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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
Only a Few.
Nashville Amaricun

Nashville American.
 The Boston Transcript, a Republican paper, says In reference to the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment: "The Demo- crats of the South are, in public, always terribly worked up lest dark-skinned peo- pie at a distance from the United States shall not be accorded the status of citi- zens of this country. The same men who will not be comforted because the Fiji pino and Porto Rican cannot vote for the President of the United States. are de- termined that the colored voters of the South shall so far as possible. be pre- vented from casting their ballots for choice of electors"
 Is there any reason why The Tran script should not be fair? Instead of say ing the Democrats of the South" it should say a few Democrats in the South, etc. Very few Southern Democrats have indulged in tears and prayer in behalf of 'darkskinned people at a distance" :" and not many have agitated the inof- fensive air with demands that the Fili- pino and the Porto Rican shal have the United States. The Southerner who is honest and frank is apt to be consistent in this matter He is not clamoring for the ballot for the ''dark-skinned' man simply because the American flag floats over him, and he is not clamoring for the flag to come down anywhere because this privilege Is withheld. The Boston Tran script is at liberty to criticise the Dem ocrats of the South for their views, but it has no right to islander them, and this We are persuaded it would not intention ally do. It miSrepreSents them, however in the above agraDh,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
No Race Suicide in the South.

New Orleans Times Democrat
 Superintendent Merriam of the Census
 Bureau, in reviewing, some days ago, the most important facts brought out by the recent census. noted that for the first time the South had actually increased faster approximately in population than the North. This is all the more extraor- dinary when 1t is considered that the de- cade was one of very large immigration,
 which brought more than five million for. tenths settled in the North. In spite of this large addition to .te population of that section ny immigration from abroad, we passed 1t in growth, especially the Southwest, where the increase was larg- est. This Is due partly, to the fact that for the first time In history the interstate movemen m, of population was favorable to crossed Mason and Dixon's line than Northerners. Thousands of persons. see- ing greater opportunities offered them in the newly opened lands of the West, dis satisfied with slavery or hopeless during the reconstruction period, moved to the West and Northwest. When the Civil
 lions of Southerners lost to this section by emigration.
 Recently, however the tide of popula-
 ton has turned in the opposite direction. The North IS overcrowded; the South of | fers the young man better opportunities | of improving his condition and thousands
 of emigrants from the Middle and Vest ern States have poured into Florida, Ala | bama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas | The balance of Interstate immigration is ! decidedly in our favor for the first time
 and likely 10 increase with years The
 railroads which have been working so
 earnestly for the development of this sec | tion will be grievously disappointed if | Louisiana and Texas do not get 100 900 Western immigrasts this year.
 | It might be further noted that the birth l rate in the North, which shows the prev | alence of race suicide ther, includes
 the entire population; and that if the fig
 ures were Limited to the natives only they
 would make a far worse showing. The | birth rate among foreigners in New Eng
 land is normal or above the normal; | among the natives 1t Is so much below the | death rate that 1t will not take many gen.
 erations. unless some remedy Is found for | race suicide, before the Puritan race 1 which built up that section and played so | prominent a part in our history Is eXtenct. 1 The census figures show that the growth | of population in the North is due to i'm 1 m g. ation and the large families that the | immigrants boast of; whereas, the south l is growing naturally-and more rapidly by
 natural increase of popuIation, by the | excess of births over deaths. retaining, 1 therefore q much larger proportion Of it's
 population of the oig nal Ameican stock. | All the indications are that these con l ditions will be even more marked during | the present decade and that the n,xt i census will show a far more rapid growth 1 Tor the South than for the rest of the | country.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
rHF ANrr-aoYcorr nILL.

