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The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
LAST OF THE WAR TAX TO GO.
All of the Internal Revenue Increases
 Repealed July 1.

From Washington to Chicago Tribune.
 All that is left of the war revenue act will disappear on July 1, so far as the internal revenue department is concern ed. The revenue repeal act takes effect with the beginning of the new fiscal year. and 1t will make a good deal of difference to many lines of business. Last year Con gress repealed certain sections of the wa- revenue act. On July 1. 1901. the stamp tax on bank checks bills of lading express receipts, conveyances, telegraph messag ges. warehouse receipts and similar docu- ments was repealed.
 There was left small fraction of the stamp taxes on brokers contracts, GUS tom house papers, drafts and bills of ev- change, sleeping car tickets and d few minor items. All these are now wiped out, and we have come to the special taxes on brokers. bankers, pawnbrokers. bowling alleys, bucket shops, petroleum and sugar refneries. and all other classes which were specially taxed to pay for the war with Spain. The internal revenue laws now return practically to the place where they were before the Spanish war
 The tax on beer during the war was g per barrel. with a discount which IT. ade it about $l,s5. Last year this was reduced to $l.60 per barrel. without any di5count. Now beer goes back to the old rf.te of $1 per barrel, with a discount provided by the original internal revenue act.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
A HUMILIAT1Na CONFESSION.
The following paragraph is from Tn Leavenworth Times:

The following paragraph is from The Leavenworth Times:
 In destruction of that colored school the people of Illinois have been disgrac- ed. There was established at Eldorado q colored institution patterned after the ruskegee colored school of which Booker Washington is the head. It was for the education of the colored people. The Importance of educating the colored people is great. So great that in the South every institution looking to their betterment.is encouraged. Illinois should at least do as much for the negro as South Carolina or Mississippi.
 We can faintly imagine the inward humiliation and modification attendant The Times is one of the Northern Re publican papers which has been foremost in criticising the Southern people for alleged imstreatment of the negro, and it has twitted our people often because we have and always will recognize and preserve the racial distinction which God established between the white and the black races.
 The Advertiser had something to say few days ago about the trouble at the Eldorado colored school We were not then aware that the school had been des- troyed. but The Times speaks as if it was really done. We Agree fully with our Leavenworth contemporary that the people of Illinois have been disgraced. They have been doubly disgraced, be- cause they have not only destroyed school for no other reason than that it was a negro school, but because they, in common with other Northern people set themselves up as the friends and champions of the negro.
 We again beg to call the attention of The Times to the fact that in Alabama negroes can work for their living and can educate their children without hindrance or opposition. They can not do either in Illinois.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
ILLINOIS CRUSADE ON NEGROES
100 Driven Out of Saline County
 and Schools Broken Up.

From Chicago to New Yo<k World.
 In the Republican State of Illinois ana in the Republican County of Saline more than one hundred negroes have been driven from the county by white men. Negroes who have lived nearly all tneir lives in the county and against whose character there has never been com pIaint have been compelled to sell their homes at a sacrifice, abandon their crops, leave their jobs and seek homes else where.
 The public school for negroes taught by Miss Alice Towles has been closed, the pupils having been driven out Of the town. The Eldorado Normal and 1ndus- trial Institute, conducted along the lines of Booker T. Washingtons celebrated school at Tuskegee. has been broken up. Prof J. D. Aston and Prof. J. B. Lott it's teachers, have been compelled to leave. The African Methodist Church has been partly wrecked and it's pastor, the Rev. Peter A. Green, is without congre- gation.
 Governor Yates and Attorney General Hamlin have ordered States Attorney AL bert Summers of Saline County to proceed against the prosecutors of the negroes. Sheriff Samuel Barter has, however, re- fused to obey orders to obtain evidence against the perpetrators of the unlawful acts at Eldorado.
 The establishment of the negro normal and other schools, which drew many me- groes to the town, was the cause of the outbreak by the white people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18

