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The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1903-10-13

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Uses, corner Wilder Avenue and Piikoi
street.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
THE GULF STATES.

No. 1. Vol. g. Of the Gulf States His torical Magazine, just issued, announces the retirement of MT. Thomas M. Owen from the editorial management of that excellent publication. which he has been so largely instrumental in building up. He has disposed of his interest to Mir Joel c. DuBose, who has been associated with him, and who will continue it's publica- ton. To both these gentlemen The Ad- vertiser extends its best wishes and con- gratulations.
 Among the noticeable articles in this July number Is Memoir of Prof. Joseph Jones. late of New Orleans, who con- tributed so largely to the discoveries and publications of medical science during the latter half of the last century. Another timely article is a well-written memoir of the South's soldier-poet, Sidney Lanier. by his brother, Capt. C. A Lanier, of Montgomery.
 Judge William D. Wood contributes his Recollections of the Growth and Devel- opment in the North of the Anti. Slavery Sentiment; MT. Owens writes interest ingly of An Alabama Protest Against Abolitionism in 1885. in which Governor John Gayle played an important part. There are also many other interesting fea- lures. historical sketches, notes and que ries, and other useful and attractive mat ter. It is a publication which all Ala bamians should read.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
A Democratic Educational System.

 Frederick J. Turner in the August
 Worlds Work.
 All the States of the Middle West have their universities, supported by State and Federal funds controlled by officers elect ed by the people or appointed by the State Government, furnishing an education al- most gratis, in courses that allow wide range of choice. In no other section of the country is the correlation between the high schools and the universities so close, whence 1t results that these schools which are the very embodiment of the democ- racy of our section, pour an increasing stream of democratic influence into these higher institutions. From the primary grades up to the graduate work, through out this great area, the way is clear for the boys and girls with brains to rise to the full measure of whatever intellectual power is in them.
 Nowhere else has democracy so com pletely embodied it's educational ideals The State has frankly and literally ac- cepted the education of the people from the lowest to the highest studies as one of it's most important functions, and in his education it has made provision for keeping together all the ranks and classes of society. From the kindergarten to the graduate department. the sons of the banker and of the breadwinner may sit side by side and are furnished the same opportunities by the State. The boy and the girl are educated in the same insti- tutions. Even more than the medieval church, the public educational system of the West provides for the free ascent in society of the Intellectually able It is a magnificent piece of machinery for con- serving the solidarity and democracy of the nation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
The Virtue of Potatoes.

Country Life in America.
 One morning early. we began to plant the shrubs. Where will ye have the rosey dandrums?" was my greeting from Thomas as l entered the garden. Hav- ing noticed from the breakfast table that he had slyly buried something at the bot tom of each hole prepared for the plant ing, l waited my chance the first minute he was out of sight. dropped on my Knees, felt around in the soft soil at the bottem of the hole and unearthed-a potato. Another hole and still another was examined. Yes, there was a potato in each; he must have wasted a bushel
 Thomas" l said. when he had re- turned with d load from the compost heap, what are these potatoes doing down here?"
 'Divil d tree will grow in Oireland without wan" he explained. How is that?' l asked In darkest ignorance 'Ye see, mum, the patatey sprouts furst off thin, begorrah, it lifts the loife into the tree and obllges it to push up form inst" As matter of fact, we did not loose tree or shrub. in spite of the long drought.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
A CASE IN POINT.

There must be reform in criminal pro- cedure or wc shall have the whole land given over to lawiessness. If the people come to resort to lynching in order to one respect, they win resort to law breaking to remedy it's shortcoming in another: and We shall have the reign of anarchy rather than of law. The re- sponsibillty rests with the makers to meet the demand for immediate and sweeping reforms in criminal practices.
 Whether the laws we already have can be so administered and enforced as t0 cure the evil, or whether additional iawe are necessary, are questions for the legal gentlemen to decide, but there is some thing needed and very badly needed. Take this item from The Florence Times as an Illustrations:
 About year ago negro committed a most brutal attack on a white woman at Cordova: accomplishing his purpose, and leaving her for dead. The people wanted to lynch him, but he was hurried away Some months afterwards he was tried the facts were proven beyond any question: and he was condemned to be hung. His case was appealed and now the people are getting up a petition to- the Supreme Court to take the matter up and decide it. It is just such slow work as thIs that creates the mob spirit in the minds of the people.
 Is not this case an irrefutable evidence that people who engage in lynchings have the excuse on their side that the laws delay forces them to act In the present case, the facts being as stated by The Times. have not the people a right to complain? We do not say that they have right to lynch the brute, but suppose another outrage of the same brutal na- ture should occur in that community, would any argument or counsel convince the people that the law should take its course? They would point to the case now in the courts and declare that the only protection for their women is to execute judgment on the despoilers of womanhood, and who could justly blame them?
 We are by no means the advocate of undue precipitancy. We do not favor railroading criminals to prison or the scaffold, but we do insist that there should be no unnecessary delay. The due process of law, which is one of the bless ings of free government, does not mean that months or years may elapsc before a criminal of the kind mentioned by The Times is punished, if he is pun ished at all. Recent events, North and South. have intensified the impatience of the people at the laws delay and they are in no humor to look with favor on a condition of aaffirs which. at least in public estimation. encourages crime.
 As before stated, 1t may be that there are faults in our laws. and in the ma chinery for their enforcement which can only be renedied by the Legislature. Whether that is or is not true, VIC are not prepared to say. but we are pre- pared to assert that a negro who outrages a white woman in Alabama is leaning on broken reed, if he hopes to travel the road taken by the negro of whom The Times makes mention
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
MIR. MURPHY's LETTER.
It Was an Important Service to Peo-
 pie of Alabama.

