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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

ard oil, because by unfair or unlaw.
full methods it has crushed out home
competition He desires that the ele-
ment Of competition should be re-
stored to this country.
The President bases his special
message to Congress largely upon a
report made by Commissioner of Cor
porations Garfield upon Standard oil
affairs. Mr.. Garfield finds that Stand
ard oil monopoly is now more due to
cunning determinations than to plain
rebates-discrimin that tend Ito
give control of markets to the pre-
ferred shipper, and makes monopoly
possible These determinations are
set forth at length in Commissioner
Garfield's report, and whoever wishes
to grasp the complex problem SHOULD
read it;
The transportation discrimination is
taking the place of the familiar rebate.
Both are full of all possible secrecy,
and the widespread discrimination is
apt to be exceedingly complex. Com
missioner Garfield endeavors to eluci-
date the difference, and he arrives at
last at the conclusion that ANY
freight discrimination, whether it be
state or interstate, makes monopoly
possible" This is the gist, the crux,
of the message of the President, and
of the report of the commissioner of
corporations.
The man who attempts to make wa
ter run uphill has light task along
side the man who endeayors to put
an end to the efforts of railroads to Sc
cure business by clever offers TO ship
pers. James Rudolph Garfield cannot
do it, even if he be the son of Pres
ident. The question is clearly one of
the most difficult and important that
has ever come before Congress.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
THE LUCKY kANSAN.

From the Emporia (Kan) Gazette.
These days of volcanoes and earth
quakes the Kansan looks at his occasional
floods, and sometimes droughts. and al
most forgotten grasshoppers with a COM
mendabe liberation The season may go
dry or it may come wet: there may be
little hollow horn among the cattle, and
a few chinch bugs, in the wheat the wind
may blow the title to the land over in
the next county, now and them or the
droughts may shrivel the coupons on the
mortgages once in while. but after all
Kansas is a good place TO live in. The
Kansas farmer can snuggle up to his
quarter section without seeing it begin
to turn fip-fops. and even though the
cyclone may gallop along and remove
a few of his goods and cnattels, the wind
brings him enough of his neightbors'
household goods on the lower so across
the creek to start housekeeping. And al
ways there is a chance to slide into the
fraid hole, and let the winds blow and
the storms rage. But am earthquake turns
the 'fraid hole wrong side out and shakes
its occupants down on the under side of
It, Kansas is A mighty safe place for
a man to live in. 1t has its drawbacks,
but the earth doesn't buck when you
tickle 1t in the tanks. y
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
NED BRACE TALKS OF UNFORTUNATE AFFAIRS
AT HOME AND OTHER MATTERS OF INTEREST

Birmingham Is not a frontier town and
the lawless element who carry pistols
should be made aware of this fact i'm
mediately
During recent visit to Washington and
New York I heard much political talk
and some sentiments expressed of a very
practical nature. In the first place. the
democrats are in very good position to
carry the national House of Representa-
tiyes at the November election.
The republicans have much division
among themselves while the democrats
are gaining strength in the east and mid
die west. The best opinion among demo-
cratic leaders is that the House will be
largely democratic next time. A num-
Der of republicans in private conversation
with me expressed the same opinion.
As to the next President it would seem
at this time that Secretary Taft will be
the republican nominee. He has made
hlmseIf very popular within his party
and is apparently the choice of republic
cans in Congress.
As to the democratic nominee, sena-
tor Joseph W. Bailey of Texas is prob
ably the most talked of man at the pres
ent time. Bailey's speech on the railroad
rate bill is said to have been the great
est speech made In the Senate in ten
years. 1t attracted the attention of the
practical and the educated in all sections
of the country Even the republican lead
ers of the Senate pronounced it thorough,
conservative and able in the extreme.
Now why should the democratic party
not nominate Senator Bailey as its next
presidential candidate? He is young
man, has had no war experience, be-
cause he was too young, is broad-minded
and is national in every sense of the
word.
In the democratic party there is no
ADLER nor more conservative man. Though
one of the youngest democratic senators,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
Alabama Brenau chautauqua.

