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The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

The boom of the Hon. Robert Rob-
erts Hit of Illinois forsthe Republican
vice presidential nomination has now
been officially and auspiciously launch
ed. The Illinois State Republican Con-
vention has instructed its delegates to
the National Convention to vote for
Roosevelt and secure Hits nomination
for second place on the ticket. Mr..
Hit is a mature statesman, being in
the seventeen year of his age. He has
been in public life since 1874, when he
was appointed first secretary of lega-
ton and charge d'affaires ad interim at
Paris. In 1881 he returned to the Unit
ed States and became assistant secre-
tary of state. He did not remain in
that position long, however, being
elected to Congress from the Ninth
district of Illinois the same year. Since
that time he has been a congressman,
and chairman of the Committee of For
eign Affairs since the beginning of the
Fifty-sixth Congress. In July, 1898,
President Mckinley appointed him one
of the commissioners to establish d
government for Hawaii, on its annexa-
ton to the United States. Mr.. Hit is
a regent of the Smithsonian Institution
at Washington.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Washington Post Qnd.) says:
The New Jersey Republicans declared
in their platform that the administra-
ton has carried out the policies of the
lamented Mckinney The thirty reci-
proeity treaties in the Senate archives
will now please roll over and shake off
some of the accumulated dust
The Richmond Times-D Dispatch
.(Dem.) says: THE Democratic party
stands for taxation for revenue only,
limited to the needs of government
when economically administered. It's
doctrine is that every dollar taken by
the government ont of the pockets of
the people which is not needed for the
economical administration of govern
ment is robbery. A government sur
plus is a theft, and is sure to become a
corruption fund. Upon this issue the
Democrats can make it's fight with full
confidence that they will be supported
by the people. That should be the par
amount issue of the campaign of 1904. -
The Montgomery Advertiser (Dem.
says: ITO an old Confederate, or to any
one who has read the history of the
war between the states, it is almost
amusing to read in the, dispatches from
the East that Gen. Kuropakin actual
ly has at his disposal not more than
10000 men, and that he intends TO
avoid battle until he has sufficient
forces When we think of what Gen.
Lee would have accomplished with
$50 600 Confederates, or what havoc
Stonewall Jackson would have caused
with one-third of that number, we can
but be surprised, either at the fighting
qualities of the Japanese or the incom-
potency of their enemies"
The Baltimore sun (Dem.) says: 1T
is believed that a Democratic Presi-
dent. under existing political condi-
tions, can be elected. The Republican
party is not enthusiastic over its pros
pective candidate. and great numbers
of Republicans as well as Democrats
want change. A sensible, conserva-
tive Democrat-on a platform true to
real Jeffersonion principles and yet
taking account of present conditions,
will fill a long-felt want. He will win
in the coming presidential contest il
his candidacy is of such a character as
TO reunite the factions created by novel
proposals. This can be done--the fac
tions can be reunited-if Mr. Bryan
viii kindly consent"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
THE MOTHER OF TRUSTS.

