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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Suppress Our Own LawIess Element.

Now then, under the conditions which
surround us, the authorities should openly
and frankly announce that any man,
young or old, boy or man who wantonly
without provocation attacks or Injuries a
negro of any age or sex in this city should
be dealt with to the full extent of the
law and the full measure of his crime
by Imprisonment if the negro Is seriously
injured, and by the extreme penalty of
the law if the negro is killed. Whatever
explanation can be found for the slaugh-
ter of the mob in the time of frenzy, in a
time like that of Saturday, the mob I'M
derstands now that the attack of the
dominant and victorious race upon the
weaker race, Is not only cowardice but
murder, and should be punished definitely
and sternly, just as cowardice and muir
der are punished.-Atlanta Georgian.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

lanta. Why is nothing said about
closing the low white dives? One is
quite as bad-quite as dangerous
as the other; and the people of At
lanta need never hope to live in peace
with the negroes, until equal justice
is meted out to all alike.
The resorts patronized by negroes
are, if properly conducted, as much
entitled to protection as similar re-
sorts patronized by the whites, and
any discrimination in this direction
is bound to make trouble in the fu-
ture.
The people of Atlanta, in brief,
would do well to take to heart the
advice given them by John Temple
Graves in the Georgian, and sternly
SUPPRESS the disdisorderly white ele.
ment they have among them.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Race Troubles.

That there was a fresh outbreak of
race trouble in Atlanta last night, even
after the city, county and state authori-
ties had thought they had the situation
under complete control, is not surprising,
when one takes all the facts into consid-
Grafton. The southern white people are
patient and long suffering. They have
watched the negro preachers and negro
leaders and negro newspapers condemn
lawless mobs and lynehings. and they
have waited in vain for word of con-
domination of the unspeakable crime of
negro brutes that have caused white peo-
pie to take the law into their own hands.
They encourage mobs by denunciation of
mob law instead of denunciation of the
crime that causes mob law. They conceal
the criminals of their own race instead
of trying to bring them to justice.-Mont-
gomery Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Two Monster Beetles.

The largest bug known to the old
world entomologists is the gigantic
Goliath beetle, which is found along
the Kongo river In Africa. Goliath is
upward of six inches in length from
tie tip Of his nose to the neither end
Of his hard shelled body and has a
pair Of gauzy wings folded up under
his arms, either of which is as large
as a lady's face veil. But Goliath is a
pygmy when compared with the ele-
plant beetle Of Venezuela, an entomo-
logical giant which weighs nearly a
pound and which has a wing spread
equal to that of a mallard duck. Both
of these bugs are rare.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
The Atlanta Situation
Considered.

The governor of Georgia is charged
with having called for Federal troops,
in order to hold the Atlanta rioters
in check.
If the report be correct, the COVER
nor was guilty of a grave error
and 1t is by no means the first one
that Georgia has made in time of
storm and stress.
The governor of Georgia is prob.
ably states lights man, and as such,
he should have Remembered that that
good old doctrine was meant, not on.
ly for holiday use, but for every day
wear also.
To say the least, the state that
jealously guards it's own prerogatives
when 1t suits its purpose is rather
Inconsistent when it turns to the Fed.
eral authorizes In time of trouble.
: AS the Memphis Commercially.
peal very properly says:
Appealing to another government
no matter how closely allied, was an
acknowledgment of unfitness-a CON
fession that Georgia admits itself to
be too impotent to be intrusted with
such high prerogatives. This riotine
was against, the peace and dignity
of the state of Georgia" How, then
may Georgia regain its peace and
sustain its dignity if the federal gov
eminent shall bring down the one
and hand back the other bound ur
in a blue uniform and pinned with
federal bayonets? This state would
indeed, be peace with dignity, but
the peace Is not of Georgia's making
and the dignity is not for Georgia
to enjoy; for another will have Sc
cured the one and taken the other
leaving Georgia only the humiliation
of pacification.
But this is evidently not the only
mistake that the people of Atlantis
have made in dealing with the situa
ton.
Take, for instance. the, proposition
to close the low negro dives in At
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Give Us More and Better
Sidewalks.

