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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
THURSDAY, MAY il, 1905.
A PROcLAMATIoN.


 The Brooklyn Eagle prints the fol- lowing imaginary proclamation /: To the labof unions of America: You have gone far enough. Haiti So long as you were struggling to better your Now that you are setting yourselves to degrade and imperil the condition of others who work your cause Is in- famous. At this moment you Nare city in America to gratify personal and class revenge; you have killed peaceful citizens; you have mobbed and for their families by honorable means You have a right to strike, but no right to force reluctant men to strike; no right to interfere between other men and their employers; no right to dictate forms and terms of labor to those who do not elect to join your body. You are now in open rebellion disorder crime and outrage are com- mitted. You have invaded properties an which you have no right. You have lnterfered with the legitimate. com D great community. ,Xou have entailed ymmeasurable loss, ruin, discourage ment and bereavement by your vio- Hence. injustice and rapacity. Now, Stop! If it is necessary to iksure the Fight of any single citizen to work at his chosen task, I will maintain that Tight if it takes the whole United States Army to do it.
 Then 1t adds: MT Theodore Roose- welt, would like to see your name sign Hd to some such a proclamation as phis." The Union is not at all likely to see anything of the kind because the President is not going to take the risk pf turning all the labor unions of the Hountry against his administration and his party. It will be a humiliating re- Mection on our system of government. as we'll ak an invasion of the principles nf local Self-governemnt if the time 1hould come when such a proclamation favill be issued and enforced by the President of the United States in any city or town of the Union. It would be a charge or an admission that the people are not competent to govern themselves but must be controlled and restrained by the strong hand of the FederaI government And yet, hu- initiating though 1t may be. in- dications point unerringly to the time ih the near future when something Inf the kind may be unaboidable. If the civil authorities of a city cannot or will not preserve order and protect life and property the State will be com ipeIled to do 1t. and if the State is un- willing or incapable the general gov .ernment will have to take over the gduty to itself. Anarchy and murder scannot go unchecked forever. Some bower must suppress them or the claim kof self-government is a farce and a Failure.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
CIoning the Chasm.

Portland Telegram.
 If we of the North acknowledge the truth, we will have to admit that there is considerable of good-natured for berance in all this on the. part of Southerners. We must plead guilty to somewhat of a patronizing attitude to- ward the South, unconsciously assumed from the force of habit rather than from conviction. We must aver with honesty that We display a want of ap- preciation as to the truly admirable traits of Southern character.
 Let us put this chasm-closing busi- ness decidedly In the past tense. There let it remain. The truly brave man is always a philosophiea! loser. bearing Southerner was no exception to the rule. Henry Grady's Georgia cracker. returning after the surrender" sit ting by the roadside within sight of the desolate spot that once had been his home, contemplating his share of the devastation wrought by sherman in his march to the sea, with no resource bearing promise of amended fortune, save his stout heart and strong arms, replied when asked his opinion as to the result of the war, that he ought to be satisfied He had killed as many of them as they did of him. And the work. That man, in spirit, was typical of the South. With him the chasm was closed when he ceased fighting and laid down his arms at ApponstttQx
 Forty years have elapsed since that event. In that interim the people of the South have addressed themselves to the problems which came to them as a harvest, adding bitterness to their defeat Their fortitude in that great constructive struggle is as rich heri- tage to the nation as their Valor upon any battlefield of the great conflict m which they participated. There was some irritation, it Is true. until wounds were healed. But they have been heal ed long since Reference to the scars should no longer contemplate even the lingering shadow of animosity. Loyalty and fraternity are supreme and indissoluble The Southern man knows it. so does the Northern man. It is time that it was fully acknowI- edged, and that reference to the chasm should be as to a thing that once eX- isted but had long since ceased to be.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
The Cotton Crop of 1aO4-OS.
 Pickett, Ala, May 9th, 1905.

Editor The Advertiser:
 Some one writing from Eufaula, Ala, fin The Advertiser of this date says, "A fair idea of the cotton crop of this seo- tion may be gained from the compress statistics of this city. The receipts of cotton up to this time will show 10000 bales ahead of the entire season last year, and if all of last years crop could be marketed, it Is believed that the re- ceipts would be at least double. It seems to me that this Is very mislead ing, and perhaps injurious to cotton farmers. The Bureau of the Census. Hon. S. N. D. North, Director. under date of April 25th, 1905, says that Bar bour County raised In the year 1903, 24,918 bales, and in 1904, 32,721 bales of 500 pounds. Less than 25 per cent more than the year before. While Alabama raised about 46 per cent more cotton in 1904 than in 1908. South Alabama same of South Georgia. Now 1t looks to me as if Eufaula must have spread herself to get, as fit is believed" double as much cotton from the crop of 1904 as it did from the crop of 1903. After Mir. Theodore Price gave up the bear side, 1t looks like all the little bear cubbs might seek cover. MT. Price says the mills have sold their products to the amount of 20,000.000 bales of cotton. Six and three-quarters miLlion bales more than was made in 1904. It is time the bears were hibernating.
 Yours truly,
 J. R. w. Pickett.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
The Dean of Passenger Agents.

washington HOSI.
 MT. George H. Daniels. passenger agent of the New York Central, with out whom no large meeting of railroad men in this country would be quite complete, has been attending the Inter- national Congress. He enjoys the hon or with several other distinguished delegates of being one of the reporters appointed by the permanent commis- sion.
 There are very few railroad men of his years now in the service. A Kama County. III, boy, he started at 15 as rrodman in the engineer corps of the North Missouri Railroad, and when 80 had risen to be general freight and passenger agent of the Chicago and Pacific Railroad. He held ncmerouS po- sitions of influence with Western rail- roads. and sixteen years ago accepted the position he now holds with the New fork Central. MT. Daniels's railroad publications have set the pace for other American lines, and the passenger ser vice over which he has supervision has marked him as one of the most fore- oa9st oI general QassenKer aaentss
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
Commits Suicide In AtOnement for Sins
 of His Congregation.

Houston CTeX.) Dispatch.
 A dispatch to The Chronicle from Guadalajara, Mexico, recounts a case of religious fanaticism almost unequal ed In atonement for the sins of his parishioners Apolinio osorio, the priest at Cuale, offered himself in sacrifice at the altar of his sanctuary.
 After having summoned the members of his congregation to the cathedral. he stood before them. and, with thous- ands watching. applied a flaming torch to his vestments, saturated with oil . Standing in pillar of fire he threat ened with the wrath of God any who might approach, and finally sank to the stone fagging, where his body was burned to a heap of ashes. Even the bones crumbled, and, according to the details as given, the dust was dissi- pated in a sudden gust of wind that swept through the edifice
 Osorio is supposed to have become unbalanced mentally from constant theological study and unsparing work among the lower class of Mexicans. He personally summoned the Mexicans to the cathedral. walking from house to house and giving his individcal bless ing at each house. Before dying he explained the nature of his human sac- rifice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11

-o-<4~o----
 What promises to be a first-class sensation is developing in Jackson, Tenn, and the probabilities are that there will be something doing unless somebody fails to make good. The cause of the trouble is that the grand jury has indicted number of the so- cial leaders of the town on the charge of gambling, founding the indictments on the fact that the aforesaid leaders had engaged in playing progressive euchre and other card games for prizes. The contention Is that this is gambling and that those engaging in 1t are amenable to the penalties fixed by the law against gambling.
 The Memphis News-Scimetar says of 1t that "there are large numbers who take liberal views of things and who are opposed to everything narrow and puritanical. A great many good peo- pie see no harm and no violation of law in playing a game of cards for amusement or even where a prize Is offered to stimulate interest In the game. These will naturally feel shocked at being held up to the public view as law breakers and criminals who are indicted in the courts. Many others will believe that they have re- ceived proper treatment and should be punished. It may be argued that gam bling Is gambling, no matter where 1t Is carried on, and that mere location or environment in no way excuses or mitigates the offense against the law. Whether or not the law can be enforced in this character of cases remains to be seen"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
cetterS tc tbe Gdfter
The BoII weevii.
Oak Hill. Ala. May 9th. 1905. F The Adyertiser.

Oak Hill. Ala, May sun, lsVo. Editor The Advertiser:
 "right-of- way" in this county; at least, the agricultural officials at Washington say that 1t Is impossible to exterminate
 a no Teason 'naa Mhy ms @S ss ssoSIa SH I let hm overrun and devastate the entire southern country, We can say to him.
 Thus far thou shalt go. and no fur I believe he can be kept in his pres ent boundaries. Now for my plan:
 triot: $ say fi nifty miles wide. Let Con
 gress pass an act forbidding any plant CT planting cotton1in said area At the
 propriating as much money as shaii De necessary to reimburse the farmers Tor any loss they may sustain by not plant Ing cotton in said area. By that means you quarantine the pest.
 Some one Is ready to say that can't pc done; 1t Is unconstatuttonal II can
 De done under the general welfare We quarantine the smallpox, yellow lever, cholera and all such infectious
 his house shall be quarantined or not.
 some fellow in Congress is going to rise In his place and say the above plan
 millions on top of millions annuaiiy to increase our navy to protect our com merce? Haven't we very recently made to dig the Panama Canal? Why not appropriate a few millions to protect the cotton industry of the South? cannot conceive of a greater ca-
 lamity to our Southern country than sides the great money loss that we will sustain. what is to become of this vast circle of negroes we have on our hands? Put him out of cotton field and he Is
 like fish out of water. I know the Southern planter is not going to sit
 down and let as small a thing as tho boIl weevil run over him and whip him out. He has always overcome any ob- stacie, whipped every fight.
 commend the above plan to Con- farmers friend, and hope he will take 1t up and push it through the next Con- gress. Whatever Is going to be done, must be done very quickly. If the boll sissippi River, goodbye to all the cot~ ton country east of that line.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
PARTIAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE.

