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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
Canadian Ferment.
Pittsburg Dispatch.


 The ferment in Canada over the Alas kan boundary decision Is misinterpreted in three countries. Canada proudly i'm agines that it is really thinking of separa tion from England. England is entertain ing undue fear that such is the case, and some people in the United States are cherishing the supposition that this is a favorable time to turn the Canadian wrath into a sentiment for annexation to this no'ion.
 The delusinn of the latter idea is rlain in the fact that the ma ferial substance of the Canadian redness in the face ia tba 'aggressiyeness' of this country in ae re- fuslng to he teeCed of territory that Cana da wanted. The unreasoning nature Of this anger is evidenced in the accusel 9l tions that the Tinted States contemnlafes seizing Greenland, to which neither gov ernment has the slightest claim sUN1 and which Is utterly valueless to any natJnn Such talk shows that this is inc Ia9 e; favorable time to ask Canada to lisfar to the voice of the wooer.
 As to the Canadian and British tal,y o, Separation that Is for the present maraig s% Il the blowing off of superheatad steam.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1s, 1908.
pAy youR POLL TAX.

At the risk of repeating itself, The Ad- vertiser will continue to urge upon the people of Alabama the duty of paying poll taxes so that they can vote in the elections next year. Those elections will be important and every man should feel 1t a duty to take part in them. To do that, each voter who is subject to poll tax must not only pay it for the present year. but if he has failed to pay for any year under the requirements of the new Constitution, he must pay all arrearages. No one can vote in Party primary who is not legal voter, and those whose poll tax Is not paid will be shut out A man over the age of forty-five is not subject to this tax. but if he owes any back poll-tax which was due at the time he reached the age of 45. he must pay those back dues. In other words, man cannot vote if there are any poll taxes unpaid for which he was at any time liable under the present laws.
 We cannot give the exact figures. but tha reports show that a large number of voters who are subject to this tax have failed to pay it. and they ought to set themselves right. When a voter goes to pay his tax which Is now due. he should inquire if there are any back dues and if there are. he should pay them. It is not the duty of the collectors to demand the back taxes. or to notify the voter that he owes them, but we think it would be both right and proper for the collector to remind each man of it if he has not paid for previous years. We insist that all who are subject to this tax should pay 1t cheerfully. not only because each man ought to vote, but because every man in Alabama should be willing to assist in educating the children of the State. Ev- cry dollar of this tax goes to the school fund, and a man is not doing his duty when he shirks payment of his part of the educational fund. Vote as freemen, and help educate the children, as good citizens
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
Ware, Ala.
B1LK1NG THE cUBANs.
Havana Citizens Having Much Trou- ble With Swindlers From
 United States.
Havana (Cuba) Post.

Havana (Cuba) Post.
 One more American has hastily left Cuba leaving an unsavory trail behind him. The last one to leave was man who was acquainted in some of the very best business circles of the city, and when it was known that he was gone and the circumstances which surrounded his de- parture, every one was astounded. Can we blame the natives from looking ask ance at an American when they come in contact with him in business way? Not when we have such examples as we have recently, where man had done business on the island for three years and then when it was the very least expected de- camped. leaving many people behind to mourn his loss. And see the littleness of his meanness! Not content with beating business men out of large sums of money, he even got down so low as to beat poor widows out of their diamonds, and young boys who had entrusted their savings to him. Such occurrences are enough to make all Americans look suspiciously at one another
 But let us hope that with the riddance of this last bad American we have seen the last os his class in Cuba; that the crowd of adventurers who came over with the army have been weeded out and those who remain and who hereafter come will be of a better kind. For the good name of the Americans, 1t Is hoped that it will be thus.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
A New English Invasion.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.

CIeVeIand PIaln Dealer.
 If Americans are invading British mar kets Great Britain sems to be in fair way to turn the tables on her Yankee rivals in the latter's new Oriental pos sessions. It appears from the statement of Dean Worcester of the Philippine Com mission that, while this country has gone to the expense of subjugating and assi- milating the Filipinos, it is in danger of terprise in the way of trade. He an- nounces that British capital is selzing the most luscious commercial plums that the islands offer; that 1t is building rail roads and obtaining franchises for still ones that will tap the most fertile provinces. In short, the Bri 'ish seem to be intending to let us have the pains of conquest while they reap the harvest which is expected to foll7w the develop ment of our new possessions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
NO NATIONAL RACE ISSUE.

