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The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
THEY HAVE MADE UP.

Nearly five centuries before the Christ
IAN era-almost twenty-four centuries
ago-Darius. the mighty ruler of Persia.
sent ambassadors to Athens ito demand
sarth and water as symbols of submits
sion" This was 49l years before Christ.
rs history informs us. The token of sub
mission was refused, and the Persian
ruler was furious. He sent an army into
Greece, and the next year the famous
battle OF Marathon was fought in which
khe Greeks were victorious against i'm
mensely superior numbers. That ended
khe efforts OF Darius TO conquer Greece,
and from that day to this no diplomatic
Relations have existed between the two
countries. No ambassador of Persia has
been received at Athens and none from
ATHENS has been received by the Persian
government.
So much for history. Now we are told
chat after the expiration of two dozen
centuries the two governments have
agreed to kiss and make up and will re-
sumo friendly relations! The Shah of
Persia has appointed an Ambassador to
the court of Greece and it is proposed to
celebrate his first visit to Athens with
Imposing ceremonies. To us 1t seems
childish that dissensions between two
governments should exist for such a
length of time, but we must remember
Chat
The isles of Greece. the isles of Greece,
! Where burning Sappho loved and sung
were part of the proudest country on
earth in the days of its glory. and that
all through the years and centuries OF
Ats comparative weakness II has retained
much of the spirit which once made the
Greeks invincible in war as they were
Foremost in learning. Perhaps during all
these ages Persia. which is twenty-five
Ames as large as Greece thought 1t be-
meath her dignity to make any advances,
and Greece, like a little game cock, re-
fused to ask any favors from her larger
neighbor. Ana thus. like two stubborn
children these two countries have sulked
and probably made faces at each other,
and refused to play together Great ma
tions of earth rose and fell, mighty king
doms fiourished and crumbled. wonderful
changes took place, but these babies bit
their thumbs and stuck out their lips
In defiance. They both deserved a sound
spanking.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
He Didn't Wear It.

This story is being told in Paris"
says the Westminster, concerning Il
well known public man who recently was
presented by a Soudanese potentate with
the Labaksi-Tapo Order of Merit. The
recipient, anxious to display the decora-
ton at the earliest opportunity. applied
at once to tho ministry for permission to
wear IT, While readily granting the per-
mission, the minister inquired. with the
ghost of a smile, DO you know what the
order is like? Certainly replied the
delightful applicant: 1t is a beautiful
gold ring, and hanging from it small
red enamel pipe of peace | should like
to wear it of course, you may wear it.,
but according to law you have. to wear
it as it is worn by the natives IL Africa.
And how might that be?' Why, with
the ring through the nose. The new
knight of the Labaksi-Tapo Order has
not been heard of since"
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
A BUREAU SOLDIER.

In the near hereafter, by the way, there
may be some concern in the fact that the
Rooseveltian brigadier, Tasker II. Bliss. now
the Presidents special commissioner in Ha-
vana whittier he was sent a few dayssago. Is
merely bureau soldier having never In his
life smelt powder burned by or against an
enemy. Bliss was mere major with a clerk
ship in the War Department when the Presi-
dent surprised and irritated the army by ap-
pointing him last June To the responsible rank
of brigadier- general. lifting him over the
heads of one hundred and forty-one officers
who were his seniors and nearly all Of whom
had fought in battle with Indians and in
Cuba and the Philippines. Bliss never saw or
heard gun fred and never a sword drawn
in enmity. and his extraordinary promotion
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28

