The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-09-02
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
 MATTERS OF THE WORLD

parties, as well as all citizens of the American republic. Immediately after MT. Mckinley succumbed to the wound inflicted by Czolgoz the Mckinley Memo rial association of Toledo and Lucas coun- ty was formed. Subscriptions came in rapidly and the s15,OOO necessary to erect a suitable memorial was soon collected. The statue, which will be colossal in size. will be set up in the court house park at Toledo. It Is expected that President Roosevelt and other distinguished Ameri- cans will be present at the dedicatory ceremonies. After all it seems that s15,- 600 is very small sum to spend on a monument to one of our martyred presi- dents. Personally, MT. Mckinley was in every way worthy of such honor even though he had not been the nations chief executive. It is hinted that if William Mckinley had not been assassinated he would not live so brightly in the memo- ries of the public, nor would his deeds be lauded so highly. It Is true that his tragic death did much to awaken the love of the American people, sbut even were this not taken into consideration i. cannot be denied that he was a man of sterling qualities who upheld the dignity of the nation in every act.
 Now and then we see a short dispatch in the papers telling Of some new field of usefulness discovered by Miss Helen Gould At present she is learning to cook and is entering with spirit into the cul- mary tangles that daily confront the class of poor girls at her home at Irving n-on-the-Hudson, where she employs three professional chefs from New York to give them lessons in the useful art Miss Gould is. at least one member of the wealthy class who commands the re- spect and sincere admiration of the Amer ican people. Her charity and her noble efforts to alleviate the hard lot of people less fortunate than herself have made her name reverenced in thousands of homes over the land. If the rich would profit by her example this country would indeed be remarkable for the generosity of its wealthy citizens to the poor
 
 With the first hint of approaching win- ter pleasure seekers are beginning to leave the mountain and seashore for the city. The past season has been an unusually gay one in many respects and has been marked by several affairs of special im- portance to- swelldom as well as to other classes of people. First there were the yacht races and the visit of Sir Thomas Lipton. His presence affording oppcr tunites for metropolitan society to spend large sums in furnishing him entertain ment, the races were preceded by season of unusual gaiety In spite of the exodus from Newport everybody seems to have had a very good time during the summer month. The race track also has been the scene of several big events. New stars have developed and records have been smashed with startling regularity The great Futurity was recently pulled of at Sheepshead Bay. Before that we had the Brooklyn handicap. the American derby and several other races of lesser import ance. Then again Messrs. Corbett and Jeffries were kind enough to pummel each other for the delight of the sporting fra ternity and the surreptitious pleasure of more upright persons who would not dsre to be seen about the ring but neverthe- less gloated over the newspaper reports 
 son has been quite lively. Now if Profes- sor Langley will only make his sail be- fore the frost falls our satisfaction will be complete.
 It is indeed unfortunate that more cases of alleged peonage have cropped out in Alabama The northern papers are al- ready beginning to print exaggerated ac- counts of sufferings endured by white family who claim that they have been held in illegal serfdom for debt of $46. The situation is relieved by the fact that the lates cases do not concern the ne- groes and that feature of the discussion will be eliminated This time the papers merely content themselves with publish ing the news dispatch and make no com ment. If the white people want to abuse each other, why it Is all right but when the colored brother is concerned then the heavy guns of editorial artillery begin to belch fire. P. c.