New York Evening Post.
 Mir. Edgar Gardner Murphy has for several years been rendering most valua- ble services to his State, Alabama. by carrying on an active campaign on be- half of better schools for blacks and whites, and against the iniquities of child labor in the mills of the South. He has now performed another important service by letter to The Montgomery Adver- tiser, which we take pleasure in reprint ing. In 1t he correctly states that the enemies of the South are not those who print the facts about It's ill-trea tment of the negro, but those who would prevent the truth from coming out in such mat ter as the peonage horrors. MT. Murphy Is able to take a far more optimistic view as to the limits of the pconage abuses than we are. But he manfully says that whether the new s.ave-drivers be few or many, Alabama must be defended from them; their exposure and conviction is the best defence of the name and fortune of the State" Judge Jones, District Attor- ney Reese, and MT. Murphy represent the best sentiment of the South today To their voices it must hearken if it is to progress at all.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
THE SECOND REGIMENT.

It is announced elsewhere in this issue of The Advertiser that the End Regiment of the Alabama National Guard has been ordered into annual camp here.
 The Advertiser is very much pleased with this announcement, and 1t believes that the people of Montgomery will also be pleased. After the recent encampment of the Srd Regiment here, which was un- satisfactory to the bulk of our citizens and unfortunate, not only for that Regi- ment, but also for the rest of the State troops, we believe that this encampment will be beneficial in many respects to all concerned.
 ,The recent blunders made by the 3rd Regiment will be a warning to the 2nd, and the probabilities are strong that not only the officers of the latter body, but also its rank and file, will be on their mettle to re-establish the good name of the Alabama military in the eyes of the people of Montgomery and of the State. Such a result, too, will be ad- vantageous to Montgomery. An indus- trious effort has been made since the re- cent encampment to create the impress sion that Montgomery was hostile to the State troops and did not treat them with the consideration they deserved This is unjust and events in August will prove it.
 The business men of Montgomery. through their representatives, the Direc- tors of the Commercial and Industrial Association, have done their part in securing this encampment, and we be- lieve that the rank and file of our citi- zens will meet this Regiment in the best spirit. and do all in their power to make the encampment pleasant for the men, As a matter of course. some people will be dubious about the conduct of this camp, and will wait to be convinced. But The Advertiser believes the people here will soon see that this Is a well-offl- cered, well-disciplined body of men. This paper. however, is not going to show the 2nd Regiment any more consideration than it did the 3rd, simply because the 2nd embraces home companies and comes from this section of the State. The Ad- vertiser prints the news. and if the 2nd Regiment makes news in the way the 3rd did. the public can rest assured we will not shut our eyes.
 Again we say, we are glad the End Regi- ment is to camp here and we believe 1t is the best thing that could happen for all concerned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
A NEW THEORY or DEVELOP.

Professor Starr, of Chicago, who is somewhat noted for springing new discov- cries on an unsuspecting public. comes forward with the somewhat startling theory that 'the American people are fast developing into Indians" as he puts 1t. He declares that the American Indian of the present is a development of the Mongolian family. and that the Indians of the future will be q development of the Caucasian races.
 This is the kind of information which may be regarded as important, if true. He thinks that all the characteristics of the Indian races of this continent are the result of American climatic influences, and that these influences will eventually make Indians Of us all. To our mind, such conclusions are absurd, and we think the Professor will find 1t exceeding ly difficult to sustain himself We can easily understand how the climate, the water, the diet. the air. and the habits of a people might be eventually changed, if they were wholly segregated. Thus, if the original first settlers of this conti- nent were Mongolians, and if they re- ceived any further accessions from the original stock. there might very natur- ally have been gradual change, physi- cally and otherwise. The result of such a change would have been so exceedingly minute. and the development so slow that 1t would hardly be noticed in life time, but n< result in the marked difference now mo- ticed between the average Chinaman and the best specimens of the Indian races of this continent.
 We say this might have happened, if the segregation had been SO complete that no admixture of foreign blood could take place during the centuries necessary for the development, for here they would be only the one race to be acted on, but we fail to see how it Is possible for the American people of today. Not only is the American people an admixture of all the races and peoples under the sun, but every day there are accessions from all these races. New blood is daily added to the old. and thus. it seems to us, 1t is physical impossibility for this continent ever again to know a distinctively Ameri- can people. Indian or otherwise.
 If the development of which Professor Starr speaks should result in giving US only the best traits of the American In- dians, the result would re gratifying. for they possessed in an eminent degree some of the finest qualities of the human family. Cruel they may have been, but they never lied. Treachery towards an enemy may. have been one of their traits, but they never deceived a friend. They would take the scalps of their foes. but no exigency would force them to rob or steal. And so of some of their charac- teristics which might well be initiated by the white races, and adopted in lieu of some of our own. However, we must look on Professor Stars deductions as the vagaries of a learned man.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

cepted." We should be heartily ashamed of Alabama. if we could be made to be- lieve that The Advertiser and The Reg ister are the only newspapers which are in favor of right and justice. and that all other papers and the people generally were against punishing those guilty of the infamous crime of peonage. As a matter of fact. The Birmingham Age Herald. The News and The Ledger of Bir- mingham, The Tribune of Huntsville, The Advocate of Greenville and others of the State press have commended Judge Jones In this matter very strongly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

few days ago there was printed in all the newspapers what purported to be a true account of a lynching at Bluefeld, w. Va. which, for brutal atrocity, ex- ceeded anything we ever read. Now comes The Philadelphia Press with tho statement that there was not a particle of foundation for the story. but that it was made up and sent out by some smart ass as a joke. If that is fact. the au- thor of the alleged joke needs a new suit of clothes and one that will stick to him till he outgrows it. This is not a time for such falsehoods on that sub ject.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

The Columbia State remarks that the nomination of Hearst will come "only when the Democratic Party goes into the comic supplement business" That remark may be expected to bring out gentle roar from the two Hearst papers-or is it three?-in the South.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
The Editorial Page.

There Is not a sing'e daily newspaper in this country, so far as we know. that is a success, that does not make it's edl- issue. Should the editorial page be aban- doned the press would no longer mold public opinion. Its power for good would be gone.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
He is a Big Man.
Mobile Register.

MOblIe Hegister.
 The Cleveland demonstration in Chicago d few weeks hence ought to be an inter- esting occasion. The countrys only ex President Is necessarily a pretty big fig ure in any assemblage which he attends. St. Louis Globe Democrat. Nevertheless. 1t is not the office that makes the man. is a big man with a p1rtentious future. The public is less concerned with his past than with his present. He. will be re- ceived not as ex-President but as pos Sible President.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

The Philadelphia Record very plainly refutes and disposes of the absurd fal- lacy that cotton and rice cannot be raised by white labor. Such a statement would not be made by any man who knew what he was talking about.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
Enter a Protest.

DomOpOIS EXptess.
 We are with the soldier boys" always 30 long as they conduct themselves prop erly, but when a camp is turned loose into a gathering more like hoodlums than soldiers then, like The Advertiser, we must enter a protest,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
A Republican Opinion.

HuntSNlIIe IrlDune. .
 Lynchlng a negro fin the North is "a tragedy" in the South It is ''an outrage" :" all according to Northern vocabularies.- Montgomery Advertiser. ..
 A the rates this custom Is growing 1t will not be long before 1t will become cessity in the North. We are advised on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
Now a Wanderer.

BIrminghan News.
 Carter Harrison's boom for the Presi- dency was in evidence at the recent Chi cago political picnic. It was overlooked however, in the hurry of packing up to catch the train home. and Is now a wan derer in the Illinois woods.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

Speaking of the proposition to drive the worthless negroes out of Indianapolis. The Portland Oregonian remarks that ''the plan may work well for Indianapo- lis, but what about the other towns that receive the outcasts?" The query is a pertinent one. but we suppose the idea is for every town to look out for itself.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
If They Were White.