Trusts seem to have several mothers.
On one occasion, in giving testimony
before a congressional committee,
trust magnate said that the tariff MAS
the mother of trusts. In an address
before the American Social Science
! Association in Boston on Wednesday
night Mr. Justice Gaynor, Of the Su-
preme Court of New York, said that
I freight rate favoritism was the mother
of trusts. There is good reason for
thinking that this favoritism has done
about as much as the tariff to estab-
fish trusts in this country Among
the first great trusts were the sugar
refining combination and the Standard
Oil Company. The charge is made
that both of them were largely built
up on freight rate favoritism. I'm
less nearly everything that has been
said against the Standard Oil COM
pany is false, it would never have be
come the monopoly it is if IL had not
had the assistance of the railroads, the
highways of the country, as Justice
0dynor calls them.
~ mao btNAi tiAeLi bIht anu w cNAAN'N
proved, that the means the Standard
Oil Company adopted to drive its conf
petitors out of business and get control
of the oil trade were concessions forced
from the railroads. The Standard
Oil Company had the biggest business
and it gave its freight to the railroad
that gave it the largest rebate. The
company that got its oil transported
TO market for half what it's COMPETE
tors had to pay was in a position to
monopolize the oil business.
There is a vast amount OF truth in
what Justice Gaynor said. And ia
voritism i'm freight rates isn't con-
fined to trusts In all parts of the
country the big shippers are favored.
Consequently the little fellows, being
unable to compete, are driven out of
business. In this way monopolies-
trusts-are created.
What is the remedy? Justice Gay
nor says it is the appointment by the
government of the traffic manager or
freight agent of every railroad in the
country. That may be the remedy
though it would be rash to say it is,
without careful investigation. 1t seems
TO us the better remedy is the giving
the railroads the right TO pool their
earnings and the appointment of
commission to fix maximum freight
rates. The railroads do not want to
give rebates or to show favor
itism in freight rates. They do
it simply because they have to, TO
save themselves from ruin. What
one does all have to do. The
competition is so fierce that all sorts
of means are resorted to to get share
of the business. But if earnings were
pooled and freight rates limited both
the railroads and the people would be
protected.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
rue CzAR SEEKS INFORMATION.

The Car is so anxious for informa-
tion as TO why the American people
sympathize with the Japanese in the
war that is now in progress between
Russia and Japan that he has sent
Prince Esper Oukhtomsky, editor of
one of the leading papers of St. Peters,
burg, to this country to find out the
reason. The Times arrived in New York
on Wednesday. and will make a tour
through the country and talk with the
people about the matter.
He need not go far to get the infor-
nation he seeks. In the first place Rus
STA is looked upon as a powerful ma
ton, occupying a vast territory. while
Japan occupies a few islands and has
only about a third of Russias popula-
tion. The sympathy of the American
people is naturally with the weaker
Power.
The chief reason, however is Rus
sia's conduct In regard TO Manchuria.
She promised our government as wei
as other governments that she would
evacuate that province of China on
two or three separate occasions, and
she refused to keep her promises. She
is there yet. Once or twice she pre-
tended as IL she were about to evacuate
il, but very soon her soldiers were sent
back. Her action in this matter was
regarded as an indication of bad faith.
Therefore. when the japanese undeT-
took to make her get out of Manchuria
there was rejoicing in this country.
The American people are greatly in
| terested in Manchuria. They expect
10 have a great trade there. In fact,
they had a large and growing trade
there before Russia occupied it. Rus
| sia's action was interpreted to mean
that it was her purpose to monopolze
the trade of the province. And, doubt
| less, that was her intention. 1t is true
that she consented to China's agree
| ment to the opening of one or two of
the Manchurian ports, but she did it
grudgingly. and there was good reason
for thinking that as soon as she got
firmly established there she would take
steps to drive out our merchants and
commercial agents and take complete
control of the commerce.
1t is probable that it isn't so much
the desire of the Car to find out the
reason for American sympathy for the
japanese as TO try and create senti-
ment in favor of Russia. Doubtless he
sees that the time isn't distant when
me will have to borrow great deal
! more money than he will be able to
get in Europe. and hopes to float bonds
in this country. But whether that is
the real motive of Prince Onkhtom-
skys visit or not, the Prince will not
have to travel far to find out that the
ancient friendship between Russia and
the United States doesn't seem TO be
sufficient to enlist the sympathy of
Americans for Russia in the present
we..
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

A very interesting contest is going
on in New York city between the multi
millionaire, John Jacob Astor on one
side, and a number of miilionaires on
the other. Mr.. Astor, who is the own
er OF some of the most costly of the.
New York hotels, has about finished
building the st. Regis, which is said
TO be much finer hotel building than
the Waldorf-Asteria. The cost of it
is about $3,OO0,0O0. OF course a hotel
cannot get along very we'll in New
York unless it is prepared to serve
wines and liquors to the guests. There
is a law in New York which prohibits
the sale of liquor within 200 feet of
a church, unless two-thirds of the
members give their consent. The st.
Regis is within that distance of the
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, the
congregation of which is composed to
a large extent of millionaires, the
Rockefellers being among it's members.
The millionaires say that they will
not give their consent. 1t therefore
looks as If the splendid new hotel
would be, practically, a temperance
house. The lessee of it. however, says
that he will manage to give his patrons
all the wines and liquors they want.
He won't sell drinks over a bar, but
will serve to his patrons whatever
they want in the restaurant. And the
restaurant will be located in a part of
the hotel that is furthest away from
the church. so that the sale of liquors
will be practically more than 200 feet
away from the church.
But will not that be an evasion of
the law? Does not the law mean that
the building in which the liquor is sold
must be at least 200 feet away from
any church? 1t would seem so, but
this lessee of the st. Regis thinks
the letter and spirit of the law will
be complied with if the place where
the liquor is sold and drunk is 200 feet
away from the church. There is much
speculation as to what the outcome
of the case will be.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
Queer Things in Korea.

Nothing south of Ping Yang disturbs
the morning calm save the endless
landings of Japanese immigrants, the
passage of spawned, under-nourished
cavalry, and the $50 o'clock change
of guard to accompaniment of drums
and weird bugles at the imperial pal
ace, says the correspondence of the
New York Evening Post. You would
think that the Emperor would object
to the racket the guard makes. He
does not, because he has not yet re-
tired to sleep
why does dhe do all his work at
night?" / inquired of one of his Off
GERS. The answer was: Pilots and
conspira cies and all dark doings pro-
coed best at night. What more natural,
then, that the Emperor, remembering
the past, should call his ministers
about him and keep the palace occu-
pied at night, instead of in the day?'
A simply enough safety device, pure
ly Korean. 1t reminds one of the mo-
tive for giving up the bicycle. This
machine was invented in China in the
time of Mencius and had one crank
for going north and one for coming
back, which operated very well till
one day a woman took bicycle from
a shop where the coming-back part
was being repaired. Not knowing that
repairs had not been completed the
logical thing happened: She rode on
and on, and never was able to turn
homeward again. Another illustration
of Korean mental processes relates to
the ironclad. Korea invented the first
in the world, used it. discarded it. AS
to why no care was taken to improve
il and maintain the sea supremacy, a
Korean answers: why should We?
The war is over. You don't carry
about a fan all winter, do you, be-
cause you will need IT next summer"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
INDt4 IL NEW EMBELLISHMENTS

Special Notices-Butter at Joyces.
Business Notices-Quick Service,
Sommers' Safe, Bicycles for S25, Wal
ter f. Higgins Famous Luncheons,
Thunderbolt Casino; Aunt Marias Pan
Cake Flour
% Per Cent. Discount-B. H. Levy,
Bro. & Co.
Remember Our Special Sale To-day
The Metropolitan.
Mason's Fruit Jars-A. Enrich &
Bro.
See What Your Money viii Buy
New York Cash Grocery.
The Baseball season-Masonic Tenn
pie Pharmacy.
Foods-Force; Grape-Nuts.
Make Up Your Mlnd-E. & w,
Laundry.
Cigars-Pete Daley.
Try Warburines To-day-Rowlinski
Druggist.
Jersey Shrub Fountain Syrup-Henry
Solomon & Son.
Saturday Is Always the Big Bicycle
Day-At Lattimores.
Sunday EXcursiOns-Seaboard Air
Line
Your Stomach May Require Repair
ing-Henry solomon & Son.
Fresh Arrivals for To-day-The Del
monico Company.
Come TO See Us Roast Your Coffee
Jas. G. Nelson.
The South End Eeason of 1904--W.
NJ. Bohan, Proprietor.
Medieal-Thatcher Medicine Com
pany Blood Wine; Herpicide.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
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cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

I don't know just what color l do
want" said the young man to the girl
who presided at the tie counter. ac-
eording to the Chicago News. what
color would you get if you was
me?"
ct don't know replied the girl
doubtfully, looking. at him. You've
got blue eyes, but you're sort of dark
complicated"
Your eyes are brown, amt they %
The girl dropped the lashes over
them effectively It think a blue
but you could wear a red just as
well"
RED suits you," said the young
man admiringly.
How would this do?" asked the girl
What's that?''
''Forty-eight-the same as the
Others"
Il mean what do you call the tie?''
'Oh, that's an Ascot"
I'D have to tie that myself, Wouldn't
~"
Surely"
g'fThen that let's me out. l never could
tie tie, and l haven't anybody to
tie it for me. That's pretty hard luck
isn't it? Have you got bow?'
Il don't know if it's any of your
business" said the girl.
Il mean bow tie. Course l khe "
you had a beau-dozens of EN-. When
a ladys got your looks she amt go
ing to be understocked with beauX.'
You're a jollier, amt your" said
the girl.
Mot SOS you'd notice it. I weuldn' I
try to give you jolly, anyway.
wouldn't give you anything but the
straight goods"
Il don't know" said the girl, with
somewhat softened manner. I'D
hate to trust you. How would this
bow do?"
I'm take it if you say so. Il
you think it's all right, it's all right
for me-"
WAS there anything more?'
You don't keep these matrimonial
ties, do your
You'll have to go round to the
court house for one,' said the girl; I'VE
don't carry them. Customers would be
bringing 'em back all the time and
wantin' to exchange 'em for something
better. Ca-sh!"
You amt so slow. either,'' said the
young man.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
BRIGHT BITS.


When your father comes home ]
shall tell him to give you a whipping
Hold on, ma! Let pa remain neutral!
don't drag him into this affair. >
Judge.
Heavy Tragedian-"There's a the
atrical manager in New York just
crazy to have me join his company
Soubrette-'I should say he is."-Chi-
cago Daily News.
II had AN awful time persuading
the landlord to paper our house" Are
you pleased with the result?" Hard
ly. l think it was put on for revenge
Detroit Free ress.
-'I--er-wish to look at some-er--
false hair said the embarrassed
young lady. Very WELL miss" rejoin-
ed the diplomatic salesman. ''What
shade does your friend wish ?"-Chica.
go Daily News.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
-----s--'
The Old story of mn Old Debt.

While going to his work the other
morning and meditating upon the fact
that he owed big doctor bill and had
only $725 with which TO pay it, Mr..
Rufus Gedden. an Evanston carpen-
ter. was accosted by a plainly dressed
stranger. says the Chicago Tribune.
You're Br. Gedden, aren't your
asked the stranger.
Yes, sir" he replied.
Used to live in Milwaukee, didn't
you?7
Il did
DO you remember lending $50 to a
man up there named Humphrey Johns
about nineteen years ago?
Yes, l remember that distinctly"
He never paid il, did hep
Never"
We'll" pursued the stranger. with
emotion, Il am Humphrey Johns. 1
have never forgotten that debt. and 1
am going TO pay IL with interest some
day, but I'm little hard Up just now
DO YOU suppose you could lend me a
half dollar for the sake OF old times ?"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
Personal.

Senator Mitchell of Oregon is the
only man in all the history of the Sem
ate whose service has included three
distinct terms separated by periods of
political retirement When he went to
Washington first, in 1873, he remained
for six years. Then he returned to
private life until 1885, when he went
back to Washington and continued in
the Senate until 1887. After another
lapse Of four yearsthei was again elect
ed, in 1901.
Senator Beverage of Indiana takes
great interest in military affairs and
while in the Philippines spent much
time on the firing line with Gen. Law
ton. One day he made remark of
such military aptitude that Eawton
said: Mr. Beverage, you ought to
be a soldier, not politician" Il
should have been in the army" re-
piled the Senator. but l couldn't read
aloud well enough" He then ex-
planned that he was beaten by one
fifth of l per cent, his defective oral
reading having turned the scales by
this fraction against him.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

The National Congress of Mothers,
in session at Chicago, has found that
there are at least twelve remedies for
the divorce evil. But one is enough
if it will prove effective One of the
suggested remedies" is, Make remar-
rage for divorced people impossible. :"
Another is. "Ostracise absolutely di-
vorced people who remarry." Either
would be sufficient, if it were possible
to carry it into effect.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
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The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

New York city seems to be on the
verge if not actually in the midst of
an epidemic of cerebro-spinal menin-
fever" The health records show 357
cases of the disease from the week
ending March up TO and including
the week ending May Z, as against
So cases for the corresponding period
of last year. The health officials We're
hopeful that with the coming of warm
er weather the disease would show a
decline. but its course has been in the
opposite direction.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

While the enemies of Judge Parker
are bowling for him to talk, thoughtful
people will be apt TO reflect that it is
the silent men who accomplish great
ohings. Robert E. Lee was a silent
man; so was u. S. Grant, and so was
Won Moltke. The japanese general,
Kuroki, is not doing any talking, but
the progress he is making is notable
Gen. Kuropatkin, by way of contrast.
is mentioned in the dispatches several
times a day as having something to
say.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

The Brooklyn Eagle tells of a wan
dering American who has rediscovered
Naples. He did not see Naples and
die" but wonders that ne is living. be-
cause of the prevalence there OF beggars
and fieas. Other tourists write of the
beauties of the bay and the grandeur
of Vesuvius, but the American in ques-
ton seems not to have noted their
existence, he was so busy keeping beg
gars off with one hand and searching
for fleas with the other.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14
The weather,

The indications for Georgia for to-
ers in north portion, with fresh south
winds. Eastern Florida, fair weather,
with light south winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

1t is a grave question whether Chi
nese participation on the side of Japan
in the war would be a help or him
drance to the Japanese army. In the
Chino-J japanese War the Chinese show
ed themselves the poorest sort OF
soldiers, and it is not likely that they
have improved since. They would in
all likelihood be in the way of the
japanese troops. Meanwhile a breach
of neutrality on the part of China IN
favor of Japan might have the effect
of drawing other European Powers in
to the bloody whirlpool. France has
promised Russia aid in the event the
latter should be attacked by two Pow
ers, and England has a somewhat
similar understanding with Japan.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

The Catholic church is to confer an
unprecedented honor upon Miss Helen
Moloney. daughter OF Philadelphia
lighting and railroad magnate. Cardi-
nal Satolli will make the trip from
Rome 10 oficiate at her marriage in
June to a young lawyer of Washing
ton. This honor is In recognition OF
the splendid gifts of the brides father
to the church.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

Detroit Is known rs a great lumber
ing city, In which the song OF saws In
timber Is unceasing. Detroit is also
known as great producer of break
fast foods and pills.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

The Cuban loan contract has been
signed and the money is to be paid
Cuba in three payments of S11, 667, 600
each. This loan of $1,000, 900 is mainly
for the purpose of paying the claims
of Cuba's army of freedom. 1t is said,
however, that shrewd Americans have
purchased about all of these claims,
and that the greater part of the $685.
100000 will go to them. 1t must be
rather CALLING to the Cubans 10 bond
their country to I'LL the pockets of
American spectators.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

Mr.. John F. Wallace, the eminent
engineer who has been appointed en-
gineer-in-chief of the Panama canal
declined 10 accept the commission UNI
I'll he had consulted his mother. She
is seventy-two years of age, and IS
not strong. The assignment will take
Mr.. Wallace away for eight or ten
years He told her all of the facts
and Of his dissemination to leave her
for any great length Of time. 1t is
for you to say mother" he told her.
whether or not 1 shall accept" Mrs.
Wallace was silent for a period. dur
ing which she made up her mind. my
son, il is your duty TO accept. she
finally said. Then Mr.. Wallace tele-
graphed that he would go TO Panama.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-05-14

Educators in Richmond, Va, have
found this example in an arithmetic
in use in their public schools: I'm a
school room containing 567 white chill
dren every tenth child is eolored. How
many children in the school room?" 1t
seemed that the Northern writer's of
school books had about exhausted the
possibilities of affronting the South in
their school histories; yet it is now
seen that they find the occasion, in
the study of mathematics. to force
their ideas of equality of the races
upon Southern children by suggestion.