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The daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Ind. Ter. [Okla.]) 1898-1902, 1902-10-01

To be relieved from a torturlng
disease after 40 years. torture might
well cause the gratitude OF anyone.
That is wDat DeWItt's Witch Hazel
Salve did for q. Haney, Geneva, ..
He says: "DeWitt's Witch Hazel
Salve cured me Of piles after l had
suffered 40 years." Cures cuts, burns,
wounds, skin diseases. Beware of
counferfeifs. A. w. Foreman. DIV
WANTED-Tu rent dive to seven
room house, or buy lot within few
blocks OF The Golden Rule Store.
GEO. e HARRIS,
The Golden Rule.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
Thanks to Messrs. Taylor and Bank
 head,
Mobile Register.

hODlle heS1Ster.
 The joint River and Harbor Committee of the Mobile Chamber of Commerce and Mobile Cotton Exchange did the right thing yesterday in expressing the satis faction of this commercial community upon receipt of the information that the National Rivers and Harbors Committee has recommended that $500,000 be applied to the work of improving the Mobile har- Dor. As MT. Burton, Chairman of the House Committee, has expressed 1t, Mo bile Is treated in this instance with lib- erality that has not been shown all other claimants for governmental aid. although of course, not with more liberality than this port deserves for it is well known that Of all the sea ports Mobile has made the best return in enlarged trade upon the amount of money the government has ex- pended. In a word, 1t has paid to inn prove Mobile harbor. and the House Com being accurately informed by our Con gressman. Hon. George w. Taylor, and more particularly urged by Mobiles oth- CT good friend and supporter Colonel Bankhead. of the Sixth Alabama District
 The Mobile point Committee couples the names of these two distinguished public men In It's resolution of thanks, and very rightly. since they have invariably work ed together for the advancement of this port and have achieved a signal success. We are fortunate in this association, for, practically. we have two Congressmen both as able as any in the Alabama del egatlon and both occupying influential po- sitions. MT. Bankhead on the Rivers and Harbors Committee itself. and Mir. Tay- Tor on the Appropriations Committee.
 The Register joints the Committee in the expression of appreciation of the val ue of the work done by our friends and in thanking them with full heart, ex- pressing at the same time the hone that they may see Tn the near future that de velopment of our commerce that should naturally follow the improvement which they will be credited with having been mainly instrumental in bringing about
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
.@S.SSl.lE;iG Notable Extracts from N the Big Dailies' Core i
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CREAM OF THE SPECIALS

san. At the outset of his career in the House he attracted attentnon by the in- dependence of his action in election cases. He declined to vote for Republican con teStants merely because they were Re- publicans, and in several cases not only presented minority report but actually advocated the case of the Democratic contestant on the floor of the House.
 From a political standpoint, it is as- serted. the appointment is an excellent one. There is no denying the fact that President Roosevelt has rubbed the fur the wrong way in the case of d majority of the Republican members of both houses of Congress. The President is a rugged, abrupt sort of man, who does things from impulse, always honestly, but not always in such a way as to avoid friction He followed in the White House a President whose tact and whose gentle art of equalization bid fair to become historical. The result was that Mir. Roosevelt and the members of the House particularly seemed to be drifting apart. MT. Moody being a young man of the same general type as the President, and yet popular member of the lower house of Congress. will it is believed, form the desired connecting link between the exec utive and legislative branches of the gov ernment.
 Mir. Moody's high-grade views on civil service reform and on the general con duct of government offices are entirely in accord with those of the President.
 
 convulsed the Navy Department of late MT. Moody Is entirely in accord with the views of his predecessor. He has taken the aIiti-Schley side of the case from the start. as have most of the New England members of Congress.
 There is a story current that Senator Lodges influence is responsible for the selection of Mir. Moody The political gossips declare that Governor Crane and Representative Moody were both looming un as Senatorial possibilities, and hence that Senator Lodges influence tended to remove both of them from Massachu- setts fields by an offer of a Cabinet po-
 The retirement of Secretary Long on May 1 will make the third Cabinet change since President Roosevelt's accession. Secretary Hitchcock Is certain to go be- fore long. Secretary Wilson will remain, from present appearanc :s, and will, therefore be the only one in the Cabinet appointed originally by President Mckin- ley on March 1, 1897. Attorney General Knox and Secretary Hay are both expect ed to be fixtu-c or at least for some time to come.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
EURoPE's VIEW OF MoNRoEIsM
Indications of Tendency to Question
 the Doctrine Said to Exist.