The anti-boycott bill has passed the
 House of Representatives by a vote of two to one. and it is now before the Sem ate. It ought to go through that body promptly and just as decisiyciy.
 It is one of the most meritorious meas ures this Legislature has had before It. Nothing will do more to preserve law and order in Alabama in the critical period that is certainly ahead. be 1t ever so re- mote. The scenes that have been en- acted all over the North and West this summer prove this. The boycott Is always the most conspicuous feature of strikes. the one that leads to disorder. South in the past year have been ex- amples that are a solemn warning. The street-car strike in the City of Richmond coEs the State Treasury of Virginia about SsCO,0O0 to say nothing of it's cost to the City of Richmond. to the business in- terest concerned. and Its reckoning In blood. The boycott as a weapon in the hand of strikers was the principal cause of that fearful public expense.
 
 It Is true that 1t Is conditions in Jefrer- son which have put this anti-boycott bill to the front. but these conditions are liable to be duplicated in Mobile. Mont- gomery. Selma. Annis;on or Decatur at any time. Prevention is better ihan cure. The boycott evil in Jefferson County as described by Representative Benners and not disproved by any one. Is fearful, and it is sure to spread. if not nipped In the bud.
 As that gentleman so forcibly said in his speech, this bill hurts no man who attends to his own business. It aims only at those who attempt to interfere with other peoples business It is a broad bill, affecting employers as we'll as em- ployes. No friend of the laboring man can successfully defend the boycott. and it has hurt the cause of labor more than an other method 1t has used.
 By all means, let the bill pass. It is for the good of all Alabama. It will not merely protect every man in his consti- tutional liberty. but it will save the State money, and contribute to the peace and order of our people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
SEPTEMBER 2e, 1903
THE RANK BILL.

The Senate bill for the examination of State banks is on the House calendar as a specilal order to come up this morning. This legislation Is so plainly required by tho Constitution that it is difficult to con- ceive how any member can oppose 1t.
 The Senate bill was carefully prepared and considered and it passed the Senate by vote of 8 to '. It has been fought in the House by minority which has succeeded in delaying its coming up until today. They are still trying and hoping to defeat it by still further delay. The last resort of its enemies will be to amend 1t, no matter how or where, in order first to load it and then to get it tied up in the Senate again.
 Friends of the bill and those who desire to carry out the Constitution, can be warned in time to meet and resist these tactics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
Some Necessary Reforms.

Pension Commissioner Ware, in his an- nual report to the Secretary of the Inte- rior. suggests some reforms in the rules and regulations governing his department. All of his suggestions are of value. Some of them are especially SO It is hardly necessary to indorse his proposition that women who marry veterans after the lat ter are pensioned should not at any fu- veterans widows, So many marriages Of this sort have been made for revenue only that the pension office should no longer be compelled to encourage frauds that are alike obvious and demoralizng. Also. MT Wares recommendation that law be passed to forfeit the pension or the right to a pension in cases where the applicant stands convicted of an infamous crime, snC uld receive favorable consideration. So. too. should his argument for change In the present method of examining appli- cants But his request for the legal su- perannuation of a large body of the em- ployes now under his control Is in some respects the most important of the of the pension office has been the target for much criticism mainly from members of veteran organizations. He has been taxed with an absolute indifference to the privileges accorded by law to clerks with war records. The truth of the matter Is that Mir. Ware finds himself handicapped and the work of the pension bureau de- layed through the maintenance on the rolls of some 800 clerks, all of whom are old enough to be superannuated, and of whom many are SO old as to be of no use at all. If the nation must care for these people, they should be provided for by compel them to surrender their desks to younger and more capable men. This would work no injustice to the veterans, and 1t would put the pension office on plane of efficiency which it can never at tain to as long as the present system DreVailS.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
BIRTHDAY FOR EACH SEX.
Every Japanese Eoy is Supposed to Be
 Born on March 8.

