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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
All Things Come to
Those Who Wait.

1t was long since made plain to all
disinterested observers, irrespective of
party, that what passed for brilliancy
and independence in Theodore Roose-
welt was, in fact, but little more than
a lack of responsibility and a deep
seated passion for publicity, upon any
terms and at any cost.
Something of this sort has often
been said, and as often denied; and
it is, for this reason, some satisfac-
ton to those who have never cher
ished any illusions upon the subject
to find that some of those who were
once among the Presidents most de-
voted admirers, can now find no stone
heavy enough to cast at his devoted
head
So long as Mr.. Roosevelt contented
himself with devoting his cratic eIo-
quenee to his political opponents, he
was man among men. But now that
he has placed himself where Mr..
Bryan stood years ago a change has
come over the spirit of the g. o. D.
dream.
All things are said to come to those
who wait; and, for our part, we are
glad that some of our Republican con-
temporaries have had to wait for the
PRESIDENTS Harrisburg address for
the following hot shot from one of the
biggest guns in their battery:
The legislative or judicial ac.
tlons and decisions of which 7 com.
pialn' De 1t remembered do not really
leave to the states power to deal with
corporate wealth in business. Actual
experience has shown that the states
are wholly powerless to deal with this
subject; and any action or decision
that depriVeS the nation of the power
10 zeal with it, simply results in Ieay-
Ing the corporation absolutely free to
work without any effective .supervi-
sion whatever; and such a course is
1raugnt with untold danger to the flu
ture OF our whole system of govern
ment, and, indeed, to our whole civil
ization, 1t is our clear duty to see,
In the interests of the people, that
there is adequate supervision and con-
troll over the business and of the
swollen fortunes of to-day, and also
wisely to determine the conditions nm
on which these fortunes are to he
transmitted and the percentaea that
they shall pay to the government
whose protecting arm alone enables
them to exist. Only the nation can
do this work. To relegate it to the
states is farce, and is simply an
other way of saying it shall not be
done at all.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

George AIDES Sultan of Sulu" will
be given here tomorrow night, and
will no doubt draw as well as its mer-
its certainly deserve. 1t comes here
heralded as a great success, having
made phenomenal runs in New York
and Chicago. The plot is not so i'm
probable as that on which the general
run of musical comedies are based. II
differs from them in the possession of
a distinct subject of contemporaneous
interest which IL humorously treated
in Mr.. AIDES quantity original style.
1.-The theme" according to advance
notices, lis suggested by the Ameri-
can occupation of Sulu and the 'benev-
client assimilation of it's polygamous
ruler, who early leans that the Con
stitution and the cocktail follow the
flag" The island potentate, with
many wives. accepts the sovereignty
Of the United States and takes the
title of Governor. under the tutelage
of volunteer colonel from Arkansas.
A strong minded maiden lady who ar
rives with the American invaders is
appointed judge advocate. She in
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

opera house Friday night, b 'came ex-
cited after the play was over, rU-ned
from her dressing room to the stage
and startled opera house employees
and members of her company by an
noancing that she had been robbed of
her diamonds. Considerable stir was
Occasioned by the report, officers were
summoned and a large number of per-
sons had to be cpmplaisant while
their persons and baggage We're
searched. According to the claim of
the actress, she had left the diamonds
in her dressing room during the last
act, and returning after the curtain, at
once missed them. She said that a
search through her own effects failed
to reveal the jewels, and it was then
that she gave the alarm. Chief of
Police Moseley was notified and he at
once went to the opera house in per-
son. He summoned Patrolman Shipp.
and the three proceeded to search
every person in the neighborhood of
the dressing room and also the bag
gage of the actors. All search was
fruitless. If anybody secured the dia-
mends he succeeded in making away
with them"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
A Timely Tampa
Proposition.

