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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-10

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-10
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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-08-10

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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
Philadelphia Teachers Assessed

PhiIadoIphia PublIc Ledger.
 All of the men teachers employed in the public schools and the school Janitors received communications from the Repub- lican City Committee Monday, request. ing a voluntary" contribution rom each to the campaign fund on the graded per centage salary basis This is the first time in the history of the schools that such demand has been made either or tea chers or janitors 1t is said Some Of the women teachers received like commu- nications, but officers of the City Com mittee said that these requests had been made by mistake, A majority of the com. munications to the teachers are said tc have been ignored. As to he janitors, II is said that possibly they will not deem it quite safe to display like independ. ent spirit. In several instances teachers sent replies to the City Committee say ing il is not their purpose to contribute to the fund.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
TASK OF THE SOUTH.
Alabama Correspondent Tells What
 Has Been Done for the Negro.

To The Editor of The New York Herald;
 If any one will examine history from the earliest era to the present time, think. if fair minded, such a one will ad- init that at no time and in no country has the negro made such steps in civil izaton and morality as he has in Amer lea. In every case where he has been left to himself he has either stood still or drifted back to the level of his savage forefathers-witness Santo Domingo, etc. It requires the example, and at the same time the strong rule. of the white man to prevent the negro from going backward. The people of the United States owe the Southern people more than they can ever repay, for the stand they took in the black days of reconstruc- ton (destruction). from 1865 to 1872 when Seward, Stanton and others tried to and did put the untaught. ignorant blacks for ward as rulers and lawmakers over this fair land.
 It only required a few years of such government to add millions to our State debts (Alabama from $1.0OO,OO0 to $50,0o0, Oo0. for which the States got virtually nothing. The South, instead of being worried and abused, should be assisted by the other sections and allowed to fin ish the work, as no other people have ever done so much for the negro as have tho Southerners. It is strange that. with the past experience before 1t, the United States government will attempt to force negroes into office South when 1t knows that they are personae non gratae.
 This plan If persisted in, will eventual ly bring on a race war. for the negro is not the equal of the white man, and the white man will not allow him to think he is. for If he did no white man could live in the South. In no way could the untamed, savage African ever have been civilized except by slavery, and the American negro should thank God for slavery, as 1t did so much for him, and the South should be given credit for what she has done.
 IT s. Hammond.
 Montgomery, Ala, January 27. 1903.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
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Letters to The Editor.
ssstSt7 MT. Verner's Military Bill.

Opelika, Ala, Feb. IS, lN5. Editor The Advertiser.
 In The Advertiser of the 17th Inst noticed an article from L. M: Smith, First Lieutenant Co. M, 3r dRegiment First Lieutenant Co. M, 3rd Regiment, heartily endorsing the Werner bill and severely attacking me for the article wrote few days ago opposing the bill
 For the benefit of the public VIII state that l do not represent any person.
 The article I wrote was from my stand point of justice, and 1 was not lighting any persons" cause, nor was l afraid that should the bill become law l would lose my commission.
 During years gone by l have served the Alabama National Guard in every office rom private to my present office which was given me by appointment in January, ls02, and should Colonel Graves annul my commission l would retire without com plaint, for he gave me the position and he has the right to take it from me.
 My previous article was not written from a personal standpoint but from standpoint of justice as l see It, and as Mir Verner's bill has no precedent and is In my mind very unjust, l still hope 1t wii be defeated.
 Since my first article was written have received many communications from diff ferent commissioned officers endorsing 1t. Respectfully, l. N. Stowe. Major Surgeon End Regiment Infantry,
 Alabama National Guard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
CASSAVA AND BEANS.

Those Of our readers who failed to read the article from MT. Yarn, In Sunday s Advertiser, about cassava and velvet beans should hunt it up and read it care fully, especially our farmer friends. The something to say about the cassava plant, and has urged that 1t be given a fair trial. Some of the details given by MT. Yarn seem extravagant, but as he speaks from experience we have no reason to doubt his statement.
 It must be apparent to all observant per sons that the future prosperity of South ern agriculture can only be assured by a change from some of the habits of the past The price which all of us. farmers a lesson too plain to be misunderstood, and we see little prospect of betterment. In the great grain markets of the North west corn is quoted at an average of 45 cents per bushel. The scarcity of hogs and the high price of corn unite to make meat dear. Nothing else can be ex- pected, nor do we see any reason to hope for any material change for the better except as a result of changed habits.
 What Mir. Warn says about the great yield of cassava and velvet beans. and his recorded experience as to their value for feeding and fattening stock must be revelation to those who have depended entirely on corn and peas to raise and fatten hogs and cattle. It may be that some portions of Alabama are not so well adapted to cassava and beans as Is the region from which MT. Yarn writes, but a great part of South Alabama ought to be as favorable as Florida is, and even if the crops are not as prolific as those of which he writes they will pay well. There are many farmers in Alabama who are dissatisfied with present conditions and who are ready and anxious to try some thing better. Here, it occurs to us, is the chance for at least making intelligent experiments, even if made on a small scale. If they fail the farmer will be no wore off than he now Is, and if they succeed he will be infinitely better off, both at the present and In his prospects for the future, It is really the best chance for agricultural independence in Alabama that we have seen or heard of.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
SECRECY OF THE BALLOT.

The Birmingham Ledger obstinateiy slings to the idea that 1t is Wrong to num- Der the ballots at elections, and thus argues: The point The Ledger made was that numbered ballot is not secret ballot. and that point Is not controverted. |" Begging Tho Ledger's pardon. that point" is very decidedly controverted. and our position is sustained. Our argument was that numbering the ballot has no tendency to violate the secrecy of the vote, and to that statement The Ledger thus objects:
 This argument does not show what a number on the ballot has to do with fairness any more than secrecy. The Ledger hopes the numbered ballot clause will be stricken out and that men may vote their wishes without the certainty that their ballots will be scrutinized if their be reason to doubt their loyalty to employers interests. There can be no fair election if an employe has to vote a numbered ballot. If the ballot is mark ed it will be reviewed; there can be no doubt of that. There should be no iden- tification of ballots.
 It may be our misfortune that We can't write plain English, or 1t may be The Ledger's misfortune that 1t cant under stand it when written, but we certainly see no ground for its contention. Under the bill now before the Legislature 1t is expressly provided that "any person who compares the number on the ballot with the poll list shall be guilty of mis- demeanor," and other sections of the bill only add to the force of this clause, yet The Ledger tries to argue itself into the conviction that somebody is going to compare poIl-lists and ballots and make public the names of those who vote and for whom they voted!
 If The Ledger is going to take the posi- ton that all election managers will be dishonest and will commit perjury that ends the argument. On no other hypo- thesis can 1t sustain its position, and If we take its view 1t Is wholly useless for the Legislature to waste time trying to provide for honest elections, for no law will secure that end if all the managers are dishonest, and all of them must be dishonest, blind or wholly incompetent to accomplish what our contemporary is so cock sure will be done. One of them cannot violate the law unless all are guilty.
 'If the ballot Is marked it will be re- viewed; there can be no doubt of that" Is the positive language in which The Ledger charges beforehand that all the election managers in Alabama will be dishonest We do not believe anything of the kind. We believe the people of Alabama are in favor of honest elections in future and that they will welcome all laws tending to secure this end, and that they will see that violators of the law and of fairness and honesty are properly punished.
 The bill which the Legislature will undoubtedly pass maintains in violate the secrecy of the ballot unless all election officials are dishonest.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 1e, 1905
DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL.

The American Newspaper Directory uses cer- lain signs to denote the relative standing and merit of the whole field of newspaperdom which comes under its notice. and one of these signs is the mystic symbol 0l denoting ''golden." which stands for high quality. and ts thus explained:
 "Advertisers value this paper more for the glass and quality of its circulation than for the mere number of copies printed.'
 Such papers are credited with a single 4ym- bol; but there is a higher grade, according to this standard authority. which have BOTH QUALITY AND QUANTITY. and require the DOUBLE GOLDEN SYMBOL 0v to describe adequately their standing
 The Advertiser has been accorded this double golden symbol [0@l and is the only paper so distinguished in this section of the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
TALKING NONSENSE.

"The more money the ex-slaves receive the more their old masters will be able to filch from them,' says The Toledo. (Ohio) Blade. referring to Hanna's pen sion scheme. The Blade is surprisingly ignorant or eminently disloyal to its fel- low-citizens North of the line. Bless Its poor soul, the filching would be done before the money reached this section. Pass that bill and the mails will be filled with letters from Yan6ee sharks offer ing to secure and collect the pensions for their dear colored brethren-for a con sideration, of course We Southern men would have to wait for a chance to filch from our former slaves till The Blade s fellow men filed their pockets.
 But really and truly Is not such jack assiminity disoouraging? If that editor isn't too ignorant to wear his ha. right side out, or too malicious to tell the truth when he knows it he would know that the Southern people are spending purpose of educating and caring for these ex-slaveS and their des cendants. If such a bill should become law the white people would get most of the money, of course, because the negroes would spend 1t freely and would buy from the whites just as they do now when they have money to spend. With this pension law in force the pensioners will all be dead of old age before the Southern whites will get back the money they have paid out for the negroes The Blade should make an effort to talk sense. though we doubt if 1t can sue caed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19

