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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
Letters to the Editor.
Advertise Our Water.

Editor The Advertiser:
 The thought has often occurred to me that the most effective method of furtherinE our 1910 expansion idea Is by Judicious use of our natural re- sources. What more important factor in our physical daily make up exists than water? Then why not let the Artesian water of our city advertise uss
 This water stands third in the Uni ted States on ar alytical test Could We ask for moro potent instrument? We have the water and also the means, thanks to our fellow townsmen, Fred q. Hammond and Sam R. Johnston, and former townsman, John c. Cheney, by advertising medium. To Mir. Hammond belongs the real credit of having first agitated and pressed the idea of the city connecting the drinking fountain, our splendid depot with the city water mains. He had Alderman Cheney in- troduce resolution authorizing the connecting of the water mains with the drinking fountain as mentioned above, and with the able asstsi~ncs of the then Alderman s. R. Johns ,on. in 1902. the following resolution became
 ''Whereas, the City Council of Mont gomery is justly proud of its splendid be advertised as widely as possible
 'Be 1t resolved by the City Council or GS IOllOWSs 1HdL llAC Superintendent of Water Works be in- structed with and by the consent of the officers of the Louisville and Nash ville Railroad Company. to connect the drinking fountain located in the white waiting room of our splendid depot, with the water m aims, and also 10 place appropriate signs above said fountain calling the attention of the trayeling public to our excellent wa ter
 This has been a dead resolution for now over four years and it appears to me that it is worth while to our Commercial Club to look into this mat ter with a view of seeing that these orders are enforced-if the idea strikes fts members favorably. No traveller who ever tasted our artesian water can help but be most faYorably ipa- pressed and naturally will tell of it to others. The water that they now drink out of old tin cups at the union station is not calculated to impress travellers with the idea that this Is a very progressive city
 Those who are familiar with the in auguTation of the system and the building of the waterworks of the city of Montgomery can readily appreciate tho natural pride felt by me in our water system. Civic Pride.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
RAILROADS NOT IN IT
MT. J. S B. Thompson. Conner Man. Tells
 of Agreement Over Year Ago.

of the southern Railway and I was directed to take charge and see to 1t that it was enforcedP
 How about the other railroads, Mir Thompsonf"
 About twelve or thirteen mopkhs ago. either the executive heads or yhe dsng sussss h tSe if s sas the ef assembled fn Washington City to con- slider political conditions in the South and Alabama. The policy which the Southern her R5aiiwaSy Sya.a has sdcpssd was sentatives of the other railroads and an executive committed. was appoint ed to rigidiy enforce and carry out the policy. On that executive committee hfe: Major Hanson, president of tho Central of Georgia Raiiroad; Judge vile, and Nashville Railroad, and my
 "on my honor as gentleman, I state to you, positively. that the rail roads have not and will not contrib. ID. penny to any. party or any candidate in the State of Alabama. This you can rely on and pledge you my honor it
 MT. Thompson then iaughingly said the country to declare for B. B. Conner For Governor; that he personally knew lute man." that Dr. Cunnir sham was icy 'S'G against the railroads than Mr. Conner. "If they were on Identical plat forms" Mr Thompson -continued, T would support Conner because | re- gard him to be absolutely sincere in tean eis monts aFS sna sr for R@ s'f to day. and bNlleve he ia dead sure winner"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