Dr. Fl. NJ Du Bose, general secretary
of the Epworth League, and a prominent
delegate to the general conference now
in session here. will preach the COM
mencement sermon of the Alabama Bren-
au at Eufaula on May q.
Dr. H. j. Pearce, president of the Bren-
an, came up from Eufaula yesterday for
the purpose of extending the invita-
ton.
"Dr. Pearce is planning a radical de-
parture from the traditional form of COM
mencement exercises" said an educator.
INSTEAD of a commencement, the Ala
bama Brennan chautauqua will be inaugu-
rated The exercises, embracing lectures
oratorios, plays, recitals. will occupy a
full week, two to three events each day,
extending from May % to May 30. These
exercises will be held In large tent
which will be spread In the middle of one
of Eufaula's most beautiful streets.
prominent among those already as
signed places on the programme are Gov
ernor felix's, John Temple Graves, DIR.
L. G. Broughton, Harvie Jordan, Otto
Pfefferkorn, August Geiger, Miss Eda
Bartholomew and Mrs Catharine New
som Jewell
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Pulpit Orators.

The Rev. DIR. w. ]. Sparkling, who is
attending the Methodist general confer
cree as a fraternal delegate from Canada,
is said to be an exceptionally forceful
and magnetic preacher. He will be heard
at the First Presbyterian church at the
II o'clock services today.
"Of the many notable pulpit orators in
Birmingham at this time, few can be
compared with DIR. Sparkling said lead
ing Methodist divine. by the way, speak
ing of great preachers. We are all hop
ing to hear Bishop Alpheus w. Wilson be-
fore the general conference adjourns. lie
is a prince of preachers not only In the
Methodist church, but in the world at
large. He has no superior anywhere.
Bishop Wilson is one of the few divines
who can deliver a long discourse and not
only hold his audience but have every
one regret that it was so soon ended.
Short sermons have come to be the
fashion, but II all preachers were like
Bishop Wilson, churchgoers would be
sorry to have the discourses condensed
into a half hour
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
Rate Bill Compromise.

Except Senator LaFollette it is ex-
pected that every republican Senator
will support the compromise rate bill.
About one hundred amendments are TO
be voted on, and the bill will not go
back to the House until the latter half
of the present week.
But the sole serious contention re-
lates to the right of the courts to re-
view any rate order of the interstate
commerce commission. The Senate
majority proposes to vest that right
in the United States circuit court,
thus cutting out the Humphreys of
the federal system, who are one notch
below the circuit court.
A rate established by the interstate
commerce commission is to stay In
force until set aside or suspended by
the circuit court in suit brought
against the commission, the suit to be
brought where the complaining car
rier has its principal operating Office.
1t will thus be seen that the quick
injunction is confined to the circuit
court, and that it cannot be brought
into action at all until suit is brought
against the interstate commerce com
mission, upon which is thus thrown all
expenses and responsibility of litiga.
ton. Senator's Aldrich, Elkins, Fora
ker, Kean and Crane have accepted
this amendment, and the republican
reformers have done likewise with the
exception of Senator LaFollette.
ANS compromise is due to a desire
TO deprive the democrats of political
capital in connection with rate legis-
lation. The republicans will claim that
the rate bill is a party measure, and
they will deny that Mr.. Tillman or the
democrats had any hand in giving it
form and substance. 1t is to be put
through both Houses and is to be-
come law with the name of the party
in power stamped on its face.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

TT Is indeed unfortunate that the
bishops and the delegates to the gen
] eraI conference OF the Methodist
church in this city should have been
treated to the news of one of the many
shooting and killing affairs which have
occurred in Birmingham during the past
several years.
Naturally this unfortunate affair brings
up other recent shooting scrapes in Br-
mngham. by which men have lost their
lives on the public streets and in some
of the many saloons Of this city 1t gives
this town nothing less than a horrible
reputation to the outside world.
The time has come for the good people
of Birmingham to get together and bring
about radical reform.
Much of the lawlessness Of Birmingham
is due to the fact that the law against
carrying concealed weapons is not en-
forced In hardware stores and pawn
brokers' shops pistols are displayed in
the public windows. and there Is no re-
striction whatever upon the sale of these
deadly weapons. Men buy them and boldly
walk out on the streets with them in
their hip pockets or wear them concealed
about their persons. No record is kept
of the men who buy pistols. The police
department apparently has no informa-
ton on this subject. Yet 1 would venture
the assertion that every police officer,
and every other officer OF the law In Biz
mingham and Jefferson county, has very
distinct ideas as to the names of num-
bers of men who regularly go armed, or
course, their excuse is that they cannot
walk up to a man on the street and search
him for concealed weapons. That may be
true, but it does seem that the recent
tragedies here should so arouse public
sentiment as to cause the absolute en-
forcement of the law Immediately.
1t seems that no mans or womans life
IL safe on the streets of Birmingham. Men
innocently waiting for street cars receive
bullets from pistols of two men attempt
ing to kill one another.
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he has assumed the leadership M the
party on the floor of the Senate. In him
every democrat has confidence and for
him every republican has respect The
only objection that can possibly be urged
against him rs that he is from the south.
Now why should the democratic party
be securing the east and the west for
democratic candidates for the presidency?
In the past we have been looking for
men who can carry doubtful states be-
cause they hail from those states, and
yet we have failed to carry them We
have placed ourselves in absurd attitudes.
The people of these doubtful states have
lots more respect for an able and con-
servative man from the south than for
man from the north who does not rank
either as man or statesman with the
one from the south.
The time has really come for the demo-
cratic party to assert itself and select its
best man.
II any democrat can carry New York, or
any of the doubtful states, in the next
election, Bailey of Texas is the man, be-
cause the people of those sections have
confidence in his ability and his courage.
The Comer-Cunningham contest for the
governorship of Alabama seems to be
rocking along easily, and is practically
without excitement. DR.. Cunningham pro-
poses soon to make things warm for his
opponent.
That's really what the people want to
see. They, want more joint debates and
full and thorough definitions of each
mans position on every subject
AS a matter of fact, as both men come
from Jefferson county why shouldn't they
have a joint debate here? This is really
the place for them to start the life in
the campaign.
lohR,,r,uo
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

Gadsden Times-New Vesuvius isn't
in it as mud thrower compared with
the Tennessee gubernatorial candidates
Opelika Post: One of the theologians
says 90 per cent of the sons Of rich men
are worthless. This is hardly fair. Most
of them are nobly helping to keep money
In circulation
Sheffield Standard: Congressman Rich
ardson will not be candidate for alter
nate senator. Judge Richardson has a
sure thing" in this district and has de-
cided to stay by it.
Talladega Reporter: And now come the
prophets and Projectors who promise all
kinds of new earthquakes for the Pacific
slope. These, our office boy stoutly de-
MES, and we prefer to believe the office
boy!
Clayton Record. 1t is said that a
shower of hen eggs fell like rain in a
place in Missouri not long since. Moth
ing new in that we have heard of show
ers of eggs on cheap politicians and bum
actors nearer home.
Selma Journal: Birmingham is doing
itself proud In the way 1t is receiving
and caring for the Methodist general con-
ference. The press of the city is CIV
ing it very fine write ups and in doing
so is winning the gratitude of all people
interested in church work, regardless of
denominations.
Montgomery Journal: Democratic pros
poets of success brightens in proportion
as discord grows In republican ranks. Be-
sides the campaign contributions, in the
future will not be plentiful This shutting
off the supply of the cash from the
trusts and insurance companies is hard
blow to the G. o. p.
Florence Times: Young man, the Times
has in the past advised you to buy Ala
bama dirt, and is now convinced 1t was
sound. The day is approaching when a
man of moderate means will not be able
to buy farm of the size that now ex-
lists. Conditions are changing and the
value of our soils is becoming more ap-
preciated. So, young man, we again adj
wise you to buy land, enough for home
II no more The investment is safe
one.
Selma Journal: w. NJ. Drennen. for
merly Mayor of Birmingham for three
terms, and well known to Selmians, has
announced for the nomination for senator
from Jefferson county. He puts four
plank in his platform; an increased ap-
preparation for Confederate soldiers, the
enactment of laws for the Improvement
OF the public school system. regulation of
freight rates and the granting of power to
the counties of the state by a vote of the
people to issue bonds for road building.
This platform is in line with the senti-
ment of the people of the entire state
and Mr.. Drennen will no doubt make it
lively for his opponent for the place he
seeks
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
Crowded Stree cts.

