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The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
Tom Iohnson's Single Tax Theory.

Mayor Tom Johnson has long been disciple of Henry George, and he stands today firmly by the theory that all taxation should come from lands at their unimproyed values, to the end that all privilege may be destroyed, and that no man will hold more land than he actually needs. Land, like air and water, are thus considered not proper subjects of indiscriminate land lordism.
 People keep asking me-" says MT. Johnson, If this has anything to do with the single tax. I want to say that so far as I am concerned it has everything to do with the single tax. Livery step I am taking in politics is toward that end; if there is any fea- ture of politics that does not harmonize with the single tax philosophy, then I want to discard it. The philosophy of the single tax is pure Jeffersonian de- mocracy. It means the destruction of every sort of law-made and law-sanc- tioned privilege. I want everybody who takes any interest in me to know that this is the end to which all my political efforts are bent, and I would not swerye from this purpose for any office on earth'
 This is very frank, explicit and Straightforward. but it assuredly takes Mr. Johnson wholly out of the Presi- 4ential race of 1904. The great change fin taxation and political economy which he unfinchingIy advocates can not be fought out so soon. It is too sweeping, too little understood, too intricate in it's effects. It must go over to some later period, and so must Mir Johnson.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
JAPAN's GREAT ACTOR.
His Name Is Danjuro, and He Is es
 Years old.

From the Philadelphia Ledger.
 Japan has leading actor whose place at the head of his profession is as un- disputed as is Sir Henry Irving's in the theatrical world in England. Iehiwawa Danjuro is now 6. His ancestors were on the stage more than 200 years ago, and therefore folks in Japan accept him as worthily upholding the family tradi- tions.
 There is a real theatrical aristocracy in the Flowery Land. Its members are called nadia None may be of their number who has not had the good for tune to inherit great name, like 1ehiwa- wa Danjuro or to have been adopted into some famous theatrical family. Middle class actors may have their merits; but they cannot hope to become nadia on them, and enjoy the attendant privileges. The principal one of these is that they are entitled to advertise their names on the play-boards over the theatre doors. and there are only five actors who have It.
 Danjuro is easily head of the five. One O. his favorite parts is that of the hero in "The Cushingura," a play-written in 1774-which has for It's subject the re- venge of their chieftains death by forty seven retainers. For a century and a quarter this has been a stock play, sure to draw full houses when all others fail. Danjuro has played the part seventy eight times. which in Japan, where audi ences demand variety in repertoire, and lots of 1t, is considered a remarkable re- cord.
 Acting in Japan isn't easy, either, on players or audiences. In Tokio, where things, including the stage, they have got the length of the performance down to about eight hours. But in the interior playgoers insist on getting their moneys worth-that is. fifteen solid hours of the atricals at a gulp. For the relief of everybody concerned, a days perform ance is rarely occupied by single play. They are generally parts of two histor- icai masterpieces. Then comes a domes- tic drama, picturing the life of common people, their pleasures and tribulations. Finally, there Is scene in which danc- ing Is the chief feature. So. everybody gets something to his taste.
 It is rare to see Jepanese women on the stage with men. Usually, men play the women's parts, and frequently show re- markable skill in impersonating women. Most Japanese actors acquire habit of declaiming in a voice of peculiar regis fa-. .f f- foreigner has great difficulty in deter mining whether a man or a woman is performing the woman's part.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
SENATOR PLATES FLOP.

N. Y. Letter in Philadelphia Ledger.
 There has hardly been a more sudden flop in politics than that made by Sena- tor Platt and his lieutenants in the mat ter of President Roosevelts indorsement for the 1904 nomination. A first they de- scared that as this was a state campaign there was no occasion for the introduc- ton of national issues Into it. Then it was said that all the situation required was the usual perfunctory indorsement of the Roosevelt administration, and that any declaration favoring the renomina- ton of the President in 1904 would be contrary to precedent and without force or reason. But now Senator Platt sud denly came out in a statement that he hopes the President will be renomnated and his usual newspaper organ, in an edl- torial, expresses it's opinion that there is no reason why the state convention should not declare for the Presidents re- nomination. = Why, it may be asked, this sudden change in Senator Platt and his lieutenants? Well. 1t is probably due to their discovery that the people want Roosevelt indorsed and that any failure to do so would be unpopular and perhaps dangerous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
The Hotels.

The republican convention brought hun dreds of visitors to the city, and all the hotels were crowded from Sunday until Wednesday night. The Hobbies of the prin- cipal hotels were somewhat quiet yes- terday, but the registers indicated large business.
 The J1ill'nan the Florence, the Morris, the Arlington and the Metropolitan have been thriving sll the year, and they will continue to thrive for long time to come. Birmingham is good hotel town. and the regular business will naturally increase as the years roll by.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
As to Location.

''The schulers have doubtless decided where they Will build their pig blast fur mace and steel mill, but the public is still guessing" said q real estate man.
 The only statement which the Schul- CTS have made recently concerning the location Is that 1t will be in the Birming- ham district. At one time they were considering Gadsden, at another Truss vile and very recently North Birming- ham. Ensley people are confident that the plant will be built in the Steel City and Bessemer people feel just as certain that the Marvel City will get the prize It is more than likely that the furnace stack will be within sight of Bessemer and EnSley."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
THE AGE OF BATHTuBs.

From the New York Tribune
 Disquieting gossip gained some currency that famous old Battle Abbey. built on the spot where Herold, the last of the Saxon kings, was killed when William. Duke of Normandy, invaded England, had been desecrated by an American lessee. The practical scion of Uncle Sam says he has made no changes except to put in electric lights and bath tubs, and adds that there was not single bath tub in the entire abbey when he took possession.
 No modern apostle of cleanliness can blame the new occupant for what he has done, but if the wraiths of William the Norman and Harold the Saxon still stalk about the scene of the great battle of Hastings, how peevish they must be at the mere thought of such innovations!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
Miss BrldewelI.

Miss Carrie Bridewell, the contralto artist, studied under the greatest voice teacher in Milan for several weeks during the summer just ended and from all ac- counts no American singer had ever be- fore made so fine an impression in studio of that great musical center.
 Miss Bridewell's contract with the Mau- rice Grau Opera company runs until the end of next season. This fair young southern woman will appear in some of the leading rolls in New York this winter but will make concert tour through Virginia. the Carolinas and probably Georgia and Alabama before the New York season opens.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
Mir. Heuderson's Tariff Explosion.

Mr. Henderson's withdrawal simply means that the republican party is split wide open by the tariff-created trust issue. On one side we see Mark Hanna and Senator Aldrich leading the campaign subscribing trusts, and on the other side are Governor Cum mins, Congressman Babcock and host of western republicans. Indiana may be said to be the line of cleavage the manufacturing east against the agricultural and consuming west-the robbers against the robbed
 The leaders are shocked, not to say stunned, and they will not be able to repair their fences and hold back their members before the November cleo tion. The President is about to make western tour, and it is said he will promise tariff revision at the long ses- sion of the Fifty-eighth congress, which does not meet until December, I-c5. He will say there is not time enough in tbs short session of next
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
The Seedsmen.

"This has been prosperous year with seedsmen," said prominent dealer in garden and farm seeds, "and it shows that there is much life in the agricultural sections of Alabama.
 There is a greater variety of seeds sold now than ever before, and this is &C., counted for in a measure by the de- velopment of the trucking interests. While many farmers complain of poor crops. farming on the whole pays year in and year out Just now we are filling large orders for grass seeds. Where corn was short farmers are raising grasses for winter pasturage"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
The Late Justice Gray.