The people of Tampa have had
sprung on them a proposition to abol
ish the fee system, so far as all coun-
ty officials are concerned, and to put
them upon a fixed salary.
The details of this proposition were
given in yesterdays Journal, and it
is our purpose in again referring to
the matter, to deal with the PROPOSE
ton as a matter of principle.
There are obviously certain coun-
ties in this state in which, under the
fee system, some of the public offic-
ials are grossly overpaid, and as the
money thus squandered comes from
the people, to the people it should re-
turn, either by way Of the road fund
or school fund.
On the other hand. there are doubt
less some counties in which the fees
are not sufficient to pay living sal
airy, and it is understood that some
authorities are of the opinion that in
such instances the fee system should
be allowed to stand.
In this view, however, we cannot
coincide. II the fee system is wrong,
1t should be done away with altogeth-
er; IL 1t is right, it should stand.
But We think it obvious that, If it is
bad public policy to pay one county
official too much, it is quite as bad to
pay another too little.
Let each county, therefore, fix the
scale for itself, and let every public
official in the state be paid according
to his deserts, not according to cir
cumstances or the amount of pull
he NAV have.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
,ur methods simply different?

our methods simply different?
Every business man in the city is
burdened with a license tax-some-
thing that is unknown in many, If not
the majority of cities, and still the
same business men are accorded a
smaller public service than that which
scores of other places enjoy.
Very few people object to paying
taxes-even high taxes-when they
know that they are getting a reason
able return for those taxes, but when
they pay taxes, either high or low,
and then fail to get therefor even the
common conveniences of life and
business, some of the questions ask
ed in the foregoing may not, we trust,
be deemed wholly Irrelevant.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

sists upon divorcing the Sultan from
ell his wives, but one, the cbartal
member of his harem." The iudga oJ
vocate also exacts alimony at the rat.
Of half the Governors salary for asrI
of the seven divorced wives, and nnon
his failure to comply with this in,
possible decision the unhappy ruler :,
plunged into Jail. The United States
soldiers fall in love with the fair n
vorcees and their passion is recinro.
Gated. A quartette of New England
school teachers is introduced TO or'
tighten the the benighted natives
there the merry monarch proposes -
add to his harem, but the judge Advo,
cate upsets his calculations. Tbnro
are many amusing complications ba.
fore affairs are finally straightencd
out and the constitution is distorted
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
EXTENDS SYMPATHY
TO THE GULF COAST.
Town Topics.


The fullest sympathy of the whole
country is with our fellowcitizens
resident along the coast of the east
ern portion of the Gulf of Mexico in
the considerable loss of life, the ply
steal suffering and the damage to
property which came upon them
through the hurricane of last week.
The worst effects seem to have been
at Pensacola, lower Mobile Bay and
the coast of Mississippi Sound. New
Orleans practically escaped. as did
the Texas coast There is reason to
believe that in the early reports, full
ly and sensationally printed in the
Northern press, there was very con-
siderable exaggeration as to the de-
structiye force of the storm. Later
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

One OF our exchanges takes the
ground that nobody would have OBJ
1ected to business man continuing
his live Of business while a member
OF congress" and goes on to say why
then, should a lawyer be aked to put
an end to his practice because he
happens to be a United States sena-
tori" Simply because no man can
serve the corporations and the peo-
pie at the same time. As for the
first proposition, no self-respecting
man would ever permit his course in
congress to be affected by considera-
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

In a recent issue the Century Maya
zine dilates at great length upon
what it is pleased to term "the char
latan in politics" But the most dam
gerous type Of charlatan in our poll
tics is not, as the Century would
have us. believe, "the political adven-
turer" who is ''freehanded with his
money" but the intellectual aristo-
crat who has so little sympathy with
the plain people of the country that
he instinctively describes any propo-
sition made In their behalf as social
ism Or worse.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

II a recent writer In Harper's Maya
zine knows what he is talking about,
our turpentine men have been putting
our pine trees to a rather poor use.
According to this authority:
A pine tree is worth $40 a ton.
cut and stripped 1t is worth SIS, boil.
ed into a pulp 1t is worth $40, bleach
ed it is worth $55, which, turned in
to cellulose and spun into silk is
worth $500" Here is an opportun-
ity for someone to figure out the val.
ne OF the pine forests in Florida.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
By Sam B. Russ.