Washington Nov 27.-(Special. There is
some promise that the standpatters will make
the pending session OF Congress very inter-
esting. not so much by what they do as by
what they don't do--by standing pat In sort
The signs Of the hour that the President is
not To he Suffered to have his own way as to
the trusts tariff revision and Cuban reci'
procity politically momentous enough to
keep busy all men who are publicists and all
who mere politicians Whether the Presi-
dent will fight or run away. or do both. is a
question which next week will probably answer.
Meantime there is ceaseess speculation. .
The recommendations In the annual mes
sage, which will be read in Congress on Mon
day. will be as usual more or less perfume
tory. What the President may do after Mon
day Is of living interest.
II has been well understood for some weeks,
and is still, that the President will ask Con-
gress for new legislation restraining the trusts
from carrying out the more hurtful purposes of
their combination; that he will seek some ac-
tion looking TO ultimate tariff revision. and
that he VIII again exert all his power toward
granting trade relief to Cuba. But some of
the Republican leaders in the Senate and the
Hou"c are disposed to rather poohpooh the
Presidential pretensions. you have been al
ready ir formed.
Yet Mr.. Roosevelt is hardly the man for
anybody to poohpooh. He is not a man to be
even managed. Not even Mr.. Cleveland was
more fully conscious that he alone was Presi-
ucHt IMAM ROOSEVELT IL tn6I the power OF
the office is reposed In himself only.
And otherwise there Is q striking analogy in
the of these two men, in that most OF
the leaders and all the politicians In the
Democratic Party were, openly or secretly,
Mr. Cleveland's enemies. This is precisely the
situation Of Mr.. Roosevelt relative to his own
party leaders and politicians: with very few
exceptions. they all Of them cordially hate
him. and many of them make effort to con-
ceal their hatred.
Upon this familiar fact In present politics
THE Advertiser correspondent heard but now
an old and eminent Republican express him
self with surprising frankness Being asked
for his views to the probable action Of Con-
gress upon the Presidents three special meas
ures. namely. those concerning Cuba, tariff
revision. and the trusts. this man replied
scornfuly saying they would receive scant
attention from the leaders who he declared
with unprintable expletive, cared nothing
for Mr.. Roosevelt
You know. for it is your business to know
all such facts" he continued, that Mr.. Roose-
welt has real friends amongst the active
leaders OF the Republican Party. They will
turn him down forcefuly as they did
when they refused in Congress last session to
enact his Cuban reciprocity measure for which
he pleaded somewhat passionately."
This is. Of course, not news. except as It
bears upon the immediate future. but 1t is
nevertheless of prime interest to hear II
clearly stated by a man whose political judy
ment Is usually accepted without reserve
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
WISDOM'S WAY,

The estimated cost of the proposed Nicarauga
Canal is Sl9e, 1854. o62. or SIS. 500, 900 more
than the estimated cost of completing the
Panama Canal without preliminary war and
without the proposed $40, 900 900 hold-up by
Colombia. This country now has a contract
with the Niearaguan and Costa Rican Gov
ernments entered into by President Mckinley
under the terms of which and by authority OF
Congress already given, President Roosevelt
could by noon tomorrow take the initial steps
toward constructing the Nicaragua Canal in
stead of holding to the impossible Panama
project in despite of the fact that it has never
yet been ascertained that the damming of the
Chagres River is an engineering possibility, and
the belief of experts that 1t is not possible
Basng his opinion upon the reports of United
states Army engineers sent there to make ex-
aminations. Senator Morgan believes It would
require vast treasure and twenty years OF
time to demonstrate whether the Chagres dam
is possible or impossible. Some of the most
capable engineers in the world declare that
tho completion Of the Panama Canal is hu-
manly impossible whereas, the Nicaragua
route offers not a single engineering diff
Guilty
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
Hunting Raleigh's Burial Place.

The question of Sir Walter Raleigh s
burial place has lately been revived in
England. Three churches claim both the
head and body of the gallant courtier. I'm
mediately after the execution. which took
place in Tothill Street. Westminster, on
October 49, 1913, his wife placed the head
in a red beg and rode off with it in a
mourning coach. This treasure she kept
for twenty-five years The body was
buried in st. Margarets Church, but
shortly after the execution Lady Raleigh
wrote to her brother, Sir Nicholas Carew,
asking permission to bury her husband
in his church at Beddington, where she
desired also to be buried. History is
silent from that time on. 1t Is known,
however, that her son treasured the head
as his mother had and according to The
London Daily Chronicle, tradition says
that it was finally buried with him at
West Horsley, Surrey.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
TOWARD WAR.

TITS all or" as the newsboy says Of the
street fight too-soonest ended. And now comes
the cold-blooded proposition from highest Re
publican authority that Government shall
undertake condemnation proceedings" against
the Colombian Government on the Isthmus OF
Panama. Stripped of shallow and whimsical
verbiage this means that we shall take
armed possession of the Panama route and
the necessary neutral belt" with payment
on a fair basis" to Colombia. This mad prop
osition will not startle the readers Of The
Advertiser, at any rate. for they were in good
time warned to look for it. But what will
the people at large say?
The story Of the suspicious dealings of the
French Panama Canal Company's agents, with
their co-working American rascals, whereby
between suns the French price for thing
the French did not possess was reduced from
ST. 10. 600 900 to SAC, ooo 900. and the Ameri-
can Isthmian Canal Commission, with Ad-
miral Walker at its head and former Senator
Pasco OF Florida at its tail. reversed itself
quicker than Puck proposed TO put girdle
around the globe. is too fresh in memory for
repetition at this time. Those dealings, which
unquestionably meant to prevent the
logically to this latest and most outrageously
impossible proposition for armed 'condemna-
ton proceedings"
Yet the administration OF the money power
may resort to this method of reading its title
clear to the mud in the infamous Panama
Ditch of Death" In other words. this coun-
try Is asked to 60 to war with Colombia-the
last resort of the money power to permanently
prevent postpone for fifty years the con-
struction OF a canal between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans, an enterprise demanded in
the national platforms of both the great po-
litical parties and by practically the whole
mass of the American people. Such would
cost at least SIS 600 900, and having won
our fight of 10000. 600 Americans against
1000, 900 Colombians, We should have to keep
army of 5000 men in that land of dis
ease and a very carousal of death. To main
tain such army would cost in money Sl5.-
900, 600 year. And yet these things are
proposed, in certain high Republican money
power quarters.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
BAD SIGNS AHEAD.

Mr.. Roosevelt is a very resourceful man
of a high order Of the better COURAGE but IL
there be not breakers in his course sufficiently
dangerous to try even his nerve, then there Is
a mighty troubling Of the waters that looks
dangerous
The situation in Cuba could not well be
graver. The most lamentabe Of consequences
are not only possible. but probable enough
to alarm sober Americans who have taken the
trouble to review the actual situation in that
island.
Verify. when passionately opened our
war-chest to fight Spain for something or
nothing, but which at any rate was not our
business. we opened about the worst pandora s.
box that ever fell TO the lot OF a people whose
highest destiny was in the ways of peace
But the milk has been spiiled-fortunateiy
there wasn't much else spilled-and 1t is toe
late to weep II we do not have to sub.
due free Cuba we may count ourselves still
blessed by the gods; for at the moment 1t looks
very like necessity for army OF occupation
which might at the outset be changed by hos
tile acts of the untamable Cubans themselves
into an army OF conquest. The very thought
is enough to make the nation nervous, for wal
In such circumstances would be only little less
lamentable than fraticdal strife.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28