States military authorities in Cuba per petrated an- intentional wrong in these transactions. The openness of them and the regularity of all the papers of record in the matter bear testimony to the prev alence of an Idea among them that their acts were in no wise reprehensible. Had they been 90 disposed, they could easily have covered up all the tracks of the transaction. Instead, 1t appears as part of the regular business iof the depsrt- ment, with nothi1g about it to indicate anything unusual in it's character. It is almost inconceivabic. however, that in- teiligent. experienced men should engage in such thing without sensing its im- propriety--if nothine -.orss
 AS The Commercial has before express ed itself. the mixing up or mooted po- litical question with an almost purely philanthropical proposition was perhaps piece of bad Judgment at the outset We are more convinced of 1t now than ever.
 As for Mir. Thurber and his United States Export Association. they can hardly expect an increased measure of the business public's confidence to attach to them as a result of this affair.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18

boarded at Peter Mars hotel. at the corner of Thirteenth Street and the ave nue. and Mir. Marr was the gardener at the White House, to which place Push ma-ta-ha often accompanied the gard ener. In this way he became intimately acquainted with President Monroe. who took deep interest in him and his peo- pie. It was old Push- ma a-ha who WAS the leading spirit in the ceding of the lands of the Choctaws to the Govern ment in 1925. This land included all that lying east of a line beginning on the Arkansas River. 100 paces east of Fort Smith and running due south to Red River This was to be the permanent boundary between the United States and the Choctaws. It was while oW this mission to Washington that he was taken i'll and died. The chiefs mission in life seems to have been to bring about con- diton of affairs which would prove help ful to his people without injuring the white man. He was not a warrior and always advised against resortiug to war
 It is doubtful if any trihc of Indians ever sent chiets or representative to Washington who was more universally respected than was Push-ma- ta-ha.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
CREAM of the SPECIALS
SPOIL PLAN FOR CUBA.
Best Sugar Hen Refuse to Follow
 Roosevelt.

From Washington to Chicago Chronicle.
 Tho Presidents friends in the Senate have definitely decided to call confer ence of Republican Senators on Tuesday or Wednesday for the purpose of discuss ing Cuban reciprocity, with the hope of arriving at a conclusion which will be sat- isfactory to everybody concerned.
 The beet sugar Senators anticipated the call by meeting at Senator Elkins's home and renewed their pledge to oppose the administrators program to the last ditch. Ten of their number were present. These had authority to speak for the ab- sent eight. They were. in doubt at first as to whether they ought to enter the party conference but decided that inas- much as its conclusions will not be bind ing upon anybody 1t would be impolitic to remain away. They will present their rebate plan to the conference and failing to secure it's adoption will deliver an ul- timatum that the administration must accept the HouJ Je bill, ,differential repealer and all. They have satisfactory ass,irr- ances fro n the Democrats that the House bill will receive the unanimous vote of the minority. and. that being the case, it's passage Is practical certainty.
 There Is hardly any reason to doub. that the beet sugar leaders are using the House bill to bluff Senator Aldrich and his lieutenants. Neither side wants 1t. The repeal of the differentiai schedule is two-edged weapon that would cut as deeply into the revenues of the beet sugar trust as the American Sugar Re- fiheries Company. Some experts say it would be fatal to the beet sugar indus try.
 The belief that nothing will come of Re- publican conferences which will occupy several days of the present week in gain ing. ground tonigh. Senator Mason. who is an insurgent in good standing. says that in his Judgment Congress will ad- journ without passing a reciprocity bill Senator Cullom. who belongs to the Pres ident's party. says that If 1t becomes apparent during the progress of the com ing conferences that an agreement cannot be reached he will urge his colleagues to join with him in advising the President to negotiate a treaty with Cuba embody- ing the 20 per cent reduction feature of the House bill and trust to the future for it's ratification by the Senate.
 'I am not in favor of pr)longinG this fight" said Senator Cullom. Tt has stir red up enough bad feeling already. If the Senate does not pass reciprocity bill that does not necessarily mean that there will not be reciprocity with Cuba. The President still has the power to negotiate a treaty with the new republic"
 The President Is watching the progress of the fight with keen interest and be- lieves that he will be successful. His suc- cess would be assured if he were not hau- dcapped by. the record of General Woods s administration of Cuba's military govern ment The Thurbor disclosures, ,combin- cd with the multiplying stories about facts of the former Governor General most of them plausible and many sup ported by documentary proof-constit ite a handicau that Is difficult to overcome.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
The Government as Lobbyist.