pensive show like Fields, is the one
thing to be avoided in laying out q
route.
Talking of negro minstrelsy, a re-
cent writer in the Mobile Register
gives some rather Interesting remin-
iscences of the old>timers in the
burnteork stage As one paragraph
in this thoroughly readable article re-
fers to "a professional" who is we'll
known in this part of the world, it
may as well be quoted, verbatim:
Jacob Tannebaum, manager of the
Mobile Theatre and Southern circuit,
was not only a superb leader of or
chestras in New Orleans, Brooklyn
New York and other metropolitan
theatres, but Is the composer of many
beautiful popular ballads. Among his
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

to fly and the weather boarding be-
gan to fly, and then the rafters and
then the brick pillars, and crushed
them all to pieces as If a cyclone had
struck the building, together with the
men that worked on it.
When the people who owned It,
together with their neighbors, stood
with closed lips and streaming eyes,
to think how hard it, was to. see their
neighbor so wickedly treated and
could not defend themselves.
Yes, and Bliss will reap his reward.
Il will repay" sayeth the Lord.
MRS. KRONE.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

die are only some six. feet above the
ordinary level of the water, the waves
hooded the first floors of some ware
houses and stores, doing no little
damage to goods, but not greater than
mas happened a hundred times from
hooded streams, to other coast or
riverside cities. There Is nothing IN
the calamity at any point making
demand on the rest of the world for
financial assistance, and it is to 'e
hoped that the highly colored ac'
counts Of destruction will not tend n
the detriment of the prosperity and
rapid growth that in the last frT
years have come to Mobile Pcnsl-
cola, Gulfport and others of the coast
towns.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

The Tallahassee True Democrat
says that nobody knows what the
drainage Of the Everglades will cost
1t has already cost our esteemed con-
temporary any amount of ink.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
PENSACOLA PHILOSOPHY.
BY Sam B. Russ.

People who live to eat seldom live
long.
People who make trouble seldom
make friends
Love lights lamp that marriage
too often blows out.
No thoughtful man can ever be hap
by for long at a time.
Men who are generally full" gen.
orally lead empty lives.
Marriage is a condition in which
there is little room left for illusions.
Love may go out the window when
poverty comes in at the door, but it
often leaves the catch up.
1t is idle to suppose that all men
can be good as 1t is to suppose that
they can all be brilliant.
Women admire strength in men
the trouble is that so few of them
know strength when they see it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

In referring to Tom Watson's boast
that he is a populist and proud Of it,
the Montgomery Advertiser rises to
remark that some people can feel
proud on very small capital" Es-
pecially when it's corporation capital.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

songs is, Il Amt Going to Tell" He
wrote the music of this song for
Tommy Ryan. Billy Emerson sang it
for years. The words were by Pool,
now manager of Pools Opera House,
New York. Sadie Ray" a sentiment
tai song. is also by Tannebaum. The
chorus is considered the finest ever
written to a song. 1t has worldwide
reputation and has been sung by all
first-clasS minstrel companies"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

In a recent "expiation" on the
beauty Of Atlanta, John Temple
Graves, the talented word purveyor of
the Georgian, refers to "the jagged
grandeur of its sky line" And to think
that the man who evolved that phrase
from his own pocket dictionary, has
to pay laundry bills and get broke,
like ordinary mortals!
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

Mr.. G. Cleveland. the fiery, untamed
fisherman Of New Jersey, has coined
a new affective" Need 1t be
said that this addition to English as
she ought to be spoke is applied by it's
distinguished and extinguished author
to the present Democratic situation in
New York?
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

