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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
Timid Talk About the Tariff.

The message of the President to Congress today contains about 29.500 words. We find in it the word tariff employed four or five times. but only twice in relation to the American peo- pie, the other occasions for tho use of the word being found in the Philip pines.
 MT Roosevelt is unable to find half as much to say about the tariff and revenue question as, for instance, about the extension of Federal authority over insurance companies. He may be said to handle the subject of income and feeling that the less said the better. He, under great restraint. goes so far as to assert that '.it should be. con sidered whether it is not desirable to secure a certain reciprocity of treatment between other nations and ourselves.
 From a man who can on occasion be so strenuous, this is very gentle, in- deed. So tenderfooted is he in dealing with this topic that he does not even mention the fact that the United States Government has received off, cial notification from Germany that present tariff rates in that country on many things imported from the United States will expire on March l. 1905. We are invited, or challenged, 1t may be- to revise and lower our rates of duty on certain things we imporh from Germany and if we do not 1vs~m must not complain if Germany lays higher duty on goods imported rom the United States.
 This is. perhaps, the most important matter requiring the attention of Con- gress at the present session, but there is no intimation of its importance. or even O; it's existence. in the enormous message in which even things of com parativelv little moment are treated of at great length
 So far as the public is advised, the Roosevelt administration has no plan of policy to put m force relative to the tariff 'crists which the action of Germany has breed upon the United States He merely suggests, in fee ble and habby way. avoiding anything that might savor of emphasis and strenuousity. that the maximum and minimum tariff plan may be worth try ing. and that closer commercial/r /rela- tions with the peoples of this conti- nent are desirable.
 No other President has ever betrayed such evidences of trepidation and tim orousness in dealing with questions of tariff and revenue as are plainly 'nani- tested by the present occupant Of the White House in the message which VIC publish today.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
SATURDAY. DECEMBER Q. 1sos.
A REAL rARcE,.

Those Isle of Pines Kickers are ap- parently determined to make them selves laughing-stock. If anything is yet required to attain that eondi- ton. To call their assemblage of dis contented adventures a Legislature and to send a delegate to the Con- gress of the United States asking for recognition Is about the most farcical
 srformance we have heard of in re- mt times. The three tailors, of Tooley
 rect London. who sent petition to
 e English Parliament beginning,
 ye, the People of England" were sy arcely any more ridiculous.
 This little coterie of Americans do not ask to be annexed to the United States because. as they affirm. i've are now part of the United States" They do not ask to be recognized by the na- tions of the earth as an independent Republic. Claiming to be part of this country they want to be officially rec ognized as a Territory, with territo- rial governhent and the right to be represented in Congress. They deny the right of Cuba to levy taxes, im- pose customs duties or otherwise exer- else sovereignty and Jurisdiction over the island. Just what they will do when Congress turns them down we cannot say! but if they wish to play the hand out they should get up a revolution. Then they would be stood up against a wall and shot. as Lopez was in Cuba, and William Walker in Honduras. Perhaps, though, they may have the good sense to subside before they get entirely beyond their depth,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
IMPROVING THE LANGUAGE.

We note that Mir Stein. of the Ma tionaI Bureau of Statistics. is out in one of the periodical protests against our absurd spelling and pronuncia- tion, and his remedy for the inconsis- tencies and incongruities of our lam guage is that all English dictionaries shall use the same key to pronuncia- tion. As is well known every maker or compiler of a dictionary has key of his own, and no two of them agree. The Portland oregonian says of the plan:
 To arrive at key to pronunciation which shall be fit for general use. Mir. Stein suggests a conference of all those interested in phonetics. or the represeptation of sounds by written key. he says. and all the dictionaries will adopt it. School children will learn it by heart. Primers will be Rfrafn learning tt to @ read S SsSsier. and before you know it English spelling will be on a national tbasis. The prospect IS se- ductiys and may not be ad entirely S,, ranelc .hc absurdities of English spelling. At some time and in some way their doom will come: but MT. Steins way way destined. Still 1t Is worth trying. The expenses of his proposed convention will be SlO.0o0, q modest sum which 1t ought not to be difficult to raise in these days of exuberant philanthropy.
 Whether or not MT. stein's plan is practicable admits of grave doubt, we should say. We are not so sure that all the makers of dictionaries could be induced to adopt one rule or key. though such a thing may be possible. That, however, would only be a very small beginning towards correcting or removing the real difficulties that confront every student and reader. This uniform key. as we understand the proposition. only relates to pro- nunciation, and that is only one of the faults of our language. The orthog- raphy is as faulty as the orthoepy is. While we have words spelled just alike pronounced differently. words spelled differently and pronounced alike, words spelled and pronounced differently meaning the same. and words spelled and pronounced alike meaning different things. we are bound to be more or less at sea.
 Many and divers have been the plans suggested for simplifying and unifying our language so as to make it simple and consistent. but no real success has followed the efforts. The efforts to introduce and popularize q phonetic system have not succeeded. The plan for a universal language fares no better. So many of our com mon words are of foreign origin. and the photographers and scholars are so insistent on retaining the original orthography that we see little hope of any improvement in the near future. If every word in our language could be spelled exactly as pronounced. and if the same word could not have more than one meaning, and several other improvements could be adopted. we | might eventually have a sane and simple language. but we see no hope of it at present.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
Easing the Pressure.

Cosmopolitan.
 MT. Kiljordan," said sthe young man with the bill. would 1t be convenient for you to-
 "No, it wouldn't :" stormily interrupt ed Kiljordan, looking up with blood in his eye. You addle- -pated idiot, don't you know enough not to interrupt a man when he's at work? The pay. ment of this installment isn't due till tomorrow. anyhow. you daddinged lunkhead For half a cent I'd throw you out of the window. Take that gumdasted face out of here or I'll
 The terrified youth waited to hear no more. He darted out through the door and made for the stairway. down which he went three steps at time
 What ails you. Kiljordan? asked the man at the other desk. Why did you try to scare that boy half to death?'
 'T've no grudge against the boy" he answered, turning to his work; but I couldn't swear at the woman with the gentle manner and the neighbor- hood charity scheme who had buzzed me for half an hour before he came in and l had to let out on somebody"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
EGGS Ay roop.

Now. just when eggs are getting ready to climb over the fence and make their escape from people not In the millionaire class. here comes a ccnvocation of pure food advocates giv- ing out the dictum that the fresh egg is the only really pure food to be found. We are not fully informed about 1t, but have a grave suspicion that these fellows stand in with tho egg trust, This Is the time of year when the obstreperous hens go out of business and when mankind. also wo- mankind must have eggs. There is no getting along without them, and as a natural consequence. the scarcity of the things and the increased demand send the price kiting towards the up- per regions. As a further reason for high prices these men want to make folks believe that no food but eggs is safe. It is taking a mean advantage of us.
 And yet there can be no doubt about the food value of hen fruit. Proba- bly many of our readers have never read the story of Louis. Luigi or Lud- wig Cornaro. He was wealthy Ven. etian nobieman who went all the gaits." as the saying is, and at the ago of forty found himself physical wreck. with the cheerful assuranoe from the doctors that his time was up. About the same time hc lost his for tune and retired to Padua, and wheth- CT from necessity, or natural desire to live. or because he wanted to dis credit the doctors he entered on what in those days would be called the sim pIe life and determined to live as long as possible.
 Not to make long staory of it- iments and found that he could get along nicely on twelve ounces of solid food a day. and just here the egg comes in. As his age increased he re- duced his rations until he found that he could live we'll and comfortably on one egg a day. He drank some wine. but much of the time the one egg was all the solid food he consumed. At the ages of 8s.. ss. s1 and 95 he wrote treatises on "The Sure and Certain Method of Attaining Long and Healthful Life" some of which we read some forty years ago. and have retained a general idea of the details of his experiments. He died tthe ago of ninety-eight.
 cornaro died s3e years ago, but his egg experiences have not been forgot ten. and there have been many to test the value of his teachings. We really have no doubt about the food value of this product but think 1t cruel to start up an increased demand for the article just now. If they had waited till next summer the impetus given to egg production would have hurt no one and would have helped the poultry raisers.
 The assertions of these faddists, If we may designate them, that there Is no other pure food but fresh eggs shows how far even sensible men go when they confine themselves to one idea. That there is great deal Of adulterated and impure food sold and consumed is beyond doubt. but there are many articles of diet 10 be had that are pure and wholesome. As to ,that matter, it is to be remembered that eggs are not always as good as they might be, and sometimes they are decidedly bad. Still we are free to admit that fresh eggs form an excel lent article of food. and we would be se oh
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
eomer's Campaign of Wind.

