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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
SATURDAY. JULY ., 1908.
A RATIFIED CONTEMPORARY.

In The Birmingham News of a few days ago there was an editorial at- tempt to clear MT. Comer's record of the obioquy of child labor fin the mills, and a part of the article is as follows:
 No one would have any. child work on farms, in store houses. in offices. less necessity required. If the logic Of The Montgomery Advertiser and rne Mo6iis e hsrsid as,s,d were followed ,,a to be another cotton miil built In the state of Alabama, great many fami- child would do Anything but play The wild talk of the Cunningham papers is demagoFv. pure and simple.
 It Is positively discouraging when . prominent newspaper like The News resorts to such unfair reasoning as that. The editor of The News is too we'll informed not to know the vast difference between working in the air and sunshine on the farm and work ing in n cotton mill, and that differ ence is immensely greater whens the workers are children in the formative period of life. Except in rare in stances children are not oyerworked on the farm. and that work is health full and invigorating. We speak from the record and from personal obser- vation when we assert that no mode of life for boys will do more to build up q strong. healthy and vigorous manhood than a life on the farm. And we speak from the same standpoint when we say that there is no occupa- ton in which boys and girls can en- gage that will do more to dwarf them in body and mind, and to discourage and dishearten them than confinement in the close and vitiated air of a cotton mill. We are persuaded that the editor of The News knows all this.
 But the latter part of the extract is the most astonishing statement that we have ever known to come from a reputable newspaper. The assertion that there would never be another cotton mill built in Alabama without child labor, that ca great many fami. lies would be without clothing and food" and that mo child would do anything but play Is so utrerly absurd that we are almost of the opinion that the office boy must have written it. Surely the responsible editor of The News couldn't write such puerile stuff as that.
 There is one feature about the course pursued by our Birmingham contem- porary that we fail to understand. In almost every copy of the paper we gnd the assertion that MT. Corners nomination Is a foregone conclusion: that he will be overwhelmingly nom mated; that Dr. Cunningham stands no possible show of success, and other boasts of like nature. Either The News Is whistling to keep its courage up or 1t believes what 1t asserts. If the former is the case we can under stand it. for we have seen such per- formances before. but if the latter Is true. we can see no possible excuse for using such plain travesties on ar xument as we have quoted. If 1t Is sure it's candidate Is secure it ought 10 cut out all ridiculous statements and be sane in its arguments. Evident lv The News is rattled.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
IN A BAD WAY
 AND CAN'T EXPLAIN

vented ffom making himself clear: and that the assembly was disorderly and ss not ys h a the sa2R DaRot6uaassy to aecsvs of time when he was allowed to speak sbst space of tiRns there was Gun. the close of one of Mir. Corners peril ods, and was not an inserrnpdsion; d c, an ana ] ued. without outside interference What he did do, was to interfere with his own speech; for he shouted bc,,s gsstierls, srn,, side to side of the stage. turnd his back upon the audience. addressed him self excitedly to pr, dnnanr!s Guaan,n!sn9am. 9scs and so misconducted himself that nis speech was in large part unintelligd.pi save to the persons in his imsneqna.e tha hane and qparter he did not explain him- self. nor did he appear to give attenss ton to any but the one issue--that q rsilroad rates t Tas a,a aa1ufa not expect na any any further enlightenment ..,... ais not esS%s pr csnniqgsam gs, ans iY says onSs repiM to MT. Conner. the audience lost it's patience, and would not listen to Mr Corners rejoinder. .- Possibly. MT comsr mere. reeefyea se ths last. t. planation of his position as to ccnvict labor, as to child labor and as to pubic education But we submit, that It was his own fault that he did not express
 We are told by Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy that In 1903, when the Alabama child labor committee attempted to get legislation protecting the children oI the State, the chief obstacle they had to contend with was Mir. Conner. Had 1t not been for MT. Conner more per feet law would have been enacted. :.
 .Mr. Conner has seemed to me the most bitter opponent of child labor leg islatiou that I have ever known.
 Tn the absence of any proof to the contrary from MT Conner. we accept
 What we want in this state is <, a Governor who so greatly favors the protection of children in the mills that he will openly clearly, unmistakably. alo Governor who will enforce the law as it stands on the statute books.
 Is Mir. Conner likely to be such Gov ernor if elected to that office? We ap- peal to the facts. Do they give us any reason to believe that he Is the man for the oficef
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
Letters to the Editor.
Card from SIr. Martin.