Their children are much better off than are the children in the big cotton mills, whether in the East or in Alabama and al thcfr people are far above the sium dweiiers Of the great city 2
 A new era has dawned for these civilized Indians. and they now have the opportunity to show the best that Is in them. Heretofore under the tribal form of government they have been governed by Federal laws which were not always just. and by Fedeal agents who were often unmitigated scoundrels, That Is now ended. These Indians are equal and independent citizens of the United States and will soon be privi- legged to make and administer their own laws. We have firm conviction that they will do credit to their new condition and environments.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
'EOPLE
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 "s, Arkable showing it is Fa Nrt Indianapolis feels pride H turing industries. What tFr nplished is entirely due It ss men and capitalists who i'. Instrumental in interesting lumber Of new factories in
 '1n s than any other city of
 the country It is an amaz-
 ice that the city has made H0 le not been without profit to
 Aes. The advance in real es- ne rise of Indianapolis as a city
 d { first class, s;, the sddition of the stration of affairs, and the great
 A in business have combined 10 re-
 Z any who may have invested money
 bring the city to a higher plane.
 Now we have as great possibilities nere In Montgomery as any city ii, the , country. Our transportation facflities snrpass most of those in our section mand a larger territcry fs for onp sp S9s3- Som ness than we do. Some of the spirit which anfmates Indianapolis business IS just as. easy to build an fnterurbafs electric line from Montgomery to neighbI;orinE nnI;s points points m ss t was tn Indi. right of way cross ties and many other needful things could be obtained at lower rates. Our great natural ad- tcHloS So OoEht AUt tV 0Q AAtQ Qndtt v bushef--the light of publicity should be shed upon them and every strangAY who comes to Montgomery should go away with pocket full of printed and illustrated Information.
 In the race for commercial and in- dustrial supremacy in Indianapolis other great interests have not been of churches, homes and schools. It Is the home of a great number of Indiana authors. editors. playrights, poets. etc.
 One nf fha well known anfhnrH n the enc day v s who rf Claims Ym fndianapoiis oHs as m the Hoosisrs wrist whose homeiGy; sonss sposn ars spsta kn1Mn sSssen Sas novels are widely read, is resident whose latest novel. "Ths Conquest of Ssar Mss EllassssS sassny Mlsr sutoT os of Biblical novels. Is also an Indian Tn mTndianapoiis Is the home of .The zine. which rivals those e9 Boston and New York Ts Reader snS s9,s,i. E shs, monthly published in the West In- dianapolis is, indeed. the home of many large and excellent pneiica- household Journals, of from one hum dred to two hundred and fifty thou- sand circulation. ard, a fraternal. or enaes of shess ihere m2r 2re oser one hundred smaller. publications, exclu- siye of half a dozen daily papers, among them some or the most @ power.
 Indianapolis is the firth largest pub. fishing city In the United states and as in any other. The fact lent an added interest in the National Edito- rial Convention to the hundreds of ed
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
WHAT STATE PA PIERS ARE SAYING

Came Together. Russellville Times Almost the moment the Lock ,r,,s. advanced cement fifty cents per par rel.
 A Good starter. Birmingham Ledger
 Oklahoma sets up housekeepink with food to seli land to sell and coal to sell. That Is pretty good for a new
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 The ReasOn why. "cpnnipgham gaining ground r, rap, idly Is what you see In nearly every very ppattinG on their Sthink caps" is the cause of tt
 Good Way to View It. TuRcumbia North Alabamian. The scarcity of farm labor may he a blessing in disguise as 1t will even tually lead to more modern methods in farming and the use of labor savias mA'H'hsr" %@@
 Alabama Has Room For Them. St. Clair Herald
 Alabama needs a million more peo. gle that would make the priSee, rS ,t of a,ild Iand furnish a market that would make the farmers rich.
 
 Not n HnPpy Smile. Hartford Times Herald.
 The smile of Badly Beaten" Conner ia rapidly disappearing. The news from all parts of the State. showing the great strides Cunningham is max ing. is causing MT Conner an uneasy half hour.
 Small Farms and White Farmers. TSircg three thousand people in Sumter county would make most prosperous county if all were white. but with only about eight thousand white and the majority of them set. tied in the towns, it leaves the great body of land 10 be titled by negroes with the result that 1t Is half done Small farms with white tenants is the only redemption for this country.
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 Ask the BOoIkeepeP. Greensboro Watchman.
 The Prattville Progress has, or did have. a few weeks back. a peculiar typographical error in a notice at the head of its colmun of Rules" It notified persons that "All obituaries containing more than ten lines will be charged for at the rate of five cents per line" It has nsver reported how much monsv M collected under this much money IL collected under this proposition.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
SUNDAY. JULY s. 1ses.
WHAT MANNER or GnEETrNar

As our readers know. Stanford White, who was recently killed by Thaw, was son of Richard Grant of letters who died a score of years ago Discussing the sons case The Portland Oregonian wonders what greeting passed between Richard Grant White and his son when they met on the evergreen shore? Did the spirit of the great man of letters lead his offspring around among the shades with pride. introducing him as a worthy successor to his name and fame on earth. or did he hide his face with his wings and slink away to some spot where he might digest his shame iG soiitude7 What must have been the saIutation between such father ana such son? What has been lost to the world by the death of this degene- rate heritor of famous name? There Is one architect less. but architects are plentiful; and to balance the loss we may remember that there fs also one example less-ef hestial living orna- mented with the insolent pomp of  wealth. Such life as Whites is continual defiance of the moral law. It is a source of poisonous eontagion attracting the young of both sexes to thelr destruction. Women become the victims of his vices; men, of his ex- ample"
 It Is one of the patiable conditions of our humanity that the offspring of great and good men so often prove thoroughly degenerate when they come fo their own and are left to their own devices Especially Is this the case when the son is cursed, if we may so term 1t. with a practically or actually independent fortune White is dead and nothing that can be said of him, either good or bad. can affect him if we may point to him as a horrible ex- ample of the way a rich son of good father may bring shame and dIscredit on the name he bears there is no harm in doing so. Possibly his case may serve as a warning. but one can never tell.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
THE FooD HYsTERIA.

when the packing-nonse furore tires began to sweep over the country The Advertiser on several occasions ex- pressed regret at the unreasoning hys- teria that that seized the whole people We argued that so much was being said, and such universal charges were being made that two bad results would inevitably follow. In the first place people would become so suspicious that they would hesitate to use any canned food of any kind. and thus put them selves to much in convenience, and in the next place every cannery and packing house in the country would be tabooed, so that the innocent and the guilty would suffer alike. We ar gued that proper investigation would show the guilty parties and that they should be punished. but that those who had done no wrong ought not to be included in the general indictment.
 It should be stated in this connec- ton that the President had much to do with the panic that took possession of the country Tn his usual positive and premature style he fiercely denounced almost everything and everybody con- nected with the packing and canning business. His positive charges. sup ported by the weight of his position and reputation, threw the people Into positive hysteria and did infinite harm. That he was too general and too viol- ent in his charges has been amply dem <ratrafad fx. q nur.t.n. of u,oya fha latest being the exhaustive report printed in Saturdays issue. It was made by a joint. committee of inveati- gation and seems to have been thor ough. There may have been some whitewashing done. though 1t is not evident, but we must all admit that the wholesale accusations sent out to the country have not been sustained. and that there has been injustice done III many cases.
 Now, we have not changed our opin- ions on these subjects. That there is much adulteration of foodstuffs is be- vond doubt. and 1t Is equally true that much of it is dangerous to health. We thing it is equally beyond doubt that some of the packing house products are abominable. disgusting and unsafe. There should be no hesitation or delay about punishing the guilty and making such examples of them that the prac- tice win become unsafe in the future. At the same time there is no need to alarm all the people of the country and try to make them believe that every thing is suspicious. That is both un- wise and unjust.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

