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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

burn than usual more in fact at the lat. ter than ever known on its opening day. The same report comes from the State district schools and all the local schools that have opened for the coming scholas- tic year.
 There are many disadvantages connect ed with the schools in sparsely settled communities which will in time be reine- died, and the sooner the better. There are bills now pending in the Legislature to do away with the arbitrary township lines and have the schools according to the most convenient nelghb0hood lines. It may so happen that school in town ship would not be attended by dozen children, whereas. if located differently, there might be from fifty to seventy-five accommodated. This is matter of ad- justment that could be worked out by trustees or school superintsndents. There is great awakening all along educational lines and Alabama proposes to get to the head of the procession.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Booker washington's school at Tuskegee. or the school of Professor Paterson in
 montgomery. The appropriations in each case are but S.5oo, and 1t is not nti-Rooseveltism they will be cut on.
 The times are full of racial nonsense. It may be harmless, but still Is hair Drained. oJhn Temple Graves has re- gently exploited a scheme that promises to boom his own fortunes at any rate, and that would if carried into operation put the ship trust and even the ship building trust on their respective feet. He proposes to carry away to some land all the negroes in the South. It would be necessary to catch the negroes before transporting them, and Mir. Graves has not yet selected a land to place them in. Details do not work in well in his hot-air scheme.
 Senator Morgan ravors deportation. but he comes town to. actualities. He pro- poses to send them to the Philippines but does not propose to insult the negroes or the Filipinos, but his plan has the advantage of definiteness over any thing that MT. Graves has proposed. Both would leave the South without labor: but both no doubt hope substitutes would flow in to fill al gaps.
 But all this is mere talk. The negro Is here to stay, and all schemes or whole sale deportation are Idle dreams. There Is no fact better established than that become-what he will do fer himself--what we can do for and with him-are each and all unknown quantities or problems, and no man can foresee the end They are problems that must be left to genera tions. and all that each generation can do Is to contribute its part to their solu- ton. No one--not even John Temple Graves-can decipher the outcome and each generation as it comes along must take up the problem and do its part. We are doing our part now, and that is all we can do Dreams of the Graves sort may be harmless--they certainly are not haI
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Turkish soldiers retire to the shelter of | their barracks and the Government passes into the swift hands of the Vu- | treshna Organizatsia.
 | Only in the few populous cities. and when in the company of comrades, does the Turk in Macedonia dare to stir abroad at night The committees bands sweep quickly across country, stealing their way. They hold meetings In the purely Christian villages, calling out the peasants to drill. The members of the band lend their rifles to the villagers, in- structing them how to handle them, | teaching them the rudiments of tactics l teaching them above all that God is not on the side of the biggest battalions Before dawn one more village has been won to the revolution. A supply of arms | is sent it as soon as the committee has installed a properly constituted local | branch.
 The band passes to another village. and to third. travelling and drilling by night hiding on the hills by day. The Sultan would turn pale at sight of the newest repeating rifles, ammunition and dynamite that repOse under the hay stacks and in the roots of the pine trees | or the stupidest and most submissive dog g-of-a- Christian village in Mace donia. The total number of rifles Is es- timated at 45000 modern weapons, all smuggled within the last seven years; all destined to reappear from their hid Ing places when the signal is given The principal object in the existence of the | Macedonian committee has been to arm the defenseless Christians; it's second ob- ject to perfect standing army of insur- gents.
 The standing army of the Vutreshna Organizatsia numbers some 10000 insur- gents, in companies of about 100, each band under its voyvo l. What this rebel army does not know of war, the Turk. at least, cannot teach. Every lesson of the Polish revolution of 1863. not to men
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
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SEPTEMBER 1a, 1903
Al EkMxNE rHREArENEp.

That is doleful news that comes from Massachusetts to the effect that the cod fish crop is short and that there is pros- pective famine in this necessary concomi- tant of New England existence. From the days of Fisher Ames. at least. we have known that the catching of cod fish is a momeptous business" to the peo- pie of that section, and we know of noth- ing more likely to bring conservation to "a shortage in the codfish supply. unless, maybe. there should be failure of the bean crop. The two calamities. if they should come at once, would be the end of all things in Boston.
 We have not learned the reasons for the shortage. Whether the fish are decreas- ing in numbers. whether the natural sup ply is too small for the demand, whether the fish are tired of being caught and served for the delectation of epicures and have sought other pastures, or what the trouble is we are not apprised, but we script for the statement that the supply coming in is not more than one-fourth the ordinary quantity
 It is true that. for the ordinary human this apprehended famine is not such a terrible thing. Genuine codfish balls" can still be made of salmon, surgeons. catfish and other things, but we appre- bend that none of these substitutes can fool the palate of the Bostonian. He must have the real thing or nothing. and Q short supply will cut figure in his eat ing enjoyment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
HONEST ELECTIONS.