The State of Alabama. Montgomery coun--
 ty. Probate Court, May 3rd, 19e6.
 Notice is hereby given that charles B Teasley, guardian of James Cahalin and Thomas Cahalin. minors. this day filed his accounts. vouchers and statements for 6 partial settlement of his guardianship of said estate. and that 2lth day of May. 1905, has been appointed for said settle ment J. B. GAST0N,
 thH-St Judge of Probate
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
Conner ra.se. Through.

President B. B. Conner of the Ala bama Railroad Commission, passed through Montgomery yesterday en route from his plantation in Conner to his home in Birmingham. MT. Conner went to South Alabama with the hope the severe strain of the tariff inquiry last week. He believes that he will be able to attend the meeting of the Com of the railroads will be heard on the legal phases of the rate investigation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
Be a Bell Cow.
Mobile Item

Mobile Item.
 There shouldn't be any innocent by islanders, either In Warshaw or Chica- go. No bystander should pose as an innocent one, and no really innocent person should be a bystander. Be bell-cow or go way back.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
LAST NEGRO COP GOES.
New YOrk's Experiment Neither POpu-
 lar Nor Successful.

lar Nor Successful. New York Special.
 Negroes as policemen have proved neither popular nor successful in New der a previous reform administration was dismissed today by Police Commits sioner McAdoo for absence without leave for five days.
 For a time the negro policemen were used as detectives in obtaining evidence against policy and other games. Their color served to make them conspicuous among other policemen and they be- came so well known that their useful ness in that capacity ended. In addi- tion they were summed by white mem bers of the police force and the per- formance of their duty was frequently resented by white citizens.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
That Is True.
Huntsville Tribune.

HuntsViIIe Trlbune,
 Let Alabama take the matter up, for truly nothing can be discussed and executed more potent of great good than the building of public highways.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
Wbat State Papers
 lire Saying
Making Room.

Eufaula Times.
 The National Democratic band wagon seems to be making room for govern ment ownership of public utilities. There is no telling what is in store for us yet.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11

The Birmingham Ledger thinks it funny that there have been no street robberies In Chicago since the mobs took possession of the town, but we sea nothing strange about it. The robbers are outclassed.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
Keep Moving.

Gadsden Journal.
 If the moving microbe is worrying you come to Gadsden. It doesn't af- feet people who live here. Many move here, and keep moving when they get here, but they don't move away.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
Just Cautious.

Birmingham Ledger.
 No woman has appeared in Birming- ham yet with a hoop skirt. Not that Birmingham women are afraid, but they want to see other people, with the things on first.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11

The warden of the Ohio penitentiary Is in the middle of bad fix. He has so many bankers and other high func- tionaries in his establishment that he idoesn't know what to do with them. He doesn't want to put balls and chains on them. or set them to work in the shops as he'would common thieves or. murderers, and he can't find enough nice intellectual jobs for all of them. But really now wouldn't the ball and chain and the stone pile for such men as Bigelow have a tendency to discour- age that brand of of criminality? Evil tdently 1t would. and 1t would be equal and exact justice If they were treated dust as other criminals are.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
Dangerous Precedent.

Huntsville Democrat
 For our Capital City to poll only 497 votes looks too apathetic and indif- ferent on the part of enfranchised citizens, and Is dangerous precedent for Democrats.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
In the Wings.
Birmingham

BIrmingham Age-HeraId.
 Secretary Loeb stood in the wings and played the role of Me Lud, thd car riage waits," while President Roosevelt performed stellar stunts In Colorado.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11

puts the case. ''the Machine is waiting
 for the popular indignation to die down." and then 1t expects to go ahead
 and consummste "the most outrageous
 steal ever attempted upon commun- | ity." The present eruption may be only
 spasmodic protest against the most
 corrupt body of municipal officials that
 ever footed . city. and may result in | nothing. In fact. we are almost ready | to endorse this opinion from the Brook lyn Eagle:
 Philadelphia stands today as q city which has given up hope for honest and efficient self-government. Decent, that there is no chance for a cleansing of the dens of vice and crime in the town, unless the miracle prayed for
 should yet be performed. Joshua com manded the sun to stand still, but the
 decent citizens have small hope that they can move the heart of Mayor
 Weaver and force Director of Public know that the gang which holds the city in its grasp has for its confeder- ates Presidents of great corporations and leaders of society.
 When a great city reaches a point where it is not fitted for self-govern- ment we have reached a lamentable stage in our political system. but it be- gins to look as if Philadelphia has arr rived at that condition. The newspa- pers of the city are making a. deter mined and manful war on the grafters. The Record. The North American, The Ledger-even the partisan Press-in onf al hn ternity of the city are standing to- gether in the effort to remove from power the corrupt gang now holding the city by the throat. They have both the sympathy and the active CO., operation of many good citizens and possibly they will succeed but the fight seems hopeless It really seems that the only way to free themselves from the looters is to adopt the plan some- times resorted to in the West in its early days. When the gamblers and the toughs became uncomfortable Wig ilance Committee would be formed and 1t would clean out the town. Such action in Philadelphia would be re- flection on popular government but 1t really seems that no other plan will serve.
 The question of party ought not to enter into municipal affairs, and good or bad government should not be mat ter of partisanship. but in this case it cannot be otherwise The city has been under the control of the Republicans for many years and under that control has grown the most shameless and corrupt political machine that has ex- isted in modern times. There is pos sibility that the present uprising may do good but the chances are against A.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11

The club women may lambast MT. Cleveland as much as they like but if the fish bites freely he can bear 1t with becoming patience.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11

If we may credit the reports, strike breaking and head-breaking travel to- gether on good terms in Chicago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11

X The Philadelphia Record has an ex- eeedingly hard time trying to keep dts opinion of Governor Pennypacker son straight. Occasionally 1t has a good word to say of him and before the ink
 dries we find one like this:
 By signing the ripper Governor Pen- Npypacker has discharged a heavy debt iof gratitude to the Durham Machine at 1he expense of the people of Philadel- Tohfa But gratitude like his largely Eonsists fin the anticipation of favors to rome Would 1t not be a gross outcome pf fhe ripper if this Executive tool of &he Machine should be transferred to line Bench of the Supreme Court of Rennsyiyania7 With what .pathos and buerilities would he not fill a volume of khe Courts reportsa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
FINAL SETTLEMENT NOTICE.

The State of Alabama, Montgomery Coun-
 ty. Probate Court, May Srd. 1905.
 Notice Is hereby given that Charles K Teasley, guardian of Ernest Hilda. Mary and Carrie TankersleY. minors. this day for a final settlement oT his suardianship of said estate. and that the 25th day ot May, 1905. has been appointed for saio settlement. J. B. GASTONs
 thu-3t Judge of Probats-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11


 v. g. Noble. Circulation Manager of The Montgomery Advertiser, being duly sworn. The foregoing statement of The Adver- ktsers circulation for the month of March, Aeo5. 10 true and correct and compiled after eH returns from news boys, news agents and Baft-over copies have been deducted. ,s E. s. NOBLE,
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 18th day of April. 1905. 4 F. w. JACKSON, k kSeaL1 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
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The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
MEXICAN PRIEST

The color line seems to have gotten itself all tangled in Chicago.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
JeIIxn,n Attitude EndOrne5,

In a letter received by Governor Jelks yesterday from John Craft. prominent member of the Mobile Com mercial Club and past President of the Southern Good Roads Association, one of the strongest approvals of the atti- tude of the Governor towards the un- sanitary county jaiis of Alabama was contained Mir. Craft congratulated the Governor for his recent condemnation of the condition of some of the tails when passing on a county report. The belief was expressed that if the people were educated to the actual squalid condition of many of the jails in this State. there would be general en- dorsement of the plan of working the convicts on the county roads.
 MT. Craft estimates that if the county convicts were put upon the public roads within a short time there would be hundred per cent improvement in their condition. This would mean that the farmers of Alabama, instead of having to pay 24 per cent for marketing their produce when they are on the average of ten miles from a railroad, would only have to let loose 12 per cent It Is estimated that the proceeds to the farming population on 1.50V,0OO bales of cotton in a year would be greater than tho net to the State from the min ing convict labor. This, too. says MT Craft, without considering the moral and physical, betterment of the prison CTS by the breathing of pure air and ex- ercise of muscles.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
FOJND

The quickest and surest road to good health has been found by thousands of sufferers from stomach. liver and kid ney ailments. They took HOstetter's StOmRch Bitters at the very first symp- tom and in 1t found the only remedy that could cure them. Every sick per son should follow their example It cures Headache, COstiveBess, Hndiges- tiOn, Dyspepsia, Sour Stomach, Liver or Kidney Ills and Female Complaints.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-05-11
Appreciation of Car Service.

who lives on South Lawrence Street,
 for the Traction Company to run through cars to Pickett Springs in time for the theatre at night. Many times my wife and I have wished to go out to some yof the parks at night when the weather is sultry and unpleasant on our front porch, but we did not like to take car at home and run the risk of having to wait some time down town In order to get one of the park cars. I have heard several persons speak of the Traction Company's move in rum other lines in order to keep the public from waiting down town, and they all appreciate the courtesy of the street car people"