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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

here he has been delivering at other places, and there was nothing new about 1t. We were in hopes he would touch on the child labor law. which he has been accused of trying to defeat when the bill was up before the last Legis- iature. but he let 1t severely alone He says that Dr. Cunningham is stand ing on the same platform with him. but that Dr. Cunningham's environments are such as to curb him in his efforts to bring about. the rate reform. He also criticised many Senators and law yers who he said were working Tn the interest of the railroads. but that he believed they were perfectly nonest' but their environments prevented them from doing their duty, etc, etc. Ihe Dispatch believes that notwithstanding Mir. Conner owns large milling interests and wants to make the railroads m Alabama haul freight at his prices. He also wants to create a prejudice among the people against the railroads by which he can secure the Governors office. We believe he is too drastic for Governor and that a more conser- vatiye nan should receive the nomi- nation. The Democratic party Of Ala bama is also the conservative party ot Alabama, and we should elect men that can see two sides of any question. He can carry forward his policy or rate reform, but at the same time have due regard for the interests of all concerned. Read the following from The Montgomery Advertiser carefully and you can see some of the things the railroads are doing for Alabama:
 "On the tax proposition we venture that every railroad in this State comes nearer paying taxes on actual valus than does MT. Conner on any property he owns. They were taxed for the tax year 1904-5 on over $54,000.000 or one sixth of the entire valuation of the State and paid thereon full State rate and to the counties and towns almost an equal amount. The amount Of their taxes to the school fund was over $150,000 and about $55,00O to the old soldier fund. They also pay a franchise tax of about $1S,000 to sup port the railroad commission, $3,500 of which goes to pay Mir. Corners sal ary. In addition to all this, they pay many hundreds of thousands of dollars annually for steel rails. tires, bolts and other supplies the money for which remains in Alabama. In fact instead of the railroads taking money out of Alabama they annually pay out more money in taxes, wages and supplies than their entire gross earnings will Aggregate. MT Conner. however. from his place as judge, condemns them as robbers of the people. and as taking millions of dollars away from them IunIawfulIy and sending 1t to New York and other distant points
 You weaken the arteries that supply blood to the human body. and the body will soon become sickly and die. Like wise you cripple these great arteries of commerce that are giving more life and blood to Alabama than all other forces combined (the railroads), and ere long there will be many empty din- ner pails and poverty-stricken homes.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
Common Carrier and Dealer.

Chicago Ir1Dune.
 A common carrier in interstate com
 meree must not engage in trade. A railroad which transports coal, grain and other commodities must not trifnc
 in them. That is the logical conclusion of the decision of the United States Su- preme Court in the Chesapeake and Ohio case. The principle Is sound one, and public policy demands that 1t be made a rule of action.
 The common carrier and the mer-
 chant do not stand on the same foot ing. The one carries on public and
 the other a private utility. The rates governmental control. and those of the other are not. There are potent req
 sons why the one should not be allowed
 to encroach on the domain of the other To the extent that the common carrier traffics in commodities, especially in those 1t transports, it places Itself out
 abled to evade with greater ease the
 laws governing the subject of trans
 If a railroad were to establish a gro1
 cery in a city it served. that store would
 have a manifest advantage over its
 competitors. The road could cut the
 freight rates on the goods It carried
 on it's own account and ofIer them Tor
 sale at prices which would drive com petinE stores to the wall. What would be true of groceries is true of coal. If d railroad were permitted to be both common carrier and buyer and seller of commodities, 1t would, as the Supreme Court says, be able ito concen- trate in it's, own hands the products
 which were held for shipment along its lines and to make it, therefore, the seller at the place where the products were to be marketed-in other words, to create an absolute monopoly" A railroad should stick to It's legitimate business. It should not attempt to be- come a dealer also, and thus combine functions which cannot safely be
 The decision in the Chesapeake and ohio case may pave the way for a sue cessful attack on the railroad monop- oily of the anthracite coal business so
 far as interstate commerce in that com modity is concerned.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
Better Than flaw Honesty, !,

New York Mail.
 Something more than new laws is needed to restore a social conscieuce to those seats of finance and com merce from which 1t seems to have been driven. The significance of the prevailing ferment in American life is that 1t is no longer deemed enough to be law honest" To rely on laws alone is to reduce the plane of social life to the level of the lowest common denomination. There are potencies in public opinion large enough to restrain the tempted man from profitable com mercial weakness. to hold back the rapacious man from his piraeies, to re- ward the man who under difficulties Is true to himself. One of the hopeful signs of the times is that these poten- cies are being organized. It Is going to be easier than 1t has been for men to be as square In their business of fices as they are outside them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
Enec.a of Annnpollu nnnlnr.