The Pensacola Journal has this to say of one who is occasionally spoken. of as Presidential candidate:
 What German wants is the support of the southern delegates in the next Ma tional Convention, put he is 100 well un- oers tood anu too thoroughly mAS,rusleu to ever secure them by means so transpa- rent as those which he now empIoys. Without going into any argument as to the degree of mistrust with which the the rest of the country, it is enough to say that no national campaign will be waged on the race issue. We have no criticism to make on Democrats in any Southern State who make that an issue in a State campaign. We have done it in Alabama and will repeat it if the neces- sity should arise; consequently We do not condemn Maryland Democrats if they done all over the South and what wlll continue to be done If there is no other. way to keep the Government under con- trol of those who ought to control 1t and who will do so.
 All this, however, offers no reason for making the isgue a national one. or for injecting it into a Presidential l cam paign. We do not agree with Senator Morgan that the words, "The Democratic Party is a white mans Party" should be inserted in the Democratic National plat form. That fact is understood and tacitly accepted by the country. North and South. There are yet some in the North who prate about the absolute equality of the races. but they do not practice 1t In their homes, their workshops or anywhere else, except with their mouths. Their talk about the treatment of the negroes in the South is doing little hurt now, for all are beginning to see that there can be no such thing in the United States as racial equality. Some of their comments and criticisms give offence and to some extent make the task of Southern people harder than it would otherwise be, but we must let them talk.
 But. however much we may deprecate and condemn the efforts of certain im- placables in the North to keep up sec tional bitterness and to interfere in our affairs, it all gives no reason why we should meet them more than half way and furnish them ammunition to shoot us with. The Democrats can find plenty of vital issues on which to make the next campaign without making such a blunder as thIs. for to make the race question an issue in the national campaign would be wrong of itself and would be such a blunder as a great political Party has rarely been guilty of. It would be worse than the Rum. Romanism and Rebel lion" which did so much to defeat Blaine in 1884, and which Pa rson Burchard thought would be a telling expression for his nan.
 To make the race issue would not only be impolitic, but would be useless. It would be useless because it is we'll under stood, North and South. that this Is a white mans government. The Declara- ton of Independence itself declares 1t and universal practice ensures 1t. White men make and execute the laws in New England and in the West, just as they do in the South. and they will continue to d" '' A Republican administration can
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
Past Present and Future.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 Samuel J. Tilden carried the state or New York-that was in 1S76-and should ave had the Presidency. Hancock lost 1t in 1880 and lost the Presidency with 1t. Had he carried this commonwealth, fts vote Tn the electoral college would A. Garfield. Then came the memorable battle between Grover Cleveland and James G. Blaine. Had the Plumed Knight captured the Imperial State he would have beaten Cleveland in the cleo tOral college by 25 votes, but he lost it by a margin so slender that 600 ballots cast the other way would have changed the result and sent him to the White House The victor was not equally for tunate four years later, when he lost his own State. The vote in the electoral col lege was Harrison, 233; Cleveland, 16S. To this result New York contributed S6. Had these votes gone to Cleveland thS electoral college figures would have been: Cleveland, POP; Harrison, 197. In his re- turn engagement with the conqueror, Cleveland more than squared the account, placing to his credit a remarkable achievement-he would have won even had New York declared against him. This exploit was duplicated by Mckinley in 1896 and in 1900. but political condi- tions in these years were abnormal, de- feat being invited by the Chicago and Kansas City platforms and the eccentric ities of the candidate on them.
 In spite of the exceptions to the rule furnished by Cleveland and Mckinley, no serious objection can be filed to the prop osition that New York is the pivotal com monwealth-the real battle-ground There Is hardly the shadow of a doubt that with its electoral votes the Presidency will go in 1904. It has long been in Republican hands, twelve years having elapsed since the election of Democratic Governor Roswell P. Flower. However, in spite of the glamour of the charge at San Juan, Augustus Van Wyck was not badly beat en. and an even better showing was made two years later, when the present Cover nor had only about 5000 votes to spare It is certain that, should the next Ma tional Convention of the Democrats cold shoulder the fantastics, it will send into the field candidates to whom the loss of the Empire State will not by any means be a foregone conclusion. The only es- sential seems to be that the party should keep resurrectionists at a distance, that it shall choose the vital rather than the moribund. Assuming that modern mat ters will engage it's attention that grave yard propensities will not persist, honors during the canvass will be fairly even between the combatants in the pivotal State, which will be something of a nov
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
The Inevitable Must Be Accepted.

Birmingham Age-Herald.
 Here to stay, that Is the situation. We cannot force Panama back to Colombia. We cannot loose our hold eupon isthmian transit. We can do nothing, in fact. but to accept the impudent Varilla and his spontaneous republic, and dig a canal on the Panama route as speedily as possi- ble. This is not what the South prefers It prefers a canal on the Nicaragua route but the schemers at home and abroad have plotted otherwise. and there is really no line of policy open to us except an ac- ceptance of the Panama route together with the republic of Panama. and its French envoy extraordinary. Facts are facts, and conspiracies are conspiracies, and the republic of Panama, the fruit of a vile conspiracy. is nevertheless a fact and the sooner all accept 1t as such the sooner a canal will be dug.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
PANAMA IN AND OUT.
Revolutions Have Been che Rule, Not
 the Exception, in Colombia.