Editor Advertiser:
 Your editorial of today under the ceives the opinion which gave to Mir. Conner upon the constitutionality of the act of the last legislature amending Chapter 96 of the Code. Evidently, the writer of the editorial as well as the enquirer had not read the opinion but drew his conclus- ions from the head lines as prefixed to that opinion in The Advertiser of roneously indicated that the election law was not valid and that the se- lection of railroad commissioner was void for the failure of the journal to show conformity with constitutional Journal. entries relating to the Ras- sage of the act approved Feb. 2S, 1903. amending Chapter 96 of the Code. General Acts 1908, pp. 95-10y.) quoted certain authorities thought to bear upon the question and conclud- ed as follows:
 Tn my judgment the conclusion is inevitable that the said act purport- ing to amend Chapter 96 of the Code Journal to afirmatively show com pliance with the provisions of Section 62 of the Consultation of Alabama, 1901.
 the fact that the election of railroad commissioners by the qualified cleo tors of the State was and Is provided for by Sections 24, 25 and 26 of the 1903. General Laws 1908. pp. 44s, 450 J"
 Therefore. if the courts should hold that the act amending Chapter 96 of the Code was not constitutionally en- acted, the railroad commission would be left with such powers and only such powers as were conferred by the Code of 1896; nor would the holding of such amendatory act invalid affect In any manner the election of the railroad commissioners as provided for by the general election law above cited.
 T beg to add that I was not ems ployed Ito invalidate" the act in question, but to investigate and give an opinion upon it's constitutionality. This did without regard to any paf- tieular result,
 W. L. Martin.
 Montgomery Julv 6 1an6
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
STICKING TO IT.

The Presidents letter to the State- hood Association of Arizona Is anoth- CT evidence of his mulishness and as- sumacy. At the beginning of the ses- sion he made a peremptory and insis- tent demand that Arizona and New Mexico should be admitted Into the Union canjointiy with Oklahoma and Indian Territory. Just why he took this position nobody has ever rightly understood. His published reasons were anything but satisfactory, but he adhered to his position with the perverse pertinacity usual with him. |s9e was ably seconded by Speaker Cam non, and for time 1t seemed that Statehood for any of the Territories would fall. but when 1t became evident that Congress was determined not to do Arizona the gross injustice of yok- Ing 1t to New Mexico. President and Speaker backed water and graciously permitted one State to be admitted and then took credit sto themselves for the act!
 Tn his letter reprinted in The Ad- vertiser Thursday the President reiter- ates the same spacious arguments he had used before In his efforts to con- vince the Arizonians that that 1t Is to their interest to yoke themselves up with the half savage population of New Mexico. Such union Is repugnant to the people of the former Territory and 1t is not to be wondered at. There is little harmony between the citizenship of the two Territories. and a forced union between them would be an out rage.
 One feature of the Presidents let ter is not easy to understand. That is where he tells the people of Arizona that If they let this chance for State hood escape them if will be many years before they have another oppor- tunity to obtain 1t. This is a thin1y yelled threat to them that they must comply with his orders or stay out in- definitely. We can see no possible ex- cuse for this threat or warning. We fall to Understand why another Con- gress will not give them a chance to come in when they desire 1t, and we fail to see why another President should not be as Nilling to admit a new State as Roosevelt is.
 The President evidently wants to have tho credit of bringing another state Into the Union and is trying to bring 1t about by what can only be looked on as a threat It Is virtually telling them that they must accept the present opportunity or stay out in- definitely. It Is to be hoped that the Arizona people will absolutely refuse the terms offered. Better to wait un- til their members will remove all req son for refusing to admit them as q single State than vote for an enforce ed union which they abhor, Their fu- ture happiness and prosperity doesn't depend on Roosevelt's approval of a Statehood bill, and they can come in- to the Union when they are thorough ly ready without hurrying themselves to please him or comply with his un- reasonable advice.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
MR. CoMER's POSITION GOES FROM
 BAD TO WORSE. {.

