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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
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Defends the Chinese

T see that three young Chinamen have been arrested in Montgomery for violation of the Chinese exclusion act and will probably be deported to the, FIowery Kingdom" said a well known Montgomerian.
 T think that this law is an outrage and l don't see what good can come of deporting these particular young fellows understand that one Of them at least Is a young man of high moral character and of some educa- ton.
 T wish every class of our citizens were as good as the Chinamen. If you examine the police dockets, you will find that fewer Chinamen are arreste d for misdemeanors and felonies in pro portion to their number in Montgom- cry than any other class of citizens. They are quiet. peaceable and good wage-earners. They are thrifty and industrious and the idea that they spend no money Is false. see them patronizing restaurants. soda foun- tains, baseball games. clothing stores, etc. They invariably go well dressed after a short stay in this country ana are faultlessly clean.
 ''rhe people of San Francisco may not want the Chinamen. They have local reasons, but if all Chinamen are like those that come to Montgomery l say let's have more of them instead or these Syrians. Huns and other South ern Europeans. that are a menace TO eur civilization"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
WEDNESDAY. JUNE Fl, 1905.
STATEHOOD FOR OKLAHOMA AND
 INDIAN TERRITORIES.

If the people of this country gen. orally knew o1 the splendid conditions existing in klahoma and Indian Ter ritories, they would make their Sena- tors and Representatives understand that gross injustice is being perpe- trated, as long as they are kept from statehood. The two territories have largely over a million population, pos sibly a million and half, and at the present rate of growth will show 100000 at the next census. Each ter ritory from the standpoint of landed area and intelligent population Is en- titled to be a State. but combined into one they should long ago have been admitted into the national fold.
 We will not undertake to combat the views of those who have so far held put against their admission, further than to say that 1t must have been po- litical exigencies which caused this great wrong of exclusion to be perpe- trated. The interests of no political party should stand in the way of jus tice to 1,5oo,oo0 of people. No mat ter what may be the political com plexion of the new State, men of all parties should be willing to do the fair and honest part. Oklahoma and In- dian Territory as a State would fur nish more territory than all New Eng land and more population than one- third of the States which now have Senators and Representatives in Con gress
 Out in that comparatively new coun- try there has been practical and pal pablo illustration of the doctrine 'sur- yival of the fittest."Men of all sorts and conditions gathered there and en- tered upon the race for wealth and po- sition. Those of the ne'er do well class fell by the wayside as they had already fallen in the older settlements. The wide-awake, open-eyed, brainy ones pushed to the front, and as many of that class of men and women can any equal area in the Union. They are the equals in culture, in intellec- tual and musical gifts. in commercial grasp and intelligent farming of any similar number of people this side of the Mississippi River. The cities have grown as if by magic and are going Forward by leaps and bounds. The land is fair to look upon and no mat ter in what direction the eye Is cast. settlements and happy homes will be seen.
 If Congress is disposed to do the right thing. 1t will. before a week passes after its meeting in December. admit Oklahoma and Indian Territories into the Union and place the name Oklahoma upon the national flag. The effort to tie them on to New Mexico and Arizona should be abandoned
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
COMING MARRIAGE.
McRee-Vaughan Engagement
 nounced at DemOpoIis.
An-

<An- nounced at DemOpolis. Demopolis, June 20.-tSpecial.) )-Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Vaughan have an- nounced the marriage of their daugh- ter, Miss Helena, to Eugene McRee, on | Wednesday afternoon, June 2S, at 5
 o'clock in the Methodist Church at this place.
 Tombigbee Masonic Lodge. No. 190, at Jefferson, seven miles south of De-
 mopolis. held meeting Saturday and elected officers: W. H. Gregory, Wor- | shipful Master; W. G. Allen, Senior
 Warden; c. B. Jones. Junior Deacon; L. l.. Simmosn, Treasurer; T. B.. Whitfield, Secretary; B. A. Wooten,
 Tiler: J. l.. Pace, Senior Deacon; R. L. Simmons, Junior Deacon; J. L. Me-
 Curdy and Sol Elkan. Stewards. The Jefferson Chapter, No. S1, Roy al Arch Masons, of this city elected new officers as. follows at their meet ! ings last night: Jacob Bley, High Priest; Louis Mayer. King; Samuel P.
 Hand, Scribe; Isidore Bley. c. of H.; E. E. Breitling. P. S.: Joe Mayer. M |. l of 3rd Vail: c. B. Whitfield, M. of End Vail; T. H. DeLoach, M. of 1st Vail; H. A. Monnier. Sentinel; J. I.
 Lee, Secretary; Leonard Cornish, Treasurer.
 Lieutenant Governor Cunningham mas consented 10 come to lHiS clty on
 Monday, June 26. by invitation of the
 Masonic Lodge and deliver an address,
 on the occasion of the public installa- tion of officers.
 Colonel Mallory of New York was in
 Demopolis yesterday looking after the interests of the Mobile and West Ala bama Railroad. He stated that all
 difficulties had now been surmounted
 and that ample funds are now at the
 disposal of the construction company.
 He also verified the statement made a
 few weeks ago by Judge Austil of Mo-
 bile, that the actual work of building the road would begin within ninety
 days by two gangs, one working south of Demopolis and one working north
 from Mobile. Fhe first division of the
 road will be completed from Mobile
 to Florence, and it is rumored that the
 road will be continued on to Memphis
 and. perhaps. to Chicago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
Cetters tO tl,e Gdftor
Does pr. stagg Understand the Negro
 Question.

Does pr. stagg Understand the Negro
 Question.
 Editor The Advertiser:
 Were you raised" on a Southern plantation with ,n,.ta good gold black soothe your every care and make you forget your sorrows? Did you have negro boys for companions who did you a thousand kindly acts and with out single malicious one, and were you still at home when the final call came for father and mother, with the o somefSns for Fold marsteT or oG waited at the sick room door to be at hand in case of need If so, you un,, feel when we read Dr. ,Stagg on the negro question.
 The simple fact is. some of us think negro to Africa. and. ip the meantime, so talking as to dissattsfy our labor is
 But why get hot under the collar over the matter. Dr. Stagg is too amusingi
 The learned writer in substance says; These poor, ignorant. consumn, already so infected that in time the increase from four and a half mill lions to nine millions in the last forty i've years will bS practically reduced to nothing; yet, one million of Ameri- can born negroes, if now transported to Africa, have the institutions of this country so ingrained in their blood and memories to help them. that they can reproduce America on the conti- nent of Africa.
 Suppose Booker Washington was the greatest beggar in the world" and did jolly the Yankees to get money to spend in Alabama, Is he mors incon- sistent than Dr. Stagg, or less useful to the people of Alabama
 Again. Booker Washington, a mu- latto, is denounced because (according to the Interpretation of Dr. Stagg) his Yocacy of social equality; while, W. H. Sheppard, a mulatto, Is commended as follows: By this strange cross of blood in the human race 1t looks as years of the black mans existence in America. there was to be ingrained in his blood and in his memory our insti- tutions, our religion, our literature, our art, etc, etc, and that, when God would open the door of hope again fciosed now) he would find a man pre- pared for the land of Canaan"
 Is this an. argument for miscegena- ton?
 public utterance to such views. would 1t not be so construed?
 Mark you. the negro. through name less diseases" will de out if left in America, yet if sent to Africa he is so ingrained ln blood and memory with our art, literature, institutions. etc,
 Again, by the intermingliug of ne- gro with white blood we have bred a man who--as soon as the door of hope Is open to him--is prepared for the land of Canaan. Why not then be pre- pared for America7
 we are never going to let the negro have domipatins voice in political
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

the English nation all sons of peers are not brainless, nor are all Ameri-
 can women "brainless and thought less" But the writer pays the women of America a high compliment. speak ing of them in general, when he says that pretty much all the brains we have come from our mothers, and no American woman who was not weak in the upper story would marry a peers son simply to obtain an empty title." As we have before remarked, not every American woman who mar ries a foreign nobleman is a weak or vicious specimen of humanity. but cer- tainly many of them are not the kind to add strength to England's nobility.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
THE TWO MEN.

Too much stress can hardly be laid on the difference between the letters of acceptance written by MT. Cleveland and Mr. Morton, the former as a trus- tee and the latter as executive officer of the Equitable Company. Mir. Cleve- land dwelt most forcibly on the duty. of the officers to the policy-holders, feeling that it Is incumbent on the officials to look to the interests of those whose money is tied up with the company. The concluding words of his letter are: We can better afford to slacken our pace than to abandon our old, simple American standards of honesty"
 This language is typical of the writ CT, and of his habits of thought and practice. He accepts the position of trustee of the Equitable as one in which the dominant idea is that the business of the company shall be con ducted in a thoroughly honest way the Cleveland way, in short. The Morton idea, on the other hand, seems to be that his main duty Is to the interested in its management. It is the reputation and glory of the com pany that he is most interested in, not those who have risked their money to It's care. The letters are characteris- tic of the two men and of their habits.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

There is one confusing feature con- nected with the proposed peace meet ing in Washington. Heretofore when any thing especially cute has been dcne by the administration tho chief credit has gone to Secretary Hay. He was "the man, behind the throne" and both Republicans and Democrats pro- fessed to see his fine Italian hand" in every good bit of diplomatic work. while the President merely obtained the incidental credit of bossirg the job, or of ordering 1t done. In the present case Hay was not on hand to do the diplomatics and there Is no way to give him credit. Whether they like it or not the newspapers and others must concede to Roosevelt all the hons ors that may come if a treaty of peace is concluded as a consequence of his initiative. There is no ground upon which to give the credit to Hay this time, and some of the contemporaries are worried about 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
Many Excursion Trains.

''The railroads entering Montgomery are doing a great business with tho frequent excursion trains which they are running" said a railroad man Of Montgomery yesterday.
 ''This city has always been a draw ing card for excursions and every train that has come into Montgomery this summer has been overloaded with ex- cursionists. The people of Montgom- cry should do all In their power to encourage the railroads in this direc- ton for the great crowds of people that come in on these excursion trips spend more money than you would suppose. Once they come to Mont gomery. they wish to come again and the advertising that the city gets in this way Is of unouestioned value.
 "A great deal more attention is paid to the handling of excursion crowds now by the railroads and every effort is made for their convenience by the provision of comfortable. commodious coaches and polite attendance.
 ''One of the biggest excursions that ever came to Montgomery will reacn here next Monday from Georgia and Southeast Alabama"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
Succe.afuI CoaIIng Test.

Newport R. l., June 2o.-A success full coaling test was reported by the new cruiser Maryland which arrived in the outer harbor today. At the Brad ford Station in Narragansett Bay yes- terday the cruiser took on board from lighters 500 tons of coal in eighteen hours. This was said by the officers to establish q new record for that time.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

writer in The New York Times puts 1t this way:
 What can be expected from a brain less peers son, whose life has been given up to almost every species of dissipation, and brainless and thoughtless woman. who is willing to blast her life to possess a worthless title? So far as the number of chill dren resulting from such marriages are concerned, we ought to thank God that America is responsible for so few of them.
 Hapnilv for the honor and credit of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
Largely Fiction.

The assertion that such and such man is without fear is largely tic- heroic feat when he was scared half to death There Is a great deal of truth in tue old saying that barking dogs does not bite. The, man who IS always talking about what he would have done if he had been there Is us ually at a safe distance when the hght waves hot.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

One of the finest compliments that has been paid Mir Cleveland comes from an Independent newspaper, The Philadelphia Ledger. Referring to him in connection with his appointment as trustee of the Equitable Company. 1t says:
 We are under the impression that 1t Is a great thing to be able to raise men like that in the United States; better than to raise sea island cotton or macaroni wheat or other things by the bushel. It raises our faith in hu- man nature, and it shows to the whole crete, striking manner, more forcibiy than can be done by thousand bac- calaureate sermons. the value of char acteF to the possessor and to the land
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
The New Game.
TnS Mnhiln Harald

Mobile Herald.
 this summer. you should learn skat. This is the German game that is to rival bridge with card players at the top-lofty resorts and at country houses. They say 1t is the Kaiser's favorite d. version.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
ALAnAMA rHnss AssocrArIos.
Meeting of Executive Committee Called
 for Friday Next.

for Friday Next.
 In consequence of matters of vital importance that have unexpectedly arisen, and in absence of President Charles H. Greer from the State, l hereby call a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Alabama Press As sociation at Birmingham. Il o'clock Friday, at Commercial Club rooms. It Is important for every member to be present. Jacob Pepperman.
 Secretary. The Advertiser is aware of the req sons for the above call, and would urge upon every member of the Execu- tive Committee of the State Press As- sociation the importance of attending the meeting in Birmingham next Fri day.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
Will Know Better.

Chicago wants the peace conference between Russia and Japan to meet Tn that city if Washington Is not selected. Russia and Japan are not so far away but they will know better than to go to Chicago seeking peace.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
They Go to Spring HIli.

Acting Mayor c. P. McIntyrel and Alderman John P, Kohn will leave to- day to attend the annual commence ment of the Spring Hill College at Mobile. Both officials are alumni of the institution.
 Mayor Mcintyre will be honored by having the degree of Master of Arts conferred on him and MT. Kohn will preside at the alumni banquet. where covers will be laid for 500 alumni of most prominent men of Alabama
 This is the seventy-fifth anniversary of the founding of the institution and the Diamond Jubilee of the College will be celebrated with fitting cere- monies and entertainments.
 Mir. c. D. Sands and MT. Lawrence Burns. well known young men of Montgomery, left last night for To- ronto, Canada, where they will spend about two weeks on a pleasure trip. They will visit other points of interest before returning to Montgomery.
 The condition of Special Officer H. T. RaRland of the Montgomery police de- pertinent, who was wounded Sunday morning by a negro burglar whom he shot shot and killed was was reported yester, St. Margaret's Hospital.
 Mir R. M. Henderson. Jr has re- turned from Cornell University where he made an excellent record during the past year. He will spend the summer months with his parents at home.
 State Treasurer J. Craig Smith whose arm was broken at his Dallas County plantation ten days ago was at his office yesterday for the first time since the accident.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

The Sacramento Bee severely con- demns the school authorities of Wash ington City for barring Our Dumb Animals" from the public schools be- cause 1t had criticised the President for shooting "inoffensive wild ami mals." and winds up its editorial with these words:
 Theodore Roosevelt is too big not to be angered at such an un-American spirit And those smaA-potato toadies will probably find that they have greatly annoyed the President, rather than pleased him.
 The incident to which The Bee refers occurred more than month ago. and if the President has uttered a word of censure or displeasure we have yet to hear of 1t. We, also. thought him too broad and liberal minded to en- dorse by his silence such an exhibition of narrow toadyism. and thought he would be quick to condemn it, but so far as we know he has remained silent. Does he endorse the petty meanness of Washihgton's school superintendent?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

Any one having a check calling for warm weather who isn't willing to take the kind we've had lately had better go to the tropics.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

According to the best judgment that gan be formed at this distance we are unanimously of the opinion that Mayor Weaver has wiped up the earth with ths gang in Philadelphia. There may Do some fragments, but they are not able to sit up and take notice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
Some Improvement.

Birmingham Ledger.
 Russia Is reduced to theN extremity of forcing a lot of grand dukes to get out of the navy because of their ras- cality. That Is some improvement.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

Earl Nelson. who Is in his eighty second year, is the only living peer who was a member of the house of lords when Queen Victoria came.~to the throne
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

There is now a dispute up as to who was the first settler in Chicago, and they really seem proud of their going there.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

fSE & Noble Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser. being duly sworn, says:
 Tho foregoing statement of The Adver- fiserss circulation for the month of May. 1905. Is true and correct. and compiled after all returns from nsws boys. news agents and 1eff-over copies have besn deducted,
 E. s. NOODLE,
 Circulation Manager. Bworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day Of June, 1905. <~
 F. w JACKSON, (seai1 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

Judge Charles Field of Athol, Mass. the country in active judicial service, celebrated his ninetieth birthday this month. He holds court several days a week
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

E. W. Stphens of Columbia, Mo, will represent the Baptists of North Amer lea at the congress in London in July.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

Justice John Nj. Harlan of the Uni ted States Supreme Court is said to have an ambition to round out his ca- reer by election as governor of Ken lucky.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
UDbat State Papers
 lire Saying
Have to Chip In. haOn Ana.Harald

Birmingham Age-Herald-
 Carnegie and RocKreiler may yet have to chip in to help their fellow autocrat and monoRolist, Nicnolas II, out. He owes the laps a big bill.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

Dr. Richard Strauss gets $500 as an honorarium for conducting a perform ance It is supposed to be the largest fee paid to a composer for conducting the reproduction of his own works.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

Herbert L. Jenks has presented the Fitchburg (Mass.) library with the only complete set of Chopin's compost tions.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

Edwards Hughes portrait of Queen Alexandra is considered the best ever painted. On completion her majesty carefully scrutinized 1t. and with the feminine viewpoint said: T fear IL flatters me. bat that Is how l would like to be remembere6.'
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
IN THE PUBLIC EYE.
Interesting Notes of Persons Talked
 About .Just Now.

The Dowager Empress of China is vain of her hands, the nails of which are several inches long.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

J. N. Nowak, an Austrian metero- logist, claims to be able to forecast the weather by the means of a plant called "Abrus precatorius," discovered by him in Mexico years ago. He de- ciares that he will erect his first weather stations in London and Vien-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
VACATION TIME.

VACATION TIME.
 If you expect to take a vacation during the summer don't get to have The Ad. wertifkr mailed to you Your address will be changed as often as you like The rate fs lB cents per week 66 cents per month an orders to be paid for in advance.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21
OI Y'SS KID Y GU

stops irregularities, strengthens the urinary organs and builds up the worn-out tissues of the kid neys so they will perform their functions properly. Healthy kid- neys strain out the impurities from the blood as it passes through them. Diseased kidneys do not, and the poisonous waste matter is carried by the circulation to every part of the body, causing dizziness, backache, stom C h trouble, sluggish liver, irregular heart action, etc.
 Ifyou have any signs of Kidney or Bladder trouble commence talk ing FOLEY'S KIDNEY CURE at once, as t will cure slight dis order in few days and prevent a fatal malady. It is pleasant to take and benefits the whole system.
 How to Find Out.
 You can easily determine if your kid- news are out of order by setting aside for 24 hours bottle of the urine passed upon arising. If upon examination it is cloudy or milky or has a brick-dusl sediment or small particles float about in it, your kidneys are diseased, and FOLEY'S KIDNEY CURE should be taken at once.
 0. 8. Burhans TesfIfies After
 Four Years.
 q. B. BaFhans Of Carlisle Center, \. Y, writes:
 About four years ago wrote you stating thaS I had been entirely cured of Q severe kidney trouble by taking less than two bottles of Foley s Kidney Cure. It entirely stopped the brick- dust sediment and pain and symptoms of kidney disease disappeared. I am glad to say that have never had return of any of those symp- toms during the four years that have elapsed, and am evidently cured to stay cured. and heartily recommend Foley's Kidney Cure to any one suffering from kidney or bladder trouble"
 Two Sizes, 800 and t0O.
 SOLD AKD REC0 AiRsEHDEn BY E. 6. FOWLER, DRUGGIST
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-06-21

SUBSTANTIAL Despite the fact that this IS nearly mid summer the circulation of The Advertiser is holding it's own. Following are the nef figures for the month of Nay