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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
An it should Be.

Cn1caSO CUTOuIClS.
 What a storm of indignation is rag ing around William Ellis Corey, the President of the United States Steel Corporation:
 having climbed to position of great wealth by the assistance of a faithful wife to whom he plighted his troth when both were poor he now craves a more ornamental head for his house. hold and has acted so unbecomingly toward an actress with the same moral nature as his as to compel his lawful wife to sue for a divorce.
 What of it? Isn't this done some where every day in the year? Is it not generally condoned in men of great wealth? Is it usual for such an escapade to shock society and rupture business relations? Yet here we have Pittsburg society slamming it's doors in MT. Corey's face, his own father and mother remarking that they would not speak a word to save him from the penitentiary and even the directors of the steel corporation suggesting his re- tirement and announcing his successor
 This Is all as 1t should be. The man who puts away the wife of his youth and poverty to marry beautiful ad- venturess is not to be tolerated and it is perfectly proper that society should ostracise him and business men depose him.
 The only wonder is that this is not always the result of such scandalous infidelity and immortality We can only say that it is better that such retri- button should occur only once in while than never. +%@-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
A pIIIiou DolIar state.

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 When owners of property hand in valuations to an aggregate of sS44.224 = 900, 1t Is plain that Alabama has be- come a billion-d dollar State. Even if some pieces Of property are valued by their owners at more than one-third of market value, vet great masses of real estate are valued at less than one third, and personal property practically goes unlisted and untaxed.
 For example. the banks of this State hold about $60.000, ,000 in deposts On October the State and private banks held sS6,49S,250 and it is reasonable to say that the national banks held SEA- 100000, How much of this vast sum was returned for taxation? Probably not a million dollars. Personal prop erty, railroad propertv property of ev- cry sort and description. either goes untaxed or Is undervalued.
 If Is not hit cXtrava eant to say that the State values should he multiplied bv three in crder to arrive at the real value of propertv in this State If John D. Rockefeller for example, could buy Alabama for a billion dollars. he would get fire bargain, for there is no more prosperous or promising State in the Union today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
MAY THERE, BE TWO CANALst

Suppose, as we have seen intimated, England and Japan should go at once to work to build or construct canal across the Isthmus of Tehuantepec- what then? Can the United States prevent it. or interfere in any way? If not, what would be the effect on our Panama scheme if the other should be completed first?
 If any one imagines the proposition an absurd or impracticable one. it might be we'll to look up the condi- tions a little. The Isthmus of Tehuan- tepec connects the Gulf of Campeachy with the Gulf of Tehuantepec. and is about 120 miles across on an air line. and 1t is stated that the mountain range at the narrowest part of the isthmus is only 7so feet high It is comparatively healthy and pleasant region. and in several respects offers favorable condi- tions for ship canal.
 Nor Is the project a new one, by any means. As long ago as 1S41 the Mexican Government granted a con- cession to parties to construct a ship canal across the Isthmus. but the com ing on of the war with the United States stopped any movement or Hea tempts to carry out the. plan. In 1857 New York company got hold of the concession and had a survey made for a railway, but that also fell through. Another company was organized in 1870, and again in 1879, and since then some road has been built. but the work seems to have been abandoned.
 Now, as to the claims of this route, It is only necessary to look on the map to realize them. A competent authority states that canal across that Isthmus would make the voyage from New York to San Francisco 1,477 miles shorter than by the Panama route, while from New Orleans to San Fran cisco there would be a saving of 2,SS4 miles over the Panama route. These figures are suggestive, for they show at glance how England and Japan. if they set to work in earnest, may be able to put several spokes in the wheels of the Panama Canal builders. If tho two nations. or others, are in earnest, can they be prevented or hin- dered? That two canals. costing as much as these will, could be profitable is not likely. but they might profit shippers and travellers.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
Democrats and the Tariff.