London Special Cablegram to New York
 Times
 Referring to a dispatch to The Times from New York, giving rumor that the object of Prince Henrv's visit to America is to obtain the United States permis- sion for German naval base in the Car ibbean, the Vienna correspondent of The Times says the revelation of great DO litical schemes on the continent is almost invariably preceded by "a theoretic prep aration of the worlds opinion"
 The correspondent says that the mys- teries of the Schleswig- H olstein question puzzled European politicians for months before they took concrete form. Nobody ever knows the exact origin of such "feelers,' which are generally whispered in political circles before they get into the papers.
 For some time past, adds the corre- spondent. the question has been dis is warranted in extending the Monroe spondent says he first heard this matter touched on by an Austrian likely to be familiar with the fundamental lines of German world policy, and an experienced observer in whom he tne correspondent has great confidence. This idea is now floating in air. and may possibly soon be an object of academic discussion in the press.
 However. the correspondent assumes that the Americans are on their guard against everything calculated to introduce the thin edge of the wedge into the Mon roe Doctrine. Germany's future. he re- marks. may be on the seas, but not in Caribbean waters.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
A BRIGHT SUGGESTION.

We notice that the Frisco System Is going to put a dynamo in the baggage cars of their passenger trains and attach to the trucks for the purpose of generat- ing electricity to light up the trains. Why not discard the locomotives and run the trains by electric power? This would solve the question of perpetual motion. Of course the trucks would be run by electricity and the electricity would be generated by means of the attachment of the dynamo with the trucks.
 That's a splendid scheme. and the only thing needed is to get it to work. It reminds us of the plan invented by lazy man to drive a boat. There was a pig fan in the stern which forced strong current of air against the sail and that drove the boat along. and the motion of the boat drove the fan. The main hitch in the combination was that it refused to work. The fan wouldn't work till the boat was in motion and the boat wouldn't t budge till the fan blew some wind on the sail, and that spoiled the invention.
 The suggestion of The News is on the same line. The trucks will not move until the electricity is generated and there can be no electricity until the trucks get in motion. It is like man lifting himself up in a basket. If they could always stop the car at the top of de- cline, so that a push would start 1t down hill it would overcome the difficulty, pos sibly, but perhaps it will not always be practicable to stop just at the right place for getting an easy start. Its bright idea, all the same.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
DREAMERS OF DREAMS.

The question of shorter or fewer hours of labor is one of continual agitation. The old line, Mans work Is from sun to sum-" or from early dawn to dewy eve" as another writer expresses it. does not now apply. Mechanics as well as farm laborers used 10 work all day long and l thought that constituted a day's work Then they fixed the day for work at
 ten hours, and later at eight hours. Even | that is not satisfactory, and the demand | is for a still further reduction. Where
 will the limit be fixed?
 One error or weak place in all these contentious for shorter hours is Tn limit | ing it to mechanics and artisans~ and other persons who do physical labor, but
 these are not by any means the only | workers in the vast hive of human in
 dustry. The clerk in the store. the book l keeper in the bank. the newspaper writer at his desk, the railroad employees on the
 trains, the farmer in his fields-are not all of these workers? Is there any reason why they should work ten, twelve ar possibly fourteen hours out of the twen- l ty-four while the mechanic works but eight and wants that limit reduced? l Where is the argument for the difference | in days work?
 There is no little Utopianism involved | in discussions on this subject, and some
 men are inclined to refer to what might
 be done in a thoroughly ideal state of
 existence and apply it to the present con-
 ditions, but it will not fit. For example
 about a century ago certain French Socialists, deluded by the reasonings of
 Fourier, St. Simon and other visionaries,
 worked up an idea or plan for the re- | organization of the entire social system
 and among other absurd features of their
 scheme was one fixing the length of a
 days work at about three hours. Of
 course nothing came of it.
 In recent issue of the Popular Science
 Monthly one pr. Chamberlain argues that
 two hours of manual labor by each
 worker and two hours of intellectual
 labor each day. will suffice to supply all
 the needs of the civilized world under
 right conditions and with the economic
 distribution of the product" which is not
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
HE Is NOT A GOOD CITIZEN. In a recent issue of The Philadelphia Times this paragraph appears:

| Edward Everett Hale said at ban quet in New York that he had been to | only two primary elections in the eighty years of his life, and was not inclined to think that his going to those did any | good. He Is only type of many thou sands who would better deserve the title | of citizens if, instead of despairing at the peryersion of the existing political machinery, they unitedly s1ove first to master and then to better 1t.
 We agree with The Birmingham News
 in saying that Mir. Hale has been a
 man without a country" In some
 respects he is a very noted man. He oc- cupies an eminent place as minister He has written many book s. philosophi- cal. historical. biographical, fctional and a writer and a thinker he stands de- servedIy high among American men of letters. and has been before the public for more years than falls to the lot of most men.
 With all this Mir. Hale is not a good citizen. He has been remiss in one of the great essentials of good citizenship. He has during all his fourscore years enjoyed the protection of the laws of his State. but has not cared who made those laws. He has depended on the officials of Massachusetts and of Boston for pro- lection to life and property, but has never taken the trouble to assist in the selection of those officers. He has been
 so absorbed by his literary and other pursuits that he has not troubled him. self to assist in choosing good men to make and execute the laws upon which he depends for security and safety but his allowed others to perform that duty | for him.
 A man who pursues this course through a long life is not good citizen in the full meaning of the word. We Know notting of the daily life and habits of Mir. Hale, but wo have little doubt that he is not indisposed to complain if bad men get into office If bad laws are enacted or if laws are not faithfully executed. He has not felt enough interest in his State or in his fellowmen to take an active interest in the selection of good men TOT once, put ne hichs II the government is not properly administered We have many Edward Everett Hales in the country in this respect. There are
 too many otherwise good men who fail
 to take proper interest in the affairs of government. They seem not to care beforehand what is going to be done. out afterwards complain that it was not done as they would have it. This is both in- consistent and unjust. No man has a right to expect or demand that others shall take from his shoulders his part of the burdens of government and if men of learning and prominence like MT. Hale shirk their duty we may expect others to follow his example. His is not the best type of citizenship to ensure good
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13

exactly a clear proposition, though. we presume he means that each individual shall put in two hours at manual or physical and two hours at intellectual labor. It will be seen that the last sentence quoted Is the one upon which the success of his theory depends. and that one is impossible. If the proceeds of all human labor. physical or inteilec- tual, could be equally divided among all workers of every kind and description it would doubtless be possible to shorten the working day, but that Is impossible and would be unjust If a highly gifted and skilled person can, by working four hours out of twenty-four. make ten dol lars. for example, and another worker in the same time can make but one dol lar. would it be fair and just to divide their wages equally? And if a man who works at a certain occupation can make fifty dollars per week while another works equally hard in another branch of labor for ten dollars shall they divide equally?
 These two examples are sufficient to demonstrate the inequality and absurdity of all such theories. The language used by Dr. Chamberlain himself under right conditions is the bar to successful car rying out of such dreams. The right con- ditions'' of which he speaks means, we assume, that all workers shall labor for the common good, that all the products of their labor shall be applied to the best advantage, and that all emoluments received from all kinds of labor shall be equally divided among all the popula- ton.
 These conditions and requirements are impossible on their face and pre-suppose a state or condition of society of which the Utopia of Sir Thomas More was a type. It is a condition which can never obtain while human nature is constituted as it Is, and dreamers like Chamberlain are wasting their time discussing it. Why not leave the hours of labor and the com pensation to the law of supply and de- mand ,and to the mutual agreement of employer and employe?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13

The proposition before the Massachu eetts Legislature to erect a statue tc General B. F. Butler is upsetting the stomachs of even some of the people oi snis own State. The New Bedford Stan dard. for example. declares that among fhe things which the commonwealth of Massachusetts does not need is a statue of Benjamin F. Butler" and proceeds to give various reasons why the public snoney can be spent to better advantage. In truth, his home people have but little better opinion of him than we Southern ers do
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
Ultimate of the Protection Idea.

Atlanta Journal.
 Whenever one man is ''protected' 1t is done at the expense of some other man. The wall of the infant industry for pro- lection so soon grows into the hoarse and defiant howl of the gigantic and mereiless trust that we look with suspi- starts with a plea to be fed from a spoon. We are accustomed of thinking of the government as a great source of wealth, and immense money mill. Wherever a gigantic scheme is proposed-one, it may be. requiring an expenditure of hundreds of millions-the objection to it's cost is glibly answered by the declaration that the government has plenty of money; why not turn it loose? If this theory can be reasoned out, let us all quit work, sit down and let the government support us.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13

| 4 correspondent in yesterdays Adver- kiser thinks Tuscaloosa is the correct orthography of the word. and asks why Tuscumbia should not, be spelled Tuskumbia, if Tuskaloosa is correct. That ss just the way 1t would be spelled if the old forms were followed In Choctaw we have "tushka," warrior, and ''umba, " rain. In Chickasaw they have the same word for warrior and "oombah" for rain, according to Albert Gallatin's vocabulary. These words, naturally shortened to Tus- kumbia, would literally mean 'rain war rior' or "rain-making warrior" referring to a well known practice among some of the Indian tribes in the old days when a warrior, with much ceremony and in- cantAtion essayed to bring rain from the clouds. That. in our opinion, is the origin of the name of our correspondents town, but as the government has officially de- rided how names are to be spelled we shall all have to follow its dictum.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
The Era of the Sugar Beet.

Springfield (Mass.) Republican.
 It is curious how our politics gets sift- ed down whenever any important issue arises to terms of commodities and mar kets. Here is the Cuban question, which the President declares to be one of na- tional honor, being dominated by the su- gar beet. Congressman are either for or against the sugar beet when they line up on the issue of reciprocity. Everywhere you see the sugar beet stalking about, a triumph of saccharinity and the terror of the honorable member from the West. Once it was wool that expressed the ge- nius of American politics: then everything was reduced to tin plate. The white metal' also had it's day. And now we are face to face with the sugar beet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
ISTHMIAN CANAL.
Colombian Government Makes Nc
 Satisfactory Proposition.

Washington Special to New York Tribune
 member of the Senate Committee on statement that. according to the latest official information at the State Depart ment, the Colombian government has made no definite or other satisfactory proposition with regard to the transfer of the tltle of the French Panama Canal Company to the United States, but that in striking contrast to this. specific of fers have come from the governments of both Nicaragua and Costa Rica for all the rights and franchises needed for the construction by the United States of the Nicaragua Canal.
 In point of fact, it is said that Secre- tary Hay has informed the Senate Com mittee that. under the terms of the pro- tocols he negotiated with Nicaragua an9 Costa Rica, he has received from these governments proposition to lease to the United States for canal purposes a strip of territory six miles wide across Nica- ragua for $6.0O0,O0e cash and a lease of the necessary territory in Costa Rica for $1, 900 900.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
Chickens Come Home to Roost.

New York Evening Post
 When the Republicans arranged for tariff protection for the sugar beet they thought of it as only one more of their dear old ways of ''jolying'' the Western farmer along and making him think that he, too. was beneficiary of protection. And now slow-w witted Reuben, prompted thereto by Oxnard, declares that this sugar duty is the sole one that ever prom ised to do him a cents worth of good, and that if he is goin gto lose his bounty may he be consarned if all the others don't lose theirs too.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
Sad Shock to the Hub.