Carolina consider this an excuse for shooting an unarmed man. We have heard of ''the baieful glare' of wild beasts. and the glare of Inaiden's eyes, and so forth. but we do not know of any provision of law under which a murderer can justify his act on the ground that another man glared at him. And if the plea stands good in law 1t will be well for unarmed men, in South Carolina, at least. to cut the glare out of their other accomplishments. They glared like angry lions," says Dryden. and possibly Tillman had been reading the poet and ranked MT. Gonzales with the king of beasts. He glared at me and l shot him." may become the plea of future assassins
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19

cent. No amount of financial genius can improve upon these rules or does im- prove upon them. The Wall Street nor nal return from safe investment is per cent. Many "gilt-edged" stocks and bonds pay less, yet are eagerly sought by the shrewdest investors. Real estate mort gages in New York are placed at 1-2 per cent in large sums and per cent in small ones. There is plenty of money offered at these figures. Yet two get rich-quick" concerns, counting their vic tims by the thousand. have been exposed in New York in single week; others will be exposed In the future as they have been in the past The ''brokerage firm which promises 300 per cent profits by blind-pool Investments has only knaves for owners and dupes for clients.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
Was Lincoln WrongP
New York Sun.

New 1Ork sun.
 What more impressive text for both North and south to study today, on the ninety-fourth anniversary of Abraham Lincon's birth, than the passage which Judge Roger A. Pryor quotes in his letter printed in another place on this page?
 T, as well as Judge Douglass" said Lincoln in one of the speeches of the great debate which gave him national fame and made him President, am in favor of the race to which l Belong having the superiorty."
 ''I have no purpose" sad Abraham Lincoln. ''to introduce political and so- cial equality between the white and the black races"
 There Is a physical difference" said Abraham Lincoln, afterward the Eman Cipator. "hetween the two which, in my judgment. will probably forever forbid their living together upon a footing of perfect equality"
 The rights which Lincoln defended for the African in America were those of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness not the ballot, not political equality.
 Was he wrong? Do conditions today, North as well as South, vindicate or re- flute Abraham LincOln's judgment con- cerning what was impossible In the prob- lem of the betterment of the black man s lot in life?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
Race Suicide.

The President based his opinions of race suicide on high society. Let him take a stroll through the back districts and see the big crops of children among the illiterate and the indigent. He has not forgotten that familiar saying, "A nigger for dogs, a poor white man for children. and fool for luck" It goes. The poor are obliged to let nature tnke It's course, the rich may prevent 1t. l state at his first public reception. Every body that was anybody seemed to be there. and what placed us all most was His Excellency's good wife. with her baby boy at her breast entertaining the guests. first. but every woman there went home with a motherly feeling.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
A coMMENDABLE MOVEMENT,

Recently the Ladies Improvement and Memorial Association of Elba decided that there were not enough shade trees in their town and, as We learn from The Clipper they "ascertained the cost of transplant ing water-oaks, and last week and the week before secured orders for and set out nearly hundred trees around many homes, the churches and on the square, at cost to individuals and free to the churches and the town and county"
 Certainly this was a commendable movement and the ladies of Elba are en- titled to the thanks, not only of the pre- sent inhabitants but to those who come after them. The old Scotch laird who said. while on his death-bed to his son: 'Jock, when ye hae nothing else to do. ye may be aye sticking in a tree; 1t will be growing, Jock, when yere sleeping" was giving the youth some good advice. In the busy and crowded streets of the large cities there is no room for shade trees, nor would they thrive, but in the smaller towns no small outlay of time and money could add more to the beauty and comfort of the strets and squares and there trees will live and flourish and stand as an enduring monument to the forethought and care of those who plant them. Even in the large cities there are many localities where shade trees would be welcome addition to the scenery, as well as to the comfort and pleasure of the inhabitants. Be aye sticking in a tree" was good advice from the canny Scot and it Is equally good for the Ameri- can. Societies and associations in other towns might well take a lesson from the ladies of Elba.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
Secretary Hays Successes.

Kansas City Star Qnd)
 The ratification of the Alaskan boun- diary treaty of the adjudication adds an other to Secretary Hays list of diplo- matic successes. When a similar propo- sal regarding the Alaskan dispute was made a few years ago Canada rejected it. To have secured British acquiescence without friction may be considered ar achievement due to skillful negotiation Secretary Hay has really had remark. able career in the State Department. His successes have not been spectacular but they have been none the less important and they have gained for him the first rank among the living diplomats of the world
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
Dr. Lorenz Not an osteopath.

Edltor The Advertiser:
 One of the greatest inaccuracies into which Mrs. Ligon drfted in her talk at the capitol was calling the famous Ortno- pedist Dr. Lorenz Of Vienna, an osteo- path. Orthopedy Is the science which deals In the cure Of deformities of chii- dren's bodies. or generally of the human body; and finds It's chief employment in diseases of the joints. Dr. Lorenz Is celebrated in two worlds as an ortho- pedist. Newspapers and magazines in America have told the man in the street and the scholar at home of the marvels of his genius. and the goodness of his heart. Dr. Lorenz can doubtless do a great many smaller things than practice orthopedy. Yet to call him an osteopath Is to, apply as great a misnomer as would weather man. be in speaking of Maury, the great geographer whose scientific in vestgations in meteorology led to the establishment of the United States Weather Bureau service.
 In desiring intellectual means of meet ing difficulties, we can't afford to belittle great men. We have a better use for them in the world to which they are a benediction, than to make of them props for faodists. Humanity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19

When a man gets "too big for his brooches" as 1t is commonly expressed, he is in danger of being let down a few pegs, and when nations get in the same condition something of the same nature may happen. Not a great while ago the German Emperor declared that nothing can hereafter take place anywhere on the globe without Germany being consulted !" A few days ago Senator Platt, of Con- necticut. said that recent events have clothed us with power to direct largely the affairs of the world" If Platt and the Kaiser are right here are too nations which will each insist that 1t is the big gest thing on earth, and some day they may bump together. and then there will be something doing in various corners of this globe of ours. However. perhaps the fact that both of them are big ones
 will have a tendency to keep them apart,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT.
A Southerner Recalls the Circum-
 stances of Its Adoption.

H. c. Whitehurst of Newborn. N. C., recalls a matter of special interest to the South In a letter to The Washington Post he says:
 "A correspondent in your paper of the 18th of January quotes the late MT. Blaine in giving reason for forcing negro suf frage upon the South. The statement Is that the Southern States were asked to accept the fourteenth amendment, which simply reduced the South S representation in Congress. by not counting the negro as a part of the population. It Is stated that If the South had accepted this prop osition, her representatives would have been admitted to Congress at once and the States of the Confederacy would have been restored to the Union without other conditions. The fourteenth amendment had three sections, The above was the substance of Section 2. Section was all together different, and contained that which it's framers knew would make it's acceptance by men of the Anglo-Saxon race impossible. Section 3 provided that the Southern people should agree, by constitutional amendment, to the dtsfran- chisement of nearly all their men of any respectable position. the condemnation of all their great leaders, and the consequent humiliation and disgrace of the whole people. As the old radical politicians eX pected. the Southern States did reject thlS proposition with scorn, and the framers thereof were gratifed, pleased and eXult- ant for now they felt that the Lord had indeed delivered their helpless victims to be crushed and ground to powder. The Republican leaders of that day in their dealing with the Southern people had but one immediate purpose-that was revenge. 1 The negro suffrage amendments were nev- CT really adopted according to the Con- stitutonal requirement.. The necessary three-fOurths could not be obtained, except by excluding the Southern white people, and for this there was no warrant in the Constitution. Negro equality and negro suffrage were the product of extra con stitutional measures, upheld by armed hate. When hate began to wane. and Its supporting bay0ANts were withdrawn. ne- gro sufrra go began to totter to their fall"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19

The effort to make in this country cer- tain highly favored varieties of cheese now imported from Europe is not sue cessful, We are told, because of the ad- vance of certain kinds of bacilli which produce the rich taste and smell If that is true we are surprised at it, for there must certainly be native bugs and worms which smell bad enough to satisfy the demands of those who want some thing strong.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
To Even Matters Up.

Blrm1ngham Ledger.
 MT Roosevelt sent word out to Shoot not to be elected, but Shoot wouldn't hear to it. To even matters up. Shoot invited some negroes to eat with him and his wife. He expects that to remove all Republican opposition to his becoming a Senator To this favor have We come at last!
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
The Egg is Worth It.

Dothan Home Journal.
 It Is estimated that the hens of this country lay 600 worth of eggs in a year But you never hear them crow about it.-Atlanta Journal
 No, the old rooster does all the growing, and always assists the cackle, and he and the hen combined make quite a hull labaloo over each egg. But then the egg is worth 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-02-19
The Best Method.
Sheffield Reaper.

Sheffield Reaper.
 An exchange has been asked to give the best method of shortening a dog" urge that about fourteen inches of the face of the dog be taken off, as the rear vivisection Is barbarous, and dogs vivi- sected in front don't worry sheep and their bark Is only imaginary.