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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
Too Many Clerks.
Savannah Neu,

Savannah News.
 Does the public service demand all of this army of employees? It is perfectly safe to answer in the negative. It is said that there are clerks to committees in Washington drawing $1 200 a year whose committee do not meet more than once twice in year, if at all. The ses- sions of some of these committees, when they do meet, last only for an hour or two It appears, further. according to statements recently made, that there are employees on the rolls whose sole func- ton consists in drawing their salaries In some of the departments the helpers are so numerous that they have difficulty in keeping out of each others way. The country has grown rapidly. but the army of employees in Washington has far out stripped it. Who is responsible? Why. Congress. The politicians demand places for themselves and their friends at he public feeding trough and the Congress- men are compelled to provide them. under penalty of losing their seats. Congress lacks the moral courage to place the pub lie service on a business basis.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
Letters to The Editor.
GOOD TEACHERS.
Alabama Does Not Draw the Line
 Close Enough.

Close Enough
 Editor The Advertiser:
 Apropos of good teachers. Is 1t not pity that Alabama has never drawn
 more marked line between her good teachers and her bad? In many instances the incompetent are quite as well paid as the competent. Should this he a pre- cedent for Alabama girls and boys! Teachers in our State. holding second and third grade certificates draw the same amount of public money as those holding first grade certificates The spe- cific remedy for this evil would be the abolishing of the second and third grade license; if this is impossible, under the present educational condition of Alabama, let County Superintendents follow the wise suggestion of MT. Abercrombie-take the matter into their own hands and do what justice demands. let this be a not plead that any of our teachers re- ceive less salary, but should there not be some line of distinction? Can we not enter little plea to our trustees that matter in their own keeping. Many of our teachers have spent time and mcpey in preparation for a life-work, and they bring to their work the best. Shall this best be financially rewarded in the same manner as those teachers who have spent little time and less money and who bring to their work-not the best? A question for Alabama trustees. As for illustration. of the noblest colleges In the South one might say in the world. for Weslyan College Is not the oldest college for wo- men in point of years alone. In this college was a charming Alabama woman, who had spent years of study in the best schools in Germany. Love and pride in State forced this question from the visi- tor. Why do you give the fruits of all these years of study to Georgia. when Alabama needs you?" "Oh. with a dainty shrug of the shoulders. replied the Alabama girl in the Georgia College. Alabama can not give me a living. let alone pay back the money I've invested in my education" Now what do you really think of that?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
rHr 9nr,rARY aUrsrIo1T.

The Advertiser publisheh this morning |-an interesting letter written by ex-Gov-
 ernor oates to the editor of The Mobile
 Register. We ds not understand the
 suggestion of . primary to decide be-
 tween Democrats as to, chojce of candi- dates to be a proposition of everybody voting in that primary who may see proper to do 70. It Is to be fair and souarA contest between Democrats and they alone should decide the matter. The term white primary is perhaps mis- leading. It should more properly be termed . Democratic primary. at which only white Democrats will vote. It is evident that a very large number of Democrats in the State favor such primary and believe that 1t is calculated to remove all apprehension of fraud. and to better conditions in Party Mnes gen. orally. The State Committee can ar- range a plan which will be absolutely fair to every State and county candi- date. This Is no time for arraying one section of the State against another. The great evil which hung over the State has been removed. and every man ought to set himself resoiutsly on the side of absolutely fair elections.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
PETERS PENCE.
Collections in the United States This
 Year May Exceed All Records.

New York Special to New Orleans Times
 Democrat.
 | The Peters Pence collection in the arch- diocese of New York bids fair to reach this year q record breaking figure. AL ready a portion of the annual collection has been forwarded to Rome.
 On the occasion of a gathering of Catholic prelates here recently 1t was de- cided to offer the Vatican authorities a little pleasant surprise. An assessment was made on the various parishes in &C., cordance with their relative degree of affiuence, and as a result sum of 25O,000 lire, corresponding to some $iS.0O0 was cabied to the Cardinal Secretary of State in Rome.
 The regular annual Peters Pence collec- ton has still to be taken up. and 1t is believed that the subscription from New York archdiocese this year for the sup port of the Pope will pass the $10o,00o mark.
 The total Peters Pence subscriptions from all nations last year was little more than $450.00o The highest con tributor was Italy, with something more than $50,000. It is noted that France, formerly near the top of the list, had fallen off remarkably, whereas the United States had climbed up to third place. This year the United States alone will proba- bly contribute as much as the grand total from all countries in 1901.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
HISTORY MAY REPEAT ITSELF

 and it begins to look as if Connecticut is in fair way to follow the example of Massachusetts with respect to an at tempted improvement in the matter of legislative representation. The constitu- tional convention of Connecticut seems determined to stick to the plan of town representation in the Legislature, instead of apportionng the members according to population, as other States do.
 Massachusetts once had a. similar sys- or populous cities, under which system each town" was entitled to one repre- sentative in the Legislature. As large cities grew up the injustice and ineauali- ty of this system became intolerable and a convention was called to amend the constitution and regulate representation. This was fifty or more years ago. and the delegates to the convention were elected from the towns just as repre- sentatives were. The same thing hap pened in Massachusetts that is now con fronting Connecticut. The delegates from the small towns refused to surrender any of their power and the new consti- tuition which was adopted sought to per- petuate the town system.
 Well, the new instrument went to the people to be ratified by popular vote and the people showed their resentment at the system sought to be fastened on them by defeating the new constitution by such a majority as left no doubt of the feel ing of the voters at the manifest in justice of such a method of representa- tion. In fact, so thoroughly were the people incensed at the attempted outrage that they practically destroyed the power of the towns. Just what happened in Massachusetts is likely to happen in Con- necticut If the delegates persist in their evident determination to continue the present system.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

For a great deal of good hard sense in a few lines commend us to the following paragraph from The Portland Oregonian:
 The appointment of d committee of Congress to inquire into the disfran- chisement of negroes in the South IS useless and silly. It can produce no other result than partisan strife. The South will not be ruled by the negro. and where the negroes are very numerous their votes will be nullitied. On this subject there has been mighty lot Of experience during the past thirty-five years, and it is useless to challenge repetition of 1t.
 The oregonian Is one of the Northern papers which can see and realize both the futility and the insincerity of Crum- psckerlsm. Perhaps others of them see it and admit it to themselves, but are ashamed to let it be known to others that they have that much fairness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
An Item in the River and Harbor
 Bill,
Washington Post.

Certain Alabama newspapers have been abusing the United States engineer offi- cer, Captain Judson, because of his fail ure to recommend "an appropriation for the Coosa River" in their State. A short coming of this kind has always been re- garded as final proof of professional inn becility and moral decrepitude. Why should Captain Judson fare any better than his guilty predecessors? Why, in deed! So the newspapers. together with a number of public men noted for unu- sual oratory. have been jumping on the captain ever since.
 It seems, however. that there are per sons in Alabama-even in its very heart, Montgomery-who do not regard the Coosa as "a mighty artery of commerce, or even as capable of becoming one. We find. for example. in & recent issue -ofthe
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

| immense beds of coal and iron lie sid' ! by side, and in which many other vaiua | ple minerals are found. If to this VI add the agricultural and arboreal riches | of all that region 1t Is easy to see ana l appreciate the almost incaiculable value | to Alabama and Georgia of a waterway which almost tfaverses the entire length
 of Alabama.
 The argument that all the riches of this great region can be conveyed to the
 outside world by rail is not sound one. If it were, why is 1t that millions of dollars are annually expended in opening rivers along which railroads could be built. and. in most cases, these roads could be built at much less cost than they can along the Coosa. It is because water transportation is more economical and certain than by rail. where there Is a proper stream, and the Coosa can be made a proper one If the argument is sound the government should stop spending money on rivers and let railroads be built instead.
 There is one other point dwelt on by The Post which is worthy of note. That is the assumption that opening the Coosa to navigation would destroy the immense water power afforded by the falls all along the river from Greensport to We tumpka. This is the most unsound argu- ment of all. In the old days when over shot or breast-wheels were used high fah was necessary. but since the inven- ton and perfection of the turbine water- wheel and others of the same character only a head of water of a few feet in height is required and the power derived from the wheel is practically limited only by the water supply. Wherever a dam of three feet or more in height is built there Is source of power for all pur- poses. and the building of dams for locks all the way from Greensport to Wetumpka would very much simplify and facilitate the work of utilizing the water for manufacturing purposes, or for gem the water power of the Coosa being des- troyed or paralyzed the fact is that that power would be rendered more easily available than 1t now is. And right here the following paragraph from The Birmingham Ledger Is to the point:
 Congressman Moon of Tennessee says that he has an offer of all the money needed for locks in the upper Tennessee if the government will conceed the capitalists the use of the water power rights exclusively. Why cannot the friends of the Coosa get in on that kind of proposition? There is plenty of good water power in the Coosa enough to turn all kinds of machinery.
 The fippant manner adopted by The Post in its effort to laugh or ridicule the Coosa out of court is not creditable to such a prominent newspaper as it is, and its reasonings show a want of in- formation without which it should not set itself up as referee between the friends and the enemies of project which means so much to a large section of Georgia and Alabama, as we'll as to the outside world which needs access to our mineral regions. In short, The Post may find ample field for it's ridicule very much nearer home than the Coosa River, and in which its arguments would be based on a sounder foundation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
TRYING TO BELITTLE THE coosA

For some cause or other The Washing ton Post has joined in the war on the Coosa River, and in its issue of the 18th inst. has somewhat ienghty editorial on the subject. in which it attempts to belittle the importance of that stream, as we'll as to show cause why it should not receive an appropriation. It sets out by asserting that certain Alabama pa pers have been abusing the United Engineer officer. Ceptain Judson." be- cause, as The Post says. he failed to ap- prove an appropriation for the Coosa.
 We assure The Post that it has over stated the case in this charge, So far as we have observed, none of our State con temporaries have "been abusing" Captain Judson. Certainly The Advertiser has not done so, for 1t has very high opin- ion of him as an officer and as a gentle msn, and has neither cause nor disposi- tion to abuse him. But at the same time we do not admit that his judgment is infailible or that his conclusions and deductions are unassailable. He may have been thoroughly honest in his opin-
 
 but neither is conclusive.
 The Post seems to havo formed it's opinion on the strength of communica- ton which recently appeared in this paper from an esteemed fellow. towns man, MT. c. W. Craik, whose opinions are entitled to~ consideration and who cannot be accused of writing from in- terested motives or of being biased or prejudieed against the coosa River. For example. The Post says:
 We gather from MT. Craik's published statement, in fact, that the Coosa River is a remarkably picturesque stream, run ming through a somewhat rocky and always rolling country. famous for it's rapids, it's eddies. and It's difficulties. So far no base commercial fleets have defiled its pure and sparkling bosom Even should the proposed scheme be realized and the now indefinite millions expended. the only result would be to destroy one of the finest water power agencies in the world. and to give in place thereof tortuous channel with a maximum depth of six feet. and with at least forty locks along the 500 miles between the Coosa coal fields and the sea.
 This is not exactly a fair or just state- ment of the case. So far from being the fact that mo base commercial fleets have defiled its pure and sparkling bosom" 1t is a fact that the river has always. so far as we are aware, been navigable from Rome to Greensport, and though that navlgable portion has no communication at either end with any navigable water it is of considerable commercial importance. even as it is. If continuous navigation could be secured from Rome to Wetumpka. and then on to Mobile. it would afford water trans portation for a distance of s54 miles. It is calculated that in this long distance it would drain" at least 2s.ooO square miles of territory. in much of which
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

The Providence (R. I.) Journal which has never been able to get the dark cloud From before its eyes has this to say:
 The negro problem in the Danish West 1ndies may give us trouble in the future, as Is prophesied, but our chief negro problem vii continue to be found nearer home
 We of the South will be glad to enter into a compact with our Northern brethren. We will settle our own negro problem if they will agree to settle the foreign one. Then there will be no clash and no hard feelings.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
Kansas Theatrical Criticism.

fNa'JfEdS NIIy JUUTndI,
 The presence of a Shakespearean corn- pany in Kansas reminds us of a dramatic criticism once passed by a Kansas paper MT. So-and-So played Hamlet in this town last night" said the paper. And right nov is the time to settle that Shakespeare Bacon controversy. Let the graves of both he dug up and see which of the two turned over"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

The statement is made that the House passed 229 private pension bills in 110 minutes, and if Cleveland were President he would veto them at about the same rate, if they came to him. In almost every case they were applications which had been turned down by the Commis- sioner of Pensions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

They are having a beautifully hot muni- cipal fight in Leavenworth, Kan. just now. The outs all swear that the ins are all thieves and scoundrels, and the ins swear that the outs would be thieves and scoundrels if they were in. and there you are. Would it be needing if we assume That both sides are correct?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

The Meridian Press asks us to ':just Imagine Bryan making a speech or seek Ing a vote with Is to 1 left out.'' Not being blessed with a very brilliant imagination we decline to attempt it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

In an editorial yesterday on ''The Eng dsh of Shakespeare" couplet from Eeoffrey Chaucer was credite dto Ed nund spenser--and the Mergenthaler was lot to blame, either
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
February Circuiation Record.

4. aetaiiSd stsssmsnt of the Daily and sun- day circplation Icf The Advertiser for the month cf Fsbraary, 1902. presents neurss gusrGnteed net pAids circulation is ereAter snan the claimed cireulation of all other Snornains newspabere puh1fshed in the State Of Ala bam6 connined, as evidenced by the hgures furnished by the latest edition of the American Newopaper Directory.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

. The Spring poet ventured out last Wed nesday and made this break: When the woodpecker pecks on the pole And the sapsucker sucks on the tree; When the ground-hog comes out of his
 hole
 Then the end of the coal bills l see. but there he broke down and Thursday game along and shuts him up for good.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

The Augusta Herald intimates that some of t.at city's horses should be vent to t.,e Atlanta horse show because fhey., would attract attention in any class. sven as animated hat-racks.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
sAruRDAY; MARCH ee, 1909.

when The Advertiser wants to see the eninnows jump it has only to say some ching about the immortal Joseph F. That stirs 'em up in good style.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
Practically But Not Actually.

Washington Post.
 President Roosevelt says the war in tho Philippines Is practically ended" Per hans he should have said the Schley case is practically closed"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
A INDUSTRIOUS DOCTRINE. In the debate in the Federal Senate o wednesday the following is reported:


 MT. Hcar replied that Congress was in every State of the Union as much as the State Government was. and as controli. ins power it was supreme Congress nao the rieht to use the taxing power to put out of existence and strike down any thing which 1t had a constitutional rignt to strike 1t directly.
 Would not that doctrine. if carried to it's legitimate and logical conciusion' totally obiiterate the last vestise of States rights and dc away with local government entirely? The debate was on the bill to impose . tax on oleomar- gerine, and Senator Hoar was contendAns for the right and power of Congress to tax 1t out of existence. That Congress has the same right to tax imitation but ter. solely for revenue purposes. that it has to tax whiskey Is doubtless true. but we must dissent from the theory that the general government has right to tax out of existence any industry which is carried on under State laws. In fact. we think 1t is straining a point for Con sress to demand that this imitation but ter shall be so stamped or marked as to show just what it is, though we insist that every State should have and en- force a law of that kind. We hold that the manufacture of ofeomargarine is as legitimate as the manufacture of cheese. provided no fraud Is used in it's sale. and nobody Is deceived when they purchase 1t.
 Senator Hoar seems to cling still to the old doctrine that the Federal Govern ment is absolute and supreme--a doctrine which Democrats never have and never will endorse or acduiesce in. In fact he emphatically declares in the extract we have quoted that Congress Is supreme. and no Federalist ever went further than that in his advocacy of centralization. To assert that the Congress has a right to strike down and destroy anything which 1t has a right to tax Is a monstrous as- sumption which we think Democrats will
 be slow to subscribe to. The govern ment imposes a license tax on the manu-
 facturc of liquors. and on the manu- facture of cigars and cigaretts. but ac- cording to the Hoar theory it can tax each of them out of existence. It can go still further and declare any domestic industry illegal and prohibit it. although 1t may be licensed and protected under the laws of the State. In short, the theory which declares Congress supreme also declares that the States have no rights whatever. We do not think Sena- tor Hoar a safe or wise counsellor.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

A Pennsylvania preacher greatly de- sires to find both beauty and wealth embodied in the woman he is to marry =" Some men are satisfied with either of these attractions. but this preacher isn't of that kind. for he also says in the same conversation that "a man is foolish for not marrying wealth if he has a chance" Nothing is said about love between the parties, or about the qualities or disposition of the woman, so that she have beauty and riches. This preacher has ideas, such as they are.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

The German Emperor's son, Adelbert, Is coming to this country, as naval cadet on the training ship Charlotte. Will We be able to repeat?-Mobile Register.
 Speaking of that proposed visit reminds hs of potentialities, possibilities and gVen probabilities which are not without in terest. Suppose Adelbert should marry Miss Roosevelt. if such a marriage is allowable in case of a German Prince. In that case the President of the United States might be the father-in-law of a Prince and eventually of a King. and later might be the grandfather of a king. Wouldn't that jar some of Ameri- cas- royalty worshippers to whom such Happenings are not probable?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

" A. Scott. Circulation Manaeer of the Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn, saye: The foregoing statement of me Ad- vertiser's circulation for the month Of Fecru. ary, 1902. Is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from news boys. news agents and left over copies have been deducted.
 W. A. SCOTT. Circulation Manager Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4tn Fday of March, oo2. r. W. JACKSON. fssal.i N F., Ex-O. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

There are 5000 deer in the Yellowstone National Park.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

Notable Extracts from
 the Big Dailies' Corrs- { spoEdents. =.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29
HIS LAST TRIP.
General Wood Goes to Cuba Last
 Time Officially.

Washington Special to New York Tribune
 General Wood expects to arrive in Ha- vana about noon on Saturday. He said
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-03-29

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