The Birmingham Ledger, in refer
ring to the recent death of GAP
Adams In New York. says of policy"
that 1t is "a form of gambling that has
not had any success in the South. -
The Ledger's fund of sporting infor-
nation is certainly not to be admired
for its accuracy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

Mr.. Taft now holds two important
positions at one and the same time
ne is secretary of war at home, and
autocrat of Cuba abroad. There may
be some warrant for all this in law,
but there Is certainly, none in prece-
dent or policy.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
The Charleston News and Courie

The Charleston News and Courier Is
the very latest authority to declare to
a more or less admiring world that
separation Of the races Is the only
radical solution of the negro problem
In this country" We regret to OBJ
serve, however, that our esteemed
contemporary fails to supply any of
the sordid details so necessary to our
fallen nature.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

The Memphis Commercial Appeal
thinks that "the Cuban insurgent be-
gins to feel the strength OF the
American clutch" Wait till he be-
gins to feel the great American
CRATER clutching his money.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

The very latest college dictum Is
that slang "is the effervescence. Of a
vacant mind" Men like George AIDE,
who have made slang pay. don't
mind little thing like that
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

Secretary Taft says that Cuba is
a tropical plant that needs pruning.
As prune is variety of plum, there
is little doubt that the G. o. P. will
get anything of the sort that may be
in sight.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
The Land of "Nod.p

The flowers nod in the garden;
Her mother mods in her chair;
And they slip out in the shadows
That unger reluctant there.
Only these two, and the flowers,
And the sky and the first dim stars
And the sound of a girls low laughter,
AS Cupid lets down the bars.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

The coal dealers of the south are
to meet in Atlanta. 1t is likely to be
long metre and cold deal for the
poor consumer.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

1t has been decided that the Pana-
ma canal is to be completed by con-
tract. Time to look out for a leak
and another big G. o. P scandal.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

The President has discovered that
the way to keep the peace is ito
shoot straight" Glad there is some
thing straight up there.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

Tt st. Louis Globe-Democrat comes
out square and solid for the annexa-
ton of Cuba. About all there is
square" about it.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

Wall Street is betting two to one
against Hearst. Straws still show
which way the wind blows.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
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ONCE phone, No. 1900. To comm IVA,
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The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

The mercury may drop, but the ne
cessities Of life show no indication
to follow suit.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
Not So Bad AS All That.

Not So Bad As All That.
Pensacola and Mobile were almost
wiped from the face of the earth by
the severe storm of last week. Re-
ports show that the damage is much
greater than at first thought, running
up to S5,000.000 at Pensacola and S.
100000 in Mobile. Almost, if not en-
tirely, the water front with its inn
mense docks were completely wreck
ed. In many respects the damage
done almost equals the Galveston
food. A number of lives were lost
in both cities. The entire nation
sympathizes witch these two unfor-
tunate cities and will pour in supplies
as want now stares them in the face.
-Manatee Record.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

The recent cold snap was no snap to
the poor.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

That the poor need blankets just
now may be taken for granted, but no
such wet blanket as the recent storm
proved.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
SAID OF PENSACOLA
AND PENSACOLlANS.
UnconquerabIe.

UnconquerabIe.
Pensacola has already gone cheer
fully to work repairing her losses.
In all the Union there is no city that
has more of the elements of life and
strength than Pensacola, and the best
OF all is a brave people unconquerable
by Observation-Disclosures Times
Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

tons OF a purely personal or business
nature.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
Share Alike.

snare Alike.
Into each life some rain must fall
But no one man should get 1t all,
For this is one of the cases where,
Every chap should get his share
Corinne, the well-known actress
who was seen here recently IN
Cohan's as Minutes From Broad
way" should change her press agent
for one who can devise something
fresher than the familiar lost
diamond" dodge as an advertising me-
dunn. 1t was in Chattanooga, few
days before Corinne appeared in Pen.
sacola that the thing happened; and
according to one of the least lurid
newspaper accounts, 1t happened
about like this:
"Corrine, who was the stac at the
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

The cotton planter now finds that
things are picking up a little.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
Sometimes.