FNIIdUEIpHIM LBuS6E.
 Sixty midshipmen were deficient in their recent semi-annual examinations. The reason ascribed is that thev were in a state of mental perturbation over the courts martial and the chance of being forced to appear either as wit nesses or defendants. One ordeal was about as pleasant as the other That the young men could apply themselves to their books during this period of suspense was more than could be ex- pectad. The course Is so severe as to require constant diligence. The author ities are prolonging this suspense still, for a number of cadets are awaiting the verdict that is possibly to end their careers, while others know that they are in danger. for that the custom of hazing has permeated the academy thera is no question.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
CAUSES OF BUSINESS FAILURES.
Instructive Analysis of Last Years
 Comm mereiaI Record.

Austkuettve Analysis Of Last YeaE'a
 Commercial Record.
 Last year s,967 individuals, firms and corporations engaged in legitimate suspended business and failed to pay their debts. The number seems large. considering that 1905 was a year of general prosperity, but 1t is small when one considers that there were 1,352,94T concerns in business in the United States.
 Fraud is one of the constant causes of commercial failures, but it Is far from being the principal one Fraud never can be got rid of, but it does not appear to be making any headway. In 1909 the percentage of failure ascribed S6 and in 1905 1t was 9.2. If any re- liancs can be placed on percentages, the commercial world is not permeated with dishonesty; The public. which has, read so much about grating in high places. in pilitics and grand finance. may take comfort in the thought that dishonesty is not rife among the average business
 Only four of last years failures were dueN to speculation. That does not prove that speculation Is rare among men engaged in commercial occupa- tons. Probably there are many of them who are more or less speculative, but only four got caught. If there had been a panic or a sharp depression in values the number would have been much lar
 Incompetence and lack of capital are the chief causes of bankruptcy today, as they have been from the beginning. To them 5T.S per cent of last year s failures are ascribed. The man who has exceptional business ability can make a start with practically no capi- tai and score a success. Men of only average ability who are handicapped by the lack of adequate capital are likely to go to the wall. even when general commercial conditions are favorable.
 Of the failures of 1905, 2,42S were due to incompetence These failures cost creditors $10, 900, 900, that being the diff ference between the assets and lia- bilities. The failures due to fraud were less expensive, the loss 70 creditors be- ness incapacity rather than dishonesty against which creditors should be on guard.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
WHY KIDNEY DISEASE IS DANGEROUS.
Neglect of the First Warning Symp- toms Is the Prime Cause of so Many Deaths from the Dreaded
 Bflght's Disease.
It Is Easily Durable in the Early Stages.

Kidney diseases are so destructive to human life because they do not manifest alarming symptoms until the constitu- ton is seriously weakened and the strength exhausted. Then, too often, the remedies employed by many physi- clans are of indifferent or doubtful value, and the patient rapidly sinks under the disease. The wisest course is to apply reliable kidney and liver remedy on the fyst appearanee of the symptoms. A little uneasiness in the small of the back, digestive troubles, bowel irregularities ahd disorder in the urinary organs are matters of small moment in the estirua- ton of strong men and women, yet they have serious meaning. They show clearly that the kidneys are suffering and need help, which must be forth coming at once to prevent serious, per- haps fatal consequences. A few doses of Prickly Ash Bitters at this time would prove of incalcu1able value in restoring the weakened organs to health. An investment of one dollar in bottle oi Prick1y Ash Pitters when the disease is Yet in the eAly stage will save hundreds of dollars in doctors bills, besides ths suffering that would surely follows should the disease be allowed to fasten itself in the body. The excellent curative power of Prick1y Ash Bitters is not confined to the first stages of kidney disease. It iG equally eficacious in severe or chronic cases. Physicians have used it asa last resort, in cases that defed their best efforts, with the most brilliant results. and 1t has shown its superiority over the many so-ca1led kidney cures, now being loudly advertised, in instances innus merable.
 Accept no substitute. Insist on having
 the genuine Prickly Ash Bitters with the
 large figure in red on the front label.
 Sold at Drag Stores, SI.OO per bottIed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
Letters to The Editor
Not Here on Politics.

Editor of The Advertiser.-
 The inference to be drawn from the article in The Advertiser this morn ing, that I am in Montgomery because of the meeting of the State Executive Committee. Is errontous. The statement members of the committee about the plan to be adopted for nominating a Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court, is also a mistake. I came to Montgomery on the accom- modation train early yesterday morn ing to spend three days at work here, preparatory to the assembling of the Judges on March 26th TO consider pend- ing applications for rehearing. I spent the entire day in my office at the Capitol examining briefs and records, and I have conferred with no member of the Executive Committee about any plan or upon any other subject Ten days ago I stated had no plan and would in no way ys, seek 10 inhuenee Fhn the ment was sincere, and has been steadi- ly acted on by me, and l have uniform ly requested my friends not to seek to exert any Influence upon members of the committee in reference to their official action today.
 I said to them, however. that~if a movement was made in the committee for a primary election, 1t was my de- sire that the members rom Jefferson county should not oppose 1t. The fact is. that the seyenty-ssIgnt t sdgIM eie records in tions for reheartng that are pending, are engaging all my time and Thought; and these, with other duties that will he urgent for months to come, will give me abundant occupation during the present year. My candidacy, there fore from the necessities of the situa- lion will have to be looked after by those friends who are willing to sup, port me. This accords with my in- ciination. and with my conception of the position I now have the honor to
 am writing this in advance of the meeting of the committee and without having the slightest idea as to what it will do. .., r, 1,r..,-,
 Montgomery. March. l3th.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
RetrnrIng the Filinlnos.

New York World.
 The best sugar and tobacco senators alone could not have killed the Philip pine tariff bill in committee room. There was an obvious desire to make trouble for the administration. Malice and factional politics stand out all over the committees vote.
 For three years Secretary Taft has advocated the bill as a mere matter of justice to the Fillpfnos. President Roosevelt has lent him every assis- tance. The Fllipinos have -sbeen en- couraged to believe that their rights were to be respected at Washington.
 Year after year they have been put off with falso promises. This last set- back, after the pledge made to them by benevolent lmperialists, must appear downright treachery. It Is bound to have harmful effect not only on Fill pino trade, but, more important, on Filipino sentiment toward Americans.
 No less will 1t shake confidence at home in the succes of our experiment in foreign sovereignty when the petty politics of the senate produces such a miscarriage of plain justice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
rhe Lnst of the he'd Conts.

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 During the present week the last de- tachment of British regular soldiers left the Qualifications at Halifax and with their departure all the military property at that stronghold passed in to the possession of Canada. A month hence the Qualifications at Esquimalt on the Pacific side will also be turned oyer to the Canadian government and thereafter Canada will be entirely free trol, Whetreh the bond between Can ada and the mother country will be weakened or strengthened by this im- portant change in their relations IS a duestion on which opinions differ in both countries.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

nately insurgent, and it's probably on ly question of time when they will become simultaneously insurgent.
 The truth is that Roosevelt has about the most obstreperous Congress on his hands that any Republican President has had to contend with. Some of the strongest Republicans in both branches of Congress appear to take delight in crossing his trail at every opportunity. They are fast learning that he isn't quite the perfect man they once cop- sidered him.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

In noticing the return to savagery of an educated negro minister of Tusca- ioosa. Ala, who on a visit to Africa dis carded civilization and clothing and married a native woman The Talladega
 AS The Home has said before, it is the influence of the white man that holds the negro in this country as high bee6 be 5He able % to, not climb up, but be drag ged up. In the case under question, with all restraint removed, the negro followed, the natural bent of his char spotsp
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
supertluous Advice.

One of our contemporaries in- dulges at great length in an editor- ial on How to Spend the Public Mon- ey." Strikes us that advice along this line is entirely superfiuous. If we ever have any public money that really needs spending we apprehend there will rise some genius equal to the occasion of devising ways and means for its ac- compliShment
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
Comer's Platform.

Tuscumbia Dispatch.
 Hon. B. B. Conner, candidate for Governor. spoke at the court house Monday night to about l5o of our lead ing citizens, who gave him marked and careful attentiont The position of Mir. Conner on the railroad rate ques- tion naturally attracted considerable ir, terast on inc part of our people. MT. Conner delivered about the same speech
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
Remedy la navy.

GadSden Timee-NeWs.
 The Hearst scare in New York Is not downed yet and will not be until the underlying cause, corruption in high places, is removed. If Hearst and his gang of socialists succeed in capturing the state government New York win have nobody to blame but her own crowd of high financiers. The remedy is easy if it is only applied.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
lives Sherlock . Chance.

MODIIe heEISLGE H 2
 The underground electric railway of London. popularly called the Two Baker street. This gives Sherlock Holmes other means of transportation than the inevitable cab in which Con- an Doyle places him every time he leaves the Baker street lodgings.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

Connecticuts two Senators. both of whom are Republicans. seem not at all afraid of the administration. As The Hartford Times expresses It.
 MT. Brandegee was one of the sen- ators who helped administer knock out drops to the Philippine tariff bill and who had no mercy on the feelings of the administration.
 MT. Bulkeley now mounts the in- surgent band wagon, and he ruthlessly joined in kicking the joint Statehood bill--an administration measure-down the back stairs.
 Connecticuts two senators have al
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

People who have been drinking cof- fee regularly for seventy or eighty years will not be much worried over the assertion that 1t is kind of pois- on and that people should avoid it's use.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
no whom It May Concern.

