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The age-herald., 1901-06-25
Stand by the Schools.

Why should not the pledge of the Democratic party for better schools be carried out? Is 1t unpopular? Would it lose votes for the constitution? Com munities that want better schools would support 1t. People who want better schools would support it, and they are not few in number. They are in fact the State.
 There are communities perhaps that do not want better schools. The Age Herald regrets to say there are such communities, but they need not oppose an organic law that contains a local school tax provision, because it would not affect them at all. It does not tax them. and if they oppose it when 1t does concern them they would be pur- suing a dogin-the-manger policy. To say that a community will oppose 8 plan that does not affect 1t and yet a plan that is desired by other communi- ties looking to the future. is unreason- able.
 The truth Is, the Browne scheme is a scheme drawn in the interest of the Black Belt and against the cities of the State. It hobbies the cities so that they cannot better their own condition, ana through a State fund money is drawn from them to maintain schools under the equitable" division plan in the Black Belt counties. The towns and cities of the State will not object to State school taxation, if they are permitted to supplement 1t as they may see fit.
 Local taxation would in other words bring votes to the support of the in- strument the convention will place be- fore the people. It will command for it the support of the friends of public education in every part of the State, and 1t will not deprive 1t of votes in ''wayback" communities, because it does not touch them at all. Compul- sorry local taxation for school purposes Is not desired, put free optional author ity in that respect is desired, and in view of the school pledges, oft-repeat- ed, of the Democratic party, it is diffi- cult to see how such an authority can decently be refused.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
IT OFTEN HAPPENS.

From the Philadelphia Bulletin.
 That conditions make men seem cruel when only kindness Is meant.
 That women in seeking the ideal over- look the practical and finally accept the commonplace.
 That journeys projected for pleasure are turned into enervating toll.
 That erroneous conclusions are created through the nasty reading of letter.
 That first impressions become ridiculous in the light of close acquaintance.
 That a man with fad eventually pro- duces something which makes him fa- nous.
 That men accept notoriety for fame and thus become bores.
 That a woman will say ''yes' when she plainly shows mo- is meant.
 That men underestimate the capacity of a woman for doing her own thinking.
 That public speakers fail to recognize their utterances when they appear in print.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
New Alabama Census Figures.

Sex, nativity and color are now re- ceiving attention in the census office, and the first bulletin issued includes facts gathered from Alabama. It ap- pears from it that there are 916,764 males and 911, ,943 females in the State, thus showing that this is still a good State for women to live In and grow up with. The males constitute 50.1 per cent of the entire population, be- ing trifle more than Connecticut holds, but about one per cent less than the percentage of Arkansas. The chances are mat the percentage of males in Alabama is somewhat less than that of the entire country.
 There are figures in the present bull letin for seven States, and Alabama exceeds them all in percentage of na- tive population. The native-born num- Der 1,814,105, and the foreign-born 14,- 592. The foreign-born in the State con- stitute less than one per cent of the States population. Arkansas has but Il per cent of foreign-born people, but Connecticut has 26.2 per cent; Col orado, 16.9 per cent; California, 24.7 per cent: Arizona, 19,7 per cent, and Alaska, 199 per cent. These figures make it all the more wonderful that Alabama and other Southern States, deprived as they are by color prejudice of immigration, can still show general gains in population quite up to those of the States fed Dy immigration.
 The total white population of the Scate is 1,001,152; the total colored population, S27,545. Here is differ- ence of 173,5O7. This should be suffi- cient to satisfy any one that negro rule in Alabama is myth. In 1890 there were in the State s3O.796 whites and oo1 ,4S1 negroes. The gain in ten years has been A.l.356 whites and 146,114 negroes. The percentage of blacks stands at abou. s per cent, just as it did in 1890, giving the whites 55 per cent
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
Education in Alabama.

Parents educate their children that they may have a better chance in life, but the State educates it's children that it may have better citizens. There is no charity in public education so far as the State is concerned. It is self defense, or selfishness; for all experi- ence goes to show that ignorance in the people of State leads on to folly and injustice, seasoned by corruption under the leadership of demagogues who are allpowerful in land of ig- norance. Among reading, thinking people the demagogue is comparatively powerless.
 Chairman Browne proposes to min imize intelligence in Alabama even to the extent of a sewer ordinance of Louisiana. He is not willing to take the parts of the Louisiana constitution that look towards intelligence, but from an article chiefly devoted to sew CTS he has found means for cutting down to the lowest point intelligence and for keeping the illiteracy of the State at high figures.
 The convention Is to choose this week between giving the people in each community opportunity to say what schools they will have, and an illlteracy so great that the State will soon be known as the State of densest Ignorance. This is the choice. The Black Belt counties seem to prefer illit- sracy, but thirteen counties should not bs permitted to dictate to f1fty-three counties in this matter. /
 Home rule in educational affairs is the very essence of Democracy. The Democratic party besides is pledged to make the schools better. There is no pledge against authority in a com munity to help the State to better citi- gems. There is no pledge that com mduQb any Ouc tO ConQOuln tuC Udf foot boys and girls of the State to ignorance and the rule of demagogues: All such talk is mere pretense of those opposed to public education. There is a pledge that city, county and State taxation shall not be increased, but when one extends that to authority in a community to provide itself with bet ter schools. he simply puts forth his own selfishness and not that of the Democratic party. The Democratic party stands deeply pledged to give the State better schools, This can be done by permitting communities to supplement- State aid as each com munity may see fit Chairman Browne Is doubtless opposed to better schools. but the people of some communities want better schools. They want schools as good as those in the four surround
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
cLouDBuRsT AT UTICA.
Reservoir Swept Away and Thousands
 of Dollars Damage Resulted.

Utica, N. r., June A-A rainfall ap- preaching a cloudburst caused at least $300O0 damage to new Berlin Saturday night. Rain had been falling for some hours and finally came down in great torrents A reservoir mile west of the village gave away and its contents split down on the villagers. A farmer living near had ridden ahead warning people of the danger and they vacated their houses. Two buildings were swept away. Debris clogged a stone archway under one of the streets and the water poured over the arch, breaking in the doors and windows of business houses and sending their inmates to the upper stories. Two of the main streets were guttered out to a depth of 10 or 12 feet. Pavements, trees, fences, porches and lawns were torn up and washed away and seven buildings were removed from their foun- datiorfs. A hail storm followed and did great damage.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25

ond onl to that he feels in his own family. Between the great corpora tions and their employees the same moral obligations exist, and if they were fulfilled, as they should be, the better it would be for all War would give place to peace and injustice to justice. If there is not a golden rule in business there ought to be one.
 Let not the great trusts now spring. ing into existence delude themselves with the idea that, because of their colossal capital and command of al- most inexhaustible natural resources, they can become a law unto them selves, and override the public inter est. Thus far they have had every thing practically their own way, the legal restraints imposed by the states, with few radical exceptions, being weak and ineffective. That is con dition which cannot last. The spirit of the seventeenth century cannot be revived and infused into the twentieth. Should the states separately prove un- equal to the task of controlling their own creatures, appeal can and will and must be made to the supreme Federal authority. If necessary the Constitu- tion can be amended so that the power of contro-, 1t does not already exist, can be created. To suppose that a state can bring into existnce an insti- tuition which may set itself above all the states, individually, and the Fed eral government in addition, is propo- sition that falls of it's own absurdity. Indeed, 1t Is not improbable that the trust companies which have brought under one central management indus trial enterprises operating in different states, have not thereby placed them- selves within the purview of the regu- lation of the commerce clause of the Federal Constitution. It is a self evident fact that the control of the production of any given article In two or more states involves the control of the commerce in that article between the states, which control is one of the functions of United States sovereignty. That deposit of power can rest nowhere but in the hands where the Constitu- tion has placed it. As an incident to the power to regular commerce, Con- gress may in the not distant future see it's way clear to pass a compulsory arbitration law which the trusts will be compelled to obey on short order.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25

ing States. They dc not want Alabama to stand still during the next fifty years, while the four surrounding States are decreasing their illiteracy on the one hand and increasing their produetiveness on the other They want educational provisions that are flexible. and that will prove satisfsc- tory to the people. The provision short of one that gives power in each com munity to name it's own supplementary aid for schools will do this.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
uNTlL WE pIE.

O life we know that some day it must be Thy warm, dear sun shall set to rise no more, And through the souls unbarred and swinging door The mist shall sweep that rolleth in from sea, Yet from that hour of night we would not flee, For sunset ever holds the dawn in store. And death is life which ieadeth still be- fore, After the open gate hath set us free. Nay, t is the unseeing eye, the unheed- ing ear, The hands that falter ere the heart hath failed, The heart that finds loves task too stern and high T is shrinking life. not loss of days, we fear, These things, but death, whereat our souls have quailed- Life, grant that we may live until we
 Anon.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
THE LETTER kILLETH.

fTOm the MOpue ttSBiStet
 The Montgomery Advertiser joins the general chorus, saying to the convention that when the irresistible meets the inn movable it is better to take to the woods. The State Democratic conven- ton resolution as to suffrage having run counter to the United States Constitution on the same subject and both being unable to pass on the same track, the Advertiser says: 'It is a notorious fact that State platforms are usually con- structed to win out; they are made to catch votes rather than to enunciate principles and policies"
 That's truth from the very bottom of the well; but let us hasten to say that in the Alabama case the platform con- tained nothing that was of the purely vote-catching character. It was care fully considered and very conservative restatement of Democratic policies The vote-catching began after the platform was read and adopted, when Judge Car michael jumped up and sprung his mo white man be disfranchised' resolution upon the one-third of convention that yet remained in the hall. There was no reference of the resolution to a commit tee; no debate; no consideration The resolution was put at once and a hun dred voices in the centre of the hall re- sponded yea" while most of the mem bers were collecting their wits, or trying to find out what was going on. That is how the party became pledged to policy which the Advertiser confesses 1t is impossible to carry out"
 Of course, it is matter that affects member of the Constitutional Conven- tion in his partisan character only, and the member. if he is a Democrat, will probably ask whether it is wise to per sist in blind obedience to a hastily intro- duced and hastily adopted resolution when the mandate of the resolution can not be obeyed without nullification of the United States Constitution and when obedience will possibly cost more votes than it will gain for the Constitution. We do not think the people want the grandfather clause now that they are beginning to understand what it involves by It's opposition to the federal law ana by it's call upon the illiterates to stand publicly confessed of their ignorance. A Democrat who has the fate of the con- vention's work in his hands must take account of the rapidly changing public sentiment in regard to this matter.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
ULTlMATUM.
Central of New Jersey Notifies Strikers
 Their Places Will Be Filled.

Wilkesbarre, Pa., June A.-The Central Railroad of New Jersey today issued an ultimatum to the 900 strikers at the Ash ley shops of the company stating that all the men who do not return to work to- morrow morning will consider themselves discharged and their places will be filled with other men.
 This is interpreted to mean that the company will bring non-union men to the shops. The strikers have expected this move, for during the past three days the company has had a number of special po- licemen sworn in. The strikers say there will be trouble if non-union men come here.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
Dr.. Morris Gone to Virginia.

''One sorrow never comes but brings an heir, that may succeed as his inheri- tor" Is truth that applies with painful force to Dr. Lewis Coleman Morris, whom everybody in Birmingham esteems and for whom the public feels the warmest sym pathy. pr. Morris only child. Susie Mar tin Morris, aged eighteen months, was yesterday buried in Oak Hill cemetery by the side of her young mother who died when the child was but two weeks old. Two months ago Dr. Norris only brother, Dr. Edward Morris, died.
 Yesterday afternoon Dr. Morris left Birmingham for Charlottesville. Va, to attend his neice, Miss Wood, who is dan gerously il land to whom he is devotedly attached; she being a daughter of his sister,
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
NATURALLY SATISFIED.

