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The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
Rural Free Mail Deliveries.

Since Fourth Assistant Postmaster
General Bristow took charge OF the
rural free mail delivery service he has
begun a systematic interference with
the scope and efficiency of that indis-
pensable service. After his crude
uppish and intrusive Kansas fashion
he has begun, falsely in the name OF
economy, a system of reOrganlZatlons
that are nothing other than reprisals
against congressman whom he dislikes
and this section especially. 1t is not
pleasant to make such a charge, but
time enough has been had to give
indubitable proof of these mean pur-
poses.
For no good reason that he has been
willing yet to disclose he refuses to
establish six of the routes inspected
and recommended by his own cOntiden-
tial officers as necessary TO just ser
vice of the people of Fulton county.
In Newton county, where there is a
perfected system Of rural free delivery,
he has undertaken to order off the dis
trihuting wagon and otherwise emas-
culafe the service The like com
plants come from congressman of
Georgia. of all the southern states and
of the middle west and northwest
Now the people of the country, the
business men Of the cities, the news
papers and the representatives, OF con-
gtituencies do not mean to abide by
these Russian methods of MIR. BristoW.
The intimacy and efficiency Of the
mail service touches almost every
home, shop, store and office in the ma
ton. The postal department work is
the one unanimously required and in
dorsed function of the government.
The man who mars its symmetry and
balls up it's efficiency will do so ar his
peril.
In this case Mr. Bristow is not i'm
periling his own head and lncumbency.
He is doing an infinite damage to his
party and to the president. Even
the alleged marvellous popularity OF
Mr.. Roosevelt cannot survive wave
of popular Indignation against the
wrongful acts of his fourth assistant
postmaster general. AS between get
! ting their mails promptly and getting
Roosevelt for president and BristoW
for his postal prophet it will not take
the farmers and merchants of the
United States more than a couple of
minutes to decide which they will
have.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
The Holocaust in New York.

A page of fash-light photographs
showing the night struggles of the
tenement jewellers in New York to
get fresh air is before us Men with
haggard faces, women with dropping
figures ami naked children sprawling
restlessly on roof and fire escapes
all painting for a cooling breath OF air!
Out yonder a few miles the great
ocean heaying out tons OF health
with the flowing of every wave and
ozone for the support of hundred
million more than are in New York
city is blowing in great gusts against
Staten and Coney islands. But the
great solid brick and marble build
ings and the paved streets that are
sending up almost volumes of radiat-
ed heat absorbed during the torrid
days, cut off these free gifts of God
as with wall OF fire, and the chill
dren of the furnace-like slums of the
city blister, wither and die by scores
in a single street and hundreds in a
single city ward every day
1t is most pitiful view of the
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of municipal life
in our country Millions have been
spent in New York to build a speed
way on which only the wealthy own
ers of fabulously priced horses can
drive. But better service to human
ity and to the happiness of the poor
by the expenditure of ten times as
many millions in better housing and
ventilation for the miserably cramped
tenement dwellers in the thick of the
city
Just such callousness by municipal
authorities to the cOmmonest appeals
of humanity provokes the suggestion
that no man can say what will not
happen to that city and that nation
which tolerates a residential condi-
ton for its. poor million such as this
New York paper has SO graphically
and ruthlASSlN eXnOSed
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
rnmioration IS a Menace.

Immigration Commissioner Sargent
utters a strenuous note OF alarm over
the increasing number and decreasing
character of the immigrants that are
overlooking upon our shores from
every ship hailing from the other side
of the Atlantic.
The hegira from Egypt was not
circumstance to be mentioned In the
same hour with observations on the
enormity of the numbers OF families
fleeing from the cOngested districts or
F,nrope and hard conditions of life on
that continent.
Somebody asks why do not Ger
MANY. France, Italy and other coun-
tries try to stop this great loss OF
nopulation? Because they are not
losing population Their millions are
breeding new population faster than
the ships can bring their SURPRISES to
us. 1t is a relief to every one or
those countries to get rid OF adult
workers and eaters and make up the
loss by infant births-the creatures
mat do not fight for work and rage
for bread
The problem this vast accumulation
of immigration is creating Tor the
American people viii soon become
dominant and have to be dealt with.
1t is condition that is already trans
forming our cities--cities like New
York, Boston. Cincinnati and chicago
into foreign cities, the Americans
being in an ominous minority. Ana IL
will be a question of moment IN those
states where, when voters were need
ed, the foreigner was given the bal
lot before he had time to exchange
his European sabots for American
brogans They will find 1t difficult to
change their suffrage laws and the
Americanism of their people Will be
engulfed by the foreign influx, sweiled
into a decisive majority.
The congress of the United States
can afford some relief by hardening
the conditions of entry for immigrants,
but once entered they become moor
porated in the citizenship OF states
with alarming suddenness and are not
to be relied upon TO stand for all ana
singular the essentials of q loyal, In
telligent and patriotic Americanlsm.
1t is building up great problem
that will require almost superhuman
wisdom for its safe and right solu-
ton.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
Writings of the Money Power.

The president has been having a lit
tie Capitalization, as Brother Dickey
would term it, with Senator Platt and
Uncle Joe Cannon, down at Oyster
Bay.
The object evidently was to reach an
agreement on the policy OF the party
in the November special session of
congress on the financial relief ques-
ton. At present the esteemed repub-
Ilcan leaders are as much at logger
heads over the matter as the demo
Gratis were when they declared for
Is to /. over the protest Of others who
insisted that we should be bigger and
holder goldbugs than any in the whole
wide. wide world.
The Fowler currency bill had a foot
ball of a time in congress last session.
It's principal aim is to declare the If
revocable gold standard and expand
tho currency on the foundation OF cred
& measured by bank assets. The main
objections to ii, and which promise to
no fatal ones, come from his own side
of the political arena. 1t does not give
that sort of expansion Of the currency
that the money powers desire, because
II menaces their present monopoly in
the money centers. Hence it is al
ready aenemic and marked for death
Rrothers Hanna and Aldrich, mean
time have been over at the Virginia
Warm Springs brewing new bill that
tbav think is a pOttage for which the
American people will freely surrender
their birthright of sovereignty over
money TO the mongers of the ex-
changes. These two-the Mephisto
and the Machiavelli of the money
rower In the republican party-dO not
believe in giving plenteous money to
the neople, otherwise the people would
not he dependent upon the Shylocks Of
wall street. TLey want to maintain
q money system that will keep control
- tba currency in New York instead
If in Washington. They believe the
nrosnerity Of the country writes its
progress on the ticker-tapes OF the eX-
abonoe e;mbler and not in the rec
I'd of the bureaus of the govern
,,ent Secretary Wilson may count
49, bushels of our wheat, corn and
oats and weigh the pounds of our
49, 49,, crop. but the Hanna-Aldrich
mime is determined that Wall
otreet shall fix the prices at the doors
mo bins. cribs and gins of the whole
Eyidently President Roosevelt wants
timing done to stop the rising tide
nrotest against money shortness in
" oaasons of every other sort of ahlnd-
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
Democrats Are Getting Busy.

The democrats appear to be getting
busy all along the line. Those who
have been prominent as leaders have
reached tho interviewable stage and
new men with ideas of who's who and
what's what are writing for the coun-
ty anG provincial newspapers.
This is a good sign. 1t shows that
the active factors in the party are not
inclined to pessimism. Inc trend OF
all they are saying is that there is
democratic life in the old land yet and
if the followers of Jefferson will only
get together upon a platform adjusted
to the peoples national needs. no
more and no less, there is an even
cnance to win next year.
There seems to be no disposition
anywhere to believe that Mr.. Roose-
welt is an invincible person. On the
contrary, looking to his individual
strength as political leader, he is
considered essentially weak at many
points. His chance to win depends
entirely upon the always superb or
ganization and management OF the
corruption funds of the republican
party. That he has condescended 10
be led by the leaders OF his party IS
now plainly seen by the whole coun-
try and his former prestige as a man
of Independent patriotism and eXecu-
tive firmness no longer exists.
Another good sign in the democratic
situation is that no faction OF the
party is urging any radical issues cal
culated to divide the general action OF
the party. The spirit of compromise
and harmonious decisions within the
ranks is everywhere felt and Will man
jfest itself in a positive way in the ma
tional convention That body prom
Uses TO be made up of earnest demo
Gratis bent on making the party com
pact. magnetic and aggressive.
Discussions of the future platform
all point in one direction. The coun-
try is suffering today the dread of ac-
cumulating evils from the Dingley tar
if schedules and the trusts they have
saddled upon the backs of the people
Whatever expansion OF currency as
occurred by the coinage of our silver
bullion without warrant Of law and
by the enlargement of our gold stock
has been overDalanced by the absorb
ton and locking up Of vast volumes
of money in inflated stocks and bonds.
Liquidation and losses from that peril
OF prosperity are already raising the
specter of panic.
1t will be the opportunity OF its life
next year for the democracy to go to
the country sQuarely with candidates
and a platform guaranteeing honest
American tariff reform and financial
policy for the benefit of business in
stead of W and for wall street gam
hlpTS
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
CATHOLICS IN THE PHILIPPINES
Training of Priests Is Discussed
with President Roosevelt.

Win GreS1QenJ Roosevelt.
Oyster Bay, n. Y, July 24-President
! Roosevelt arrived at Sycamore Hill from
Sayville at 1875 o'clock today He left
Lods Lake. the country home OF his I'M
Gle, Robert q. Roosevelt, at 4 o'clock
this morning, accompanied by his eldest
son, Theodore, N, and his two nephews
The trip consumed seven hours and a
half The president and his young com
panions arrived at Sycamore Hill some
what fahsued, but otherwise in excellent
condition.
Bishop Hendrick, of Rochester, n. Y,
called on the president this evening to
discuss with him conditions in the Phil
ippine islands, especially those directly
affecting the Catholic church He told
the president that it would be the par
ticulsr effort Of the four American Dish
ops appointed recently for service in the
Philippines to build up in tho archipelago
a hlSh~class native priesthood. It Was
the belief of the authorities of the Cath
Ollie church, after an exhaustive inVesti-
cation. that the solution of many prob
lens of both the church and the state
In the Philippines was dependent in o
great measure on the creation of a ma
tive priesthood During the Spanish re-
eine in the islands every possible dbsta-
Gle placed in the way OF the educa-
ton of native Filipinos as priests.
In addition the suggestion of Father
Edward Nattman chaplain of the
Twentieth United states infantry, that
Filipino priests be brought to this coun-
try To complete their education at the
Catholic university at Washington and
other institutions in this country viii be
followed. BY this means the native Fill
pino priests viii familiarize themselves
with American methods and American
ideals. The services of such body of
trained priests, 1t is pointed out. will be
of iucalculable value. not only to the
Catholic church. but also to the American
government IT. the Islands. Both Presi-
dent Roosevelt and Secretary Root are
in hearty sympathy with the proposed
effort because they realize fully its impor-
lance to the United States government
Secretary of the Navy Moody arrived
at Sycamore Hill this evening to discuss
with the president some departmental
matters, including, 1t is understood tho
report respecting the increase of the
navy 1t is believed that, with the APP
prevail of the president Secretary Moody
viii recommend the construction OF sew
eral additional battle ships and a num-
Der of scout ships.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
All Should Read It.
(From The Camilla Enterr

(From The Camilla Enterprise)
The Atlanta Constitution. III addition TO
its already well filled columns OF good
reading matter, has added another fea-
ture that should considerably Increase
its popularity. They are now publishing
in serial form Thomas Watson's Life
of Thomas Jefferson" This will be fol-
lowed by the lives Of several other prom
inent southern statesmen. IN these bl-
ographies Mr.. Watson proposes TO give
all sections a fair show, and to correct
some of the errors in regard to southern
history, as written by northern authors
1t is getting high time that the south
should receive justice at the hands Of
the historian We should read ard en-
courage our children to read such books
as Tom Watson's Jefferson" 1t should
be read in serial form while being pub
iished, placed in our library shelves when
printed In book form, and taught in our
public schools.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
The Cotton Corner.