nR- C0MER's DUGAnOO DESTROYED.
 From the beginning of the present campaign for Governor up to this good hour. the chief stock in trade on the part of MT. Conner his newspaper mouthpiecss and his friends has been an appeal to the pre5udices of the peo- pie about railroads.
 < Railroad influence in one way oi another. has been his steady reply to every criticism made or him by news papers or individuals.
 Only q few days ago in his letter to the millmen of the State he spoke of the railroad machine crowd" as be- ins at the bottom of the revelations made about his child labor legislation record. When MT. Conner or his friends find him in a tight place they yell .rail- roads, and pretend that the cry is facts and logic. powerful enough to answer record or stricture. Now comes The Greensboro watchman with new vari- ation of the same old charge;
 Dr. cpnninshsm in his, speech at V Conner or his friends insinuates or cnsrges that am running as friend of the railroads and they are support
 s mase I sRaa s nSt S'n srae fhe sen so far as we have heard. has charged that the railroads were supporting his tor does not take the pains to deny that the railroads are friendly to his candidacy. and are doing what they. can the tS es pasope stop ana rasrss Stumble sss can't underStand why the railroads should be sotanxious about his success.
 We are glad to see that his newspa- per supporter has abandoned the charge that the railroads are supporting Dr.. Cunningham with money When that is done. the whole charge is practical iy abandoned. There are no railroad managers or attorneys supporting him with their time. thefr labors or their oratory, The fact Is just the con- trary. They have done all for Mr.. Co., mer. with private car service on spe- Iciai schedules on so called inspections for weeks past that could possibly be done for him
 [ hSWtFoAt bhct@ AS 0th~A evidence on this question from one of the leading railway oficials of the South. Mir. J. &. E. Thompson. ''politi- cal man. of the Southern Railway, This evidence In the shape of an interview. appeared recently In The Bir- mingham News. the leading newspaper supporter Of Mr. Conner, and in 1t Mir. Thompson declared for Conner. This in- tervisw is reproduced in full on this page.
 It will be observed that Mir. Thomp- sons declarations are as broad and sweeping as language can make them. The three leading roads in Alabama, the Southern. the Louisville and Nash v!lie and the Central of Georgia agreed over year ago to have absolutely noth- ing to do with Alabama politics and Mir. Thompson. who declares him. self personally for Conner. pledges his honor that the agreement has been kept.
 In the light of this declaration and of all the known facts going to sup port 1t isn't it amazing that Mir. Conner and his friends continue to try to bam- boozis the people with talk of the rail road machine" and railroad infiuepce" for Cunningham? It is the veriest rot
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

Mention Is made of the recent sale of wheat farm of one thousand acres in the State of Washington and of it's sub-division into three farms. It is re- marked by some of the Western news papers that there Is now a disposition and a tendency to divide many of the very large farms In the great wheat region. and one paper thus refers to 1t:
 aDividing the old wheat farms marks the beginning of an important epoch in diversified agriculture. It means more dairies. orchards, gardens and stock farms. It means better and more systematic cultivation of the soil It means more pleasant sur roundings for the farmer and his neighbors. It means better public highways and greater Inducements for others to join in the ranks of con tented and prosperous tillers of the soil The move Is a step forward In eastern Washington agriculture"
 what is said above will apply with equal force to some of the immense cotton plantations in Alabama, provid- ed 1t Is possible to get the right class Of settlers to occupy the small hold lngs.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
How DId We Exist Without Him.

PhlladeIphia RecOrd.
 The Presidents speech at Oyster Bay increases our astonishment that we got along so well before he was discovered, We must oppose Trusts just as much as he does; to do less would be coward ice; to do more would be rancor. And so regarding foreign policy and rail- road management and the packing of ses' WS oa ilos tniI snolu ot ..ss of poltroonery or go beyond without becoming muck k-rackers or Socialists, Pu. before Mir. Roosevelt's time how did wo escape disaster on one side or the other9
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

We suppose there is about as much donkeyism in politics as in anything else. and the proposition to have Roosevelt preside at the Bryan recep- tion was one of the latest exhibitions We wonder he did not accept the job. when invited by the committed, just as he will accept almost anything that makes him prominent.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

speaking of Thaw. The Charlotte ob- server argues that If such a man can be punished anywhere in the United States we would say that New York is the place" It would enlighten us very much to learn what that opinion is based on
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

The AbbeviIle News states that many farmers in that section are buying Western hay to feed their stock on. and ton for 1t. There's little need to com ment on such farming as that, but II does seem that farmers would learn and practice better business meth- ods
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

The plan adopted by one Kansas wo- nnna to set rid of guests who stay too long is to give them nothing to eat. three times day but toast and milk. Thsy soon tire of the monotony of such diet ana hike off to get a square meal,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
TODAY IN HISTORY.

Name Day: Aquila. Sun rises at 4:39; sets at 7:21.
 ! initiated army of Cortez entered the dominions of their faithful allies. the Tlascalans. Here the Spaniards rested to repair their fortunes, and the Mexi- cans meanwhile employed themselves in restoring their devastated capital.
 l524--James Verrazzanus, the F1oren- tine discoyerer, dated his letter to the King of France from Dieppe, giving an account of his voyage along the coast of the United S$ates, In which he is supposed to have visited the outer har- bor of New York.
 l72I--Elihu Yale. the benefactor of Yale College, died. He was descended from an ancient and wealthy family in Wales; born in New Haven in 174s; and on his return was chosen Cover nor of the East India Company. 176S-Thtrty man boarded a sohoon- the officers af the customs, for having thirty hogsheads of molasses on board; they confined the officers and carried
 I775-Lord Dunmore, the royal gov ernor of Virginia. with his family, took refuge on board the Fowey, British man.of-war, at Yorktown.
 1776--The Declaration of Independ- ence of the United States proclaimed Philadelphia. and read to the army in d'Estafng arrived off the Delaware having been at sea eighty-seven days
 1779-The British Governor Tryon plundered and burned Norwalk, Conn. Two churches, eighty dwellings, eigh- ty-seven barns, twenty two stores four mills and five vessels were destroyed
 1St3-outposts of the American en- campment at Fort George attacked by the British and Indians. A company support the post, but fell into an am bush. and after an obstinate struggle thirteen were killed, five escaped; the ridge, were taken prisoners aud put to death by the Indians with great bar parity. In consequence of this event and similar outrages, General Brown States party of Seneca and TuscaTo- "a Indians, under young Cornplanter.
 1S53--The American expedition under Commodore Perry arrived at Japan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
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 il.
 Four appointments fin Coffee county July IF nsd 1S.
 Troy, Saturday morning, July I4. Brundldge, Saturday evening, July
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08
BANKHEAD,s SPEAKING DATES

Hon. J. H. BanIEhead, candidate for Alternate Senator, will address the vOt- CTS in the interest of his candidacy aa fOllOWst
 Eontg0mery--Court House, Tuesday, July 10. s D, nl. "a .H Hartford, Wednesday, July H. D. m. DOthan, Wednesday, July III, 8 p. m. Heaslland, Thursday, July 12, 10 d. m. Enterpflse, Thursday, July IF, D. m. Ozark, Friday, July 18. 10 a. m.
 Bruadidge, Friday, July 13, .. m. Troy, Saturday, July IA. II a. m. Union Springs, Monday, July 16, 11 a. m.
 EufauIa, Monday July 1e. ?. n,
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

esot SSplSa pflutrass.s ssse -H-So'4xS Less all returns ". ...: MI. lV.lsa Total ne3 eircuIatson .32z.71f 
 Net Daily Average for May ... ..IS,9de Net Sunday Average for May ...ssA6sobl  E 6 No q. circulation Manager Of The Mont9omery Advertiser. being duly sworn ser.e eafcuiasIen for the month of May, 19g6, is tree and correct, and complied @f-- ter all ret ms from news boys, news agent& aNcted E. S. NOBLE,
 Circulation Manager.
 V. ". JACKSON.
 Notary Public.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-07-08

The Guthrie. (okia-J State Capital, commenting on recent editorial in The Advertiser about the Indians in the new State. has this to say: