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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER ae, 1903.
WILL THE CONSTITUTION BE DE-
 FEED.

The plain mandate of the Constitution is that private banks operating under State law, shal be examined by regu- lariy appointed official. Up to this mo- ment the House has failed to respond to the action of the Senate, and the bill which seeks to carry out what the Con- stitution imposes upon every member of this Legislature in this matter has not been acted on. Can 1t be possible that on so important a matter as this that the private interests of private bankers are to prevail over the Constitution which all legislators are sworn to support2 Can 1t be that the sad experience of Montgom- cry. and Bessemer, and numerous other places, will be treated with contempt and the people be left without the protection which official examinations of private and State banks will afford. This law Is de- manded by public interest and as a pro- lection against future misfortunes to the people. It can do no harm to those whose condition warrants their carrying on the banking business. while 1t may save millions by proper examination of those who are not in the condition they should be. A heavy responsibility will rest upon those responsible for defeating this legislation. in case the Legislature adjourns without acting on it.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
Duty of the House.

Birmingham News.
 The News has confidence in the integri- ty of purpose of the members of the lower house of the State Legislature, They have made some mistakes. 1t Is true. Blunders are to be expected until human nature becomes angelic. On the whole, both the House and Senate have shown high sense of duty and high order of intelligence.
 But if the House desires to preserve its good reputation and leave a good i'm pressiOn upon the people of the State it must pass the bill to provide for the examination of the State banks. The Senate has discharged Its duty. II the measure fails to become law the responsibility rests alone upon the House. Notwithstanding the fears Of friends of the measure. The News has steadfast.y believed that the House would pass the bill There is no reason why the bill should net pass, many why 1t should.
 Above all the constitution; liatheo h M py the flower of Alabama, rauned by the people and which the members or the House took solemn oath to support, de- cl3re2 that the Legislature must provide a method f0r the examination or these banks No technicaity will excuse the House if 1t fails in it's manifest duty No explanation will suffice to remove the stain the failure would infiict.
 The mem hers of the House owe II to the people they represent and they owe 1t to Themselves to fulfill thds constituuonai obligation. If there Is any technlc2l obstacle to the confederation of the bi Il it should be brushed aside 1T there IS any rule which may interfere with puttlng the bill upon it's passage that rule snould be rescinded. The legislators snouiu, anu The News believes will, permit notnang to stand in the way of a duty enjoined State and expected and demanded oy the people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
purity and integrity of our suffrage is

purbty and integrity of our suffrage is threatened.
 With the sordidness and greed that in- fest our cities and their exhibition of in- difference to the obligations of good citi- Zens hip on one hand. and with the decaS dente of rural political independence, tending toward the loss of patriotic effort on the other, who will say there is no danger that the body polite will langush from the lack of disinterested devotion and watchful care?'
 Speaking of recent incidents in the cit ies: MT. Cleveland says:
 "A perfect mania has broken out in our cities for indulgence in tremendous and often unsubstantial business schemes while far extended aggregations Of busi- ness establishments creating an immense margin of business capitalization are quite the order of the day.
 Unusual extravaganza and the osten- tattous display of newly acquired or ficti- tious wealth invite the dissatisfaction and envy of those obliged to work and econ omh.e in order to live moderately: and stubborn contests between labor and cap itaI generated in our citieJ, spread their distressing results everywhere through out the land.
 This combination of social, political and industrial dislocations las caused grave apprehension among thoughtful cit- izesns; and their fears are aggravated as they contrast present unpromising con- ditaons with the incidents of an earlier American life, when simplicity, genuine nets and contented industry were valued arpi cherished as the happy possessions of an independent frugal and practical people,"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29

1, 1901 carried the State by. a small plural- ity on local issues. Twice in that way
 s not to se %oublsay thsa had mt the silver question again em-. barraaed the party In 1900. Maryland would have returned to her old Demo-
 The State of Maryland is believed by Democ7ats not of the State fitly to typIiy the National Democratic Party. In other words, the element most capable of af- fording volume and virality sufficient for victory will not longer tolerate maudlin clinginss to the body of corpse which the ne2f National Convention reaffirm the declara lions of 1896 and 1900.
 The hope of a reunited party next year and the feeling that the common sense of the masses of the party will demand straight Democratic ticket and a simon pure Democratic platform, wholly divest- ed of Ebpuistic and Socialistic vagaries, has enlisted the efforts quite apparently the chances are most excellent for them to carry the State. The party for once since 1s96 is free of factional embarrass- ment The element which would not and did not help in 1896 Is more than ready to aid ih voting Maryland for the Demo- cratic candidate for President next year.
 The most notable indications of the re- naissapce of the old Maryland Democracy that hsh the victory winning habit is the announcement as candidate for the United States Senate of Isidor Rayner, unquestionably one of the brightest men who eSser served in Congress from that or any other State. The Democratic and independent press of Maryland heartily are two other candidates of much respec- tability and strength of their own. They are fRtmer Governor Elthu Jackson and Governor John Walter Smith But it is not HRzely that either of them can ef- fectuaJly cope with Rayner.
 MT. Rayner was graduated from the University of Virginia, where his attain ments as a student and his early demon won Ihim the highest honors of the in- stitutaon. When he returned home and entered the Baltimore bar he at once went to the front rank and has maintain who know him. During his short service in Coslgress he was recognized as second to no member in ready brilliancy, cogency of argument and versatile equipment as legisk tor worthy of national respect and attention. The late Thomas B.. Reed said:
 ''Thsre are only three men in the United States I would care to hear speak over five minutes. One is Bourke Cochran, one is Isidor Rayner. one is myself"
 MT. Rayner's rem arkably fine presenta- tation and handling of the case of Ad- mirai Schley Is we'll remembered every where
 Owing to the numerous cases of depart mental Irregularities. criminal crooked ness and the like that have been dis covered within the last twelve months unusual interest will attach to the an- nu,l reports of the cabinet officers which will be transmitted toCongress along with the Presidents message at the next ses- sion. Most attention will naturally be paid to the reports of the Postmaster Gene ral and the Secretary of the h. terior. Each of these will include re ports of subordinate officers, and we shall see what we shall see.
 R. H. Watkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
EXTREMES IN FUNERALS.

The burial of the late Professor Wright in a cheap pine coffin, with no services or expenses connected wi1l the same was designed, as he stated, to rebuke the ostentation and expense of many funeral occasions. He was not actuated by pow erty, or the necessity of saving money. but because he held that funerals should be conducted with the least possible cost.
 Was not the Professor, in this instance, as much of a crank. and as unreason- able as were any of those against whom his rebuke was directed? It is beyond doubt that there is often too much os- tentation and show aand expense attached to funerals. That the living sometimes suffer for want of money lavished on the dead Is true, and where money is lav- ishly spent for no other purpose than display there is no excuse for extrava- gance. When. however, the love and af- lection of the bereaved ones prompts them to go to an expense whicn they can i'll afford shall we not pardon them? It is the last tribute they can pay to those who have gone before and we can par don them If prudence is forgotten on such occasions.
 But, admitting that extravaganza is wrong, is not the other extreme mean ness? Why should a well-to-do person De buried like a pauper in order 10 rebuke funeral extravaganza. as they express Il Most people despise the miser who clings 50 tlgntIy to his dollars that he will not provlde himself or family with proper food or clothing. but even that Is no worse than to project his niggardliness beyond or into his grave ana perhaps bring humiliation and reproach on ms surviving relatives. There are extremes in all things. and they should be avoIo, ed. Tawdry glaring ostentation Is out Of place on such an occasion. but we do not Know that it is more objectionable than the other extreme which would bury man, woman or child with no more marks ot regard than would be sIown If the corpse was dog. One is as bad as the other
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
Nothing Else to Do.

Mobile Register.
 Representative Richardson of Alabama, Is opposed to the movement looking to the repeal of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments, and also to the proposition to separate. the races, He believes that Alabama will solve the race question by her election laws. and that the other States can do likewise Commenting up- on the suggestion that the negroes be separated from the whites. he says: 'ln the first place, where are the colored peo- pie to be located? Secondly. how are they to be moved there? In the third place, the negroes don't want to go, and, lastly. the people of the South don't want them 10 go." The Judge has the right idea of the matter. We believe he expresses the thought of every Southern man who has any practical acquaintance or business relations with the negroes.
 If the negroes do not want to go; if the whites do not want them to go, and if there is no place for the negroes to go to, the debate should be closed. What we have to do is to maintain good relations with the negroes, and what the negroes have to do is to get along with the white people All may as well put good face on 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
FOR THE KIDNEYS

Brights Disease, Diabetes and Dropsy are admittedly and notoriously incurable either by the old allopathic, homeopathic or eclectic methods, or by the new osteo- pathic. vacuum. or electric treatment, yet they readily yield to Radam's Microbe Killer, the natural baciilicide remedy, simply because it neutralizes and destroys the consuming and infiaming animal germs to which they are due. e..
 Enlightened microscopic studies of kid. ney diseases in the laboratories of Europe and of the United States show these mala. dies to be caused by swarm of pecu- liariy vicious germs which lodge on the surface or within the mo emb-ano lin- ings of the kidneys, propagating by the myriad with inconceivable rapidity and soon penetrating the interior of those or gans and permeating their entire sub. stance with their slowly fatal poisons. Unchecked by remedies heretofore erron. eously employed, the microbes have been permitted to continue their free feeding upon the vital moistures and warm, live tissues of the kidneys, like myriads of invisible vegetable parasites drinking the vital juices of the sick plant or flower, to the point of disintegratiou, putrefac. tion. and rot. The pain in the back, the restlessness and fever, loss of appetite, hectic fushes, enlarged Joins, and general nervous and physical failure that mark the progress of Bright's disease finally terminate in the hopeless dropsica', sink ing. sagging, and collapse of the entire system. The arrest and cure of the dis ease by the Microbe Killer is made in- tellig.ble by the fact that it impregnates the diseased kidneys with an element that is fatal to the kidney microbes-with an element that neutralizes their peisons and renders them incapable of any fur. ther harm. Once thoroughly charged with the bacillic!de gases of Radam's the kidneys cease to supply sustaining meals of kidney morsels to the consuming germs. and feeds them only with an ele- ment that kills them off and makes them part of the inanimate refuse of the sys- tenn.
 B. Richardson S5 Wrenham Street Ja- maica Plain. Mass. writes: Seven or eight years ago I suffered with what the physicians decided was Bright's disease of the Kidneys. My condition was So bad that was obliged to spend much time in bed, and tried various reme les without benefit. At last my condition be- came so bad that the physicians thought l might not live three months. It was at that time that my attention was called would teKe it until was killed or cured Seven jugs did the business. I never felt peter in my life, and am now insured in one of the best life insurance com- panies in America. "a
 The Wm. Radam Microbe Killer Co.,,
 121 Prince St.. New York, or
 E. G. FOWLER, Agt., 10 Dexter Ave
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
What Trusts Are noine
Grover Cleveland in Saturday Evening

Grover. Cleveland in Saturday Evening
 Post.
 According to former President Cleve- land. trusts and monopolies are causing the ruin and decay of the rural districts of the country. and in that way are mem acihg the prosperity and existence of the nation.
 In the current number of The Saturday Evening Post MT. Cleveland declares that the trusts are seeking to control or stran- gle the small business enterprises and occupations which formerly created the healthy, robust independence which was the great characteristic of the rural ais |. tricts.
 Following the growth of the trusts in nuenGe in the country districts he says, are the political indifference of those who have been crushed in business and the in creased power of the boss and the un- scrupulous manipulator of politics for iV- noble ends. He continues: The agencies of the monopolists and the poltlcal bosses. usually radlating from the larger centers of popula: ion meet no longer the opposition Of rura, in dependence in political opinion. intelli- gently conceived and patrl 1tically held They enlist in their service tho who gained the confidence of their neighborS when their political advice was based m patriotic reasons and these are kens in ltnc with the inter ests of their emniovers by the promise of partisan benefits. Ut would be bold effrontery even +o suggest that political action ther In our cities or In rural communities has he- come utterly unpatrotic or Jcorrupt. hut 1t would be foolhardy to deny that the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
KINDLY AND TRUTHFUL.

The Grand Island, Neb, Democrat, re- ferring to the proposition to place statue of Lee in the Hall of Fame, says:
 The time has come when the North can afford to do justice to the great southern General. Regrettable as were the clrcum- stances that dictated Lees course Tn the civil war, it was the course that every Northern gentleman would have followed under similar circumstances. Grant, the iron man who accepted ana reburheu ebus brons hls the spirit of as brave an army as ever followed a flag to battle. was glad 10 pay tribute to Lees incorruptible integ- rity, his personal honor and his wond- rous military finesse.
 The time Is here when every memory of an unfortunate and unnatural conflict should be forgotten and wssn nTcs the statue of a great man can be placed beside others of historic name to keep it's voiceless vigil in the marble corridors of the seat of government.
 The imperial commonwealth of Virginia has furnished too many statesmen in peace. too many heroes in war, to be de- of her gifted sons as she chooses, even were that deprivation possible.
 These words. from a Northern source. are in striking contrast to some of the narrow minded views expressed by a few bitter partisans in the North and East. In our opinion it is not possible to de- prive a State of its choice in this matter. We know of no power lodged in Con- gress or elsewhere to dictate to a State of the Union in this matter. Each State is required to select two men for the proposed honor and 1t was intended that each State should exercise its own will in making the choice.
 And we go further and contend that the time has passed, if it ever existed. when a State should suffer itself in the slight est degree influenced by the likes or dis l likes of other sections. If a State is not free and sovereign in this matter 1t is not in any. IF Kansas wants to contrib | ute a statue of John Brown let her do so. We might doubt the taste which
 would influence her people to do such a I thing, but We would not for a moment | question the absolute right of Kansas to l do it.
 | And we go still further and declare | that not one State in the American Union 1 will have a statue more worthy or de- person of Robert F. Lee. As Christian gentleman. as an upright and honorable citizen and as the greatest soldier of his time he stands without a superior in all that goes to make up human excellence. His name and his fame are above tho malice and spite of enemies or detractors. for they are as immutably fixed as the stars of Heaven. Let Virginia do her duty and honor the American people by honorinR Lee.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
rHz rnAprno srAxr BILL.

On this page will be found e commu- nication signed ~Merchant.' which is written by Montgomery business man. It deals with business problem. in business way. That problem is the trad ing stamp scheme. which Is gradually spreading over fhis State.
 The communication pictures the gradual invasion of the trading stamp scheme. and shows how one merchant after an- other in a given city Is pulled into 1t. All are at work for the benefit of a for eign corporation, and in the end none of the merchants is benefited. or the public either.
 The commercial bodies of the whole State, in a recent convention of their rep resentatives at Mobile. declared uneouiv- ocally against the trading stamp scheme. and called on the members of the Leg islature to legislate 1t out of existence That convention of commercial bodies represented the business men of the lead ing towns of the State. and 1t had right to speak for them. This is the strongest ground for the Legislature to act upon the question.
 The bill has passed the Senate. and IS now before the House. Well informed men say that e majority there is in favor of the measure, but that there Is grave danger of the minority defeating the bill. in these last days of the session through the difficulties of it's running the parlid- mentary gauntlet. This is not just or proper. The majority should rule. ana if it is sufficiently in earnest. it can make a way.
 The Advertiser believes that the bill should pass, and it hopes that the strong men of the House will see that the meas ure is fairly treated by letting 1t have chance to be voted upon. That is reas- enable and fair.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29
Passage of the Anti-Boycott Bill.
Mobile Register.


 There can be little question that the ma jority of the House of Representatives stood up for good moral government when it passed the anti-boycott bill. Some minority members wished to make 1t ap- pear that the bill was an attack upon the rights of organized labor, but, as MT. Scale of Sumter Said there is nothing in the bill that will hurt any good man. The bill Is designed to prevent conspiracy on the part of two or more persons to de- prive citizen and tax payer of his prop erty without due process of law. That IS the sum of it. It is true that labor or ganizations sometimes resort to the use of the boycott in order to make employ CTS comply with their demands as to not make right and if those who resort to such use are forced to refrain they are deprived of no right or legal prlvi- lege. No injustice is done and no in- quiring men, whether organized laborers or unorganized laborers, to refrain from doing that which Is not sanctioned either by justice or good morals.
 Naturally, there was some politics in- terjected into the debate. We fancy that some who voted against the bill were influenced by their political ambition rather than by their judgment Some who favored the measure declared that they apprehended that they were writing their political death warrants. We enter tain no such apprehension in their be- half. Laboring men are much like other men; they may have their allegiance to their organization. but they have not sur rendered their own opinion nor their in dividual right of considering questions from the fair point of view. There is no organization that can command its mem bers to think wrong. There Is no organ zation that can keep it's members in line upon an indefensible proposition. We doubt if there is any organization that will even try to do so. Here and there, prejudice and ignorance combined may have some effect at the polls, put in the main we would as leave trust our inter- ests to workingmen at the polls as any other class of voters, feeling satisfied that the most of them would vote for what is quarter it may come.
 Moreover said anti-boycott law is also an anti-blacklisting law. It deals as squarely with the employe as with the employer. It is in our opinion a good law, and we are glad that it has passed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29

In the last issue of The Advertiser some editorial comments were made on the all lesed intention of Senator Carmack of Tennessee. to introduce proposition for repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment. If was plainly and widely published that he had so declared, but he denies the cor rectness of such report and disclaims any intention of presenting such resolution. He was misquoted and The Advertiser IS glad that he takes the sensible position that such. q movement should not be started by a Southern Senator
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29

Sometimes gun is handy thing to have on hand, as was shown in Florida a few days ago when a young girl went out to shoot birds and was attacked by two negroes. She filed one of them com fortably full of bird-shot, and the other ran off. The pity is that her gun was only single barrel piece, otherwise she might have brought down the pair of black-birds. Repeated doses of this kind can but have a good effect.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29

Beware of hard cider in a dry town" nI9ises The Raleigh. N. C., Post. Asa general proposition it is safe to beware of any drink but water in dry town. Even cold tea sometimes "biteth like serpent and stingeth like an adder" There be many and various ways to circumven mt drvness
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29

If that pr. Wyley is correct in his pre- diction that human beings of the future will be without hair or teeth. it will be Q severe back-set for football players and piano-pounders. to say nothing of the fel- low who "eats 'em alive"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-09-29

A recent cartoon represents Uncle Sam standing with one arm clasping the North Pole, around which is wound the stars and stripes, while with the other hand he warns off oJhn Bull and other powers who are claiming the coveted Pole. If it Is ever discovered by an American we sus- pect that other nationalities will put in claims to it. but our Government has a habit of holding what it gets.