The age-herald., 1902-04-28
Roosevelt and Knox Plan Down
 fall of the Beef Trust.

accept the hard office of Attorney-Gen- eral with it's salary of less than third of the money he requires for his living expenses in Washington?
 The trusts were good to MT Knox-naid him probably two or three times as much as the people pay the President. Tn conn mon human nature can he be expected to forget such benefits? If you ever emn,ov- ed man whom you paid liberallv and with whom you dealt kindly and gener- ously don't you know you won his frined- ship for life?
 It would be a remarkable condition of mans heart if the present Attorney-Gen- eral of the United States should resort to every possible legal means to punish that class of millionaires that so faith fully served him.
 Representative Charles W. Thompson of Alabama, who has invited twenty of the leading Republican members of Con- gress to go to Alabama with him in May to visit his large cotton plantation near Tuskegee, where he has four or five hun dred colored tenants growing cotton, has received a telegram from Booker T Washington inviting the party to visit and inspect his school. The invitation has been accepted, and arrangements have been made to spend day inspecting that institution" says the Washington Post by way of introduction to a story Of much interest to Alabamians The Post proceeds to say that fit will be re membered that President Mckinley visit ed the Tuskegee school in 19O0 and in his speech to the students of the school told them there were two things possi ble for every one of them to acquire and which no man could take from them industry and integrity
 Tn a speech made by Representative Thompson subsequent to McKinley's visit he quoted what the late President told them and MT. Washington had that par agraph of President MeKinley's speech printed as a motto. It now hangs on the walls in every room in his school
 Representative Thompson says Book CT Washington Is doing a great work for his race in educating and training them lndustrially and is encouraged in his work by the white people of Alabama, as well as by the State. His school gets an annual appropriation from the State and recently an agricultural experiment station was established in the school bv the State Legislature, with an annual ap- propriation of $500 for it's maintenance. Through Secretary Wilson. one of the most competent men to be found any, where, was secured to take charge of the station Is one of the smartest men he ever saw and is full-blood negro. He was edu- cated in Iowa.
 MT. Thompson is very much elated over the prospects of his trip, and be- lieves it will remove great deal of the prejudice of the Crumpackerites against the south and will bring about more friendly relationship between the two sections of the country
 The party will be given an old-fash- toned country barbecue on his planta- | ton in Macon county
 'The chamber of commerce at Bir- mingham has also invited the Congress- ional party to visit there, MT. Warren S. Reese, Jr.. United States attorney for the middle district of Alabama, has also invited the party to make a stop at Montgomery and allow him to show them his farm on the Hayneville pike. where he has many negroes employed in rais- | ing cotton. During their visit to the plan- tation MT. Reese proposes to have the l visitors at lunch"
 Congressman Wiley of the Montgom- l cry district is one of the busiest men In the House His mail continues to be | remarkably heavy. This is due to three causes. Colonel Wiley's district, which 1 contains 249,000 inhabitants, is the most populous in Alabama or in the United States, and so the demands of his con- stituents are unusually heavy. His prom inence Tn the Standardization war brought him conspicuously before the l country; and then he is one of the kind 1 est and most obligng of Congressmen Hence it follows that the requests made | of him ty ''all sorts and conditions of men" arc very numerous.
 Colonel Wiley is a constant and pa- | tient worker, and has proved himself to be one of the most capable and use- | full of all the new members of Congress 1 He is very popular here, and is the re- cipient of cordial congratulations from both sides of the House because he is to have no opposition for renomination.
 Lieutenant Henry M. Bankhead of the twentieth Infantry, stationed at Column bus, Ohio, is spending a few days here with his father and mother Congress- man and Mrs. J. H. Bankhead Although he has spent three years in the Philip pines from which he returned but three weeks ago. he is in ideal health and strength, being orly ten points short of I two hundred pounds in weight | LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER. l
 REPRESENTATIVE CuSHMAN.