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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
IMPENDING coNTEsTs.
Too Much Federal Control for Smooth
 Sailing.

Too Much Federal Csntrol for Smooth Washington Special to New fork
 Lines are rapidly being drawn for, a Fifty-ninth Congress over the extension of Federal power and It's centrallzation in Washington.
 velt's idea of giving the national gov ernment more power, to be lodged In the hands of the President or his ap- pointees, will arouse antagonism in the Senate and perhaps In the House, ana this antagonism must be overcome If the reforms planned by MT. Roosevelt are to be attempted.
 It will probably. be the last stand for should the Prssident win.
 The annual message of the President. which is now being written. Is said M to fairly bristle with recommendations meh rsndhns sre ey deeiarea to R'Ssr Ss wrons
 He is very vigorous. it Is said. in his treatment of the railroad rate question, aHd this Is merely extending the powers to say when rate is reasonable in commerce between the States and to en- force the rate.
 President Roosevelt Is expected to law.
 President Roosevelt has placed him- self on the broad plane that the United States as a federation should step in and control the great aggregations of capital and that in many eases this control should be substituted for the separate and widely varying control now attempted by the different States. This Is especially true as to the regu- lation of freight rates and the. super vision of life Insurance companies.
 A similar tendency. though on broad still pending, which gives to this gov- ernment the right to supervise foreign debts and pay foreign claims of disor- ganized American republics
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

the building of the Roosevelt Canair
 But all these heroics are ridiculous.
 There is no such suhterranean plot at
 all Their High Mis6tinesses. the Pan- anna commissioners. arc simply falling
 into a rage and imagining vain things because theu. own shortcomings have
 been exposed. They have made absurd prophecies. already discredItsd; they have gone on from thunder to blunder: they put the excavation cart before the sanitation horse. and then had to pro- ceed with shame to correct their own mistake; they went blindly ahead with- out an engineering plan; vacillating painfully about technical matters whioh should have been settled in advance; they have been extravagant and ins6I- cient. Yet because the press does its duty and points these things out, there must be some nefarious person or per- sons hired to disseminate scandal! MT. shonts Is talking rubbish. Americans want the canal but they propose to speak their mind about the men who undertake to build It; and if Chairman shonts is 70 thin-sisinned that hs can not endure criticism. he can doubtless hnd a mopastes4 to give him refuge"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

Secretary Taft Is just back from Pan anna, where he went on sort of gen. eral inspecting tour. He was preceded by large lot of so-called foreign and American engineering experts. The Secretary hardly hits the ground before announcement is made that David W. Ross. general purchasing agent for the Isthmian Canal Commission, has left for Panama where he is to inspect the isthmian end of the general accounting department and to inaugurate certain improvements in the methods of issuing supplies. as outlined by Chairman Shonts. In the meantime will there be any digging of dirt? That's the matter of greatest interest to the public. They want something to show for the mill lions of money already spent. They are not particularly solicitors about ar engagements being directedso as to call this the Roosevelt Canal. They want a waterway between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. and don't care what 1t is called.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
GETTING HIM DOWN ,nIGnr.