ASANItlC <ACGiCs
 As the people begin to comprehend that MT. Comer's campaign Is one of wind. they drop him. What benefit will accrue to the farmers by this hght against the railroads? None whatever. When we came to Ashville in 1873. our first bundle of paper all told cost cost us $11 laid down in Ashville. The same bundle now costs us $3.5O. Sub 1t Is now 75 cents cash--that is what railroads have done and are doing for the farmers. But Mir. Conner says they discriminate between Alabama and some of the States east or us; He can't prove 1t; but holds up legislative action which force the railroads to a lower rates than in this State. This is not discrimination, but an outrage perpetrated ot the roaos after tney into improvements of those States. There is no precedent for 1t in deal ing with the remuneration Of any other corporation or class of business. Con dltions control in such matters. Go to those States east of Alabama, and eX- amine their laws. many might be dated back to the feudal age without dispar- agement. They border on the Atlantic Ocean, are open to the commerce of the world and were but a short time ago far in advance of Alabama; now the latter hemmed in by them and cut off from seaports, except at the south progress. While the railroads are bringing millions of progress to this State, unwholesome laws are a check upon those east of It. MT. Conner would put a check on Alabama's prog ress by putting tax on the money borrowed to drive q tunnel through a hill which paid no taxes before; and has been brought up to tax value of many thousand dollars; and that too after the money had been expended on labor and a debt created, the inter- est of which must be met out of its earnings. It is Illustrated by the own CT of a mill valued at $50,OOO. assessed at $15,000, and yet It's earnings can not be brought up to the standard of either value without the expendi- ture of a thousand or more dollars, for which the money Is borrowed and paid out to labor. Hundreds of miles of railroads, already built, require con- tinually this sort of expenditure, put ting millions of money into the hands of labor, while increasing the real value in the permanency of the road and additional facilities to travel and trade, the taxable value is not en- haneed in the same proportion. This Is made plain by supposing some miles of road can be made safer and more durable by filling up trestle ways out of dirt that is idle, useless and of no taxable value, at an expense of halt to a million dollars-a work that is constantly being done on Alabama roads-to tax it for anything like it's cost would not only stop all such inn provement. but bankrupt the roads; but the rule that applies to mill own CTS, other corporations and the farm CTS applies to the railroads.
 Mir. Conner shows his utter ignorance of the rate issue in talking as he does. Uniformity of rates he prates about as if he understood it; and it does not seem to enter his mind that as our progress advances rates on railroads, like the profits on goods. gravltate to the lowest point consistent with the rate on money invested in them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
A BILL THAT SHOULD BECOME 1
 LAW.

The bill introduced by Congressman Wiley. the first day Congress met, for preventing the issuance of Federal H. quor license in territory where the State law prohibits the sale of liquor ought speedily to become a law. Every time such license is issued the great government becomes alder and abettor of law breakers. The men who use the license know when they get it that they are violating the State law every time they sell drop of liquor, yet they feel safe If they can kep out of the clutches of the United States of ficer The amount of money received by. the United States government from this, way of helping in the ovcr-riding of State and community laws is but q drop in the b'Ssket of it's receipts and not worth considering. Mir. Wiley's bill ought to be passed by unanimous vote.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
MT. MIIex,s Bill.

Selma Journal. ."..# .@~.-
 The bill introduced by Congressman House of Representatives prohibiting the. issuance of United States revenue licenses for the sale of intoxicating liquors in localities where the same is prohibited by State laws Is the hard est blow that has been struck at blind tigers for long time. If this bill be- comes law 1t will so far towards breaking up one of the most dangerous and far-reaching evils which threaten the people in this section of Alabama and doubtless in similar sections of other Southern States.
 It is unfortunate that such should be the case, but 1t is a fact nevertheless that the statutes of the Federal Gov ernment are given greater weight and the courts Of the Government greater deference than are our State laws and courts. The average law breaker, and especially the men who violate State prohibition laws. can always persuade himself that in the courts of his county he can bring local influences of vari- ouS Kinds 10 bear and stand a fair chance or going unwhipped Of justice for his misdeeds. He does not indulge to the Federal courts. He knows that the turtes drawn therein come from a large area Of country and that the judges and the prosecuting attorneys have not only greater power but also greater facilities for running down law breakers and bringing them to ade- auate punishment. The truth of this assertion Is fully proved by the well known fact that every man engaged In the Illicit sale of whiskey is provided with United States license. So well known is this fact that the L.egislature passed a law. and it is now upon our statute books. making proof that a man held an internal revenue license for inc sale of intoxicating liquors prima faeie proof that he was engaged in the saie thereof. It was hoped that this law sorce prohibition laws Tt was so ,,,aii caicniated to accomplish this desirabIe end and would doubtless have done so but for the unexpected and uncallsd- aY the Kenarsl government. Tpon 1 a
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
Conner and Cunningham.

Camden Banner.
 With the exception of an ocasional prediction of fome of the few biased advocates of the two candidates, we hear little of State politics. Tn a Conner journal we read that it's candi date will sweep the State. and fcourse the same statement will appear in some county paper as regards Dr Cunning ham.
 The Banner has equal facilities with all other county sheets for obtaining term of the Circuit Court, very large jury and witness list attending from every beat of Wilcox. we never once heard the subject discussed, and in an swer to the question we have not found a single individual who could tell the relative strength of either of these candidates in his own neighbor- hood, nor could we venture to predict how the town of Camden would go were a test made this day Our peo- pie are not talking politics-certainly not State politics, whose results are so far in the future. Neither Cunning ham nor Conner has aroused any en- thusiasm as yet. ana the press of the counties Is not refiecting any credit upon itself by making such wild asser- tions. We do not see the great dailies of the State making any such charges, and they certainly have better facili ties for gathering news than has the press of the counties. Be truthful and your circulation will be benefited and your patrons will have consideration for your views, when expressed
 With the unble mished public record of Dr. Cunr 'ngnam as Senator and Lieutenant Governor. we feel that at the proper time a majority of the Democrats of Alabama will select him above any man now mentioned as their chief executive for the next four years We have that faith in our party, but as for being sure of the issue, without organization in single county of the To In hlhalf 0f aifhar OAnflaDnpn do not propose to join the Munchausen brigade
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
Indrlstrial Development.

St. LOUIS RepuDflc.
 Tn his report showing that in the last four years not les than SIG. .7S5, 900 has been invested in manufacturing en- terprises in the States of the southeast penetrated by the lines of the Southern Railroad, it's industrial agent does not estimate multitude of minor invest ments too small for accurate tabulation. These. though singly not important enough to be statistically recorded, make up in the aggregate tremendous force for the development of the South. Their numbers show that the South Is a most inviting field for the manufac- turer or the artisan of small capital. Small furniture factories, here and there a little shop for the manufacture of electrical fixtures. a little foundry, a little cotton or woolen mill have been put up in that country and still are only the beginning of larger things. As Mir Richards points out. industrial devel- opments of nearly every kind in that part of the country. not excepting the cotton mhs, are very generally a de- velopment from small beginnings. and the means of growth are supplied by their own earnings. There is no more promising field for competent and en- terprising men who have accumulated a small capital for investment.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
HnafnHAs
Court Extrct.
Puck.

K.
 The court dentist carefully adjusted the position of his majestys head so as to facilitate the process of extract Ing an offending molar and with an ex- ultant light in his eye grasped the for ceps.
 Courage, sire" he observed reas- suringly; another moment and twill all be over but the shouting"
 III-timed as was the jest, the cul- prit's previous record had been good and he was allowed to name his pre- ferred mode of execution.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
Riwness Ha. It's Weakness.

There are signs of reaction against great industrial combinations. At last people are beginning to perceive that exaggerated emphasis has been put upon the value of mere growth in size. There is a point evidently at which a company becomes too big to control. to manage, and to resist successfully new competition. Mere bigness is no certain proof of strength.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
nlhle MlracIe storz RevI.ed.
London Chronicle.

The Vivar of St. Johns. Gainsbor- cugh, says that recently the scholars in count of the translation of the prophet Elijsh to Heaven. and one boy wrote: "Eiijah. the prophet, was carried into heaven by a whirlwind. and the children stood up and cried Go up, thou bald head, Go up. thou bald head! and be- fore he went up he divided the Red Gaa b
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
What State Papers Are Saying
Alabama Libraries.

SeIHlA JOUfnaI.
 The Alabama Library Association is in session in Mobile. We hope the As- sociation will take up the question of rural circulating libraries. An able Esq, in The Advertiser a few weeks ago called attention to the great work that can be accomplished by such ii- sociation is the proper place for an organized movement along this line to begin.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
A. Sensible A. Some Other Proposition.

A Bridgeport, Connecticut, social club has adopted the ten cent limit in poker This reform will be ap- plauded: but it will not be general. Why should we not have government supervision and regulation of poker?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09

We can't understand the alleged dif- 1iculty the young King Alfonso has about getting some nice girl to stand up with him and be spliced. Either he is hard to please or his choice is limited.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
Don't Mind the Cost.

IdODlle
 Those foreign engineers don't seem the construction of the Panama canal, especially as their government has none of 1t to pay. Their action re. friends who would divide the last crust with us provided we furnished the crust.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
What Some People Think.

Some persons think that the para mount issue of this session of Con- Cress Is not railroad rates, Panama. the tariff, football reform, the order of precedence. battleships, nor the Panama Canal. but common honesty in the Government
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
Getting Busy Now.

Congress will get busy now and tell us what it does not know about ca- vexatious problems that confront the law makers of the nation, and about which nearly every man under the Capitol dome imagines he possesses ex- pert knowledge,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09

The York Dispatch thinks it Is a good thing for McCurdy that he has money to live on. as he would. hardly be able to live on his reputation, but we are not so sure about that. His reputation would be a paying asset in some occupations
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09

By a typographical error the Hart ford Times gave the Presidents mes sage 2s5.00O words. It was long enough as it was, but not so bad as that
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09
A Question of Which:

The question of changing the day for inaugurating the President is now going the rounds. but changing the Messrs. Root, Shaw, Lodge and others half so much as which one of them will be inaugurated next time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09

It may be true. as the New York people will eventually rule themselves. but we are bound to say that they are making a poor beginning.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-12-09

Now we are assured that the Kan sas farmers have so much money that they don't know what to do with 1t. And so many of us in just the reverse condition