Hamilton, Gallatin or Crawford, comes
to the relief of the situation by helping
the banks and the stock SPECTATORS.
while he ignores the weightier matters
of the peoples rights and interests.
The present phenomenal prosperity Of
the mercantile and manufacturing classes
and of the railroad corporations in the
United States. is building up great for
tunes for the owners of trusts and syndi-
Gates. who have cornered the prices Of
every article of commerce from the era
die in which the baby is rocked to the
nails that go into its coffin. when borne
to the grave. q
In the meanwhile. every article Of me-
cessity, requisite for the maintenance Of
the poor man and his family, has ad-
vanced in price since the passage Of the
Dingley act in 1897. An article recently
published in Gums Review shows that
the average increase in the market price
of all these necessities Of life will reach
| 40 per cent? since the present tariff act
| went into operation. No one knows this
fact so well as wage earners. laborers
| and salaried men.
Mr.. Blaine declared that nothing con-
/ tributed more to the election of Grover
Cleveland in 1892 than the protests Of the
shopping women, who daily witnessed
the putting up Of the prices of all kinds
| of wearing apparel and supplies for the
table and family. The Mckinley tariff
act of 1890 thus demonstrated the fallacy
| of the Republican orators and newspa-
| pers in their assertion that the foreign
| er. and not the domestice consumer, paid
the tariff taxes.
Henry Clay, the foremost advocate Of
the protective principle in the first half
| of last century, was bold to declare that
it was a temporary expedient, designed
| to foster infant Industries, and he looked
forward to a future period when protec-
| ton could justly be withdrawn, by the
gradual abatement of import duties. The
compromise tariff act Of 1892 enacted to
quiet the notification movement in South
Carolina, accordingly provided for grad
ual decrease of such duties until the
year 1912, and after that time to be fol-
ioWeu py maximum rate as low as ~
per centum.
The time has now come for a speedy
and conservative reform Of the present
tariff, which can be done on like prin-
ciple of legislation without shock or dis
turbance to the country's prosperity.
The shibboleth of the Democratic party
for the Presidential election In 1904
should be tariff reform, which shall put
in force a system Of just taxation by ex-
tirpating from our statute books the
most stupendous instrument OF corrup-
ton ever placed in the hands of public
functionaries'-that of extravagant boun-
ties to corporate trusts and wealthy man.
ufacturers who are aggregating vast for
tunes at the expense Of the common peo-
, pie.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
Mobile Newspaper Men.


The Advertiser wants to know whom
we are striking at when we remark how
surprisingly few newspaper men Mobile
our Montgomery contemporary that there
is no concealed hammer in the assertion,
it is a simple statement of fact There is
not an editor in the city who is a native
of Mobile all have been imported. Out
side the local forces of the daily papers,
there is not a competent reporter in the
city, and on each occasion that addi-
tons have been made to these forces the
compelled to seek man outside Mobile,
Only this week The Herald has had to
call or Birmingham in strengthening its
local force
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
Crops in Lauderdale.

A well-informed planter told The Times
the other day that Lauderdale farmers
were now in better financial condition
than for many years past Another good
crop year would make us proud and
saucy Florence Time.
II will be a glorious day for Alabama
when such reports can be made from all
the counties. Then we will be an indie
pendent people in fact as well as in
theory. How many other counties are in
the fine condition of Lauderdale?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
should Charge Postage.

A Limestone County youth is engaged
to a New York girl, the engagement be-
ing the result of idle pencling on an egg.
Uncle Sam should charge letter postage
on future shipments of eggs from Lime
stone County.-Huntsyille Mercury.
But how would It be when the postal
clerks come to stamp the eggs? That
might break up the business. At the
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
Might Not Be Amiss.

Now that the West has given the Dem
ocratic party the shake. it might not be
amiss for that organization to renew
some old friendships in the East.-Bir-
mingham News.
Democrats will act wisely If they turn
their faces to the East for inspiration in
the next campaign. We have had sur
plus and a surfeit of the wild political
theories of the West and may as we'll
good to the party is to be expected from
that directions.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28

1t may be true. as the papers are say
ing, that the Presidents opinions on the
race question have changed since his visit
South. but il it is true it can hardly be
called creditable to him that he did not
sooner inform himself of the conditions
which prevail down here. He could have
done so very easily. and would then
hardly have been guilty of some of the
plumbers he has made. Better late than
never.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
Churches Placed Under Ban.

Twenty-Five churches in New York most
of them in fashionable neighborhoods
have been placed under ban by the
health department The church people
have been notified that they must either
make repairs which will render the
edifces sanitary or they will be posted
az unfit for occupancy. The objections
rest mainly against systems Of ventiia-
ton and drainage. One of the curious
things about the investigation, which has
been going forward for some weeks. is
that very few churches in the poorer
quarters were found in an unsanitary
condition.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
A constant Characteristic.