The probabilities seem to be that
the bull crowd in the cotton market
has about reached its limit of power
to sustain prices and that before the
July deliveries are due there will
come fall in present prices.
1t is apparent that many southern
planters, encouraged by present crop
prospects, have sold for the fall
months literally and will, if the crop
natures naturally. make excellent
profits on spot cotton deliveries in
those months
The American spinners have closed
mills and stopped a vast array OF spin
dies while in many other mills short
hours and small production is the pre-
vailing rule. The bull clique has had
to take in 10000 bales more than
was calculated for by them when
they started their campaign and the
stock they have on hand is rapidly
nearing the competition Of the new
crop. The fight now is to determine
which can win out, the mills or the
market boosters?
Meanwhile the effect on prices Of
cotton goods to the consumer is liable
to be serious In any event the mills
must run sufficiently to meet actual
and necessary demands and if they
must produce with cotton costing
around present quotations the extra
price will have TO be paid by the con
sumers. English manufacturers are
alarmed over the situation even more
than those of America. The people
who buy English and other CONT
mental woven cotton are less able to
pay advanced prices than are Ameri-
can consumers. Cheap cotton is the
sine qua non of successful cotton
milling in over-the-sea countries and
if American crops and goods maintain
the average of prices for the past six
months this country can stand the
high levels while our competitors will
have a hard row to hoe.
If by any chance an agreement is
reached between the cOrnering crowd
and the mill people to keep prices of
raw cotton higher than foreign mar
kets can prOftably pay it will not
be long before America will hold the
guiding reins of this branch of man
ufactures and possess the world
markets for cotton goods on terms
with which no European country can
compete.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
There Was No Boss in 1900.

Our valued contemporary, The
Washington Post, is usually fair OF
spirit and seldom stubborn, but it will
insist that Mr.. Bryan "bossed 16 to
l into the Kansas City platform in
1907 1t claims that the plank was
reafirmed by only one vote, and that
was cast by Prince David, as delegate
from Hawaii
Take that to be true, which it is,
and what remains? If Prince David,
OF Hawaii. was admitted as legiti-
pate delegate, why was not his vote as
valid as that of Boss David, of New
York, who voted the other way? And
If the plank was adopted by one vote
majority, did not that give it as firm
place in the platform as if it had
been put there without any objection.
A governor of Massachusetts was
elected many years ago by one vote
that made his majority, and the extra
constitutional electoral commission of
1877 gave Hayes the presidency on one
stolen vote.
The loneliness of the majority did
not prevent the plank from becoming
the backbone of the democratic cam
paign in 1900, did not prevent the
ticket from being supported by hun
dreds of leading men VINO had OPP
posed it III 1896, and did not cause
nearly so much of public fright and
condemnation as the same proposal
did in 1896
The comparison of the democratic
votes of the states supporting 16 to /
with those of the states voting against
it's incorporation in the platform
proves nothing with reference to
whether or not Mr.. Bryan 'bossed
the democratic party in 1900" The
esteemed Post knows that perfectly
and knows it so cutely that it did not
suggest to us to count the electoral
votes of the states that voted pro and
con.
The Constitution must insist that
its statement is correct and that Mr..
Bryan did not force the Kansas City
convention to adopt the 16 to / plank
against its will The delegates who
voted for the plank had been elected
to do so, and many more who had to
be chosen with the like understand
ing were persuaded after reaching
Kansas City to act contrary to their
expectation when they left home.
We repeat emphatically that no one
man bossed the party in 1900. There
were men who wanted TO do so-who
went to Kansas City for that purpose
but when they went away were the
shorn rather than the shearers. 1t is
not a safe thing to try to boss the
democratic party. The man who
would try the experiment will do well
to remember what Josh Billings said
about where be would stand while
preaching the funeral of a mule-at
the far end from mis- hind legs.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
Getting Ready For Fresh Robberies

Not so long ago there was great
deal of alleged activity in administra
ton circles over the prosecution of the
trusts. Although the president had
said that congress was powerless to
legislate these combinations out of
their evil ways and his attorney gen
eral had spoken at Pittsburg that
congress could do SO and had done so,
and to prove it got hot on the trail of
the beef trust and the Northern Secu-
rites trust-where now is all that
fierceneSS gone?
Probably both the president and the
attorney general think the stock mar
ket is doing a-p-enty to the trusts just
now, when an ocean of water" is be-
ing squeezed out of the dropsical and
"indigestible securities" they have put
forth upon the sea Of monopoly and
eXtortion. It may be they expect to
see the common sense of the American
people more quietly and quickly than
any sort of prosecutions force these
businesses" back to sound bases
through the processes of non-support
OF their inflated capitalizations.
Still it is not plain to the layman
how the loss OF vast volume of paper
profits, as they re called, is going to
help the common people who did not
have any of these profits to enjoy in
their minds and out of whom in the
long run the trusts expect to make up
their stock market losses.
BY the destruction of competition
the smaller industrial enterprises have
been bought out and bottled up and
the money paid for them has gone into
the savings banks, where it remains.
The deposits in the banks are in ex-
cess of $S,500,000 600, which is equal
to one-ninth of tho entire wealth OF all
forms IN this country Deposits in the
banks for each of the two past decades
have doubled the increase OF wealth
and population and that means that
the people have generally refused to
invest in the stocks of the trusts and
prefer TO loan their money through the
agency OF the banks.
The natural consequence is now be-
ing felt in the foundations by which
the bondholders Of the trusts are
throwing the stockholders through the
windows and congratulations are the
order of the day. Those who were
speculative enough to buy the shares
are now coming forth from the get
rich-quick trusts utterly shorn OF their
golden fieeces.
The administration has nothing TO
say. meanwhile. 1t has lost its trust
hunting zeal and watches compacent-
" while the manipulators OF monopo-
lies are strengthening themselves to
rule the people on safer lines than
ever il the past. Before the next win
ter is over we think the people Will
have experiences with the trusts that
control necessaries OF life sufficient TO
turn them very strongly toward the
democratic party as the only one that
ie n,edged TO remedial legislation.
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
The Piedmont E1ysium.

We wish that by some magic provi-
dence we could divide with the swell
tering millions of our fellow-citizens
throughout the country the splendid
blessings of our north Georgia eli
mate. 1t is eXhausting and sympathy
creating to read the stories of suffer
ing from the heat that come to us
from all parts of the country north
ward
Here in Atlanta enthroned upon the
foothills of the Blue Ridge we are en-
joying immunity from the broiling Vi
brations of old Old SOILS fiercest en-
ergy and drinking in the cooling airs
Of health from the pine forests and
salt seas to the south of us.
Really there is no better summer
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-27
Business safety-West and South.

Business Safety-West and South.
President Hill, of the Great North
ern railway, is a very astute observer
of business conditions and is, perhaps,
of all the great industrial magnates of
the country the one who speaks most
frankly and sincerely his opinions.
After five weeks of observation in
the east he tells his western friends
that he has no fears for the future of
the general business of the country.
Whatever financial stress Is likely to
come will be largely confined to the
eastern states, where the industrial
plungers have manufactured a great
mass of underwritten stocks that he
very aptly, and better than Mr. Pier
pOnt Morgan, describes as "indigesti-
BILE" rather than "undigested" securi-
ties.
1t is the holders and dependents
upon these tons of paper values, So
called, that are going to feel the
pinch of hard times and many of the
projects which have emitted these
causes of financial dyspepsia will have
to be wiped off the slate before the
east can get down to solid earth again.
So far as the west is concerned her
record breaking crop prospects will
keep her on an even keel and as for