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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
NO CALL FOB HELP.

The people of Mariou are entitled to receive the approval and applause of conservative and law-abiding citizens all over the State. A negro was to have been hanged there for the crime of mur- der and 1t became noised abroad that crowd of lawless negroes would attack the county jail and rescue the murderer. The citizens of tho town. instead of flying to the telegraph ofi1ce and beseiging the Governor with calls for troops. decided that 1t was their first duty to uphold the law and maintain the supremacy of the courts in their own community. They organized the citizens in sufficient force to protect their town from mob violence and see that the sentence of the court was carried out in an orderly fashion. This Is as it should be. The disposition to call out the military to ouell every local outbreak has become much too common in recent years. Ma rion and Perry County are to be con gratulated that they have not been made the victims of feint-hearted sheriff or an excited population. The courageous manhood of Francis Marion and Oliver Hazard Perry. in whose honor their town and county were named. still abides with some of its worthy citisenA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
THOSE GOOD OLD DAYS.

While we are criticising the statesmen of the present day. 1t is well sometimes to look back a century or more and sec how the present compares with the past. Among the papers left by Washington were many referring to current events and people, and from one of them we make this extract:
 It is a fact too notorious to be con- cealed that Congress is rent by party that business of tritling and personal concernment withdraw their attention from matters of great national moment When 1t is also known that idleness and dissipation take the place of close atten- ton and application, man who wishes well to the lib5rtes of his country and desires to see it's rights established. can- not avoid cryjh jhg out where are our men of abilities? { Why do not they come forth to saye their country? Let this voice, my dear sir, call upon you-Jefrer- son and othJrs-do not form A mistaken opinion that we are about to sit down un- der our own hg-tree let our hitherto no.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
HosTILIT ITO THE PRESIDENT
He is Thought to Be Building a
 Machine of His Own.

Washington Special to Chicago Chronicle.
 The President undoubtedly is engaged in building a machine of his own. He has learned enough about the sentiment in certain sections of his own party to lead him to believe that he will have a fight on his hands before the next Re- publican convention meets. He is al- ready assured that he has won the en- mity of many influential leaders of the party and that they are intriguing even at this remote date from the convention to prevent his nomination. The sentiment in Congress is distinctly hostile. It is con- fined to no particular State or section. Senators who during the last administra- ton were outspokenly loyal to the Presi- dent are now as outspoken in their op- position to Roosevelt. They make no concealment of their dislike for him or his methods. They regard him as a bulldozer. who cannot and will not brook opposi- ton to his own ideas. Then, too, they believe that he is seeking to intrench himself in his present position at their expense. It is pointed out that no Presi- dent who ever attempted deliberately to build a personal machine was successful, especially when he employed the meth ors which President Roosevelt is em- ploying at the present time He is cer- tain to create bitter, and losting antago- nisnns among men whose friendship he needs
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
THE CUBAN QUESTION
 WORRIES REPUBLICANS.
House Leaders Now Realize That
 Protection is Threatened.

Washington Special to New York Times. The Republican leaders in the House are tremendously worried over the Gu realise what was pointed out by sena- tors Proctor, Gallinger and Piatt in m terviews published in The New York Times weeks ago, that the beet sugar men are damaging the cause oI pro.ec'.0al' undermining the tartn and tmperiiing the The Oxnard contingent in Congress was exultant today over the showing 1t made last night in the House Republican con- going about openly predi.tlng that Thurs day. when the conference meets again, they will be able to defeat the ways and Means Committees pro1ect Tor ~ per cent tsrif concession. They hope: they say. to keep the House Republicans from doing anything whatever for Cuba And now comes General Grosvenor, ac- cording to report, with . threat to quit the Ways and Means Committee 1T US schems shalf be repudiated by the con
 If the Republicans of the House re- fuse to accept the proposition of the Ways and Means Committee in the mat ter of Cuban tariff reduction and follow the lead of Mir. Tawney and the beet su- gar men. will resign from the Commit
 General Grosvenor has had quite as | gress In bringing about the situation in his party to which he objects. Until the Ways and Means Committee decided to propose 9 DOT cent cut in rates for the nor had been hostile to the administra- tion's scheme, had rebelled against 1t as something unnecessary. and as something inimical to protection.
 Even. when he spoke ostensibly in ia. vor of the project in the first session of the conference last week. the General threw cold water on 1t, talked about 1t. everybody said. as though he despised It. and wanted 1t rejected. Now. if he is sincere in his professed indignation to- ward Mir. Tawney and the other beet su, gar mon, he sees the Cuban question in . different light and realizes that 1t would be bad for his party to have the ques- tion decided as the oxnard people want
 1'he general, belies herein Congress and out of Congress-ir that Messrs. Payne. Dalzell and Grosvenor could have carried the tarin reduction project through the conference easily if they had given It strong. earnest support from the
 outset. The current impression is that they went before the conference con- fessing they were offering something they
 they had been whipped into offering
 Representative Long of Kansas, and Representative Mccall of Massachusetts. Ways and Means Committee who are really friendly to the scheme. They do not consider 1t an adequate measure, and feel that 1t h 2 meagre response to the plea the President made to Congress; still 1t is something. and they know that when Congress gets through with that something. 1t may have made it some- thing worth while. From the beginning
 of the agitation these two representatives have stood on the proposition that it would be right and polite to help the CubanA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
ble struggle end in ignominy-believe me when tell you there b danger of it.