The Advertiser in this issue publish es a letter from Hon. W. L. Martin explaining his recent opinion to Pres ident Conner of the Railroad Commits sion with reference to the unoonsti- nationality of the Railroad Commission Act. The Advertiser has no criticism of Mir Martin whatever. He had a perfect right to earn a fee and is no doubt sincere in his opinion. It Is a remarkable situation. however, when the head of any state Department who has taken an oath to support the con- stitution and laws of Alabama should be employing an attorney to give an opinion which the law makes 1t the duty Of the Attorney General to give. free of charge. Evidently MT. Conner was not willing to risk the opinion of the Attorney General or he would not have gone to this outside and un- necessary expense. Now that Mir. Co- mer has two opinions upon this sub ject. one given by the sworn officer of the State. and the other given by his own attorney, the question Is. by whose opinion will he be governed? If he is governed by the opinion of Mir. Martin. then every oficiai act of his, including every order made by him Is absolutely null and void. and he should certainly make no further orders un- der the new law approved in 1903 and hereafter act under tho old law.'which gives him merely advisory powers.
 To be consistent. If the new law is
 unconstitutional he should certainly resign. for surely MT. Conner is patri- otic enough not to draw a salary Of s3,500.00 per annum and be the mere dummy and figure head which he says the Commissioners were under the old law. The truth Is. that Mir. Conner has made so many promises to the people which he could not keep. and which he knew at the time he could not per- form. that he Is almost frantic in his effort to find some excuse for his fail- ure. His first excuse was that the fixing of rates was matter for legis- lative enactment and that. therefore. he could do nothing Ills second ex- cuse was that the Associate Commls- sioners would not join him in orders granting relief. Being driven from both these. he now takes the position
 that hc can do nothing because the law which created him and which he himself was largely Instrumental in getting passed Is unconstitutional Now that the Attorney General. the law officer of the State. gives 1t as his opinion that the law is constitutional
 The Advertiser is sereneiy watchig
 Tor MT. Corners next kaleidosccpic changa.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07

Mobile Register.
 While MT Conner Is devoting himself to the dear people and seeking to pros tect them from the railroads by getting ssr Sowsd with vi m power s to D make eis tSe rsi sh roads squirm. the Cunnin gham men are asking him for his warrant as "a public protector. They lind that In these s@a ss sot ss as an oppressor of the people If as he. had been liberal and just; that he and that he had a heart for the trou- ready to take him at his word and be-
 desire sxs ee so bsnet s the dear people, and md not. as some. assert, that he. Is pushed vancing his personal interests.
 iiehteSsd wn as to ss Mr comers % H Views VI s on br. Gunninsham told the 'a sassssm6iy s If T6s doosor hs sa aie onsned MI IRis h tsrms hs m to 0 state yict labor in the mines. shild labor \ In spread p of f education in Alabama. Nor did he fail to declare himselfright on the railroad rate question. Then he said that Mir. Conner presented noth- lnK put the u&nt bii tHt- NdtttVNo1s e .iN already he had proposed one after the other three ways of bringing the rail- roads to terms, yainly seeking to hit upon something that would meet with public comnfendation.
 Mir Conner did not answer this crfti- cism, or, if he attempted to do~so. it was in a manner so excited and voice pitched so high. and with an utterance so lacking in control, that he could n or be understood by the audience. We think 1t was the duty of this candidate for public office to so deport himself. as to command the attention of the public; to express himself soberiy- and rea- sonabiy on great issues and to make his hearers Understand his position iEi respect to such issues Instead Of so doing, he addressed himself to pr Cunningham, ranted and even shrieksd his sentences, shook his finger In the doctor's face and srf ned desircus of making noise pass for argument.
 Perhaps. the stenoEraphie report may show that MT. Conner said he would take the conviGts from the said he abhorred the idea of working little children in the mills What we know is that although seated inime z iiately in front of the. stage we did not
 Some say that MT. Conner wes pre-
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
TODAY IN HISTORY.