Il have lived in Birmingham several
years and have often remarked the large
crowds ON the streets. but the congestion
on the sidewalks in the business dis
trict this afternoon was the most notice.
able yet SEEM" said citizen last night,
The jam was so great on Second avenue
and on Twentieth street that I had to
take to the middle of the road. The
crowd on Third avenue was also large-as
large as we used to find on Second ave-
nue.. This is good sign. of course. but
the city should provide at least ten more
policemen TO keep the sidewalks clear.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
BACK TO THE ASYLUM!

BACh IL 40 l<C VI
Il don't believe this foolish talk
About the country's ruin,
| don't believe all men are bad
And revolutions brewin'
The millionaires are pleasant folk,
John d. an honest man,
While all the merry magnates do
The greatest good they can
The game of politics is clean,
The Senate most upright,
The kindly railroads are at work
To make our burdens light.
| know no rascals in the land
But lots of noble men
Who turn their hands to charity
And donate now and then.
Why, Theodore Is rather tame
With money Sage is free,
know a public place for books
Not built by Carnegie.
think the women ought to vote,
l like to hear them talk.
If one should run for President
Shed win it in a walk.
Chicago Is the sweetest town
That ever mortal saw,
Where couples never are divorced
And all obey the law.
There will not be another strike,
Since corporations kind
Will pay enormous salaries
And workingmen won't mind
l think the food we get these days
Is pure and very fine.
know the poetry is good
And read it-every line.
In truth. I'm satisfied with life
And very proud of that.
To do ones duty Is great fun.
And work is never fiat"
The man continued in this vein
Till folks began to scott
And then a chap In uniform
His keeper-toolS him off.
A man who is speeches. but can neal
has just been married to woman VINO
can talk but cannot hear. The usual DO
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
n the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
Boys would have lot of fun getting
scrubbed in the bathtub if their mothers
wouldn't let them.
When she dresses like rainbow and
looks like faded bouquet it is a sign
she is on her honeymoon.
A pretty sure way not to get rich is
to make easy money at the start so as to
think you can go on doing it.
A man would have TO know an awful
lot about constitutional history to make
up for not understanding baseball rules
II. woman is jealous about her hus-
band 1t makes him madden than a hat
ter, and If she isn't he's terribly suspi-
cicus.
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About Persons.

DR.. George W. Randall of Blocton Is
stopping at the St. Nicholas.
r. H. Cobb of Admission is registered
at the Morris.
w II. Rogers of Mobile is at the Metro
politan. a
f. T. Tissier of Selma is at the Metro
poitan.
John W. Murphy of Admission is regis
tered at the Morris.
L. Fl. Whatley of Ashland is at the
Metropolitan. a
Chancellor j. H. kirkland of Wander
bilt University was entertained informally
at tea last night by DIR. and Mrs. w.
Thompson Berry
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
Marion Military Institute.

The graduates and the council and COM
mons of the Marion Military Institute
have issued invitations for the finals, May
10 to II. inclusive. Addresses will be de-
livered by Edwin A. Alderman, president
of the University OF Virginia and Edwin
b. Cralghead. president of Tulane Uni
versity. 1t is coincidence that each
of the orators is an Edwin They are
distinguished educators. and are greatly
esteemed throughout the country.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
Odd Fellows Coming.

''rhe Grand Lodge of Alabama, indie
pendent Order of Odd Fellows which con
venes in Birmingham next Tuesday Will
bring about go visitors to the city said
a member of the organization. THE or
der has been popular for many years and
now 1t Is growing faster than ever. Odd
Fellowship appeals especially to men OF
moderate means. The initiation fee and
the degree fees are light compared with
some of the benevolent societies. The or
der has done much to relieve distress and
its beneficence is far-reaehing.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
A PETITION TO TIME

By Barry Cornwall.
Touch us gently, Time,
Let us glide adown thy stream
Gently-as we sometimes glide
Through a quiet dream.
Humble voyagers are we,
Husband, wife, and children three;
Zone is lost-an angel, fled
To the azure overhead.
Touch us gently, Time,
We've not proud or soaring wings;
Our ambition, our content,
Lies in simple things.
Humble voyagers are we.
Ger life's dim. unsounded sea.
Seeking only some calm cline,
Touch us gently, gentle Time
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
NO RAILWAY.
Erom The Philadelphia Press.

From the Philadelphia Press.
perhaps you had some experience in
the old country" said Mrs. Hiram Often,
interviewing a greenhorn girl. Now.
how were you trained across the water?"
"Oh. ma am, tbs jokin' we are giggled
the girl There's does be no trains.
was shipped across"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
Standard Oil and MONOPOLY.

The Presidents message relative to
Standard oil, the sugar trust, and like
monopolies, will attract wide atten-
ton. He especially assails the Stand
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
CRANKISM.

Chew your food until you flag.
Exercise and punch the bag.
Sleep a lot-don't disspate.
Don't eat much don't stay up late.
Do not drink or smoke at all.
Heed the gym. directors call.
Do all this and you'll be strong
What's the use? We don't live long.
Should folks follow all the rules
Made by cranlxs and other fools,
Life would be so great bore
We'd long for the other shore.
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for self-asertion the man of more
policy than pride is always at hand to
urge postponement for four years
more. and so the south goes on doing
great deal of voting but no nominal.
ing from It's own ranks.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

The report that Grover Cleveland has
lost thirty pounds in weight gives rise to
the suspicion that he is working for
waist
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

do men admire short skirts?" asks
Irene Gardner. Not so much the skirts,
Irene, as the view which they permit.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

Dan r. Hanna wants to be an angel
merely in a theatrical way, however.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06
MAKE THE BEST OF IT.

Don't dream of what you'd like to do,
My wistful little man.
But hustle out at break of day
And do the things you can.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

Senator Clark of Montana has had
enough of the Senate and will retire. He
goes stuck full of banderilos and punctur-
ed by the darts of pert photographers.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

New Workers. no longer need deposit
their money with bartenders, for it has a
bank that is open all night.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

Have you 1922 in your clothes? Well.
we haven't either, altho it is the per
capita circulation.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

The standpatters are preparing to give
up taxes on alcohol. hoping in that way
to satisfy the demand for taxation re-
form, but the effect will be directly con-
trary. No republican paper defended the
second march through Georgia.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

The Standard Oil company begins to
see that monopoly cannot fool all the peo-
pie all the time.
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Judgment by shooting should be done
in sequestered places, and then little harm
would be done.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

James Hazen Hyde is in Paris quite OBJ
livious of the fact that he builded better
than he knew.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

The constitutional democrats of the dou-
ma are caucussing and looking for re-
suits. A good beginning.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

Stanford university, built to resist
earthquakes, fell. while the buildings near
1t. built in the ordinary way, were not
seriously damaged.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

The case of a book agent who offered
town lots as premiums merely shows TO
what extremes book agent will go in
the spring.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1906-05-06

May Twins press agent says he can
prove that she has received a vaudeville
offer of $4,000 week. He'll have TO do 1t.