Judge Gray, who recently retired from the bench of the United States su- preme Court and who died on Monday last, was one of the ablest and fairest men who ever wore the ermine,' said a lawyer. He first became a judge in 1864, having been appointed an associate of the supreme court of Massachusetts. Seven years later he became chief jus tiee of that court. It is a eoinsidenee that Judge Holmes, his successor on the supreme bench of the United States. was also chief justice of the supreme court of Massachusetts at the time of his ap- pointment by President Roosevelt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
Odd fellowship.

"The Grand Sire of the Sovereign Grand Lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows reports a membership of 1.Oo2,272. which makes the order the strongest benevolent organization in this country" said an old past grand.
 Something like 100000 Odd Fellows are scattered through Canada and Europe. the rest being affiliated with lodges In the United States.
 "The next strongest order is Freema- sorry. with about seven hundred thous- and members in this county. The first lodge of Odd Fellows in America was in stituted in Baltimore in 1s19 Since that time the increase has been steady. And in the past twenty years the order has been exceptionally popular
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
TO THE WATERFOWL.

By William Cullen Bryant.
 Whither, midst falling dew, While glow the heavens with the laS
 steps of day, Far, through their rosy depths. dost thor
 pursue
 Thy solitary way?
 vainly the fowler's eye Might mark thy distant flight to do thee
 wrong, As, darkly seen against the crimson sky Thy figure floats along.
 Seek st thou the plashy brink Of weedy lake, or marge of river wide, Or where the rocking pillows rise and On the chafed ocean side? There is a power whose care Teaches thy way along that painless
 coast, The desert in illimitable air. Lone wandering, but not lost. All day thy wings have rann'd At that far height the cold, thin atmos-
 phere, Yet stoop not, weary, to the welcome
 land,
 Though the dark night is near. And soon that toll shall end; Soon shalt thou find a summer home and
 rest, And scream among thy fellows; reeds
 shall bend
 Soon OCT thy sheltered nest. Thou'rt gone. the abyss of heaven Hath swallowd up thy form; yet, on my
 heart Deeply hath sunk the lesson thou has
 given,
 And shall not soon depart. He, who. from zone to zone, Guides through the boundless sky thy
 certain flight, In the long way that I must tread alone, Will lead my steps alright.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
Talk of Another Sky scraper.

"By this time next year Birmingham's third steel frame building will be con- pleted and the fourth may not then be under way, but there is talk of a fourth and l am certain that in less than two years it will be going up at the corner of Second avenue and Twenty-frst street" said business man who owns no central property.
 "A year or two ago many people thought that the city was growing west ward so fast that property east of TIwen- tieth street would lose very materially in value, but they were mistaken. While Nineteenth street and the section west of Nineteenth will continue to improve. solid improvements will also be in evi- dence on Second and Third avenue east of Twentieth"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

have selected the right men for victims before proceeding the final act By so doing they may save themselves some sharp twlnges of conscience for having killed innocent persons. Instances of such fatal erro are by no means rare, and the reason is easily found. The mob acts usually upon suspicion, or at best, upon evidence against the suspected per sons that would not stand the test of a fair inquiry. Old Davy crocketts motto -.Be sure you are right and then go aheada-is reversed in it's order too often in the case of mobs. They go ahead and do their bloody work first, taking chances on being justified by subsequent inquiry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
MoNlEp PISTOL ToTERs.

From the Jasper Mountain Eagle.
 The pistol toters is being roasted on every side. but he is not receiving more than he deserves. A man who wilfully and deliberately makes a practice of car rying a pistol is a cowardy murderer at heart and if convicted he should be made to wear prison stripes even if he has money to throw at birds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES.
LoeaI. Money Rate.

..Loans are made on Birmingham real estate at 51k to per cent" said mem Der of banking firm. "This is a much cheaper rate than was quoted year or two ago. Two years ago we got to per cent.
 "The lower rate is due to two causes, namely: Increased capital and eonti- denee in the upward course of Birming- ham property In a year from now the rate will probably not be over per cent"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
THE DIFFERENCE.