When man casts his vote he expects
 it to come out of the ballot box and to be
 recorded on the poll lists exactly as he cast 1t. If any one dares to tamper with | 1t and to make 1t count in different way
 from that intended. he Is robbing citi- zen of one of h.s most precious rights
 and term in the penitentiary should be
 the punishment for such an outrage and
 wrong. In the olden days the stealing
 of votes and manipulating of ballots was
 unhea:d of and the same conditions
 should prevail all over the land.
 We have not read carefully the bills psnding in the Legislature regulating cleo tions. registration, etc.. and therefore, do not care to advocate any of them in ex tenso. The main object of any law on the subject should be to secure the honest exp: ession of the voters wishes. and to see that his wish is carried out to the letter. The primary elections, when any are held, should have thrown around them every safeguard of the general elec- tion law. and every violator of its terms and provisions should be severely pun ished. There Is no safety for the State be treated with no more consideration than any other law breaker.
 Until 1878 every ballot that was cast was numbered. the number on the ballot corresponding with that on the poll list. For reasons not necessary to enumerate 1z~ SLx F.s~ ,- stricken out and 1t has never been re- stored. The time has come when the old law should be re-enacted, otherwise there can be no fair contest of any election, no matter how hasrantly corrupt it may be. The ballot box suffer will be in his glory unless the ballots are numbered. for it will be impossible to tel whether the votes were counted as cast.
 There Is no danger of any other than white rule in Alabama and white men will not be satisfied if they believe they have been deprived of their rights by ballot box manipulation. Failure to order the numbering of ballots will simply be the stirring up of trouble for the future.
 The secrecy of the ballot box can be pre-. served under the numbering system by penalties to be inflicted upon election managers for examining ticket when 1t is counted in order to ascertain how a particular man may have voted. It was never intended by the makers of the new Constitution that the provision as to se- cret ballots should be used to cover up punishment for those who would seek to find out how a man voted, would preserve the secret ballot, until such time. as in an election contest for instance, 1t became necessary to remove it..
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
Davi6 Bennett Hill at Work.

PittSburg Post.
 Ex-Governor Hill took an active part in
 the meeting of the Democratic State Com nittee of New York the other day. Il
 adopted plans, on his suggestion, for a thorough, uniform anu efficient organiza- ton of the party in the State, and also adopted a declaration that the Demo- cratic nomination for United States Sena-
 tor shall hereafter be made by State conventions, instead of by legislative caucuses. The county committees, as part of the State organization. were en- iarged to give fuller representation and secure more efficient work The State committee nomine ted Dennis OBrien ot Watertown, for judge of the Court of Appeals, and will hold no State conven- ton this fall
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
Cotton Crop Cut Of.

OIdyIU NbCOTU.
 Just as the dreary prospect of a heavy falling off in the yield of cotton looms before us we are confronted With a decided decline in prices. Some of us thought that the twelve and a half cent rates were too good to last, and. sure enough. the price now fingers near the ten cent figure.
 If the cotton farms in this section are fair index of the crop at large the price might well anchor at fifteen cents per pound and stay there. The stalks on the old land look as if they had been scorched by fire. the leaves are shriveled, and the splendid promise of the young fruit has departed The hope of top crop is gone.
 We have fair corn crop and that is a blessing beyond estimate. When, oh! when will our people diversity their crops and grow independent of the tyranny of cotton?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
Army Changes.

San Francisco. Sept. 9.-Lieutenant Colonel R. D. Potts has been relieved as inspector general, department of Cali fornia, and goes to Charleston. s. C., to take command of the artillery district at Charleston. Upon his return from the Philippine Islands he was promoted to a lieutenant colonelcy which took him out of the inspector general department. Major Ira McNutt, ordnance department, has arrived from Governors Island. N. Y., and reported for duty as ordnance officer for the department of California. He will take command of the Benicia arsenal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

The first man to lay his hand on Jeffer- son Davis when he was captured has just died in Nebraska. That is, he was the first man as long~as he was alive. Now that he is dead and out of the way there will be other first men" to take his place and to claim whatever honor there can be obtained from the transaction. Re- member. also. that we haven't heard from Atlanta yet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
Needed a Tip.
CentreVille Press.

