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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
COMMENTS ON THE sTATEsB0RO
TRAGEDY

One of the most conservative and
carefully considered of the many edi-
torial articles on the Statesboro trag-
edy that have appeared in the North
ern papers was in the New York
American. Judging from it's method
of treating most subjects and its rep
utation for yellow Journalism, it would
naturally be supposed it would have
endeavored to produce a sensation ef-
feet
In the course Of its article it says:
The matter is serious-serious in the
North as in the South. For this ev-
cry intelligent man must know-what
d man in the South VIII do a man in
the forth will do under similar prov
ocation. We have not one breed of
Americans in the North and another
in the South. The same human ma
ture controls all"
We have frequently contended that
if the percentage of the negro popula-
ton in the Northern States were as
great as it is in the Southern States
lynchngs would be as frequent there
as they arc here Indeed. we are in
clined to think they would be more
frequent. The Northern people haven't
the patience with the colored people
the Southern people have.
only week or so ago we called at
tention to the complaints of the people
of Philadelphia of the amount of crime
committed there by negroes. The
Ledger of that city stated that
while only about one-twentieth of the
population was black nearly four-tifths
OF the crimes of violence and against
property were committed by negroes
1t will not be long before the negroes
of Philadelphia will find a public sem
timent against them which will make
it difficult to get employment there.
As this sentiment increases in inten-
sity there will be manifestations of it
in acts of violence. Wilmington, Del,
isn't far from either New York or
Philadelphia, and there was a lynch
ing there not very long ago that was
almost, if not quite, as savage as that
at Statesboro. and it is still fresh in
the memories of the editors who are
saying such bitter things of the
Statesboro affair that a negro was
burned by mob in Leavenworth, Kan.
We do not. of course, seek to excuse
the Statesboro lynching. on the con-
trary, we condemn it as strongly as we,
cannot only because it is a blot up
on our state and our civilization, but
also because of its brutaffzing effect
upon those who participated in it-but
we like our Northern critics to be fair
enough to admit that their civilization
isn't so much superior to ours that no
such a thing could have happened in
their respective communities. For that
reason we have quoted from the
American the admission that under
similar provocation a lynching like
that at Statesboro would likely take
place anywhere in the North.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Norfolk Landmark (Dem) says:
'In order TO fit him a little better for
association with his ferocious fellow
candidate. the President. it is being
explained that Senator Fairbanks Of
fered during he Spanish-American
War to resign his seat in the Senate
and so to the front. Bombastes Flu
rioso and Don QuiXote make a lovely
pair"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says: where is Root-the man who
said Henry Gassaway Davis was old ?
Mr.. Davis led the german for three
nights In succession at the White Sui
phur Springs. and the morning after
the last one he was up early enough
o'clock Does the ex-Secretary Of War
wish TO enter into any sort Of compe-
ton with him?"
The Pittsburg Post (Dem) says:
"The military establishment of the
United states during the four years
of Roosevelt exceeded the expenditures
under Cleveland of $5l5.000,0 600 IL rep
resents the added cost for government
under a constitutional President and
the cost with government controlled by
a lingo and imperialistic chief OF state.
We question n in the history Of the
world anything approaching this
wastefulness, corruption and criminal
extravaganza can be paralleled. OF
course there must have been corrup-
tion. for IL would have been impossible
to have expended this amount of
money by honest and legal means
President Roosevelt undenlably usurp-
ed the power OF Congress and appro-
priated millions By his imperial edict
Impeachment should have been the am
swir OF Congress and the country"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
Retter Than a Pass.

"Martinsburg, my state" says rep
resentative from West Virginia, in the
Nashville Banner. lis just on the wind
up of a smallpox epidemic, and L am
reminded of what happened to a picket
one night when we were in this now
thriving city during the Civil War. An
intelligent female of the African per-
suasion came along just about dark,
and she was asked If if she had a
pass.
No subj answered the woman, as
her eyes beamed from beneath a big
yellow handkerchief which adorned her
head.
Then you can't pass said the
guard.
Use got no pass, but Use got de
smallpox, subj she added.
You may rest assured that the
woman passed without ceremony.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
THE DESTINATION OF THE SEA-
BOARD.

1t is the understanding that Thomas
F. Ryan and Blair & Co. have be-
come the owners of the Seaboard Air
Line and that it is to be operated
as an Independent property. 1t is
probable that it is to be operated in
dependently of any other property, but
doubtless relations of the utmost har-
mony will exist between il and the
other great systems of the South At
lantic states. 1t is hardly reasonable
to suppose that Blair & Co. and Mr..
Ryan intend to hold the entire stock
themselves. Probably there is a syn
dictate interested in the purchase. 1t
isn't at all improbable that men who
are holders of the securities of the
Southern, Central. Atlantic Coast Line
and the Louisville and Nashville are
interested in the Seaboard.
What a group of capitalists that have
been acquiring railroad property in
this part of the South for several years
| is aiming at, is to harmonic rail-
road interests. These capitalists have
confidence in the South and hence
have been investing their money in
Southern railroad properties. They
now seem to control the situation, as
Stunning of course that those who own
all these roads are acting in harmony.
and, in future, we shall have no rate
wars.
That doesn't mean, however that
rates will be increased. 1t only means
that rates will be stable, and that
the cost of getting business will not
be so great as it has been. OF course
the highest rates permitted by the
commissions of the states. which the
roads traverse will be charged. There
will be no competition.
All things considered stable rates
are better for a community than rates
which favor the big shipper at the
expense of the small one. Railroad
competition these days means that
some shippers. and some towns are
given rates, which other shippers and
other towns cannot get. Hence, rail
road competition makes fair competi
ton in other interests practically i'm
possible.
OF course. we do not know that al
the roads that traverse the South At
lantic states are now in the hands
of those who are mutually interested
in preventing rate cutting and al
other forms of competition, but /
looks as If that were the situation
II that isn't the case 1t is pretty GER
tain that in the near future there viii
be such a community of interests tina
rates once made will remain stabl
until they are again changed for othe
reasons than 10 get business ava,
from competitor.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
THE HEIR OF BoMANOFF.

According to newspaper dispatches
from Paris, the Russian Nihlists are
claiming that the infant boy over
whom all Russia is rejoicing is not the
son of the Gar and Czarina. They
state that he is the son of a peasant
woman, substituted for a girl baby to
whom the Empress gave birth. Politi
cal reasons are given for the substitu-
ton, the Car fearing the result on the
anxious populace of another disap
pointment, coupled with the bad news
from the Far East.
Despite the improbability of the
story, the effects will undoubtedly be
far-reaching. The fact that the assas-
sination of Won Plehve was known by
the Russian revolutionary bureau in
Paris before it was on the bourse will
tend to give added weight to this last
startling announcement from the same
source. Then, too. the existence of an
apparently good reason for making a
substitution will confirm the report in
the minds of many. The result will
probably be that many who have re-
manned loyal to other Czars because
they believed they ruled by divine
right, will be turned away from this
baby and the enemies of the successor
of Nicholas increased.
The fate of this wee mortal is, at it's
best, a sad one. He opened his eyes
at time when his country was SEEM
ingly fast going down to certain de-
feat. His whole life must be practi-
cally one long Imprisonment, a life
lived in constant fear of assassination.
To these naturally inherited sorrows is
now added this latest shaft of hate
that seems certain to turn thousands
of his subjects from him. A cloud is
cast upon his birth before his life is
| fairly started. The superstitious peo-
| pie that hailed him as a token of a
changing fortune of war will be all the
| quicker to look upon him as an i'm
poster if continued defeats-and they
seem certain-occur. Altogether, the
gloomy and melancholy than that of
the humblest Russian peasant.
And if he is an imposture. how
doubly doubtful is his after life! Say
ing nothing of the loss of inherited in
tellect and temperament, the heart of
her whom he believes his mother will
be ever against him. The Czarina is
woman first and Empress afterwards,
and her mother-heart will be yearn-
ing for her girl baby, given to the
peasant woman, and hating the hum
BILE born, innocent usurper. And to the
Emperor-fa the boy will always
stand a living monument to the fail
ure of his ambition.
American newspapers seem disinclined
to put much stock in the story and
there isn't much doubt that the out
side world will generally discredit it.
The enlightened American and Eng
lishman will probably turn his SYM
pathy from the Nihilists to the impe-
rial family whose happiness has been
blighted with a weapon more deadly
than the bomb. But false or true, in
Russia the story seems only to in
crease the gloom surrounding the baby
! heir of the Romanoffs
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
Elonnence Misnnderstood.

When Senator Newlands of Nevada
was debating his resolution to annex
Cuba he exclaimed dramatically:
This argument furnishes every kind
of fuel that eloquence needs"
He sent down for the transcript of
his speech, says the Boston Post. The
young woman typewriter who took the
dctation of the stenographer from the
photograph had made il:
This argument furnishes every kind
of food that elephants need"
Il doubt" said Senator Hale. when
he heard it, IF even elephants could
digest II "
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
COR HIS HAIR BACK.
Was Perfectly Bald When He Started
to Use NeXvbrO's Herpicide.

Frederick MANUEL, Maryland block,
Butte, Montana. bought a bottle of
Newbro's Herpicide April 6, 80, and
began to use It for entire badness.
The hair follicles in his scalp were
not dead, and in 20 days he had hair
all over his head. On July 2 he
writes, "and to-day my hair is as
thick and luxuriant as any one could
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I4ivingstons Pharmacy, Special
Agent.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
For Her Answer.
New York Herald

INV UTh TiEIUIUs
He pressed her for her answer;
She. signing, looked away
Across the fields of clover:
Twas at the close Of day.
Beneath the leaves the crickets
In eager tones and shrill
Called Give a. give II, give IT."
She hesitated still.
The streaks OF red were fading
Far In the Western sky.
They stood beneath the maple.
She heard the crickets cry
"Oh, give ". give a., give H."
Her cheeks fell on his breast
He pressed her for her answer
And pressed and pressed and pressct
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Golfers Weekly suggests that Dix
lie" might be made the national anthem
IL some poet would write suitable
words to the music. There are rea-
sons which may be advanced to sup
port such a suggestion. Dixie" is
the only truly American patriotic song
that has ever been written: It is cas-
Ter to sing than THE star Spangled
Banner and similar anthems; and
then there is something about It that
stirs the blood, arouses patriotism and
brings forth the ready cheers. It's
popularity, too, is constantly increas-
ing IN an sections OF the country. II
is extremely doubtful. however. n
southerners will willingly give up the
song that il 80 intimately associated
with their history and about which
some Of their sweetest memories clus-
Ar
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

A dispatch from Bangor, Me, states
that residents Of the vicinity OF Gard
ner's Lake report the presence in the
waters Of a huge snake which has been
known 10 swallow molasses jugs and
which gives OF a birthstone odor when
moving al fun speed" II would be
interesting 20 know Just what brand Of
liquor they are using in that section
OF the Prohibition Pine Tree state.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Christian Scientists of Omaha are
announcing that in three instances the
faith cure has stopped runaway horses.
1t would be interesting to note the
application of the treatment to some
of the modern unmanageable automo-
biles.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Republican leaders in Maryland are
quoted as conceding the state to the
Democrats, claiming that the race
question will take it from the Roose-
welt column. Before this campaign is
ended the effects Of that race ques-
ton and that Republican race plank
will undoubtedly be seen in West Vir-
ginia, Indiana, and Illinois, as well as
Maryland.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Two Chicago divorces have re-
married, after being separated 1--WE
years. Both apparently found that
the woes of -blessedness were
greater than those of the married
state and so. Of two evils. chose the
lesser.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

That Gen. Nelson A. Miles has writ
ten 10 Judge Parker, congratulating
him upon his acceptance speech and
promising him his earnest support
suggests that probably certain Repub-
lican officials sincerely regret they are
Miles for expressing an opinion
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Sergeant Emil Douche of Troop B at
Fort Meade. Wis, was thrown to the
ground by bolt of lightning and be-
fore he recovered consciousness a
cdw kicked him in the jaw. For
some reason Providence seems TO have
it in for the Western sergeant.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

A Chicago paper states that the Re
publican managers have admitted that
they made a mistake when they chalk
ed Illinois down as a certain Repub-
lican state and one not worth bother
ing with in any great degree. WheA
the returns are all in, Chairman Cor
telyou will probably find that certain
other OF his sure" states managed
to get into the Democratic column.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
The weather.

The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for
showers and thunderstorms. with light,
variable winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

And now the Republicans in the
Third Congressional District of West
Virginia have started a factional fight
and the reports state that two tickets
will probably be placed in the field.
With Democracy united and enthusi-
astic the result in November seems
certain to give ample assurances
of Senator Scott that West Virginia
will go for Roosevelt by an increased
majority"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Republican papers are giving great
space to the publication of the story
that Senator Fairbanks wished to re-
sign his seat in the Senate and 60 to
the front during the Spanish-Ameri-
can War. Evidently these papers are
at last recognizing that militarism is
an essential of good Republicanism.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Authoritative announcement is made
that Uncle Joe" Cannon and Senator
Fairbanks will be supplied with special
cars and special trains during their
stumping tour. What has become of
the Republican alleged prejudice to
accepting free passes from railroad
companies and from calling on the
railroad trusts for aid? 1t seems that
they believe in the adage that cir
cumstances alter cases."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Met. we'd parted and divorce proceed.
ings instituted, all within four hours
is the record made by a Chicago couple
For speed and for experimental in
vestigations In matrimony New York
must give way to us iourlshing West.
ern rival.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Albert e. Herpin, a Trenton, N. j.
man has not slept wink in over
ten years. according to newspaper dis
patches. and is kept busy refusing Of
fers from museum managers. Her
pin claims that he has received a let
ter from Mr.. Roosevelt in which the
President says that he wants to see
the sleepless man. II is possible that
the suggestion that Mr.. Roosevelt is
after him Is one OF the reasons why
Mr.. Hilton keeps awake.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Mrs. Deborah Stillman OF Esston,
Conn. has decided, according to the
newspaper dispatches, not to celebrate
her semi-anniversary this week. This
will be the first time that the occasion
has not been observed since Mrs. Still
man was 104 years old. Though show
ing some evidences of decline, the
aged lady is still able to read the
newspapers without glasses, and to
go for a drive in pleasant weather.
Perhaps the most remarkable fact
about it all is that she is not pointed
out as the result of taking some pa
tent medicine nor her age ascribed to
abstinence from tobacco and liquors.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Fifteen Colorado citizens have been
deported by other citizens of Cripple
Creek district and ordered never to re-
turn. Soldiers are not being hurried
to Colorado to protect the deported. 1t
in not being in Turkey or some other
foreign country. If they had, Mr..
Roosevelt would have been terribly
shocked and no expense would have
been spared to right the wrong.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
THVNDERROTT LINE

CITY Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton street junction.
Beglnnlng at $50 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Casino and thunder
bolt every half hour until 200 D. m.
after which cars run every Is minutes
until 1870 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street junction Il
minutes after leaving time at city
Market.
Beginning at $3.50 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak station for city every half
hour until 2:3S p. M, after which
time cars leave every IS minutes until
1908 midnight.
Car leaving Casino at 1883 will run
south on Barnard street to Fortieth
and north on Abercorn to Roiton
street
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Reports from Austin, Tex, state that
many acres of cotton land are being
abandoned owing to the ravages of the
boil weevil. The Guatemalan ant re-
produces so slowly that it will proba-
bly, be many years before it is powerful
enough to annihilate the weevil. Still
it would seem that the ant should be
fostered and, judging from the expert
ments, slowly but surely the little red
workers will put an end to the de-
structive insect attacking the great
staple.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
COLLINSYILLEIINE

s Ing Ig e. o;Oo a. m, cars leave Waters
i2:O5 midnight Nu'''
Beginning at sos a. m. cars leave CITY
Market for Water8 road and Estill avenue ev-
cry 20 minutes until 1906 midnight
through cars are operated between Market
avenue as follows:
Leave Market. kcave Thunderbolt
40 A. M. Z 80 A. NJ
Gap NJ. T3OPM
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

The New York Tribune announces
with flourish that straw vote taken
among the G. A. r. delegates in Bos-
ton showed an overwhelming majority
for Roosevelt. This is not to be Won
dered at. A military organization is
certain to be attracted to an exponent
of militarism and then. too, Mr.. Roose-
Welt paid S9,OOO,0 900 a year in pensions
for that same vote. OF the number
voting, 1856 said they were for Par
ker. Evidently there are some among
the vets who cannot be bought
through the pension rolls
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23

Car leaves west side OF City Market for Lin.
coin Fark QUO a. m. ard every 40 minutes
thereafter until Has .. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market eco a. u-
and every 40 minutes thereafter until ~ o. clock
Midnight
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-08-23
FREYGH'C Am pARcEr O.,

Leaves east side of City Market for Thunder
bolt, Cattle Park, Sandhy Isle OF Hope and all
intermediate points-9;I5 a. m. Isis ?. M, sis
p. m.
Leaves Isle Of Hope for Sandhy Cattle Park,
Thunderbolt and all intermediate points-6:00
a. m, II 100 a. m, 800 D. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at $50 a 10.
ana ESQ p M, connecting at Sandhy with reg
ular parcel car for city.
Parcel car from the city carries freight 70
Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on each
trip for accom- mediation OF passengers
ANY further information regarding passen
ger schedule or freight service can be had ~
applying 10 L. r. NASH. Manager