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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
HELP EACH OTHER.

The Lafayette Sun is discussing sub
ject which bids fair to be vital one in
Alabama during the next -ew months,
and in its issue of this week says:
Many expressions of endorsement of
our suggestion last week to the landlords
and tenants have been heard. In addition
to what was said last week we think it
would not be a bad idea for the landlords.
tenants, merchants and all others inter-
ested, to meet and consider carefully the
present situation and agree on some plan
by which the present depression may be
tided over. There must not be any harsh
treatment OF one by another. for the out
come of conditions is hard to foresee and
fairness is desired.
There are other communities than La
fayette and its contiguous territory to
which The Suns remarks will apply.
Crops In Alabama are going to be short
The early corn and the late corn, the peas
and the potatoes, and all other things
upon which man and beast may live and
thrive, will be scarce. 1t is not going
to be any easy matter to pull through
the next season. even for those who own
their farms. Many of them will find 1t
difficult to keep their heads above water
even with the help and for bearance of
those who have made advances to them
If these crowd them to the wall it means
ruin. No doubt the merchants who have
helped to carry the farmers through the
season need their money, but il they at
tempt to get it by running the farmers
will either be bettered? If the merchant
and the farmer can, by mutual agree
assistance help each other to tide over
the unfortunate conditions it will be well
for both. If there are any shylocks who
demand and insist on their pound of flesh
they may get it, but they will ruin those
who must supply it.
But IL the coming season is going to be
hard on the small farmers what will 1t
be on the tenants. white and black, whose
subsistence depends on a share of the
short crops? There are many of them,
and before them is suffering. unless they
are helped. 1t matters not whether they
are white men or black men, if they have
done their part of the years. work and
now find themselves and their families
confronted by want. through no fault of
theirs, they ought to be assisted to get
through the hard days ahead of them
and thus encouraged to stay on the farm
and be ready for another year. Any
other course will either drive them from
tho farms or force them to become vaga-
bonds. Migrants and perhaps thieves and
robbers in many cases.
Conditions in Alabama are not desperate
but they are in some localities to some
extent serious and discouraging, and
should be inteligently and tolerantly
dealt with. The corn crops Of the great
West promise to be enormous and this
ought to mean moderate PRICES, but to
those who have no money cheap corn is
of little benefit. Those Who have must
help those who have not, and r'.rchants,
planters and tenants must work for the
best interests of each other. 1t will be
a reflection on Alabama If any of it's citi-
zens, white or black, suffer for food or
are driven from the state to obtain sub
sistence.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
SATURDAY, SEPT 81, 1902.
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

xhe American Newspaper Directory uses GER
ain signs to denote the relative standing and
merit Of the whole field Of newspaperdom
which comes under its notice. and one Of these
signs IL the mystic symbol t01 denotins
rsgofden,. which stands for high quality. and
= thus explained:
advertisers value this paper more for the
class and quality Of its circulation than for the
msre number Of copies printed"
euch papers credited with single sym
Dol; but there Is higher grade. according to
this standard authority. which have BOTH
QUALITY AND QUANTITY, aud require the
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL col to describe
adequately their standing.
The Advertiser has been accorded this
Houbls golden symbol 1921 and is the only
paper 30 distinguished in this section OF the
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
Deserve No Credit.

Clayton Record.
The Record sees no cause for COM
mending the Republicans for having eX-
Guided the negro from their councils
They have not changed the personnel of
their party. except as to the negro for
the Same old haters Of Democracy and
its success are in their ranks. The same
men, or their descendants. who fought
their battles in carpet bag days are Re
publicans still and will continue to exert
potent influence in the affairs of their
party. In other words, we must confront
the same old Rcpublica enemy, although
the prefix Lily White" is attached to
his name The new Constitution has de
stroyed the negro's power as a political
factor. hence. in our judgment, the Re-
publicans have done no praiseworthy
deed in cutting aloof from him. They
used him as long as he was of service,
and when he was shorn of his usefulness,
abandoned him. Some Democratic pa
pers in the state seem glad that there
has come division and that there will
now be two white parties. We can not
agree with our brethren in seeing good
in the Republican party in this State at
least, until there is a change In its creed,
it's leaders and their methods.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
Canada's Competition.

Baltimore Sun.
The Canadians boast of Manitoba S
enormous wheat crop of 55.u0,oO0 bushels
this year and affirm that j means an
early transferrence of til" 'Adership in
wheat exports from the United States to
Canada 1t means also agitation for the
re-openng of the reciprocity question by
the millers of Dakota and Minnesota, and
quite as ardent opposition by the farm
ers of the Northwestern States to any
reduction of the wheat tariff The Ca
madam wheat crop this year is put at
100000 600 bushels OF the crop of SS3440OO
bushels last year Canada exported 20 H.
$50 bushels to England, besides 1.oS6,6 4S
barrels of flour. The exports this year
will be larger. owing to improved ship
ping facilities. There is no reason, it is
held, why. at the present rate of prog
ress. Canada should not furnish the whole
food sup Il of 100, OOO 900 bushels for Great
Britain Nlthin the next six or seven
years. The whole area of fertile land in
Manitoba is 25OO0.O0O acres. and of this
only 2952, 600 acres were cultivated in 1901
The area of Canada's wheat land is much
over 5O.000.000 acres. 1t is stated that the
average yield of wheat in Manitoba for
the last ten years his been 1891 bushels
per acre. while in the United States it
has been 1873 bushels.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
Lend EN- to Us.

Why does not the theatre police stop
the top gallery from disturbing the ar
with those yells? Some night some 1901
will yell fire and we will have another
t-ophe.-Birmingham Ledger.
When the job is finished will you kindly
send us your policemen? or tell US
how they do It? 1t would take a reg'-
ment of policemen to maintain quiet ana
good order in theatre gallery filled Win
young negroes, and IL your Birmingham
cops can do. it we want the recipe sent
to Montgomery.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
Never Heard of 1t.

The Birmingham News says Bryan
has habit of remaining silent on live IS
Sues" New we never ne ard such
charge made against him before We
thought he had the reputation of never
remaining silent ct all.-Greenville Ad-
Vocate.
The Advocate will be accused of max
ing malicious assaults on Bryan If it
isn't careful To critcise him is lese
majesty in the estimation of some of your
brethren.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
Do as Thew Please.

The question of whether or not women
shall go to church baraheaded is purely
local. They should do exactly as they
please. 1t might be easier to see the
sweet girl graduates if their mothers
wore smaller hats and fewer plumes, but
the church should not be turned into
beauty show anyway.-Huntsville Mer-
curry.
We fail to see anything local about it.
If there is anything wrong in wearing or
not wearing hats in church it is as APP
plicable to one locality as another. AMI
we strongly suspect that they will do as
they please, anyhow.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
THE ABsuRpITY OF TT.

Some features of the Single Tax theory.
of which Tom johnson is a conspicuous
advocate. appear so absurd that we fail
to see how sensible rlen can advocate
them. For example, one of the main
claims, as expressed IN mis- own words,
is that 1.-The single tax proposes to raise
every single cent of revenue We iuired for
the nation for the State or for the NUM-
cipality by a tax upon land values and
upon land values only" Then he clinches
the argument by the further statement
that he would have no license taxes of
any kind, no tax on improvements. per-
sonal property. stocks, bonds or any other
species of personally. In short, the land
is to be taxed to pay all public expenses,
charges and requirements of every char
acter for which revenue is to be raised.
Without discussing the absurdty and
want of equity of system which would
make the owner of vacant lot or tract
of land pay as much tax as does the
other man who has a fine house on his
lot or tract, the injustice If other
features of the system is apparent. For
example, man who owns a vacant lot
in town, or a 40-acre tract in the country,
is to be taxed, but another man who
owns, say one million dollars worth of
stocks, bonds. furniture, pictures. car
riages and horses, or anything Else, but
owns no land, pays no tax on any of it.
In shSrt, we cannot conceive of any sys-
tenn of raising revenue which would be
more absolutely a tax on the poor man
and a total relief for the rich from any
of the burdens of government.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
So the Fish Bite.

