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Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-11-20
GENERAL JlMlNEZ LANDS.
Proposes to Attack the Capital o.
Santo Domingo.

Cape Haytien, Hayti, Nov. 1s.-Gen'
eral Jiminez, the leader of the revo'
luton in the Dominican republic, has
arrived at Santiago de los Cabelleros
Santo Domingo, to take part in def
mite operations with the view to max
ing a decisive attack on the capital
San Domingo.
The French cruiser Jurien de IL
Graviere has arrived at San Domingo
Ramon Caceres, the revolutionary
general who landed with Jiminez re
Gently in Santo Domingo, remained a
Puerto Plata.
Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1903-11-20
stee, Plant Closes Down,

Phoenixville, Va, Nov. 1S.-About
800 men have been rendered idle by
the closing Of the steel plant and sew
eral other departments operated by the
Phoenix Iron company. 1t is thought
the shutdown will be Of short dura-
ton. Those remaining at work suf.
fered a reduction in wages of S per
cent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
Slave
To Morphine e From
 Doctors Orders.
Habit Worse Than
 the Disease.
Dr. Miles Nervine Cured
 Me.

When the nervous system has been shat. tered by the use of deadly drugs there is nothing to equal Dr. Miles Nervine in restor. Ing it Id health and normal activity. ;
 Il feel so grateful for what Dr. Miles Re. storative Nervine has done for me that must tell it for that part of humanity that suffers as 1 have. During the three years 1 suffered from nervous prostration found no relief except when doctors gave morphine. To get rid of suffering l took morphine my. self as it was the only thing that would give ease, and now you, who point with scorn at morphine using. how could. you, when in such agony, knowing it about the only thing that would give relief, resist ita knew it was terrible habit and knew of its deadly grasp, but 1 never fully realized its signi6. canoe until had used it a number ofmonths. Oh, the misery of being addicted to such a habit. l resolved then and there to quit it and resolved would never be slave to any such demon. About this time happened to notice Dr. Miles Restorative Nervine adver- tised and ordered bottle. After using five bottles l can truthfully say I am cured of using morphine. Now, however much per sons may dogat it, God is my witness am cured. This vestimonial Is unsolicited but feel 1t my duty to give 1t for the benefit of the suffering. ."-MATTIE PHILLIPS. Prescott, Ark. / All druggists sell and guarantee first bot tie Dr. Miles Remedies. Send for free book on Nervous and Heart Diseases. Address Dr. Miles Medical O., Elkhart, Ind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

time study of Democracy has been in vain and we do not know what it is.s If we should say that. if the Convention next year re-enacts the Kansas City plat form ss whole, all good Democrats in the Union should bolt, The News would regard 1t as political impiety, yet our position and assertion. would be as sound and tenable as that taken by The News is.
 There is no question of repudiating the Kansas City platform in formal mat ter, but of ignoring it. That platform contained few grains of Democratic wheat in bucket full of Populistic chan. It was such deliverance as can never again do duty as test of Democracy. The Convention which is to meet in 1901 should pay no attention to what was done in 1900. either as a whole or in part. It should put out real Democrat on A real Democratic platform. with no thought of Kansas City. If the loyal Democratsp of Tennessee, whatever that may mean. will not support such a ticket and plat- form as we have indicated. they are to be pitied. but they should be given the op- portunity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
DOES IT REPRESENT THEMp

