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The Patriotic South.

(From The Springfield Uniou)
We are glad to note the exceedingly
patriotic tone of majority of the south
ern newspapers. We have already had
occasion to compliment the loyalty and
good Anericansm of The Memphis
Scjmitar and The Chattanooga Times
and now here comes The Atlanta Con-
stitution with profession of faith winch
is all that the most ardent patriot could
desire The Constitution was led to make
confession of its principles in consequence
of an editorial in The Milwaukee News
doubling whether the solid south would
support the administration at Washing
ton in any aggressive efforts to MAINTAIN
the open door in Manchurla
The Constitution tells The News not
to worry one silvery moment as to the
attitude the south would assume should
our American interests in China demand
the demonstration even With force and
arms to prevent Russia from barring us
from our rights in that country To
quote The Constitution exactly THE
solid south is prepared today to stand
by any administration, democratic or
republican, in the vindication of Ameri-
can rights anywhere on earth-as ready
as il was to back up Cleveland in the
Venezuelan boundary case and Mckinley
in his dealings with Spain and the
Cuban affair. As old Commodore De-
catur said at Norfolk many years ago.
the spirit of the south says now Our
country right or wrong our country
Comment is hardly necessary This Is
the way The Union likes to hear a news
paper talk. The United States is not
spelling for trouble with any nation. but
it's a mighty good thing to Yet the world
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SECTIONALISM AND JUSTICE,
The Increment to Fair Dealing Sup
piled by THE Constitution In
fluence.

IIuGnCG.
(From The Philadelphia Press)
in the article copied in another column
The Atlanta Constitution justly objects
to the use Of the word southern" by
The Press in describing III" Wilmington
me-. The app'ic; ton of the term is
both fair and unfaf, There eref NOR,
lynchings in the south than in the tno4,i
The wrong is more common there and
so is the crime which most commonly
iucites it.
But it is invidious to treat it as sec
tional and the criticism on that point IS
fair Given like conditions, it appears in
northern states. Its existence anywhere
is in close proportion to these conditions
Where they are it is. The greater ire
quency of the causing crime at the south
precautions more frequent lynchings.
NoY the condemnation of the lynch
ing mob either northern or southern. The
disgrace is not sectional. 1t is national.
All Americans feel it. Mr. Clark Howell,
the manly and vigorous editor of The
Constitution, is stirred over the CHASTITY
disgrace of the Delaware mob, not be-
cause the MOB is just north of Mason
and Dixons ine-though in a state once
slave holding but because it is a crime
committed by his fellow citizens and we
regret and condemn the southern"
lynching. not because it is southern,
but because it is the act of our fellow
citizens for whom We are all responsible
as they are responsible for us.
This responsibility The Atlanta Consti-
tuition and Mr.. Clark Howell have al
ways recognized. He has right To OBJ
ject TO the label southern" applied to a
lynchng because he and the newspaper
j,a 10 no
this evil in their own constituency and
their own state. Both have attacked it,
when public sentiment and racial feeling
ran high, with courage, with effect and
with steadily increasing success in Great
ing a sounder public opinion
The whole country profits by this serv-
ice, just as the whole country is disSraced
by the crime of lynching. The task is
common one, The fight knows no sec
tional lines. Mr.. Howell is as earnestly
engaged in it as any man, north or south
He knows and realizes that the way to
remove ynchng is to remove the condi
tons that cause lynching, to lift the i'm
bruted animal, violent man, be he white
or black. to higher level. Mr. Howell
has supported industrial education for
the negro. lie has urged the improve
ment of schools for both races. He has
made his newspaper a power for those
steps by which nations rise
BY them lynching will be cured and by
nothing else. Mobs are never cured by
mere legal repression. They disappear
when the education and elevation of a
community have left it without the ma
teria which makes mobs. Such an adj
vance is neither southern nor northern
and the long effort to secure it is not a
sectional, but a national duty, TO be dis
tuition says. by each sweeping before his
own door" but also by expressing the
national condemnation of local crime
wherever it appears, north or south in
Delaware or Georgia, and In this The
Press has left no doubt of its position.
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don their homes. This is an old trick.
and frequently it is effective. 1t did not
work in this instance. however. What
followed is related in a letter TO The
Outlook from a lawyer Of Brookhaven,
Miss, who is acting for some of the ne
groes. He writes:
The negroes of Lincoln county complained
Of this treatment, and the governor Offered
a eward for the conviction of persons sdil y
o. giving such notices and making such
threats Affidavits were made against, sew
eral persons charged with this offense- r.
forwards = ~ We're trieu az Brookhaveu,
coe.tg..s"a o Lincoln county by judge r
eli ana Fes. Il
were boE- ~ Of
bcrs Of the bar in the ,d1.
fend the whitecappers rer,.
Of the grand jury the result Wa se1 4
in each Indictment. The Judge imp6hed n
fine ana put each convicted person Under bond
to keep the peace These convictions we're
occurred upon the testimony Of Two negro men
who recognized the whitecappers upon the
night they were warned by said whitecappers
to- vacate the farm they were renting
The attorney adds that these indct-
ments and convictions have, without
doubt, suppressed the whitccap movement
in that neighborhood and that the re-
wards offered by the governor will be
paid to the two negroes who had the
courage TO lllNOhS me lcW ana UGLY tt4F
mob This incident stands much TO the
credit of the government of Mississippi.
1T likewise shows how easy it is to put
down lawlessness when officials are really
in earnest to do so from the start The
whitocap movement and the lynchine
movement have assumed threatening pro-
portions simply because they have been
PLAYED with by the authorities in their
early stages. The Charleston News and
Courier, speaking of the recent Illinois
lynching, from the depth Of large expe-
rience with that sort of disorder. says;
We have no reproaches for the people Of Illi-
nois, however They will find that the lynch
ing habit viii grow upon them as il has
grown upon the people OF the commemorative
which have permitted the mob to take the
place OF the law The lynchins Of men in
the south for one offense has been followed
by the lynching OF men for other offenses
and so it viii be in Illinois If Che public SEN
ti1neut of that state is not aroused to the
dangerous tendency of the incident at Belle
Vile
AS the lesson of Wilmington teaches the
danger Of showing any tenderness for the
mob the lesson of Lincoln county teaches
the power of law to do justice and main
tain order if those charged with the duty
of enforcing it repress without taiierlnS
every riotous manifestation AZ its begin
ming.
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HANSON OPPOSED TO
CHILD LABOR Leg
|SLAT|0N.
Hall of House and Gallery Filled
with Those Concerned About
the Measure-Carefully Pre-
pared Argument on an
Important Question.