From the Wall Street Journal.
 An eminent corporation lawyer was privately quoted the other day as saying something like this: Five years ago my clients used to come to me and say: We want to do such and such a thing; 1t Is. legal?' I would then examine the matter carefully and give my opinion on it, and not until they had my opinion would they go ahead with their plan. Nowadays they come to me and say: We have done thus and SO: make It legal,n
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
Sword Abolished by Cavalry.

New York, September 1S.-The Earl Dundonald, the new commander of the Canadian militia, has just issued a sweeping order abolishing the sword as a cavalry weapon, says a Montreal dispatch to the Times. Mounted troops, Lord Dundonaldson declares, must depend for efficiency on the rifle, and he recommends the officers and men to fit themselves for musketry certificates. The carbines now in use will be replaced gradually by rifles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
Music for the Fair.

Memoli's band, always in practice, will be in exceptionally fine condition during the State Fair. It has the contract for furnishing the music. It will be augment ed to twenty-five pieces and will have several rehearsals before the opening of the fair. No band in the south can com pete with Memoli's and few in the united States outside of New York, Boston and Chicago can play so artistically.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
White Republicans in Alabama.

White Republicans in Alabama.
 The New Orleans Pieayune seems to think the lily white movement is epoehal-that large white accessions will come to the reconstructed party. All of this Is very fancifu1, having nothing whatever to rest upon.
 Tho lily white platform declares in favor of the continuance of the present Dingley tariff, when republicans in other states are preparing to abolish it's most fragrant features. MT. Smith. the nominee for governor, was the leader of the Hanna squad in the con- vention, and Mr Hanna has declared that while he stays in the senate not a single section of the sacred bill shall be changed. MT. Smith is therefore a.1ied with the extreme eastern or Allison faction of the republican party.
 Nor is this all. MT. Smith declared on the floor of the convention hall that the new constitution of Alabama is unconstitutional, and he plainly an ticipates a reversal of the suffrage provisions by the United States su- preme court. He stands opposed, in other words, to the most vital sections of the new instrument.
 The Picayune does not know Ala bama if it thinks large white acces- sions are possible to a party that up holds Dingleyism at it's worst, includ- ing the trusts it has created, and that at the same time anticipates a down fall of the new constitution and white supremacy. This son of a reconstruc- tion governor cannot win votes on such a platform-on platform made up of equal parts of Mark Hanna, Dingleyism and the old constitution. He will do well to poll the normal re- publican registered vote. He cannot win over single democratic vote, and the entire lily-white business will be shown in November to be futile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
MADE THEM SMART.

From the Chicago Record-Herald.
 Henry Watterson points with pride to the fact that when he tackled the smart set he at last found something with q hide that was thin enough to be pierced.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

President Roosevelt is running like wild fire in the republican conventions, but the democrats who will bell the tariff-created trusts will outspeed him before the people.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.

From the New York Press.
 A shewish tongue is serpent's fang
 Nearly all our joys are nine-tenths imagination.
 Mystery makes exciting romance; solv- ing it makes dull history.
 When two friends understand each oth- CT they can be friends no longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

The three presidential candidates in Haytl each has set up revolution. Muskets vote in that island.
 ---- Duluth has more bears within It's limits than any other American city. New York alone accepted. Senator Tom Platt has gone out of tho prophet business. and Lige Dowie begins to feel lonely.
 - Tom Johnson is better man than Grover Cleveland, for the former weighs 300 pounds. Each development of the poodle business in St. Louis simply creates more tourists. Good intentions are not sufficient, as that clergyman at Oyster Bay now knows.
 The silence of Mark Hanna concern ing the hard coal strike is oppressive.
  The Hon. Thomas c. Platt's coal strike prophecies are at a sad discount.
  The national game is on it's last legs in this section of the country.
  The football elevens are weighing in.
  Settling the coal strike has become an industry in the effete east.
 - Burchard lives again as MT. Wash burn of Oyster Bay.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

While the republicans are looking around for a vice presidential candi- date they should not overlook the esteemed MT. Baer of Pennsylvania.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

The difference between the boodlers of St. Louis and those of any other American city is, the former have been found out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

Paris takes the cake, for its public executioner runs both guillotine and an automobile. Monsieur de Paris" is "ft."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

Our wandering boys tonight, Johnnie Gates and Charlie Schwab, may be re- cuperating and recouping at Monte Carlo.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

General Corbin will soon decide what the German army is really worth, and there will be no appeal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
About Persons.

