic Executive Committee. What other and more final Democratic seal can be placed upon itf The Republicans recognize 1t as Demo- cratic. and have aligned against it, large ly, and Sambo. his political bed-fellow, Is also ''agin" 1t. Not a Democratic meas ure? Then the party canont impress its stamp upon any of its acts. and the party is not party.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
Cost oi Nicaranua Canal

It is stated that the Walker canal commission will estimate the cost of the Nicaragua canal at $20O,000, ,000. The highest previous estimate had been s135, 100000, but the commission thinks that work of such magnitude in tropical country will be very ex- pensive, and it has therefore increased its estimate of cost to the big round sum named.
 This increase is in part due to the greater depth of the canal, for it is now proposed to build canal with a water depth of thirty-five feet, instead of thirty feet as at first planned. This will float all ships that can enter any , harbor except very few exceptional ones. The addition of five feet to the depth of the canal accounts for good part of the increased cost.
 The commission will report, that the Panama canal can be completed at further cost of $16O,oO0, ,00O. This will give lock canal instead of the tidewater canal that De Lesseps set out to build. To this sum of s160, ,0O0,. Quo must be added the sum that the French owners demand for their rights. They have heretofore de- manded s107, 100000. The president of the Panama Company, M Maurice Hutin, is now in this country. He de- sires to sell the Panama canal to this country lock, stock and barrel, but it is not publicly known what terms he offers. Some think he may be induced to accept .s5O.0oO.000, which would bring the cost of the Panama canal down to about that of one on the Mic aragua route.
 There is no question as to the prac- ticability of the Nicaragua canal. It is nearer, too, to the United States. It has an ample water supply in Lake NlcdTdBud IL IS Wnoiiy lSuSipie whereas the engineering difficulties at Panama are by no means solved. Pub lie sentiment favors the Nicaragua route, and unless the price of !. the Panama canal be put very low the Nicaragua plan will be adopted by Congress.
 The new treaty with Great Britain
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i color. The citizen calls for and receives 'recognition' in tho ratio of his personal importance and by the standard of tho public value he represents. Nobody cares about the color of his skin or the en- vironment of his grandparents. And of these immortal truths Booker Washing ton has made himself tho prophet and exponent.
 Supposing-which we do not suppose at all-that MT. Roosevelt were to trans plant Washington from the field in which he is doing splendid work for society and for postcrity, and set him out in the cab inet garden; what a melancholy, what a tragic farce 1t would come to At Tug kegee, Professor Washington is a man among men-the most useful and en- frightened educator in the country. Here. in the capital, holding a cabinet position, what could he become moro than more officeholder of questionable value to the government, social nondcscript. m en- barrassment to his we'll wishers, and a trouble to himself? No real friend of Washington would contriye or assent so an arrangement 70 foolish and % mig chievous.
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
"TEIE PRESIDENTS COMPLAIsANCE"- HENRY wATTERsoN

From the Courier Journal.
 It was a sensation. Already 1t rises to the dignity of a "cause celebre." Pres ently we shall begin to speak of "the Booker Washington incident"
 One does not know precisely whether to laugh or to whistle. Assuredly, it is the part of wisdom in Democrats "to say nothing and saw wood" Each Amer ican, whether native or of African de- scent has the right to pick his com pany, to sit at table with whomsoever he will, and, if 1t please the President to dine one, or dozen, gentlemen of color at the White House-"unofficially," mind you,-that is nobodys business. Never theless, and at the same time, there are certain conventions-call them prejudices, if you like-it were well for all men, and particularly for great public exemplars, to consider in their migrations between the drawing room and the dining room. Even as a bunder Is held in politics and diplomacy to be worse than crime, so in society-particularly in those homes of luxury and alimony which give the word and set the pace to the Four Hundred-it is safer to commit sin than to be de- tected in a solicism.
 The President need not be reminded of this. He knows it well, Nobody knows it better. But he is exceptional. Born with ruffle around his neck and gold spoon in his mouth, he grew up to filch from among his playthings Q ticket call ing for the capital prize in the lottery of life. Such a man is tempted to defy usage He gets to be @ law unto him. self Having arrived upon the scene to regenerate mankind and reform the world, may he not. shall he not clasp the man and brother to his bosom, take counsels of him, and, by these tokens, vindicate the gospel of the Fathers in Israel? Why, look you, masters, this be a very Daniel come to judgment!
 Yea, and he carrieth along with him his scriptural warrant. Hath 1t not been written ''out of the mouths of babes and suckiings"-even colored babes and stockings ?-''hast thou ordained strength, the old Free Soil litany--"that thou might still the enemy and the avenger ?' In this case the "enemy' is race-hatred. Why may not the ''evenger" be the states lately In rebellion?'
 In matetr like this we should seek, first of all, to be just. Whether the President be, as MT. Platt describes him. ''an organization Republican," or not he is an orthodox Republican, and In this business follows but the principle of his being. He is an undoubting as we'll as a lineal descendant of Wendell Phillips and Lloyd Garrison, wearing the mantle of Theodore Parker and brandishing the sword of Joshua Giddings. At least no old-time Republican will venture to chide him for teaching by example what they were able to teach only by precept. In word, MT. Roosevelt is true to his politi- cal religion.
 The foundation stone of that religion
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MT. Underwood,s Mines.

Mir. W. T. Underwood, proprietor of the rich new coal mines at Altoona, Etowah County, and across the county line in Blount adjoining, said yesterday that there was great activity at the mines. The output Is now four hundred tons a day. and 1t will be steadily increased. Coke ovens will be built and MT. Under wood will go extensively into the coke- making industry.
 Excellent and entirely satisfactory busi- ness has been done by MT. Underwood throughout the summer, and a large trade for the coming winter has been al- ready secured. ie
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Yankee Prejudice Against Negroes.

When my wife and I were in New York on a recent Sunday we attended services in Dr. Parkhurst's church, and there witnessed something of the Yam kee's prejudice against his colored broth er," said a noted Alabamian who for merly owned colored slaves.
 Upon entering the church we took seats in a pew rather far back from the pulpit and being early we waited for services to begin. Very soon a negro man, one of the biackest negroes I ever saw, came in and seated himself in a pew directly in front of us. There was no one else in that pew, and the negro had 1t to himself throughout the services for I observed the situation closely just to see whether any white person sat im- mediately with him. The ushers conduct ed white men and women to pews in front of the negro. to the rear of him. to either side-all around him-but he was left the sole occupant of his pew.
 That was the Yankee perjudice against the negro race carried into a house of divine worship"
The age-herald., 1901-10-23
From the Washington Post.


 Altogether the most lamentable feature
 of the Booker Washington episode is the flood of insane gossip which it seems des- tined to precipitate. Already we have the vanguard of the torrent in the form of a suggestion that the President may per- haps take Professor Washington into his cabinet, and this suggestion, experience teaches us. will not lose any great amount of time in crystallizing into a definite and persistent claim.
 Of course an agitation so ridiculous will have no countenance from Washington himself. unless, indeed. he shall have lost his mental equilibrium in the meanwhile, as, in like circumstances. almost any other American negro might. It has here tofore been his chief distinction, however, that he teaches a philosophy quite apart from political ambition. He has made himself the prophet of the negro's indus trial and material advancement, and as such has won the esteem and obtained the active encouragement of the high-class whites, both South and North. It has been his greatest virtue that he expound- ed gospel broad. intelligent, wholesome