The Chattanooga News has the lowest opinion of the Democracy of its own State that we have ever read in paper claiming to be Democratic. In its issue of last Saturday we find this express sion:
 Were the next convention to repudiate the Kansas City platform and nominate Grover Cleveland, or man nke nlIll an a gold standard, trust-made platform, Bate, CaFmack, McMillin and frazler would bolt and Bob Taylor Wo9lo E go ,,oI tr, with them. That is our canolo opin'oh of what they would do.
 And it emphasizes the statement by tnls from another editorial in the same ls- sue: -
 We assert. without the fear of success ful contradiction, that every loyal Demo- crat in Tennessee sees more .in, fO any other platform ever adopted ny the farty in its whole illustrious history. me Is, pudiation of that platform m to'o Houo sta be a repudiation of Democracy, anu us,e,,e ene Party in Tennessee is not ready 10 Tepu- diate, In reality. refusal to support ,.n's nne nlatforrn that repudiates the Aansas SlsS declaration would not be re1usal 70 sup port Democratic principles 1t Moulu ,,,, De notice served on the balance or the couil- c.I- tr,r that Tennessee is loyal to Democratic ideals.
 We may not understand the Democracy of our neighbor State. A loyal Demo- orat'' in Tennessee may be- different from Democrats everywhere else, but we do not believe The News fairly represents the Democracy of it's State. True, IL tries to modify its charge by saying that dropping the free-coInage plank from the Kansas City platform would not be re- pudiation of the principles of that plat form, because. as it further says: Free coinage is not a principle; 1t is an expedi- ent."
 That explanation does not break the force of the main charge which is. if the Convention next year nominates sound Democrat on a sound Democratic plat form, tine Democrats of Tennessee will bolt. both leaders and rank and file. There would be no 'Ioyal DemOcrats' in the State to uphold the ticket. We are free to say that we do not believe The News represents Tennessee Democrats. We do not believe they would bolt merely because tine National Democratic Party turns it's back on the Populistic theories of the last two campaigns. We have a better opinion of Tennessee Democrats than The News has, If. to be "a loyal Democrat" one must see more Democ- racy in the Kansas City platform than in ny other platform ever adopted by the FSss" then we must admit that a Dfe-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
EGYPTIANS NOT NEGROES.
A Big Blunder by Senator Burton in
 Debate With Senator Tillman.

O~H~SS w AtA4 SSAeSbO4 4AA4A1dns Chicago Tribune.
 A United States Senator is not expected to know everything. but he ought to know that the ancient Egyptians were not negroes. and that the daughter of the priest of Midian, whom Moses married. was not a negress. Senator Burton, of not intentionally mislead the people of Moline before whom he discussed the ne- gro question with Senator Tillman. There were negroes in Egypt thousands of years ago. but they were slaves. The Egyptians themselves, the ancestors of the present Inhabitants of the country, were not blacks. The mummies. the statues, the pictures in the tombs, and the langua ge prove that they were not.
 Senator Tillman and others argue that the inability of the blacks to make some thing of themselves in Africa is strong evidence of their racial inferioritv' Thai argument cannot be met by an assertion that Egyptian civilization, with its pow erful government its organized religion, it's written language, and it's artistic skill was developed by black men, for 1t was not.
 Senator Burton ought to admit that the black race Is at present inferior intellec- tually to the white race, and then con- tend that the progress which the Ameri- can negroes have made in the hard school which they have attended for two and a half centuries furnishes evidence that they are capable of further advancement, and that 1t is crime to say that noth- ing shall be done to aid them Senator Ttllman admits that he believes the ne- groes can be lifted up when. he insists that they shall receive no education of any kind.
 Senator Burton is not the man to dis cuss the negro question with Senator Tillman. and 1t is strange that he was chosen for that purpose. It may be that he was the only one whose services could be had. When 1t comes to "pitchiork" oratory he is not match for Tillman, and he does not understand his suhiect well enough to be able to make the right kind of argument.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
MIR. aoRMAN's ISSUES.
The Candidate and the Platform Would Be Antagonistic.
New York Times.

| New York Times.
 What Senator German, home returning from a foreign strand, has to say as to | the prospects for the coming Presidential campaign may be set down as unim- | portant If true, except so far as he manl- | fests marked indisposition to open with drawal of his name from consideration as Democratic candidate. It Is true | that he might plead the formal excuse l that he cannot refuse what Is not offered
 him. but he does not do that. He con- tents himself with remarking that he has
 not considered an yindividual in connec- tion with the nomination, not even him.
 self. and that he is, as he always has been. in favor of what will be for the best interests of the party.
 Meanwhile he indicates the issues which he thinks ought to be presented: The tarin, economy, and honesty" They are good issues If you can get them accepted by your opponents, and if you are sincere
 and courageous as to those which your opponents will accept. The Republicans are not likely openly to oppose economy
 and honesty or very clearly to come out
 for extravaganza and rascality. On
 thse issues they as well as the Democrats
 will be Judged by their record only, and
 we are compelled to say that their record Is quite as good as that of the Democrats
 of the German school. As to the tariff,
 of course that is practically the only issue
 that has national significance and i'm
 portance On that. with MT. German as
 candidate, his party would labor under
 the embarrassment of extreme inconsis-
 tency between what the party promised and what the candidate has done in the
 past. The party might as well run MT.
 Bryan on gold-standard platform, or
 Mir. Nixon on a platform denounclng
 trusts. MT. Gorman's fine impersonality
 for discussing politics is not, unfortunate ly for him, prevalent among the voters. The Democratic party in the next cam
 paign Is likely to find that it's candidate is himself, in great measure, the platform and if Mir. German were the candidate,
 that would be fatal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
EDUCATION vs. RAzoRs.
The Lesson of the Outbreak of Boston
 NeRrnes