0ETTIN0 HIM DOWN (4A0nTs
 Speaking of Hearst. we do not know of a more terse and graphic character ixation than was recently given by Sem ator Morgan. He said:
 hs far a e for Hessss E . is n.nDts It Is the same sort of Inflammation that was exhibited at various times through. gut Europe and in parts Of the unitsS IhtsS mas shown itself especially virulent in days and which has been exhibited re.
 fssss r Tasss ssshs is is:. ay of t in EnslsnS but 1t exists there to a certain extent. election of Mayor Dunne. and the re- mo S,i sstSation % Of the foily and futiiity Sf ity of sccomplishing any good by such means. In different degrees and on dif- ferent occasions 1t has appeared at Va sIssot sous p,aGss iss so}S Thers has CT made headway. and the SouIn goess along about her business. unconcerned in the. hubbub. solid, sane. calm ana
 It is not possible to account for these political craxes, which sometimes sweep over cities, States or the country We had a notable one in 1896, for which no one could satisfactorily account. That there was shadow of cause for uneasiness and uncertainty on the ina iciai question is true enough, but that 1t should sweep the country as It did. and almost prove strong enough to change the policy of the Govern ment seems almost like a dream now that it is past and it's utter fallacy so fully exposed.
 But the silver craze of eight years ago was sustained, advocated and sup ported by many of the best statesmen of the country. North. and South. They were men whose patriotism, intelligence and ability were not to be questioned, and they were ir. deadly earnest in their advocacy of frce coinage. No such defence can be made for the Hearst craze. He represented no principle that is essential to good government. or that should be incorporated into the civil code of a great city. Many of his pledges were absolut ely impossible, and if he should succeed in obtaining the office he would be powerless to effect the so-called reforms of which he was SO free of promises. In short, the Hearst movement was g craze tor which there is neither explanation nor ex- cuse.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
"sOLoMON's MINES,
Interesting Investigations in south- ern Rh0desia.

Interesting Investigations in South
 crn Rhodesia.
 London Standard.
 If the conclusions as to the origin and history of the mysterious ruins in Rhodesia put before the British associa- ton at Bulawayo by Mir. Randall Mac Iver are correct, they are not relics Of ancient ophir. and we must seek else where for the region whence King Solo mon procured his stores of gold and precious stones. Mir. MacIver went to Rhodesia last April. under the auspices of the association and the Rhodes truss tees, and examined rninutely the ruins of Inyanga, Nickerk's farm (sixteefi miles north of Inyanga), Khami. Dhlo, Dhlo, Unatali, Insiza and zimbabwe. After careful investigation he has de- cided that none of the ruins in south ern Rhodesia is older than the fifteenth or sixteenth century, and that they are the handiwork of African natives of the negro or negroid race under dynas- ty known by the collective name of Monomotapa. The bases of these con- clusions were formed on the following data:
 The buildings are essentially of a native kind or type common today; nearly all retain some original wooden stakes embedded in the walls; there is no trace of inscription on any of the ruins; stone and iron implements were found together; neither the buildings nor the other articles found show traces of early Oriental or European influence; finally, the discovery of pieces of blue and white Nanlxin china and other arr ticles of mediaeval manufacture in the lowest parts of the foundations proves that such commodities were the object of barter before the buildings were erected.
 MT. MacIver maintains that the ruins were originally fortified places usually inclosing a kopje built In the form of q rough ellipse following mainly the contour of the surrounding country. The so-called slave pits, described as pit dwellings, were originally cltadels of their strong places, round which con centric circles of walls were built
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
HYDE AND HARRr,aAx.

When thieves fall out. honest men set their dues" is an apothegm as aged as the hills. Often is 1t applicabie. and though 1t may be its strength and vigor are too great for the matter at hand. yet it has come to the minds of many in the past few days.
 Hyde and Hartman for years were devoted comrades in the war of finances. They battled often on the same side, and to touch the pocket of one was to give oftense to the other. But times have changed. Hyde and Hartman no longer sup from the same spoon No longer do Hyde and Hartman present one front when one of their pet schemes of elevated finance Is being investt- gated. It has really become serious between Hyde and Hartman. Not only do their recollections fail to jibe. but there are intimations from each that the memory of the other is more facile than such commodity should be. Mir. Hyde seems hurt by the Ambassador ship joke. odelI. Prick and Bliss. and Hartman fooled him. he thinks. And they fooled him in order to get him out of the country, he believes.
 q think that they thought they would acquit themselves of their friendly duty of stewardship with great profit to themselves" said Mfr. Hyde on the witness stand.
 A question of veracity has arisen be- tween Hyde and Hartman. It may never be settled. That 1t has arisen makes apparent that the appointment of the Armstrong Committee was not made before 1t was needed. Present day insurance methods should so the way of the Cox. Durham and similar machines. Up to date Hyde appears to be the most straightforward witness who has been before the committee. and to an outsider 1t would seem as If he was something of pigeon who was be- ing plucked.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
Looking Backward and Around.

Brooklyn Eagle.
 Close elections are not uncommon. The Cleveland electors in 1884 carried New York State by majority of l,047 over the Blaine electors, Tremendous efforts were required to maintain that prepon derance. Tremendous efforts were put forth to overcome It. Over ten days elapsed after the election be- established. People are apt to forget these things. Those that were con cerned in and excited by them are as ant to forget them as any one else. The millions who have become voters since then may be said never to have known anything about that terrific test to which democratic-rep lnstitu- lions were then exposed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
Chancellor of the Southwestern Pres
 byterian University.
significance of the ohio Election.

Washington Post.
 The Ohio election has set politicians {to cogitating from one end of the country to the other, and perhaps for the reason that. politically, Ohio oceu- pies the position so long held by Vtr; ginia as the Empire state, mother Of Republican Presidents and shaper oI party politics. Was the recSsazelection in Ohio a political or a moral yer
 From the Ohio election of 1887 the Democratic party began to take heart It was rejuvenated. reincarnated: II is restored civil liberty to the South, 1t banished force from the ballot box, it elected Tilden President and re- enthroned the constitution.
 And so it was until the Democratic party again lost its politics under Bryan. Is this Ohio victory the dawn of another day for the Democracy, as in 1887. or is 1t rather the echo oi Secretary Tafts keynote" which was not intended for a keynote?
 And that is question some ohio statesmen would like to have dennitciy answered.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

The Headland Post thns jubilates. and with good reason:
 We were. made to smile the biggest largest advertiser. told us voluntarily that advertising is the greatest thing In the world today to sell goods by. l He has from half to a whole page ad ! in every issue of The Post. Heshas had | to put in new clerks several times to and freely attributes to advertising. | The advertising man is going to do the
 business. The people can't get him out of their minds when they start to town l and go to see him they will
 l We are often puzzled as we'll as sur
 prised at the wide difference exhibited
 by the weekly press in the matter of | advertising. We take up copy of a weekly published in what we consider
 a good section of the country, and ind
 in it's pages a column or two of skimpy. sleepy home advertisements, looking al- most as if they had merely been put in | to fill up space. and with them a lot of foreign plate ads, which pay very little, and are mostly used to save com position. Then we open another paper and find columns of live. thoroughly up-to-date advertising that would be a credit to a city newspaper. The mer- chants seem to be running race to see which shall have the most adver- tising and in the most attractive style. They are evidently not doing this mere ly to "help the paper along" but solely to help their own business, and if it did not pay them, and pay them well. they would not keep 1t up.
 This is the contrast we not infre- quently note existing between newspa- pers in small towns. and at which we have, often wondered. So far as we know of the conditions the towns stand on an equal footing. and one should be as live and progressive as the other, but 1t is not. At least, the paper criterion from which to judge the life and progressiveness of a town. If the
 merchants are constant and liberal ad-
 vertisers we should set the town down
 as 8 live one, with a live citizenship, for live merchants advertise. and such
 merchants will not remain in a dead
 town. If they find it impossible to put life in it they will hunt better place,
 and, after all it may be that some
 newspaper men know how to make ad-
 vertising popular while others practi-
 cally drive it off. That may in some
 measure account for the broad differ | ence in country weeklies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
Passisg of Big Ranches.


 The few big ranches that thus ia. have escaped division may be called the connecting links between the pres- ent and the past in the history of southern California. A generation ago most of the available land in this sec- tion was comprised in vast cattle ranges, many square miles in extent One after another the ranches have been divided into comparatively small farms, and the rest are doomed to a like fate. The great Chino ranch. which was sold this week. Is an ex- ample of the passing of such vast areas of landed property. The big ranches have been a serious drawback to the development or southern Cali fornia, and as a hindrance they will be in evidence until the passing of the last one. If all of them still remain ing were cut up into small farms to- day and offered to home seekers there would be a greater rush of buyers and a more rapid increase of rural popu- lation. But the boundaries of those ranches have been as effective in ob- structing development as if they were impossible walls,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

President Roosevelt. in one of his Southern speeches. intimated that there was a conspiracy to discredit the Psn- anna Canal Commission. and issued due defiance to the unnamed schemers who were paying for the defamation. A few days ago. at washington. Chairman shonts was even darker and more tragic. All this leads The New York Evening Post to say: Whose interest was 1t to hire men to criticise him? What was to be done to the evil men who thought their bribes could prevent
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
About Like Henrst

James Merry, a well known Scottish once decided to run for Parliament. He stood as candidate for Glasgow, lie posed as an extreme radical, and was as short way to reform. At one of his meetings where the questioning of candidates. was the feature. as fin ali Scottish elections, he was asked, after he had disposed summarily of the crowd. the House of Lords and most oS the British constitution, whether he would abolish the decalogue. ' "Certainly," cried the Valiant Morr,,
 Then. turning to his nearest neirbbSSr. on the platform, he asked in an audi. ble whisper, Jock, what In thunder's inc decalogue?" N"uer
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
History Repeated In Au.trnlia.

History has been repeated itself on the Bendigo gold field in Australia. A young man named George Washington was brought before the local bench on a charge of illegally cutting timber on crown lands" Following his great Chairman of the bench thus addressed him: Even though your name be George Washington. you have no right to Ro into another's orchard and cut down trees, even though they be not cherry trees. You will be finded 8 pounds, with the option of twenty two days' Imprisonment" The accused does not seem to have reminded the bench that his namesake's frank con fession secured prompt pardon.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
Eetters tc tbe Gditcr
Card from Rev. Neander NJ. Woods.

NHfu tFVsh KAeVs NeahutF aAs WUVus' Editor The Advertiser:
 Dear Sir--Wili you kindly allow me a word of explanation? In an address delivered yesterday before the Synod of Alabama I took occasion to refer to many of our larger universities. and your reporter understood me to speak of President Eliot of Harvard Univer- sity, as an atheist. Of course this I did wards President was a Unitarian, who denies the divinity of our Lord, and that evangelical Christianity had no sSes sehool m pr. % Eiiot iofihS is SSnGoubtediy De. liever in God, but not in Christ as a Divine Redeemer. Very sincerely yours,
 Neander M. Woods, Chancellor of the Southwestern Pres
 bYterian ITniVersitY.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

There is some comment on the fact that in talk of candidates for State of- fees next year the name of no Confed- crate Veteran is mentioned. As a mat ter of fact there is but one State oficer now in office at the Capitol who was old enough to be in the Confederate service and he was appointed by Gover- nor Jeiks. We allude to Hon. J. NJ. Carmichael Auditor, whose empty sleeve attests where he was during the trying days of '6l-'65.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
Chicago Record.Heraid.

Chicago Record.Herald.
 With regard to immigration the Chattanooasa conference voiced the known sentiments of the producers and manufacturers of the South, These have been complaining of a scarcity oi efficient labor and demanding meas ures designed to divert to their sec tion fair share of the human strean, flowing hither from the countries of Europe.
 The. resolution on this question re. pudiates as slanderous all rumors to to industrious white immigrants ana cordially welcomes fit persons desirous of making their home here. The ex1 cluston of panpers, criminals and other notoriously unfit classes Is approved. but no demand is made for restrictions directed at honest. thrifty and indus trious alients.
 The conference spoke for the new yancinR South
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

having been exposed by Minister Cues ada. that bogy should no longer be in- voked in this country to misrepresent the situation. The Cubans can De de- themselvcs, but they should receive the assurance that American sympathy IS with them. and not with the selnsh shipping interests that are trying 70 portation inimicai to the welfare Of the island without some adequate return.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

The street fairs now going on in Montgomery are the straws that were necessary to overload the camel. It is probable that never will another one be held in the Capital City. The two now in progress compare most favor ably with anything of the kind ever seen here, but the trouble is that Mont gomery has already had more than its share of pseudo entertainment of this Gort
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

Here Is another chance to talk about "carrying coal to Newcastle" A Liv- erpool firm of timber merchants, Seth Bonnet & Co.,. are engaged in cutting pitch pine timber to be sent under con tract with the United States authorities to the dock yards at Newport News. history of the timber trade at Liver pool or any port in the British Islands. Perhaps the English firm will send the timber from some of our Southern for ests. Still the remarkable fact exists that live. enterprising Americans should allow Liverpool men to furnish mate- rial grown on our own soil to their own government,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

The claim put forth by one eminent scientist that we are poisoning our selves by drinking too much milk is met by the assertion of another equally eminent faddist that we should live much more generally on milk than we do. We suppose the only solution is to let as many az possible kill themselves and done with 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

It is with genuine regret we note that The Raleigh Post has been com pelled to suspend publication. It was a great and good and clean newspaper. we'll edited. and ought to have sue ceeded but circumstances were against it, and 1t has been forced to give up the fight. as many others have done who really deserved success.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
pr. Wyman'a RaIIyinE Cry.

TUSCALOOSA Times-Gazette.
 When Dr. William Stokes Wyman. formerly the learned and we'll known professor of Latin at the University of Alabama. substituted Auburn for Carthage in the old watchword of the ancients Carthage must fall" he gave the students of the university war cry that has been In force since. Inasmuch as the annual game between the University of Alabama and the Ala han,a Polytechnic Institute occurs on Saturday, there is a great deal of en- fhusiastic interest displayed by the student bodies. From the Alabama side, there comes the persistent and exNressive motto as supplied by Dr, Wyman, "Auburna delenda est!'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17

About the only place in Alabama where there is any all the time political feeling seems to be Shelby County. There the Populists and the Republi- cans seem to be in close alliance and keep up a hot fight with the Democrats all the time. To smaller extent the same condition exists in Chiffon Coun- ty. In both counties the opposition to the Democrats control the county of- fefa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-11-17
Driftspccd
2 Never satisaed.
sx PHIL IT, ARMSTRONG.

Never SatfsAeA. hates to see tn feller what ain't never Who's always got his back up at what
 ever may betide. No matter what you do fer him he al-
 lers will complain. You never think of sunshfnes, but what
 he thinks O rain. He never sees the roses that are bloom
 in long the way s. He only sees the sticking thorns that
 somehow block his Way-- If you tell him that the skies areyblue
 he really thinks you've lied. This man you meet with every day who's never satisfied. If he gets three square meals a day he'll kick about the food Even if it's cooked all right 'twon't
 satisfy his mood. If he gets job he'll kick because his Give him more he'll kick because it
 wasn't done before. He'll kick until he gets wife, then kick because he did. He'll kick for prohibition, then he'11 kick to lift the lid. He'll kick the Democrats a while. then
 kick the other side This man you meet with every day who's never satisfied. And cain't help but wonder what joy
 a man can find
 
 to all the good things blind, He makes himself feel bad and every-
 body round him. too. It's really strange what lots of harm
 a man like this can do. So why can't everyone go long a-satis-
 fled with life, That's the only way to meet this old worlds cares and strife.
 feller's that's denied-- This man you meet with every day
 who's never satisfied. Autoist-Jones was arrested for Ditto-Yes: heard him say he was going out for hot time.
 Among Themselves. |, dEtheimJack gave me kisf and am Maude--why. I thought you---- Because he didn't give me more" Jones says he picked up several &C., quaintances while he was in Washing Yes; he fished up two or three of his old pals out of the gutter with a jag on.
 About This Time.
 First Turkey--I had a horrible dream Second Turkey--what was it? "A horrible cranberry came and perched upon the foot of my bed, .' Consolation Now nournfui sounds the gobble of the
 Turkey
 Because
 this
 thA time he's feelin' blue. But he always has this eonsolation-- Maybe some day roastin' f too. Mary had a lamb" they say, Who led her straight te a cafe. They had some wine, then felt so fine, >e, --..-.-., ,4Ss' stu, ooa .sss