From the New York World.
 The Manufacturers' Club of Philadel- phia reprobates ''any revival of political agitation over the tariff
 Why, certainly. With 53 per cent av- craze duty-above the highest war tariff giving them a monopoly of the home mar ket, and with the cost of manufacturing so reduced in many products that they can undersell the old world in Europe. Asia, Africa or Australia-naturally the employers of Matthew S.Quay are against any "disturbance' of their privileges.
 When duck ceases to swim and a fox voluntarily abandons a chicken diet the Philadelphia Manufacturers' Club may be expected to consent to a reform of the tariff
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
YACHT REPORTED SUNK.
Stated That Twenty-Five Persons We're
 On Board and Drowned.

St. Louis. June A.-A report to the effect that gasoline yacht, the Charles Edmond, was sunk in the Mississippi River off Jefferson barracks, twelve miles south of the city by storm last night and that twenty-five persons on board are be- vestigated. It is said that the yacht was sighted off Jefferson barracks last even ing during the storm. The boat was in distress and was headed for the shore. but has not been seen since.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
Erroneous Report.

Knoxville, Tenn, June A.-An errone- ous dispatch was sent out from Knoxville last week stating that creditors bill had been filed against the Southern Car and Foundry Company.
 No such bill was filed and no such suit or claim of any kind whatever has been entered against the company. The mis- take arose from a confusion of names The Southern Car and Foundry Company was only mentioned incidentally In suit filed against another corporation.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
GIVE SOUTH THE VICE.
Philadelpbia Press,

From the Philadelphia Press.
 It is not probable that the Southern Republicans would ask or expect the first place. The vice presidency would doubt less satisfy their ambition. The South has men amply able to fill this post with credit to themselves and honor to the na- tion, and the nomination of one of them by the Republican party would be the final proof that all ill-feeling between the sections has been obliterated and that country is one in fact as we'll as in name. name.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
cONgvess, capVtaA, SsaAOv Nd3kvbNvaVlON
BY EDWARD M. KNOX.

The consolidation of all the leading industrial interests of the country is rapidly creating complex economic conditions affecting the welfare and happiness of, it may be said, the whole people. Under the old system, which is gradually passing away, there was the fullest competition and freedom of action. Great manufacturing estab- lishments, engaged in the same line of production in different states, dealt with their own employees, and their employees with them, on separate and distinct basis. A contention respect ing wages, hours of work and the nu- merous other disagreements that arose was, as a rule, settled within the state where the business was in operation. It Is true that in great convulsions, where fundamental principles were supposed to be involved, there were sympathetic strikes on one hand and lockouts on the other, which swept over geographical lines as if they had no existence. A paralyzed industry in expanses of territory larger than many of the oId world nations. The distress and suffering thereby entailed on both sides were deplorable. Capital suf- fered. Labor starved. At last the weaker had to submit to the stronger as the price of peace.
 What will be the effect of the gigan- tic industrial consolidation which the new century has ushered in is a prob lem that time alone can solve. The situation in every great department of business under separate corporate management was not satisfactory. It is not an exaggeration to say that it was one of destructive war, happily broken by truces that unfortunately were not as long as could be desired m the interest of all If the new order shall prove to be a better one, as every friend of labor will ferventfy pray 1t may be, 1t will be one of the greatest of all events in the industrial history of the world. Strife between capital and labor is unnatural. The interests of both are joint, not separate, and the closer the union between them the stronger they become. In order to create and cement this union no effort should be spared on either side. A workingman should give his best ser. vice to his employer, and the employer, on the other hand, should take an in- terest in those that labor for him sec
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
Mr. Richard E. Johnston.

