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The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
MT. Roosevelt and the Democrats.

AS long as a republican President stands on a democratic platform I am with him." said Mir. Underwood, re- gently. "The democrats should do everything in their power to push bills favorable to inheritance and income tax legislation. If they wait for re- publican House and Senate to do it, there will never be any law dealing with these subjects"
 This is good doctrine and good sense It is horse sense. The new combine should get down to business, and do it's best to secure the passage of the two bills in question. The session is plenty long enough, and the democrats and the President can force both bills through. They should do it. As Mir. Underwood says, it is the one oppor- tunity to secure this desirable legisla- tion. The two proposed taxes can in fact be slipped into one of the appro- priation bills, and put through with small loss of time.
 The equalization of the burden of taxation is large matter, and MT Underwood rightly seconds the Presi dents propositions in favor of an in heritance and an income tax, and it is but reasonable to expect every other democrat in Congress to fall into line Both taxes are good democratic doc Urine, and MT. Roosevelt is fast becom ing a good democratic leader
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

agriculture is in sight and in hand, and that basis also affords promising op- portunity for industrial development, for cotton can be economically ginned, spun and woven among the cotton fields
 If the south makes the most of it's cotton crop both agriculturally and in dustrially it will grow rich steadily, and the mind almost fails to grasp the situation under such a policy fifty years hence. There will be no cheap lands in the south at that time There will be no decaying small towns, and southern cities and southern ports will become the pride and glory of the country.
 It will take just about a century from the civil war to bring the south tip tc it's full possibilities, although the work is we'll started already.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
The Poultry Show.

q have attended twenty-two poultry shows in all parts of the United States this year and can say without question that the show now being given by the Alabama Poultry and Pet Stock associa- ton in Birmingham is the best l have seen," said Reese V. Hicks, editor of The Industrious Hen of Knoxville, Tenn, yesterday.
 Some of the shows I have attended were in connection with large state fairs such as those in Ohio and Virginia early fine, but the one now in progress in Bir- mingham surpasses them in several es- sential points.
 .eThe general quality of the birds on display here is very far above the aver age The number of fine specimens is indeed remarkable and shows fine taste and superior skill in breeding and selec- tion
 "The breeding of fine chickens is one of the most fascinating sciences in the country and it is a business in which most every man is more or less in- terested. In the cities you will find hardly one man in every thousand who does not hope at some time or other to engage in the business of raising chickens.
 "The high standard to which the bus- ness has been brought is very creditable and it is one of the most profitable in which people can engage when it is pur- sued systematically and with due intel ligence."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
Loans on Real Ec'ate.

By vote of two to one the House of Representatives has passed bill amending the national banking law so that a national bank can make loans on real estate up to certain percent age limit. If the change works favor ably and smoothly no doubt the limit will be raised until the west and south of the national banking system. Here tofore Wall street and the spectators have taken the lions share of avail. able currency in the national banks, and the passage of a bill permitting loans on real estate will tend towards an equalization of the benefits that the national banks are in a position to be- stow.
 Heretofore it has been held that real estate is not quickly convertible into cash, and that it therefore is not an ideal security for loans. There may be some sense in this point, but real estate as a security has merits as well as demerts. It is safe. It is here to stay. It cannot run away. It cannot be watered in the sense that other securities can be. When its demerits are weighed against it's merits it is found that there is a balance in favor of loans on real estate.
 The west and the south decided in the lower house of Congress to end the Wall-street monopoly of loans, and to substitute system that is fair to all ito the farmers as well as to Wall street. The Senate should accept the House bill, and the bill should be passed before Congress adjourns with out day on the 4th of March next.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
President Spencer's Successor.

While Stuyvesant Fish or some other man of national reputation would have brought to the Southern railroad some strength in public sentiment, yet for all practical purposes and the plain opera tion of the system, the promotion of w. ". Finley to the presidency will prove the better. This is true because MT, Finley is to the manner born and bred, and because he knows the South ern, it's deficiencies and weaknesses as well as it's strong features. He knows how to cure in the long run the former and how to utilize the latter. l,
 The new president was born in Mis- sissippi, and there are no southern transportation problems and conditions that he has not studied. He has served, too, under James J. Hill. A Hill pupil whose sympathies run with the south will certainly fill the place held by the lamented Spencer acceptably.
 No section will applaud the new ap- pointment more than this district. Mr. Finley is well known here, and he knows this district. The directors of the big company made an excellent se- lection when they elected him presi- dent, and it is hoped that his new re. sponsibilities will not overtax his none too rugged health and strength. The double-tracking of the main line and the bringing of the entire system up to the level of the Pennsylvania railroad is no light task, but President Finley will accomplish it if his health per mits,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
SOME BIG MEN IN CONGRESS

Tillman down to the queens taste. Till man made a bluff at replying, but he had nothing handy to use except verbal bombs, and he likes Bailey too well to call him names or hurt his feelings. So he took his medicine. If the medicine had been administered by anybody else the patient might have made scene
 Senator Aldrich of Rhode Island is coming to Washington in fine shape this winter. He is in good health, and has just completed palace near Providence that would put Newport to shame. Peo- pie who say that Aldrich's grip on the Senate is loosening do not know the ways he keeps. He is stronger than ever. more resourceful, and more popular with his colleagues. As the tariff question seems to loom up senators of ordinary callbre turn to Aldrich as little chickens run to the mother hen. He is master of the finances and tariff schedules es--the only master there is
 In the House-well. Uncle Joe" Cam non is still on deck, so everything is lovely in the House. Several old-timers will sing their swan-song in the House this winter. Chief among them is Gen eral Grosvenor of Ohio-"Old Figgcrs," the only man in the United States who knows in advance what the people will do on election day. He could not fore see his own victory. but that was not his fault It wasn't there He will be joined in the journey across Styx by 'Jlm" Wadsworth of Genesee, N. r., man who owns a whole county, and still was beaten. Another who crosses the ferry is McCleary of Minnesota. the aboriginal standpatter His constituents did not stand pat, or he never would have joined the houesboat party on the Styx. Bigger than them all, among the singers of swan-songs, is Babcock of Wisconsin, who defed the Speakers lightning last session. and who was mor- tally hit in the heel by La Toilette
 But in the House will swing along, even with these great men gone. They will be there this winter and by the time another session arrives the government will have become accustomed to the prospect. So long as Uncle Joe Can non is on deck quorum is present, and the House is ready to do business.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
Chairman Mallory Here.

II. s. D. Mallory, chairman of the dem- ocratic state executive committee, IS m the city on professional business. Speak ing of the all important question of the races he said:
 'I do not agree with Governor Narda- man in his extreme views on the race question. He is entirely too radical. The matter needs to be handled with prudence and tact. The cities are more concerned with it than the rural or farming dls- tricts. Ii is the idle, devil-may-care negro or the negro who has been poisoned by life in the cities and about public works who is making this question burning brand that may lead to- terrible results. The negro on the farm is largely peace ful, happy go lucky fellow. He works all day, goes to a negro church and has no thought of hunting trouble or making trouble
 "The safety of social conditions demand that we do everything to hedge the negro about with good influences; that nothing be placed before him to stimulate his brutal instinct. There is entirely too much laxity and freedom in the places that invite the negro to patronize them. We need a stricter censorship over many such places.
 Although the negroes outnumber the whites from four to five to one In the Black Belt, very rarely is there the crime so common in and about Atlanta, for instance, laid at the door of the negro of the Black Belt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
DR. cRAPsEY.