Nams day: Edelbnrga. Sun rises at A:39; sets at 7:2i.
 152o-Battle of otumba; the retreat raea in by yhe or tha re solved to halt and risk a battle. The Tlascalan allies were of iEcalcuiaDle service to the mained and wretchcd to resist the whole Mexican force, de- termiued not to leave trace of the Spaniards upon the earth This battle formed prodigies of vaior. and wore tho masses of Mexicans and struck down the chiefs wh sn they began to down alt before them with the a,Tls thrown away by the fugitives 154e--The inhabitants of Providence, forty in number. united in forming a civil government, after their own mod d.
 1e47-Thomas Hunter, an English dissenting divine. died. He emigrated thence to America, and settled in Amer lea. In 1647 he removed with his whole congregation to the banks of the river. the town of Hartford He was risid Puritan, and man of learning and talent.
 under Count Fronten1c left the Island of Montreal to invade the country of The Five Nations with 8 great army. The expedition was unsuccessful 1777--Action between the United States frigate, Hancock. thirty-two guns. Captain Maniey, and three Brit ish ships. under Sir George Collier. The Hancock was captured; she wanted up- wards of sixty of Ter complement. they being on board her prize, the British frigate Fox. which was soon after re- captured.
 i77s-British under Governor Tryon plundered and burned at Fairfield, Corn, two churches, eighty-two dwell ings. ffty-five baras, fifteen stores and fifteen shops; and at Green Farms. one church, fifteen dwellings,, eleven barns and several stores, and sailed thence to
 i7s4-Fort Dauphia, santo Domingo, entered by a negro, Jean Franccls, lieutenant in the Spanish army, wNh the white French, about I'll in number. The town had bean delivered to the Snaniard for protection. conditioned that the negroes should not be permit ted to enter it.
 i797--Congress declared the existing treaties with France no longer ooliga- tory.
 ant General of the armies of the Uni ted States.
 fs0s-san Domingo surrendered to the British and Spaniards. 1sI4-The United States troops under Major General Brown attacked the British at Chippewa: the latter retreat. ed, and in the evening the Americans occupied their works 1S9S--An extension of the armistice at Santiago de Cuba granted in order that non-combatants may leave the city and to permit the Spanish com mander to communicate with Madrid in regard to equalization. General Miles left Washington for Santiago de
 is05-Elihu Root appointed secre- tary of State to succeed John Hay.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
Gentlemen, EsquireS and Gents.

Chicago Record Herald.
 London Answers gives us some inter esting information concerning gentle men. In a recent issue it says:
 The London College of Arms, whose business 1t Is to decide who have the right to bear arms. has had occasion to point out that no one is, strictly speak ing, q gentleman unless he is a Gentle- man of Coat Armour. An exception has been made in favor of solicitors, who are gentlemen by act Of parlia- ment. Gentlemen of Coat Armour are men who are entitled to bear arms and have either been actually granted coats-of-arms or whose forbears In the direct line were granted them.
 Gentlemen, then. are comparatively scarce So, also, are esquires. The eldest son of a knight is an esquire, direct line of decent is also an esquire but not even the second son of 'the knight himself has a right to the title of esquire"
 Coats of arms are not granted to people in any retail business. nor to 8 man who has not sufficient money to educate his sons as gentlemen Very careful Investigations are made on these and other points before granting coatS-Cf arms
 The last paragraph of the quotation is especially interesting, as 1t explains for us why men who run saloons may not aspire to such social distinction as Is often claimed by wholesale liquor sellers, So, too, We may find here an eXplduallon or the Tact that man who sells meat over the counter Is persona non grata in the social circle that is ornamented by the one who disposes of the products of his sausage factory in bulk.
 The ruling of the London College of Arms leaves us no esquires at all. but we need not be seriously concerned on that account We have no use for the word esquire except in the mater of addressing letters, and if the time ever comes when we shall be deprived of the privilege of employing 1t in that way we can doubtless arrange 1t so that each of our governors may expand his stan for the purpose of making us all eolonels. The London College of Arms ness We could wish. however. that it would furnish a ruling on gents. " Something authorattve on the matter seems to be much needed in this coun- try
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
Perll ln Hard Phy.ieaI TraInIng.

SpringfIeld, MASS, RepuDIIcan.
 The collapse once more of an oars man at the end of a big race Is likely to raise again the question of the de- gree of beneft and injury in the more strenuous athletics. Training for big race inevitably involves hypertrol hy of the heart; whether in the long run this Is likely to be benehcial, harmful or neither has not yet been clearly shown But there are frequently cases where the heart, though not diseased, is not quite up to the work and even where there Is no apparent lastia< i'll effect the conditions come dangerously near the point of disease and in tested cases 1t has been found to be months before normal conditions are restored.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
How ts Professor Prayer.

ManhattaI1, Kan, Republic.
 Kansas university professor seat ed himself at his dinner table and bow ing his head, started, Dear Lord, we thank" when the telephone bell rang. He went to the phone. had a short talk with the calling party and returning to the table. bowed his head and made another start. Three words we're per mitted to issue this time when ting a-llng" went the phone and the perform ance was repeated He made the third and fourth attempts to say grace, only to be interrupted by the phone, Al the. fifth trial he seated himself at thu table, reverently bowed his head and in stentorian tones believed; "Deal Lord, hellot"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
RI FIT w o o D
BROKEN REFLECTIONS,
Br PHIL H. ARMsTRo N @

We can give but we can never for- get.
 A girl isn't antagonizing the union because she is partial to open work. He who shouts his good deeds from the house tops keeps his evu ones In ' %@% When a man can not see any good in people he isn't likely to consult an oc- ! culist.
 pie try to use It for an ink eraser.
 ms. o-,. :. 4 a.a,,. .,o !. : show us S05aa oar n fauts s @ oSHR ooSRensg 4V as sa 1 they were showing us the sights of their home town.
 Some people are like roosters--they all the credit of other peoples work. ! This life Is mostly made up of peo- tc do something better than their pres ent vocation.
 Pathetic. songs would be sadder if they wernt so eSmical, q $ Il l Wouldn't you call Boxing Meth cd" a scrap book? i q E g The dog catcher is eyed with suspi- cion these days; | A girl may have neck like marble but we'd rather call 1t powdered mar M sag When a man grows cynical regarding women you can put 1t down that he has been kicked by one. e
 Poets sing about liquid" warble but the only one we eyer heard came
 x < ~ c ''' If you want to make wall-hower bloom. get her to talk of herself. so few will get one thing and stick
 When . man has high opinion of 1 himself there isn't much danger of him coming down any.
 A man never growls when he gets whI.skey makes the world go
 %@& It's too hot to write poems of pas- sion--crushed ice is more attractive to use Just now 'nsn < StsSne0 x hearts .a.s aayff yeS y.!Hs found any of those dead ssa Ss The ThankfuI Brother. | Ans mighty glad An don't live in de | city--'deed An am- Whar you don't know if you'se eatin' cat croquetts or rotten ham On Ans 1, hsah hsai to des inform you dats To eat beef whar's you'E puhsonIy Acquainted
 Wid Ans never been ambitious for toe taste l dat city grub | Dough dem rank awdashious city coons | do git to me de snub--- | But And druther do ma eatin' in q country town, vow Whar de meats good. 'kase you's puhs-
 Acquainted
 Wid
 'sWhewG So Can We!n
 First City Man--Are you going away | for the summer?
 Second City Man-No, I can get all want right here. The 'THOme-sish." Sometimes when, you're sitting kinder lonesome like and still, And your thoughts go traipsin' back ] across the city to a hill. I And an old house sittin' on it that your
 tired heart seems to thrill? That's the Home Sigh" | At evening when the twilight gently | hovers OCT the town And the arc-lights prick the gloom that
 seems upon your soul to. frown, Don't they seem somehow like light | enin' bugs a-fiittin' all aroun's | That's the Home Sigh" Don't you ever hear the laughter of the boys and girls at play? Don't you see yourSelf among 'em- than all the rest more gay? l Don't you sometimes feel heart-ache that you've all gone far away? That's the Home Sigh"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-07
CUNNINGHAM DATES.

Lieutenant Governor Cunningham will address the people at the follow ing times and placess
 Geneva, Tuesday morning, July 10. SlOcum, Tuesday evening, July 10. Columbia and Ashford, Wednesday, July II. Four appointments in Coffee county July IF and 13.
 Troy, Saturday morning, July IA. BrundIdge, Saturday evening, July