If Pensacola needs one thing more
than another just now, it is better
sidewalks and more of them.
By far the greater part of the side
walks in this city are now construc-
ted of wood, and when We say that
they are an unmitigated nuisance, we
are well within the bounds of truth.
1t is next to impossible to keep
a wooden sidewalk in good repair,
without spending more money on it
than 1t is worth.
Wooden sidewalks are not only un
slightly and angerous to life, limb and
clothing; but they are decidedly un.
sanitary. AS collectors of filth and
harborers of vermin they are unsur
passed.
1t is for this reason, doubtless
that many of our most progressive
cities have long since prohibited their
use by ordinances.
Every wooden sidewalk in Pensa
COld ouOuiu, at thC CctlilCcI luOllCh'
possible. be replaced by one of con
crete, stone or brick. And if this
cannot be done, steps should be taken
to prevent the laying of any new
wooden walks.
A good cinder, or even a clay walk
is better by far than a wooden one
The latter. are out of place outside
of a country village, and Pensacola
is certainly too much of a city tc
longer put up with any such shabby
makeshift in this way of sidewalks
Let the old wooden walks go, and
the new ones come, and the change
cannot come too soon, or be too radi
cal and far-reaching in its effects
when 1t does come.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Cruel.

A cashier in the financial district of
New York, on being advised by his
physician to take a vacation not long
ago, wrote the agent of a South Amer
lean steampshp line as follows: "As I
am thinking Of taking a trip to South
America, please advise me immediate
ly with particulars relative to rates, ac-
commodations, and so on, to and from
the various ports usually visited by
tourists at this season Of the year."
The answer came by special delivery,
marked private and confidential, Zone
Of our steamers will sail for Valparaiso
next Wednesday; shortest and quick
est way out Of the country"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Wood of the Cross.

The people of the different countries
have their various traditions concern
ing the wood of which the cross was
made. In England the peasants say
that it was of elderwood and that
lightning never strikes that tree. Dean
French In q note to his Sacred Latin
Poetry declares that it was made of
the wood of the aspen and that since
the day of the crucifxion the leaves Of
that tree have never ceased to shud-
der
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
A Test For Seasickness.

Many people have genuine curios-
ity ito know if they would be sea sick
in case they should take an ocean voy-
age. An easy way to put the matter to
q test is to stand before the ordinary
mirror that turns In it's frame and let
some one move it slowly and slightly
at first, gradually growing faster, while
you look fixedly at your own reflection.
If you feel no effect whatever from it
the chances are that you can stand an
ordinary sea voyage without any
Qualm.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Elhd the Cause.

The race war in Atlanta, in which it is
said a dozen or more negroes were killed
by a mob of white men. who had become
frenzied over the frequent assaults, or at
tempted assaults. upon white women
within the corporate limits of the city,
has caused an investigation to be made
as to the probable causes leading to these
brutal assaults upon innocent white
women with the result that many negro
dives have been closed and many obscene
pictures removed from negro bar rooms
and negro cluhs.--Montsomery Journal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
crudity being billed here for an early
The Atlanta Georgian strikes t

The Atlanta Georgian strikes the
right note, when, in commenting upon
that city's race riots, it calls for the
suppression of its own lawless ele-
ment. 1t is a lamentable fact that
disorders such those that have recent
iy convulsed Atlanta, are too often
seized upon by worthless white
hoodlums as a welcome opportunity
to vent their spleen upon the weak.
err race. When Atlanta gets rid of
her colored Migrants, it would be well
for her people to inaugurate a cru.
SADIE upon her worthless white loaf.
ers.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Cuba la No Danuer.l1

This government has assured the
independence of Cuba and it's every
action should be taken with the keep
ing of that pledge in view. 1t is alb
surd to hold that the -Cubans have
shown their inability to govern them
selves because they nave engaged in
a single revolution. Soon after we
had achieved our. own independence
we had in this country more serious
instruction than that in Cuba has
been or even promises to be. That
affair blew over and left no evil eff
fects behind. and even the great civil
war, with al of its attendfAt horrors.
and tyrannies, has passed into mem
DRY without affecting the status of
this country as an Independent. self
governing community. The evil has
not come to Cuba through this revo-
luton by any means, though pessi-
mists are bowling calamity for their
own purposes Palma has not been
confronted with the trials that at
tended the administration of George
Washington, and Cuba is in no great
or danger of distintegration than this
country was after the war of indie
pendence closed. - New Orleans
Times-Democrat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
kissing In Iceland.

When you visit a family il Iceland
you must kiss each member according
to his age or rank, beginning with the
highest and descending to the lowest,
not even excepting the servants. On
taking leave the order is reversed.
You first kiss the servants, then the
children and lastly the master and
mistress. Both at meeting and parting
an affectionate kiss on the mouth with
out distinction Of rank. age or sex is
the only mode of salutation known in
Iceland.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
An Impression.

'tNow I have an impression in my
head" said the teacher. Can any Of
you tell me what an impression isT'
"Yes'm, can," replied little fellow
at the foot of the class. "An impress
sion is dent in a soft spot"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
CUBAN COMMENT
4
Protectorate for Cuba.

1t begins to look more as II the
United States would have to inter-
vene in Cuba. Intervention now can
mean nothing short of protectorate
and protectorate will probably mean
annexation about time to do duty as
a Republican "cap-feather" in the
campaign of 1908. The instructors
are calling for the removal OF Presi-
dent Palma as the only thing that
will pacify them and that must be
accompanied by, another election OF
senators and representatives.-Ex-
change.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Brag.

When we are children we brag about
our parents. When we get to be young
men and young women we brag about
ourselves When we become older we
brag about our children.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

Pensacola had a remarkably high
Tide last night, by way of tiding
rs over the change from summer to
fall, perhaps.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

Order seems to have been restored
in Atlanta. It can be preserved, how
ever, only by dealing out even-hand-
ed justice to all, irrespective of race,
color or condition, and by sternly
eliminating the spirit of lawlessness,
wherever and however it may mani.
fest itself.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

The Jacksonville Metropolis
thinks the coming tourist season is
nkely to break all records. Break
some of the tourists, too, If they are
not careful.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

Fixe hundred British school teach
ers are coming over to this country
to study our educational methods.
So il you hear anything drop, you
will know it's only an III"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Badly Put.

Fisherman Cbeginner)-Don't you
think, Peter, I've improved good deal
since began? Peter anxious to pay
compliment)-You have, sorr. But,
sure. it was aisy for you to improve,
sorr!Punch.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

The artless Cubans seem to
Imagine that a word from President
Roosevelt would settle everything.
A short word, like 81" would prob
ably do.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
One Exception.

Where there's a winner there's al
ways a loser
"Not always"
"Well, name an instance to the con-
trary.'
when you're playing cards with
your girl for kisses"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

The labor men evidently propose
to take a hand in Florida politics
hereafter. What might be called the
horny hand of labor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

The esteemed Montgomery Adver-
tiser says that "the President is
using Taft so frequently that there
are many who look on the Secretary
as the big stick so often referred
to. He is certainly big enough" And
he Is also "a stick" all right. ~.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

The Birmingham Age-Herald, in
veferring to the suppression of 1.-THE
Clansman" in Macon, says that 1t
Should be followed by the suppress.
sion of yellow journals in Atlanta. u
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

Some New Jersey factory girls
have struck, because they were not
allowed to sing at their work. 1t is
to be hoped that they will succeed in
making their employers sing small.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

The difference between Senator
Bailey and Lawyer Bailey is so great
as to make the gentleman from Tex
as look rather small somehow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

Adelina Patti is quoted as saying
that 'if there is the smallest speck
of blue in the sky, look for it." 1t
has hitherto been generally supposed
chat Addie was considerably more ir-
terested in looking for the long
green.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

Trouble with the shot gun policy In
dealing with disorders is that the pre-
miums are altogether too high.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

The Cuban politicians can make
good only by making concessions.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

Taft is still holding conferences In
Cuba-but is he holding his own?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

Banker Stensland was once a sail
or, and still has the knack OF raising
the wind, evidently.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

The annual equinox now knocks at
our doors.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

The Mobile Register has arrived
at the conclusion that "the element
Of danger to the peace of every
Southern community is the vagrant
class" Now let the Register rise up
In It's wrath and knock the class that
helps to produce Migrants. it is not
so many years ago that the tramp
was practically unknown In this
country, and 1t was not until the
great American multi-millionaire be-
gan to appear that the other social
pole, the professional tramp, began
TO adorn the landscapes.
The Montgomery Advertiser very
wisely contends that the town
Is to be congratulated upon the &C.
tion of the city council in passing a res
olution asking the mayor to take steps
to prevent the presentation there
next Thursday night Of the
play called The Clansman," and
the prompt approval of the res
olution by Mayor league. 1t is
not play fit to these times and
conditions and upon the score Of prop.
er police precaution the step is well
taken.
It now remains to be seen what
action. II any. our city fathers win
take In the matter. Mr.. Dixons
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27

This settles the straw hat question,
anyhow.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
Easy ENOUGH, After All.

Before the election there a few
weeks ago it was thought the pro-
hibitionists in Madison country had a
difficult task before them to carry the
county 'dry" The returns from the
election show quite a different state
of public sentiment With one excep-
ton every precinct in the county gave
prohibition majority. = Bradford
County Telegraph.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
NEWS AND VIEWS
FROM STATE PAPERS.
Another Set-To.

Another Set-To.
The governor and the Honorable
John s.. Beard are billed for another
set-to. This time it is to be at Ocala
and of course, on the drainage ques-
ton Well, Mr. Beard is capable or
making a truly finished address to 4
board Of college professors, hut it IS
our opinion that he is the wrong man
to engage in a debate of this kind
Jacksonville Floridian.
Crop Diversification.
Gadsden county has discovered the
merits of crop diversification. Her
tobacco crop this year brings her in
one and a half million dollars In
cash. There are more different ways
for intelligent, enterprising people to
make good money out of the soil of
Florida than in any other state in the
Union. Why any man of gumption
who has health and strength, wants
to sell his farm, leave the country
and settle down in some town in a
little house in a crowded neighbor-
hood, and then take his chances on
| "gettin' a job" and forfeit his indie
pendence forever, is more than we
can understand.-Live Oak Demo
crat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
. The Cuban Habit.

What is to be done to insure per
manent pacification when hostilitles
have ceased is question to be de-
termined, but the first condition or
doing anything is the abandonment
of the tactics of violent revolution
as incident of Cuban politics. Al
ready those who distrust the power
of any people to govern themselves
end assume that there must be a
superior ruling class" are declaring
that Cuban independence is failure
and that the United States cannot
long delay the annexation OF the
island. This is the burden OF foreign
comment, but that is not the Amerl'
can doctrine. We believe In popular
self-government, and we are hopetul
that the people of Cuba, with train
ing and experience, and with a help,
ing hand in their days OF political
childhood, will show themselves cap
able of it; but they must put away
the childish habit of insurrection
against authority whenever they feel
it irksome.-Journal of Commerce.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-09-27
End of Cuba.


Whatever the issue of the present
imbroglio in Cuba may be, 1t can
give no assurance of permanent
neace. If the forces of the United
States were to be withdrawn from
Cuban waters, there probably would
be another incipient revolution In
short time and our forces would be
obliged to occupy Cuban har5ors
again and overawe the insurgents.
How many times this operation
would have to be repeated before defi-
mite government Intervention and alb
solute occupation took place it is not
easy to determine. 1t will be an econ
omy both of time and expense not
to keep it up long, for it is only
postponing the day when our govern
ment must definitely resume its con
troll of the island and put an end for
evr to the revolution and instruction.
When that time comes stable govern
ment will be organized, and ultimate
ly Cuba will become one of the states
of the Union-one of its most beaut!-
full and in some directions, one of its
richest and most productive.-Chica
go Tribune.
The daily sentinel., 1906-02-28
Bad Race War
In Ohio f.!