John R. Ryan of Corona is at the Hill man.
 Palmer Cushing of Boston is at the Hill man.
 M wilber Dyer of New York is at the Hillman.
 J. w. Ellison of Boston is at the Hill man.
 S. w. Walton. circuit clerk of Hale county. Is at the Metropolitan. J. E. Bayol of Greensboro is in the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

Oyster Bay needs a censor who un- derstands the clergy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

From the Memphis Scimitar.
 Mobs intent upon lynchng should at least make reasonably sure that they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

November to reuse the tariff. although the Dingley bill was presented in the house and passed in weeks time.
 The truth Is. there can be no satis- factory action on the tariff until the friends of tariff reform fill the seats now held by the agents of the trusts. This question will come up for final settlement in 1904, and it cannot be settled any sooner. simply because the trusts control both branches of con gress- The repeal of the duties on trust-made articles, and the taxation of all combines seems to be the line upon which the issue will be fought out in 1904, and the inefficient plans of tho administration must meet these democratic propositions before the peo- pie. It is exceedingly unlikely that anything of value can be accomplished before 1904. No doubt there will be much playing to the galleries before that time, but definite progress will be postponed until the gen eral election tests the sentiment of the great voting public of the country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

Senator Tom Platt has gone out of tho prophet business, and Lige Dowie begins to feel lonely.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

Duluth has more bears within It's limits than any other American city. New York alone accepted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

The Presidents preachers need blue pencilling.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

The three presidential candidates in Hayu each has set up 8 revolution. Muskets vote in that island.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

Tom Johnson is a better man than Grover Cleveland, for the former weighs 300 pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

Each development of the poodle business in St. Louis simply creates more tourists.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

Good intentions are not sufficient, as that clergyman at Oyster Bay now knows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19
LESSONS FOR LYNcHERs.

:. D. Bayol of Greensboro is in the cil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1902-09-19

The silence of Mark Hanna concern ing the hard coal strike is oppressive.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-23
BUDGET SHADE
BR|TAIN'S PAIL
SHADOW OF COMING DEMAND DE-
PRESSING ON NATIONS COM
MERCIAL TRADE
TAXATION A DIRE BLIGHT
Tariff on Imports Is Proposed to Re-
duce the Present Burden of
the Citizens of the
English Isle
Special to The Globe.

LONDON, March 22.-The shadow of
the coming budget hangs heavy and de-
pressing over commercial circles. Discus
sion of the Boer war scandals has become
of secondary Importance. The with
drawals of merchandise from bond, which
have assumed almost panic proportions,
indicate how mercantile opinion is NOV
ing on the question of new taxes.
Wines, spirits and tobacco are the
features of Withdrawals, but at present
the greatest run is on sugar. So great is
the business done that the government
on an appeal of the merchants has set
aside extra wharfage to expedite >ehe
sugar passing through bond. Huge guam
titles of wneat are also coming in, and
petroleum is one of the commodities
which dealers are adding to their sup
plies.
Bonded cabmen have never before had
such trouble carrying general goods, and
in consequence their other work has to
be sublet. Meanwhile there is wide and
earnest discussion Of measures that
might tend to reduce the blighting load
of taxation. The chief proposal con-
sidefed is that Of a tariff on imports from
foreign countries.
report by the local government board
shows that there are within the metropol-
itan area III 455 paupers who are in re-
ceipts of relief against 107,370 for the cor
responding week a year ago-an increase
that bears heavily on the purses of the
rate payers.