 In 1904 the tariff was not made a leading issue, while the passions aroused by silverism had not subsided. The Republicans won again. but only because so many Democrats did not vote. The Republican Party had not held its own; its vote compared with that in 1900 showed that 1t had not only failed to win Democrats. but it had failed to get the increase which the growth of population should have given it. A united Democratic Party would have defeated it, and the Demo- cratic Party can be united on the tariff. At no previous time has there been so extensive movement for tarin reform among Republicans in the West and in New England. At no previous time have the manufacturing interests been so cIamorous for cheaper raw ma terials and more favorable foreign out lets for their enormous production. A Democratic Party united for tariff re- form, with the Republicans divided as those of Massachusetts and Iowa are. would elect Democratic President and House in 1908
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
What a Demngogues

Bessemer Weekly.
 One cannot listen to Mir Conner nor without inevitably coming to the con- tlusion that he is a demagogue, pure and simple. Many politicians may be classed as ldemagogues. especially those who seem to solely depend upon the calling for a livelihood. But Mir Co., mers' standing as business man and wealthy citizen was that one would suppose in his aspirations were of a higher and nobler cast and that he would scorn to stoop to the low arts to which the common demagogue re- sorts.
 In Thursdays Ledger is an account of a speech by Conner at Hamilton, Ma rion County. His audience was of farmers and the way he truckled to and f1attered them was sickening. He said the farmers raid the taxes of the State, which every intelligent man knows Is not tho case; that the rule poration was dangerous. which state ment he knows is idiocy He himself is at the head of7a big corporation. He said 'the fight against railroads was not made to hurt any one, but to give liberty to the people" What rot!
 Then he attacked the officials and legislators of the State, and intimated they were the hirelings of the rail- roads
 We will quote briefly:
 "IIe said the rates for tonnage in the Birmingham district alone exceeded that of the States of Georgia and North Carolina combined Yet those who pay nine-tenths of the railroad freight of the Birmingham district ut terly repudiate Comerism and will vote against him.
 He ayerred that there is less rail road building going on in Alabama than in any other State in the Union.
 And whyHs this so? Simply in the fear that Comerism might prevail in this State. It's rule here would bank rupt every railroad in the, state and probably put out of blast haif Of our furnaces at least. The idea of capital ists investing in railroad building in Alabama to be placed under Conner management.
 Let Conner rant. The people will sicken of it before election day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
FOUND TT AGAIN. !,

f Late foreign news announces that a
 Norwegian navigator has discovered-4 or e-discovered--the famous North
 west passage. which has been the dream of navigators for centuries As is pretty generally known. it was the hope of early geographers and sailors that a practicable way would be found by which ships could. sail from the At Iantic to the Pacific by way of the northern coasts of this continent. Though the dream may have been real fixed. as far as the knowledge of the existence of such a route is concerned, there is little hope of any real good to come from 1t.
 When Columbus discovered this New World he imagined that he had actually sailed through this desired passage, but we know that he was a long way from 1t. Later, when Hendrix Hudson entered the great river which now hears his name, he was elated by the thought that he was in the route, but he missed it. Again, when Champlain was passing through the chain of rivers and lakes on our present northern bor- der, he thought he was certainly in the right road, but that was another mistake.
 These failures did not prevent other and further efforts, and when the Eng fish Government took it up and off, fered what was a munifcent reward century or more ago, a new impetus was given to the search. Ships and ex- petitions were sent out one after an- other in the hope of securing both the reward and the honor Some of them returned unsuccessful. and many never returned at all It has been some thing more than eighty years since Sir John Franklin began the search. which he kept up at times for more than forty yearA In 1s45 he started on his last voyage, and 1t was many years before it was known that he and his crew had perished on the frozen shores of Beechy Island. After him, Kane, Grinnell and many others joined in the double search for the elusive passage and for information about Sir John. They found the latter but did not sail through the former. though 1t is now known that Franklin was really in the passage, but did not know 1t.
 Starting in 1850, Captain Robert Me- Lure, of the British navy, really sailed through into the Arctic Ocean and thus removed all doubt as to the existence of the passage, and received the reward and the honor of knighthood for His discovery. This Norwegian navigator has traversed the route sailed over be- fore him. He has re-discovered the passage. so to speak, but we fail to see that anything has been gained ex- cept to remove all doubt as to the ex- istence of such route. It is almost permanently filled with ice and is use- less for navigation or for commercial purposes. So far as, can be understood. all the lives and money expended in the search have been wasted. for there appears nothing practicable about it. It might as we'll have remained lost, for anything we can see. A
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13

Referring to the proposed statue to Senator Quay, The Philadelphia Record Capitol the monument cannot be per- mitted to stand as a temptation to the emulous youth of the Commonwealth to follow the tortuous political path of the original" This sounds very much as if the thing will be demolished if the projectors succeed in carrying out the evidence of bad taste shown in the proposition to erect the monument. Better let the idea of building one die quietly.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13

won? Were not the votes that elected | him due to the help he had given with money obtained from insurance com.
 panies and other corporations to elect 1 men to the Legislature who were un- i der obligations to him and subservient | to his wishes? The shade Of differ ence" is hardly In his favor, for the l corruption of others cannot be. set down as less iniquitous than seif-corrup- | tion.
 Both Senators should resign. Neither
 faithful I servant of this State. and their presence in the Senate covers 1t with confusion and humiliation. It is many
 years since the Empire state has had
 body; and today 1t can only be regard ed with modification and shame. Noth- ing in the political life of either Sena- tor would so become him as the leav- ing it.
 It is a singular and humiliating con dition of affairs for a great State to be confronted by. It is bad enough when one Senator from State is regarded as unfit to represent that State in the Senate of the United States. but when both of them are so smirched or sus- pected that their resignation may be asked for it is something unusual in our history. When. in 1881. Roscoe Conkling. then Senator, resigned in a pet because of differences with Presf- dent Garfield. Platt was the Me, too," Senator wiae. went out with him. They appealed to the Legislature to endorse and re-eIect them but were turned down and conkfing made no further effort. Platt was more fortunate. and was elected in 1897 and again in 1908.
 The resignations of Piatt and Conk- ling had nothing to do with their per- sonal characters or acts, as we remem- Der it. Conkling was of an over bearing and dominating disposition. and really resigned because he could not dictate to Garfield, and 'Platt went out because his leader did. The present is very different case from that. They are to be asked to resign because they are looked on as personally dishonest, and because their continuance in their high position will reflect discredit on the State that sent them there. Whether they really deserve all that is charged to their account may or may not be true, but it seems evident that their usefulness is ended and that the best thing they can do is to step down and out and allow their places to be filled. Whether a Republican Legislature will improve<on them may be doubtful, bu. it will hardly do worse.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
1906 to be n Year of Horrors.

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 Mme. de Thebes, who vas accredited as court diviner to the superstitious Napoleon and Eugenie. and predicted. as is alleged. the downfall of the Sec ond Empire. has issued as her vaticina- tions for 1906 a budget of blood and horro; Germany is to come very near to smash early in the year; South Amer ica will be contorted with wild upheav- aIs; the United States will be deci- mated by an unconquerable epidemic. Madame sums 1t up as strange ex- travagant, mad incomprehensible, as- tonishing year.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
Under and Over the Sea.

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 the plan of Baron Loicq de Lobel. the French engineer, for building a rail- road from Siberia to Alaska. has been approved by the Russian Government. draw up contract regulations.
 Baron de Lobel represents a syndi- cate of French capitalists who propose Alaska by bridging and by tunneling under Behring Strait.
 It Is said that the enterprise will be capitalized at $250, ,O00, ,000 to $500, 900. 900 and that the money centres of France. Russia and the United States will be asked to buy the bonds.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
Leader. i'm a Great struggle.

New Hork World.
 The great contest for the control of make the next general election a battle royal has more interest for this coun- try than any similar struggle since the civil war. The Chamberlain agitation, if it gains in strength before the peo- pie, threatens tariff upon the import ation of American foodstuffs and man ufactures in Great Britain, our best market.
 The leaders of this contest are inter- esting figures.
 MT. Chamberlain is 69 years old but ingham. and in that office set the fash ion of extending the field of municipal operation. He began political life as a Liberal of Radical leanings. He left Home Rule issue, becoming Liberal Unionist." As Colonial Secretary from 1895 to 1903 he had much to do with bringing on the Boer war. In fact, he great obstacle to his colonial scheme. He left the Balfour Cabinet to advocate more freely colonial free trade and taT R6far against Is the rest f 9f the world younger. His relationship with the Marquis of Salisbury was on his moth married, scholar of wide range and some thcroughness. He is not hostile to the Chamberlain idea of preferential tariff. but has held that the country was not ready to adopt it.
 Campbell Zimmerman Is the new Lib- eral Premier, the same age as Cham berlain. He Is more primitive type than his antagonists, d strong jowled fighter direct, simple and emphatic, qualified rathersby long experience than by unusual ability. He nobly led the party which opposed the Boer war.
 The new Cabinet will include the two greatest philosophical statesmen in Great Britain, Mir John Morley and MT. James Bryce; also John Burns, foremost of English labor leaders, and MT As- CTS. It will not include the ablest ex- ponent of administrative Liberalism, Lord Rosebery, who. once himself Pre- mieT, is now not even secretary--a melancholy reminder that in England as elsewhere mere brilliancy does not outpace stubborn zeal.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
A nnnh uanA

Near Eversrcen, Ala.. there lived. at the close of the Civil War. an old col Franklin. says The Green Bae He had been for many years foreman of one of the plantations of his former owner. and even after he received his ter and knowledqc of the estate Jnaree ba r,ss in his former position.
 About the time the affairs of the state were being straiehtened out and the TschIh1tv T1.Ia ot the courts began to like 70 hear case tried in court. as he pad never never been in a court house 1ip to that time He made known his de-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
WEDNESDAY, DEcEMBER ns, 1905
LEARNING A LESSON.


 Under the heading, Counting Agri- cultural Disaster" The Portland Ore Eonian says:
 Another year of good crops and high prices for wheat has still farther set the Pactfic Northwest. The tenacity with which the Willamette Valley farmers chung to wheat production until the exhausted soil rebelled to such an extent that they were forced to go into diversified farming proves pretty con- clusive1y that history will repeat itself on the newer lands east of the Cascade prices and poor crops were the rule. the dissatisfied farmers began to regard di- versified farming with a much more kindly interest than they had previous. permailency of tkeir prosperity, as we'll as that of the country at large, most of them were lured back to wheat very far under the new system. Under the present scale of prices and with yields averaging as large as they have expect much progress east of the Cas- cade Mountains on any other line of ag- ricultural industry.
 The Oregon farmers are evidently making the same mistake that was made in the South years ago. H h prices for cotton prevailed in the years following the war and cotton was at all times a money crop. It was perhaps the most profitable crop that the South could grow under the old slavery sys- tenn, and after the war the farmers were slow to depart from it. Besides the good prices obtained for the staple was the further fact that cotton could be sold at all times for ready money. Another inducement was the still pre- vailing idea that no other crop coaid be grown profitably with colored labor, and still another was the firm belief that there could be no profit in diversi- fled farming.
 t All these causes operating together were fast proving disastrous to the South, and If the plan had been adhered to only ruin and bankruptcy could have followed. Fortunately new ideas were adopted and all over the South the far mers gradually realized that there could abe profit in something besides cotton. While 1t is true that the old ideas have not been entirely abandoned, 1t is also true that there has been a great change and that the results have been grati- flying. The Oregon farmers must learn the same lesson or suffer in future.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13

sire to his employer. and asked him to name a day when some interesting case would be tried. The date was named. and Uncle Tom spent the entire day in the courthouse, and gave the closest att tention to every detail of the case. The trial finished. as he came from the court room he was asked: Well. Uncle Tom, what do you think of it?" Uncle Tom took off his hat. and scratched his head a little. then said, Well, boss, if bof dem lawyers tell de truf. dey is bof de biggest liars dat eber lived"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
Good PrOpOaition.

IIHUNdFH JFTIpS-NeWs.
 Mayor Ward of Birmingham says there will be no fireworks discharged within the city limits of Birmingham during the holidays. We hone that Mayor Smith of Gadsden will do like wise. At least keep the fireworks out of the business section of the city and not endanger millions of dollars worth of property to satisfy the whim of a few
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
Names of Married Women.

IsUUIsNIIIt NUUIItT ~JUWTUdI.
 Some women, We are told. think that we are now in a transition period with regard to women's names. A genera tion from now, they say, a large pro portion Of married women will retain their girlhood names through life. They do not inform us, however. whether the children of such women will take the maternal or paternal name. But prob ably they do not think 1t worth while to consider that point. as they do not believe that this class of advanced women will bother themselves with children.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
Too Unsafe. IJorfsalla Enr,Iiror

Hartselle Enquirer.
 Despite the fact that the editor of this paper and Dr. Cunningham fail to agree on many questionse he is just enough to triumphantly declare that Alabama would not be ashamed of him If he were elected her chief magistrate. He has dignity and he is a gentle man. A great State like this wants that type of man as ruler. and not a demagogic blatherskite and ignorant incompetent, whose reckless utterances have already stamped him as a man unsafe to be trusted with office of any sort This refers to President of the Railroad Commission Braxton Bragg Conner.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
What State Papers Are Saying
Educational Improvement.

HuntsVlIIe Mercury.
 It is especially gratifying to note the Improvements Madison county is making along educational lines. De- posit has one of the best school build ings at a cost of $500, by the progress sive citizens of that locality. to he found in the county. Kennfiworth Cove will soon have an excellent new Springs Bluff Academy at Meridian vile has recently received a new dress of painting at cost of $150. These are substantial evidences of improve ments in the public schools of our county.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
A Leader fin DiscIpline as We'll as Orat0ry.

KIfIUsUFn JOUrHdI. Williams is proving himself a Iead- CT in discipline as we'll as in oratory becarse they violated the caucus rction MT. Williams has the support of per haps every democrat except those di- rectly affected and will gain instead of lose popularity.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13
Died a Natural Death.

tAuHVSNIIIt IIIUuIt'
 The Crumpacker scheme Do cut down Southern Congressional representation seems to have at last died natural death. This was evidently a last dig keep up prejudice. It'sFabsurdity and viciousness was so patent that a rep utable following could not be obtain ed. Our broad President is credited and no doubt did stamp his disapproval of it. MT. Crumpacker should now crawl in a hole.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13

Some people are wondering how Con- gress expects to do anything without Bryan there to give advice. Probably they have forgotten that Bryan's advice has never been took.-Eufaula Times.
 What about 1896 and 1900? He cer- tainly commanded the situation so far as the Democratic Party was concerned during those campaigns.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13

There can never be better time than just before Christmas to carry out Secretary Shaw's plan of "an elastic currency" What is needed about this season is a dollar that can be stretched to cover about ten dollars in purchases.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-13

It must be a source of very great satisfaction to the people of the South that no missiles were thrown through President Roosevelt car windows during his memorable trip through our section. It was left for the city of Philadelphia in the great Keystone State of Pennsylvania to be the scene of such an act.--Huntsville Mercury.
 There was no bomb thrown at the President. on his. recent return from New York, through Philadelphia to Washington. and. therefore. criticism of Philadelphia on that score is not well founded. The missile that went into the car was thrown by some bad boys and was not intended specially for any person.