Troy Messenger,
 If the so-called peons of Alabama had been white instead of negroes would those perspiring patriots at the "Narth' have been rendlng their garments at such a reckless rate? Well, hardly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

all sides that there is a growing sentI- ment against the negro. This is sadly unfortunate. we deplore it greatly, but so long as Roosevelt and Booker Wash ington inc.te him, so long will the whites use every necessary means to combat his attempted social encroachment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
No Better Way.

Eufaula Times.
 Now that Alabama is prosperous. she should show the world why she Is pros porous, and there is no better way to do it than to have a creditable exhibit at the St. Louas Exposition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

Bishop Coleman of Delaware. at the annual convention of the Protestant Epis- copal Diocese of Delaware. assailed cor ruption in the State and said: "A man be afraid and ashamed to do in his own social relations he is to be equally asham- ed to do in politics He is not to be al- lowed to use his church membership as a cloak under whose protecting folds he may be guilty of all manner of deceit and fraud"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

The Richmond Tlmes-Dispatch has lost General Shafter, big as he is, and is somewhat disturbed thereby Perhaps he Is cooling off in some quiet cave.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

The Selma Times refers to Judge Jones as a Judge who is plumbing the law and defying the sentiment of a whole State. you might say. The Montgomery Advertiser and The Mobile Register ex-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

A Kansas man has been travelling in the East and writes back that lie has fountains where Joseph lived in the Bible days. But he doesn't say word about any Mrs. Potiphar. Perhaps he has a wife at home
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

The Eufaula Times is ahead of all the rest of us. It publishes schedule of one of the railroads as fin effect January 4, 1904"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

The Washington Post ruminates that MT. Watterson lis about to think a couple of columns worth of Grover Cleve- land again." The Post should let the Colonsl enjoy the fragrant mint-bed in euiet while this hot weather holds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

w. A. Scott. Circulation Manager Of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn. says: The foregoing statement of The Advertisers daily circulation for the month of June. sos. is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from newsboys, news agents and leftover copies have been deducted.
 ". A. SCOTT, Circulation Mgr. Sworn to and subscribed before this 3rd
 day of July. 1908. F. W. JACKSON,
 tSeal.l N. F.. Ex-O. J. P.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
, Y < < < < W ' 4 ' C } WHAT THE STATE PAPERS |
 ARE SAYING.
ARE SAYING
A Few Train Loads.

Birmingham Ledger.
 California has not enough people in her borders to gather her fruit crop. If she will offer a free excursion Alabama will send out few train loads to help.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
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Cardinal Gibbons Was Made Cardinal

Editor The Advertiser: Will you please explain in your next issue of The Advertiser when Cardinal Gibbons was Trade Cardinal?
 Ralf Agrmi. (He ~as invested with the insignia of that office on June 90, lSS6.-Editor The Advertiscr.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

Another indignant citizen" has come to grief by trying to whip an editor this time in Indiana. He is wiser than he was.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Interesting Notes About Persons
 Talked About Now

King Peter of Servia has desired that the censorship on foreign papers shall be removed-an innovation which has made a good impression.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
THURSDAY, JULY ss, 1908.
SUMMER TRIPS.

When you leave home this Summer, have The Advertiser follow you Sent by mail to any address. postage prepaid. at the following rates:
 One W eek. Daily and Sunday. y.............S IS One month, Daily and Sunday. .65 Three months. Daily and Sunday l .9S Foreign postage leach month) extra. 50
 Resort subscriptions are strictly in advance Order before leaving.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

Professor Kossell of the German Irape- rial Health Office, declares, contrary to Professor Koch, that his experiments show that tuberculosis in the human be. ing can be communicated to cattle and vice versa. but that the bacillus in each case is different one
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
James McNein Whlstler,s portrait ol

James McNeill Whistler's portrait of Carlyle is owned by the corporation of Glasgow. Shortly after it was finished a committee from the corporation visited MT. Whistler. intending to purchase the wonderful painting. It wanted to know about the price. which the artist had an- nounced as 1000 guineas. Didn't you know the price before you came here" knew. but" Then let's talk about something else.' interrupted Whistler Thecanny Scots bought the picture and trust them-got bargain.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23

pr. S. Weir Mitchell says too much im- portance is attached to college athletics. In letter to the senior class of Pennsyl- vania he says; You have lost out of your college life that which it were bet ter to have kept. We played hard in my college days, put We talked of our sports less than you do. You, I fear. caFe too little for your intellectual athletics.l Attn letic sports are means, as l see them to insure that the body shall be mada and kept sound"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-23
Can't Break It.

Even the warm Summer months do not af- Feet the circulation of The Advertiser. The following detailed statement for the month of June proves conclusively that the usual high water mark is being maintained: