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The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
THEY KISSED TILLMAN
AT A BANQUET
His Impassioned Views on Negro Question Won
Applause, Then Insults.

New York, Feb. 14.-The thirtieth
annual dinner of the New York Press
Club was given tonight at the Wal
dorf-Astoria. On the left of President
Joseph Howard, Jr, sat William ].
Bryan, while Mayor Low occupied the
chair on his right. Senator Tillman
was among the guests.
President Howard announced that
President Roosevelt had sent his re-
grets at not being able to attend. Mr.
Howard also read telegram from Ba-
ron Sternburg, the German minister,
which referred to the Venezuelan set
Element as follows:
-Four men met, negotiated in per-
feet harmony and good faith and now
separate with best feelings of friend
ship. If four men. can agree there
seems to be no reason why four ma
tions should not be able to agree.
L feel confident they will as soon as
they trust and understand one another
in the same way as we did. To facili-
tate and to foster closer understand
ing lies in the hands of the gentlemen
whom l have been looking forward to
meeting tonight. to a very large ex-
tent. They have done so much during
the last weeks of unrest, and 1 con-
graduate them with all my heart for
what they have done in the interest of
peace and good will"
Was StiT with Newspaper Men.
Senator Tillman of South Carolina
said in part:
Il cannot understand why I should
have been the only representative of
the august body of which 1 am
member Now, 1 have a message
which l have come to deliver to you.
in my experience 1 have found that
the better acquainted the gentlemen
of the press become with me the bet
ter they like me. But l ask no favors
of you. I come from a state where the
pc ople do their own thinking and their
own voting.
Il think this is an occasion on
which ] ought to get even with the
press. You have 1865 days in the year
in which to make and unmake public
men, but you don't make and unmake
them in the state of South Carolina"
Referring to the negro question, he
said that President Roosevelt had raised
a subject that will not easily down. It
had brought forth a number of COM
ments from prominent men of the
North, and had raised a storm in the
South. After mentioning a number of
these comments and the men who made
them, Senator Tillman said:
Roosevelt Was Right.
You have had this subject Roose-
velted, Hannaed, Irelanded, and, final
ly, Smooted, and now it seems to me it
is about time that we had some one
who knows something about it say
something. What are my qualifca-
tions?'
First, he said, he had been nursed
by a negro nanny. Then, although
he had not served in the Confederate
army. he had tried to join it, and had
been prevented only by an accident
that deprived him of his eye. Lastly,
he had been upon the ground and seen
the ravages of the war.
Il know something of what this race
question has cost this country. Many
of you who write so flippantly about it
know nothing about 1t, and if you write
about SO grave a subject when you
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

uses a steel point to make on 1t all the
outlines of the picture. The plate IS
linked and print is taken from it.
while the ink is still damp the print
is laid face down on a steel plate, which
has been softened by heating it red hot
and letting it cool Slowly. 1t is then
put jim a press and an exact copy of the
outline is thus made on the steel plate.
This the engraver finishes with his
graver, a little tool with a three corner
ed point. which cuts a clean line with
out leaving a rough edge.
Now, this plate is used for making
other plates-it is never used to print
from. 1t must be made very hard, and
this is done by heating it and cooling
is quickly. A little roller of softened
steel is then rolled over it by a power
full machine until it's surface has been
forced into all the lines cut into the
plate. The outlines of the Vignette are
thus transferred to the roller in raised
lines, and after the roller is hardened
it is used to roll over plates of soften
ed steel. and thus make in them sunk
en- lines exactly like those in the plate
originally engraved.
1.-The center picture is engraved ard
transferred to a roller, like the Wig
nette, but the network in the upper
corners, and also on the back of the
note, is made by the lathe. This ma
chine costs $1,000 price that puts it
beyond the reach of counterfeiters. It's
work is SO perfect that it cannot be
initiated by hand. The lathe engraves
the network on softened steel, and the
figure in the middle of it is then en-
graved by hand. 1t is now hardened
and transferred to roller like the
others.
THE plates from which the notes
are to be printed are of softened steel
and large enough to print four notes
at once. Four engravings of the note
must, therefore. be made on it, and
this is done by rolling the hardened
steel rollers containing the raised pic
lures over it in their appropriate
places, until the pictures are pressed
into it's surface.
THE fine lettering around the bor-
ders of the note is transferred in the
same way, but the other lettering is
put on by hand. TEis process saves
great deal of time and it secures alb
solute uniformity in the four engrav-
ings on the plate.
The back parts of the note are print
ed first, and when the ink is dry the
green back is printed to be followed
by the red stamps and numbers. 1t is
then signed and issued. For greater
security one part of the note is en-
graVed and printed at one place and
another part at another place, when it
is sent to Washington to be finished
and signed
But, needless to say, after all this
care and all this safeguards, many
skillfully executed counterfeits have
been made and issued, some of them so
good as to deceive expert judges Of
money"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

nys, only eighty miles from Paris.
There one of the best and most re-
markable ancestresses of the Hohen-
zolierns was born.
The memory of the Admiral de
Collgny, the great Huguenot, who
persisted in the Bloody Vespers, is
kept so green in France that his old
home, with the remnant of the castle.
is proud historic monument of the
French people. They do not, how
ever, love to admit that it is also an
ancestral seat of the German En-
peror.
Kniser's French Ancestors.
The French blood in the Hohen-
zollern line is direct Louise Henrietta
OF Orange-N Nassau, the great-grand-
daughter of Admiral de Coligny, mar
ried the Great Elector, Frederick VIII
liam of Brandenburg, who won the
sovereignty of the Prussia which
then was a Duchy.
1t was this same marriage which
made the present Hohenzollers de-
scendants also of the great Prince of
Orange, William the Silent, who
broke the power of Spain in the Meth
erlands, Louise Henrietta having been
the daughter of William the Silent and
his wife. Louise de Coligny, who was
the daughter of the Admiral.
1t is a far cry from William the
Silent of the sixteenth century to Will
liam the Reverse of the twentieth cen
fury, but it's all in the family for all
that.
Stirring French History.
The French ancestral home of the
Kaiser lies in the little town of Cha
tillon-sur-Loing, on the banks of the
River Loing. 1t is in the present De-
partment of Loiret, which used to he
the great Province of Orleans, init
inately connected with the most stir
ring and impressive periods of French
history.
Possibly the Kaiser gets some of his
unquiet tendencies from that old infu-
sion of what was the hottest fighting
and rebelling blood in the world. The
life history of all those ancestors in
Orleans reads like a chronology of bat
ties, plots and coroners inquests.
Chatillon-s ur-Loing is about forty
miles from the city of Orleans It
went to sleep long age and has not
the least desire to wake up.
OF all the fierce hatreds and rival
ries, of all the romantic conspiracies
and intrigues, that once made IL the
storm center of France and finally of
Europe, there remains no echo.
1t is a typical French provincial
town now, whose inhabitants attend
10 their daily duties with the pleas
urable ease that characterizes French
provincial towns, and where the most
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

in order. Not until we have done these.
not until the time when the property
acquiring instinct of the country is
again unified upon a basis fair alike
to all. can we rest assured that the
outcome of the encounter need be no
longer feared.
But what is such fair basis? What
changes can we make in corporate pol
icy that will lead to the peopleization
of the proprietOrship of the country?
Will the people, under any conditions
to any large extent enter the field of
corporate ownership? These are practi-
cal inquiries that rise naturally to
mind.
For my own part, I believe that
once corporate organization and man
agement is cleared of thimblerigging
and pitfalls, so that the fortunes Of
an enterprise will be bound up, not
in an oVerstrained organization, but
solely in the vicissitudes or the bust
ness itself, the American people will
be found ready to take up again their
share in the proprietorship of the
country.
THE measures pending in Congress
make no change in the basis of cor
porate organization, nor do they pro-
vide for visitation. They exhibit no
purpose, at least no controlling pur-
pose, to widen the proprietorship Of
the country. The publicity proposed is
confined to the gathering and publica-
ton of statistics, valuable possibly to
the speculator or the trained investor,
but ineffective and worthless to the
ordinary man who may be seeking
ownership. What chiefly is needed is
the Intervention of the government as
trustee, not as a mere newsgatherer;
a guaranty that when a corporation is
created its creator has seen to it that
it is fairly organized, not mere statis-
tics of haphazard corporate organi-
cation, which the people cannot COM
prehend is absent from the hills"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
A CORKER,
But Not Much of n Pastor.

There was an old clergyman in Cen
trail New York state some years ago
who was very powerful speaker but
whose private life was by no means
exemplary. Some of the more out
spoken of his parishioners were in the
habit of demonstrating with him reg
ularly about this, and his reply in
variably was, Don't do as l do, do as
l tell you to do"
1t is so with a great many physi-
clans. There are hundreds of medical
men who fully understand the folly of
drinking coffee and tea, who tell their
patients not to drink either, vet who
use one or the other themselves. But
sometimes it knocks even the doctor
out, and he has to quit Old King Cof-
fee. A physician of Wasioja, Mimi.
says: II was a liberal user of coffee
from my youth, and my health broke
down while at college in 1880. at %
years of age, but l continued to use
coffee until 1898, although l was nerv-
Gus and suffered constantly from a
condition known as diabetes insipidus
a condition that is we'll known to be
due to nervousness. My weight was
below par and no diet or tonic medi-
cines were sufficient to restore my vi
tality and strength.
In 1898 l became suspicious of cof-
fee and / broke off the habit by taxi
ing up Postum. Since that time my
nerves have become strong and well
aud my weight his increased about 80
pounds. Well boiled it is a delicious.
healthful drink heavy with strength
and matchmaking qualities" Name
furnished by Postum Co., Battle Creek,
Mich.
Even II your physician does drink
coffee, you had better do as he tells
you 10 do. Give Postum a trial. That's
the easy way TO shake of coffee and
get well and keep well,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
NEW DOCKS AT FERNANDINA.
Reported That the shOtter Company
VIII Use Them.

Reported That the ShOtter Company
VIII Use Them.
Fernandina, Fla. Feb. IA large
real estate deal has just been complet-
ed, whereby the National Transporta-
ton and Terminal Company have Sc
cured from the Fernandina Dock and
Realty Company 500 feet of wharf
frontage and about twelve to fifteen
acres of marsh land adjacent. The
National Transportation and Terminal
Company is a New Jersey company,
capitalized at 81, 600 900, and has docks
at Savannah and Pensacola. The docks
will be used almost solely for naval
stores purposes, and will be
built almost Immediately. The marsh
land adjacent will be filled and used
for storage purposes. Bids for the
building of the docks have been made
and 1t is expected that the whole
works will be completed at an early
day.
The s. P. Shotter Co, it is under
stood, will do a large export business
through this port over these docks.
Mr.. Carl Moller, their superintendent,
is already here, making arrangements
for the business.
The people of Fernandina are feeling
very happy over the prospects of a
large business for the port.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
GROSSCUP TALKS OF
1.-THE NEW NATION"

Ann Arbor, Mich, Feb. 14-Judge P.
S. Grosscup of the United States Cir
cult Court lectured before the Univers-
ity of Michigan Good Government
Club tonight on the subject of THE
New Nation" Judfe Grosscups speech
was in part as follows:
"In the very nature of things we
must expect that men who do not see
their way clear to an improvement of
their conditions under the old forms of
industrial liberty will entertain SYM
pathy for system that promises some
thing new. The separation of labor
from proprietorship, the separate
mobilization of these two forces, as
enemies, instead of their commingling
in common interest, is the most unre-
publican and menacing fact that now
confronts the American people.
The consolidation idea, thus far has
accumulated this menace. 1t has done
What is still more menacing in narrow
ing the personnel of the proprietorship
of the country, it is detaching from the
friends of property the great liberal
body of citizenship. However we may
wish it, this old-time conservative force
will not, thus isolated, remain station
ary 1t will swing, in time, to those
whose attitude is already opposed to
the institution of property, and in this
movement, would give to socialism al
lies that would make socialism invinci-
BILE. Could the old ideals stand up
against an alliance such as that?
Our first duty is to wake up to the
realities of the situation, and our next
to put the forces of industrial freedom
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
VITAL FORCE.
Is Crushed by Chronic Troubles.

One of the most weakening, under
mining troubles, which mankind is
heir to is hemorrhoids or piles. The
victim is careless and neglectful of the
disease at first because the pain is
slight and the bleeding may only occur
occasionally, or he may be treasured
by the occasional disappearance of the
symptoms. And yet if at the very
start he has found a rational remedy
to soothe the Inflammation, he would
probably never have had a return of
this irritating malady.
Piles may develop at any season of
the year, and at almost any age of the
victim; the abuse of cathartics often
cause this trouble, and a period ar
rives when the dread of pain at stool
becomes so great that the sufferer be-
gins to neglect the calls of nature, and
the bowels are either forced to retain
the feces or are only partially cleared,
on account of the suffering attendant
upon a thorough movement
Before you reach this stage use a
remedy which removes this cause,
thereby eradicating the disease. and
that is the Pyramid Pile Cure which is
sold by all druggists at fifty cents a
package; it is in the form of a suppos-
itory, is applied directly to the parts
affected, and brings about a complete
cure, quickly and painlessly. A valu-
able little book on the cause and cure
of piles is published by the Pyramid
Drug Co, Marshall, Mich. and we ad-
wise every sufferer to send for a
copy.
People who have suffered from piles
for years are often astonished at the
instant relief experienced from the
first application. Another important
advantage is the fact that anyone can
use the remedy without detention from
business or interference with daily oc-
cupation
Il feel it my duty to recommend the
Pyramid Pile Cure. for after suffering
ten years with a most distressing form
OF Piles, ] am entirely cured, thanks
TO this remedy. Anyone doubling this
can write 10 Margaret Brady, l56
Whitman street, Cleveland, Ohio"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
CLOSED THE CONCERN,
BUT PROMISE TO PAY.

Washington, Feb. 14-The Wash
ington branch of the e. ]. Arnold
Company of st. Louis, a turf invest
ment concern, has closed. A bulletin
posted at the offices gives several tele-
grams, dated in st. Louis and signed
by L. A. Gill, the manager, one of
which says:
Had to suspend during the run oc-
casioned by attack of a local paper.
We are all right, solvent, and will pay
everybody"
There are 200 subscribers in this city
each having from $50 to $500 invested.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
GERMAN KAISER'S FRENCH
ANCESTRAL SEAT.

One of Kaiser Wilhelm's passions in
recent years has been to visit the an
cestral seats that have been accumu-
lated by his rowing and acquisitive
family in the past centres during
which the Hohenzollerns have aug
mented their power steadily by war,
barter and marriage.
He has been able to enjoy the desire
to the full extent in the case of prac-
tically all the old family castles, for
they are within the Empire.
But there is one exception. And It
is one Of the most important OF his
ancestral homes, for from it there
came some of the best and most his
toric blood that runs in the present
imperial veins.
It is the home Of the great Colig-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
WAS A GREAT SHOW.

Exhibition of Dogs the Best Ever
Held.
New York. Feb. lathe dog show,
which has been in progress at Madison
Square Garden for the past four days,
closed tonight with the record of be-
ing the best show attended by the
greatest number of people, that has
ever been held in New York.
Of the many breeds exhibited, sport
ing dogs, French bull dogs, old English
sheep dogs, toy spaniels and bull ter
riers have been of a particularly high
character. In the sheep dog classes
the Tilley brothers of England took fir
teen prizes out of sixteen exhibits.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
STAFF BILL NOW LAW.

Washington, Feb. 14.-President
Roosevelt late this afternoon signed the
army staff bill, and it is now law.
One of the first acts following the ap-
prevail of the bill was the promotion of
Col. William F. Randolph. chief of ar
tillery, to the grade of brigadier gen.
eral, in accordance with the provisions
of that act. The other provisions of the
act do not take effect until after the
retirement of Lieut.. Gen. Miles. Aug.
Is, next,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

know nothing of it, you are no less
than criminals.
Mr.. Roosevelt was very wise in
saying it will take the best thought of
both sections of this country to solve
the problem"
Forced to the shotgun.
After an impassioned recital of the
perils to the white population of the
South threatened by the increase of
the power of the negroes in the past
few years. he said:
1--WE were compelled, by the eXigencies
of the situation, to use the shotgun
and the tissue ballots, and we used
both. Why? Because in the state of
South Carolina there were 10000 more
negro voters than there were white
voters"
He said that they in South Carolina
had established their free schools, and
that ever since there had been more
negro children in those free schools
than white children.
do you think it was our purpose to
raise these negro children to con-
dition of enlightenment in order that
they might govern us?" he asked.
by the Holy God, No! Three months
ago the President wrote a letter in
which he said that when a negro show
ed himself qualified to fill public office
he was unwilling to shut the door of
hope in his face"
Commenting on this, Senator Tillman
said that if the present condition Of
education continued and the negro is
to gain control of the state of South
Carolina and the white become subor-
dinate, the deplorable result would be
that in a hundred years the popula
ton would be half mulatto. He had
no practicable solution of the problem,
he said, unless it be that the North
take it's share of the blacks, "if you love
them so WE'LL"
Then They Kissed Him.
His address grew more impassioned
as he continued. At first only applause
greeted his utterances, but toward the
end an occasional hiss was heard, and
finally he was interrupted by a voice
crying, What about your nephew"
Senator Tillman was at the moment
defending the summary measure adopt
ed in the South for the punishment of
negroes guilty of crime, especially
against women. After the excitement
caused by the interruption had subsid-
ed, Senator Tillman said there was
much more he could say and would
like to say, but that he regarded it as
highly inappropriate to refer in public
to family affairs.
belOTe concluding MS ADDRESS, ne
said that if the policy of raising the
negro into power in the South is car
ried too far, the result will be blood
shed, and its flow will be upon the
heads of those who have tried to force
the white population into subsection to
the black.
This was not a threat, he said, but
simply a statement of what he knew
from his acquaintance with the condi-
tons in the South would be the inev-
liable result.
Bryan and journalism.
William J. Bryan said:
Il have taken as my subject, The
Man Without the Hoe I appreciate
the influence of the man with the Hoe
press. You, gathered here, represent
the man with the Hoe, but do not for
get the man without the Hoe. While
we could probably get along without
the daily papers, we could not get along
without the weekly papers. You will
probably find more truth in the little
paper, where the editor is known, than
in the great papers, whose editors are
not known"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
BANK NOTE MAKING.
First Consideration to BaIk Scheme
of COunterfeiters.
From the New York Herald


From the New York Herald.
First in consideration in making n
bank note is to prevent others from
making a counterfeit of it. Therefore.
all the notes of a certain denomination
or value must be exact duplicates of
one another. If they were engraved by
hand this would not be the case. Hand
engraving is more easily counterfeited
than the work done by the process ac-
tually used.
Every note" said an official of one
of the leading bank note companies, lis
printed from a steel plate, in the prem
aration of which many persons take
part. If you will look at a five-doTlar
greenback you will see a picture in the
center. a small portrait. called a Wig
nette. on the left. and in each of the
upper corners a network of fine lines
with darl; ground. one containing the
letter V and the other the figure 8.
To make A vignette II is first neces-
sary 10 make a large drawing on pa
per with great care, and a daguerreo-
type Is then given TO the engraver, who
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15
THE TAKE. OUT STARTS
ON FIRST OF MARCH.

Washington, Feb. 14.-In further ex-
PLANTATION Of the articles of the proto-
coils signed last night by Mr.. Bowen
and the representatives of the allies
here, the following addendum was pre-
pared and duly signed by all of the
negotiators to-day.
Our Interpretation of the protocols
was, and is, that the 80 per cent. of
the total income of the customs re-
ceipts of LaGuayra and Puerto Cabello
shall begin to be set apart on the first
day of March, 1908, and continue to be
set apart through the said month"; and
that the first payment will be due, not
the first of March, but the first of
April. 1903"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-15

An Iowa woman. who was clean
ing house, one day accidentally knock
ed out a brick and some mortar from
the side of little-used room. In do
ing SO she came upon a curious hum
ming sound and a delicate odor. She
told her sons, and two of them climb
ed up the outside of the house and
removed some of the weather boards
to investigate. They were much aston
ished to find that they whole side Of
the house, nearly, had been filled in
by the bees with honey and honey
comb. Taking down the remaining
boards, they carefully extracted the
material. stored it in a convenient
place for the winter, and ate honey on
their mullins for many months there
after