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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05

without precaution or restriction.
Meat unfit for European markets,
where there is a rigid inspection of
food products, were sold to the Ameri-
can consumer. Cattle too sick or
emaciated to stand, were slaughtered
and passed of for food. THE use Of
preservatives was universal and put
rid meat, which was sickening to the
smell, was treated with these preser-
vatives and put upon the market as
any other of the products of the
packers"
This is doubtless the kind Of canned
meats which during the Spanish,
American war General Miles called
"embalmed beef" Is there no end to
such greed; no limit to this sort of
commercialism? The packers resent.
ed this designation Of their products;
and were able with some official help
to discredit General Miles for this. 1t
is all right to get the best possible
law passed by congress on this sub
ject; and to have such federal inspec-
ton and supervision of the various
slaughtering and packing establish
ments, but federal jurisdiction over
a subject Of this kind is limited. For
it is only under the authority of for
efgn and interstate commerce clause
Of the federal constitution can this
subject be legislated upon at all by
congress. But because of the inabili-
ty Of separating these products which
enter the local market, from those
which enter foreign and interstate
commerce when he animals are
brought in for slaughter, the inspec.
ton and supervision of the federal
government could be made more thor
Ough and effective than. it would at
first seem possible. 1t is, however.
through state laws and regulations
that the public health can be best
protected.
The states Of Illinois, Missouri and
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05

Nebraska, which are the three largest
packing states. as well as all the 9th
er states should enact laws for the
inspection Of all animals brought to
the packing houses and of the meat
after it is slaughtered, and of the pro-
cess CT curing and preparing for mar
ket. The use of all substances known
as personal---very. particularly such
as tend to produce that character Of
meat known as "embalmed beef
should be prohibited. The states into
which these meat products go, as well
as the articlesput up by the packers
and known as by-products, should take
hold of the subject and under their
police powers enact such laws as win
protect their people from the selfish
greed, which daily puts in jeopardy
the public health and sUbordinates hu,
man life to the accumulation of
wealth. Here is a field for the exer-
else Of legislative ability by members
of the legislatures of the several
states, where great good would result,
and that member who would energeti-
cally enter this field could render hui
mainly most conspicuous and benef-
cent service.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
BUSINESS LAWS.
It Is a fraud to conceal a fraud.

It Is a fraud to conceal a fraud.
Ignorance Of the law excuses no one
The acts Of one partner bind all the
others.
An agreement without consideration
is void.
A personal right Of action dies with
the person.
The law compels no one TO do I'M
possibilities.
A contract made with a minor OF
lunatic is void.
A receipt for money paid is not le-
gally conclusive.
Signatures made with a lead pencil
are good in law.
Agents are responsible to their prin-
cipals for errors.
Each individual in a partnership is
responsible for the whole amount Of
the debts Of the firm.
A draft becomes an acceptance when
the party upon whom it is drawn
writes accepted" across its face and
signs his name.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05

William Jennings Bryan is in In
dia, but his boom is abroad in the
United States and making a growth
that must be surprising to any other
Democrat who is secretly harboring
a presidential bee in his bonnet.
The Democrats of Missouri. Ohio.
Connecticut and other states, east
and west. are beginning to sit up
and give notice that Bryan for 1909
looks good TO them. The farce IF
1904 at st. Louis and later at the
polls las left a bitter and revenge
full taste in the mouths of real Demo
Gratis all over the nation. 1t will not
be surprising, therefore, to find
Bryan's name applauded vOciferously
in the state and congressional Demo
one end of the land to the other.
Mr.. Bryan has grown notably more
acceptable to true patriots since 1904.
The radicalism falsely charged to
him in 1896 and 1900 was shown by
his actions In the campaign OF 1904
to have been. indeed, a real con-
servatism. Now that the currency
issue has been abated by Providen-
tial prosperity and the issue of i'm
perialism is no longer acute, it is
seen that Mr.. Bryan was both sane
and safe" as to popular rights and
the need for their strenuous legal
defense against the powers Of plu-
tocracy represented in the railway
and other industrial trusts of the
nation.
Since 1904 such revelation of the
power and corruptible methods of
the trusts have been made as have
convinced the body Of the American
people that Mr. Bryan was none too
advanced in his denunciations of the
public dangers embodied in them.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
Forest Reserves
In Florida.

"a large majority Of F4oridians viii
be pleased to learn that the govern
ment has set aside three immense
tracts of virgin timber land in this
state as forest reserves, and West
Florida is to be congratulated that
one Of those tracts is in Santa Rosa
county. The Florida land ofice mas
been ordered to take immediate a.
ton 70 reserve these tracts and no.
tics have already been published
Withdrawing the land specified from
entry except under the mineral laws.
The Jacksonville Times-Union Of
Sunday after stating the facts in the
matter, comments as follows upon
the action of the land department:
This action is based on the report
OF a special forestry reserve agent,
who was sent to this state some
months ago to investigate. in answer
to numerous requests. The reckless
inToads made into the magnificent
forests of the state have aroused
alarm in several quarters. The for
eSts are a source Of wealth, actual
and potential, but the extravagant
manner in which the present genera
ton is disposed to use up this
patTimOny bids fair to leave the state
a waste. If deprived entirely of its
forest or nearly so not only would the
attTactiFeness Of Florida be gone,
but her climate and fertility might
crrfFcw GHro cT-v ahonna TNha
is for education in forest preseTva-
ton, that We may not use up some of
our most valuable resources in one
generation. Our naval stores opera
tors understand that at the present
rate the naval stores business must
suffer eventually if something is not
done TO conserve our pine forests.
Florida lumber men are aware that
great as is the extent Of FIorida's
wooded domain. it is not inexhausti-
bic.
Some Of these will welcome a step
which promises conservation of our
forests. The agriculturist will re-
ceive the news with pleasure. For
est reserves serve as so many
scools in which the people are taught
how to use their forest wealth with
out wasting it, to enjoy without de-
stroying it. II takes many years to
grow a tree which can be destroyed
in an hour, but where it is necessary
to fell tree another can be planted
in its place and once planted it can
b. protected from destruction by fire
or other means.
This action Of the government
means that tho hidaOue pigbt ofl
gaunt trees lifting a few SCARED
limbs into the air devoid Of their
clothing Of fresh green leaves will not
be duplicated throughout the extent
of Florida. II means, too, that the
efforts Of some of our more far-sight-l
ed and pubHcspirited lumbermen
and turpentine operators to check
the ruthless waste OF our timber re-
sources will have the aid of the na-
tiOnal government.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
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"PLAIN JOE DIXON"
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We read much nowadays of news
paper English" and current Ian
guage," but we wish to remark that
the most graceful writer on the state
press today is the editor of the Live
Oak Democrat. And we'd like to
know his name.-Lake City Index.
There's nothing in a name, we are
told on high authority. The PERSIA
referred to is Just a plain, common
Hired hand, quite UNI llOwn to fame,
but immensely pleased to get so bril-
liant a compliment from a source so
capable and discriminating
Oak Democrat.
Well give it to you. Bro. Apple
yard. It L. Just plain Joe Dixon. His
remarks above betray his mOdesty
and at the same time verify your
statement. He is a man so or Go
years of age. has seen some of the
world, is large in frame and COM
handing in appearance, yet larger
OF heart and brain. His countenance
reflects that kindly nature that is the
best part of him; he is loved by all the
men folk, but for fear Of causing "un-
Gle Joe" some embarrassment, we re-
frain from telling what We know of
the esteem-that's tin which the
ladies hold him. He is not only a
graceful writer" but he is honest
and sincere-qualities which he cul-
tlvates and appreciates more, posi-
bly,, than any other merit of his writ
ings, as they contain the substance.
while the others named is only their
embelhshment-Perry Herald.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05

And now that Mr.. Bryan is to re-
turn to us from a world-girdling tour
in which he Is informing himself
thoroughly as to our International re-
latiOns with all commercial nations,
great men and great masses of the
people are looking for him to loom
large upon the field of political ac-
ton in 1908.
There is scarcely a man now living
in America who sincerely supported
MIR. Bryan in 1886 and 1900 who is
not eager to follow his leadership in
1908.
From present lights the only con-
tender of weight that would contest
his nomination two years hence is
William Randolph Hearst, of New
York. Mr.. Hearst made an excep-
tional showing against heavy odds in
the convention of 1904. He was
counted out of his victory. He is
now out for the governOrship of New
York state, with a chance TO COM
elected mayor of New York city and
bine all antiIRepublican forces in
that state and win the election. If
he does that he will be a formidable
candidate for the presidential nomi-
nation in 1908.
But as against Hearst, it is prob.
able that the eastern Parkerites will
swing to Bryan and give him the
Democratic standard to bear in the
next campaign.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
Delay IN Passing
the Quarantine Bill.

The necessity for prompt action in
the matter Of inaugurating national
control OF quarantine has evidently
been lost sight Of by congress, which
continues TO ignore the demands of
the south because Of opposition on the
part Of Texas, based wholly upon COM
mercialism. There are but few news
papers in the south that have not adj
vocated the passage of the measure,
and while some have been opposed to
Me interstate feature. with the ex-
seption Of those published In Texas
hey are practically unanimous in
heir advocacy of government control
u marine quarantine. The Jackson
vile Metropolis has all along strong
ly favored the measure and in q re-
cent issue had the following to say
relative to the delay OF congress in
passing 1t:
The southern states are becoming
anxious for the passage Of the federal
quarantine bill, long pending and ap-
parently forgotten by the congress
men. New Orleans. the most inter
ested city In the country, is calling
for the passage Of a bill providing
for federal control Of marine Quaran.
tine, II il cannot have the bill with
the interstate feature. Evidently
that city doesn't want the state or city
suthoT3ties TO have anything more TO DO
With quarantine maintained for the
protection OF that city.
The Savannah News voices public
sentiment in saying that what the
whole south wants is the bill which
provides for federal control Of both
maritime and interstate quarantine.
They know Il means the blocking OF
interstate passenger trafic and the de-
UtructiOn Of interstate commerce.
Whenever the fever appears in any
part Of the south all the low country
towns have TO maintain q quarantine.
Tue fever in New Orleans last year
cost Savannah several thousands OF
dollars. "A strict quarantine had TO
be maintained for weeks Thst,would
not have been the case IL all quaran-
tine matters had been in control OF
che national government.
The state rights idea is what blocks
the bill The fact that that idea
didn't prevent the Chattanooga con-
ference from asking for government
control Of all quarantine doesn't seem
20 have any weight with those con-
gressmen who are now holding up
the bill OF course, there are some
other minor objections to II, but they
could easily be overcome.
II seems TO US that the CHATTANOOGA
conference spoke for the entire south.
That being the case, congress would
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
Sharks Tail For Luck.

Attached to the extreme end Of the
bowsprit Of a sailing vessel there may
sometimes be seen a piece Of some ma
terial that looks remarkably like leath-
er. This seeming piece Of leather is
really a sharks tail. 1t is placed there
because the sailors think that it augurs
good luck. believing that pleasant voy-
ages will be their lot while it remains
there. Instead Of the bowsprit the tail
Is at times nailed to the top Of one Of
the masts.-London King.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
MEAT INSPECTION
BY GOVERNMENT
Montgomery Journal.

Pending the action Of congress on
the pill TO provide inspection Of the
slaughter and packing houses Of the
country, which are engaged in inter
state commerce, there was an investi.
cation Of the condition of these estab-
lishments in Chicago and the other
cities Of the northwest, where the
meat packing business is carried on
extensively.
The revelations are horrible. So
bad, indeed, were the conditions dis
closed that the publication, for none
tary considerations, have been post
poned. Indeed, it is said that some
OF the facts asceTtained are almost
beyond belief. Hogs died Of cholera,
or which had been smothered or
trampled to death during transporta-
ton. were rendered into lard and sold
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
A Further Word
as to the City.

Sunday morning The Journal out
lined in the best Of feeling and with
the best Of motives, a plan by which
the mayor, the board OF public works.
and the city council might solve the
controversy that has made all Of them
q subject Of more or less criticism
from the public at large The Jour
nails proposition was just this
DROP IT.
This method Of settlement could be
adopted by all parties to the contrO-
versy without any disqualification
whatever. II could be done consis-
tently and logically and gracefully,
with no necessity Of explanation OF
apology 70 anyone. Just simply
Drop u.
Why? Because it has all been
thrashed over and there is now NO
ISSUE in the premises whatever.
Since Sunday The Journal has re-
ceived some communications regard
ing the matter which. in the interest
Of harmony and for what it believes
10 be the best interests Of the city
generally, It must for the present de-
cline to publish.
If n should appear that the trouble
existing among the various members
Of the city government cannot be set
tied along the lines suggested, then
The Journal will open its columns to
q discussion Of the subject. But until
that time, The Journal will not be a
party to further friction in a contro-
versy which it believes can be settled
without further recourse to ill-advised
and unpleasant publicity.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
Aliens In Old London.

Here is a curious report Of the aliens
in London in the year 1867: There
being a great increase Of foreigners in
the city, her majesty ordered the lord
mayor to take the name. quality and
profession Of all strangers residing
within the city Of London" The list
was headed by the item, "Scots, 40"
Other nations were represented by
French, 42S; Spaniards and Portu-
guese, 10; Italians, 40; Dutch. 2,03O;
Burgundians, A; Danes, 2; Liegeois, l."
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
wOman,u Rieht. In burma.

The Burmese woman must make an
excellent wife. A Singapore paper says
that her highest ambition is to main
tain her husband in lordly idleness and
to supply him with abundant funds for
cockfghting, bullock cart racing and
gambling. And many Of the Burmese
women do big deals in timber, buying
up in advance the paddy" crops Of a
whole district, and so on, or a scale
that requires big financiering.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05

"Why don't you elope with herr"
But. good gracious, man, If you are
perfectly willing for me to marry your
daughter 1 cannot see any object to be
attained by our eloping."
"Can't you? How will it be II Of
fer you half Of what save on the we'd
ding ?'-Houston Post.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
A Biorrnphx 1n a Nut.hel1.

Born, welcomed, caressed, cried, fed,
grew, amused, reared, studied, examin-
ed, graduated, in love, loved, engaged,
married, quarreled, reconciled, suffer
ed, deserted, taken al, died, mOurned,
buried and forgotten.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
The Main Point.

''What do you think? That boss poll
ticlan says he has divorced himself
from politics"
Then I'll bet he secured alimony -
Baltimore American.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05

"Out late last night? What time
did the clock say when you got in?"
Il don't remember what the clock
said, but I will never forget what my
wife saidr'
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05

Common sense in an uncommon de-
gree is what the world calls wisdom
Coleridge.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05

Tainted money has been forgotten
Tainted meat now has the floor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-06-05
PENSACOLA, FLORIDA TUESDAY MORNING JUNE s. 1906

not make a mistake if it passed the
bill just as it is. The south is more
interested in the bill than any other
part Of the country, and is. TO be its
chief beneficiary, and the south has
said what it wants.
This summer is the time to put the
quarantine In operation, not next win
ter. The people Of the Gulf states
want no more experience like they
had last winter.
DeadwoOd Dick is dead, and the
Tampa Herald is of the opinion that
the messenger boys should hold a
memorial meeting.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-03-22

Keep the little ones healthy and
happy. Their tender, sensitive bodies
require gentle, healing RENE dies.
HOLSTERS Rocky Mountain Tea will
keep them strong and we'll 35 cents,
tea or tablets. Nick Doffing.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-03-22
THE eYpslEs.
They Are a Separate People, a Tribe
Quite by Themselves.

Quite by Themselves
such as wake OH the night and sleep
IN the day and haunt taverns and ale
houses and no man wot from whence
they come nor whittier they go So
quantity describes an old English stat
ute against the gypsies. Ever since the
year 1890 says Il writer in the London
Standard, Great Britain has tried to get
rid of this strange people without APP
preciable success. Every year OF so
some county is up i'll arms against
,, them, vet they persist in returning and
apparently thrive under persecution.
The gypsies are popularity supposed
to come originally from Egypt, as their
name indicates, but their origin is trac-
ed farther east than the land of the
Nile. Wherever they come from. they
are separate people, tribe quite by
themselves.
They appeared in England about
1903. and twentysix years later Henry
VIII. ordered them to leave the coun-
try in sixteen days, taking all their
goods with them. AN outlandish peo-
pie he called them The act was in
effectual. and in 1862 Elizabeth framed
still more stringent law. and many
We're hanged.
But what numbers We're executed"
says one old writer, yet notwith-
standing. all would not prevaile. but
they wandered as before, uppe and
downe." They got into Scotland and
became an intolerable nuisance. Both
in that country and in England leglsla-
ton proved quite Intellectual The acts
gradually fell into desuetude Under
George IN. all that was left of the ban
against the gypsies was the mild law
that any person telling fortunes shall
be deemed a rogue and Il vagabond.
"Gypsies are no longer a prescribed
class" says recent writer. Probably
the modern gypsy does little evil be-
yond begging and petty theft, but his
determination not to work Is as strong
as ever, and it seems curious that an
Industrial people like ours continues to
tolerate a horde of professional idlers."
How numerous the horde is may be
gathered from the fact that the number
VINO Wlntefeu In Surrey one year was
estimated mt 10000
The language as we'll as the life of
the gypsy tribe has a tcnacity of its
own. Many of their words have taken
firm hold in a half slang, half permits
sibly way. Shaver is the gypsy word
for child. Pal is pure gypsy. Codger
means Il man. Cutting up is gypsy for
quarreling, and cove stands for that
fe,,l.,w'
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1906-03-22
PEPYs AS A PLAYGoER.
The Time When Women First APP
peared on the English Stage.

The Time When Women First APP
peared Oh the English Stage.
In the methods of producing plays
Pepys' period of playgoing was coeval
with many most important innovations
which seriously affected the present;,-
ton of Shakespeare on the stage. The
chief was the substitution of women
for boys in female roles. During the
first few months of Pepys' theatrical
experience boys We're still taking the
women's parts. That the practice sur
vived in the first days of Charles Ills
reign we know from the we'll worn an
ecdote that when the king sent behind
the scenes to inquire why the play of
Hamlet which he had come to see,
was SO late in commencing he was an
severed that the queen was not vet
shaved. But III the opening month of
1861, within five months OF his first
visit to Il theater, the reign of the boys
ended. On Jan. 3 of that year Pepys
writes that he first saw women come
upon the stage Next night he makes
entry of boys performance of Il wo-
Hldll = l'iit. anu tiitt - tlic lllidl JeCoIu
of boys disappearing as women in
the English theater believe the prac-
tice now survives nowhere except in
Japan. This mode of representation
has always been great puzzle to stu
dents of EliZabethan drama. 1t is
difficult to imagine what boys iii
Shallespeare's day, if they We're any
thing like boys of our own day, made
of such parts as Lady Macbeth or
Cleopatra. Before, however. PepyS
saw Shakespeare's work on the stage
the usurpaton of the boys was over.
1t was after the Restoration. too, that
scenery, rich costume and scenic ma
chinery became, to Pepys' delight reg
ular features of the theater When
the diarist saw "IIamlct'' done with
scenes" for the first time lie was most
favorably impressed Musical accom-
paniment was known to prerestora-
ton days. but the orchestra was now
for the first time placed on the floor of
the house in front of the stage instead
of in Il side gallery The musical ac
compartment of plays developed very
rapidly, and the methods of opera were
applied to many of ShakeSpcare'S
pieces. notably to "'rhe Tempest and
"Macbeth Prom ''lepys and Shake
speare," by Sidney Lee, in Fortnightly
Review