CentreVIIIe Press.
 If Roosevelt had been given the tip. he would no doubt have sneaked from his residence, and, single-handed and alone. captured the crank who was found loiter- ing around his home last week. That IS the kind of notoriety that the President likes. He may, if he will be real good, get a job as secret agent under the next Democratic President, which the people propose to elect next year. He could come South, then, and help work up peon- age cases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

There is a bill before the House. No. TT, which seeks to correct an evil of con- siderable magnitude. It is very often the case that men buy large stocks of goods on credit and sell them out in lump to some favored purchaser at a great sacri- flee. The money is put in the pocket of the man who originally bought the goods and the creditors can whistle for what is due them. It would appear to reasonable peopel that man who would buy and sell property on such conditions intended to perpetrate a fraud and there ought to be some way of circumventing such transac lions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
Hot Time.

Atlanta Journal.
 Governor Nash of Ohio has been over come by heat. Somebody ought to stop Tom Johnson in his red hot campaign if it is going to affect the other politicians like that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

The Cullman Democrat complains that we have copied some of its editorial arti- cles and credited them to The Greensboro Record. We shall have to give our cred papers mixed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

In accordance with the requirements of the Constitution the Legislature is con- sidering bills looking to the codification of the laws. As the work has to be ap- proved by the Legislature and there is no meeting of that body again until January. 1e07 1t will be seen that it is necessary for the work to be ordered now, or the present code will have to be operative un- til 1911. A bill has passed the Senate and is now before the Judiciary Committee of the House. It is modelled on similar laws of the past with one notable and peculiar exception. Since the first code was adopt ed until the present the work of codifica- tion has been done by appointees of the Governor. The pending bill proposes that the codifer be elected by the Legislature. Why, at this late date, make such a change and run the risk of selecting after a heated campaign a man who, while pos sessing amiable and genial qualities may not possess the kind of ability needed in making a code of laws for Alabama?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
He Can't Tell.
Mobile Register

MOb1Ie ReBlSteT.
 Congressman Bankhead is reported by The Tuscaloosa Times-Gazette as saying that Cleveland has no chance at all. :" MT. Bankhead can tell us, perhaps, who has a peter chance. May be, in his opin- ion, no one has a chance at all.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

From every direction comes the good news of large attendance upon the State and local educational institutions. There are more students at the University in Tuscaloosa and the Polytechnic at AG-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

We uon't know how he arrives at his conclusions but the Partisan doctor who claims that bald heads and toothache go roots of the teeth reach up to the scalp. Sometimes they appear to do 1t when a dentist gets busy with them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Governors are long-lived set in Maine. there being now one in office and seven ex-Governors. In two or three years if they keep on living they can start base ball team of their own.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

A newspaper paragrapher informs us that the mosquito is too much for Sci ence.'' That wouldn't worry us If it were not for the knowledge that he's too much for the rest of us.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

The Manchester (N. H.) Union pithily observes that the postoffice investigation, the hustle and the Belgian hare have all disappeared together.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
A New Scheme.
Opp Harvestel

Opp Harvester.
 An Iowa editor has invented a new scheme by which to collect delinquent subscriptions. He Is arranging to sell at public auction his delinquents and We presume that if he is wise he is also ar ranging to abscond.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Could Cleveland beat Bryan in Mont- gomcry?" asks The Chattanooga News. We'll. If the court knows herself and she thinks she do, he could.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
No Difficulty.

AnnfstOn Star.
 Ex-Minister Wu Is going to write a book. He should have no difficulty in getting it bound-there are so many Chi nese. highbinders.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
AUGUST, 1903.

w. A. Scott, Circulation Manager of. The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn, says: The foregoing statement of The Ad- eertfsers daily circulation for the month of August. 1903. is true and correct and com piled after all returns from newsboys, news agents and leftover copies have been deducted.
 w. A. SCOTT, Circulation Mgr. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 3rd day of September. 1903
 F. W. JACKSON. lScall N P, Ex-O. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

The esteemed Age-Herald has fingered 1t out that it is to be German or Parker. with the former one or two laps ahead. The All forgets Willie Hearst.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Docs there ever come into your life a feeling of emptiness of soul?" asks The Bainbridge Argus. You bet-also of head and stomach
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
Linton Not Defeated.
Birmingham Ledger

Birmingham Ledger. Was Lfton defeated2 Not bit of it.
 He did not plan the boat, did not build 1t, did not sail it. The designer. the build.
 CT and the sailors were all defeated, but not the owner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
He is Here to Stay.

Birmingham Age-Hera.d.
 It is scarcely probable that any one will pay much heed to Mir Woods bill to cut of the small appropriations made to
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Why do the papers persist in calling Langleys alleged airship "a buzzard?" Buzzards can fly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Isn't Hanna well enough to butt into the game or Is he going to let Johnson inlay a lone hand?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Some of the organs have fixed it up that the President had narrow escape when that crazy man was caught some days ago. They tell us with some detail that the alleged assasslon was within zoo feet of the President and had loaded revolver. The chances are that if he had fired he would not have hit anything but the atmosphere, but It Is well that he was apprehended in time. Even If he had failed to shoot the President he mighs have killed some one else. Crazy men and loaded pistols do not form safe com bination.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

John D. Rockefeller has just bought six farms at Eastview, westchester County, N. r., adjoining his Pocantico Hills estate, giv- ing him 5000 acres in all.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
scL1D AS A ROCK.

The following circulation statement of The Advertiser for the month Of August, 1903. shows that It's product is just staple su- gar, cotton or any other legitimate article that merchant or manufacturer are compelled. to aepend upon. Like Gibraltar. 1t is nrm and here to stay.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Mrs. Greene-Now tell me truly do you believe 1t Is any benefit to punish chill dren?
 agine how much better l feel after I've given Tom and Mabel a good trouncing. San Francisco Wasp.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

So you have married the only girl in the world?'
 Yes" replied MT. N. Wed. ''I wanted of trouble Nashville American.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

TT suppose" said the benevolent visitor to the bright-locking patient, that there are many people in this asylum who re- ally ought not to be here"
 Well. there may be a few, but think of the crowds outside who ought to be here with you and me. e."-Chicago Record Herald
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

City Subscriptions should be paid to the fol owing authorized collectors only: J. H.. But 70. City Circulator: 2. l.. Eason, J. C.: Jones Gs N Ricbbourg. M. W. Britt, IT,. collectors and at the Counting room.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
Begs to Be Excused.
Mobile Herald.

Mobile Herald. John Temple Graves says a whole State should be assigned to the negroes. Ala
 bama begs to be excused from the avail able list.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
HE IS REsPoNs1RLE.

Ine Kansas Clty Journal mas nal1- column editorial deprecating any attempt to connect Secretary Hitchcock with the many gross frauds which have been per- petrated in Indian Territory. and in the same issue of the paper this paragraph appears:
 If Secretary Hitchcock really discovered the Indian Territory frauds last May, why is now September. The mere discovery of frauds doesn't remedy them.
 The Journal is not at all consistent. So far as we know there has been no charge that the Secretary of the Interior has been an interested party to the shameful proceedings in the Territory, or that he has received any of the swag, or has been or is to De pecuniarily benefited by the acts of the boodlers and grafters who robbing the Indians. While this is ad- mitted the paragraph quoted shows that even the Republican Journal does not hold him guiltless of at least grave dere- fiction in the conduct of his office. Some. at least, of these charges were made while
 
 to understand why there has been so much delay in the investigation. Then, too. The Journal has this further signifi- cant criticism:
 MT. Hitchcock ought not to treat his suspected employees with too much tender consideration. He should not allow them to handle moneys, properties and keep on rendering decisions until the doors oi the penitentiary close upon them or they are forced out of office. Where he has not the power Of removal, as in the case Of the Dawes Commission, ne should be prompt 10 recommend to his chief the suspension and, in some cases. perhaps, the arrest during investigation or all members against whom the proof Of ve- nality is strong and the presumption great.
 Does 1t not at least look as though the Secretary is trying to shield the res eals :? Instead of following Grants advice, Let no guilty man escape" the Secretary seems to have as his motto, Let no off cial be punished" That may be good Republican politics but 1t is not honesty and it is not justice to those who are be- ing piundered without the power to help themselves. The guilty parties should not only be removed and thus prevented from continuing their vilialnies. but they should be punished for what they have done. It may be possible for the admins irat on and its Secretary to continue their nest hiding tactics but there ought to be enough justice and fairness ln the next Congress. or in the present one at its ta hn lnt aS ,bi nefarious business and punish the guilty.
 Some of the organs have fixed it up that the President had a narrow escape when that crazy man was caught some days ago. They tell us with some detail that the alleged assasslon was within I0(
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
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A Persnnal Matter.

A Personal Matter. Birmingham News.
 Secretary Hitchcock's idea that rascal ity in his department is personal mat te. will not receive any flattering testimQ- nials from the public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

Eight quarts of green apples usually make more than one peck of trouble.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12
JUST FOR FUN.

He boasts that he is a confirmed bach elor.''
 Perhaps he makes a virtue of neces- sity"
 Perhaps and yet necessity may be Its own reward Brooklyn Life.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-12

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