G. Cleveland, Esq, is the most indepen-
dent pebble on the beach. He don't care
continental what his enemies may say or
do SO the fish bite.-Jasper Eagle.
And that's just what hurts his enemies
so bad. If he would finch or wriggle or
give even little evidence that he knows
somebody is fighting him it would relieve
his assailants immensely. but he won't
The bite of a mosquito while he is fish
ing doubtless worries him infinitely worse
than the attacks of Lilliputian enemies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

The ST. Louis Post Dispatch has just
celebrated the twenty-fourth year of its
existence by getting out souvenir
edition. one of the handsomest and most
interesting that has come from the press
of any establishment in this country. 1t
is a paper that has grown every day sine"
it started and is now a household wotA
in all the Western and Southwes;' rn
countdy. The special occasion for tai5
magnificent special edition was the re-
moval of The Post Dispatch to a lew
building on one of the main thoroughfares
of st. Louis, which was nocessitated by
it's outgrowing its old quarters. 1t is well
known fact that The Post Dispatch was
more largely instrumental than any other
one force in unearthing the swindlinS and
boodling carried on by some of the MEM
bers of the City Council and for which
the boodlers are now under indictment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
DANDRUFF WON'T WASH OUT.
The Germ That Causes 1t Has to Be
DESTROYED, to Cure Dandruff.

Many a woman spends an hour twice
n week securing her scalp, thinking
scrubbing off the sCurf will cure the dan
druff. Two hours week, ut the age OF
40 years. she has spent 260 days of u
hours each, or two-thirds of a year Of
her life, in that vain hope; vain, because
You cant cure daudruf without killing
tie dandruH germ, and the only hair
preparation on earth that will do that is
Ncwbro's Herpicide'-alsO delightful
hair dressing. and thoroughly antiaeptic
against all contaEion from use Of others
hair brushes 1t IL also a delightful hair
dressing. Semi ~ cents in stamps for
sample. The Herpicide Co. Dept. ~"
Detroit Mich Sold by K. G. Fowler,
Druggist. sat.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
WITH A COMMENT OR TWO.
Greenland and New York.

Lieutenant Peary with an eye on the
coal strike says a man can live as COM
fortably In Greenland as in New York
Birmingham Age-Herald.
Well, he isn't likely to get any of New
York's 400 to emigrate to Greenland, at
all events. unless Colonel Henri! makes the
big city so hot for them that theyf go
up among the ice-bergs to cool off.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
SHE WINGED ONE.

That Virginia young lady who wrote a
BETTER to The Richmond Times a few
days ago, and upon which The Advertiser
made some comments, evidently winged
one old bachelor, showing that she was
not shooting altogether at random. And
ne admits the charge, too, as these few
stems show:
"A Horse Show. box, at $50. American
beauties at Sc a dozen, carriage every
might, dainty Suppers and 80 on knock
a big hole in an income of $500 a month.
More is expected from a bachelor than
from married man in matters of this
kind, and bachelorhood is really more ex-
pensive than matrimony.
Just as we said, expense is mere mat
Ter of choice. This man spends the
money as he specifies, because he proba-
bly, has it to spare and prefers to spend
1t ON himself. but he spoils the effect OF
his confession by assuming a sort of
bender or sympathetic tone as follows:
Don't you know that often when we
sit In these deeply upholstered chairs and
the cerulean smoke from a good cigar
cufis dfeamily upward We would only too
willingly change it for split bottomed
rocker and a CORN cob pipe in home
OF our own? When the light-footed and
perfectly-trained servant keeps our glass
6iled as we sit at the green-topped table
with our chips stacked in front of us,
don't you know we would gladly trade
AZ all for the touch of little hands and
the patter of baby feet and the calm of
d QUIET home? The fellows are the best
cosnpanions in the world as far as fell
lows go, still "a sweet-faced, loving wife
would be more attractive than all OF them
together.
Well. we don't happen to know any
thing of the kind. nor do we believe a
word of it. The man with an income of
500 a month can easily procure the
humble home of which he writes. and
sf he is at all decent specimen of male
humanity he can get a good woman to
share that home with him. His pro-
fessed longings for the home comforts
of which he speaks are all !ipe dreams,
or the next morning result tf busy
xreyious night. His letter IS an open
admission that he doesn't want to dis
pesse with any of his selfish comforts
for q home, a wife or anything else.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