New York Commercial.
 !. Unfortunate in inc extreme for the cause of reciprocity with Cuba are the disclosures made by r. B. Thurber of this city before the ub-committee of the Senate Committe on Relations with Cuba. Not that in reality they affect the questions at issue in the slightest de- gree, but because they furnish opponents of the relief bill with fresh ammunition for keeping up the fight on it. and be- cause their inevitable tendency will he to discredit just cause through the instru- ments used for it's promotion.
 For department of the Federal gov ernment. even though acting as trus- tee for Cuhd, ta contribute government money in furtherance of the passage of bill before Congress, on the wisdom or praoticability of which the parties and the people are divided, is something un- precedented in this country. It was no less improper than 1t would be for officers of the Treasury Department to pay out money to help along the passage of the hill for the creation of a Department of Commerce. The act is essentially shock ing to contemplae.
 We do not believe that the United
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
THE PRESIDENT OF PRINCETON
He Was Reared Mainly at Augusta :. Georgia.

Birmingham Age-Hsrald.
 "I have read many sketches of Wood- row Wilson, the new President of Prince ton, and several of them contained mis- takes as to the history of the dis tnguished educators boyhood." remarked an old friend of Wilson's venerable fath- CT, the Rev. Dr. Joseph R. Wilson.
 "'One of the leading papers of Rich mond said that Woodrow Wilson was born and reared in Staunton, Va. It is fact that he was born in Staunton, but his parents moved from Virginia when Woodrow was only years old. and the new famous man never so much as wis., ited the State of his birth until after he was grown.
 woodrow Wilson's boyhood was spent in Augusta. Ga, where his father was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church. and it was in Augusta that he went to school-not in Atlanta. as some of the Atlanta people seem to have imagined.
 He attended Davidson College, North Carolina. an old Presbyterian institution. during one session and from there he went to Princeton for the four years course. On graduating at Princeton Will son went to the University of Virginia and took the two years law course. He practiced law In Atlanta for & little more than a year and then went to the Johns Hopkins University for a special course in history and political science, spending three years at that institution. Thus 1t is SC >n that Wilson had exceptional ad- vantage in the way of education.
 Woodrow Wilson's father is, still liv- ing and m akes his home with his son. The Rev. Dr. Francis Patton's recent res ignation as President of Princeton, was surprise to the educational world. The reason given at the time was that Dr. Patton wished to devote all his energy to literary worK. According to some of the New York papers. the real reason was friction with some of the trustees. Ex-President of the United States Grover Cleveland, who is a trustee of the uni versty WAS asked be Dr. Patton's successor out promptly declined"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 1s, 1902.
pounIr GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- tain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of newspaperdom wkich comes under its notice. and one of these signs is the mystic symbol t01 denotng .sgoIden." which stands for high quality. and is thus explained:
 'Advertisers value this paper more for the class and quality of it's circulation than for the mere number of copies printed''
 Such papers are credited with a single sym bof; but there is higher grade. according to this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL t00l to describe adequately their standing.
 The Advertiser. has been accorded this double golden symbol 1901 and Is the only paper % distinguished in this section of the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
A GOOD MOVEMENT.

The Advertiser acknowledges with pleasure the receipt of an invitation to be present in Pell City. St. Clair County. on July 4th. on an interesting occasion. The main attraction will be the laying of the cornerstone of the new court house in that progressive and growing little town, but a more important object. in many respects. Is also on the program. A circular, signed by county and muni- cipal officials and other prominent citi- gems, and addressed to the people of St. Clair County, says:
 We wish to call the special attention of the people of St. Clair County to the fact that. if we will get together-all of us who have children to educate-in a harmonious mass meeting. and counsel as to the ways and means to help our selves in an educational way, we cen, when we have done all that we are able to do, call on the Educational Board of New York. and they will aid us in a substantial way This board has in hand. and at its command. millions of dollars which 1t proposes to expend in assisting the people in the rural dis trfcts to educate their children.
 That is a commendable movement and to say that 1t has the hearty approval of The Advertiser Is expressing 1t mildly. The old proverb that "God helps those who help themselves is peculiarly ap- plicabIe to educational matters. The State of Alabama Is doing all it can to educate the children and outside institu- tions are giving their aid in many ways. We have no doubt that the Educational Board with which Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy Is connected, will be ready to come to the assistance of the people of Pell City when the proper time comes. That time will be when the citizens who are most interested have shown not only a disposition, but determination to help themselves. Their location at the inter- section of two important railroads, in a beautiful and salubriods region is an enviable place for good schools and the Advertiser commends their determination and wishes 1t all the success such good object deserves.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
OFFICIAL LEAKS.
Extensive Traffic Carried on in
 Secrets of the Government.

Secrets of the Government. New York Special to New Orleans Times
 Democrat.
 A Herald Washington special says: They need a plumber in the War De- partment to stop some of the leaks up there." remarked Senator Elkins today while discussing the probable effect of the Dobson-Thurber-W Wood Havemeyer disclosures.
 ? Senator Elklns has had experience as Secretary of War. and he knows how easily important information may be ab- stracted from the official records under certain conditions. There is so much red tape in the executive departments, re- quirins documents and communications to pass through so many different hands that 1t is surprising that there are not more leaks in the transaction of official business
 It is no idle fancy to state that the ex- elusive information Is sometimes 'on sale" in the various branches of the gov ernment service.
 In recent years the practice has grown up by which employees of the govern ment, and persons occupying high posi- tions in the public service, decline to inn part any exclusive information for pub iica.ion without being compensated, ac- cording to the rank of the official or the news market value of the material sup piled. Cabinet officers. Senators. Repre- sentatives, United States Judges, army and navy officers, and even subordinate officials. who, a few years ago, were ready and anxious to impart information to the public on current topics. hesitate to be interviewed now without an ''un- derstanding'' as to what tHe ''considera- tion will be-
 
 tent that frequently the most confidential communications between public officials are secretly hawked about in localities where 1t is regarded as most valuable with fancy prices attached. In some of the departments the desire to increase an otherwise limited income is so great that State or official secrets" are of ten prematurely disclosed, often to the embarrassment of the administration.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
MIR. CLEVELAND
And Failure of His Party to Sup
 port Him.

Louisville Evening Post.
 Mir. Cleveland was nominated in 1892 largely because the people believed that Hill and Tammany Hall had united to destroy him. He was elected because the people belev d he represented the Dmoc- racy of Jcffrson and Jackson and Tildcn. as something distinct from the Democ- racy of Tammany, Hill and Watterson
 He came into power at most critical period of our history. Grave tasks time had imposed on the Democratic Party. and great opportunities time had brought to that organization.
 Had the Democrats of the House and Senate supported the President with firm ness and promptness in his fiscal policy the party would. before lS9S. have placed the government ol q gold basis. have re- formed the tariff given the manufactur- CTS free raw material, given labor abund- ant employment. and opened the era of prosperity which was postponed until ISgn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
TOT AnLE EXTRACTS FHol1 THE BIG DAILlES OohnS
 sPoNDENTs x S S

So long as the ranking officials of the government feel that they are at liberty to trade upon the information that comes to them through official channels the su- bordinates, in many instances, assume that they have the right to enjoy smi- lar privilege. This selling or iniorma- ton by public officers has grown to such magnitude that instances might be cited where high officials, when under contract to furnish signed articles, have employed outsiders to write the story and divided the spoils.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
poubled in Three Years.

E Tint the circulation of The Adve.d nv oteadIly climbing upward Is demohs..s a.a.nt fhs 0Gures given in the appended tasnntn covering the actual daily issue Tor the H
 of 11ay. just passed. .... these z Etum comparative point or For Gwurns furnish much food for thousnt; .,,s 5nstancs. the average daily circulanon @ .Ssrass G9n{Sys hss been I4,643. The actual ne. avsrase gain of this May over last assso 2.00I; the Sunday average gain s in 4qsai to an increase of about one-thiro "
 A comparison of this May with May Iesy, fhaf period the daily average increase nae been 6,752: the Sunday average increase; oz ao 376 The percentages are reiau.ey ,,s.rs daily circulation has simply doubled III .ne past three years-and the end is not yet
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18

Amidst all the lavishness and waste ex- hibited by the present Congress we fail to find any appropriation for the benefit of our marches of Guam. Is 1t possible that this gem of the salted seas is to be passed by with silent contempt? Is there no Congressman to introduce measure to build a postoffice, court house or a caiaboose in or on Guam? Such neglect of our fairest possession is not 10 be endured.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
Tablet to George Peabody.

Peabody, Mass, June T.-In honor of the memory of the great philanthropist. George Peabody. of London and Amer lea, a tablet of unveiled by the Peabody Historical Society today in front of the house here in which MT. Peabody was born. Rev. George A. Hall of this town delivered the principal addres sand J. H. Morse of Nashville, Tenn, also spoke.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18

Did MT. Choate play sort of gum game on Edward by taking the Queen in to dinner in advance of the King, or was he showing off the American spirit of Independence and dcference to women? Whichever it was we've no doubt that American.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18

The question of J. P. Morgan's death has two interesting sides to 1t. Many are asking what would happen if he should die. and others are wondering what is likely to happen if he doesn't die, Meanwhile no one asks him what he thinks will happen to him if he dies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18

As showing the extremes to which poli- tical toadyism will sometimes lead an apparently sensible man it is told that the Lieutenant Governor of Missouri re- gently introduced MT Bryan to an audi ence as "a second Christ" Aside from its irreverence sensible people will easily discover its inappropriatness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18
A GREAT INDIAN
Who Was Always a Friend of the Whites.

Joseph Ohl, in Atlanta Constitution. Whenever Choctaw or Chickasaw ln- dians visit Washington it Is their cus- tom to go out to Congressional Ceme- tery to see the grave and monument of P;.sh-m -ta Ina. the Choctaw chief, who died in this city on the 2lst day of De- cember, 1924, while he was here looking after the interests of his people. The monument to the old Indian chief is in the northwestern section of the cemetery in an elevated position, and is one of the rows of cenotaphs erected to Congressman and very near the marble monument of ex-President Query Push ma-ta- has monument is nf the same sands tone material used in the cenotaph3. ard it was erected by the brother chiefs who were visiting Washington at tine same time On the south side of the shaft is the following Inscription:
 Push-ma-ta-ha WIS warrior
 Of great distinction.
 He was wise in council;
 Eloquent in an extraordinary degree; and on all occasions and under all circumstances, the
 white mans friend. On the east side:
 Push-ma- -ta-ha. a Choctaw chief,
 Lies here. This monument to his memory Is erected by his brother chiefs who were associated with him in delegation from their nation in the year 1924, to the Gen eral Government of the United States. On the west side:
 Push ha- tn Ina. a Choctaw chief.
 He died in Washington on
 December 24, 1924.
 OF THE GROUP,
 In the Sixtieth year of
 his age. Among his last
 words were the following: When I am gone let the big guns
 be fired over me.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-06-18

The old chiefs wishes were carried out. for when he was laid to rest Secre- tary of War John c. Calhoun, who knew and esteemed him. had the caanons hre salutes. Push-ma -ta-ha had many friends among the officials of the Vov- ernment. for he had always shown hlm- self the friend of the white man. He