ble struggle end in isnominy-believe me when tell you there is danger of It.
 That sounds wonderfully like the criti- ,cisms and pessimism sometimes indulged in powadays. Washington was spsating of lthe conditions existing both in Con- sress and out, and as he was . man not given to exaggeration, we must take his statements as a true expedition of affairs with which he was familiar. and which he had no cause to exaggsrats All of us who know anything of history know that some of the greatest and best men the country has produced were then in public life. but it seems that they were in the minority and were unable to con- trol the acts of those who were appa- rently better fitted for the bar-room. or the cockpit. than for a place in Con- gress.
 It will be noted. too. that Washington took gloomy view of the future and was almost hopeless of the outcome. That there was great danger in his estimation. that the glorious struggle from which they had lately emerged was about to "end in ignominy" is plainly to be seen from his language. It may be. however. that he was not a fit judge of his coun- trymen. As he was superior to all his contemporaries in fortitude. in rectitude and in his ideals of what should con- situte the proper type of American citi- senship, he was less inclined to look with forbearance on the shortcomings of the public men of his day. Yet in spite of this explanation, we are forced to yad- init that the manners and customs of that period left much to be desired.
 Notwithstanding such evidence as thus given by Washington, we are not dis posed to agree with The Kansas City Journal that ''fhe personnel of Congress is distinctly higher than it was before the Civil War;" or that there Is more dignity and ability in both branches of Congress than in former days. No one will deny that there are many men of frst-rate ability and unbIemished reputa- tions now in public life, nor will any one deny that there were unworthy men in ofice in the olden or earlier days of the republic. but certainly many of the scan- dals and charges which now. discredit our public life were not then prevalent. There were men in both Senate and House who were no credit to either or to those who sent them there. but at least buying their seats and selling their in- huence was not common in those days. All the same, the good old days" of which we think and write were not en- tirely good.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
SHOULD NOT STOP AT THAT.

Referring to the discovery of the bodies of at least eight or nine murdered in- fants in and near Birmingham. The News remarks that the murder of so many babies has aroused strong public sen- timent against the pi actice." We should hope so. The finding of one baby should have had that effect. and the discovery of so many should arouse a sentiment which will detect and punish the crimi- nals. No doubt it is infinitely better for the child of such parents to be head than it should live to grow up with such an example before 1t as would be pre- scented by a parent who would deliber- ately end its brief existence, but that consideration has nothing to do with the case.
 If there is one form, of murder more infamously cruel than another. it is taking the life, of B helpless babe. It comes into the world without choice or volition of its own, and whatever may be the sins of it's parents. and however irregular and unlawful may have been it's beginning, it is born as pure and free from sin as though it had entered the world with the blessings of the church and the shield of legal marriage. Its very helplessness should be an impenetrable armor to protect 1t from harm. and ought to appeal with irresistible force to all that is best in. human nature. We have often thought of Southey's beautiful line:
 Oh, when a mother meets on high
 The babe she lost in infancy,
 Hath she not then for pains and fears,
 The day of woe. the watchful night
 For all her sorrow, all her tears,
 An overpayment of delight?
 Can a woman who deliberately murders or is privy to the murder of her babe. ever hope to meet it in the great here after? And if she should meet it ''on high," would she feel that ''over-payment of delight" of which Southey speaks? ? Would not the sight of that child so foully done to death be as horrible to her as was the ghost of murdered Banquo to conscience-stricken Macbeth? And what kind of heart can the father of a child have, even if 1t be the child of shame. to even consent to the murder of his own offspring?
 So far as the crime itself is concerned it matters not whether these children were put out of the way to hide the sins of the parents, or to avoid the trouble of caring for them. It was murder most foul" and the people of Birmingham should not stop at an aroused public sen- timent, but should set every detail of legal machinery to work to ferret out and punish the criminals so that this wholesale murder of the innocents' should cease. The authorities and the citizens owe this much to justice. to hu- manity and to their own good name.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
TESTS WIRELESS
 PHONE YsTEM
Signal Corps of United States Army
 Makes Successful Experiments.