many States, but is not particularly iden-
titled with any. 1t is, therefore, absurd
to say of Kansas that o9.5 per cent. OF
her nopulation betweei the ages 10 and
IA can read and write and then credit
Virginia with nut 1913 per cent. of such
persons. This is comparing wholly diff
ferent things--things as unlike as Eu-
rope and Africa. 1t conveys no useful
idea. What one wants to know is what
proportion of the whites of each State
are educated and what proportion of the
other races. Statistics that do not distin-
cuish between things that are wholly
distinct are of little value
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
The Whole Thing.

Colonel Bryan seems satisfied with the
show Tom johnson Is exhibiting in Ohio,
Bryan is an auxiliary attraction, while
Tom appears to be menagerie, ring mas
ter. clown, boss-in fact the whole thing
Pine Belt News.
Bryan is, or will be, disguised to find
himself so badly outclassed by Tom IN
the art of spectacular campaigning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
But It Lacks Something.

The circus tent erected for Roosevelt
in Chicago is three times bigger than any
that Tom Johnson carries in stock; and
the pink lemonade is even pinker than
pink. When 1t comes to circusng the Re-
publicans have always been in the lead,
and in their menagerie is an ELEPHANT
Mobile Register
But you overlook the fact that Tom per-
forms on an auto, while TEDDY must
content himself with a plebeian bronco.
That puts Tom several laps ahead.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
August Circulation Facts.

E With newspapers, as with all other lines on
1xade, August is regarded as the duilest OF the IN.
sduu Summer months. In face OF TINS lac
HhA Advertisers circulation for the month o,
AuKust, Just passed not only maintained az
ppevious high water marks. but made gratify
tng gains. Each month of the past year has
seen Q substantial increase in Inc 49, 49,
&iser's subscription output and all indicatlohs
Doint to the IL 900 mark for the daiiy ana
10000 for the Sunday BY January, lsoS.
3 Here are the August figures:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

The Republicans have put out can
didates for Congress in eight of the nine
Alabama districts. The only one in which
they have not acted is the Mobile dis
trict and in a few days one will be an
nounced there. The Democrats can win
in every one by handsome majorities.
After all it will be a good thing to stir
up our people and make them go to the
polls. 1t has been so long since there
was any opposition to fight that voters
have not been turning out as they should.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

We don't know what the dispatches
mean by the statement that 'ping-pong
has been put under the ban of the law
in Ohio" Is there really some place
where only the law can prevent people
PLAYING it.?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

II the people of this country who want
relief from the exactions of the high
protective tariff expect anything from
President Roosevelt or his administra-
non they are leaning on Il broken reed,
1t Is like asking for bread and getting
i stone. His remedy for monopoly ex-
actions is publicity and Constitutional
amendment, and for tariff exactions a
comrnission to examine and report rem
sdy. Both propositions involve inter
rnfnabIe delay. If the tariff load is to
be lifted it will have to be done by the
Democratic Party and it looks as if
Republicans in the West will line up
with them in the coming election by the
thousands. The Alabama Republicans
have declared in their platform for the
whole tariff iniquity and are opposed to
nnx change in the existing law
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

A contemporary thinks the automobile
would make a good wax engine because
it is SO deadly in time of peace, but that
proves nothing. Some of the most blood
thirsty warriors, in peace times ARE
worth nothing for war.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

One of the curiosities of the present
campaign is the nomination oil +. F.
Koerber of Columbia, Henry County, as
a candidate for Congress from the Third
District against Hon. II. d. Clayton. Mr..
Koerber is the publisher of The Column
bia Breeze, which has always been a
Democratic newspaper and is supporting
MIR. Clayton for reelection. The
chances are that Mr.. Koerbers name has
been used without his authority.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

A man named Hogger Jagsoie has just
celebrated his 1O2nd birthday in Vienna,
which contemporary considers re-
markable instance of the difficulty of out
living bad name.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

settle" differences that spring from the
very existence of a mixed society,
racially speaking. There Will be a
superior and an inferior race, and that
mixed community will be most justly and
happily governed, whose superior race
shall be made up of men VINO love justice
for its own sake. and value men accord
ing to their human worth.
We agree with The Times that there
will be race question" as long as two
radically different races live together, and
the only solution or settlement OF that
question is yor the superior race to
have absolute control. end to treat the
inferior with absolute fairness and justice.
The white people of the South must
have and exercise full control OF all
public and governmental affairs ana
take all the responsibility. Anything
else means trouble. and. finally chaos.
At the same time. and of equal import
ance, the colored people should have fair
and Just treatment in their own station
ANYTHING else is discreditable to the
white race.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

Whenever a protection organ can find
nothing else to say about a Democrat
it calls him a free trader and then we
can almost hear it appltuding itself for
saying something smart
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

In a number Of exchanges recently we
find an article on how to detect dia-
monds," but it doesn't interest us. We
want to detect the fellow no got all
ours
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

A Kansas editor boasts that his State
will make corn enough thus .car to fur
nish drinks for all the world-"besides
what is wasted for bread"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
Two Popular Books.

Selma Journal.
Here is the way an exchange gets it
mixed up: southern book dealers find
that the two most popular hooks Of the
day are The Loopard's Specks and a
Spotted Bird
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

A chicken with three distinct sets of
brains was recently Matched near Lon
DON but it didn't live long. 1t couldn't
with that kind of tart.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

What does Marion Butler mean by
speaking of 1.-The future of the Popnlist
Party?" Hasn't 1t mad all the future
that is coming to it?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
The Rising Cloud.

Atlanta Journal.
Can't the Republican party see that
small black cloud out in Iowa? Tariff
reform promises to burst with fury over
the eptire country before long
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27
Kaiser on Trolley Car.

Milwaukee Sentinel,
Kaiser wilhelm says The trolley car
is an enemy of humanity. The Kaiser
must have been having Il dispute over a
transfer.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

What is the use trying to break man
of gambling by telling him there's moth
ing in it?" What does the other fellow
play for?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

w. A. Scott. Circulation Manager of the
Montgomery Advertiser being duly sworn
Bays: The foregoing statement of The Adver-
Users daily circulation for the month OF Au-
gust. 1902, is true and correct, and compiled
after all returns from newsboys news agents
and left copies have been deducted
W. A. SCOTT. Circulation Mgr.
Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9Th
F. w. JACKSON.
rSEAI.1 N. p. Exc J. p.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

Lets not be hyprocritics," says The
New York Sun. When was The Sun
converted?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

Don't say I wish, Anybody can wish.
AS we grow older, we blame the wo-
men less for having Mysteries,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

The Chattanooga Times in the course
of some discussion on the ever present
race question in the South. SAWS:
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-09-27

1t will never disappear, SO long as the
races remain together. We should have
peace and justice for all, but We cannot
The Jasper news., 1902-06-19
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