Boston Transcript.
 That we may not be fattering our selves too strongly on the favorable inn pression Boston must have made on the Prince. let us not forget that when he was ready to take up the line of march after one of the stops made yesterday an official. faultlessly attired, called in a voice that carried far: Sergeant bring up them carriages" And the Prince who speaks excellent English, was within hearing.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
The Disguised Subsidy Bill

Charleston News and Courier.
 Congress may enact the pending rleas- way of operation, into law. Indeed. the probabilities are that it will do so. That: however. will not change the essential character of the measure. and it's essen- tial chal acter can be judged with perfect accuracy by the pains that are taken to disguise the manner Of its operations.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
Republican Blundering.

New York Evening Post.
 The Democrats stand ready to do more than Cuba asks. They would vote for absolute free trade with the island. It is the Republican Party which has, in all this Cuban quandary, got on a conspicu- ous stage to exhibit to the country disheartening spectacle of vacillation, di- vided counsels and feeble-minded leader ship facing both ways Could the inn mense talent for laundering which the Democratic Party possesses have sur passed this display. We doubt it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
MT. Hannis Taylor.

MObIIe HeRlSter.
 The friends of Hon. Hannis Taylor of this city, congratulate him upon his ap- continent as counsel of the government. in connection with the Spanish War Claims Commission. an office that car ries with it a salary of 5000 a year, and which he Is eminently qualified to fill, but regret that the acceptance of the of flee will make necessary his removal, with his estimable family to Washington to live, for time at least. MT. Taylor is an ornament of the community that we can ill afford to lose.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13

The Advertiser seems to have queered itself with The Norfolk Landmark by stating that it had copied a certain ex- pression from The Baltimore American Mnd had virtually endorsed it. To our criticisms thereupon our esteemed con- temporary replies:
 How very funny this would all be if The Landmark had ever quoted any para graph from The Baltimore American with the comment that The Landmark might be willing to /'let it go at that.' We tell. The Advertiser again that it Is the victim of a welsh rabbit phantas- magoria or something. No doubt, we should have agreed with The American s articles, but we insist that the wool is in the brain of our Montgomery contem- porary and is yard wide, at that.
 That lets us down fiat, but it fails to explain how it happened. We are usually very careful about giving credit, and fl rhe Landmark did not say what we said 1t said then who did? But at any rate we deny the Welsh rabbit charge, or any other variety of rabbit. That animal and his peculiarities belong to the Virginia held of discussion and we decline to cut aM We'u watch closer next time,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
Letters to The Editor.
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Not Correct.
Faunsdale, Ala, March Il, 1902.

Faunsdale, Ala, March II, 1902. Editor The Advertiser:
 l notice in your Sundays issue, your correspondent from Selma. in writing up the killing of Dr. Barron by Mir. King, he states that these two men are said to have accompanied MT. King to Sweetwa- ter to demand of Mir. Barron that he right the wrong that he Is alleged to have committed
 Referring to MT. W. c. Harrison and myself. 1 wish to state that this Is a gross mistake. Neither Mir. Harrison nor myself left home on this occasion and knew nothing of the killing until Mir. King returned home and reported it to us and to other friends.
 Yours truly,
 I IT NfuOo
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-13
CHANGES IN CABINET.
Knox and Wilson May Soon Retire,
 Cortelyou Will Also Go.

New York Special to New Orleans Times
 Democrat.
 These were the reports at the Union League Club last night: :, George B. Cortelyou, Secretary to Presi- dent Roosevelt Is to retire as soon as he recevers from his present illness.
 P. c. Knox, Attorney General, is to re- tire from the Cabinet as soon as the le- gal complications concerning the Northern Securities Company are settled.
 James Wilson. Secretary of Agriculture. is to retire from the Cabinet Immediately after the solution of the Cuban tariff question.