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The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
The City Beautiful.

Editor The Advertiser:
 In our previous communication, the printer omitted a line, and thereby made us indevnite about weeds. We desired to say that in order to get rid of them, they should be pulled will be necessary to remove them ev- cry year. The same is true of any coarse grass, that mars the appear
 We wSsh to call attention to one relic of village days, and that is the custom of allowing the city and su- burbs, buildings and rences to be pla- tell of shows. that have long since quit the road, of nostrums that have been declared frauds, and of business concerns. that have ceased to exist. Many have been up for time immemo- rial. and are so weather-beaten that they cannot be read. while other arc put rags % and IS,s shreds, Tapping Tapping In uni-
 They are found upon every country road leading from the city. Some are painted upon fences, which when re- their former position. so that the last effect is worse than the first. They are found upon buildings in the busi- ness district even, within sight of the City Building itself A custom of such weatherworn, dolly-varden, va riegation. greatly detracts from the beauty and dignity of any town.
 Why allow foreign concerns to pla- card the community for their benefit, and our damage2 Why suffer such proceedings from the foundation of the village. and then arrest the manager of modern street railway for a few neat advertisements in his own cars? The city derives no revenue for it's defacement. then why permit its
 We hope every one will remove such hlemishes from their premises and that they will deny such privileges in the future. If we mistake not, there Is a law against 1t, ana considering the arrival of many quests this fall, 1t should be enforced at once. couple of men in wagon with short ladders, could help the cause.
 We even doubt the propriety of per- hitting foreign advertisements to be painted upon buildings.
 Street advertisements should be con- fined to neat bill boards, and the num- Der of these should be reduced and subjected to regulations, that would keep them presentable.
 We hope all will unite in promot- ing the City Beautiful. for the Fall Fair, and the movement for 1910.
 F. w. Jackson.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
eLAYrNG THE pEmAeoeuE.

That the New York political boss, Bird S. coler, can play the part of a demagogue is plain from some of his remarks on Labor Day. Among other things he said, speaking to the labor unions:
 We have here the only organized force that stands between the people at large and the predatory hand that per, cent .organized' we have a stone wall against special privilege. This
 ~ per cent organized" realize that those laws and enactments which ben ent the whole people, organized and unorganized, benefit them. Look any where in the world and you will find that wherever labor. is organized it stands for political liberty. for the di- yine and imperishable principle of Democratic government.
 The most reliable statistics obtain able show that only about one-fifth Of the laboring people in the United States belong to unions. or are other wise organized. Then, according to Coler, this one-fifth of the working people of the country constitute the only buiwark between the people and ruin. The comments of The New York Commercial are timely and to the point:
 That is. to put this Coler proposition conversely, remove from our American cfvllizatfon that one-fffth of the labor- ing ing element in the population which would forthwith be nothing left on which the people could depend to protect them in their property rightsf mere mere would then begin a reign Of the R,enuer ,,. ana prey such as marks only Does Bird Sim Coler believe that? He has run" for public office both sue cessfully and unsuccessful1y in recent years years put through 1t all has he never heard or government. of law. of the organized forces-Federal, State and municipal-that execute the Iaws7 poe DOCS he honestly believe that the la- civilization here in tne United States the sole barrier between the property or the people and the organized force eia or robbery? Did he let his imagina- Hberately set himself down as fhe rankest, craziest demagogue that eyer licked the hand of organized labor?
 Again: Wherever labor is organiz- the divine and imperishable principle or Democratic government" Did if stand for that four years ago in the anthracite coal fields of Pennsylvania? !? Did 1t stand for that a month or two ago up among the iron girders and beams of the Plaza Hotel structureY Did 1t stand for that ten days ago at the gas-tanks being constructed at one hundred-and thirty eighth street, up in The Bronx? The murder annals and the hospital records are the best answer.
 President Coler knows as well as he knows anything that organized labor. both near and far, has oftener stood for riot and murder and intimidation than it has stood for law or liberty or government of any sort
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09

ts highest uses Is for occasions and not for common consumption.
 We all welcome the formation of the Pot Licker" Club at Winchester be- cause we feel that extension of the use and appreciation ot pot Ticker" would improve the health and the morals of the State and perhaps aid in restoring many If the fine old qualities which developed from It's use in former times, but we discounten- ance any rivalry between 1t and the julep. The two have functions and purposes far apart. Aside from that. we can enlist the Prohibition party and the Woman's Christian Temper ance Union in the pot licker' crusade without antagonizing the friends of the juiep, and vice versa. Between them there is neither fellowship. nee essarily, nor antagonism. They are products of the same soil, priceless and immortal discoveries of the same people. but have differing functions.
 We are not blaming The News Leader for kicking vigorously at such a suggestion. but we are surprised that The Sun should exhibit such lit- tie knowledge of Virginia products. One might as we'll advise the use of beef soup as a substitute for cham pagne.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
Increase of National wealth.

Wall Street Journal.
 The last generation has been remark able for its development of colossal pS-- vate fortunes It is well within a req sonabIe estimate to say that the com- bined fortune of six great capitalists of today, fortunes which have been the product of the enterprise of the last 100000 In 1870 it would have been difficult to have discovered in this coun-- try six private fortunes which would have aggregated $250. 100000. This simple fact is perhaps the most strik ing illustration which could be given of the extraordinary growth of wealth ir the United States in few haude. It should not be forgotten. however. that the wealth of the country has in the same time ipcreased from $30'eHO,- nc0 00O to S1O4 000. GOO. 900. and the per capita wealth from s779 to about SizbA
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
WHAT scnT OF ADVICE IS THIS.

In his speech in Chicago the other night MT Bryan used these words: T do not hesitate to express the opinion that no man running on the Democratic ticket in Illinois is en- titled to the support of Dembcrats in this crisis who either stands with Mir. Sullivan or is afraid to oppose him" In plain words, then, 1t amounts to this: if the Democrats of Illinois, reg ularly assembled in convention, should select for any office a man who stands by or with Mir. Sullivan the Illinois Democrats should bolt that part of the Ticket. Some of our contemporaries have taken great delight in prodding The Advertiser because 1t saw fit to bolt Mir. Bryan ten years ago. Our action then need not now be discussed, but we would De pleased if some of our critics would tell us whether it was wrong tOsbolt in 1896 because we could not endorse the policies or plat form. or for Illinois Democrats to bot candidate because he is friendly to man who is personally obnoxious to Mir Bryan. private citizen7
 Evidently the friends and adherents of MT. Bryan do not take a proper view of his intolerance in this mat ter. It matters nQt what MT. suIIl- van has done. or why Mir. Bryan should be so bitter against him. The Democrats of each State have the right and privilege of selecting their National Committeeman. The Illinois Democrats selected Roger s. Sullivan as their representative, and notwith- standing Bryan's fight on him they re- fused at their late State Convention to ask for his removal Yet here comes private citizen from another State and advises the Democrats of Illinois to bolt any nominee who stands with Sullivan.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
IT IS PUZZLED.

The esteemed Baltimore Sun is wor- ried, not to say obrusticated. The Augusta Herald made use of the word ''whangdoodle." and The Sun asks:
 What, in the name of the Great Horn Spoon, Is whangdood1e?" We have heard of snarks, mugwumps, be- hemoths. protozoan, HeptasophS and streptococci. but the whangdoodle is bird that has yet to fly between us and the sun: What is the nature of the beast? Has it feathers or fur? Does 1t chew the cud or take it in the arm? Is 1t man or devil? Does 1t jump, lope, gallop, sqGirm, hike, crawl or waddle? Is it red, blue or green?? Does 1t vote, and If so, what ticket? In brief. Is the thing a living reality or merely one of those awful shapes that rise like specters from the per fumed mint and climb up the shaky straw and into the dim corridors of the human intellect?
 Perhaps it will somewhat assist The Sun in it's distress if we recall to its memory the famous "backwoods ser mon" which went the rounds some thing like a half century ago. in which the preacher took for his text the words: And they shall gnaw file, and flee away to the mountains of Hepsdam. where the lion roareth. and the whangdoodle mourneth for its first-born-" That doesn't tell what the varmint is but knowing its habits and habitat The Sun may be able to run 1t down. It will please let us know what the thing looks like, if t finds one.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
TWO OF A KIND.