Mir. Richard F. Johnston. whose resig- nation of the city editorship of the Bir- mingham News was referred to in Mon- he had no fixed plans for the immediate future, but that he was determined to take much-needed rest during the sum- mer, as he was over-worked and worn out by his eleven years of almost cease
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
commissIons lssued.

Washington, June A.-Commissions as brigadier generals have been issued to Enoch Croawder, judge advocates depart ment; Jas. Allen. signal corps. and Robt. L. Howze, cavalry. They. hold these places until June 30. The appointments are in recognition of the services of these men in the Spanish war and the Philip pine campaign.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
REDHEAps DON'T co MAD.

From Health.
 The reason why dark-haired and dark skinned people are most inclined to men tai disorder than the lighter-haired and complexioned has never, so far as our recollection served, been accounted for by the wise in such matters. It may. per- haps be consoling to the fair-skinned to hear that in one madhouse, out of 200 pa- tients, only four have light hair and com plexions, and one red hair.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
Combine Gets Another.

New York, June A.-It was formally announced by J. P. Morgan & Co. that the Shelby Street Tube Company has been purchased by the United States Steel Corporation for the purpose of con- solidating 1t with the National Tube Company, one of It's steel constituents.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
MT. Bowie and MT. WiIIet.

''It is of more than passing interest that Tammany has invited Congressman Sidney J. Bowie of Anniston to be one of its Fourth of July orators this year, since that other eminent Annistonian, the Hon. Joseph J. Willett, had that honor last year, and since MT. Bowie and MT. WiIlett, although -townsmen and fellow-Democrats. entertain radi- cally divergent views on national poli- tics," said friend of both young states men yesterday.
 MT. Willett's speech last year at tracted extraordinary attention through out America. because 1t was a remarka- bly, eloquent speech and contained protest against MT. Bryan and a plea for Judge Van Wyck as the national leader of the Democrats.
 ''Mr. Bowie has been heretofore a warm Bryan supporter, and if he accepts Tammany's invitation he may have something to say on that line that will attract quite as much attention as MT. Willett's speech won. But whatever subject MT. Bowie may elect to discuss, 1t is certain that he will discuss 1t with great logical force and eloquence, for he is one of the ablest of all the young men of the South. Indeed, he is perhaps the most promising Southerner of his age (35), now in public life"
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
THE ORIGINAL HAZERs.

From the Chicago Chronicle.
 When the United States government makes hazing at Annapolis and West Point unappealable cause of dismissal the brutal pastime will cease in national institutions and begin to grow unpopular in all others. The red Indians were the first hazers on this continent. and showed their victims as much pity as many coll leges do.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
suqar Drops.

New York, June 24-The American Sugar Refining Company has reduced all grades of refined sugars 10 points. The National Sugar Refining Company fol- lowed this cut. but Arbuckle prices re- mained unchanged.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
Royal Visitors.

Funchal Island of Madeira, June A- The King and Queen of Portugal arrived here today. This is the first time any Portuguese monarch has visited Madeira. The town is gayly decorated and their majesties met with a hearty reception.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
Rioters Dispersed.

Madrid, June 24.-The anti-clerical riot CTS who paraded the streets yesterday shouting burn the convents'' and missed the Infanta Isabella stofmed monastery during the night. They were finally dis persed by the police
The age-herald., 1901-06-25
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer RaphaelA prophecies for this day, Tuesday, June S, Ve01;
 .'Do not travel nor sigN writings"
 .arhou wilt be annoyedN by letters and young persons, this being hy birthday; thy business will cause thee eat anxiety; in thy family circle expect sYknebs."
 "A child born on this day Fili be care less, quick in wit, and difflchlt to man age It's success in business will be poor"
The age-herald., 1901-06-25

A constitution that cramps and dwarfs intelligence is a constitution that will not last. It is case of Too Much Browne.
The age-herald., 1901-06-25

If one of the colleges should confer a degree on Elijah Dowie, it can tie the diploma to one of hls wings.