The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-01-03

the Southern press can do no greater or grander duty than keeping up a perpetual fight against the race degeneracy that ap- proves equality. We can afford, just now, to forget the personal heroism of Hobson in the grander heroism of Simmons and the laudation of Simmons should be so spontaneous, so cordial, so unanimous in the State, that the administration can find no man so degraded as to take Fed eral office in Alabama at the price at which Simmons refused it.
 If any poor spirited wretch accepted of- flee on such degrading terms he would know in what esteem he is held and would perhaps have sense enough to take the social standing his depravity merits.
 Biblical Knowledge.
 reckon you've heard it till you're tired, the old story of the Congressman who not to know the Lords Prayer. A bet was made. Then the first fellow rattled of:
 "Now lay me down to sleep
 l pray the Lord my soul to keep.
 If should die before wake
 I pray the Lord my soul to take'',
 The second fellow said to the stake- holder: "Give him the money, but I didn't believe he knew It." The ordinary Congressman, I suppose, Is generally in- nocent of close aeQuaintanceship with Bib- Heal stories. won't say it was Stall- ings. but 1t could have been, that once asked me at which battle that was when Napoleon commanded the sun to stand still. know, whoever 1t was, I had for gotten the Napoieonic incident. I had a tough old argument, once, with an elder Of the Presbyterian Church to convince him that "A fool and his money are soon parted is not in the Bible. He was very positive that 1t is one of solomon's Pro- verbs. It may be that elders and Con- gressmen are not chosen on account of Biblical knowledge. But 1t seems to me when they speak and write for the public that little care should be taken not to mix things too much. Of course, wealth and prominence save the ignorant from ridicule. When I was young and vigor- ous and took back seat in the church, the old fellows held us to the line of correct Scripture quotation. I reckon the old fellows are dead or inclined to ''bend the pregnant hinges of the knee that thrift may follow fawning,'' or surely some of 'em would discover Q variance in that version that informs us of the time when the wise men were guarding their docks in the East" Dog in the Manager.
 The Dog in the Manager" business is human nature to g. t. It is cropping out all the time in low places and high places. It runs from a to 2 through our depraved or sublimated race. I've noticed 1t among the negroes and I've seen 1t bulging out in the boasted Anglo-Saxon-the upper ten of the Caucasian. It's human trait that the dogs caught from association. It would be complimentary to the lords of creation to call 1t dog trait It may be excusable in the individual, but reprehen- sible when 1t clings to the individual en- larged into representative. A represen- tative should be the individual so en- larged that responsibility becomes duty. Why, when I was a Democrat 1 felt con- strained, on all occasions to be a gentle man that Democracy, through me. should be attractive. In PopulisA was under the same constraint. with the new obliga- tton Of common sense, on me. When became lilly white' Republican all the obligations of correct behavior increased So, in all my connections I felt 1t duty to exert myself to make strangers and acquaintances think we'll of my affilia- tions. Perhaps, on some occasion may have overdone the matter sufficiently to arouse suspicion of hypocrisy. as I have occasionally been taken for clergyman
 
 good behavior for Party's sake, imme- diately and continuously rested upon me- I also had to keep my Baptist above reproach. In my representative capa- city was free from the dog-in-the- manager trait. And, that's right.
 I am really leading up to the Canal question. It appears that some promi- nent canal advocates don't want a canal unless 1t is in the metes and boundaries of vanished hope Which reviews the observation that some people are hard to please.
 A devoted husband who for thirty years had let his home divinity let down a fence to milk the COWS. one day in her absence was overcome with the pillows of super annuated affection and went out and built her nice gate to the COW pen and then waited to enjoy her glad surprise. In telling his experience to neighbor he said: ''The old hell cat tore up the sand because 1t wernt a pair of bars"
 Something About the Canal.
 I have been led to believe that the great canal, whose wind work began centuries ago and has recently enormously increas- ed, will be a great thing for. the whole world and especially certain States of the American Union-the Southern States. A certain route had the favor of an enthu- SldSt. FraCLlCal, leVol neduou men, Just as earnest for this world benefit decided on different route. Certain negotia- tions with mercenary government failed. A revolution in which. our old idea of secession was prominent gave our heady and head-long administration an opportu- nity to do a natural thing and make dead sure of the canal. Suppose, in all the haste of revolution. recognition and treaty there was something wrong. is that any reason to hesitate and bubble and gabble about wrong and right?
 l reckon progressive governments have always proceeded upon
 -"the good old plan
 That he can take who has the power And he may keep who can.'
 and always will. In this respect gov- ernment is very much like the individual. But the doR-in-the-manger disposition is rampant to delay the opening of the great water way. And it may be a good thing If the fear of my neighbor is founded in 1 reason. He's a good Hardshell and looks with apprehension upon any interference with Providential plans. He's afraid if the bigger pond is let into the smaller there'n be an overflow that'n unbalance the world and make the boil weevil fight unnecessary.
 Waste of Raw Material. All this sentimentality about the wrong of cutting in to the affairs of other gov ernments is waste of the raw material. Where's the use of having Senators who arc out of sympathy with the stately