From the Mobile Register.
 pr. Crapsey will lose nothing by his hersey trial. He is now a well adver- tised man, ripe for the lecture platform or the magazine field.-(Birmingh ham Age-HeraldD True. if we measure the doctors outlook in dollars and censs, but a curer of souls is not supposed to care for such things. We are of the opinion that Dr. Crapsey has lost much in being deprived of his ministry; also, that he is of the same opinion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
ALABAMA PRESS

Mobile Herald A profit is not without honor in many countries.
 Talladega Mountain Home: A dema- gogue can breed more strife in a week than a diplomat can settle in lifetime.
 Fayette Banner: Workmen are in de- mand in all parts of the country, but the procession of Weary Willies goes march, ing on.
 Huntsville Banner: Did you know that | Huntsville had two-ffhts of the cotton spindles of Alabama? our mills lack very little of producing one-half of the output of manufactured cotton of the entire state
 l Livingston Southern Home; The annual postal deficit promises to be smaller this year than last. Mrs. Sage's proposition to spend $S0O0O,0OO on the worthy poor may have stimulated letter writing to the ex- tent that the deficit will be reduced 1 Union Springs Herald: Mother Eyes wardrobe consisted of only a few fig leaves pinned together with straws and yet d St. Louis court has decided that 60 cents a year is not enough for the average woman's wardrobe of today. As the world grows older how extravagant our notions of such things become. Selma Journal: The renewed activity of the ship subsidy people and the efforts that they are making to have action taken on their bill at this session of Congress 1 throws some light on Secretary Roots long trip south It looks as if the Secre- tary was preparing to make that Kansas l City speech and rush the bill through on the wave of interest his trip and speech would arouse in South and Central Amer 1 ican commerce.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
STUNNED ASSISTANCE.

From the Washington Herald.
 Senator Platt ambled out of the capi- tol yesterday while the Presidents mes sage was being droned off by the reading clerk. The aged New York statesman was unassisted. Last year he was usually accompanied by man who helped him along. He made straight for a waiting carriage. A stiff breeze blew his coat tails wildly about, and his thin frame shook like a reed A capital policeman made bold to take hold of an arm of the tottering senator as he tried to mount the steps of the carriage and assist him to enter. Fiercely the New Yorker turned on the cop.
 What are you doing, sir?' snarled the senator
 a 'Only trying to help you in your car riage, sir" politely replied the bluecoat, with a tremor in his voice.
 Get away from mel snapped Senator Platt imperiously. T don't need the help of you or anybody else to get into my carriage"
 The policeman scooted back to his post.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
The Labor Question.

Edward BeGraffenried of Greensboro Is stopping at the Florence. lie was one of the most prominent and quite one Of the ablest members of the constitutional convention, having had no small part in framing the franchise clause. He said:
 "The labor and servant question is very serious one in my county. You know our people are very conservative Many Of them reside on the farms that have belonged to their families for generations We have been used to the tre/hed negro servant, even the second generation coming on since emancipation were more acceptable than the present day one. Then it is becoming a question of any servant at all. Why, a friend of mine tells me his wife employed otherwise capable servant who stipulated that she was not to be required to sweep the front porch or work in the front yard where members of her race could see her.
 ''The public works have drawn so much of the male population by high wages and ready money every pay day that q good part of the crops are made in my county by women and children. The con struction of the locks on the Warrior has drawn heavily upon the farms of Hale, Sumter and Green counties
 Phosphate in our county? Oh yes. We have deposits that are good to. scatter ever our lands, being very beneficial but l doubt if they are rich enough to justify their development upon commercial lines, such as the Tennessee and Florida beds
 .I an, vrau aatis6ad with inc workings < of the new constitution. The franchise clause has stimulated the matter of edu- cation Many men begin to understand that their children must be educated to not to be denied the right to vote"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR

From the New York Press.
 If no man has ever kissed girl you must not believe her.
 There's no use at all in being so mighty good that it makes everybody hate you
 A girl can fool man about everything exeept what she doesn't know about ath- cities.
 If people weren't so intent on picking out soft spots to land on they wouldn't fall down so much.
 Even if you only know one way, wo- man expects you to tell her you love her forty thousand different ways.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
PRESS POINTS

