The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-10-26

crinination. am just a trife more intent on punishing the Republican of : fender than the Democrat, because he is my own scoundrel. I feel a certain sense of peculiar responsibility for him, and I am going to unload that respon- sibiiity if I can: Of course as we all know, oRenses must come, but have endeavored to carry out the Scriptural injunction and to make 1t matter of woe unto him by whom they come.
 T am happy to say that we have a reasonable proportion of the offenders in question with stripes on; about up to the 51 per cent. average that would like, and I want to go little further than we have yet gone.
 Then, too, If the law is reasonably speedy and reasonably sure 1t takes away one great excuse for lawlessncss If some horrible crime Is committed and the people feel that under the besj circumstances there will be an indehn. ite delay even when the time for ad ministering 1t comes. then premium i, rut upon that kind of law breaking which more than any other is a menac, to the law.
 eve ought to stand against all formi of putting that premium on; the Ions delays of justice, the abuses of the par doning power; the sluggishness witl which either court or attorney moves all of those sthings count in briugius about the condition of affairs agains which all of us must protest.
 Now, layman can do but little nror' than to give utterance to the feelins that so many laymen have. I earnestly hope that the bench and the bar of ths United States will in all proper ways seek to see to 1t that the loose custom, flor some Of these things of which I complain are merely customs and not laws--fnherited from the past when conditions were totally different, shall ot be perverted so as to alarm the whole public by giving the criminal an advantage to which he Is not enti- tied. and that some substantial im- provement shall be made in the dlrec- tion of securing greater expedition and greater certainty in the administration of justice, especially in the atministra- tion of criminal justice
 Pretty Tableau shown.
 As the President sat down the cur tain back of where he was stationed ascended, and tableau was presented Twenty-Five boys ranging in age from to 12 years, each attired in a sailor suit formed q group at once attractive and impressive. The spectacle won the Presidents heart and he gave un- mistakable signs of his. pleasure He arose and said that he guessed all his auditor knew how he felt about the navy of the United States. The navy of our country. he said. was the Uni ted States Big Stick which would meyer be used against the weak unless the weak put themselves in position when like a bad child, reinstatement was necessary He added that the Big Stick" would be kept In such con . dition that the necessity for its use against the strong would never arise.
 Following this Lieutenant Governor John P. Lee responded to the toast The State of Arkansas"
 He gave the President an idea of the States great resources and closed with an eloquent assurance that the welcome to the nations chief executive was heartfelt.
 Hon. Morris M Cohn, responded to the toast The Commercial and Asso- ciate interests of the city of Little Rock" and in concluding he proposed toast to the President of the United States. which was drunk standing. At s:30 the Presidential party began the trip to the Rock Island Railroad sta- tion along a route which was lined with people. The special train left for Memphis prompt at o'clock.