Sometimes.
The Jacksonville Times-Union says
that with a town as full as Pensacola
of vitality, calamity is only a stepping
stone to greatness. But we don't
care to be great-it CRATES on our feel
ings when it comes the wrong way.
Pensacola Journal. But, you know,
cities are like individuals in that they
sometimes have greatness thrust up
on them-Jacksonvill Times-Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14

so as to admit of every one bein9
made happy when the curtain d.
seconds"
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
Good News.

Good News.
After investigating the effects OF
the storm in Pensacola, Mayor Bliss
of that city has given 10 the Asso-
eiated Press a lengthy statement in
which he goes into details and char
acterizes as gross exaggeration the
stories sent all over the country Of
the stupendous loss inflicted upon that
city. The damage had been etima-
ted at 100000 in the aggregate
but Mayor Bliss says that s1,O00,O0O
will cover the property loss. 1t is
good news that the metropolis OF west
Florida was not hit nearly So hard
as had been reported. And this is
doubtless true of Mobile also.-LlVe
Oak Democrat
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
Another Freak.

Another Freak.
Among the reaks of the stom at
Pensacola was the complete wreck,
ing of a mission church building
while not building near il was in
jured. The north end OF another
church building, one belonging to a
colored congregation, was blown out,
though the. destructive winds came
from the east or the southeast, The
waters rose that fateful Thursday a
foot higher above mean high tide
than they did when Galveston was
wrecked Times-Union.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
Palmetto Flat Paragraphs.

Palmetto Flat Paragraphs.
The cotton is mostly blown out, and
we are not at all likely to blow our
selves this year.
We purpose getting out a SPECIAL
storm edition next Week--or as soon
as we get hold of a city paper with
the latest.
The big storm sure struck a SING
when it struck Palmetto Flat, AMI
most of our Office force felt like
striking for the high woods.
If the cotton farmers in the neigh
borhood of this place are on top this
year, it won't be the fault of the top
crop, which is a plum failure.
Levi Hodgkins happened to pain
full accident the night of the storm,
while crossing Six-Mile creek on a
log, with jug Of whisky he was car
rying home for medicinal purpOsus.
the aforesaid whisky falling into the
creek Friend Levi is still a-fishing
for the jug, but doesn't seem to have
the right kind of bait.
It's an ill-wind that blows nobody
any good, and we cheerfully acknovl-
edge the receipt of good pair "
PANTS with only one patch where the
coat tails come, what was blown into
our backyard while the storm was At
its height.
Orella Boggs, Palmetto Flats favor.
tie poetess, has returned from the city
and favors us with the following gem:
Plunged Into Woe.
Her life was a load,
Which death shook OF.
AS she left Nfe's road
With hacking cough,
Survived by, eight
Offsprings, and Jo-
Seph, her mate,
Who is plunged in woe.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
Coaching a Congressman.

NodCHIHY OOIS' -
Pensacola Bay is all right-one OF
the best in the country, but santa
Rosa Island is not a success as a sea
wall. Uncle Sam might as well make
nm his mind TO run a line Of ma
sonry along the ocean front Oh tnat
island and the Pensacola papers
should begin early to coach Congress-
man Lamar on the subject Hurri-
canes like the last one don't come
often nor shoot straight, but when
they do hit the result is something
awful. The wind can't be headed on
but the waves can.-Live Oak Demo
crat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
Don't Believe Il Yet.

Don't Believe II Vet.
Then Pensacola pappers must stop
spelling it Fort McRea- Major Sid
ney Herbert. infallible authority on
such questions, says it is Fort Nc
Rec" named after a we'll known Of
ficer of the old army in ante-bellum
times. Pleace see that it don't oc-
cur again.-Live Oak Democrat.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1906-10-14
Lies Knots.

Not what you think.
But what you do,
That makes the dreams
Of youth come true;
Not what you make,
But what you keep,
That forms the harvest
All would reap.