Charleston Post: Speaker Cannon has his colts trotting about the ring in good order already.
 Youngstown Telegram: One thing, Peary will be well prepared to stand the annual battle with the furnace
 Rome Tribune: Miss Ida Tarbell has gone after the tariff, which is an evil denee that it needs still further protec- tion,
 Richmond Times-D Dispatch: What MT. Roosevelt needs most Is a good corre- spondence course in simplified message writing.
 Atlanta Journal: A New Mexico editor broke his jaw yelling for his office boy. Thus the wealthy employer gets the lemon everywhere.
 Louisville Herald: When Worcester, Mass, placed Mark Twain's "Eve's s Diary" under the ban the pious towns people all resolved to read the book
 Savannah News: Baltimore fan-tan," !" says the Sun of that city, lis a game in which the dealer can always win" Some thing like promoting mining stocks, eh?
 Columbia State: Gentlemen who like to talk about the negro and his problem" should appreciate the blessing they enjoy by having been born in this day and generation.
 Washington Herald: Sir Thomas Lipton says "Americans make money in leaps and bounds" In Milwaukee and St. Louis they also make a good deal of it in hops.
 Knoxville Sentinel: Turkeys sold for cents pound in Houston Tex, the day before Thanksgiving Is this bid by Houston for an increase in population, extended to persons who love turkey meat?
 Memphis Commercial-Appeal: Seth Low recently paid into the treasury of New York city $27 900 of taxes which he found had escaped the taxgatherer. The aver age republican looks upon MT. Low as insane.
 Washington Post: The Opelika (Ala) Post plaintively remarks: "Whatever we want to buy is always up, and what we want to sell. is always down." The edi- tor ought to invest in an elevator, which will go up or down, as he prefers it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
This my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadne Making the green one red.
 -Macbeth
Japanese in Court.

The Presidents tribute in his annual message to Japan is richly justified by the facts in that country's remarkable development. He justly says that the Japanese have won in a single genera tion, on their own merits and by their own exertions, 'the right to treatment on a basis of full and frank equality"
 But San Francisco declines to do this, and the President actually threat ems that city and the state in which it is located with a free use of all the forces, military and civil, which he can lawfully employ.
 This raises grave question. Can q state be coerced and controlled by the general government when that states policy does not promote friendly rela- tions with other countries? The school issue in San Francisco raises the inter- national issue. It's oriental schools raise not only the color line, but also international friction, and the question is indeed both broad and grave. It is a serious pice of business to offend the pride and just desires of a friendly people, and it is a still more serious business to attempt to coerce a state in it's school policy, for example.
 Fortunately, the army and force are not to be resorted to in the immediate future. The courts will instead be re- sorted to in the hope that a remedy can be found in them. A case is to be begun in the United States to test the state statute which provides that chil. dren of Mongolian descent shall attend a separate school. The United States district attorney has been instructed to bring the suit. and until that suit is finally and fully decided Japan and the United States will not go to war, nor will California be coerced by force The appeal to the courts may end the controversy that has arisen.
 It may be proven in the courts that the Japanese are not Mongolians. If so, the entire difficulty disappears at once. A writ of mandamus directed to the school board of San Francisco sued out by Japanese parent, would soon settle this matter, and no doubt all the law applicable to the delicate situation will be ascertained and ap. piled.
 What the general government cannot do in state by bill in Congress fl cannot do by treaty. A treaty does not outrank a federal statute. There is nc occasion, however, for building big shpis or enlisting big army. Japan is not bit warliIe She feels hurt but she trusts to the course of justice President Roosevelt is of like mind and the entire subject is to be carried into the courts for full adjudication definition and adjustment. There it should be permitted to stay a while and the current war takers should be sent off to the nearest retreat for the Predetermined and obtuse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
A COMMON THOUGHT.

By Henry Timrod. Somewhere on this earthly planet
 In the dust of flowers to be- IT. the dewdrop in the sunshine
 Waits a solemn hour for me. At this wakeful hour of midnight
 1 behold 1t dawn in mist And I hear a sound of sobbng
 Through the darkness-hist! oh hist! In dim and musky chamber
 l am breathing life away: Some one draws a curtain softly.
 And l watch the broadening day. As it purples in the zenith.
 As it brightens on the lawn, There's hush of death about me,
 And whisper, He is goner'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

That Chicago professor who says that Christmas is a nuisance makes the annual bid for notoriety and should be put in a crate until the festivities are over.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
HALE, FATHER AND SON.
m the Boston Herald.

From tIt bUsIOH IltIdIU
 We almost regret that it was Hale Jr, instead of Hale, Sr., who advised college professors to find rich wives. It was up to the doctors best jokes-and he is no mean lhumorist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
DULL.

DULL. The times are hard for bards who sing On topics of the day. Since Packingtown has been reformed There's nothing more to say Anent the fraud of potted ham And potted chicken, too, And all the bogus labelling
 The packers used to do. The football heros had his turn, Count Bonis down and out Carusos little escapade's
 No longer talked about The trusts are singing rather small, Bill Hearst is keeping quiet, And Tillman hasn't time just now To start "cullud' riot Depew and Platt in Washington. Are greeted with smile As gentlemen too much abused And innocent of guile. "Clipt' spelling, too, has been dismissed, Some say unto the woods. For once great Teddy f1ickered in Delivering the goods. Save Santa Claus, the folks who stand Where beats the fierce limelight Are doing very little now To keep themselves in sight. There's nothing much to sing, so Will make my little bow, And in conclusion, won't you do Your Christmas shopping now?
 NOTIONS.
 Of all the conceit in the world the intel leotual kind is most offensive It is a small town that has no knockers, If it wasn't for trouble, cheer up poets couldn't make living.
 Woman is usually taken at her face value.
 It is good for you now and then to get a jolt that brings you back to true realization of your limitations. It is not the warmth of her clothes in winter time that keeps a woman com fortable, but the way they look. Any man is prepared to prove on short notice that nobody else ever had to put up with what he endures from day to day.
 PECULIAR.
 'Twould put a health fanatic Into a fearful rage
 To see the hearty reprobates
 Who reach a ripe old age. The eyes of the country are on MT. Hartman, yet he does not appear self conscious.
 A model in shirtwaist factory figures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07
About Persons.

Robert Jemison, Jr., left yesterday morning for Washington and New York, where he will spend several days on
 business. Col. Hugh S. D. Mallory of Selma, chair man of the state democratic executive
 committee, is registered at the Florence
 hotel.
 c. C. Whitson, a prominent attorney of Talladega, was in the city on bus mess yesterday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

Those 12-inch guns on the Dread- nought can stand but two hours firing, but by that time those guns would have no enemy short of the bottom of the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

Eighty of the Kentucky counties have gone dry. and the rest are leaning that way. The old Kentucky home is experiencing a revolution.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

The bright face of the Congressional Record, that spirited journal of the political metropolis, again greets us daily. May it long stay in our midst.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

A wise judge says that kissing on a porch is not criminal, even when there is no protecting vine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

Chairman Shonts' good American horse sense kept his daughter from marrying French duke.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

If you hear a strange new noise do not be alarmed-it is the whack of Speaker Cannon's gavel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

The trouble is the farm crops and the mine outputs grow faster than the car supply does.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

Some sporting supplements are prob ably printed in colors as a protection to newspaper readers who wish to skip them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

Mrs. Astor, the society leader, never speaks i'll of any one and never in dulges in gossip. What a tame life she must leadi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-12-07

Paris is scoring the Grand Duke Vladimir of Russia because he snored in box in a Paris theatre.