ShO G<4CCRtAo41t AA So&VASA@s
 New York Tribune.
 Some persons talk as though Colombia had always existed just as 1t is now, ana Panama had always been an integral part of it. That Is a great mistake. when President Monroe first recognized its ln- dependence the Republic of Colombia, as it was then called, comprised what IS now known as Colombia and also Vene- zuela and Ecuador. Ten years or so later a revolution occurred, and the Republic of New Granada arose in the place now occupied by Colombia. Venezuela ana Ec- uador seeding and becoming lndepeno- ent. It was with New Granada that Pres ident Polk made the treaty of 1s4S. NOW: that treaty was made with the central government of New Granada, at Bogota But seven years after the making of IL another revolution occurred, in 1853, and the constitution was so altered as to permit any province or state to secede at will and establish its independence, with merely federal relations with the central government. Accordingly, Antioquia did thus secede in 1856, and Panama did the same in 1857. Nevertheless, our treaty of 1S46 continued to hold good in Panama. just as though no secession had occurred It ran with the land.' Again. in 1861, there was another general revolution, and the Republic of New Granada gave place to the United States of Colombia, into which latter union Panama entered to only a partial degree. Finally, in 1SS6 another constitution was promulgated, aDOuSHluS the Ieuefal system anu reuuc- ing the states to the rank of depart ments under the central government. This latter change does not appear ever to have been acquiesced in by Panama, and there has been, there and elsewhere, a practically chronic state of revolt against it.
 Amid all these changes the rights and duties of the United States with respect to isthmian transit at Panama have re- mained unchanged The principles estab- lished in the treaty made with the Re- public of New Granada were maintained toward and under the United States of Colombia. They were not repudiated nor impaired when Panama seeded from New Granada and became practically inde- pendent, nor yet when the clerical-con- servative reaction strove to force the isth- milan state back into complete subjeetion to Bogota. They pertain directly and ex- clusively to the Isthmus of Panama, and must continue to do so. no matter what further changes of government may oc- cur there. '"They run with the land" and as long as the land remains they must prevail.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
Montgomery Should Act.

Editor The Advertiser:
 The editorial of the third instant, was summary of the chief reasons why the people of Montgomery should interest themselves in making that city the seat of a university.
 This suggestion has been ably endorsed by others and the points so we'll taken in the article have been duly amplified. so there seems little room to say anything more as an argument why this proposed movement should find favor. But it often requires line upon line to awaken the public mind to the importance of its own interests, especially is this true in the matter of education, morals and reli- zion.
 Montgomery is the capital of our State government. Here is the seat of legisla- administration. Here also are buildings of greater and less proportions. Standing for and representing nearly all the great and minor interests of our country, as the mercantile, manufacturing, railroading' insurance, law, medicine, etc. Again, there are large churches which speak for the faith and worship of the people, and also commodious school buildings which are in evidence that the people believe in and desire to educate their children. But there is no building in the city of Mont gomery that stands for and is the seat of the higher education of which the mind is capable and which can be ac- quired in a university as no where else.
 dcSTcc Ol cuuCdllOh HUI DO S9- sential to money making in the ordinary pursuits of life, but it is to the highest intellectual culture and power; that the mind may be able to work with all it's created endowment in wrestling with the great problems of philosophy, science. government, political economy and all else, that concerns mans interests here and hereafter But says one, what Is the use of all this? We reply, had 1t not been for the great thinkers whose works appear on the pages of the worlds progress, where would we be today?
 The benefits arising from an increase In population and business can not easily be exaggerated.
 The mercantile manufacturing, railroad interests and others. have drawn thou sands to Montgomery, in fact, these in- terests have made 1t a great city. Seeing then that the people everywhere have an interest in education, why should not great institution of learning draw hum dreds to the city and these of the very best of the people and of course business would be enlarged, wants multiply with the increase of population and must be supplied.
 But the chief benefit will be found In the realm of the intellectual and moral where money values are not adequate measurements of the benefits to city of a great college.
 Let the city of Montgomery honor herself as she can do in no other way, by favoring the movement to found uni versity which will be a crown of glory to her intelligence. Lowndesboro.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
Eetter$ tc tbe Gdftcr
Commendable Movement.

