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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1903-05-18
MATINEES TOMORROW.
EXCURSIONS.
MARRIAGE LICENSES ISSUED.

Norfolk and Washington steamer for Norfci.
and Fortress Monroe, 6:3J y. M.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
AS TO CITIZENSHIP.

The New York Tribune, in an article published on this page. criticizes some re- cent utterances of The Advertiser. and to which only brief response is neces- sary. The expression of The Adver- tiser that the negro has no citizen ship was not intended to go to the length which The Tribune assumes we intended The intention was to show that as to voting he was practically de- citizened, so far as lack of suffrage rights would bring about that condition. The right of the negro to citizenship in the general acceptation of the term is not denied by the people of Alabama, and The Advertiser would not have such an impression go out. because of any thing 1t might say. As a matter of fact, we believe, since the new Constitution went into effect that there is greater de- sire than ever before. on the part of the people of Alabama for the negroes to be protected in their rights.
 As said in the extract quoted from The Advertiser, his rights are guaranteed by the State," and he deserves the kind protection of every true white man." We beg to assure The Tribune that these are not mere empty declarations. but the sen- timents of almost the entire white popu- lation of Alabama.
 The Advertiser was not 'complaining of the publication of the reports about the enslavement of negroes by unscrupu- lous whites through misuse of the judi cial machinery" On the contrary, no paper was more prompt than The Adver- tiser to give publicity to the proceedings which resulted in indictment and arrest of men charged with violating the law and holding men in confinement, con- trary to law. It believes that good will result from these prosecutions and hopes that the evil will be broken up root and branch. What The Advertiser complained of was the injustice of holding up all the people of Alabama as criminal law breakers, because of the acts of a few. The overwhelming sentiment of the peo- pie of this State is in favor of treating the negroes fairly and honestly, of aid ing them in every effort to better their conditions. and of upholding the hands of those who seek to punish invasions of their personal rights and liberty. It Is gratifying to note that The Tribune has not, up to this date, sought to in- peach the honor and good faith of two millions of people because of the mis- conduct of a few.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

try, as a general thing. 1t is not neces- sary that the pupils should be compelled to utilize all the space of the school yard as a playground. and hence they can find ample room for flowers. The boys. we should think might be easily induced to do some at least of the heavy work of planting and culture. and the girls would do the rest if properly encour- aged.
 The time is passing away and we hope will soon be gone, when 1t will be thought that any kind of house and any kind of surroundings is good enough for school children. While we would not have real. substantial and necessary edu- cation sacrificed for mere esthetic grati- fication, we insist that to teach children a love for the beautiful in Nature is not time wasted. Next to properly con- structed and furnished building, we should place flowers and trailing vines as a help to educating the minds and the hearts of the young. All desirable edu- cation is not derived from books. and If every country school had a flower garden attached, education would suffer no loss and the lives of the children would be made brighter. happier and better.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
The Serum Treatment for Tubercu
 losis.
New York Hecald.

New York Herald.
 If the number of alleged cures for tu- berculosis can be taken into account in proving the intractability of the disease we appear to have arrived at point where hope deferred maketh the heart sick"
 Scarcely day passes that has not its new discovery of sure remedy for the malady. At present the trend of experi- mental research is in the direction of se- rum treatment.
 The number and variety of the tuber- culosls antitoxins seems infinite From the time Professor Koch of Berlin, eX- plotted his tuberculin until the present there has been no end of injections into the bodies of the unfortunate victims. Each experimenter reports good results, and while the game goes on the average death rate remains virtually the same.
 A certain proportion of cases of con sumption" are destined to recover in any event and the result is naturally attrib- uted to the particular medication on trial Hence every new method has it's ratio of succ asses and each new inves- tigator is duly sanguine as to the value of his discovery, Thus, while duly lauding the motives of the laboratory men, we are forced to accept their conclusions with Judicious suspicion.
 The latest report of new serum comes from Newark, N. J., and has the merit of an Endorsement of the Health Board of that city. We are assured that It's trial in number of cases has passed the experimental stage, and that cnly an appropriation from the Common Coun-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
Negro Citizenship.

New York Tribune.
 It is well Known that the negro is prac- tically disfranchised in Alabama, but il Is something new to discover that he has been completely deprived of rights as a alien living in the State on sufferance Yet that Is the situation, if we may trust the frank declaration of The Montgomery Advertiser in the course of an article condemning peonage, but complaining of the. publication of the reports about the enslavement of negroes by interruptions whites through misuse of the Judicial ma
 "The negro in Alabama particularly is the ward of the Stae. He has no citizen ship; he is legally a sort of child whose who deserves the kind protection of every true white man."
 So a negro is not citizen in Alabama But 1t happens that the Constitution of the United States has something to say about who are citizens of Alabama. It declares,
 United States, and subject to the jurisdc- ton thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they re- sde.'
 Citizenship and the right to vote are the negro is carried to the point Of deny ing deprived him of his vote, certainly the extremity has been reached and 1t Is In order for Southern whites to call upon hsE Un as as9%s ST act to of Ss csag a% S dcS is so extreme that were 1t avowed in a less careful and thoughtful journal than The Montgomery Advertiser we should think 1t mere loose talk, but that paper Is not accustomed to use words in lgno- of the black politicians of reconstruction days. When It says that the negro has no citizenship in Alabama we are obliged to accept the statement as serious, and as implying that hS stands before the law not merely Voteless but without any per sonal and civil rights as a member of the land of his birth. The child is a citizen the idiot Is a citizen. Yet Is not Booker T. Washington a citizen Alabama?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
MONEY VERSUS NAME.

Some strenuosity is promised in con- nection with the election of United States Senator from California. True, the place now filled by Thomas R. Bard will not be vacant until 1905, but it is given out that he Is tired of the position and will not be a candidate for re-elec- ton. He is a rich man, who is now oc- cupying a country home in England, and 1t is announced that he may resign be- fore his term expires, as he has no liking for office.
 Already there are two candidates prac- tically in the field to contest for the plum. One of them if Henry T. Oxnard. the beet sugar magnate, whose chief qualification for the office is that he has a large sized barrel and Is willing to knock the spigot out for the benefit of hungry electors. His opponent is U. s. Grant, Jr., who has no other qualifica- ton, so far as we know, than that he is the son of his father. He will make the race on the strength of his name, which for a prospective Senator
 So here is to be contest between a man with a barrel and a man with a fathers name to pull him through, and we may expect an exciting time. There are those in California who will consider no duty too exacting if the coin is freely dealt out, and there are others who will think that a man bearing the name of Grant, and likewise the son of the Gen eral-President. should have anything he wants. If we were of a sporting dispo- sition, we should put up our contribution to the game on oxnard. provided, of course, he Is liberal. In other words, we would consider 1t a safe proposition to bet on. that money will come out ahead of name.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
A GOOD SUGGESTION.

Some time ago The Advertiser printed communication from Auburn, from which we republish the following para graph:
 Mrs. c. A. Cary is greatly interested in creating a desire among the people of the State for improving and beautifying school buildings and grounds, and she is beginning her work at home by leading movement among the ladies of Auburn to improve and make more attractive the public school buildings and grounds, and they have done much already by plant ing flowers and hedges on the grounds and by placing some good pictures on the walls of the building. The school chill dren have been induced to take an inter est in this effort for the beautiful and many of them have contributed pot plants for the windows:
 We reprint this because 1t ls directly in line with an editorial printed some days ago on the subect of better school buildings. The difference is that the former article was directed to the parents and others whose duty it is to provide school-houses, while in the present case the duty falls on the teachers and chil- would not be a heavy one, for children and especially girls, are naturally lovers of flowers; and to cultivate that taste and to make 1t effective would not re- quire any very great effort.
 Teachers and pupils alike are handi- capped in the cities because there is or dinarily little space in the school-grounds for flower growing but even here the pupils, If properly encouraged. could fill the windows and spare hooks and cor ners with something pretty. In the coun-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

The two Carolinas are the chief offend CTS in the South, but in both States there has been very considerable improve ment of late.
 If thero be cause of complaint in these States, as, the Northern press declares, how much more cause Is there In Penn sylvania, which. it will be seen, has twice as many children in factories as both the Carolinas together.
 The truth Is coming to light in connec- ton with the present strike of the textile operatives in Philadelphia. The Central Textile Union declares that the strike Is due not to questions of wages but to sanitary reasons, to the fact that ch!l lcen are compelled to work longer each day than their constitutions will allow, and in the midst of clouds of dust which pro- duce pulmonary diseases and render wol in the textile mills more dangerous than in the coal mines.
 The Northern press which devoted itself so earnestly to the child labor abuse in the South can now give its attention to the facts brought out by the Philadelphia strike-that here are nearly as many children working in the factories of that city as in the whole South and that the conditions surrounding these children is much worse. Child labor is an evil that should be abolished, but 1t is as great an evil in Pennsylvania as 1t Is in the Caro- linas.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
LET US NOT 1M1rArE THEM.

The Advertiser desires to urge upon its
 Alabama readers the solemn. truth that
 the lynching of negroes in Illinois and
 other Northern States is no Justification for like acts here at home. limitation
 Is the sincerest fattery," wrote Cotton,
 and we might fatter our Northern friends by initiating their lawless acts.
 but we should restrain our desire to please so far as to refrain from negro lynching just because our brethren up North indulge in that pastime.
 In the North the negro is an alien. an exostosis on the body polite. as 1t were. They do not understand him and cannot do so. They talk sympathetically and
 humidiy of his wrongs and his rights.
 shed some tears over his alleged cruel
 fate in the South. and then. if he aspires to be a laborer in the hive of industry, they turn on him and drive him out with curses and revilings. If he resists or
 falls back on the sacred laws of self defence and self-preservation. he is either shot down or lynched. They love him-at a safe distance.
 With us of the South 1t is different
 We received the negro by inheritance. He came to us through the generations of slavery. Emancipation left him stranded on the shores of a new world, for which he had no preparation and no fitness. The Southern people, remember ing the negro of the olden time when he was the faithful servant, the willing worker and the protector of the family of his master-with all this in their minds our people have borne with him. have helped him and have tried to fit him for some of the duties of citizenship. We recognize in him a part of our popula- ton, a necessary worker on the farm, in the shop and in the home. but not in any way an equal.
 And for all this: because the negroes have come down to us from the good days of old; because they are at home with us. and must perhaps forever be in some degree our wards, we owe them justice, fair treatment and protection in all their civil rights. Now that they have practically, lost the right of suffrage, we more than ever owe them our watch care and should throw over and around them the shield of law and justice. The fact that they are lynched in the North, or driven out like danger ous wild beasts is no reason that our people should do the same. Let us not follow the evil example set by those Pharisees who preach what they do not practice and who condemn in others the deeds which they practice among them- selves. In short, let us steadfastly re- fuse to follow the evil examples set by
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

ell is necessary to place the lew agent | within the reach Of all who may nave tne
 requisite faith in its efficacy, We would ram nope that the long sought cure has
 been found at last. In view, however of | previous experiences along similar Ines. | there Is enough of legitimate doubt in the
 @ outcome 10 warrant due caution in max | ing extravagant promises. Great harm is sure to come to such sufferers as may nave their expecta tons raised only to
 nave them unrealized at the end. This mas been seen over and over again with | every cure that has been exploited as an innovation on the accepted methods
 or the great majority of medical rracti- It is safe to gay that the conceasus of professional opinion today is not ,l favor 0n the serum treatment of tuber sllosis.
 rms conclusion is based on a much larger sxperiehce than can be obtainsd Tn any
 iaooratory. Unless the revelations in NeWark are such as tend to confoIad all
 previous researches for an antitoxln se- rum Tor tuberculosis the treatment of the disease is still where 1t has been for the
 last twenty years.
 Fortunately, by what can now oe called
 the more rational management of the malaoy, most excellent results are within reacn. The aim now is not toward de- stroyfng the microbe so much as making tne patient strong enough to throw eff the enemy. The mere neutralizing of the poison is not of so much importance as the rendering of the soil of the bodily tissues unfit for the propagation of the oSSu' at pcSt, Dy tne DaClIluS merely there is no surety against rein lection and no known immunity against a second or third attack.
 The real safeguard Is the protection af-
 forded by a strong constitution and by placing the individual possessing 1t on
 the same plane as one who may have
 been born with a natural immunity.
 It will hence be seen that the injection or antitoxin would be merely aA tempo rary expedient at best. This is the most
 that can be said for any serum by itself,
 with the possible claim of its modifying the action of the poison while the latter Is at work Even on such an assumption tt would be extremely difficult to obtain a nuid that could meet all the multiplied conditions of progressive blood poisoning incident to the various toxic invasions that occur in the mixed infection of the advanced cases.
 For these and other reasons 1t is a set tied conviction with those having the largest practical experience in the care of tuberculous patients that the sanatorium treatment ranks first in importance, and from its simplicity and ease of applica- tion gives the mot rational and practical reult. Thi being the case, we can the more contentedly await the demonstration of better method and more resignedly face the constantly recurring disappoint- ments that follow in the wake of the many unfuldlled promises.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
Child Labor in Pennsvlvania.

New Orleans Times-Democrat.
 A few months ago the Northern press grew very excited over child labor in the South. especially that employed in the cotton mills. and teemed with stories of the wretched condition of children of tender years forced to such arduous labor. There were indications that this agita- tion had been worked up by the owners Of New England cotton mills to explain the fact that the South was passing them as manufacturer of cotton goods; but the Southern people, without making any comparison between the number of chil- dren working in the Southern mills and those of the North. but recognizing the evils Of the system, took energetic steps to break 1t up. In most of the States laws were passed prohibiting the em- ploymcnt of child labor altogether; and even where this was not done care was taken to put the protection of the law abound the children. The campaign iS not over yet, and those who are at its head announced their purpose to keep 1t up until not a child Is employed in mining or mill work or in any labor unsuited to his or her years.
 In the discussion of this matter the South might easily have answered it's critics by pointing out that 1t is not as great an offender in this matter as the North. as the following table from the census of the number of children in fac
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
Woman and Good Roads.

Governor Bliss of Michigan appointed Dr, Rachel J. Davidson of Flint a dele gate at large to the National and Inter national Good Roads Convention which met recently at St. Louis At the good roads convention in Buffalo, N. Y, two years ago Dr. Davidson was the only woman delegate. She gave an address on Road Naming and Marking" sub Ject to which she has given special at tention. Her second appointment as dele gate Is believed u be due to her work along oriignal methods of rural road nak- ing and house numbering.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

been studying and experimenting for years on liquid air, which caused such excitement only a few years ago, has come to the conclusion that little need be expected of 1t. He admits that 1t is wonderfully effective, but says 1t would cost from thirty to fifty times as much to fit up refrigerators with 1t as Ice now costs to do the same work. That will effectually bar 1t out, unless methods can be found to very materially reduce the cost of production.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

Various cities of the country are talk ing about the possibility of bringing about ''noiseless Fourth of July" but we anticipate failure. Speaking for the small boys of the country, we hold that 1t would be better to cut the day out of the calendar than to prevent the use of fireworks and other pyrotechnics so dear to the boyish heart A Fourth of July without noise. burnt fingers, red lemon ade and watermelons and other things so dear to young America, would be as weary, stale, flat and unprofitable'' as a Thanksgiving dinner without turkey and cranberries. It is doubtless true that fireworks and indiscriminate shoot ing endanger life and property. but to cut out every kind of noise and flare and ex- citement would bring the day down to a level with Puritan Sunday. Can't they split the difference and allow little bit of racket?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
Played Second Fiddle.

MUDiIe Item.
 Mark Hanna has played second fiddle one time In life. at least and that was at nigh noon today, when his daughter was married. At such functions pap is usu- Nam and the bride are, of course, mo nopolized by the groom, while poor old dad" sits back in the shade and dreams or the time when he was something and
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

The Richmond Times Dispatch vows that if they ever get over the present deluge that paper will never again com plain of a drouth. Our contemporary should remember the old couplet begin ming. When the devil was sick" and rot make any rash promises.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

The Atlanta Journal declares that "by common consent the year 2OOO will close the nineteenth century," Does not The Journal mean uncommon consent?' We have been looking on this as the twen- tieth century.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

The Commonor, or Mir. Bryan, has read The Atlanta Constitution out of the Dem- ocratic Party. The Constitution once read MT. Cleveland out. and he can now read Bryan out. if he cares to bother with small matters while the fish are biting
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
Is e Discredit.
Huntsville Mercury.

1iuHtsVIIIe Mercury.
 MT. Manning Is a discredit to his State We are handicapped, enough by reason of our large negro population, and to have 1t said that one out of every six negro men light before the world. Of course there Is very little truth in the statement made by Mr. Manning. but there are thousands or men who have been anxious to get just such story for political service.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

The Roanoke Leader Is of the opinion that the editor who stays at home and wQrks Is of much more importance than is the one who goes of on excursions. Perhaps he is, but he doesn't have half as much fun.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

They have found deep hole in the Pacific Ocean, the dispatches tell us. and we think 1t would be nothing but right to hang red lantern over it. else some body might fall in.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
Final Settlement.

THE STATE OF ALABAMA Monteomarv
 County,-Proabte Court June tn 1908.
 Notice Is hereby given that Alexander Troy administrator de bonis non, of the estate of Francis Hunter. deceased, has filed his ac- count for final settlement of his adminis- tration of said estate and that the 9th day of July, 1908, has been appointed for said settlement. J. B. GASTON'
 St Judge of Probate
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

Mrs. Hetty Green has actually invested in an automobile costing something over twelve thousand dollars. If she will take Uncle Russ Sage out for a spin it would save him an occasional nickel but we hardly suppose she would be guilty of such an act of extravaganza.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

Taking The Commoner as authority, the only Democratic newspaper left in the South is The New Orleans Times Democrat. all the others having apostal- iZed. It is very sad. and we respectfully tender our sympathies to The I'D. It will require wonderful balancing powers on it's part to save 1t from being read out with the rest of us
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
Afraid to Tackle It.
AIEdl Orarlr GAaH

ozark Star.
 Al, We will allow The Montgomery Adver- other newspapers in the State to discuss the Presidential question, and settle 1t if they can. as we are afraid we would get
 wool gathered" if we should undertake to settle 1t for them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12
Time to Hold Up.

Ozark Tribune.
 ., We believe 1t is now time to hold up on the race issue. We have our Northern them lynchine negroes, and now we want the North to settle the negro problem up
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-06-12

Now The Washington Post is trying to convince us that there were never any witches burned at Salem, but it won't work, We've got to have something to hang on to.