special to The Sentinel.
Springfield, o., Feb. Is lhce
eight o'clock last night this city mas
been the seen of mob disorder, the
outcome of feeling over the proba aDle
fatal shooting yesterday morhins oi
railroad brakeman Edward Dean
4 nosse of officers for safety OF the
negroes. both of whom had been plac-
ed under arrest here and because OF
threatened lynching, hurried uhuer
cover of darkness tonight by the au-
thorities to Dayton, where they are
now safely lodged in jail,
When the mob learned that tne
nrisoners had been taken from the
civ IL went to that part of town
known ms the Jungle Inhabited by
coIored peopIe and began to burn and
loot dwellings and saloons A. lease as
six dwellings were burned ana the
contents OF one saloon looted
A force of 10 members OF the loGa i
miIitia companies are guarding the
scene where the mob holds sway,
The authorities believe that me
two negroes were saved from Deihs
lvnched only by their removal from ON
The CITY. At an early hour III the
morning Sheriff Almoney had WLsu
Governor Pattison for all aVallap,i, u,
rooms and to hold others in reaai-
noes for possible call tomorrow
The authorities say that the sesnSs Sc a.,
arc similar to those which enueu III
the iynching of Richard Dlxon'
negro. in this city two years ago
The daily sentinel., 1906-02-28
Hart Wants to
Meet Burns

Special to The Sentinel.
Louisville, Ky. Feb. 2S.-Marvin
Hart, who lost the decision al Los
Angeles to Tommy Burns, has wired
local friends that he is on his way
East. accompanied by Dave Barry
and Jack Curley. No mention Is
made of Tommy Ryan. Hart says:
Il am not through. My record en-
titles me to more matches. l want
to meet Burns If I fail to stop him
in twenty rounds l do not want a
cent, but / do insist on referee who
will give me a square deal and make
Burns fight fair.
I'm our sixty-minute milling he
hugged me forty minutes of the time
butted me with his head, gouged me
in the eve with his gloved thumb ana
refused to stand up and fight.
"Though we boxed straight Mar
nuis of Oueensberry rules Referee
Eyton threatened to. disqualify me
If hit in the clinches.
The daily sentinel., 1906-02-28
Will Generate
Its Own Power

Special to Tie sentinel
New York. Feb. 2S.-For the first
time in the history of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad. private car rolled
into the terminal at Jersey CITY 10
day without other motive power than
that generated above the trucks on
which it hung.
on the car came j. p. kerge' as
sistant sperintendent of motive
power: b. T.. Murphy and j. W
Rogers. assistant engineer from Al.
toona. Pa, and Division Superintend-
emf Lowell of the Amboy division. all
oficials Of the Pennsylvania system
and William B. Strange of No. 10
wall Street, owner Of the car.
on its way to the Pacific coast
uuder its own power. the car nam
Ogerita, will start Wednesday from
the Weehawken terminal of the west
shore road taking to Buffalo officials
of the New York Central lines
From there the route Is over lhe
Lake Shore and Michigan to Chleaso
the Chicago and Altoon to st. Louis
tbe Rock Island TO Kansas CITY
thence 10 FL Paso and San Francisco
over the Rock Island and SoutherH
Pacific railroads. II will be me hrsl
attempt to ever cross the continent
ON n self-propelled commercial car.
RrieGv the car is a powerhouse on
wheels. six cylinder gasoline motor
connected direct to an electric gener-
ator. furnishing the current to two
motors geared to the axles of the
front and rear trucks. exactly as the
motors are to the surface railway
cars in Broadway
The gasoline motor Of approx
mateIy rs horse power is constantly
| at work when the car is in motion
and the surplus electricity over that
required for use is stored for ener-
gency purposes in storage battery
| beneath the car.
nair or accident for more than 5000
miles.