Washington Special to Chicago Chronicle
 The Signal Corps of the United States army has succeeded In sending messages by telephone. without the use of wires. This achievement is the result of evperi- mes1ts that have been quietly conducted for some times.
 General Greedy acknowledged today that officers of the corps had been experi- menting with the wireless telephone. He said they had met with moderate de- gree of success.
 While none of the officers having knowledge of the subject Is willing to give any details as yet or to discuss the subject it Is said that they have success fully sent telephone messages 4S0 feet without wires. The system is practically the same as that employed in wireless te1egraphy. The instruments used in tel ephoning are necessarily more delicate than those used In .telegraphy, as words must be reproduced instead of dots and dashes.
 Wireless telegraphy lust now is regard ed as of greater value by the Signal Corps officers than wireless telephoning. The chances of confusing are less. "But," said an officer today, 'it is the duty of the corps to perfect systems of communication for use in the field and to be able to send messages from one point
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
SUGAR PROBLEM NOT SOLVED.
It Will Continue to Be . Prolific
 Source of Discord.

London Special to New York Times.
 The Vienna correspondent of The Times says that, notwithstanding the Brussels agreement. the sugar question is sure to continue to be a prolific source of discord between the States affected for months. and perhaps for years. to come. The governments. the beet=root growers, and rven the manufacturers are all more, or less at odds. being overtaken by the com mon misfortune which is the Nemesis of an industry founded on false and arti- ficial basis. Each interest is anxious to reduce its own share of the penalty at the cost of the others.
 In Austria, says the correspondent, 1t is probable that the investors and the territorial magnates who sank money in the sugar industry will succeed in trans ferring most of their burden to the shoulders of the taxpayers. There is a tendency in Vienna to represent Great Britain as undermining a main pillar of the Continental economic and financial Fabric in pursuit of her own interests. Great Britain. in particular. is regarded as showing lack of consideration for such an old friend as Austria.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
Knows He Cannot Win.

Anniston Hot Blast.
 The Mobile Register correctly concludes that Mir Bry in cannot win on his past and present platform. He was beaten on 1t twice. He knows he cannot win and his preaching is that 1t is better to be beaten than to give up the platform. So would we say. too if the platform were composed of the time-honored Democrat ic principles. but as it 's nothing but an experimental combination of populistic with some Democratic principles. and has twice proved to be failure when appeal for its adoption was made to the people. we think it foolish to make q further sacrifice for it's sake. Better get another platform and have some chance to win.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
Notable Extracts from the Big Dailiss' Core spondents. |.
CREAM OF THE SPECIALS

to another even though an enemy occu- pies position between our forces. We are, therefore, constantly experimentng with telegraphy. telephoning and other means of transmission of dispatches that may suggest themselves SO any emer- gency can be met"
 The system by which wireless telephone messages have been sent ts said to be the conception of Signal Corps tomcers. The work will be continued and greater suc- cess Is expected.
 The Signal Corps has been making practical use of wireless telegraphy at San Francisco for twenty-one months, a thing not generally known. Omcials here say that the system there has worked perfectly at varying distances.
 The Navy Department is arranging to make practical test of wireless teleg- raphy. Instruments have been bought in Berlin and 1t is proposed to buy others of different makes with view to ascer- taining which Is the best. Ultimately all the warships of the navy will be equip ped with Instruments for telegraphing from ship to ship or from ship to shore.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
HERE'S A SOFT ONE.

Recently in Boston a sweet young thing
 of the male persuasion married . woman
 of 70 because she was rich. He-or it. calls himself an artist, and he has been siving New York reporter some con- ndences. of which this Is a fair selec- ton:
 I know that am fascinating. Many women have fallen in love with me positively raved over me. can't help that. you know. I am young. handsome. rarely magnetic, full of high spirits and animation. These qualities. with a splen- did reputation as an artist and the cul- ture of a travelled man of the world. make a remarkable combination of at- traction.
 Isn't that "goloptious." and several
 other things? One hardly knows whether
 he is an unmitigated idiot or an unadul-
 terated ass. or a happy combination of the two. If what he says of himself is even half true. he is too sweet to be go- ing about loose. He is liable to stick to everything he touches. He would form an excellent substitute for fly paper. and the only mystery about him Is to know how he has managed to get through the world thus long without being put into bottle.
 Why this foolish old woman should pay the price for such a specimen of masculinity as this fellow appears to be is one of the problems of feminity we shall not discuss, unless it was merely
 that she wanted to change her name. Of
 course she could expect neither affection
 nor constancy from a chap who is SC
 badly stuck on himself that he couldn't pc pried loose with a crow-bar, and who has no more sense than to exploit his
 idiocy to a reporter. It is great pity that there isn't some law which would force him to spend all his time in her company
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
FAvoRs CANAL LEGISLATION.
President Anxious for Congress to Authorize Construction.

Washington Special to New Orleans
 Times-Democrat.
 President Roosevelt has made 1t very clear to a number of Republican states men during the past few days that he was heart and soul in labor of the build- ing of an interoceanic canal. He did not express any preference for either of the two suggested routes. but he stated in emphatic language that he did rot wish Congress to adjourn without passing the legislation necessary for the construction of the canal.
 The advocates of the Panama route are displaying extraordinary activity at the present time. It is understood that dur ing the present week they propose to bring out certain facts before the Senate Committee that will do a great deal to- ward strengthening the hands of the friends of the Panama route. Many Con- grsssmen look upon the Panama pro- posals with suspicion. and hint that France is endeavoring to unload worth less and much involved property upon the United States.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
"Pitiable Subserviency."
Boston Herald Qnd.)

BOSt0n Herald Und.)
 The manner fin which the opinion of the present national House of Representa- tives is stified from being put into legis- lation would be incredible were not the facts of it made unmistakably apparent. It is understood that a majority of the House wants the Babcock tariff change adopted so far as it operates on tho duties on iron and steel. A canvass has been made of the members, and ii Is found he sure to make that apparent. In this emergency the course is taken by few men who operate through the Committee
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
Interesting Notes of Some of Those
 in the Public Eye.

&A4SOA O6tA2k As0eCD VI 6okAA0 VI 4AO0V
 in the Public Eye.
 Rev. Mir. Couden. in his prayer before Congress at the Mckinley memorial ser vice, made reference to this distin- guished presence"
 General Eugene Griffin has In his pos session the American flag made by the sailors in Lieutenant Gilmore's party out of patches and stripes of their clothing after their rescue from the insurgents in the widest part of Luzon.
 Captain William Driver, a Salem, Mass, skipper. is credited with the bestowal of the name "Old Glory to the stars and stripes. It was in 1851 and the flag to which he gave the name was carried by the brig Charles Doggett all around the world and Is now on exhibition at the Essex Institute. Salem.
 Hugo Raussendorff. who owns one of the finest private art galleries in Berlin. celebrated his 10th birthday few weeks ago and took this occasion to place at the disposal of the Academy of Arts a sum of money. the interest on which 1.5o0 marks-is to be bestowed annually on some talented student.
 King Edward receives 1000 letters and 90. 900 newspapers daily: the German Elm peror, 800 to 700 letters; the King of Italy, about 500; the Queen of Holland, 100 to 150. The Pope's daily receipt of letters and papers amounts to from 22,000 to B. GOO and he requires the services of thirty five secretaries.
 Leon Lewis of winsted. Conn.,. a writ CT Of some considerable repute on scier- tific subjects, says glacier at the south pole 5000 miles in diameter and cores pondingiy thick will some day break and melt. deluging the earth, beginning with South Africa. Just at present. however. the glacier is growing and strengthening
 Frank Bemis of Columbus, O., cannot keep warm, though he wears five suits of underclothing the year around and sleeps in an ulster and woolen cap. He usually carries about forty pounds of clothing, besides $S0,00o life insurance. and says he can pass better medical examination than most men. Physicians do not know what is the matter with him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
All Harmonious in Macon.

Tuskegee News.
 The Democrats of Macon County are all so far as we are able to learn, in favor of going forward in utmost bar. mony for the future. Heretofore we have allowed too much of personal prejudice and bitterness to enter into our party affairs, It ought to be easy to select our officials without so many people falling out with one another. One man has as much right to aspire to office as anoth- CT. and one man is about as good as an- other, and perhaps a little better.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07

on Rules of the House to absolutely for bid any such vote being permitted The deplorable feature in the case is that the House slavishly submits to this arrange nent. under which its majority is gagged from even attempting test in legisla- tion. It was the indignation of the Dem ocrats, in view of this instance of Re- publican subserviency, that induced the former to refuse to engage in any debate upon the subject.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
Should Have Education.

Union Springs HeraId.
 We have long maintained that person who edits a newspaper should be one of a certain amount of education. The i'll an ordinary string of news tvncsctting" than they do of English and common de- cency. publishing a newspaper which is supposed to argue with people as to the strongly throughout the country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07
MT. Cleveland to Young Democrats.

The Young Mems Democracy of the County of New York was organized last week. MT. Cleveland wrote a letter to the organizers of the Democracy and gave them some good advice as follows: What I have written concerning young men in politics is based very largely upon my own personal experience. and know that q body of young Democrats, ssso- ciated for the purpose of disipterested 'worG, and whose object is to make bet
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-07

And now scientific fellow in Washing ton comes forward with the theory or assertion that gray hairs are caused by microbes. Whether the little creature burrows at the root of a hair and sucks the juice out. or whether he uses the inside of the hair as sort of promenade and thus keeps 1t empty and causes gray ness, makes no difference in the result. He's the offender. anyhow.