Before an attentive and appreciative au-
dience which filled the hall of the mousse
of representatives. and, in part, the gal
lerv. Major J. f. Hanson, of Macon one
of Georgia most prominent business men
and manufacturers. delivered an address
last Monday night on the proposed LABOR
legislation pending before the present
general assembly.
1t was shortly after S O'Clock when the
address was begun. and at that time
members of the legislature and others in
terested in the discussion were still gath
erine
On the sneakers stand with Major Han
son were Hon. Clark Howell. president
Of ,e senate and Hon. J. d. Howard
speaker pro tenn. of the mousse speaker
Morris being absent
Major Hansons address was made on
official invitation from the house. which,
nv resolution. extended to him the use
of the hall After being introduced to
the audience by Mr.. Howell, Major Han
son began his address. He said:
The opponents of child la Dor have
demanded of the legislature at every SEES
sion for several years the enactment OF
laws that viii prevent children under
u years of age from working in cotton
mills. They also desire to restrict the
employment Of children under Ii years
Of age by requiring that in advance of
employment they shall furnish ceruh-
Gates that they have attended school six
out oil the preceding twelve months. They
Furthermore propose TO intiict upon these
mills the pains and penalties provided for
the violation Of the law, which would in
volve the transfer of parental response
bilitv to the mills and parental author
ity in the government of children to the
state
The advocates Of this legislation may
he classified as follows:
Il Wen meaning men and women who
look only at the employment OF children
without considering the necessity there
for. and from sympathy for them by tea-
SON of their unfortunate condition, pro-
pose 70 prohibit their employment
'- Those who desire 10 restrict the sup
pi1 al cotton mill labor and otherwise
ombarrass cotton mills of this and other
southern states
81 Dema goaues Of all races, sexes and
classes who are ready at all times to take
any side Of any question if ii promises
Personal prominence. preferment or
profit
Whether they have so intended or NOT,
they have created the impression upon
the public mind that the cotton mills
are ir favor of child labor an original
proposition. and are seeking to cncoura sc
and promote it. In view Of this impress
eipn which is false. I appear before you
hv request Of the Georgia Industrial AS
s1ciation composed almost entirely OF
cotton mill representatives. to discuss mis-
question specifically in its relationship to
our cotton mills, and broadly as social
problem. II has never been discussed here
otherwise than AS a sentimental question
Tn. facts that make child abOr necessary
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Let Them Be independent.

Il appeal in behalf of those people to
the legislature and the state not to allow
any interference with their privilege to
work when and where they Will, and to
give them chance to grow up 10 skill
ful employees, as other children have
done who now as men and women are
working at good wages in southern mills,
who live in good houses many of them
mothers and fathers of children, who in
their turn Will take their places in the
opera lions of the great cotton mill indus
try of the state. or who Will be trained
up for competent work in other useful
Occupa tons ] appeal to YOU not to make
Migrants Of those who are willing to
work. by teaching them to depend upon
charity for what they are not willing to
work for. for in the end this policy will
destroy their reliance upon themselves
and send them to join the ranks of the
idle. disgrunted and worthless who are
at war with all the conditions upon
which organized society depends because
without effort on their part, honors and
fortune have not been thrust upon them
Georgia is suffering more from idle
ness than she is from ignorance. We do
from working who will work but on the
contrary the greatest necessity Of the
time is more stringent vagrant laws
made capable Of enforcement. so that the
thousands of idle drones. white and col
ored. who are now infesting every com
immunity in the state may he forced to
work.
HThe mea sures you are called upon to
Ware based upon the assumption that
W under T. years of age .,n1 al.
toric5 '"'S
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the child labor question. feeling that they
should have great weight with the legis-
iature and the public and confidently be-
lieving that they will make up a side,
and true side, to this question, of which
neither have SO far been sufficiently in
formed
For more than. twenty-five years a
rule has obtained in the mills under my
management against the employment of
children under twelve years of age |
90 not say that this rule has never
peen evaded or violated. In some in
stances children under twelve years of
age have doubtless been employed
through misrepresentation as to their
ages In other instances mothers have
frankly stated the ages of their children,
and when under twelve years of age
through appeals for employment as the
only basis upon which the mothers and
children could subsst. What Is true of
these mills is true. | doubt not with
reference to most or all of the mills
of the state. They have also entered
into an agreement by which they are
pledged not to permit the employment
of children under twelve years of age
Result Of Cause.
Child labor is rendered necessary by
poverty through inheritance or misfor-
tune. and is therefore the result of cause;
the symptom of disease which legislation
cannot cure Much of it is traceable to
unrestricted marriage the death or mis-
fortune of husbands and fathers. and the
abandonment of wives and children by
unfeeling husbands and unnatmra1 "a
theirs Legislation far has failed to
protect society against tl& first and last,
second | do not mean TO say that I am
in favor of legislation TO restrict mar
riage; l am simply stating the causes
that result in poor children. and which
cannot be ignored in any candid discus
taken INTO account j., cone;doring rotion.I
remedies for If. II is true however.
that men and women ono or hotb of
whom arc mentally az nhvcicallv deG-
Gent. and who have NOT The means of
supporting \ family and are unable to
earn such support are in many cases
parents of large families of children.
who must no sheltered clothed and fed
'If child labor is wrong II is the effect
of raueo tho evnntopo of disnase ana
the treatment nronosed is tbn treatment
for effect instead of cause of symptom
instead of disease If evil ii be it is
the evil arising from poverty which can
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IF YOU WILL TRY 1T we will send the
copies and everything necessary, Including
A Dainty Little Booklet in which twenty i've
out of more than six thousand bright poys
tell in their own way inst how they have
made a success of selling The SATURDAY
EVENING Posi- outside of school hours.
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ATruSt Builder
in Knee Trousers
pOy DUDLEY is the "promoter" of q thrust "

co,,,od school Virginia confb.cc
OF dividends amunAd
S33 20 he =
Dudley started sell The 5ntarday E0enng
The
The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1903-07-06
Do You Suffer with Pi,ese