Fhe negro is a constant characteristic
Of Southern Republicanism. AS color
and fragrance are to the queenly rose,
so is the negro and his varied qualities
to modern Republicanism.- Tanadega
Mountain Home.
Nevertheless, some of them are trying
earnestly and conscientiously to get rid of
the negro, and 1t will be well for their
party and the State II they succeed.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
The Pie Counter.

There will be no fight on the President,
unless it starts with strength enough to
win. Fighting the pie counter is not an
American habit.-Birmingham Ledger.
True enough, but If the fight on him
gives any promise of success, the number
of Republicans who will join in the wal
on him will surprise him. They are now
saving wood, but W. - out of hiding
il they see a chance - throw him,
but not otherwise.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28

Senator Spooner emphadcal'y denies
that he ever expressed himself in favor
of twenty-year terms for President ana
Congressman, or that he ever entertained
hand. his speech was prlnte in a promi-
nent Republican paper of his State and it
purported to be an accurate report of
what he said Doesn't it look as If some
one has a short memory or a mendacious
Aongue?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
SOME COMMENTS IN PASSING.
A Serious Case.

Mr.. Carnegie would like to give away
his indigestion, but he must die with it
on his hands.-Age-H Herald.
We know nothing of Mr.. Carnegie's
anatomical arrangements, but man with
indigestion on his hands must he very
close to bad fix. He should take some
thing for 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
A Versatile Typewriter.

Selim Haddad. Syrian educated at II e
American college at Beirut. Syria. has
perfected a typewriter for writing in
Turkish, Arabic and Persian. Though
these languages each have over 600 letters
or characters he has reduced the number
of keys to fifty-three. The machines are
being made in this country, and the in
ventor has presented samples to the Sui
tan of Turkey and Khedive of Egypt
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28

The Portland Oregonian copies from a
Yokohama paper the following, which it
declares to be a fair specimen of Siamese
newspaper work, and which may serve
as a model for some aspiring young re-
porter:
Shooting outrage o! Fearful Agony
Khoon Tong. one Of Phya Sons staff. was
on a mission to Lampoon, and on his re-
turn instantly shot dead by some mis-
creants, scound.els. o! untimely death,
o! fearful. o! Hell. All friends ex-
pressed their morne'. The cowardice dogs
is still at large six soldiers and six police
men were at once dispatched.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28

Why are we not taught in history that
a certain distinguished American single
handed and alone charged up San Juan
Juan Hill while the army stood still and
the band played "A Hot Time?'-Bes-
semer Worwmen.
That is practically taught now in some
of the newspapers, and will get into the
histories in due time. And it would be
fully as truthful as some of the other
things taught under the name of history.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28

At a banquet in New York the other
night District Attorney Jerome declared
that 1.-The time was never so ripe for the
fool-killed as now" and in the same
speech he referred to Tho mas jefferson
as 1.-The great fakir." Was Jerome invit-
ing the fix. to visit him?
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28

In saying that Baltimore more nearly
resembles Rome than any city l have
visited" Mrs. Hall Caine has either
queered herself with the Baltimoreans
or made herself solid with them, we are
not sure which.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-11-28
TILE DITCH OF DEATH.

Another source of probable danger and pos
sible disaster. which continues to cause the
President grave anxiety. is that uaholy COM
pact of evil influences antagonistic to the
universal wish Of the American people--the
Panama Canal scheme of the money power
and the Republican Senate.
Probably not before in the lengthening life
of the Republic did either branch of our Gov
eminent completely surrender to unrighteous
and unpopular influences as the Senate did In
yielding to that most manifest Of all inter-
national humbuggery and bunco-steering, the
Panama gold-brick rascality from that dear
Paris"
And the evasion and transparent elusiveness
Of it all is still kept up. though with rapidly
vanishing chances Of any longer fooling even
the frivlous. We generously informed, Of
ficialy. that Secretary Hay was unable to
report to the cabinet that any progress had
been made during the past week" Ridiculous
nonsense! That was reported to The Adver-
tiser at the beginning Of the week. as it had
been at the beginning OF the month-"no prog
ress."