The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-05-14
ALABAMA PRESS

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 Marshall Banner: Cuba seems to be sell
 us all of her products and buying most
 of her goods in Europe. Thus does reel | procity get twisted.
 | Marion Standard: In republican circles
 "the man with the dough" is received with more consideration than 'the man
 with the muck Take.''
 | The Greenvlle Living Truth: The great problem of the age is how to harness the
 mud singing capability of Vesuvius to l the Panama canal route.
 | Pine Belt News. The fire chief of St. | Louis says he could save that city in case of earthquake and fire Now let us
 hear from the other fire chiefs. Attalla Mirror: Captain Hobson was one of the worst hazed men who ever went | to Annapolis, it is said. His experiences | there will doubtless prepare him for his term in Congress.
 | Tri-County Weekly: The United States l Senate is still talking over the rate I bill. The senators do not seem to mind | the time and money they are wasting which belong to the people. Franklin Times. The President sent a
 message to Congress last Friday in which he exposed the methods of the oil trust.
 But will not an investigation of the oil
 trust prove to be a white washing?
 Mobile Register: Dent county, Missouri. starts the campaign for 1908 by endors- ing MT. William J. Bryan for President.
 This Is to be three times and out for William, or three times and at last In.
 Talladega Reporter; There were four lost or rather found children reported to
 the Birmingham police on Monday, and no circus in town either. Their mothers
 were at that Methodis' meetin, doubt less
 Carrollton Alabamia n Herald: If Gen.
 w. T. Sherman has been as, backward
 about making a tour of the south as his
 son, Father Thomas Sherman. the his
 tory of the southern states would not con-
 tain quite so many dark pages.
 Andalusia News: And now comes the
 statement that Congressman Bankhead
 will make the race for a position in the
 United States Senate. Bankhead would be a credit to Alabama in any position
 that he might. be willing to fill. PrattviIle Progress: Missouri has a new law which makes it prison offense P,I1 ,f hi property for taxation. Such law as that in some sections of the country would , necessitate the rapid increase of jail fa- | ciities.
 | Gadsden Journal: A Weary Wtifie' would be a curiosity in Gadsden these
 days We havn't seen any of the species | this year. The cty's reputation for pro- viding work in abundance has gotten
 abroad and the Sons of Rest" have taken
 alarm and cut us out.
 i Scottsboro Citizen: There is no political I excitement whatever in old Jackson-not l even a ripple on the wave. Our people are
 busy, and don't care a whipper snapper
 who is the next governor of the great | commonwealth of Alabama. The serenity
 of our auietude is beautiful to contem- l plate and behold
 | Lamar Democrat: We see that a num-
 Der of the state papers are urgently so- licitng Hon. John Fl. BanShead to enter
 the race for alternate senator. We see | no reason for his entering the race just
 now, but if he should decide to do so the | T " u,ii1 oix 1 him a majority vote
 Mobile Register: If Manager Conried
 brings non-union chorus singers from Eu-
 rope, all of the chorus singers on this
 side will declare the Metropolitan opera | house an unfair shop and then every
 body quits, including scene shifters. scene painters, carpenters, calcium light
 operators and musicians. Now Conried
 knows what he has to do.
 Hartselle Enquirer: Such gafbled reports | as were sent to the daily papers from | Decatur, purporting to be facts in the | ''Entriken murder-suicide mystery,
 should be roundly condemned by the
 readers and those newspapers which show
 so little regard for truthful statements
 in an effort to produce sensational news | should not be read.
 | Limestone Democrat: The attempt of | many to belttle the ability of Captain | Hobson is mistake. He is undoubtedly | an able man, of wide information and I there Is every reason for believing that | he will make the Sixth district aggres-
 sive, valuable representative. At any rate he should not be condemned before giv- ing him an opportunity to demonstrate | his fitness.
 Selma Journal: Looking through the pa | pers of the state each week shows very 1 clearly that Alabama is getting awak- l ened on the good road question. Nearly | every county seems to be wrestling with | the problem When all Alabama puts its
 mind upon a question there is bound to
 be A good solution arrived at sooner or 1 later It will not be many years before
 splendid roads will wind in and out of our | hills and valleys and happy children fol- | low them to neat school houses. prosper ous farmers drive their wagon loads of | products over them and old time com | fortable country homes dot the landscape 1 along their borders.
 THE BOYS BANNER. The Bows Banner, published by the Alabama Boys Industrial school at East