Montg0mery. Nov. lO IyB3:
 Dear MT. Editor:-I have noticed in Tho Advertiser several communications and an editorial on the subject of the removal or the Southern University from Greens boro to Montgomery. Such an enterprise ought to commend itself to each and all of our citizens. The establishment of the institution here would be a good thing for the city and community of Montsom- cry, for the Southern University itself, and for the general cause of education. When the capital of Alabama was moved from Tuscaloosa to Montgomery the Uni versity of Alabama should have been brought along with it, but this was not done. Now we have an opportunity of establishing here what our city and sec ton have long needed, a great education al plant. Let us improve the opportunity.
 Very respectfully, Charles A. Stakeley.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12


 Referring to a recent editorial in The Advertiser which criticised a writer in The Hartford Times for advising that Dowie be lynched, The Chattanooga Times says:
 Mir. Dowie has never murdered any bodp; he has never committed any bur" but apparently more heinous than these in the eyes of modern New England civ tlization. he has "extorted' and "caJoled' money out of his victims and for this he should be strung up to the first lamp post by a New York mob! If his skin were black and he had committed the crimes first mentioned above, str1nging him to lamp post would arouse the hor- rified indignation and excite the com miseration of not only The Hardford Times but other New England and North ern Pecksniffs. We quite agree with The Montgomery Advertiser that sniveling Is not virtue by any means.
 All that is true. MT Dowie may not be a man for whom we can entertain a profound degree of respect. but so far as we are aware, he has not been guilty of any crimes. However much we may con- demn him for his methods of money getting, we have yet to hear of any act of his that deserves stringing up to a lamp-post. Some, at least, of our Yam kee brethren are disposed to look with too much leniency on lynching.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
Rise Up and Build.

Editor The Advertiser:
 I notice with approval what you say about Montgomerys need of an educa- tional institution of high grade.
 When we consider the location or the city its importance as the capital of a great commonwealth, and the public spirit generally manifested by Its citizen ship, we are astonished that. hitherto, nothing of the kind has ever been enter prised, Now, while the waters are troubled" is the time to move Let Montgomery rise up and build. and then invite the Southern University, or some other grand old, influential college to locate in her bounds.
 Montgomery needs the college and the college needs Montgomery. Let them come together and be mutually helpful.
 George F. Fisher. ware Ala
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12

Alaska hfss declared for Roosevelt, and we suppose he can also count on the District of Columbia. True, neither of them has vote in the general election, but they can give him their moral SUD- port and their delegate votes in National Convention.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
County Crops and Premiums.

"The Montgomery Agricultural Club" declared a planter, ''is already accomp- fishing much for the betterment of Mont gomery County farms The farmers are developing a keen interest in the organ suits in this section next year."
 ''The $1 900 premium offered by the Club for good crops" continued this planter 'is attracting widespread attention and interest. The prizes are as varied as we hope to make the crops of the county, and in my judgment the contest will cause Montgomery County next year to become the banner agricultural county of the State"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
Men of Leisure.
Mobile Item

MODlIe Item.
 Men of leisure' would do well to go to other places of pleasure than Alabama, Women of leisure are also in some dan ger of being called on to say how they live. There are some colored gentlemen whose wives take in washing" who may That vagrancy law ought to make indus trious citizens of many parasites.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12

in Syracuse, N. r., in her possession. showing an account to the woman's credit
 of over q 900. It appeared also that the
 woman had three grown-up children, liv- ing in Syracuse, who were able to care for her. Yet so woe-begone and poverty stricken did the woman appear when ar raigned in court that not until her hoard ings were disclosed would even a police court shYster take her case.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12

sam Parks was anxious to begin his two years term in Sing Sing so that he could the sooner get out and begin hav- ing good time again, but we predict that he will not have it at the expense of the working man as he did before.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
Enormous Profits of Begging in New
 York,
I-nslin,c Wnnklr

A woman was arraigned for begging and vagrancy in the Essex Market Police Court in New York few weeks ago, who had among her belongings heavy bundle which were found over $7O in pennies and other small coin. the whole mass weigh Ing more than fifteen pounds. Ihls' ac- cordlng to the woman's own story she inc curb at A certain corner on the Bowery with a plate in her lap. And still more interesting was the dlsclosure made by a bank book of a savings Dank
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12
A Brief Answer.

Birmingham News.
 Senator SMorgan's interview as a reply to M. Philippe Buena Varilla Is in the nature of brief answer to a fresh young man in the jollying buiness.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12

Col. Clarence B. Douglas. editor of The Muskogee q. ID Phenix, was recently "held up' by the office force who present. ed to him a handsome sword in recogni- tion of their esteem and kindly feeling. We don't know how the Colonel will ham dle sword. but he can shove an edito- rial pencil in highly effective way.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12

, That man up in New York State who shot and killed his wife for laughing at him because he couldn't drive a hog throughea gate. did we'll to kill himself immediately afterwards. The only error in proceeding was that he didn't shoot himself first.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-12

Hull Street. will be glad to know that he is rapidly convalescing, being able 10 he out of ped. although he is still confined
 MT: J. E. Bush of Birmingham. reach- ed Montgomery last night. visitor to Montgomery.
 MT. F. M. Johnson of Bessemer. is |,