CIyue, IN. 1.,1 IimeA - This is to certify that my wife, Eliz- abeth. formerly the Widow Wild.) Is too wild to be steered by my compass, but one of her own making, and as she has the devil for her pilot she has ale tered her course and steered away from me, so that I will pay no debts of. her contracting after this date.
 Richard Jenkins.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
Looks Gloomy.
Huntsville Tribune.

Huntsville Tribune.
 It seems that in the case of repre- sentative from Madison county that the office will have to seek the man: This Is very near impossible in case of a primary. A convention might com script some good men and thereby save Madison. Otherwise-it looks
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

By the change of one letter con- temporary made q sentence read: "A mess s-meeting of Republicans was held at the city hall last night" Reading the account of the performance, we conclude that it wasn't a bad mistake, for 1t was a mess.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

The statement that Judge Hamilton will make clean breast of 1t" may be taken with a large grain of salt We don't believe he can make a clean breast of anything.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

Anthony Comstock called Hugh Cor don Miller a liar. Miller replied by putting comstock's nose and both eyes out of business. Miller is New York lawyer from Virginia, and knows how to deal with Comstook's kind.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
The Papers Do It.

Congresses and courts and. councils only record the doings of the press. The news paper is the chief agency of reform. What the newspapers accom- plish in the cristalizing of public sen
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

D. S. Noble Circulation Manager of the Montgomery Advertiser. being duly Sworn. says:
 The foregoing statement of The Adver- tiser,s circulation for the month of Janua- Ty. 1906, is true and correct. and compiled after ali returns from news boys. news egents and laft-over copies have been de- ducted. ID. S NOBLE.
 Circulation Manager. Sworn to ana subscribed before mo this 18th day of February. 1906,
 F. W JACKSON. |.
 Notary Public
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
A Bad Argument.

BITnIn8hAm LedEer.
 I It is a bad argument that a man
 should help keep the peace by going ment that g nation is helping the cause of peace by having big army Land a big navy, If Germany did not have that big army and navy today. there would be no menace to the peace
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
No Word fo Fit.

Birmingham News.
 No doubt President Roosevelt views the conduct of the senate in its attitude towards his pet measures with feeling of being unable to find the exact words to do justice to the situation.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

Taking 1t by and large. we don't think our President is winning many games from Congress.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
SIDEWALK PENcINGS
pfark.-.,..~,,. ,Tlk suppTy

MonfEomery's Milk suupiy.
 In a recent bulletin Of the Unlted state Department of Agriculture, com: piled by Prof. c. F. Doane., special agent of the Bureau of Animal Indus try. the following report on Montgom- erys milk supply appears:
 .Montgomery has a very thorough milk inspection and stringent laws governing the sale of dairy prouucls. The milk is required to show 50 per PCT are taken from every dairy about every week, the dairymen are forced to live up to the requirements of the law very strictly. The writer saw . tostod tos of sam7 ana it was a matter of some surprise to note the relatively high per centage
 The dairy inspection includes the herds, stables, and yards. All cows milked for the city supply. are requir- ed to be tuberculin tested. and must be furnished well water or water from reauired to be whitewashed and cob. webs swept down; and a number of stables that could not be kept In good condition were condemned. Practical- the retail trade are kept outside of the city limits with plenty or room. Some have pasture and many receive green feeds In the summer. The mum Der of cows kept In the city IS said 10
 Most of the milk sold h the city is bottled. and part of it is cooled at the time of milking. the rest being de- livered warm. Two deliveries per day are made and the milk IS but a few hours old when it reaches the consumer The city seems to be get ting all of the milk required for the demand: some cream was shipped to Pensacola.
 Montgomery has a very good milk supply-as good or better than will be found in the greater number of cities of the same size in the North. This. Is largely due to the activity of the tn- spector, and to the support the law of- ficers give him. The only faults that can be found are with the keeping of {amily cows in the city and the deliv- cry of warm milk"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
Died Of old Age.

It took several years to get Greene and tGaynor back into this country
 for trial, and the snaiIs pace making in their trial at Savannah indicates that both will die of old age before
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
What State Papers
 Are Saying
only One:

One editor i1s Alabama comes to Bir. ningham regurlarly to have his finger nails manfcured. but out of considera- ton for his family his name IS witn-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14

Judge" Hamilton once said that all most a million and a half dollars of insurance money had been placed at his disposal to be used for legal and legislative expenses" Now that he is back here and may be put on the wit ness stand, we suspect there are q number of quaking hearts lest he tell who authorized him to take the money and who got 1t.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-14
ADMINISTRATORS
 NOTICE

Notice is hereby given that letters of ad- ministration on the estate, of Harry Winter deceased. were on the srd day Of January ion, Judee of Probate of Montgomery Coun57 ty All persons indebted to said estate VIII make settlement with me. and all persons holding claims against said estate must pre- sent the same within the time required oT ''"' ' ~ B. S. GREIL. Administrator of the estate of Harry Win-
 ter. deceased.