Do they protrude?
Do they bleed?
Do they pain you?
Do you have mucous or bloody dis
charges?
can certainly cure YOU. Write me
fully. Advice perfectly free. DR..
Tucker. Is Broad street. Atlanta, Ga.
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Mrs Alexander Hamilton introduces
cream into Washington. and it
that President Jackson had a gr
with the first lot he ran into.
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Grandson for King Edward.

London, July 2.-Princess Charles.
Denmark. daughter of King Edy't
gave birth TO a son today at AppleH x
tage Sandrinsham. Both motfJ
child are doing well
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4 the body, and it must be purified
gained 1t requires something more
lie constitution, for unless the poisons
/ are destroyed, they will further i'm
EN-, and you continue to lose weight.
and tonic properties combined. 1t
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-02

DEWEY'S TION.

Washington. March 30. AT the in
stance of the President. Admiral
Dewey has called by appointment at
the White House and made full eX-
PLANTATION of recent newspaper inter
view in which the admiral was quot
ed as saying that the Caribbean Sea
manoeuvers were an object lesson to
the Kaiser, more than to any other
person.. The admiral assured the
President that he had no intention of
rejecting on Germany, her Emperor.
or her navy, and while the statements
credited to him were substantially
what he said, he neglected to caution
the interviewer against quoting him.
Berlin. March 30.-The German
press almost without exception refers
to the recent interview given by Ad-
miral Dewey to a Newark, N. j., pa
per in terms of bitterness. The Vas
siche Zeitung says: Admiral Dewey
is worthy imitator of Captain Cogh-
Ian, who at a New York club gave a
boastful toa; bristling with insults
to Germany, and warmed up the ex.
ploded story that Admiral Dewey COM
PEELED the German fleet at Manila to
lie to when it refused to respect the
blockade. Captain Coghlan seems,
however, to have spoken from Admir-
al Dewey's own heart Captain Cogh-
Ian was disciplined, and President
Mckinley expressed to the German
ambassador his regret that the Incl
dent occurred. The same thing must
perhaps be done now, in order that
superheated Deweys may be cooled
down. Political generals and admir-
ais, at any rate, are not sign of
wholesale political conditions.
The 'Tagleblatt" sees in Admir-
al Dewey's words confirmation of its
oft repeated assertion that the United
States's easy victory over Spain has
produced certain exaggerated mill.
tary self conceit
The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-04-02

Lila Mower of Barre spent Sunday
with her mother.
Minnie and Mildred Robinson went
to Plainfield last Saturday evening,
when Mildred and Mary Van Ornam
gave their cake walk dance, it being
the close of singing schools in that
village.
Mrs. Elgin Mann returned from
Cabot, Sunday.
Elgin Mann has bought the red shop
at Maple Corner and is soon to move
there.
Alice Lamphere came from Boston
last Thursday. She left her mother
improving in health.
1t is reported that district No. 5 is
to have but one teacher the coming
summer, Miss George Hawkins.
John Thompson intends to build a
barn very soon. A number of new
boats are being built to put on Curtis
pond in June.
One of Will Coburn's children has
diphtheria but is better at the pres
ent writing.
John Mills returned from Barton
last Saturday night.
Eula Carr is visiting at Alton
Sloan's.
At meeting of the school board
recently Inez Cameron was elected
uperintendent.
Miss Cameron is to teach at No. 10,
Ellen o. Baily at Sodom and Georgia
Hawkins at Maple Corner. Some of
the schools are yet to be provided
with teachers.
The sugar makers have had little
more sap but the quality of sugar will
not be very good.
The license commissioners had q
meeting Saturday at the town clerk Is
office. d. II. Leonard was made
chairman and clerk We do not heal
that any application for license has
been presented yet.
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NEWBURY.

Orange County Pomona Grange met
here Tuesday, March 81.
The drama and entertainment
planned by Pulaski Grange has been
postponed to April 10.
The ladies of the Methodist church
will give sugar social at E. M.
Browns Wednesday evening, April /.
Charles Laskey lost the end of one
thumb at the sawmill, last week, by
an edging saw
A. W. Silsby was in town last week
and soon goes to Maine, where he has
lumber interest.
The whooping cough epidemic is
still on, and many citizens are suffer-
ing with grip and hard colds.
@. j. Richardson and wife are visit
ing in Stowe.
DR.. Russell is out again after his
severe attack of the grip.
Rev. G.. S. Butler, who went from
Newbury about 1875, visited at S. l..
Swassy's last week. Mr.. Butler is
now professor of Systematic Theology
in the Atlanta Theological Seminary.
The pastor of the Congregational
church preached the first of series
of sermons on the ancient religi ons
last Sunday evening. Subject, 1.-THE
Religion of Egypt" O. G.. Thomas
of the White entertainment bureau
was recently in town.
Prof. @. r. Taggart is soon to &c
on lecture tour in Connecticut.
Henry G. Rollins has moved into
hi new home recently purchased on
Pine street.
The maple sugar season is pretty
near izzle. Very little has been
offered for sale at the stores. The ex-
change for the Peoples Telephone has
been moved to the house of Mr.. Wells,
the barber.
| Miss Elsie Burroughs has returned
| to school at Montpelier Seminary.
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EAST ROXBURY.

Mrs. Charles Robbie is quite ill. DR..
@. S. Shaw is attending her.
A son was born to Mr.. and Mrs.
Guy Bancroft March "a.
Leila Webster returned to her school
last Saturday.
Miss Eta Chamberlain, teacher
in the Union school Montpelier, was
the guest of Leila Webster last week.
Mrs. Wilson of Worcester, Vt, is
with her daughter, Mrs. Guy Ban
croft.
Mrs. Maud Mudgett was i'll last
week with heart trouble. DR.. Ellis
was called to see her.
Mrs. John Verge and Mrs. Matte
Wardner were guests at A. l.. Rich s
in Brookfield. last Friday.
Elder Ora Boyce was in Montpelier
one day last week.
Miss Ethel Rich was at j. Verge's
last week on her way from Mortified
to her home in Brookfield.
Carl Thayer was ill with grip last
week.
. Mr.. LaRose has sister visiting
him.
Henry Shea was in Randolph last
Wednesday.
A party of twenty-five. through the
kindness of Elder and Mrs. Ozrs
Boyce, were treated to new sugar OF
snow at their home in this village
last Tuesday afternoon.
A representative of the Burlington
Free Press was in town last Friday.
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"NO CORN WHEAT"

The department of agriculture re-
ports that an enormous number of let
ters is being received at the depart
ment from farmers in all parts of the
country asking for definite informa-
ton concerning a so-called new grain
called 'corp wheat" and usually at
the same time requesting samples for
trial.
These letters are the result of wide
ly published newspaper reports. Thu
department authorizes the statement
and there is no such thing rs corn
wheat, and it is probable that no hy-
brid of corn and wheat could ever be
produced, or at any rate, one that
would be fertile.
The grain which caused the news
paper publications is known correctly
as Polish wheat. The newspaper re-
ports, the department says, are cor
rect in saying that the head and
grain of this wheat are very large,
the grainss being in many cases actu-
ally twice as large as those of ordi-
nary wheat. The statements that it
yields sixty to one hundred bushels is
however, probably considerably ex-
aggerated. The experiments made by
the agricultural department and by
experiment stations in a few places
show that the yield is rather disap-
pointing. The wheat has been grown
only experimentally in this country.
except in a very few places. From
experiments so far made the inference
would be that the grain would be very
good as hog food. Polish wheat is
much restricted in its adoption and
the department says could not be sue
cessfully grown anywhere east of the
Mississippi river. The department has
no seed of the grain in stock.