With tho exception of the Emperor there are no individual birthdays in de- iightfuiiy interesting Japan. The people. however: make up for this bs,,ds neglect ct cS Sy erybody in common which is celebrated with great rejoicing.
 There are two of these general hofdaEs, one for each sex The male birthday. which is known as the "celeeration or %. or third month and the girls ceiebration oc- CUTS on the fifth day of the fifth montn These days are generally put aside and boys and girls respectively receive pres ents according to their station. ron
 The birthday of the Emperor. or reno as he is more properly styled, is also a general holiday for the Japanese every, err; I. flags, and in the evening the streets are gay with the lights of innumerable & col ored Ianterns. In the morning the nigh est authorities go to the palace and oner their congratulations in person and the lower degrees offer them vicariousiy to their superiors. All the Japanese would. somehow or other congratulate thelr monarch on having added another year to his age,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
The Gorilla at Home.

Paul du Chaillu the exolorer. whose death occurred lately in Russia, intro duced the gorilla to the Western world. No one believed his first account of the finding of this ferocious creature. His books on the subject were ridiculed, and his lectures unattended. Now everybody knows about the gorillas. The small boy who longs to be a mighty hunter, dreams delightedly of them along with lions and elephants.
 Gorillas are not carnivorous, though they are none the less dangerous on that account. Few beasts have an uglier dis position. Their habit of advancing upon their foes roaring and beating upon their hairy chests with a reverberation like a drum is we'll known. but the story of their hiding in tree tops until some un- wary native passes beneath when. lower ing a dreadful hind leg and clutching him around the neck with sinewy finger like toes, they draw him up to be de- vo.led, is Il little overdrawn
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26

when will we hear the last of the Miller aase and the Government Printing De- partment? We know nothing of Miller's efficiency, or lack of it, which really ap- hears to be quite an insignificant factor in the matter. If the President should dismiss a capable employe merely be- cauee he is not a member of the Union, and because the Labor Unions demand such dismissal, it would be an act Of cowardly injustice, to say the very least of it. It would be worse than the dis nissal of Miss Todd.
 According to The New York Commercial Advertiser, Mir. Clark Howell while in Buffalo last week stated that the Cor man boom is so strong in the South and West that the only question now to be answered is: Does German want the roun,nation?" We think it quite probable that MT. Howell never made any such claim, because he is a man of sense and attenuation, and as such could not speak so absurdly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
FOR CATARR N

The microscopic study of catarrh shows it to be caused by wormlike microbes that make their nests and swarm-centers in the mucous membrane Things of the nose, throat larnyx, pharynx. bronchial tubes, stomach, liver and kidneys, and bowels Their usual lodgment. however, Is in the membranous Things of the nose as the base of poisonous propagation and disease. Other catarrhal maladies being as a rule, a secondary development of nasal catarrh, characterized by partial or complete closure of the nasal cavities, a backward discharge of semi-poisonous nasal mucus or catarrhal excrement into the throat; nervous and tiresome hawk ing, splitting, and straining to throw off these acolmulatIons. headache, vertigo, ringing and roaring in the ears, and in- describably vile and foul taste and an equally vile and foul breath. arising from putrefaction of the interior mem branes. The strength and venom of the Catarrhal Microbe is illustrated in it's oc- caSional almost complete consumption oI the nasal bone or cartridges after years of feeding upon the soft mucous mem branes and tissues.
 Catarrh. though usually categorleo as memorable, noneradicable malady, Is cured by Radam's Microbe Killer, for the reason that the infected mucous mem branes, after becoming permeated with its bacillicide gases. cease to anord food and life to the microbes. The curative process is only a process of completely eliminating from the system the animal germ poisons to which catarrh is invari- ably due. Pens, 2107 Druid Hill Avenue; Baltimore Taarrs with a severe case of Catarrh, which affected my hearing 1 was induc- ed to try your Microbe Killer, and am pleased to advise that 1 am completely Cured and my hearing entirely. restored bless the day started to take Radam Microbe Killer.
 The Wm. Radam Microbe Killer Co.,,
 l2l Prince St., New York, or
 E. G. FOWLER, ACT,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26

It is pleasant to read statements like the following from The Norfolk Dispatch;
 Eastern Virginia and North Carolina have produced truck enough this season to feed several small nations. And they have sold it, too, the farmers turning their goods with a pretty penny of profit. The money is in the hands of the people. All around there is peace, prosperity and con tentment.
 It is difficult to imagine better condi- ton of affairs in any section of the country than that thus briefly chronicled. It tells the whole story of prosperous and contented people, who are indepen dent through their own efforts. These farmers can jingle their own dollars in their own pockets and view with indif- ference the advancing merchant, the mortgage writer and the grain and meat growers of other regions. It is a con- dition which ought to prevail in every section of the South among the small farmers who form the great majority of our population.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
Professors Retort.

New York Times.
 When off duty Professor Richards of Yale enjoys a joke, and his pupils often come to him when they have heard new one He adds to the fun sometimes with a witticisrd \of his own. Such was the case when one of the students perpetrated the following antiquity:
 Professor, wouldn't you like good re- ccipt for catching a rabbit?"
 Why yes" replied the Professor. What is it?'
 Well. you crouch down behind a thick stone wall and make a noise like a tur- nip. answered the youth, giggling in ecstasy.
 Quick as a flash came the reply:
 ''Oh. better way than that would be for you to go and sit quietly in a bed of cabbage heads and look natural"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
THE SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM.

Much has beeii said and written about MT. Pulitzer's School of Journalism" which he proposes to establish and endow in connection with Columbia University. A great deal that has been said has been in the way of ridicule. while others have treated 1t seriously, as 1t deserves.
 In brief. MT. Joseph Pulitzer. owner and editor of The New York World. gives one million dollars to found a school of journalism. and if. at the expiration Of three years the school is in successful operation, he will add another million dollars. the interest on one-half or which will be devoted to the maintainance or the school. An advisory board has been named, and already architects are at work on the plans for the building. which is exnected to cost half million dollars President Elliott of Harvard, has pro- posed as subjects appropriate to De taught: Newspaper Administrations; Newspaper Manufacture; The Law or Journalism; Ethics of Journalism History of Journalism; The Literary Form of Newspapers and The Reinforcement or Existing Departments of Instruction. These subjects. 1t is true. have not been adopted by the Board. but the fact that they have been proposed by such an eminent authority shows the practical | nature of this new feature Of American journalism.
 The Advertiser does not hesitate to un- hesitatingly endorse and approve the nroiect. While 1t is undoubtedly true that a good newspaper man. like a poet must be born. not made. 1t Is just as true that there is a great deal that can be taught and learned in the making Of a successful journalist. Doubtless there arc men whom no amount of education and training will ever make great and successful newspaper men, but even the man who is born with the journalistic talent and instinct may be vastly Inn proved anl benefited by proper course of training. just as a man who mas I natural talent and aptitude for the law , is perfected in his profession by course of study.
 And MT. Pulitzer Is giving freely of his money in aid of the noblest and most
 important work, outside the ministry. that a man can engage in. We may never, it is true, fully realize the motto adopted by Joseph Story for the old Salem Register:
 Here shall the Press the Peoples right unawed by influence and unbribed by gain,
 to It's fullest extent but the power and influence of intelligent, honest and inde- pendent journalism can hardy be over- estimated. What Mir. Pulitzer would do, and what his school of journalism is in- tended to do, Is to give to young men purposing to go into the newspaper busl- ness an opportunity to acquire all the in formation and training on the subject
 which can be obtained before entering upon the actual duties of the profession It is a great work, in a noble cause, anc
 The Advertiser, for one, welcomes this
 first movement towards placing the pro
 fession of the newspaper man on a leve
 with those who follow the other learned
 professions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
coMM1ssIoNER WARE
Wants to Put a Limit on the Pension
 Graft.

New York Mail and Express.
 Having expressed its gratitude to its braye defenders to the extent or >S'oo'- s23. .59O in pensions, the country may con gratulate itself that the pension charge |. now steadily diminishing. Commits sioner Wares annual report shows net loss of 2,s01 pensioners durlng tne .as. fiscaI year: they now number SSo, o,o4o-1ust a little less than a million. It is true that fhere are still some 100000 unpensioned Civil War veterans. who are coming anto the pensioned list at re,vaIs the pa.e do o moi of set the losses from the list.
 The American people have arrived az point in this matter when they can LOOK without precedent in the history Of the world They have cheerfully accepted this burden, which has been greater. measured in money than an. even ase she e, GSl M- rope. Even now the burden of the pen sion list amounts to N.7 annually upon every man, woman and child In the No nation ever taxed itself so high for such purpose.
 Though the burden is tightening now. there is no reason in the alieviation why Is necessary. There are several class of pension raiders whom Commissioner Ware quite properly proposes to make as,H. war against. One of them is the famiiiar type of the designing woman who mar ries the old pensioner for the sake or her. self becoming a dependent on the Govern ment after he Is gone. There is no sort of doubt that the departure from this world of many veteran has been has, tened by this class of exploiters. Com missioner Ware wants them cut off by prohibiting pensions to women who mar, ry soldiers after the soldiers become old pensioners.
 While caring for all the Civil War vet erans. barring deserters and bounty jump CTS, who become the victims of sickness and disaster. there is every reason for re- sive methods under which pnsions have been issued In the past This distribution of a share of the national wealth will have to go on for a good many years longer. But the people are anxious to dis tribute more than is the decent and gen. erous due of the veteran.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
rHEv WANT To paop HrM.

I The Advertiser has practically, ceased
 to discuss the race question. not because of any lack of conviction or change of
 be gained by keeping it up. There are
 some men in the North who have not
 ceased to indulge in diatribes directed at the Southern people,, but they are de-
 creasing both in numbers and influence We find 1t interesting occasionally to copy some of the expressions we find in North ern papers showing how some of them are
 getting their eyes open to facts and con-
 ditions with which Southern people are
 we'll informed. One of these of recent
 date we find in The Inter Mountain.
 Republican newspaper published at Butte.
 made by the North after the war that
 paper says:
 It was assumed that the negro was com petent to share the responsibilities of citizenship. and fit to exercise the powers 1 Of government vested in the citizen.
 when he became freeman under d free government. After generation of ex- pertinent and exprience the assumption Is mere assumption still. The exceptions emphasize the rule. The ballot has proven an injury to the colored race and a constant menace to the whites in those | States where the negro is numerous enough to make his vote an influence. His | disfranchsement throughout the South is | natural result
 | It Is useless for the North to protest. | Political prejudice cannot be aroused. aftor war prejudice has failed. to protect
 worthles right of ballot improvldently
 extended It Is sheer impotence for the | Northerner to demand that the people of | the South submit to domination and | influence in their governmental and pri- | vatc life which would not be tolerated in | any Northern State It Is time to throw | on professed love of the negro as a dig
 guise for hatred of the siavehoider.
 This is pain enough. but there is
 another point in the editorial which is of
 more political significance. The concud-
 ing paragraph reads!
 The colored vote Is an obstacle rather
 than an aid to the advancement of the I negro It Is a barrier to intelligent and
 dispassionate consideration of other and
 more important features of the race prob | lem. It is without value to any party
 as political issue. It serves as an ex-
 cuse for nullifcation of constitutional law
 in many States. and as an influence for | contempt Of law In nearly all, Ii is
 doubtful whether the public sentiment of ! country is yet sufficiently modified to | amend the constitution in this respect. It
 IS plain that there is not sentiment strong
 assures to the negro the right of suffrage | in the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-26
NO RETURN IN IA YEARS.
Mrs. Maitland Writes, Feb. 2l, 1903, That Cure Has Been
 Permanent.

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