The multiplicity and voluminosity of the later events has almost banished from most memories the scandulous story of Senator John H. Mitchell, of oregon, whose crimes ended in his ceasing to occupy the high and hon. orable position of United States Sem ator. The revelations printed regard ing his crimes also brought out the fact that his real name was John Hip pie, who left his home in Pennsylvania under domestic cloud. He went West finally settling in Oregon as John H. Mitchell and eventually getting into the Senate
 When the great scandal in connec- tion with the wrecked Philadelphia bank got out and the name of Pres ident Nipple was made so prominent the name was naturally connected with that of the Oregon criminal and in vestigation showed that they were own cousins. The following paragraph from the Indianapolis Star lets in some light on the matter:
 A Pennsylvania lawyer has dug up out of his memory the relationship between Nipple and Mitchell. He knew the Oregon Senator we'll during his Pennsylvania residence and says that the two men were sons of two broth CTS in the large Nipple family of twelve, who lived in Washington, Pa, for a time, then in Butler county, from which Nipples father moved tl PhiIa- delphia. The Oregon Senator was born in Washington county.
 We might be tempted to remark in this connection that blood will tell" and it would be true in this instance, though we do not know if other mem bers of the family have ever shown criminal propensities These two, how ever, were not only alike in their crim- inal tendencies but had a further re- semblance in the fact that both masked themselves and carried on their vil- lainies under the cloak of great re spectability and posed as honored membefs of the communities in which they lived Evidently crime was in them and was bound to come out in due time. The name of Nipple Is un- der a cloud in Pennsylvania
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
NOSUBsTITUTE.

The Baltimore Sun has stirred the esteemed Richmond News Leader to the depths of It's "Cle virginny' soul. and brought from 1t the following serious protest:
 Enthusiasm carries The Baltimore Sun too far That excellent newspa- per. noting the organization of what 1t calls Pot Liquor" society in Vir- ginia. proposes that this "condiment" be substituted for the mint julep as the State beverage of the Old Domin- ion. Tais proposition contains several distinct and grleVous errors. Tn the first place 1t Is not pot liquor" Any body who so calls 1t. prOnouncing the uo with ostentatious and painful pre- cision, evidently is unacquainted with It's origin history, character and quail ities It Is pot Ticker" 1t not a icon diment' and it can not be substituted for the mint iulep. We would call it a combination rather than condi- ment. It is a soup, juice, a bever- age, the real sustenance, flavor and glory of the meat. and food in nOur- ishing qualities unequalled It is a stimulant. sustainer and q comforter. whereas the julep Is merelv soothing. It lacks the aesthetic appearance and the fascinating flavor of the Julep, but is for any time and all times whereas the julep at it's best and m
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
SENATOR DANIEL.
Takes Issue with Mir. Bryan on Rail-
 road OyvnershfD.

Takes Issue with Mir. Bryan on Rail-
 road Ownership.
 Washington Special.
 Senator John w. Daniel of Virginia the first prominent Democrat to take issue in an extended argument with Mir. Bryan as to the merits of govern ment ownership of railroads The Vir- ginia Senator gave out an interview ownership, though expressing high praise and admiration for Mir. Bryan, and which declared, among other
 we have, and Mir Bryan has him self shown 1t in his able speech, an abundance of issues" continued the Senator. Tt seems to me the cam paign should be fought out upon them. Even if this issue of government own ership of railroads be a wise one tt Is premature, and we have plenty to occupy the highest faculties and best
 'I heard % every word of the powerful speech" said Senator Daniel, and agreed to go per cent of It. 1 regret ted the declaration in favor of\ gov ernmeat ownership of trunk line rail ways and State ownership of State lines. Our experiences in Virginia in the matter of State participation was so disastrous and so hurdensome to our taxpayers that we are just emerg- ed from the financial troubles brought upon us, and our Constitution, by gen eral assent, has clause which Tor bids county or State subscriptions to railroad building. What may come to pass in the future of the world no man may now read, but l do not believe the people of this country nor the Demo cratic party is in favor or government ownership of railroads"
 MT Bryan himself indicated the consolidating tendencies of government fears 1t may. not be regarded as es- sentiaI to party action. It is to be re- membered that the Democratic party
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
Too Much Ahead.

Chattanooga Times. G.
 One of Mir. Bryan's admiring organs calculates that MT. Bryan may be ten years ahead of his party now as he was in 1896, butt he is right and the people will have to come to him" MT. Bryan was certainly ahead of his par ty in 1696-disastrously so, just as ne is now, with the same possibilities ahead. What the Democratic party needs Is man not quite so everiast- ingly foresighted; a man who is not so awfully big as to overshadow ev- erything and everybody else. MT. Roosevelt came perilously near wreck ing the republican organization by being so much smarter than its lead ess. It had been hoped MT. Bryan would learn lesson from Mir. Roese- velts experience if not from his own and that he would be willing to admit that at least other democrats had some sort of right to think for themselves on questions involving not only party autonomy but the health and happiness of the people.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
IA Real statesman.

Baltimore Manufacturers Record.
 Within a few months will end the term of Governor William D. Jelks of Alabama It will close one of the most notable gubernatorial careers of the South. Governor Jelks has given Ala ress for his State on all lines. The State has grown in wealth, in Increase in taxable values, in educational la cilities, the burden of it's bonded debt has been vastly reduced, and all with out any oratory. without any. playing to the galleries. without any mysteries of any kind and without any gallop- sort of q Governor or that. Summar- izing his achievements. The Age-Her- aid of Birmingham says:
 If Governor who does not pose as a great sage can bring about results like these-can put the state on it's statesmen in the future and accept plain business men instead"
 The Age-Herald is evidently satiri.5 cal in its use of the word statesmen" or is employing euphony for politi- clans or demagogues. During Cover nor Jelks's term more than one south erhs State has, unfortunately had statesman. but who has really been the rankest kind of demagogue. Gov ernor Jeiks, though. is an Illustration of what the South can produce as ma terial for Governors, and one does not have to travel far from, Alabama to run across some of them already in office The South generally is turn ing men of affairs for public office. and this tendency is so marked that any deviation from 1t is coming to be regarded as a black eye to State.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09

so far from favoring such prcposi- tion has always been in principle up- on the adverse side, and many Demo- crats have long expressed themselves against it in addresses. perhaps little noticed because 1t was not live issue. have myself opposed such policy once or twice in public addresses
 The Democratic party must get to- gether if 1t expects to lead the coun- try. and there is abundance of room. in the concurrent opinion of all Dem ocrats. for broad and deep basis upon which success could be hopefully ore, untried schemes we should go slowly, and not attempt to make them the creeds of a party's faith until they have first demonstrated themselves to be for the public good.
 Mir. Bryan Is ,so powerful cham pion of popular rights and so interest ing and attractive a person in fact, such a good man, that she disarms those who criticise him. I admire him very much. and feel he has great tal- ent for good. There Is a plenty for him to do in upholding the broad principles of Democracy and defending people raised issues that they must solve. He has we'll treated them for the most part. He can be their power full and useful exponent. hope this new issue will be long and patiently examined before he or anybody under takes to graft 1t on the Denocratic creed. We have really two years to look carefully. into it, and men of re- gard for the public good will hardly adopt new notion of such vast mag nitude and such critical consequence
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
I Think I Thunk . Lie.

used to think when | was vonn9 r,,a ana my heart was free from guile, Ahan And mere ter \, was grief in every tear And friendship was not d cheat And love could never die; SIt thlnking now of what I thunk,' ! think l thunk a lie. used to think about myself
 And think that I would be A Governor or a President
 Or a general like Lee, But 1 have waited long in vain. WhiIe years rolled slowly by And thinking of what I thunk.f
 think thunk a lie used to think the ladies were
 All sweetness combined. That nt they nsSyNUtT were all Gods last and best That they were not half pads and paint,
 But angels from on high. But thinking now of what thunk.
 I think I thunk a lie The preachers. too. used to think,
 Are not like other men, And were not tempted of the flesh. |. And could not therefore sin, But since I've travelled round hit,
 I've watched them on the sly. And thinking now of what thunk.
 I think I thunk a lie. The honest tiIier of the soil.
 When marketing his crop, Takes pains to put the ripe and best
 Always mon the top. I nsed to think those honest men
 Would never cheat or try But thinking now of what thunk.
 I think thunk a lie. The editors, a lordly ~at.
 Who live on milk and honey, They've nothing else on earth to do
 But write and rake in money. Laastwise that way I used to think.
 And now 1t makes me cry To. think about the way thunk
 And how thunk lie. What noble men the doctors are.
 uead to think they came. From heaven or some heavenly land
 And worked For love and fame, That they couk cure all human ills
 And never let us die But thinking now of what I thunk.
 I think thunk lie The lawyers. too. used to think
 Oh! God, forgive the thunk- That their convictions of the right
 Could not by knaves be bought That they. would not client rob:
 Or "sell' him on the sly: But thinking now of what I thunk.
 I think I thunk lie. The dry goods men are honest too. They swear they sell at cost; I used to think they told the truth,
 And all their profits lost. I thought yard was full three feet-@
 Don't ask my reason why But thinking now of what I thunk.
 I think I thunk a lie. The niggers, too, used to think
 If once thev were set free k Would make good honest citizens Like white folks used to be But they have wandered far from grace
 The chickens still roost high And thinking now of what I thunk
 ''''N -coiumbia Recor-.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
Are They Afraid of Inve.lsntlOns
Boston Globe.

oAODGs
 Secretary of War Taft spoke at Bath last night on the issue of the Congressional campaign. He said to- ward the conclusion of his speech that he had come into the district at the request of MT. Littlefield to take part In his canvass for Congress. He prais- ed Mir, Littlefield. while explaining that sometimes he has not favored measures which the administration hoped might pass, but generally he is counted as one of the effective sup porters of its policy"
 But it was the issue of the campaign that Mir. Taft discussed with the most ferver and interest And that issue. he announced. is President Roosevelt. could not deny, of course, that the Democratic minority in Congress had supported the Presidents policies which he praises. quite as unanimously on the whole as the Republican ma iority had done. But It was not what the Democrats had done; f. Is what they intend to do in case of the cleo ton of a Democratic House! And Mir Taft then solemnly couffded to hts hearers that "the Democratic party. if 1t should b elected, proposes to devote Its chief energy to series of investigations into the executive de- partments, to show, as Chairman GrigEs says that the departments are honevcombed with graft"
 This is probably the most extraor- dinarY statement that has eallen from the lips of a man of Secretary Taft's station and influence in this camraiRn Don't let the Democrats Investigate the administration" he says substan- tially Naturally the question occurs, is ther to investigate? And what is there which, if investigated. could hurt the administration?
The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-09-09
NOT W. J. FUTILE.
Name cOnnected With Crap Game

Name Connected With Crap Game
 Through Error.
 Tn the issue of he Advertiser vester- day morning. 1t was. erroneously sta ted that W. J. Futile had been arrested in the Merchants Hotel Friday morn ing, charged with gambling. The per- son arrested was w c. Futile, and not W. J. Futile. W. J. Futile occupies a responsible position with one of Montgomery's leading stores. He has been an Exalted Ruler of the Elks. He was in no manner connected with the affair, and the appearance Of his name was an error which The Adver- tiser is glad to rectify.