!
 With negro orators all over the country protesting against the lawless outrages 1 to which members of their race have 0een suD1ected 1t IS not encouraging to | accorded to Booker T. Washington in Boston, not by mob of white men, but | by an assemblage of negroes. If the negroes of this country cannot | understand that Washington is the most powerful and respected advocate they amelioration of the race question. It is not disputed that there was a concerted movement to howl Washington down. The negroes who opposed him did so because he favors industrial rather | than classical education for the Ameri- can negro.
 who enforced their opposition at the Bos- ton meeting by that typically racial Wea- pon, the razor-believe or affect to that he should aim at entering the pro fessions and other. callings which do not involve manual labor.
 Opinions may honestly differ on such a proposition, but there can be no dispute as to the actual results of the two plans. The graduates of the Tuskegee institu- tion are dispersed throughout the South. earning the respect of their white neigh bors and providing for their families in comfort.
 The opponents of industrialism, as we being locked up in Boston police stations as the result of then ambition for higher two propositions by their fruits we can not but decide in favor of Tuskegee and industrialism and against the higher ed- ucation and razors flying in the air.
 The discouraging feature of the busi- ness. was pointed out in the beginning, conduct themselves decorously among themselves. With that unfortunate fact in view it Is hardly possible that there shall be any marked improvement in the conduct of the negro to disarm the not wholly unfounded prejudice which is growing up against him in the North as it has long existed in the South.
 People who do not respect themselves can scarcely expect other people to re- spect them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
A SUBTLE QUESTION.

"a 2V 0 II AG v v &eS4 &S@Ns
 The sheffeld Reaper evidently wants to get The Advertiser in hole, in this way:
 Since The Montgomery Advertiser and the Norfolk papers have exhausted the subjects for discussion by philohophers, we pass up to them the questlon. Mns is the mind of dishonest person more active than that of honest persons?' TOT explanation.
 There was once a king who asked the wise men about his throne why live hsh placed in a bucket of water added noth- ing to the weight of the bucket. None of them could answer, but eventually one asked the king if it was fact that the weight of bucket and water would not be ,ncreased. and he was told that 1t was not fact.
 We are somewhat in the same condition regarding The Reaper's query. for we do moi know that the question states fact or only what appears to be fact And vet if may be true, for a dishonest mans mind sometimes has to work very rapidly in order to keep him out of jail ana doesn't always succeed, by the way Then again, if a house-breaker finds himself confronted by a man with gun on one side and woman with hat-pin on the other, he must think very quickly to decide which way offers least danger And when a would-be burglar gets onto the sill of a third-stcry window ana finds himself counting tho holes in wicked-looking revolver, he must at once decide whether he will go in and be per forated or fall out and be- squashed.
 And so we decide that a dishonest mans mind works faster because it has to.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
THE PROPER COURSE.

There are some level-headed negroes in Alabama, or there are negroes who know how to act in a level-headed manner. when occasion demands. Among the lat ter class. or both classes, we may place A. N Johnson, editor of The Mobile Press. Replying to those who had criti- cised it for not joining in the denuncia- ton of peonage, The Press Says:
 The attitude of Governor Jones The Montgomery Advertiser and other mower rul influences in Alabama, can be helned more by golden silence than any do1t,n- clation We might offer. Discretion is not only wisdom, but, at times, a test of man hood and yaior. We are rather anxions to let the good white people of the State put down the bad element, and inc na- tural result will be of far more bepetit than anything we might do or say at present. 01
 That was certainly prudent and prop. CT position to take. While the trials were in progress, there was entirely too much unjust, and often untrue. criticism of Alabama and her people. as we'll as of the courts from outside parties, who were either Ignorant of the true conditions or were bent on maligning our people. If The Press had joined in this outcry. if could have done no possible good and might have done some harm. It followed the proper course.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

routes, 9 miles; area covered. I9 souare miies; population served. 70; number of Vernon. Lamar county: Length of route. NR miles; area covered, IS square houses 136.
 ADDeyille. Henry county: Length of route, n miles: area covered, A square ;niies; popuiation served. L30I; number of Rural letter carriers appointed; Mldiand City: John W. Floyd Bryant ropp. rrope. regulars; William B. Cason. John r, Columbia; Elias w.. wfIkerson, with Henry G2dfrey, substitute
 Horse Greek: James T. Manning. with James hussam, substitute.
 Phoenix: William ". Wilder. with George H. Edwards. substitute.
 smiths station: Miles L. Wade, with Vernon; Van Livingston. with Joe F. Kacy. substitute. Montgomery: William Lowe. with Josh- ua Johnson. substitute. Eastlake: William M. Killough. with Jos. D. KiIfough, substitute
 R. H Wafxin~
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
NOT THE ADvERrrsER,s TASK

 In It's comment yesterday upon that Canadian trip and Secretary Rountree. The Birmingham Ase-Herald said: President Yerby should take precious good care to appoint committee that An open investigation Is the thing. be- cause the entire affair Is of a semi-public nature. Every bit of 1t has public bear ipgs. The committee's report should not With facts and fisSfes the more the bet ter. As prosecutor-in-chief, The Mont gomery Advertiser will no doubt be rep- resented by able" counsel. as It clearly tigation should be open and exhaustive and not a white-washfng affair worked up in a sly and secretive manner. And if the efacts and especially the figures: exonerate Mr. Rountree. The Age-Herald will give him due justice.
 The Advertiser has no desire to be put down as "prosecutor-in-chief' in this case of the Alabama Press against its Secretary Nor do we expect to go be- fore the Committee with able counsel" The Advertiser has no more interest in this matter than every other seIf-respect- ing newspaper in the Staie. It had a rep- resentative on the excursion. and his let ters to the paper gave the news of the way it was conducted, just as any# other important news would be sought out and printed. Then The Advertiser commented roldiy on that news, just as dozens of other State papers. including The Age Herald, have done.
 Whatever The Advertiser has done in this matter has been dictated by a sense of duty. by feeling of loyalty to the Press of Alabama. As matter of course. 1t is not going to shirk any responsibility ir the future, so far as the investigation is concerned. If it's representatives are called on, they will appear before the Committee and tell what they know. But The Advertiser can not, of its own knowledge, prove everything that is ru- mored and suspected as to the conduct of these excursions. Numbers of other news- papers in the State are in possession of information bearing on the matter, just as important as any The Advertiser has brought out. They have just as much in- terest and pride in the reputation of the Alabama Press as we have, and can as- sist in the investigation just as much, or perhaps more. than this paper. For in- stance. the Birmingham dailies must be in possession of a great many important facts sbout the fifty or more outsiders who went on the excursion from Bir- mingham. It Is conspicuously and pecu- liarly their duty to familiarize them selves with these facts and to lay them' before the investigating committee. They will hardly expect The Advertiser and It's able counseP' to- attend to that big job.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
The Vast Empty Space.

BHmInBnam LeuBer,
 Walker of the hattanooga Times and J. Day Barron of The Montgomery Ad- vertiser are trying to settle the meaning of the name hattanooga. The Ledger doesn't want to butt in" on the learned discussion, but 1t has an idea that that long name was chosen to help fill the vast empty space that was intended for the town.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 5, 1908.
suMMER rRIps.

When you leave home this Summer. have The Advsrrissr follow you. Sent by mail 10 any address. postage prepaid. at the following 9M1ea.
 One week. Daily and Sunday. IS One month. Daily and Sunday............ .66 Three months. Daily and sunday ........ l.95 Foreign postage teach month) extra.... GO
 Resst subscriptions are strictly in advance. Order before leaving.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
All Indifferent.

Huntsville Tribune,
 Every day or two the story comes from
 Washington that the President IS indif- ferent as to what action the Southern
 Republicans take, It likewise appears that the Southern Republicans are just
 as indifferent as to what acuon the Pres
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
Feature of the Times.

Birmingham Age-Herald.
 While the Dakotas are cutting great crop of spring wheat Wall Street can have its daily slump and no one will give 1t a thought except as passing news item. The dehorning of Wall Street Is the feature of the times. Even the roar of It's bears goes unheeded.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

Some Who's who?" book-maker will do we'll to read The Commoner carefully. Its editor can discover more great men for presidential candidates than all the other writers can.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
It Still Revolves.

Shefneld Reaper.
 Somehow the world manages to revolve without slipping a cog while Bryan fusses and Cleveland "nusses." The perverse- ness of this old sphere Is wholly incom- prehensibie to. some people. and we can not explain why
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

One would conclude that The Adver- tiser doesn't care dodgast about its an eestors, anyhow" says The Mobile Item. Have you got ancestors on the brain? And why shall we worry about ours? They are all in heaven.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

The Sheffield Reaper says "the talk of repeating any one article or amendment of the United States is simply nonsense" The Reaper is right. The United States cant be repealed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

W. A. Scott. Circulation Manager of The AtentsoalsiS advertiser, being duiy sworn, sASss Ans foregoing statement ok Ihs sAnstertise4 daily GltcuiataOn tor liIVnth ok sn1rs fSvS. ts ect, and oofnpllsN Akksr tlAi lstuIns From nswspoys. news ass.ASs had lett-ossr copies nave been aeductsd
 W. A SGO1I, CIrcuiation Mgr. sworn tp anu subscribed Defofs thls Sra aas q saiy. Isvs. F. N. JAGKSON.
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

Rural free delivery routes established to commence Sept. 1:
 Bridgeport, Jackson county: Length of route, 24 miles; area covered, 19 souare miles; population served, 5s0; number of houses, 1lS.
 Phenix, Lee County, Length of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
Patience of Job.

Covington News.
 ton and the patience of Job to run weekly newspaper to please every one. Then he can't more than half mest the
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

While Patti is making her 'steenth fare we'll tour, she should by all means in- clude Sn her repertoire that soul-stirrins meledy} "ADd the Cat Came Back"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
, 4 \ <%<<% ~ .
 WHAT THE STATE PAPERS : ARE sAyING. .
A Happy Editor

MObII6 Heg1Ster.
 The editor has discovered a mint bed growing spontaneously in his front yard. This IS suggestive, to say the least.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05
Whats done we partly may compute, But know not what's resisted"

| The immense increase of the percent age of the growth of negroes in the Gen. tral-Northern cities is in no small degree responsible for the fact that the race p1 oblem is no longer the burden solely of the South. The increase of negro urban population of the largest Northern cities, taking twenty of the largest for example, has been from 50 to 800 per cent within the last twenty years.
 Takes the States of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Delaware, Ohic Indiana and Illinois, and note the sug- gestiveness of the following figures:
 Ne1ro pon,1la. Ncura
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-08-05

Washington, Aug 4.--(speciaL)-The heterogeneous character of the citizen- ship of the United States, more complex than ever since the republic embarked In the enterprise of territorial expansion, has involved every part of the country in mighty vexation of the race problem. What was few years ago confined al- most exclusively to the States of the South, 1t is now admitted everywhere in the North has come home to all on both sides of the rivers Ohio and Potomac. Thinking men of the North at last real ize somewhat of the burden that has all these years borne upon their white breth- ren of the South. and now are more than ever susceptible to sympathetic impulse The people of the North can no longer sit back in ease and hand out advice to the South on the negro question. The black shadow lies athwart their own thresholds, They are confronted with the same difficulties in their ugliest form that have tried the civilization of the South and subjected 1t to years of incon- siderate criticism. They are getting to the point where we may reason together with some hope of arriving at fair de- gree of mutual respect. They may now some time apprehend: